GW's worst puns?

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**hungryp**

fasterthanlight wrote:Most of these examples are not puns, just borrowed names and references.

I don't wish to be pedantic but a pun has to have a linguistic double meaning.

Tiq' Taq' To = Kind of but not really a pun

Dante = a borrowed name, not a pun

Commoragh = a word that sounds like Gommorah (also not a pun)

What you are refering to is malapropisms. A word or phrase used as a subsitute for another but without double meaning.

Anyway....

FTL

Well, since we're being pedantic, a malapropism is an accidental substitution of words.

As for my favourite GW naming silliness, I think I peed a little the first time I read a reference to the loud, discordant music that is Goff Rock.

**Panic**

yeah,
Nobs
Big Nobs
Mega Nobs
Hard Boys

Panic...

**shrike**

ghazghkull mag-urut thatcha...lol...I have GOT to make a maggie head and stick it on ghaz's body... anyone know any maggie-like heads? like from spitting image?
throw a chicken the air, shove a deckchair up your nose...

**Lone Dragoon**

A few more;

Lukas the Trickster= Loki of Norse Mythology, the Trickster God who was said to always have the Last Laugh

Arjac's Hammer= Mjolnir, Thor's hammer that when thrown would return to his hand

And who can forget the original rogue trader character, Inquisitor Obiwan Sherlock Clousseau.

**shrike**

Lone Dragoon wrote:Inquisitor Obiwan Sherlock Clousseau.

oh, I wonder where they got that from...

**Henners91**

Fafnir wrote:
fahujaskillz wrote:how about Dante, Mephiston, and Baal from the BA? not only a Diablo reference,(Dante is just another name for the Devil, just like Diablo) but also i find it funny that arguably the most loyal chapter of Space Marines are closet devil worshippers

Considering that they were around long before Diablo came out...

Oh dear...

**Battle Brother Lucifer**

Man. However posted that first response thats keeps getting people, 10/10
Read the threads before you post people!

**CommissarCandlestick**

Well, Typhus is a disease, which is likely why it's the name of a champion of Nurgle.

**BluntmanDC**

battle Brother Lucifer wrote:Man. However posted that first response thats keeps getting people, 10/10
Read the threads before you post people!

unfortunetly for us they won't read this. they will see an obvious joke on the second page, not get that it was a joke and post a reply thinking they have been smarter than everyone else on the thread

**kenshin620**

Lamentors Chapter

Lament is to mourn

They have had the worst luck of any living chapter, they're borderline extinct

**Space_Potato**

CommissarCandlestick wrote:Well, Typhus is a disease, which is likely why it's the name of a champion of Nurgle.

Typhoid, but you get the idea.

Sorry, just being pedantic.

S_P

**BluntmanDC**

Space_Potato wrote:
CommissarCandlestick wrote:Well, Typhus is a disease, which is likely why it's the name of a champion of Nurgle.

Typhoid, but you get the idea.

Sorry, just being pedantic.

S_P

pedantic but wrong

typhus and typhoid fever are seperate diseases

**Just Dave**

Their Pricing.

**Henners91**

BluntmanDC wrote:
battle Brother Lucifer wrote:Man. However posted that first response thats keeps getting people, 10/10
Read the threads before you post people!

unfortunetly for us they won't read this. they will see an obvious joke on the second page, not get that it was a joke and post a reply thinking they have been smarter than everyone else on the thread

I don't need to skip a thread to claim that ;P

**cadbren**

BluntmanDC wrote:
cadbren wrote:
Saldiven wrote:
Actually, Tolkien took his idea of races from Northern Germanic legend, mythology, and folklore. ...
My only point is that Tolkien didn't create these names or ideas, and he never claimed to. He was a professor of Medieval English Literature, and much of his work as an author was an attempt to sustain the Northern Germanic folklore that is the basis for English legends, fairy tales, cultural beliefs, etc.

I know and I never said he invented the races, I said he was the first to include them together in one universe.

apart from the germans obviously.

Can you give me an example of a traditional Germanic tale that has orcs, dwarves and elves in it.

Automatically Appended Next Post:

Panic wrote:yeah,
Nobs
Big Nobs
Mega Nobs
Hard Boys

Panic...

**Ouze**

battle Brother Lucifer wrote:Man. However posted that first response thats keeps getting people, 10/10
Read the threads before you post people!

On the one hand, I feel sort of guilty for escalating what I thought was a fairly well-known meme that no one would even "not-get". On the other hand...

**Bankinus**

cadbren wrote:
Can you give me an example of a traditional Germanic tale that has orcs, dwarves and elves in it.

Elves and Dwarves are an important aspect of Norse mythology, so there must be stories that feature both of them.
Orcs as far as my knowledge goes however are not.

**Gitzbitah**

Bankinus wrote:
cadbren wrote:
Can you give me an example of a traditional Germanic tale that has orcs, dwarves and elves in it.

Elves and Dwarves are an important aspect of Norse mythology, so there must be stories that feature both of them.
Orcs as far as my knowledge goes however are not.

