Tuesday, April 20, 2010

A “bad air day” over European skies

Can it be that this guy was the only person to make a “bad air day” pun about the grounding of most flights over Europe because of the volcano in Iceland, Eyjafjallajökull? That’s the only one that turned up on a Google search. There are, however, several references to April 14, when it began its current activity, as “ash Wednesday.” Only a user ID here mentions it being a “plane shame,” though, and there are but two references to “plume and gloom.” The rhyming “eruption disruption” produced many hits but is not an actual pun. Here is a report on the “ash kicking” even train travelers got due to the grounding of all the planes.

I looked this up because Jon Stewart suggested last night that the big snowfalls this past winter in the East had produced better puns, e.g. Snowpocalypse (204,000 Google hits, despite being kind of lame). The only one they came up with was the variation Volcanolypse.

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