O.Henry Pun-Off - 2008 World Championship

Rama and I had tons of pun at this year's O.Henry Pun-Off World Championship at O.Henry Museum. In the morning, it was a contest of rehearsed short speeches. In the afternoon's pun slinger's competition, participants competed with each other in rapid-firing of puns, with about 5 seconds time for each participant - no pun in 5 seconds?, out they go. Response with no pun meant a strike, and three strikes meant Adios Amigo. They had a creative (picture above) score-board for counting strikes. Didn't get what it was initially, and I started laughing after 15 minutes!*

I shot a 12 GB video of this event. Compressed a part of it for uploading to Google Videos/You Tube, but the quality of the picture went down significantly. Since low resolution videos are available on the web already, I decided against blogging my video.

Pun slinging finals

* iPods!