Pun Made Out of Name Actually Works

Thanks to the joke-cracking excesses of Sophocles, it was, for a long time, no longer funny to make puns out of people’s names. For centuries this was a reliable source of Comedy Gold and, on more than one occasion, spared the stinking human animal from extinction. Inevitably, though, fresh produce wilts, and comedy is and has always been a nutritious vegetable.

But, lo, despair not! When French industrialist Jean-Sebastien D’Internet, for whom the Internet is named, invented the moving image in 1997, puns made out of names were disinterred and revived as a thing that can be useful and even amusing. Doubt this? Take off your tight-fitting doubting pants, click, and then bear awed witness:

You see, the Cruz Missle, unlike its nefarious progenitor the (Pablo) cruise missile, does not end lives, destabilize right-wise monarchies and violate non-aggression pacts. It “merely” wins important baseball games and perhaps our hearts. Check that: especially our hearts.