Showing posts with label pun. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pun. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 29, 2014

One comedian in the Galactic Empire to another

May the Farce be with you!

Oops!  That is not original with me.

After I posted this entry, I did a search for this phrase.  There are many references to this phrase, including play or musical.

Sunday, January 06, 2013

Daffynition - Vertigo

After I retrieved the paper yesterday morning and shut the door, I bent over to push the rug up against the door for insulation.  As I straightened up I was a bit light-headed.  I told my wife that I had a bit of vertigo – the vertical goes!

Tuesday, November 20, 2012

Nickname for a star kicker

A star kicker in football or soccer might by called "Missile toe".

This phrase is not original with me, but I did think of it independently.  For more uses, search for "missile toe".  Don't forget the quotes.

Sunday, February 20, 2011

A pun in French that I hope is to your taste

Il y avait un compositeur qui a écrit une chaconne à son goût.
(There was a composer who wrote a chaconne to his taste.)

A chaconne is a musical form; "chacun à son goût" means "each to his taste".

I knew there was an opera which had an aria including "chacun à son gout". I found a multi-lingual snippet of "Die Fledermaus" performed at Covent Garden in 1984.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6uEmtn56M0

But I didn't hear "chacun à son goût"!

On a second viewing I heard it at the end of Prince Orlofsky's aria.  I remember seeing a production with Beverly Sills years ago, and I remember hearing "chacun à son gout" several times.

Oh, drat!  "Chaconne à son gout" is not original.  Google gives over 1500 hits including a P.D.Q. Bach Gross Concerto by that name.