Mark H. sends in this censible comic: “This one is just a specimen of five days worth of penny / money puns. 6/17-6/21 could all appear as a single “Oy” section.
I wouldn’t change a thing…”
Mitch4 sends this in: “Quite a bit of phonological compression required, but despite not looking much alike, I can buy it that “Namaste” is a good sound substitute for “Nah, Imma stay” (where “Imma” in turn is a contemporary short form for “I’m gonna”).”
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I wish Mark could have phrased it as “money/penny puns”
The world origami championships were on TV.
Sadly it was on paper view.
chipchristian mentions “penny puns”
James Joyce, whom we think of for his prose novels and stories, also did write some poetry. Indeed, he published two volumes, and one of them was called Pomes Penyeach. (The other is Chamber Music, which, besides its more usual meanings, he is said to have jokingly identified as the sound of urination in a chamber pot.)
Here is a link to Pomes Penyeach: http://jfj-art.com/joycespeak/pdf/Poems.pdf
The “namaste” pun was surely lifted from David Sedaris. In one of his more recent books, he is quoting North Carolinians (?) about whether they are going of evacuate in the face of a coming hurricane, and some of them respond with the, “nah, I’ma stay” which he conflates with “namaste”, which sounds exactly like the southern “no, I’m going to stay”. Actually, now I wonder if I heard him perform it, because it surely wouldn’t have stuck in my mind as clearly as it does had I merely read it.
For a long time I confused “namaste” and “no mas.”