Sinister Dexter puns

[JayzusB.Christ]

Normally I hate puns as much as the next Earthlet, but the ones in SinDex are always a treat.  Rex Monday, for example.  Demi Octavo.  The lapdancing club called Straddle Various.  The fact-totem, which I only copped a year or two ago.  Rod and his Staff.  The Um Louts (I went to work in Germany the week after they were introduced and soon got the joke.) My favourite of all, the Hot Pot and News on the Square.  Genius!

It genuinely concerns me that I've probably missed loads of them.  I know a Tannenbaum is a Christmas tree, but I don't know if or how 'Moses' fits in.  Does Tracey Weld have any kind of double meaning?  Missy Solemnis?  Bronski Hammer?

[The Legendary Shark]

Bronski Hammer = Bronski Beat?

[Jim_Campbell]

My favourite of all, the Hot Pot and News on the Square.  Genius!

The sandwich bar called "Focaccia 'n' the Rye" remains peak Abnett-punning for me...

[Woolly]

I loved the 'Dead-Beats' myself - beat cops who'd died in duty, resurrected robocop style. Genius!

[JayzusB.Christ]

Bronski Hammer = Bronski Beat?

Possible.

And Death Shall Have No Dumb Minions was a pretty good story title too.  Less clever but funnier was In Plain Shite.

[Funt Solo]

Missy Solemnis?

Missa solemnis (Beethoven) - a solemn mass.

[Magnetica]

Fact totem?

[Colin YNWA]

Fact totem?

I always thought it was based on Charles Bukowski's book Factotum. About someone who moves from bum job to job. Never read it but a friend told me about it...

...worried I'm wrong now!

[Greg M.]

A factotum is a servant. But yeah, with a range of jobs / duties.

[Colin YNWA]

A factotum is a servant. But yeah, with a range of jobs / duties.

Oh so its an actual word as well... from which the book takes its title I guess... I've been over thinking it for years! Which is odd for me!

[Greg M.]

Baldrick would be a factotum. A dogsbody.

[Dandontdare]

Rex Monday, for example. 

Oh FFS I've only just got that one

[JayzusB.Christ]

Missy Solemnis?

Missa solemnis (Beethoven) - a solemn mass.

Ahaa! Thanks!

[The Enigmatic Dr X]

I am cleary a dunce, but I get none of these. None.

[I, Cosh]

I get Demi Octavo with her being a singer and all, but am I missing something with Billi?