Category Archives: Puns

Posted on April 12, 2012 by Patrick

What the Dickens? , Tooting

Great piece of punnery bringing together one of Dickens finest works and the world of original and reproduction fireplaces.

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Posted on March 20, 2012 by Patrick

Church Sign Pun, Earlsfield

A pretty respectable pun here from this church in Earlsfield. I can’t pretend however that I don’t wish that this was a sign for a plastic surgery clinic run by a surgeon with a lisp instead.

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Posted on January 30, 2012 by Patrick

DIY, Spitalfields City Farm

Like many people across London at the moment I’m looking for ways to bring in a little extra cash. I saw this sign at Spitalfields City Farm and thought I’d found a clever new revenue stream for myself. Well, to cut a long story short it turns out that I had severely misunderstood what “Bring Own” meant. Consequently I am now forbidden to stray within 500ft of this place.

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Posted on January 4, 2012 by Patrick

Shellfish Pun, Addiscombe

There seems to be no end to the puns involving fish and shellfish around London’s chip shops and fishmongers. There are so many in fact that I’ve run out of anything funny or original to say about them. My only observation would be to ask what is it about fast food places anthropomorphising the creatures they sell? Here they’ve made a fish and prawn into a waiter and maitre’d respectively. After looking at the pictures are we to feel less guilty about consuming them because some of their kind are complicit in the industry? Not that I do feel guilty, creatures of the sea seem to lack the kind of personality or charisma a human can relate to. It’s like they’re not even trying not to get eaten anymore.

Spotted by Dominic Conrad

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Posted on November 27, 2011 by Patrick

Multilayered Pun, Wembley

Naming your pawnbroking and money lending shop “Cash 22″ is a work of evil genius. Lure in the desperate with a with a nice punny name and a seemingly altruistic pledge of “bringing credit to the community”,  then help them escape their immediate financial difficulties by placing them into even further into debt in the future. The very definition of the Catch 22 paradox. If the person behind this sign has done this intentionally it might be best that they’re “disappeared” for the sake of humanity.

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Posted on October 10, 2011 by Patrick

Middle Class Pun, Southgate

Nice bit of punning for the blini crowd here though say it fast enough and it sounds like Del Boy from Only Fools and Horses welcoming someone to his home.

Spotted by Duncan Barclay

 

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