huh?

[calimac]

This is supposed to be a pun. I'm missing something.

Comments

[kate-schaefer.livejournal.com]

It's not a pun. I don't know the technical name for the kind of play on words it is. "Cheer goggles" rhymes with "beer goggles," the term for the phenomenon by which unattractive people are supposed to look more attractive after the beholder -- usually a desperate young man attempting to seduce a woman, any woman -- has consumed at least two drinks.

[thnidu.livejournal.com]

But (at least for me) that's nowhere near good enough to warrant the reactions.

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

I agree - I can't see anything else going on, but that doesn't seem much better than a cracker joke.

[thnidu.livejournal.com]

And rather cracked, not in a good way. — Pass the Saltines, please.

[whswhs.livejournal.com]

Presumably an allusion to "beer goggles."

[yarram.livejournal.com]

"Beer goggles" was my first thought, too. I've never encountered the expression in the US. I first encountered it in the UK, so it may be a case of exposure to both dialect and relevant contexts.

[thnidu.livejournal.com]

Oh, very good: ejective coronal lateral affricate!

I haven't figured out IPA for my quack, which is a one-sided velar lateral ejective trill, coarticulated with a glide from lip-rounded to lip-spread on the same side.