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Q: What’s woolly, engorged, and good at scaffolding?

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for the antepenultimate day of May …

A: The Mammoth Erection company, providing scaffolding design and erection services, based in the northern Toronto suburb of Aurora ON.  A genuine company that’s been around for several decades but was only this afternoon brought to my attention (on Facebook). My delighted attention, given that I’m a serious fan of both mammoths (of the woolly sort) and erections (of the penile sort).

One of the company’s enormous trucks, for transporting piles of scaffolding material:


(#1) The company name embraces a pun on the adjective mammoth ‘huge’, as you can see from the company logo in close-up:


(#2) With the noun mammoth ‘a large extinct elephant of the Pleistocene epoch, typically hairy with a sloping back and long curved tusks. Genus Mammuthus, family Elephantidae’ (NOAD) — but a woolly mammoth in construction gear

My jokey understanding of Mammoth Erection superimposes on this mammoth pun a pun on the noun erection: literal in the company name, figurative in my joke (though surely guys in the construction business appreciate a bit of the raunchy). From NOAD:

noun erection: 1 [a] the action of erecting a structure or object: fees will be levied for the erection of monuments. [b] a building or other upright structure: she looked around the cafe, a bleak concrete erection. 2 an enlarged and rigid state of the penis, typically in sexual excitement: men who cannot get an erection.

 


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