puns that you had missed

My brother never realised that Manda Rin out of Bis was a pun either.

Trust Sleepy's For the Rest of Your Life!

I thought, "hmmmm.....that's an awful lot to ask of their customers...lifelong brand loyalty!" The pun of it being the rest of your life (as in relaxed slumber) was completely lost on me until just recently.

on arrested development joe or whatever his name is bought a boat called the 'seaward.' my other roomate pointed out that it was a pun for c-word, that I didnt pick up on.

Mmmm.

my brain hurts.

OMG!!! I hadn't seen that either! How embarrassing.

Yep, me too.

I so don't get it.

also, i amazingly didn't get Lipps, Inc. until quite recently. sheesh.

Is I Love Everything a pun?

Perry Farrell took a while, too.

I share this only because I need some reassurance that I wasn't being a bonehead in this conversation.

i realized abt two years after the film was released that "con air" was a pun.

A man phoned me last night, singing "Stand and Deliver". I told him he'd got the wrong number, but he was Adam Ant.

http://www.ociojoven.com/ezimagecatalogue/catalogue/variations/150x500/17042-150x500.jpg

Puns should be really obvious.

Is Perry Farrell seriously a deliberate joke and therefore presumably not his real name, then?

xpost haha too true.

The pun I missed for a long time was Sue is Fine = suicide. I just took the tracklisting's word for it.

On a similar-ish theme, on the Point album by Cornelius, I actually failed to check that the chorus that sounds like SU-MO... is in fact s-moke.

The Human Stain, I like it.

I have to admit that I had read the name Diagon Alley twice or maybe even three times before I copped it. And that's about as obvious as it gets.

I had only thought of The Human Stain in the 'human condition' sense. I think I like the other sense better.

Soz, Ken, i didn't pick up in this straightaway.

His real name is Perry Weinstein, I believe.

So I sort of forget about mine until the internet happens and I use it as a pseudonym for a bit, for e-mails and stuff, about six months all in all.

Then three days ago I decide to revive it and write off another mail and it is only when I am going through my own sent-messages folder that I REALISE R.SIPIENT CONTAINS A PUN.

Decades to see Space Merchants as pun on spice merchants. Probably as kid read "The Space Merchants" years before I heard of spice merchants. Lay Off The Space Merchants

I only got 'Camper Van Beethoven' earlier this year. Just thought that Camper was an unusual forename, I guess.

honestly never occurred to me that 'Charmless Man' by blur was a play on This Charming Man by The Smiths for years.

I don't get 'Camper van Beethoven'

Roland Butter.a shop that sells sandwiches.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campervan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_van_Beethoven

Xpost

idk that strikes me as more like a portmanteau than a pun

yeah i guess not getting an obvious portmanteau is even more stupid than not getting an obvious pun. :'(

This is the most mind-melting thread in ILX history for me.

Yeah, it's not very good for your self is steam, is it? :-/

^^^^ unreleased Public Enemy EP

"Fifty First Dates"

Because it's like "Fifty-first States"? Never thought of that.

For a long time I had no idea that "Every kiss begins with Kay" was a pun, just assumed that they were asserting that no kisses were not precipitated by jewelry from Kay.

Whereas what they are being clever about is that the word 'kiss' begins with the letter 'k'.

there must be loads more of these, ones so subtle none of us are getting them.

what's the True Lies one that i'm clearly not seeing that's mentioned upthread?

It's not a pun per se, more two terms that mean the opposite. Lies aren't true.

Roland Butter.a shop that sells sandwiches.

Yes! I walked past these every day for about 15 years before it was pointed out to me.

I always assumed that Fifty First Dates was a pun on 51st State, but then there was a thread on here which went some way to convincing me it wasn't a pun and was just coincidence.

i am going as french kiss. striped shirt, beret and KISS makeup

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I thought this was v lol just out of silliness, but it took a few minutes before "ohhhhh I get it" came to me.

There's a mattress company here in NYC called "Sleepy's" and their more recent ad campaign has following tagline:

Trust Sleepy's For the Rest of Your Life!

I thought, "hmmmm.....that's an awful lot to ask of their customers...lifelong brand loyalty!" The pun of it being the rest of your life (as in relaxed slumber) was completely lost on me until just recently.

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― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, November 30, 2004 5:53 PM (6 years ago) Bookmark

"Tonight is the first night of the rest of your life!"

Arthur Lee has a few.
I guess most people will get the title of the 4th lp pretty easily, think it's a song that Billy Holliday et al sang.
Four Sail.

but the single between that and Forever Changes has one side called
'Your Mind & We Belong Together' which I suddenly got one day and wondered if I'd just forgotten getting it before. Cliched phrase about true love redirected by substituting a letter with the one next to it in the alphabet.

somebody told me once that "soul coughing" (the band) was a pun but i didn't get it, and still don't

the movie title free willy is a pun made from free will.

The War Between The Tates

it took me years to get the sleepy's ("for the rest of your life") one that alex mentioned. the REST of your life. yes. cuz sleepy's sells mattresses. that you rest on.

