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Puns tagged ‘team name’:

01/27/12

ANIMALPRACTICE

Dear Pun Gents, we’re looking for a team name for a fun curling bonspeil for veterinarians.  We are 2 large animal veterinarians and our husbands, in Northern Ontario, and we probably suck at curling more than anyone else at this event.  Animal theme with curling? Doesn’t have to be polite. ~Olivia, Sturgeon Falls, ON

AS THE PUN GENTS SEE IT:

  1. Rockroaches
  2. HardCoreVets
  3. Animalpractice
  4. Elephantastic Four
  5. Feed Em and Sweep
  6. The Cowlers
  7. Sheep Sweep
  8. Grrrlers
  9. Bull’s Eye Doctors
  10. The Neuteralizers
  11. Surgical Strikes
  12. The Horseplayers
  13. [PS - Thanks for the donation!]
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11/17/11

BOWL OUT THE CANDLES

Dear Pun Gents, I’m looking for a bowling team name for a party where my girlfriend is turning 50. ~Mel, Del Rio, TX

AS THE PUN GENTS SEE IT:

  1. We’re Never Splitting
  2. No Spare Tires
  3. Lane With You
  4. 10 Pins, 50 Candles
  5. Strike ManDate
  6. The Pinishers
  7. Pin it to Win it
  8. Thanks for your donation, Mel!
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11/14/11

QUEENS OF THE COSMO’S

Dear Pun Gents, we’re a group of nine women who love to drink are headed to Las Vegas for the half-marathon the first week of December 2011.  We need a clever name for our team shirts.  Please help!  ~Katharine, San Antonio, TX

AS THE PUN GENTS SEE IT:

  1. Martini Boppers
  2. A Stirred in the Hand
  3. 13-Miley Cyruses
  4. 13 Miles, 26 Oz
  5. Mango Lasses
  6. Queens of the Cosmo’s
  7. Boozundeit
  8. Laps and Relapse
  9. Kahlualass
  10. Tequila Stocking Birds
  11. Running on Empties
  12. Raising the Bartender
  13. Talk the Detox
  14. Tavern and Shirleys
  15. Beers are not Enough
  16. Desert Heat
  17. Jet Legged
  18. Stride Me
  19. The Vodkouple (if there were two of you)
  20. Distill my Heart
  21. PS thanks for the donation!
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03/31/11

CAN SOAR SOCIETY

Dear Pun Gents, we need a name for our Relay for Life team. We are a group of young survivors and need something great.  There are a lot of names like Fight til it’s Right or Fight Through the Night. We want something original. Please help us. ~Amy, Hannibal, MO

AS THE PUN GENTS SEE IT:

  1. Can Soar Society
  2. The Beat It Dudes
  3. See You in Health
  4. Chemochameleons
  5. Remission Accomplished
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03/22/11

LEX AND THE CITY

Dear Pun Gents, we have a team of 1 guy and 3 girls in the Lexington 5K Urbanathlon. Need something clever and funny - know you can help! ~Nick, Lexington, SC

AS THE PUN GENTS SEE IT:

  1. Lex and the City
  2. One Nick, Three Chicks, Five Clicks
  3. Run D-SC
  4. Roger Urbanister [Roger Bannister = 1st man to run a 4-minute mile]
  5. Obstacular Spectacular
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03/21/11

WE SHALL INDOOR

Dear Pun Gents, I’m looking for a punny team name for my field hockey team (indoor) for our tournament. Can you find something that will reference field hockey? Thanks. ~Sara, Regina, SK

AS THE PUN GENTS SEE IT:

  1. The Terribullies
  2. Weapons of Mass Obstruction
  3. Homi-Side-in Maniacs
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03/21/11

JUGGERNAUT

Dear Pun Gents, I need a team name for a jug curling tournament. Our friend’s team is called Nice Jugs. Something provocative would be great. ~Ryan, Ottawa, ON

AS THE PUN GENTS SEE IT:

  1. You Don’t Have the Stones
  2. We’re no Rockheads
  3. Skips and Juggles
  4. Jugular
  5. Jugger Naughty
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03/21/11

WHAT, ME WARRIOR?

