Pun Fun 1: The Theme

As Monday's suggestion for a new competition got such an enthusiastic response (rather too enthusiastic in some quarters) I thought I may as well strike while the iron is hot. We'll see how the first one goes and if it proves popular enough we'll do one a month.

As I explained then, the competition is to see who can come up with the best worst pun in a song title on a specific theme. I set the theme, you submit your song titles, I collate them all into a list for you to vote on and then publish the final 'chart' and announce the winner. 

Before announcing the first theme I will make an undoubtedly futile attempt to establish some ground rules. Here goes:

• Only one entry per person. We can review this restriction for future challenges if we only get a small number of entries but we'll stick with it for now.

• Please send your entries via email to leggies27@hotmail.co.uk rather than put them in the comment section below. All entries on the voting form will be anonymised in order to reduce the risk of partisan voting.

• Any reader can vote, you don't need to have submitted an entry to do so (similar to the Eurovision final when all the eliminated countries still get to have a say in the outcome).

• And finally, please don't: vote for yourself; attempt to get other entries disqualified on a technicality; or complain loudly that your fellow voters are idiots if you don't win. These are all things that happened when I used to do this live. Also don't object if a group of Finnish tourists at the next table ask what is going on and I let them vote as well (covered by the previous rule). 

With all that out of the way it is time to announce the theme for the inaugural Pun Fun (official theme tune: "Pun Fun D'Amour" by Manhattan Transfer - I considered "Pun Fun (Go For It)" by Wham! but rejected the idea because it would have meant rhyming 'fun' with 'fun' in the opening line).

We believe in healthy bodies as well as healthy minds here at 27Leggies, so the theme is: 

SPORTS AND SPORTING EQUIPMENT

Please get your entries to me by Saturday 15 November. The list of runners and riders will be published the following Monday.

You might want to look at this list of officially recognised sports to get you started - although perhaps don't pick a pun about vovinam or galli-danda if you want to attract a lot of votes. 

Or you might prefer just to listen to these songs which may or may not be about cricket. There will be another one on Sunday but for different reasons.

"Cricket On The Moon" - Lee "Scratch" Perry

"When An Old Cricketer Leaves The Crease" - Roy Harper