It took me decades to figure out the joke in "If I said you had a beautiful body, would you hold it against me?"
Yep, me too.

Ha, I feel better about myself now.

But if Fifty First Dates was a pun on "fifty-first state", that doesn't make sense to me. Hawaii is one of the fifty states, right? Maybe I'm just too tired.

it's not a pun

do not let anyone convince you it's a pun

http://i46.tinypic.com/1z93bq.jpg

I didn't see the artwork until after I'd figured out the pun, which took ages

idg "war between the tates".

I bought a Velvets bootleg once on "Lurid" records and many years later realized lurid = Lou Reed.

somebody told me once that "soul coughing" (the band) was a pun but i didn't get it, and still don't

― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, April 2, 2012 12:05 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it's not a pun, its a reference to barfin'

it was years before i got this one:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/82/MsTree21.jpg/200px-MsTree21.jpg

good god i didn't get ms. tree until just now

One of my Facebook friends just figured out Electric Light Orchestra. Many of his other friends are unironically praising him for his genius.

Whats to miss? Theyre a light orchestra that're electric, but lol electric light.. how the fuck could anyone miss that?

also "light orchestra" is a thing

oh you pretty much said that

aw shit ms. tree!

I STILL didn't get it until just now ("does she mistreat everyone,or what?") and then suddenly, duh.

Not everyone thinks of EG lightbulbs as "Electric light", though - you kind of have to know someone who remembers non electric light for that.

I get the impression its the "light orchestra" bit that people miss, from my googling!

the only google results I get for "light orchestra" are for ELO

Oh, this is like, elevator music or something.

idg "war between the tates".

― Pureed Moods (Trayce), Thursday, May 24, 2012 12:51 AM (7 hours ago)

Get it?

Well that makes sense now, yah. Not that it was a phrase I was familiar with. Either the original, or what I see by google is apparently a movie title. Didnt know either one. Cest la.

Oh my god. Only recently I was very embarrassed to realise the pun in the Simpsons episode "Hell Toupee". That was bad enough... just now I overheard 2 workmates talking about old PC and console games and I heard someone mention Boulder Dash.

...and suddenly got the pun for THAT, as well, after fuck knows how many years.

Oh man, I played a lot of Boulder Dash and definitely didn't "get" it as a kid. Cool game though.

Tom Leher sang "as someone once remarked to Schubert, take us to your leader", and I didn't make the connection to lieder.

I had a VU bootleg for many years before I realized the label, Lurid, was a pun on Lou Reed.

Those last couple seem like they could make great Young Money lyrics.

I bought a Velvets bootleg once on "Lurid" records and many years later realized lurid = Lou Reed.

― nickn, Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Which I mentioned back in May! (Knew I had posted it before somewhere on ILX, but thought it was on ILM.)

Tom Leher sang "as someone once remarked to Schubert, take us to your leader", and I didn't make the connection to lieder.

― B'wana Beast, Monday, November 5, 2012 1:19 AM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

fuck, always just heard this as a non sequitur. only been 10 years tho, thanking u

Is smashing pumpkins a pun?

i did not get that "d'yer maker" was a pun until this morning when i heard a radio dj announce it. i guess not even really a pun. a weird homonym?

Not a pun, OK, but the lurid / Lou Reed thing somehow reminded me of a discovery I made a few years ago, which is that the third Jimi Hendrix album, the one with his cover of "All Along The Watchtower" on it, is called Electric LaDYLANd.

My brain nearly exploded at the time.

oh god that Led Zepplin one

I remember learning that and then promptly forgetting it because the pronunciation made no sense

the led zep one is a play on a v olde english 'joke' eg

'my wife went to the carribean'

'jamaica?'

'no she went of her own accord'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yq2jnPqRDd4

oh pfft I guess autoembed doesn't work with https, w/e

not a pun, but an etymological thing. they call it _petting_ because you do it to _pets_. somehow i never put the two together, at least consciously.

heavy

1953 A. C. Kinsey et al. Sexual Behav. Human Female ix. 389 The most responsive females may be the ones who most often pet to orgasm before marriage.

not a pun, but an etymological thing. they call it _petting_ because you do it to _pets_. somehow i never put the two together, at least consciously.

I experienced something similar just a couple of years ago with the word "duck" - it just all of a sudden occured to me "omg! ducks are always lowering their heads and dipping them under the water; and that's how duck-as-a-verb came to be! "to duck" = "to behave like a duck"

Also, it took me about a half-dozen viewings of "This is Spinal Tap" to pick up on the "Isle of Lucy" pun.

Well, I'm 55 and never realized that about "duck" until I read your post.

I disbelieve it anyway

association runs the other way: duck (v) --> duck (n)

http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=duck

it's actually the other way around—ducks are called that because they duck (i.e. the verb came first)

xp damn

I have only just realised that Band Aid was a pun.

right, hence Farm Aid etc MAKING NO SENSE

Oh where are you going to, my pretty farm aid,
With your red, rosy cheeks and your coal-black hair?

