# Illustratable puns on names of painters, poets, musicians, and physicists **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 5, 2017, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/illustratable-puns-on-names-of-painters-poets-musicians-and-physicists/783827 "2017-04-05T17:13:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2017, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/illustratable-puns-on-names-of-painters-poets-musicians-and-physicists/783827/21 "2017-04-20T00:39:49Z")
\*\*These two guys \*\*as buddies, doing buddy-stuff: [![](http://gameo.org/images/thumb/6/62/John-Calvin.jpg/300px-John-Calvin.jpg) ](http://gameo.org/images/thumb/6/62/John-Calvin.jpg/300px-John-Calvin.jpg) [![](http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-654FTkK91o8/VmEnkmgEJdI/AAAAAAAAcZM/p8zZrncslw4/s1600/Thomas%2BHobbes.jpg) ](http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-654FTkK91o8/VmEnkmgEJdI/AAAAAAAAcZM/p8zZrncslw4/s1600/Thomas%2BHobbes.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2017, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/illustratable-puns-on-names-of-painters-poets-musicians-and-physicists/783827/22 "2017-04-20T00:53:14Z")
**These two** , together: [![](https://i.pinimg.com/236x/0a/4e/e9/0a4ee9524f5afce0dcbbf14d7f99558e.jpg) ](https://i.pinimg.com/236x/0a/4e/e9/0a4ee9524f5afce0dcbbf14d7f99558e.jpg) [![](https://i.pinimg.com/originals/08/99/3f/08993f3bda23ab9925c19a179725f0d6.jpg) ](https://i.pinimg.com/originals/08/99/3f/08993f3bda23ab9925c19a179725f0d6.jpg) Marx and Lennon (Lenin) ---
**Author:** ![psychonaut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/psychonaut/32/4655_2.png) [@psychonaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychonaut)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2017, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/illustratable-puns-on-names-of-painters-poets-musicians-and-physicists/783827/23 "2017-04-20T06:37:45Z")
Thanks for all your contributions. There are some really fantastic ones and it’s going to keep me busy photoshopping over the weekend. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2017, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/illustratable-puns-on-names-of-painters-poets-musicians-and-physicists/783827/24 "2017-04-20T13:45:17Z")
German mathematician Leonhard Euler, wearing an Edmonton Oilers NHL jersey. Euler is pronounced “oiler”. You can recreate the Oilers logo, with the spelling “Euler”.) ---
**Author:** ![psychonaut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/psychonaut/32/4655_2.png) [@psychonaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychonaut)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2017, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/illustratable-puns-on-names-of-painters-poets-musicians-and-physicists/783827/25 "2017-04-20T14:24:51Z")
> [@jtur88](#): > > German mathematician Leonhard Euler, wearing an Edmonton Oilers NHL jersey. Euler is pronounced “oiler”. You can recreate the Oilers logo, with the spelling “Euler”.) We’re in the computer science department of a German university, so recognizing Euler and pronouncing his name is no problem for us. What will be harder is getting anyone here to recognize Canadian hockey jerseys (or American baseball players, as someone else proposed above). 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2017, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/illustratable-puns-on-names-of-painters-poets-musicians-and-physicists/783827/26 "2017-04-20T14:41:45Z")
> [@psychonaut](#): > > We’re in the computer science department of a German university, so recognizing Euler and pronouncing his name is no problem for us. What will be harder is getting anyone here to recognize Canadian hockey jerseys (or American baseball players, as someone else proposed above). 🙂 That’s part of the fun. Use the photo showing “COLANGELO” and see who will be the first to make the connection. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2017, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/illustratable-puns-on-names-of-painters-poets-musicians-and-physicists/783827/27 "2017-04-20T15:44:57Z")
> [@psychonaut](#): > > We’re in the computer science department of a German university, so recognizing Euler and pronouncing his name is no problem for us. What will be harder is getting anyone here to recognize Canadian hockey jerseys (or American baseball players, as someone else proposed above). Will they understand that the Matchbox pun is an allusion to _ **A Clockwork Orange** _? :dubious: (The line is ideally delivered with a British accent.) ---
