Help me figure out this Halloween gravestone pun

October 30, 2022 7:58 PM

Saw some decorations last night on a walk home, and one of the jokey gravestones said: "Cob Chila". I don't get it - any help?

The epitaph said something about "he lives high above [the others? Everyone else? Can't quite remember]". The other two decoration gravestones were very clearly puns.

My partner thought it was either a riff on Bob Vila, or maybe an inside joke. I have no idea. Any thoughts?

posted by Paper rabies to Grab Bag (7 answers total)

It sounds like "Coachella" to me and that is what google suggests to me when I put it in with two Ls instead of one.
posted by soelo at 9:12 PM on October 30, 2022

Handmade or bought?
posted by showbiz_liz at 10:44 PM on October 30, 2022

Cob_killa?
posted by jamjam at 12:38 AM on October 31, 2022

Any chance that a was a d and they're referring the death of the corn boy meme? Cob Child, I suppose?

What, it's just a pun about corn!
posted by phunniemee at 5:48 AM on October 31, 2022 [1 favorite]

I guess a corn cob is higher up off the ground than most other vegetables (editor's note: corn is a grain).

But I don't get the Bob Vila angle, or get it at all, or maybe it's just a bad pun.
posted by sevenless at 9:39 AM on October 31, 2022

Response by poster: The sign was homemade. I think phunniemee is onto something with the sign perhaps saying "Cob Child" - I may take a walk later to look at the sign in the daylight!
posted by Paper rabies at 10:17 AM on October 31, 2022

My first thought was Children of the Corn.
posted by Bacon Bit at 10:45 AM on October 31, 2022