A listener in Hope, North Wales, points out that there’s punny way to spell a hungry horse in four letters. (Hint: one particularly British synonym for horse is gee-gee.) This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Hungry Horse Pun”
I’ve been thinking about that call we had about the terms G and haw we heard from that dog sledder.
Yeah, the instructions, the commands that you give a dog for left and right.
Yes, and I had forgotten that the term Gigi means horse, G-E-E hyphen G-E-E.
And the reason that I thought about that was we got an email from Jackie Evans, who lives in the tiny town of Hope in North Wales in the UK.
And she wrote that as a kid, she used to hear this joke from her dad: how do you spell a hungry horse in four letters?
How do you spell a hungry horse in four letters?
M-T-G-G.
Oh, yeah.
It’s M-T-G-G.
Very good.
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