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2 unusual facts about The Punch


The Punch

Supposedly, days before the end of the administration of Shagari, a few Punch editors were aware of a coup approaching and injected strong anti-government tones in their reporting.

Aboderin later secured the support of his former foe, MKO Abiola, after the latter left the NPN.


Nigerian Observer

On 22 July 1993 the administration of General Ibrahim Babangida banned the Nigerian Observer, as well as the National Concord, The Punch and the Daily Sketch.


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Babyfingers

As Fingerprince was originally meant to be a three-sided album (a concept abandoned due to expense and Monty Python's Matching Tie and Handkerchief beating them to the punch), much of the material was abandoned and the third side remained unfinished until November 1977 although most tracks from the EP was shown at the Residents Radio Special in September 1977.

Boxing Fever

IGN's Craig Harris spoke positively of the game's graphical design and frantic pace; he awarded the game an IGN Editor's Choice Award and compared the game to the Punch-Out!! series by Nintendo.

Dublin City Ramblers

Between 1980 and 1987 The Dublin City Ramblers scored most of their hits, beginning with "The Rare Ould Times" through "Flight Of Earls" "John O'Dreams" to "The Punch and Judy Man," "The Ferryman," and others.

Haymaker

David Haye (born 1980), a British boxing world champion nicknamed the Haye-maker, after the punch

Hemel Hempstead Evening Post-Echo

The Punch was credited with bringing down the Old PLP Government of the late Bahamas Prime Minister Sir Lynden Pindling in August 1992.

Koolasuchus

A jawbone was found in 1978 in a fossil site known as the Punch Bowl near the town of San Remo.

Leo du Pres and Greenlee Smythe

Take the one where Greens crashed a Halloween bash dressed as a harem girl and flirted with Leo at the punch bowl: 'Could you pour a cup for me? I’ve traveled so long and so far. I need some refreshment so I can dance with you, Oh noble master,' she purred.

Punch Festival

The Punch Festival (in Slovene phonetically also Panč festival) is the most visited stand up comedy festival held in Ljubljana, Slovenia.

Punch Line San Francisco

Today, the Punch Line is the only full-time comedy club in San Francisco, hosting comics Dave Chappelle, Margaret Cho, Bobby Slayton, Wanda Sykes, Greg Giraldo, Jim Gaffigan, Sarah Silverman, Zach Galifianakis, Dave Attell, George Lopez, David Cross, and Greg Proops, among others.

Ready 2 Rumble Boxing

Like Nintendo's Punch-Out!! series, it features many characters with colorful personalities (i.e. Afro Thunder, Boris "The Bear" Knokimov, etc.); however, unlike the Punch-Out!! series, Ready 2 Rumble Boxing is in 3D, thus allowing for more control over one's character in the ring.

Rudy Tomjanovich

The story and aftermath are recounted in the John Feinstein book The Punch: One Night, Two Lives, and the Fight That Changed Basketball Forever.

The One on the Right Is on the Left

The punch line to the joke is that "the guy in the rear", is less easily labeled: he is a Methodist and he burned his driver's license (rather than his draft card), etc.

Throwaway

Throwaway line, a joke delivered "in passing" without being the punch line to a comedy routine