Nikon, an Icon

Loved the pun in a recent Nikon commercial.

Talking about puns, I loved this pun in a Telugu movie song ever since I heard it for the first time (excerpt from the lyrics below) వ్రేపల్లియ ఎద ఝల్లున.., from the movie సప్తపది

కాళింది మడుగునా కాళియుని పడగలా
ఆబాల గోపాల మాబాల గోపాలుని
కాళింది మడుగునా కాళియుని పడగలా
ఆబాల గోపాల మాబాల గోపాలుని
అచ్చెరువున అచ్చెరువున విచ్చిన కన్నులజూడ
అచ్చెరువున అచ్చెరువున విచ్చిన కన్నులజూడ
తాండవమాడిన సరళి గుండెల మ్రోగిన మురళి
ఇదేనా..ఇదేనా ఆ మురళీ

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!

Fowl Language

Reminded me of a quip I overheard in a grocery store check-out line:

Fowl is a four-letter "F" bird

Agassi on Cooking

In a recent interview, while talking about retirement life, Agassi said that he has taken up snowboarding and cooking. Taking about his culinary skills, Agassi said:

It’s fair to say that I’m not a great cook, but if I serve it to you, you’re going to love it.

I didn't see an exclamation mark after this sentence, and I wonder if the interviewer caught this (obvious) pun!