Headcanon of the day

Rainbow Dash's father runs an ice cream shop in Cloudsdale.

His name is Rainbow Jimmy.

(Courtesy Gemini Star.)

Comments

[QueenMoriarty]

#why has nobody else made this pun yet

Probably because most of the world doesn't live in the Boston/New England area, and so just had to google how in the universe this is even a pun.

[Light Striker]

[RBDash47]

Sold.

[Majin Syeekoh]

They're not jimmies.

They're sprinkles!

[iisaw]

Awestruck by the absolute rightness of this!

[GhostOfHeraclitus]

I generally have a rather wide vocabulary in English and the only reason I know of this term is that, many moons ago, I used to watch the Kids Next Door cartoon where it was the subject of a punchline. It's a damn obscure word.

Still, that only makes the pun more delicious.

[Skywriter]

And her Dutch cousin Hagelslag.

Actually, that's a great pony name.

[PresentPerfect]

okay

[Loganberry]

Well, that was an experience. Had no idea what you were talking about. Went to Google. Searched for "Rainbow Jimmy". Got sent to The Doors singing the Reading Rainbow theme. Listened to it in the hope it would become clear. It didn't. Realised searching for "Rainbow Jimmies" might be better. Ended up on Wikipedia trying to find out what you guys called hundreds-and-thousands. Eventually worked out it was "nonpareils", which I have literally never heard of before. Got annoyed by Wikipedia claiming hundreds-and-thousands could also mean sprinkles, which is a load of hraka. Realised what the hay I was supposed to be doing and finally, in the depths of the "sprinkles" article, discovered a brief reference to "jimmies" being used as ice cream topping.

And then, after all that, realised that right here in the UK we have Rainbow Drops. Which admittedly don't go on ice cream (that I've seen), but which have a clearly superior name in terms of ponyness. And I will now have to write something stupid with them in, because my brain will keep attacking me with them until I do, and it's all your fault.

[Jordanis]

Rainbow Dash wasn't allowed to fly in the shop. Her dad didn't appreciate Dash's downdraft. The strong breeze always made a mess of the toppings. Rustled them up but good.

[Titanium Dragon]

4313749
I just googled for rainbow jimm and it autocompleted, and the pictures told me the story.

4314354
God damn it.

[Loganberry]

4314401 Sure, but where's the fun in that?

[Nadnerb]

[Super Trampoline]

4313749 TBH this was at least as good as Weird Al's take on the Doors (Craigslist)