It is a secondary source, but still quite reputable- "The Edda mentions another class of beings, inferior to the gods, but still possessed of great power; these were called Elves. The White Spirits, or Elves of Light, were exceedingly fair, more brilliant than the sun... ... the Black or Night Elves were a different kind of creatures. Ugly, long nosed dwarfs, of a dirty brown color, they appeared only at night, for they avoided the sun as their most deadly enemy, because whenever his beams fell upon any of them they changed them immediately into stone(Bulfinch's Mythology, The Elves, p348)".

Essentially, the Black Elves here contained the essence of our modern day Orks, Dark Elves and Tolkein's trolls, and Dwarves. They hate the sun, like Orks. They live underground, like Dark Elves or Drow. They are very skilled with runes and mechanical devices, and are very short like Dwarves. Sunlight turns them into stone, like trolls. They were born of maggots from Ymir's body, which made them viewed as disgusting, and resentful of most other races. They are notoriously greedy. In short, they are not only in the same story- they're in the same proto-race.

**BluntmanDC**

cadbren wrote:
BluntmanDC wrote:
cadbren wrote:
Saldiven wrote:
Actually, Tolkien took his idea of races from Northern Germanic legend, mythology, and folklore. ...
My only point is that Tolkien didn't create these names or ideas, and he never claimed to. He was a professor of Medieval English Literature, and much of his work as an author was an attempt to sustain the Northern Germanic folklore that is the basis for English legends, fairy tales, cultural beliefs, etc.

I know and I never said he invented the races, I said he was the first to include them together in one universe.

apart from the germans obviously.

Can you give me an example of a traditional Germanic tale that has orcs, dwarves and elves in it.

seeing as nearly all folklore and myth are presented as actual events/creatures set in the time and area of the teller then all folklore event and creatures exist in the same 'universe' (germanic northern europe), therefore they don't need to be be presented in a single tale to be in the same 'universe'.

**Space_Potato**

BluntmanDC wrote:
Space_Potato wrote:
CommissarCandlestick wrote:Well, Typhus is a disease, which is likely why it's the name of a champion of Nurgle.

Typhoid, but you get the idea.

Sorry, just being pedantic.

S_P

pedantic but wrong

typhus and typhoid fever are seperate diseases

Really? I did not know that.

I apologise CommissarCandlestick for my insolence.

S_P

**Saintspirit**

sleezesteve wrote:
Saintspirit wrote:
And on a side note: Baal is NOT some kind of devil! He was in fact a fenicial god of fertility and storms. It's most likely the catholics that defiled him, just as they did with so many other gods (such as Poseidons trident turned into the devils).

Baal reputation as a bad guy is older than that. As the chief god of the Carthaginians the Romans used his imagery to represent all that was bad centuries before they were Christianized. Our image of the devil arises from Catholicism growing out to the late Roman state and picking it up along the way.

Hm I say. Thats news for me, thanks for telling me.

**weetyskemian44**

I read that baal was popular all around the Mediterranean. And that he was a generally nice chap except for occasionally demanding the sacrifice of first born babies by throwing them into a mouth shaped furnace. They were said to have been eaten by baal. Of vourse that could just be roman propaganda but archeologists have discovered sites in carthage filled with charred baby bones!!

**Sirius42**

Lizardmen book, as already mentioned Grymloq.
But, the Terradon mounted special characters terradon is Zwup and Mazdamundis setgadon is Zlaaq (excuse the spelling).

**filbert**

Not sure if this has been posted yet (and I can't really be bothered to check the whole thread for it!) but the reference to the Nikaea gathering where the Emperor took the legions to task and banned use of psykers is a reference to the Council of Nicaea where Constantine challenged organised religion to come up with a 'standard' for the bible.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Council_of_Nicaea

**BluntmanDC**

filbert wrote:banned use of psykers

It banned the use of sourcery, but not psykers. it did set the restrictions and training of psykers

**reds8n**

No, that's how it used to be, in the IA articles.

The Visions and the HH series have expanded upon this to it being an outright ban on both.

**BluntmanDC**

So it no longer stands then, in the IA articles it said it said that it still standed to the present. why did they change it? it doesn't make any sence seeing as psykers have always played a role in the IoM.

So when was the ban lifted?
How would the great crusade work without psykers?
the emperor is psychic and uses his powers all the time

as i said it doesn't make any sense

**reds8n**

BluntmanDC wrote: why did they change it? it doesn't make any sence seeing as psykers have always played a role in the IoM.

So when was the ban lifted?

Don't know, but the point has been raised several times and confirmed by the writers several times several times.

I'm assuming that the ban will be lifted at some future/yet to happen point in the HH series.

There's been speculation that this may well tie into the formation of the GK and/or Garro's mission(s). Which would make sense given what he's been doing.

**BluntmanDC**

kind of ruins the whole story of the Nikaea gathering.

**kenshin620**

BluntmanDC wrote:kind of ruins the whole story of the Nikaea gathering.

What 40k fluff doesnt ruin something