Quote:Or something like that. The first rounds are random punning on a topic around a circle until someone has to bow out. Then, when down to the final two, it turns into "story time."
And as the space shark devoured the hapless astronauts, thier commander whaled, "Oh, the huge manatee! What are we going to du, gong?"
The punners have to tell a story given by the judges in synopsis. they have two rounds of free-form puns, two rounds of enforced theme, and then theme and time limit.
Our story time was the tale of the evolution of the landshark: the space shark... "... Candygram."
We used seafood and space puns until we were told to switch to underwater mammals for our puns. I was fortunate to know more whales and sea creatures.
Eventually, my opponent had to MAKE UP a whale and got disqualified. ["Tiger Whale" btw]
It was just as well: the story was going narwhal.
''We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat
them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.''
-- James Nicoll