Punch
On the show — 6 mentions total
The magazine Punch used the word to refer to these murals in the Houses of Parliament that people were able to go and see. Then it became kind of a risible thing because it was a comedy magazine. Then they started using the word cartoon to refer to their political cartoons.
from No Such Thing As The God of Snooze Buttons, 2026-04-09 at 00:33:06 · read transcript
Other times Punch came up
The only ones he came across were ham ones. He's pretty amazing. This guy. He is. I hadn't heard of him. He co-founded Punch, which was the original British satirical magazine that ran for hundreds of years. Might this have been satire we're talking about. B Wilson, who's a food writer and her books are very good. She also has written an essay on the subjections. She said that all the sandwiches were ham.
144: No Such Thing As Garlic Superman, 2016-12-17 · listen
It seems that what might have happened is that the oyster had a little hole in it, and whenever it was filtering food, so moving the water backwards and forwards, it was making a whistling sound. And as soon as this became well known, it was mentioned in Punch and a few other things, suddenly everyone came around and wanted to see this oyster that could whistle. Even William Makepeace Thackery went to see it and wrote about it.
247: No Such Thing As Footprints On The Sea, 2018-12-14 · listen
Then they have a huge feast afterwards. Then it was disturbed by, yeah, the sight of him. What I think was a bit of a pantomime, it seems like. I think it might have been a set-up. Right. Punch and Judy style. Oh, you think that was faked? From what I was reading from, I think it was actually... He did hit her with a load of sausages, didn't he? Yeah.
453: No Such Thing As James Cameron's Worms, 2022-11-18 · listen
He calculated that that number of sandwiches were sold. The only ones he came across were ham ones. He's pretty amazing this guy. I hadn't heard of him. He co-fellate. founded Punch, which was the original British satirical magazine that ran for, God, hundreds of years. Might this have been satire, we're talking about? No. And B. Wilson, who's a food writer, and her book's very good.
No Such Thing As Garlic Superman, 2016-12-16 · listen
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