Painful Puns

[wolfie2kX 528]

Found on the back wall of the leper colony in the Urthak's Moxie area:

 

"A short fortunteller who escaped from prison was a small medium at large." {insert rimshot here}

 

Ouch!

[Ysne58 236]

That is really ba-a-a-ad.

[essjayehm 58]

Well, Ysne, that was rather sheepish... <groan>

 

A marathon runner without footwear suffers the agony of defeat. <cheer> doubly funny because not too many marathoners could actually win an event without shoes...

-inscription on a statue in the TG starting area

Edited February 24, 2011 by essjayehm

[Ryanrocker 200]

Hahaha, thank you for the quote wolfie, that may have just made my Thursday night

[gial 2]

Well, Ysne, that was rather sheepish... <groan>

 

A marathon runner without footwear suffers the agony of defeat. <cheer> doubly funny because not too many marathoners could actually win an event without shoes...

-inscription on a statue in the TG starting area

. . . Unless he is Abebe Bikila at the 1960 Olympic games in Rome.

 

Bikila won the marathon barefoot. He won it again in Tokyo, 1964 -- but wore shoes that time.

[essjayehm 58]

. . . Unless he is Abebe Bikila at the 1960 Olympic games in Rome.

 

Bikila won the marathon barefoot. He won it again in Tokyo, 1964 -- but wore shoes that time.

Glad I worded my post the way I did ... but I was actually thinking about a specific Africian tribe that, according to a documenary I sawWilliam Shatner's "Weird or What" show, some members can routinely run for 24-48 hours straight (ie between tribal communities), without any type of footwear at all... apparently it's all in the preparation and technique.

 

EDIT: Remembered the source of that factoid...

Edited February 25, 2011 by essjayehm

[Ysne58 236]

My daughter has to write a one page random short story for her advanced writing class. She plans to quote the pun Wolfie found.

 

Essay that was another really good find.

[cider_steve 26]

Well, Ysne, that was rather sheepish... <groan>

 

A marathon runner without footwear suffers the agony of defeat. <cheer> doubly funny because not too many marathoners could actually win an event without shoes...

-inscription on a statue in the TG starting area

. . . Unless he is Abebe Bikila at the 1960 Olympic games in Rome.

 

Bikila won the marathon barefoot. He won it again in Tokyo, 1964 -- but wore shoes that time.

 

Zola Budd was also a fantastic runner who didn't wear footwear. She was South African, but ran for a short while under the GB banner ( I think it was because SA were still banned at the time ) She had that famous clash with Mary Decker at the 1984 Los Angeles olympics. Got her feet stomped and bloody, IIRC.