Baroque Wordplay

Two instances of wordplay which rely on (a) swapping, and (b) some knowledge of few-centuries-old western art.

Dick Cavett asked us to imagine a newspaper photograph of the billionaire Aristotle Onassis standing outside, and thinking of purchasing, Buster Keaton's former Hollywood home. Cavett's suggested caption was "Aristotle Contemplating the Home of Buster" – a play on the title of a Rembrandt painting, Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer.

On similar lines, riffing on the first line of a Shakespeare poem, "Now is the winter of our discontent", a Cincinnati sporting goods store apparently put a sign in the window: "Now is the discount of our winter tents".

I should say that baroque, in the title of this post, is not strictly accurate. While Rembrandt is indeed a baroque painter, Shakespeare is more of a Renaissance guy, though his later works supposedly show "emerging baroque aspects". However, baroque can also mean "complicated in style, often when this is unnecessary or too much," and in that sense, I thought it was fitting!