Dear Pun Gents, my friends and I from work are doing a 5k.  Along with the running there are “obstacles from hell.”  It is called the warrior dash. ~Tara, Lufkin, TX

AS THE PUN GENTS SEE IT:

  1. Dash 5
  2. Obsteamious
  3. Obstacular
  4. What, Me Warrior?
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03/10/11

MALTRAMARATHON

Dear Pun Gents, we’re 5 girls, 2 guys running in an ultra marathon starting at one brewing company and ending at another. Need a short, drinking-related name! ~Heather, Roeland Park, KS

AS THE PUN GENTS SEE IT:

  1. We Run Pasteur
  2. Faster, Higher, Lager
  3. Hops Scotch
  4. Rock Hard ABVs [Alcohol By Volume]
  5. Barrely Alive
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03/09/11

#WINING!

Dear Pun Gents, we are a co-ed softball team with a new sponsor this year - Flight Wine Bar. Looking for a good name! ~Michelle, Glenview, IL

AS THE PUN GENTS SEE IT:

  1. Wining!
  2. Flight of Stars
  3. Barbie Eyes
  4. Slo Pitch, Quick Shots
  5. Out of the Cellar
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03/02/11

MUSICAL LINEUP

Dear Pun Gents, I need a funny team name for a girls intramural softball team at my college. All of the girls are music majors or minors. Needs to be clean. ~Kassie, Brownwood, TX

AS THE PUN GENTS SEE IT:

  1. Bar Be Eyes [RBIs]
  2. Aces of Bases
  3. Ludwig van Basethrowven
  4. Handel the Bat
  5. Bat Girls
  6. Treble Play
  7. Fever Pitch
  8. Slide Trombones
  9. SwingandaMissimo
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02/27/11

LONG TIME PUNNING

Dear Pun Gents, two other ladies and I are running a marathon relay and we need a punny team name, possibly incorporating our love for imbibing, running, and/or how not fast we are. Thanks! ~Erika, Seattle, WA

AS THE PUN GENTS SEE IT:

  1. The 26ers [26 mile race/ 26 oz bottle of booze]
  2. Jog Wild
  3. Pain for Drinks
  4. Limbibers
  5. Pace Be With You
  6. Running on Empties
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02/24/11

THE SLURPER BOWL

Dear Pun Gents, my co-ed football team is trying to think of a name with a sexual pun to it. That’s what the captain wants.  Something where Will Ferrell would say haha. ~Olivia, Fayetteville, NC

AS THE PUN GENTS SEE IT:

  1. Tight Ends [too obvious]
  2. Poonters
  3. Hut Slots
  4. We Touch Down There
  5. No Cuddle Offense
  6. Line of Rimmage
  7. Third and Long
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02/24/11

ROLLING IN DOHA

Dear Pun Gents, I need a name for a bowling team at work. We are a drilling team that drill gas wells offshore. ~CD, Doha, Qatar

AS THE PUN GENTS SEE IT:

  1. Rolling in Doha
  2. The Qataracts: We Strike You Blind
  3. The Drillionaires
  4. Offshore Things
  5. The Spillage People
  6. Power Ball Lads
  7. A Spare a Gas
  8. Gas Spare Tame? [yikes]
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02/21/11

WE MAKE PUNS ON COMMANDO

Dear Pun Gents, we have a group of 10 girls running a 5K race that has different obstacles and free beer at the end, and we’d love your help with our team name. The event is called Go Commando 5K. ~Laura, St. Paul, MN

AS THE PUN GENTS SEE IT:

  1. The 10 Commandoments
  2. Girls Run Wild
  3. Shoed to Kill
  4. The Obstacle Chorus
  5. Commando 5k - The Free Beards for Free Beer
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02/18/11

DEUCE LOOKS LIKE A LADY

Dear Pun Gents, help! We need a clever new name for our ladies seniors 4.0 USTA tennis team. We play at an indoor facility called Sound Shore Tennis. Thanks! ~Carol, Rye, NY

AS THE PUN GENTS SEE IT:

