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Punt gun for mass-hunting waterfowl in a, uh, punt, Britain, 1900-1912 (lemmy.world)
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[–] Skua@kbin.social 24 points 2 years ago (3 children)

If you had an Irishman in Eritrea paying another to kick his boat out on to the water so he could go hunting with one of these guns, you'd have a man in Punt with a punt paying punts for a punt at his punt

[–] Mr_Blott@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

Richard-Osman-level pun

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[–] Akasazh@feddit.nl 2 points 2 years ago

Bravo

[–] hydrospanner@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

And if he only needed a tiny bit of distance, he'd do well to watch out for the rare-but-devastating fake punt.