Introducing a shorter category of posts we’ve dubbed imPulse
Ever noticed how sometimes a name in a news story is cannily apposite to that story? Unlike forms of wordplay such as anagrams where it’s scrambled fun (Tony Blair MP = Tory Plan B) or reliant on puns, these names are often directly and comically suggestive of the news in which they are related. Here are just a few I’ve noted recently:
- Neel Kashkari (Cash/Carry): Meet the $700 Billion Bailout Czar, Neel Kashkari
- Bernie Madoff (Made-off): that he did, with a lot of people’s money in one of the biggest frauds in history
- Father Cutie and Father Weakland: Sex and the Priestly: Father Cutie Renews Celibacy Debate
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