:: The sad state of headline punnery ::

Tuesday, June 13, 2006

Plentiful were the articles covering the Czech Republic's 3-0 de-pantsing of the US soccer team in the World Cup yesterday. Of those gunning for wordplay, all apparently used one of the following four puns:

Czech Mate
Reality Czech
Czech-ed Out (dubious)
Gut Czech

I'm a little disappointed with the relative unanimity of these headlines. These writers were given a providential softball and chose to bunt. Where are "Cziggity-Czech yourself" and "Government Let Down by System of Czechs and Dalliances"? As the old saying goes, punning with "Czech" is like kissing a goat: easy and unrewarding, but if you're going to do it, you might as well go all the way.

Posted by morland @ 05:58 PM

:: Comments ::

Others might include the following:

"Yo, Czech out the 5-star on my a$$ from the whupping I got!"

"U.S. gets its Czech cashed"

"Czech, please."

"Put another Czech in the L column."

Posted by: Might as well be Spam on June 14, 2006 12:42 PM

Czech the technique.

Posted by: Eric B & Rakim on June 16, 2006 11:03 PM

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