Cross cultural misunderstandings can be hilarious
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Ironically as a Canadian who had never run into this usage of punting I actually put it together thanks to my random knowledge of the Punt Gun, a massive single-shot shotgun from the Victorian era used to hunt entire flocks of waterfowl with one trigger pull. They were so large and powerful they couldn't be safely used when held by a person, so you'd lie down in a boat and brace it against the boat (which I suppose is now termed the punt)
They were eventually shunned due to being considered unsporting (and decimating the local population of bird with ease.)
I learned the term from a dirty limerick in a sci-fi anthology about dinosaurs that I picked up in middle school at a school library book sale. It was told by a telepathic tree which was trying to convince a guy to jack off into a condom and shove an acorn in it so it could reproduce, as that's how it had been created. It was weird.
I've read this comment four times and I still cannot believe all these words exist in this order.
It's not that I doubt you -- far from it -- but you have to admit, when you say it out loud does it sound real?