Rolling Cannabis Politics Thread

what. OH.

that one was a coincidence surely

The Beatles albums "Past Masters" - I never knew "passed master" was a term until just now.

the phrase is 'passed muster'. a passed master would just be a master who has passed.

uneducated people say 'passed the mustard', like it's xmas dinner or something

i'm at past mast rn guys

i thought people cut the mustard rather than pass it

passed gasters

"past master" or "passed master" is a phrase

"passed muster" is a diff thing

"past master" or "passed master" is a phrase

Yes and then no.

xpost

oh, ok - how would you use the phrase 'passed master', out of interest?

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/passed%20master

Can we all agree it's kind of a stupid name for a Beatles comp though? If it's a pun it's a dumb one, and if it's not, it just lards up their legacy with more weighty tombstone seriousness (the cover art is not helping on that front).

xxxxpost yeah, past master literally means "past" or "beyond" the level of "master". So if someone's a Past Master, they are the very best at what they do.

xpost Although I hate the name, Dr Casino is right.

pass master is how one might describe xabi alonso

Is there a thread for things we assume are puns but might not be? I've always thought Modest Mouse was a pun on Russian composer Modest Mussorgsky, but I might be wrong.

There is a whole thread for the Modest Mouse/Mussorgsky controversy: Aresponse to a perfectly reasonable Modest Mouse/Modest Moussorgsky query...

I always knew that the old hard rock classic by Nazareth with the chorus of "Now you're messin' with a son of a bitch!" was actually titled "Hair of the Dog," but I didn't get until today that...

Hair of the Dog = Heir of the Dog = son of a bitch

That's a great one.

Thin Lizzy = pun on Tin Lizzie (nickname for Model T Ford)

Also realized recently that the "your obedient serpent" from the Beanie and Cecil cartoon theme song was a play on "your obedient servant."

Toy Story is a play on "toy store"! And so is Toy Story 3.

I almost don't believe that one is intentional, but that might be because I feel stupid for not having got it after 18 years

nothing obviously punny about it, putting it down as happenstance

Thin Lizzy = pun on Tin Lizzie (nickname for Model T Ford)

― The O RLY of Everything (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, July 31, 2013 2:56 AM (4 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Is everybody aware of the absence of a 'th' sound in the Dublin accent, which I think was written into the pun from the start. Though I always think of the name as being as opposed to the fat one.

also realised taht there wasa puun in this image
http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Best-Of-Love/dp/B00007LTIE/ref=ntt_mus_ep_dpi_15
Love on the rocks, but had been thinking it was a description of a troubled relationship that had been around longer than the Neil Diamond song. But can't find it cited before the song and the photo is from '66.

https://eu.rymimg.com/lk/o/l/4246b66b4744f0b4d8b95a85b55fea3b/1225097.jpg
couldn't get this to go to image before so hope it works this time.

Realised recently that that photo and this one
https://eu.rymimg.com/lk/o/l/526728162b3b656bea7bea133c3c23bf/1225098.jpg
had teh band in exactly the same clothing so have been wondering if they are part of the same photo session

xxp wut

I mean I'm as shamefaced as you are at taking such a weird counterintuitive title at face value but cmon

Do you recognise that a shark tale is a play on words?

Like why would you call a film toy story

toy story would be a pun if there was actually a toy store in the film. as it is i think it's just an accident?

wow thin lizzie? toy story?? is EVERYTHING a pun? seems so.

yeah don't overthink it

it's a story about toys

For a second thought the point about The Best of Love was they were trying to spell the word L-o-v-e with a combination of the rocks and their bodies, with the hole in one rock serving as the letter 'o' but don't think it works.

You should look up the full Thin Lizzy story, it's pretty interesting.

Also wondered if there was a reason that Bryan Maclean was holding the painting in the staircase photo, if it was a pun on something, at least visually but don't know what it is if it is one.

Do know that Arthur needs basic lessons on telling his orifices apart if he's smoking through his earhole as he is attempting to in that shot.

I only realised yesterday that Blades of Glory = blaze of glory. I are dumb

Ha, I never got that!

Sic Alps

MTV's "Room Raiders" was probably something to do with Tomb Raider.

What is 'Sic Alps' a pun on?

Scalps

I don't think I realised the Beatles was a pun until I was about 25.

― Jonathan Z. (Joanthan Z.)

Actually had to explain it to friend in her 30s recently.

Bandsplain

"Time flies like the wind; fruit flies like a banana."

I mean, I've never thought about the sentence much, just seen it around, but I guess I assumed it was about the figurative use of time "flying" vs. an actual banana that someone threw through the air, or something.

When I was a kid it took me a couple hearings of the phrase "You lie like a rug" to get it.

Flo Rida

So if I said I want your body now
Would you hold it against me?

I just got this last month when Groucho said it :(

I don't think I realised the Beatles was a pun until I was about 25.

― Jonathan Z. (Joanthan Z.)

― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Tuesday, February 4, 2014 10:18 AM (4 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

oh because like "Beat"

I just turned 25, too

when I was a little kid I thought it was "Beat" + [indie rock band] "Battles", but I can't imagine being 25 and still not getting it.

