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Mythbusters featured an amusing pun the other evening. In the middle of a project that had Jamie and Adam welding many pieces of pipe together, the announcer used this line:

While Jamie and Adam solder on down the pipe, let's check in on the other mythbusters.

In writing, the joke is a brilliant reference to the phrase soldier on. In speech, though, it wouldn't normally work, since the word solder is pronounced SOD-der.

The Mythbusters announcer, though, found a way around this. He mispronounced solder to sound like SOLD-er, thus making the written joke audible. Hilarious.

Posted by briley at September 11, 2006 11:05 AM