From Samy Alim on Facebook, this punning restaurant name:
(punning on fo(r) shizzle ‘for sure’, a piece of slang popularized by Snoop Dogg). It turns out that there are lots of Pho Shizzles, in various cities. Those rappin’ Vietnamese.
We’ve been through puns on pho — see “Go pho it”, here — including a list of punning restaurant names. Now four illustrations: the one above, plus What the Pho (what the fuck), Pho King (fucking, though this one could be innocent), and Absolutely Pho-bulous (the tv show Absolutely Fabulous):
It’s all pho show.
August 21, 2012 at 4:15 pm |
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