Philip and Walt both sent me this one

which makes the score Death 12, #TeamPinocchio 5.
I just had to add the Oy tag.
Arthur sent this one

which doesn’t count for DeathMatch purposes since he doesn’t know when it appeared, but he very correctly noted that it qualifies for Oy.
It’s getting to the point where this game should be called after one inning on account of the “Mercy Rule”.
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Hehe, “sole” puns.
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An antic fishmonger named Neville
Had a head you would hardly call level
He said that his scrod
Could be purchased by God
But he’d promised his sole to the Devil
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And beside the ‘fish’ sense, there is the ‘shoe’ sense. Famously punned on by …
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Wow. Big Beatles fan for over fifty years, and big fan of puns for longer than that, and not until today, seeing it in this context, did I realize that the title RUBBER SOUL was supposed to be a pun.
(It took me almost as long a year or so back to realize that the title HI AND LOIS incorporated a pun.)
Shoot me now! (Or get Rocky Raccoon’s arch-enemy to do it.)
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And do you recall that “Revolver” was called that because….
it goes round and round?
:-)
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It was also a play on the frequent criticism of the time regarding white artists suddenly performing music, and making money, from traditionally black music.
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John Lennon was very much into puns and Joycean word-play. He wrote two books, “In His Own Write” and “A Spaniard in the Works”. What we in the states call a monkey wrench, the British call a spanner.
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@ MiB – And what the Germans call a “Spanner” is called a “peeping Tom” in English. ;-)
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Shrug, I read Andy Capp for decades before someone else pointed out to me that his name is a pun.
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