**Author:** ![psychonaut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/psychonaut/32/4655_2.png) [@psychonaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychonaut)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2017, 7:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/illustratable-puns-on-names-of-painters-poets-musicians-and-physicists/783827/28 "2017-04-21T07:45:02Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > Will they understand that the Matchbox pun is an allusion to _ **A Clockwork Orange** _? :dubious: (The line is ideally delivered with a British accent.) I’m afraid that might be too obscure as well—even the Schwarzenegger “I’ll be Bach” one might be problematic. Most films here are dubbed, so many of the pop-culture catchphrases we anglophones take for granted might be completely unfamiliar (at least in their original forms) to many of my colleagues. ---
**Author:** ![Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/half_man_half_wit/32/21766_2.png) [@Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Half_Man_Half_Wit)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2017, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/illustratable-puns-on-names-of-painters-poets-musicians-and-physicists/783827/29 "2017-04-21T14:06:15Z")
> [@psychonaut](#): > > We’re in the computer science department of a German university, so recognizing Euler and pronouncing his name is no problem for us. So how about a piglet with photoshopped hands making a diamond shape, and a page cut? (Angela Ferkel, Ferkel being piglet in German.) Or swap Sigmar Gabriel’s head with the eighteenth letter of the Greek alphabet, yielding Sigma Gabriel… As for poets, how about combining the author of The Raven with the red teletubby, creating that dreadful chimera Edgar Allan Po? (Something like [this](http://img04.deviantart.net/712f/i/2013/272/8/1/edgar_allan_po_by_heroforpain-d6ok1xa.jpg).) Or, since you’re in computer science, how about making Al Gore dance according to a fixed sequence of steps? Yes, that’s right, it’s an Al Gore-rhythm… Take a picture of Friedrich II. (or, hell, any of those other Friedrichs), and paint it in glittery colours—Friedrich Schiller(t), ‘schillern’ meaning something like ‘dazzling’ when it comes to colours. Have German comedian Otto Waalkes jump off a slice of pickled herring—Otto von Bismarckhering. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2017, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/illustratable-puns-on-names-of-painters-poets-musicians-and-physicists/783827/30 "2017-04-21T14:10:35Z")
The forearm of an African kid = Schwarzschild radius? ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2017, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/illustratable-puns-on-names-of-painters-poets-musicians-and-physicists/783827/31 "2017-04-21T16:56:51Z")
I’m guessing a Clawed Pussy would not go over well. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2017, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/illustratable-puns-on-names-of-painters-poets-musicians-and-physicists/783827/32 "2017-04-21T17:46:49Z")
> [@Ludovic](#): > > The forearm of an African kid = Schwarzschild radius? I’ve improved it\* by adding two more that probably don’t deserve their own: An African kid standing on a plank (Planck), throwing one stone. \*Or made it worse depending on your opinion of puns. ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2017, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/illustratable-puns-on-names-of-painters-poets-musicians-and-physicists/783827/33 "2017-04-21T22:05:37Z")
You can’t do this one visually, but I’m posting it anyway. I heard a Classical Music FM station do a one-hour program\* about violinist Isaac Stern. The title was: “No Tone Unsterned” Made me giggle. YMMV. (\* Karl Haas, Adventures in Good Music, c1975) ---
**Author:** ![psychonaut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/psychonaut/32/4655_2.png) [@psychonaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychonaut)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2017, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/illustratable-puns-on-names-of-painters-poets-musicians-and-physicists/783827/34 "2017-04-23T14:46:53Z")
> [@Ludovic](#): > > The forearm of an African kid = Schwarzschild radius? The second component in “Schwarzschild” is “Schild” (= shield), not “child”. Maybe you knew this, but I think a macaronic pun involving the English pronunciation of an arbitrary part of a German word is probably a tad too difficult. ---
**Author:** ![psychonaut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/psychonaut/32/4655_2.png) [@psychonaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychonaut)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2017, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/illustratable-puns-on-names-of-painters-poets-musicians-and-physicists/783827/35 "2017-04-23T14:50:23Z")
> [@jtur88](#): > > German mathematician Leonhard Euler, wearing an Edmonton Oilers NHL jersey. Euler is pronounced “oiler”. You can recreate the Oilers logo, with the spelling “Euler”.) By the way, I just found that some has already mocked up an [Edmonton Eulers](https://divisbyzero.com/2010/11/11/the-edmonton-eulers/) logo. I think this is brilliant. 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/illustratable-puns-on-names-of-painters-poets-musicians-and-physicists/783827.md?page=1)