This is Mr UD‘s verdict on every one of UD‘s efforts to come up with a catchy title for a post about the 92-year-old Polish farmer who since the Second World War has been hiding in an outhouse 300 “works of art from the Renaissance and German baroque periods, with the oldest painting dating back to 1532.”
From Bauhaus to Outhouse
The Hoard Shot Round the World
Grünewald Acres
Farm Follows Function
Looking at them, UD must admit the justice of Mr UD‘s judgment. She’s having a bad pun day.
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September 29th, 2011 at 9:59AM
If it’s baroque, don’t flush it.
The museum at poo corner.
September 29th, 2011 at 10:26AM
francofou: Excellent. The only thing that worries me – and that stayed my hand on the rich “poo” possibilities – is that I’m worried outhouse doesn’t mean the same thing in British and American….
September 29th, 2011 at 11:09AM
Ars gratia fartis?
September 29th, 2011 at 11:11AM
The Loovre?
September 29th, 2011 at 11:18AM
You worry too much. We’re talkin’ Amurkin here.
September 29th, 2011 at 9:48PM
It’s not really an outhouse, as in a privy. Polish reports use the expression “w przybudówce domu jednorodzinnego” which means “in an annex of a single-family house”, probably a detached outbuilding. It looks like a barn or workshop in someone’s backyard. So let’s not get carried away with the potty puns.
Looks like a hoard of Nazi looted art, so puns on Goering might be more productive.