Pun Fun 1: The Results

Ladies and gentlemen, we have a winner! Topping the inaugural Pun Fun chart is...

KHAYEM with 'The Boy With Willie Thorne In His Side'.

Khayem professed to be over the moon when informed of the result. Asked to describe the secret of his success, he said: "I just closed my eyes, hit send, and the next thing I knew it was in the back of the net".

Khayem is being too modest. By choosing a pun about a 1980s snooker player he cleverly targeted a key demographic here at 27 Leggies, as is shown in this detailed breakdown of where his votes came from:

• British men old enough to remember the 1980s - 88%
• Absolutely everybody else in the whole world - 12%

Here is the top five. I'm not sharing the full results as we're not here to name and shame, but I can reveal that everyone avoided the dreaded 'nul points'.

1. 'The Boy With Willie Thorne In His Side' - The Smiths (Khayem)
2. 'Sgt Pepper's Lonely Darts Club Band' - The Beatles (Alyson)
3. 'Can't Stand Luge-ing You' - The Police (John M)
4. 'Satan Rejected My Goal' - Morrissey (Rol)
5. 'Croquet Fred' - Errol Dunkley (Ernie)

We have had a request from one competitor to be given the opportunity to share some of the other puns they thought of but did not submit due to being limited to one entry. If it spares long-suffering loved ones from having to smile politely while listening to them all that is fine by me, so feel free to fill up the comments section with as many as you want. I'll get the ball rolling: 'Karate Fears Two' by The Associates.

Many thanks to everyone who sent in an entry, and thanks also to those of you who did not but found time to vote. Hopefully some of the latter group will be sufficiently enthused to enter in future. 

There will be another opportunity soon. We'll be back with a new theme this time next week so we can get one in before we are hit by the full force of the festive season. If that goes well we will resume in January.

Until then, we'll hand over to Khayem and the rest of LT United for their victory celebrations. He's the one second from right. And let's also hear it for the song and sportsman that combined to deliver him his victory. For those of you not familiar with him, Willie is the bald one.