  1. Court Chesters [for Sound Shore in Port Chester NY]
  2. Unforced Heiress
  3. Top Seed Turvy
  4. Line Judge Judies
  5. Shore Things
  6. Groundmothers
  7. Gram Slams
  8. Baby Got Backswing
  9. Serve me a Double
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02/17/11

THE APE TEAM

Dear Pun Gents, we need a team name for an amazing race type event, called Gorilla Challenge. We are a group of four friends: two guys and two girls. Thanks! ~Seth, Magnolia, TX (long-time fan)

AS THE PUN GENTS SEE IT:

  1. Hot Gorillas Rule
  2. The Ape Team
  3. The Monkeys
  4. Orangu Crush
  5. We’re Bringing Silver Back
  6. It’s Good-All Good
  7. Banana Republicans
  8. The Panzees
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02/15/11

STILL ALIVE AND KICKING

Dear Pun Gents, a pun for a work kickball team; we work with the elderly. ~Celina, Austin, TX

AS THE PUN GENTS SEE IT:

  1. Kickerbockers
  2. Soccerates
  3. The Alzheim Greats
  4. Alive and Kicking
  5. Kicky Sects
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02/09/11

LINDSAY DAVENPORTMANTEAU

Dear Pun Gents, I need a unique and clever tennis team name; can’t be too dirty minded. We are fun and enjoy our cocktails. :) ~Misty, Keller, TX

AS THE PUN GENTS SEE IT:

  1. Teamsters Racquet
  2. Martini Dringis
  3. No Speakah de Hingis
  4. Night Capriatis
  5. Dimentieval on Your Ass
  6. The Serenavenusians
  7. Lobby Williams
  8. We Drop Shots
  9. Full Service
  10. The Backhanded Complements
  11. Glam Slams
  12. Womenbledon
  13. Lobstoppers
  14. Aceholes
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02/08/11

THE ANSWER, MY FRIENDS…

Dear Pun Gents, we’re a trivia team needing a new name for the season. We are pretty good but awful at the music round. We are trying to incorporate a music theme this time. ~Kat, Winnipeg, MB

AS THE PUN GENTS SEE IT:

  1. She Drives Me Quizzy
  2. The Answer, My Friends, is Blowin’ in the Wind
  3. Ain’t No Party Like a JE-O-Pardy!
  4. Trebek in the Saddle
  5. The Who (What Where When How)
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02/03/11

THEM’S FIVE-PIN WORDS

Dear Pun Gents, we’re starting a charity bowling league that supports breast cancer. It’s a four man team and we are struggling to find a name. Any ideas? ~Thomas, Conroe, TX

AS THE PUN GENTS SEE IT:

  1. Spare our Breasts
  2. Balls for Breasts
  3. Pin Down Girls
  4. Strike Out Breast Cancer
  5. Alley McBalls
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01/31/11

BOTTLEY HARM

Dear Pun Gents, I need a team name that has something to do with wine. Our colors are red and white, hence the wine idea. It’s for work, so it needs to be clean-ish. ~Frances, Charleston, SC

AS THE PUN GENTS SEE IT:

  1. Riesling to the Challenge
  2. The All Time Grapes
  3. Barrelly Alive
  4. In It to Wine It
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01/30/11

GUINESSCOLOGISTS

Dear Pun Gents, I’m running an Irish 5k and need a funny Irish team name for about 5 or 6 girls. ~Whitney, De Pere, WI

AS THE PUN GENTS SEE IT:

  1. O’Galleys
  2. The Blar Knees
  3. Liffey Is Short
  4. Guinesscologists
  5. The Irish Race
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01/28/11

YOU OUGHT TO GO SEE A SHRINKAGE

Dear Pun Gents, I’m doing a charity for the Special Olympics; I’m gonna jump in a frozen lake. I need a team name. Something with “goal” in it. ~Tiffany, Belleville, MI

AS THE PUN GENTS SEE IT:

  1. Polar Bare Skins
  2. Goal Disoriented
  3. Brrrainiacs
  4. It’s So Goaled!
  5. Freezes Pieces
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01/06/11

