Punning Variations
San Francisco librarian Dick Dillon is credited with the story of a baseball umpire who spanks his little boy and then, by way of apology, invites him to sit on his lap. The boy refuses, proving that "the son never sits on the brutish umpire".
In a 1997 article, Edward Johnson referred to Dag Hammarskjöld as "The umpire on whom the sun never sets".
The monologue "Tried by the Centre Court" by Flanders and Swann ends with the line: "The umpire on whom the sun never sets."
Read more about this topic: The Empire On Which The Sun Never Sets
Famous quotes containing the words punning and/or variations:
“Our punning minds rejoin what logic has separated.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“I may be able to spot arrowheads on the desert but a refrigerator is a jungle in which I am easily lost. My wife, however, will unerringly point out that the cheese or the leftover roast is hiding right in front of my eyes. Hundreds of such experiences convince me that men and women often inhabit quite different visual worlds. These are differences which cannot be attributed to variations in visual acuity. Man and women simply have learned to use their eyes in very different ways.”
—Edward T. Hall (b. 1914)