An assortment of real-life British punny names, with more in the comments following the article. Including a couple that are so British I didn't get them. It took me a while to figure out that Dawn Hobbs probably sounds like "doorknobs" in some British accents, for example.
Recently in the Puns Category
This morning, the phrase "comma sutra" popped into my head, don't know why.
I immediately thought it would make a good name for this blog, which I've been thinking of renaming for a while now.
Sadly, I am not the first to come up with this pun. For example, there's a comma sutra T-shirt, and a grammar book called Comma Sutra: Position Yourself For Success With Good Grammar. (It appears to be full of cheap sex-related puns along with the grammar lessons, with chapter titles like "Assume the Position: Nouns, Pronouns, Verbs.")
Also, it was unclear to me whether the phrase would come across as disrespectful to Hindus and Buddhists.
So I'll keep looking for a replacement title. But in the meantime, thought the phrase was cute enough to be worth posting.
Happened across the BustedTees T-shirt company the other day. (Run by the CollegeHumor.com people.) Most of the T-shirt companies I see have a bunch of crass, obnoxious, racist, sexist, and generally nasty shirt slogans; this one has its share of unfortunate shirts, but there are also several I found entertaining, and some surprisingly geeky ones (in a good way).
Most of these are not shirts I would wear (so don't get 'em for me), and some of them seem to me more suited to a greeting card or one-panel comic strip than a T-shirt, but still.
Here are some I was amused by:
- I [heart] Accuracy, for the casually dressed med student/pedant in your life.
- I [foot] Madlibs.
- I <3 <3 <3 Polygamy.
- God's Volcano Project, for science fair participants.
- Viva la Evolución!
- Viva la [Dance Dance] Revolution
- The word Greece, with a British flag over it. It's possible this is some kind of political statement, in which case never mind; I was just amused by the surreal juxtaposition.
- Cinco de Mayo, for whitebread Spanish speakers.
- Faux Paw.
- Picture of a flower lei, with this caption: I went to Hawaii and I got sex. It's a Secret Yet!
- The word Soccer, with a picture of an American football over it. I'm not quite sure how to classify this; it's sort of a roundabout not-quite-pun, kind of like a double Secret Yet.
- A horse playing a basketball game called HUMAN.
- Hugs AND Drugs. As the description line puts it, "Why choose one or the other, when you can have both?!"
