Yesterday’s Zippy: Our Pinhead puns on corny: his corny ideas have to do with corn. For the other sense, see NOAD2: trite, banal, or mawkishly sentimental: it sounds corny, but as soon as I saw her I knew she was the one. ORIGIN 1930s: from an earlier sense ‘rustic, appealing to country folk.’ Cornpone (not in … Continue reading Pun in the field