So if I said I want your body now
Would you hold it against me?

I just got this last month when Groucho said it :(

I had never heard this before Britney, and I thought she was so clever!

Only realized Lipps Inc of Funkytown fame was a pun about 25 years after the fact

oh whoops

Appletiser = Appetiser

Also until today I thought it was called Appletise

until 2003 it was

is three-piece suite a pun on three-piece suit?

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51M2YP5MZ7L.jpg

no

it's good enough for me

:)

It's a pun on a 3p sweet.

Is this Walthamstow takeaway a pun on Hamburger Hill?

http://i.imgur.com/YyxnjA7.png

There's got to be a better pun out there.

Sorry, it's not a takeaway, what was I thinking?

Ice Capades: escapades

Michelle Shocked. Good grief, that one only took 25 years to sink in.

lol Morbs. What did you think capades were?

there's a restaurant i drive past sometimes at the top of a gently sloping incline called 'thai on the hill' which i have come to think might be a lonely goatherd pun.

just got that "true detective" is a play on "turd detective"

Lode Runner/ Road-runner

Girls Aloud (thanks to Glenn Frey for clarifying this one)

Don't get it?

http://i.imgur.com/RQw6rx6.jpg

Ah! I thought the puns was something like "curse aloud", which would've been weak.

Michelle Shocked. Good grief, that one only took 25 years to sink in.

Just saw this, and just got this right now. Never even occurred to me that it might be a pun :-(

omg. Me too.

whoa

i had to say it out loud just now and heeeey

Ah! I thought the puns was something like "curse aloud", which would've been weak.
--Tuomas

The "come trues" of our time

lol Morbs. What did you think capades were?

Arena spectacles meant to bore small children to tears.

The nasty party = the nazi party?

Not a pun exactly but it's only just occurred to me that the slang word "phizzog" is likely a corruption of "visage"

Physiognomy, more likely (which may be related to visage).

it was physiognomy and they come from distinct roots

visage

Middle English: via Old French from Latin visus ‘sight’, from videre ‘to see’.

physiognomy

Origin

late Middle English: from Old French phisonomie, via medieval Latin from Greek phusiognōmonia ‘judging of a man's nature (by his features)’, based on gnōmōn ‘a judge, interpreter’.

slang etymologies that you had misconstrued

Oh. There you go

Is smashing pumpkins a pun?
― B'wana Beast, Monday, 5 November 2012 07:07 (1 year ago) Permalink

OMG as in "fantastic jugs" and/or "destroying fruit"?

no idea if "pumpkins" is a word to describe jugs

loooooool @ that thought

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/10/29/article-0-0BD23771000005DC-457_468x596.jpg

3.1 Origin of name

Most answers to this question are only semi-serious, as they've heard it way
too often. The March '93 fan club newsletter gave the following story:

"Gene Simmons came to us in a dream and said: 'Joe Strummer is a pumpkin,
drunken and smashed.'"

On Vieuphoria, they simply said "It's a joke." However, the most serious
answer comes from an interview with D'Arcy by the Washington Post(11/19/93):

"The name of the band is a stupid name, a dumb bad joke and a bad idea, OK?"
she says. "Billy named the band before there even was a band. He was like, 'I'm
gonna have a band and it's gonna be called this.' 'Smashing' is not a verb,
it's an adjective. It's not like we like to smash pumpkins or anything. And we
are not amused by pumpkin jokes anymore."

So, there you have it. "Smashing" is an adjective, not a verb (think British
here if you're still having trouble). :-)

ari up

i r stupid

just got that "true detective" is a play on "turd detective"

― a commentary on self-absorbed youth culture in the social media age (zachlyon), Sunday, March 9, 2014 8:34 PM (3 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ari up

i r stupid

ooof

still unsure if phil "the power" taylor is a pun

i guess, if you have longed for an old pun that you hadn't heard for ages, you can post about it here too.
― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, December 1, 2004 3:40 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol <3 this nonsense.

someone's got to make power suits

I had no idea the "Vesper Lynd" (from Casino Royale) was a pun until it was pointed out to me by the internet today.

Had to google it.

have heard before but remain skeptical. it is so crappy. is there some kind of authoritative confirmation? i mean, why would Flem bother with the D at the end if that was legit?

Is Courtney Love a pun on 'Courtly Love'? I had just assumed this was the case for like, about a decade, since I first heard the latter term, but I've just come across someone who seems to think it's a coincidence?

unless her parents were fans of tenuous puns, no.

courtly love is a very well known literary term so I don't think it's that tenuous. always assumed it was a pun too

unless her parents were fans of tenuous puns, no.

Courtney Michelle Love (born Courtney Michelle Harrison, July 9, 1964)

so I think it's a name she adopted herself at some point?

so it was, my bad.

Someone just said "legally blind" on the Commonwealth Games coverage and Legally Blonde clicked.

Ha I just got that one recently too.

