NY - Seven-foot-tall head found floating in Hudson

[TrackerSam]

Come on.....no need to bite my head off! We're all on edge after yesterday's shocking Mount Rushmore headlines.

Mind if I BROWse around in here?

 

[JustJudy]

Headline News: Thanks But No Thanks! With Gratitude and Relief, South Dakota Officials Return Replacement Heads Donated by Generous College Rowing Team & Iconic American Comic, After Missing Great Big Roosevelt and Lincoln heads are Returned to Mt. Rushmore.

The world breathed a collective sigh of relief this morning, after South Dakota heads-of-state announced Mt. Rushmore's two missing heads were returned overnight by the embarrassed parents of two local middle school pranksters.

Giant Floating Head & Iconic American Comic
(Generously offered their...uh...heads to S.Dakota)

 

[JustJudy]

Mind if I BROWse around in here?

....you best try not to lose your head. There's a lotta nonsense AFOOT in this here NECK of the woods.

 

[wfgodot]

A find of this sort creates its own category - a punthromorphic discovery.

 

[Justiceforever]

I would like to acknowledge another head recently making news. The iconic Mr. Potato Head turned 60 this past Feb. Happy Birthday buddy!

http://investor.hasbro.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=648475

I'd like to add that he was way ahead of his times!

 

[JustJudy]

A find of this sort creates its own category - a punthromorphic discovery.

So glad you've come back! Kudos, for starting this thread...you, sir or ma'am are a maven...a catalyst....an inspirer of punnage! ...yes, the puns around here are morphing for sure and not in a good way (morphologically speaking).

I hand you back your baton & (the good Lord willing and the creek don't rise) command over your thread. Ah, and this one parting gift:

In one more example of the overly litigious society we live in, the giant floating head is being sued by Norelco (maker of electric shavers) for trademark infringement.

NORELCO's Famous Floating Heads Ad Campaign (circa,1961)

 

[fred&edna]

I would like to acknowledge another head recently making news. The iconic Mr. Potato Head turned 60 this past Feb. Happy Birthday buddy!

Yes, Happy Birthday, SPUDdy!

 

[TrackerSam]

Headline News: Thanks But No Thanks! With Gratitude and Relief, South Dakota Officials Return Replacement Heads Donated by Generous College Rowing Team & Iconic American Comic, After Missing Great Big Roosevelt and Lincoln heads are Returned to Mt. Rushmore.

The world breathed a collective sigh of relief this morning, after South Dakota heads-of-state announced Mt. Rushmore's two missing heads were returned overnight by the embarrassed parents of two local middle school pranksters.

I hope they learned to leave our historic temples alone, even if these presidents don't see eye to eye, except Ted and Abe.

 

[Justiceforever]

Yes, Happy Birthday, SPUDdy!

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I'm getting a headache from lol-ing @ this thread!

 

[wfgodot]

I feel that if, unchecked, The Head had been allowed its slow progress, steady headward into the waves, it would eventually have crossed the Atlantic, its route mapped by patterns immemorial, and found itself finally, unknowing, in England's East Sussex, off the shores of its ancient family spawning grounds there at Beachy Head.

 

[fred&edna]

This thread has me thinking, still in the realm of puns but in a different direction. Does anyone know the "sayings" that have to do with time? I'm not sure how to explain it, but for example (and the only one I can remember!):

2:30 Tooth-hurty = time for the dentist

Dumb, yes... but there are more out there... if I could only remember!

 

[wfgodot]

This thread has me thinking, still in the realm of puns but in a different direction. Does anyone know the "sayings" that have to do with time? I'm not sure how to explain it, but for example (and the only one I can remember!):

2:30 Tooth-hurty = time for the dentist

Dumb, yes... but there are more out there... if I could only remember!

In San Antonio I used regularly to drive by a dentist's office on a rather pastoral dot of land marked with the sign "Tooth Acres." EGAD.

 

[fred&edna]

In San Antonio I used regularly to drive by a dentist's office on a rather pastoral dot of land marked with the sign "Tooth Acres." EGAD.

The creator of above stated sign/message just might be one great PUNtificator!

Personally, I love it

 

[JustJudy]

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I'm getting a headache from lol-ing @ this thread!

Suggestion: keep the laughing down to a chortle....or when IHAVENOCLUE returns she/he could possibly smack you upside your head....with a pillow. :hills:

 

[JustJudy]

I feel that if, unchecked, The Head had been allowed its slow progress, steady headward into the waves, it would eventually have crossed the Atlantic, its route mapped by patterns immemorial, and found itself finally, unknowing, in England's East Sussex, off the shores of its ancient family spawning grounds there at Beachy Head.

:floorlaugh:

 

[Justiceforever]

Suggestion: keep the laughing down to a chortle....or when IHAVENOCLUE (who is thin-skinned) returns she/he could possibly smack you upside your head....with a pillow. :hills:

I can't run but I certainly will HEAD for the hills!

 

[Justiceforever]

This thread has me thinking, still in the realm of puns but in a different direction. Does anyone know the "sayings" that have to do with time? I'm not sure how to explain it, but for example (and the only one I can remember!):

2:30 Tooth-hurty = time for the dentist


Dumb, yes... but there are more out there... if I could only remember!

Not sure which pun you are referring to but here's a cute one.

Two hats were hanging on a hat rack in the hallway. One hat says to the other, 'You stay here, I'll go on a head.'.

 

[wfgodot]

Worth a read; mentions Shakespeare, of course, the bawdiest pun-meister of them all.

Pun for the Ages (NY Times)

The inglorious pun! Dryden called it the “lowest and most groveling kind of wit.” To Ambrose Bierce it was a “form of wit to which wise men stoop and fools aspire.” Universal experience confirms the adage that puns don’t make us laugh, but groan. It is said that Caligula ordered an actor to be roasted alive for a bad pun. (Some believe he was inclined to extremes.)

Addison defined the pun as a “conceit arising from the use of two words that agree in the sound, but differ in the sense.” “Energizer Bunny Arrested! Charged with Battery.” No laugh? Q.E.D.
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Odds are that a restaurant with a punning name — Snacks Fifth Avenue, General Custard’s Last Stand — hasn’t acquired its first Michelin star.
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and more, at the link

 

[fred&edna]

Worth a read; mentions Shakespeare, of course, the bawdiest pun-meister of them all.

Pun for the Ages (NY Times)

and more, at the link

I've been known to do more than chuckle at good pun, and on rare occasion, I have... yes, yes... I've even slapped my knee! I now feel a little better after reading that article... the company in the shameful pun world isn't so bad

 

[JustJudy]

Brought in for questioning: