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Punorama - results!

12:30 UK time, Wednesday, 6 September 2006

The rules are as simple as could be: we pick a story in the news, you come up with a punning headline.

Jason LewisThis week, it was the story of adventurer Jason Lewis who is taking a stock of sausages for the latest leg of his human-powered round-the-world trip. Sausages? What better way to distract the wild dogs from attacking him in Tibet?

So, how did you punsters do?

A popular response to this dog and sausage story was to think about variations on "hot dog", including Thomas Steuart-Feilding of Bristol who elegantly suggested Thwart dog with relish.

There's more than one way of skinning a sausage - and another group of punsters focused on the phrase "bangers and mash". For instance, Ric from Richmond, was among those proposing Bangers and dash.

Tim Evans asked if submitting multiple entries was against the rules. Yes, very much so. Which is a shame, because otherwise we could have included his enjoyable A snack is the best form of defence.

Also worth a wolf-howl of recognition are You bait nothing but a hound dog from Brian Ritchie, Oxford, and Grillers in the mist from Kip of Norwich.

But with puns, it's a case of no pain, no gain - and getting the right blend of pain-inducement and relevance was Wurst case scenario submitted by Rebecca Plumb, London.

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