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Friday Pun Alert

17 November 2006 in History, Humour by Stilgherrian | 4 comments

In retrospect, it’s amazing this hadn’t been thought of before…

A visual pun

Tip o’the hat to Boing Boing and The Hippocratic Oaf for the link.

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Richard on 17 November 2006 at 2:46 pm

Bwahahahahaha!

This is, truly, one of those ‘I wish I’d thought of that’ moments.

Gold. I’m tempted to put it on a t-shirt.

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Stilgherrian on 19 November 2006 at 10:37 am

Richard, we’ve been labelled “nerds” for getting this joke.

For those who don’t “get it”, try listening to the original radio commentary of the crash of the Hindenburg. Listen to Version 1 where, after doing the promotion for American Airlines, the announcer is shocked by the speed of the conflagration and eventually cries “Oh, the humanity!”

Jokes are never as funny when they have to be explained…

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Stilgherrian on 19 November 2006 at 10:41 am

Actually, even better, watch the “standard” video of the Hindenburg crash at YouTube.

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Allison Reynolds on 16 October 2009 at 7:01 am

Look for a hat tip to this meme in the latest Monkey Island game. Certainly made me chuckle when I saw it

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