{"id":13879,"date":"2011-10-28T08:51:50","date_gmt":"2011-10-28T15:51:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/neology\/2011\/10\/28\/dual-interpretation-sketches.html"},"modified":"2011-10-28T08:51:50","modified_gmt":"2011-10-28T15:51:50","slug":"dual-interpretation-sketches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/2011\/10\/28\/dual-interpretation-sketches\/","title":{"rendered":"Dual-interpretation sketches"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Vardibidian recently pointed to a Ronnie Corbett <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2011\/10\/16\/13865.html\">sketch<\/a> involving double meanings of terms like &ldquo;Blackberry.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>I enjoyed the sketch; fun verbal comedy. And I was pleased, because I often see that kind of thing (dual interpretation of tech terms) done in ways that I don't find funny at all.<\/p>\n<p>But it wasn't until now that I learned that it goes back to an earlier tradition of Two Ronnies sketches: in particular, the 1976 <a href=\"http:\/\/digitaljournal.com\/article\/301516\">four candles\/fork handles<\/a> sketch, in which a shopkeeper and customer repeatedly misunderstand each other.<\/p>\n<p>The older one includes a couple of jokes I don't get&mdash;presumably based on British and\/or 1970s terminology&mdash;but I did laugh out loud a couple of times, so I figured it was worth pointing y'all to it.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vardibidian recently pointed to a Ronnie Corbett sketch involving double meanings of terms like &ldquo;Blackberry.&rdquo; I enjoyed the sketch; fun verbal comedy. And I was pleased, because I often see&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-homophones","category-puns"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13879\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}