Yeah it took me a few years that one

not seeing it

Empire claim it is a pun on 'legally bound', which is almost as weak: http://www.empireonline.com/empireblogs/words-from-the-wise/post/p1164

yeah tbh neither rly work imo

i mentioned the title when it was about to come out (i was 12) and my mom yelled at me for making an insensitive joke in her "shhh don't say that out loud!" voice and i seriously had no idea what she was talking about

the title is pretty much gibberish w/o knowing the pun tho

i mean it's legal for her to be blonde, it isn't illegal, still makes sense

I think "Legally Blonde" is actually a pretty good title, because the whole point of the movie is to satirize the idea that being a blonde cheerleader type means you're somehow "handicapped". Also, it's about a blonde who studies law, so the title also has a nice double meaning.

Tuomas gets it

Also, it's about a blonde who studies law, so the title also has a nice double meaning.

is this too long for a dn, i'm not gonna take it but someone should take it

none of that....makes any sense

I know, a blonde studying law? That's Hollywood for ya!

Also, it's about a blonde who studies law, so the title also has a nice double meaning.

oh shit

i just got it

legally .... BLONDE

that's brilliant

Luckily the anti-blonde legislation was repealed here in jolly old Britain after WWI, so a good few generations now have not lived under the yoke of low eumelanin oppression. Although it might have been interesting to have had Bleacheasies like the US

i think what you're all missing is the reese witherspoon character specialised in representing victims of lower limb injuries, so she was actually a leg ally who also happened to be blonde

Also, it's about a blonde who studies law, so the title also has a nice double meaning

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legally_Blondes

It also had a sequel which didn't involve law at all, so the title has a nice double meaning.

"The Crystal Method"

You just don't get things when you're a kid

Hope Grand Funk Railroad wasn't punning on anything

grand funk railroad is what they call soul train in france

Gravity's Rainbow = GR = General Relativity?

Although maybe this isn't really I pun and I might have been told it before so I didn't really miss it.

Yeah, don't know about that. But GR was the second book Pynchon started after V, and it's about V2's.

No, it's a real scientific term. Here's an explanation from a surprising source:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2521901/Forget-Big-Bang--Rainbow-Gravity-theory-suggests-universe-NO-beginning-stretches-infinitely.html

And also, of course, the projectory of the V2 is a parabola like a rainbow because of gravity. Plus rainbows actually aren't parabolas but circles, except we can't see half of it, indicating the counter-story half of the book, the importance of subjectivity, and how Werner von Braun went from sending rockets in parabolas to sending them into circuit.

Got really surprised when I saw half of a rainbow last year, so in fact it was just a quarter of one then?
So maybe it makes up for it if I have seen several double rainbows.

That is to say I saw half a parabola because of where the rain was falling, I hadn't seen that happen before. Is it a regular thing?
But then I hadn't seen really localised rain until I moved to ireland as far as I recall. that is to say raining at one end of a street and not at the other.
This rainbow must have meant rain on one side/direction of a motorway visible on my way to the bus stop and not on the other.

none of these are puns

what do you call a quarter of an electronic rainbow?

e-bola (or e-para)

none of these are puns

these are all puns, we just haven't got them yet

the web series 'high maintenance'

The name "Paul Bearer" is a play on the term pall-bearer.

:0

ok, so i realised that (popular beat combo) Nosaj Thing is a pun on No Such Thing. but it was only last night that i realised it's jasoN backwards.

bola - soup

they didn't stop there though...

Hipster Loser-Loser (Drugs A. Money) /

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omHvOWcGix8

"Pulled Pork"

Dean Gulberry

Kurt Vile = Kurt Weill

Oh wait, that's apparently his birth name. nm.

http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Diagon_Alley

(pulled pork not a pun, obv. more of a euphemism for masturbation that people have snuck onto every menu in the land, somehow)

wait'll you figure out "Nocturn Alley"

Diagon Alley - my 7 year old got that one before I did.

And wait till you go on the Nocturn Alley Mission.

OMG, Buckcherry. Always wondered what their stupid name was supposed to mean.

Haha, yeah that one was slow dawning on me too.

Ah, but surely that's a Spoonerism, not a pun!

http://i.ytimg.com/vi/eHbHb0d4x3A/0.jpg

Gave up and googled it.

http://i.imgur.com/5ST9voA.gif

If one of their singles had been called "Label: Mean", I would've gotten it in a heartbeat.

Tim Buckley, or as I prefer to call him Bum Tickley

Barvinmerry

signs you've been on ilx too long:

http://i.imgur.com/l4V04l3.png

woah hang on just occurred to me:

is the 80s pornstar screenname Amber Lynn a pun/homophone on that of the second wife of Henry VIII?

the movie title free willy is a pun made from free will.

Just caught sight of a book on free will and made this connection for the first time. Or maybe I did see it two years ago upthread but it somehow refused to permanently flick switch in my brain.

Ceefax

Sandie Shaw

I saw the back car window sign 'Baby In Car' one day and became convinced that the 80s Manchester garage Birthday Party a likes Inca Babies was taken from it since it presumably is a sign with some proliferation.
One member's since denied it but I'm not 100% convinced.

What's the pun in Ceefax?

