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Monday, 3 November 2025

Anyone For Pun Fun?

Good morning all. I'm looking for some feedback from you today. 

Inspired by the likes of Rol and John Medd with their fiendish quizzes and photo challenges I am thinking of introducing an interactive feature to the blog, but because it will rely on having enough people taking part to make it work I thought I would sound you out first.

The idea is to resuscitate a competition I used to organise for my work colleagues way back when I still worked in an office. It seemed to go down quite well then but that may mostly be because it provided an excuse for a few drinks after work, something that would obviously be missing from an online version. 

The competition would be to see who can come up with the best pun in a song title. How it would work is that I would set a theme, you would each submit one entry fitting that theme, I would compile them all for you to vote on and the winner will receive universal acclaim (or derision from embittered losers). 

In the old days they would also receive a prize in the form of a terrible CD from a charity shop, like this one by a group of German urologists full of tunes about urinary tract infections, prostates and the like (this is real). I'll try to think of something equally bad for an online version.

To be clear, we would not be looking for songs that are really about the theme as with Rol's Saturday Snapshots quiz but ones you have pimped for the ride. For example, we had a fish theme and the entries included delights such as "Trout" by Tears For Fears, "Promised You a Mackerel" by Simple Minds and - mainly for the artist's name - "Sole Man" by Salmon Dave. 

Hopefully that gives you the general idea. If you would like to join in let me know in the comments and if enough people are interested we'll kick things off later in the month.

In the meantime, feel free to sing along with these hits.

27 comments:

  1. I’m in. Just the one entry, you say? Oof.

    JM

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    1. Let's see how the numbers go. When I did it at work we typically had about 20 people taking part so we limited it to one to keep the voting manageable (and so I wasn't being continually being bombarded by the more enthusiastic punsters). But if there are only a few taking part we can maybe raise the limit a bit.

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    2. you probably have 20 readers, so count me in

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    3. George - not sure the Singapore bots who visit regularly will enter. But if they do I doubt they will win. I have just asked CoPilot AI "Can you suggest titles of hit songs changed to include a pun about fish?" C the Creator and AI Hater will be relieved to hear they are mostly terrible e.g. Bohemian Trout-sody.

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    4. Happy to give AI full credit though for being the best shortcut there is for sucking all the joy out of human creativity.

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  2. I'm in although I might miss the first one as we are off on holiday soon

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  3. I will now spend an hour or two looking for a download of the uroligist album. It might sit next to my Harvey Sid Fisher album if I can get it

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    1. There are seven albums to collect, or you can just settle for the compilation:

      https://www.discogs.com/release/8543242-The-Mannheim-Uroband-1988-1998

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  4. Argent - Cod Gave Rock & Roll to You.

    JM

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  5. Pistols- Never Mind the Pollocks.

    JM

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  6. Count me in too.

    My attempt at trying to set a puzzle didn't quite work out but this sounds as if it will have more success.

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  7. The Clash - Cut the Carp

    JM

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  8. Anything by Marlin Gaye.

    JM

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    1. Please stop!!!

      Other readers please note: I mentioned fish as an example. This isn't the actual topic - that will be given in a future post. And even if it was only one of JM's four suggestions to date is actually a song title and therefore a valid entry.

      Song titles could include, for example, "Johnny Where's Your Sole?", "Like a Dogfish With a Bone" or "Fish & Chips Off The Old Block"

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  9. Mark Morrison - Return of the Mackerel

    JM

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  10. Thank goodness that’s over, otherwise I would have had to nominate Dollar and Give Me Back My Carp. Lucky escape there.

    By the way, Ernie, please count me in.

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  12. I'm beginning to regret this already and we haven't even started

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  13. Shark Side of the Moon…

    JM

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  14. Aerosmith - Coys in the Attic.

    JM

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    1. It's Koi's, I know.

      I'll stop now.

      JM

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  15. Trout by Tears for Fears
    I'll get my coat!

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  16. You are wise to limit it to only one entry per person, Ernie. To misquote the saying (not sure whose!) - puns, like friends, should be few and well-chosen.

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