Did you know Mortal Kombat is based off an old Scandinavian church song?

Super Lloyd

Sounds like's based on a true story then! :D

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Daniel Pfeffer

Perhaps we need a Rule 8: "No atrocious puns in the Lounge."

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. -- 6079 Smith W.

theoldfool

Can we add "no Wordle brags"?

>64 Some days the dragon wins. Suck it up.

MarkTJohnson

You want to kill off 80% of responses?

I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.

Matthew Dennis

Yeah, you Polish the floor with your opponent.

"Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana."

DRHuff

Unless he Czechs your punch.

If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.

trønderen

Small detail: People living in Scandinavia do not consider Finland part of Scandinavia. It is one of the Nordic countries, but not one of the Scandinavian countries. I have been arguing this with lots of English speaking people, but most of them insist "If I want to use the name 'Scandinavia' to cover Finland as well, I am in my full right to do so!'. That is similar to me saying that 'If I want to use the name 'England' to cover Scotland and Ireland as well, I am in my full right to do so!'. Or, if I want to limit my understanding of The US of A to the thirteen original states. Or to include Mexico and Canada as well. (Another side: I am not sure if your post is a pure pun, or if there is a core of reality in it. I tried to listen to the music in the trailer to possibly recognize a hymn in the melodic line, but failed. So I concluded that the reference to 'Finish hymn' was just for the pun element.)

Matthew Dennis

As long a Iraq up a lot of points. Kenya see what I am doing here? I could keep this up all day, but I have Togo.

"Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana."

trønderen

Matthew Dennis wrote:

As long a Iraq up a lot of points.

Reminds me of an old classic: The iRack[^] Young people won't get more than half of it. They might even think that this is Apple mockery.

Matthew Dennis

Heck no. We should strive to be as bold as Callahan's on a Punday night.

"Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana."

Gary R Wheeler

So absolutely wretched puns are still acceptable?

Software Zen: delete this;

Sander Rossel

trønderen wrote:

Small detail: People living in Scandinavia do not consider Finland part of Scandinavia. It is one of the Nordic countries, but not one of the Scandinavian countries.

Geologically it makes perfect sense, but Sweden, Norway and Denmark are a Germanic culture while Finland is Ugric, related to the Baltic states. So I agree with you from a etymological point of view, but they still live on the Scandinavian peninsula.

trønderen wrote:

I am not sure if your post is a pure pun

You must never have played a Mortal Kombat game :laugh: When you win a fight, a voice-over says "Finish him!" after which you can finish with a brutal attack to literally tear your opponent apart (FATALITY!). So the Finnish hymn is a pun on "Finish him!" ;)

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trønderen

Sander Rossel wrote:

You must never have played a Mortal Kombat game

Most certainly true. My last computer game playing (for the sake of game playing - learning/testing out programming techniques is a different thing) was with the original "Adventure" on a 25 by 80 char monochrome terminal :-) I suspected the pun, so I watched the trailer, and had half of it confirmed. For the other half: Composers (and performers as well) of music for movie effects and atmosphere frequently add their own little musical puns. The great majority of the audience won't get it, but for those who do, it really adds something. You can hear a lot of classical themes in movies, sometimes in an explicit, original form (such as the opening of 2001), sometimes only as quotes mixed into a new tune. Personally, I love such elements, even when I discover the source or quote after many years. So this time, I really hoped for the composer to have baked some "Finish" hymn into the accompanying music. That would have completed the pun perfectly.