Well not a pun exactly since ceefax isn't a word, but I never got that it's supposed to be a rendering of "see facts"

Not a pun but I've only just noticed Duke of Wellington / Duke Ellington, is this just a coincidence?

Gaming site kotaku is a pun on cockatoo and otaku

(Perhaps)

What's the pun in Ceefax?

― Tuomas, Saturday, March 28, 2015 10:48 AM (1 month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Well not a pun exactly since ceefax isn't a word, but I never got that it's supposed to be a rendering of "see facts"

― sexpost TMIing! (wins), Saturday, March 28, 2015 10:56 AM (1 month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Point also being that it was the BBC run site (or service) wasn't it

the tv show, Transparent

i only realised earlier this year that it was called '50 shades of grey' because the guy's name was grey

the tv show, Transparent

― slam dunk, Monday, May 25, 2015 2:36 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

:O

Its about a human being with children that doesn't feel at home in their assigned gender role innit?

trans parent

If only they rented a spa in that show as well.

Is it like that autopsy show about the dyslexics who are comfortable with their birth gender?

and they all work at a hi-fi shop

the tv show, Transparent

― slam dunk, Monday, May 25, 2015 2:36 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

:O

― just sayin, Monday, May 25, 2015 4:39 AM (13 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

how the fuck didn't you, I mean

God, never heard of the show before so was wondering what the pun actually was. Now looking it up on IMDB looks like i got the pun without having seen the show.

lol i dont know how i didnt get it

www.trannailery.com

tbf i only got as far in getting it as 'trans'

ha i did not get the <i>transparent</i> pun until now, either.

my god ppl

encephalitic worms all round

i only realised earlier this year that it was called '50 shades of grey' because the guy's name was grey

I figured this out when I saw the French translation of the title which is something like "50 tons de Grey", which doesn't really make any sense as a title. I mean, why not also change the guy's name in the book so that the title actually works?

i still haven't figured out why there are 50

http://i.imgur.com/m7a4PIa.jpg

this Staind album (2003) actually makes sense because it has 14 tracks. I feel so bad for Aaron Lewis, though: he must have been so angry and confused when 50SoG got popular ("this kid is eating my lunch!")

in the novel Mr. Grey has 50 dalmatians

so you kinda have to read it to understand

(they're sex dalmatians)

all dalmatians are sex dalmatians! but I appreciate the explanation.

Mr. Grey is a Ray-Ban salesperson trying to meet a quota, iirc.

!! Just this instant got that the band name Spacehog had two meanings. I never got thought of the one about hitting space.

I didn't realize until I read this month's Rolling Stone that the name ZZ Top was a take-off on B.B. King.

It took a while to realize Stephin Merrit's band Gothic Archies referenced a Gothic arch. I just figured the comic book characters as Goths was the whole thing.

the twitter name "emily post-punk" (i thought it was just an emily who liked post-punk)

antacid -> aunt acid -> Uncle Acid (& the deadbeats)

right?

!! Just this instant got that the band name Spacehog had two meanings. I never got thought of the one about hitting space.

What does this mean? And, for that matter, this:

the twitter name "emily post-punk" (i thought it was just an emily who liked post-punk)

yeah me neither

portmanteau of emily post/post-punk

http://www.designcatwalk.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Emily_Post_etichette_good-manners.jpg

she was very small

(xp) Thx!

it was a massive tome

try balancing that fucker on your head

What's that hat all about btw?

That's a dinner roll. Again: very small.

it is explained in emily post's hatiquette.

http://www.emilypost.com/everyday-manners/common-courtesies/479-hats-off-the-who-what-when-where-of-the-hat

(Cancer patients are exempt from hat rules. They may keep their hats or caps on at all times if they wish.)

Alfred, Lord Sotosyn

(although I still don't know if there is an actual pun in there)

wait, what?

are you saying that you didn't get that "alfred, lord sotosyn" is a reference to "alfred, lord tennyson" or is there something else

why, then you'll be a man, my soto!

i don't know what possessed me to post that

are you saying that you didn't get that "alfred, lord sotosyn" is a reference to "alfred, lord tennyson" or is there something else

― put a skronk ornette (wins), Sunday, June 14, 2015 10:42 AM (10 minutes ago)
Yes, I am saying exactly that. It took me ages to see that. Sorry for the thread derail. Nothing to see here, carry on.

i never made the tennyson connection before, but i don't know alfred IRL or anything like that to trigger a last-name connection.

the tender grace of a pun that was missed

lol

this is blowing my mind a bit. Why would you have to know alfred personally to make the connection with the only person in history who has been called alfred, lord anything

Alfred, Lord Tennyson was a powerful name. This what its owner had to say of it:

"A kind of walking trance I have frequently had, quite up from boyhood, when I
have been all alone. This has often come upon me through repeating my own name
to myself silently till, all at once, as it were, out of the intensity of the
consciousness of individuality, the individuality itself seemed to dissolve and
fade away into boundless being; and this not a confused state, but the clearest
of the clearest, the surest of the surest, the weirdest of the weirdest,
utterly beyond words, where death was an almost laughable impossibility, the
loss of personality (if so it were) seeming no extinction, but the only true
life."

