for the antepenultimate day of May …
A: The Mammoth Erection company, providing scaffolding design and erection services, based in the northern Toronto suburb of Aurora ON. A genuine company that’s been around for several decades but was only this afternoon brought to my attention (on Facebook). My delighted attention, given that I’m a serious fan of both mammoths (of the woolly sort) and erections (of the penile sort).
One of the company’s enormous trucks, for transporting piles of scaffolding material:
(#1) The company name embraces a pun on the adjective mammoth ‘huge’, as you can see from the company logo in close-up:
(#2) With the noun mammoth ‘a large extinct elephant of the Pleistocene epoch, typically hairy with a sloping back and long curved tusks. Genus Mammuthus, family Elephantidae’ (NOAD) — but a woolly mammoth in construction gear
My jokey understanding of Mammoth Erection superimposes on this mammoth pun a pun on the noun erection: literal in the company name, figurative in my joke (though surely guys in the construction business appreciate a bit of the raunchy). From NOAD:
noun erection: 1 [a] the action of erecting a structure or object: fees will be levied for the erection of monuments. [b] a building or other upright structure: she looked around the cafe, a bleak concrete erection. 2 an enlarged and rigid state of the penis, typically in sexual excitement: men who cannot get an erection.
May 29, 2024 at 6:10 pm |
This is the closest posting I’ve encountered here that will allow me to report on a great pun made in real time by a guy who as was working with my husband on a construction project bolting a house to its foundation to earthquake-proof it. They were imagining it could be fun to have a company that specialized in that kind of work. But what would they all it? “Seismic Matters,” said they guy with almost no hesitation.
May 29, 2024 at 7:02 pm |
I miss those days, now just stuck with an elephant in the room.