RABBIT ENTHUSIASM

Dear Pun Gents, I need a team name for a charity treasure hunt. The themes are rabbits, film noir, and sleuthing in general. ~John, San Francisco (long-time fan)

AS THE PUN GENTS SEE IT:

  1. Noir Where To Go
  2. Sleutheran Ministers
  3. The Hunt for Red Schlocktober
  4. Hare Krishnas
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01/05/11

FROZEN ASSETS
Dear Pun Gents, need a curling team name for work; a funspiel team, 4 women working in payroll department ~Wendy, Victoria, BC

AS THE PUN GENTS SEE IT:

  1. Play Rocks & Pay Roll
  2. T-4-Ladies
  3. Board-Brooms (Broad-Brooms?)
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12/17/10

BABY WALK

Dear Pun Gents, I need team name ideas for a charity walk for babies born prematurely (March of Dimes). We’re walking in memory of my son Gabriel and in honor of others. Thank you! ~Audra, Allen, TX

AS THE PUN GENTS SEE IT:

  1. The Premi-mums
  2. The Toddler Waddlers
  3. The Gabe Pride Parade
  4. Baby Walk
  5. Tinysty
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11/18/10

CHARADENFREUDE

Dear Pun Gents, our company is having a Pictionary contest, and we’d like a punny name to cover four ladies who can’t draw! ~Shari, Romeoville,IL

AS THE PUN GENTS SEE IT:

  1. Charade-Donnay
  2. Pic Lasso
  3. Scribblers on the Roof
  4. Charaded Wit
  5. Slim Pictions
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11/17/10

GEWURTZ + MUSIC BY…

Dear Pun Gents, we need a team name for a music-themed wine tasting and quiz. Team names are to include rock/music star/act and possibly be related to wine. We are three girls and one guy - please help! ~Catherine, Aberdeen, Scotland

AS THE PUN GENTS SEE IT:
  1. Death Cabernet for Cutie
  2. House of the Riesling Sun
  3. All Time Best Cellars
  4. Chordannay
  5. April Wine
  6. Port-ishead
  7. Brandy
  8. Glassic Rock
  9. We are the Champagnes
  10. We’re Hardcork
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09/22/10

KICKS KATS

Dear Pun Gents, we need two team names for a management vs. employee charity kickball game. All employees work customer service for a large satellite television provider. Names must be HR appropriate, but can be a slightly inappropriate pun (ex. Kickin’ Grass). ~Kim, Huntington, WV

AS THE PUN GENTS SEE IT:

  1. Super HRoes
  2. Manage a Trois
  3. Corporate Punishment
  4. Emplohyenas
  5. Staff Infection
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03/29/10

THE POSTMAN ALWAYS DRINKS TWICE

Dear Pun Gents, I work for the UK’s Royal Mail (our national Postal Service) on the sales team. We have three teams in the office and our team is notoriously bad at coming up with a good name. The two main services we sell are called Tracked and Packetpost and we enjoy a good drink. Gin’ll Fix It has already gone and we need something wittier than this! Please help. ~Lyndsey, Chicester, West Sussex, England

AS THE PUN GENTS SEE IT:

  1. Ahead of the Package
  2. It’ll beer here soon
  3. Hot Fee Mails
  4. Booze De-livery
  5. Pickup Artists
  6. Large Package Handlers
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02/28/10

MADE TO ORDERBY

Dear Pun Gents, a roller derby name related to the NY Yankees (Not Bronx Bombers), Harry Potter, or video games. ~Dee, Norwich, CT

AS THE PUN GENTS SEE IT:

  1. Jeterbugs
  2. Damaged Yankees
  3. A-rod and Stick
  4. Hogwarts Warthogs
  5. Snapers
  6. Halofire
  7. Wiisels
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02/25/10

BALLAH BE PRAISED

Dear Pun Gents, looking for an original and clever name for our adult co-ed kickball team. Our uniform color is black. ~Sarah, Studio City, CA

AS THE PUN GENTS SEE IT:

