Pun-Off World Championship

     So Austin hosts the Pun-Off World Championship each year.  Not sure if they've actually ever had internationals compete, but it does attract people from around the United States to compete.  I discovered this event months ago and instantly became excited.  Jackson was equally excited and we've been anticipating this forever.  What can we say, we have a punny sense of humor.  Anyway, last weekend the day finally arrived.  We drove downtown, claimed a spot on the lawn and settled in for some great entertainment.

     It was set up in a bracket competition.  3 competitors would be on stage at a time and they went in a line spouting off puns related to the current category.  Some categories were: condiments, pregnancy, winged animals, movie stars, documents, and fairy tales.  If you repeated a pun word that was already used (for example using tinker bell in a pun when she had already been used) then you would receive a strike.  You would also receive a strike if your pun wasn't actually a pun.  3 strikes and you're out.  You had 10 seconds to come up with a pun otherwise you were eliminated regardless of how many strikes you had.  So, they would just take turns spouting off clever statements.  It's amazing that people can do that on the spot with a surprise category!  

    Jackson was actually pretty good at it and came up with quite a few of his own during each round.  Here are some examples:  

    Category:  Condiment.   "Olive to die another day" 

    Category:  Winged creatures:  "When I got here there was a bird robbin' a bank"  

    Category: Television:  "I was feeling kind of dirty so I went to the soap opera" 

    Category:  Winged creatures:  "Sometimes it's a peng to win" 

     

    Anyway, those are just some that I wrote down.  I couldn't think of any!  Here we are enjoying the show, despite the heat (an umbrella really helped to cool us down!) 

     It was a pretty hippie atmosphere.  Austin is such a different city from San Antonio!  But I love it.  Very active, educated, and of course weird.  

     I also saw one of the most beautiful dogs I've ever seen.  I loved it.  And that's saying a lot coming from me. 

     Cute right?  Anyway, after some good laughs and impressive performances we clapped for the winner and headed home.  I didn't know that suggesting we go to the pun off included Jackson speaking in puns for the rest of the evening.  On the way home he used every exit name in a pun.  All through dinner I wasn't allowed to speak unless it was a pun.  It did force me to come up with puns and some were actually quite decent!  Jackson is impressively good at them though.  

    Anyway, it was a great Saturday afternoon date and we ended the evening by going to a friend's house for a Pajama movie night but ended up playing games all night with like 6 other couples.  It was great fun.  We LOVE where we live and have made such wonderful friends!