A riddle about PlayStation is:
Q: What do you call a pretend railway?
A: A play station.
The joke was posted on the newsgroup alt.humor.puns on March 2, 2004.
Wikipedia: PlayStation
PlayStation (Japanese: プレイステーション Hepburn: Pureisutēshon, abbreviated as PS) is a gaming brand that consists of four home video game consoles, as well as a media center, an online service, a line of controllers, two handhelds and a phone, as well as multiple magazines. It is created and owned by Sony Interactive Entertainment since December 3, 1994, with the launch of the original PlayStation in Japan.
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What do you call a pretend railway?
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4 November 2008, The Gold Coast Bulletin (Southport, Queensland), “Giggles,” pg. 22:
Q. What do you call a pretend railway?
A. A playstation.
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The Mammoth Book of Really Silly Jokes
Edited by Geoff Tibballs
London, UK: Constable & Robinson Ltd
2011
Pg. 476:
What do you call a pretend railway?
A play station.
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