yeah, why would you need to know a minor Victorian poet personally to make the connection with the world's greatest living rock critic? (xpost)

Well if you've never heard of Tennyson that's one thing, & not really "missing the pun". But like... If you were aware that there was a recording artist called del tha funky homosapien, and I posted for like a decade under the name "d3lg4do tha funky homosapien" & you didn't realise that the one was related to the other, that would be crazy whether or not you knew that that was my surname or were familiar with dtfh's oeuvre

Meek milton

In my case for a long time some part of my brain decided it was a play on the Cordwainer Smith character Lord Sto Odin and even though I know Alfie doesn't read that stuff I just couldn't dislodge this clearly erroneous thought and see the obvious.

Explanation vmic, absolved

also, it's possible to have heard of tennyson yet not be so aware of the “alfred, lord tennyson" name/title construct, esp for non-brits unfamiliar with that convention

witness, wtf’s up with tennyson's name is frequent online question

I thought Emily Post Punk was like what she does on Twitter, post punk-related stories.

Though I've never heard of her until a dozen posts ago.

Does she do that as a career or is she a part-time post-punk?

let it be known that I almost adopted the DN "d3lg4do tha fun quixo most apian", but while he is fun & rides around ilx courteously righting wrongs I don't feel our eponymous hero pertains greatly to bees

lol

https://simpsonswiki.com/w/images/thumb/1/17/Bumblebee_Man.png/250px-Bumblebee_Man.png

accidentally racist display names i didn't make

ay

:-)

esp for non-brits unfamiliar with that convention

I don't think 'Alfred, Lord Tennyson' follows convention, off the top of my head I can't think of anyone else with that 'Forename, Lord Surname' construction - I'm very possibly wrong about that though!

B-b-but isn't Alfred his surname?

Tennyson, I mean, not Sotosyn.

Nope, he got me again. I blame Alfred College.

Time for a new screenname, I guess

still confused myself

http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/archive/index.php/t-306058.html

btw, even though it's ridiculously obvious, I'd never really thought about Alfred, Lord Sotosyn being a reference to Alfred, Lord Tennyson either!

That straight dope discussion was pretty useful, thanks. Now I sort know why in Isaac Newton bios the guy who got him a job at the mint and was apparently the paramour of his nice is variously referred to as Montagu or Halifax.

In the kindest way possible what the fuck is wrong with you all

this is my Ralph wiggum dreaming of a blue & white dress

wins, did you ever stop to think that when it seems like there's something wrong with the whole of ilx except you, that maybe there's nothing wrong with us? huh? well? did you?

(aimless folds his arms across his chest and looks exceedingly self-satisfied)

"george, lord byron"

About 30,000 results (0.38 seconds)

(this is where i confess i don't remember ever consciously recognising Alfred's DN as a Tennyson ref)

what the goddamn hell

what the goddamn hell

― put a skronk ornette (wins), Sunday, June 14, 2015 11:43 AM (48 seconds ago)

this incidence of dyspunia has clearly upset you

hey, it's entirely possible it has registered at some point down the years, but it's barely even a pun as such

It isn't a pun! Unless the "syn" corresponds to sth in which case I have missed a pun. This changes nothing

all freed, lord, so to sin

feel like after a bit any long-term display name just kinda drifts off your front brain without making an impression of meaning

I can see that, things like "dr morbius" are p divorced from their original referents by now. This changes nothing

Lol drash btw

(Xp)Of course it isn't a pun. If it were in fact a pun, some of us might have decoded it sooner. But there is no Display Names That Aren't Quite Puns That You Had Missed Thread.

psotoalfredrine

"george, lord byron"
About 30,000 results

correct shmorrect, just pointing out it had some public usage

Tarzan, Lord Ofthejungle

I hadn't really registered the Tennyson thing either tbh, sorry wins

oh i get it – "wins" like how a big tough guy is called "tiny".

kinda, yeah!

sticking with ilxors in cool navelgazing style while also watching the Spain match it just occurred to me that Sgt Biscuits = Sergio Busquets

or maybe not?

fwiw i have always assumed "wins" was a reference to the Winsock TCP/IP spec

That has come up before, but I had never heard of it & assumed ppl were playing on "windsock"

wins is layer 8 of the OSI model

the wins layer

I have no idea what that means

think it's a breaking bad reference

xp means you operate at the highest level

smdh ppl won't go study a simple chart to get a dece ref these days

/!! Just this instant got that the band name Spacehog had two meanings. I never got thought of the one about hitting space./

What does this mean? And, for that matter, this:

/the twitter name "emily post-punk" (i thought it was just an emily who liked post-punk)/

Oh many xps. First of all, my post contains an inexplicable typo. Should read !! Just this instant got that the band name Spacehog had two meanings. I never thought of the one about something hogging a lot of space.

The only meaning I thought before was a hog from outer space.

I didnt get the Sotosyn/Tennyson thing either fwiw.