  1. Kball Guys
  2. The Kballah
  3. Kick Me Kate
  4. The Kickerbockers
  5. Blackballed
  6. Balligerents
  7. Ballkick Bartokomous
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02/18/10

THE INCREDIBLE HULL-UK

Dear Pun Gents, we are a tennis team from Hull in the United Kingdom and need a pun about tennis for a t-shirt, the ruder the better. Please help, anything will do! ~Jon, Hull, UK

AS THE PUN GENTS SEE IT:

  1. Go to Hull
  2. Welcome to hull. You’re ship out of luck.
  3. Many more tennis pun requests here.
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02/05/10

MILKIN LOVE

Dear Pun Gents, my work colleagues and I need a team name for a charity walk called the MK Midnight Moo. Must have something to do with cows. ~Leanne, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England

AS THE PUN GENTS SEE IT:

  1. Band of Brudders
  2. Cow Tech
  3. Heiferbody Say Moo
  4. Moo From a Hill
  5. Milkin Keynes
  6. Wooly Bull
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02/02/10

OLD FOLKS ROAM

Dear Pun Gents, two-person female running team; both member are grandmas, with a combined age of 100+. ~Joanie, Bellingham, WA

AS THE PUN GENTS SEE IT:

  1. Geri’s Kids
  2. Grandmarathon
  3. Long Distaunts
  4. Last Legs
  5. Runs In Stockings
  6. Speedomestics
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02/02/10

POLAR POWERED

Dear Pun Gents, we need a pun for our polar bear plunge team that includes of five or six teenage girls, and my dad.~Cathleen, Middleton, DE

AS THE PUN GENTS SEE IT:

  1. Ice-Q
  2. Frigidimate Behavior
  3. Cold Man and the Sea
  4. A Foolish Ocean
  5. Bear Bottoms
  6. Freeze the Children
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01/27/10

40 LOVE-MADS

Dear Pun Gents, we’re a women’s tennis team in Madison. A play on “Madtown”  or “mad” would be helpful.  Most of us are over 40. ~Susan, Madison, WI

AS THE PUN GENTS SEE IT:

  1. Mad-dames [French]
  2. Tennisisters
  3. The Racquettes
  4. The Mad-ri-gals
  5. Madisinners
  6. Madopause
  7. Madwesterners

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01/24/10

TRIPLE TEAM

Dear Pun Gents, I need a funny name for a 3v3 basketball team. ~Tony, St. Louis

AS THE PUN GENTS SEE IT:

  1. Three Guys, Six Balls
  2. Nothing but Ned, Ed and Fred
  3. Slam Allelekum
  4. Dunkin Go Nuts
  5. The Three Pointer Sisters
  6. The Trouble with Triples
  7. Threedom Train

HELP TONY OUT: Comment below with your $0.02.

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01/22/10

INFO-ATTAINMENT

Dear Pun Gents, we’re updating our clients information and have to call people to update/confirm email addresses. We’re forming teams to do it in. Any ideas? Cheers! ~Marlon, Melbourne

AS THE PUN GENTS SEE IT:

  1. Address for Success
  2. Track Team
  3. Emailleability
  4. The Check is in the Email
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01/21/10

YO, BUM RUSH THE SNOW

Dear Pun Gents, I am in a curling bonspiel called the ‘BUMspiel’ - BUMS stands for Berseker Urban Motorcycle Squad. I need a team name with curling and bums. Or just some original curling names for 4 people thrown together to curl. ~Shelley, Calgary, AB

AS THE PUN GENTS SEE IT:

  1. Ass-assins with Rocks
  2. Bumsweepers
  3. Crack Squad
  4. The Icy Receptionists
  5. Skip to the Loo
  6. We’ll Skip Rinks Around You
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01/21/10

MOVERS AND SHAKERS

Dear Pun Gents, I need a team name for an office team in a transportation engineering firm, but no one on the team is an engineer. ~Amy, Salt Lake City, UT

AS THE PUN GENTS SEE IT:

  1. Trans Sports
  2. Engine and Tonic
  3. There’s no Engine, Here
  4. The Colossus of Roads
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