We're late getting started, and this is a short month, but I hope the topic is open enough for everyone to get an idea and run with it.

Visualizing Puns

In this stressful time, with politics, war, the faltering economy and unpredictable weather dominating the news cycles, we could perhaps use a spot of humor.  Those who remember Jimmy Durante's character literally kicking the bucket in "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World" or the old coot who's Frogger croaked in Scavenger Hunt know that even death can be mocked.  Therefore, I'm suggesting Visualizing Puns as a theme.

A sweeping victory... with Nike and a broom?  A flood of applications?  Couch potatoes vegetating?    The walls have ears?  Bedding plants with a line of mattresses?  Kingseal as a sovereign remedy?  A batty uncle (baseball trophy)?  Mouse drivers?  The big cheese? 

Proverbs, fables, Brewer's Dictionary of phrases can supply ideas if you get stuck.  Even a horrible joke such as "time flies like an arrow, but fruit flies like a banana" can be a starting point!

Texture makers could do something like an expensive hunting license (cost him deerly!) or the fabric of space/time! or stuff of dreams! or tissue of lies! (yes, those are all puns)

Modelers might think of pipe dreams (tubes, elbows, valves made of smoke), a safety match, a bad egg, or caterpillars and caterwauls (columns and walls with cats).

Folks who write can join the fun since the link between words and the images formed goes both ways.  How about an iPod of Wails with a playlist of blues favorites?  Or a tall tale about Paul Bunyan and another giant going measure for measure?

Whatever we come up with, the viewer or reader ought to choke, sputter, and/or giggle at the results.

Let's play!