Pun contest!
By Todd Stadler · Tuesday, September 13, 2005 12:13am
For some reason, I recently found myself reading the BBC's Magazine Monitor, whatever that is, and I came across the Punorama entry form, with the following instructions:
The rules are straightforward — we choose a story which has been in the news, and invite you to create an original punning headline for it.
The story for this week is the inventor who has come up with a pedal-powered washing machine. Alex Gadsden, a keen cyclist, designed the machine in an attempt to improve his fitness while keeping fit.
Well, no one likes a pun more than I (my favorite sandwich is the punino — you might even call me a punivore!), so here are my entries for the Punorama contest, which you will be sad to know I didn't actually submit:
- Rinse Cycle [this is the obvious choice, no?]
- Inventor Of Cycle-Powered Washing Machine Is Out Standing In Field
- Pedal (Which Sounds Like "Petal", Which Is Part Of A Flower) Power!
- Washing Ma-Schwinn™
- Spic and Spandex Shorts
- A Laundry Basketcase!
- Washing Ma-Shimano™ (Components)
- Stacked Washer/Tire Combo
- Giving His Bike Wheels A Whirl(pool™)
- Surf(actant)'s Up! [Admittedly, this works better if the washing machine is surfing-board-powered, but that invention is left as an exercise for the reader]
- Tour De Tergent
- Starch Trek™
- Human-Powered Laundry (But It's Not By The Chinese!)
- Clothes Washed By Hamstring [as opposed to "by hand" — trust me, this is clever]
- Cleanondale™
- Set This Washing Machine On "Bicycle"!
- Downy™ Tube
- A Bicycle Built For Two Medium Laundry Loads
- Laundro-hel-met
- Washing Clothes By Hand(lebars)
- This Man Is A Washing Machine (Literally! ... Well, Sort Of)
- Machine Wash, Seventh Gear
- Greg LeMondromat
Note to the random reader who does not know me: yes, I know most of these are painfully stupid. Thanks.
3 comments so far
1 Sep 30 '05 11:02am:
toethumbs replied:
"Ok, I don't get Cleanondale :/
But I do so like "Greg LeMondromat", funnyman."
2 Sep 30 '05 5:41pm:
tODD replied:
"Was the pun just that stupid (fine, I know it was), or have you never heard of Cannondale bicycles?
I'd be really surprised if you knew who Greg LeMond was but hadn't heard of Cannondale."
3 Oct 04 '05 5:12pm:
toethumbs replied:
"No, it's not stupid.
And, well, surprise I guess, I do, but I haven't.
I was, regrettably, ignorant of said brand.
But NO MORE! And in light of this new information I find the pun in no way falls below your usual standard (such as it is :)).
Yours is my favorite new (to me) blog. I have laughed literally OUT LOUD reading it. Keep writin' please."