Excellent puns
Fucking shit pun
not a pun, just a word
Nah, because in terms of a REAL pun, it isn’t one. In terms of a shop pun name pun, it is
You really haven’t explained this. If homebase’s lack of a material connection to baseball makes it not a pun, why is The Codfather a pun?
no.
there’s not a special definition of the word ‘pun’ where if it applies to a shop it can mean literally any word that has more than one meaning. that’s not how puns work.
Fuck I had no idea homebase was a play on words! Literally just realised, not a pun though… that’d be daft
Then there are only 3 (i think) puns in this thread
because the codfather isn’t a thing
a home base is a thing
There are like five thousand cod fathers per city
And baby cods have cod fathers
because The Godfather is famous enough as a book / film / in general culture enough to make it so
(quite often you’ll see a fish dressed up in some kind of mafia-esque dress to emphasise this point)
^and also this
So the cultural reference doesn’t have to be linked to the shop’s product unless the cultural reference is one you’ve not heard of.
Curl Up And Dye
BRB, gunna grab some wok to walk
no
the imagery of a cod dressed up as the godfather is just… quite amusing, right? that’s what makes it a pun.
same with jason’s donner van. everyone knows who jason donovan is. so it’s funny.
how is homebase funny? (the point of a pun?)
This thread has reminded me that there are lots of people in the world who enjoy jokes that are only, at best, half jokes. And I hate you all for that.
This one doesn’t work quite so well now that their second outlet, Thailander II, has closed.
puns aren’t always funny
and not all things that are funny are puns
is bar one a pun?
bar one has the potential to be a pun
