Forum: Challenge Arena


Subject: February Challenge: Puns!

hauksdottir opened this issue on Feb 08, 2008 · 71 posts


hauksdottir posted Fri, 22 February 2008 at 6:46 PM

Train is a great word!  The French use it even more than we do, but even in English, there are training camps and training wheels and fitness trainers and roses trained against a wall.

Another good word is "press" as in express, suppress, oppress, depress, and repress!  So, I have a pressing engagement at the laundromat or at the newsroom or at the winery?

And how about "land"?  Landing a fish or landing a job or making landfall?

Fasteners of all sorts offer multiple opportunities to bind words and images in the metagame:

As for nudity?  Well, naked singularities, bald-faced lies, bare truths, and undressed salads come to mind and I doubt if any of them would violate the TOS (although I have seen some sensuous veggies).  Naked ambition is trickier.  I don't think anybody wants to see candidates for public office debating in the nude (although exposure on the balcony was part of the coronation ritual for centuries when the health of the king was tied to the health of the land).

Well time for me to get more coffee and something for the migraine, but it is soooo good to see folks having fun!