Are the puns getting worse?

[TrogL]

Front page of today's paper - "Gambling ban not in the cards"

[arbusto_baboso]

1. That's nothing. Catch this bad pun from...

a recent Oktoberfest event I attended:

A group of us are sitting around drinking (of course) and one of the guys mentions how he's surprised that german culture would allow Germans to do what they did in the 30s and 40s. So I started telling him about the jewish Blood Libel and how it predated even Martin Luther.

After about 15 minutes of this, another buddy butts in and says, "You've been talking about Nazis for some time now. Anne Frank-ly, I find it offensive."

[TrogL]

2. Oh kewl, we've got another thread going

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x9518384

[TrogL]

3. Found another one

from http://www.punpunpun.com/14474.html

As the desert community ended its third month without appreciable precipitation, the local Indian tribe decided it was time to solicit the help of the 'great spirit.' The evening of the big rain dance, the local weather reporter offered a hopeful forecast: "An outside chants of showers."

[TrogL]

4. The local hockey team hasn't been doing very well

They invited my choir to sing at their opening game. 'O Fortuna' from Carl Orff's 'Carmina Burana'.

If the season didn't go well, I was wondering if they would invite us back to sing Verdi's 'Requiem'.

[UrbScotty]

17. Yikes - they're REALLY *skating on thin ice* !

[HopeHoops]

5. I'll take $20 on the ban going bust.

[muriel_volestrangler]

6. Inverness Caledonian Thistle beat the mighty Celtic in a soccer game

'Cally', as they are know for short, were from a couple of leagues below Celtic, who are one of the top 2 Scottish teams. So, The Sun's headline was ...







































Super Cally Go Ballistic - Celtic Are Atrocious

(true story

[Demoiselle]

7. Oh, Muriel you devil you.

Are the Volestranglers of Scottish descent? I love the name.

[muriel_volestrangler]

8. They're of Cleesian descent

with some Feldmanian ancestry further back:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Golden-Wing-commander-Muriel-Volestrangler-F-R-H-S/dp/0413415600

Round the Horne 7 March 1965

The first episode of Round the Horne was heard on 7 March 1965. Listeners immediately took to the characters introduced, such as Julian and Sandy, Dame Celia Molestrangler, Fiona and Charles, and Rambling Syd Rumpo. Kenneth Horne presided over the same cast that had found success in Beyond Our Ken - Kenneth Williams, Hugh Paddick, Betty Marsden and Bill Pertwee.

Announcements were by Douglas Smith, and each week a musical interlude was provided by The Fraser Hayes Four.

The programme was transmitted on a Sunday afternoon for a family audience, but writers Barry Took and Marty Feldman took advantage of the permissive air of mid Sixties Britain to insert lots of saucy humour. The most popular characters, Julian and Sandy, spoke in Polari - the underground slang used before the decriminalisation of homosexuality - and produced several catchphrases that passed into common use.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/historyofthebbc/great_moments/archive/march.shtml

[Demoiselle]

10. Ah, yes! I should have known...

[Old Troop]

9. The wurst puns are always Bologna

[Bucky]

11. Puns are bad. But poetry is verse.

[TrogL]

12. Here we go again

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=9275526&mesg_id=9275526

[sohndrsmith]

13. They're almost always a little tiresome when they're deliberate.

But I like the unintentional ones (at least that's what they seem to be). An example I saw a week or two ago on a local site (may not be verbatim, but close):

"Tempe Town Lake Dam Near Completion."

Hee.... : )

When they try to be cute or funny, they fail more often than not. Witty = good. Cute = noisome.
For me, anyway... just an opinion. : )

[nolabear]

14. REI ad of a few years back: Now is the Discount of Our Winter Tents.

You gotta love that.

[wickerwoman]

15. Expunentially so.

:P

[UrbScotty]

16. I, for one, like how they *took a chance* with that headline!

:-)