(i can see wins wince)

'Splatoon'. I thought I got it, it was because the artstyle is cartoony. Just realized I didn't get it at all.

hey, it's entirely possible it has registered at some point down the years, but it's barely even a pun as such

― Twee Speech and Crepey Literalism (Noodle Vague),

2014 was the year that I finally went "omg, Noodle Vague: Nouvelle Vague!" incidentally

^ my worst instance of missed punning was when I almost set my display name as "Noodelle Vague" as a pun on NV's user name before twigging that that was the joke.

sometimes now it feels like a real name tbh

Awp! I never connected the
a) Noodle wave, or the
b) Lawn sotosyn
either

homebase???

I give up, what's the homebase pun?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baseball_field#Home_plate

I don't really know!!

I didnt get the Sotosyn/Tennyson thing either fwiw.

― I checked Snoops , and it is for real (Trayce), Tuesday, June 16, 2015 12:03 AM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Is it part Solzhenitsyn ref too?

Maybe, I always assumed "osyn" an awkward transposition of "yson" but I'd like it if there were an extra layer

homebased god

lil b & schoolboy q

Ash Ra Tempel - Hash Jar Tempo

is the pushcart prize a play on the pushkin prize

did not realize until now that thread title is a pun of one of Atrus' best lines in popular videogame Myst

I played chess against Arnold Schwarzenegger once. I set up the pieces on the board, and he said "I'll be Black".

That joke just went up to Arnold Schwarzenegger and told him, "I'll be wack."

"I'm a friend of Sarah Punner."

Is the Italian for Donovan = Capo Di Tutti furgone?

Timbuk 3. I'm 45 years old and I JUST got it about a week ago.

that's terrible

I have no excuse. I did briefly consider suicide, though.

no i mean timbuk3 it's barely a pun

The future's so bright, why you gotta wear hate?

throw shade

pun so light, I gotta throw shade

Late on the draw :(

PC Music

https://scontent-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xat1/v/t1.0-9/11231323_10153733035376874_5938666634458532950_n.jpg?oh=60cad761f39ed8b5dfd3fd2d896e0124&oe=56DFAF47

just noticed this logo is an emoticon smh

... interesting because I only noticed recently that every copy of i-D has someone winking on the cover.

... also that a guy I know was art director there in the 90s.

(an ilxor has been on said cover)

Darraghmac?

Would suggest momus but how would you know he wasn't just blinking

Just watched "Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!" and was like "ohhhhh"

Friday's Los Angeles Times had a story about Hitler's book coming out of copyright that was headlined "New Mein Kampf causes furor" yesterday, which I didn't notice until one of my sisters pointed it out.

Just seeing i.d. mentioned. Been hoping to find my box of early issues dating back to it being a fanzine.
The early editions were far more personal style orientated. They mainly consisted of individuals photographed in the street etc showing off their own personal style choices. I think that had to do with why the mag got the title. It was about personal identity as displayed through clothing hence i.d.
I've been leafing through copies in newsagents recently and think it's mainly lost that aspect. Seems to be more about trendier styling. More about stylists than the d.i.y. thing it started as.
You wouldn't think to look at its glossy current look that it started as a stapled post punk fanzine.

The World At One

strange the first thing I got reminded of was this thread

I only got Aladdin Sane ("A lad insane") like last year or something. That was embarassing.
― papa november (papa november), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 13:43 (11 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

not a pun but i did wonder what those stars at the bottom of the Blackstar sleeve meant, whether they were some kind of substitution cipher. but it's simpler than that...

b o w i e

is it a cipher or just stylised letters?

cos if it's a cipher, the black star would be an 'O' which is about as ominous as you can get if you wanted to read anything into it

> is it a cipher or just stylised letters?

stylised to the point of being a cipher 8) i think that's what threw me, i was envisaging a whole alphabet.

whoa @ "a lad insane"

lol

bridge of spies/bridge of sighs

Whoa - a Robin Trower reference!

Nero Burning ROM

(not sure if counts as pun or reference)

ha ha, never noticed that

"Blue" Gene Tyranny (Gene Tierney)

Daft punk's "Disco-very"

I feel like such a dumbass.

Talking about Puns you had missed, anybody know a book called Puns by a writer that I think was a French Philosopher or related? There was a copy I'd been thinking of buying in the local 2nd hand bookshop & it was sold when I went back today i.e. I missed it.
Should have noted title and author but didn't.

Daft punk's "Disco-very"

I feel like such a dumbass.

― barbarian radge (NotEnough), 5. april 2016 23:20 (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

But you did get the song Veridis Quo from the album?

xp walter redfern. I have a copy but only flicked through it

Thanks name rings a bell so I think that was probably it.

Ilxor-authored novel Us Conductors.

Only clicked the other day that the title of one of my favourite books, Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky, was a play on the Jules Verne book. I am very, very slow.

I've had the phrase 'That's my name, don't WEEEEEERRRRREEEE it out' stuck in my head since the days of Conor Smedley, so much so that close friends have started to say it regardless of knowing the context. Only the other day did I realise it was a pun on 'werewolf' and not just an amusing spelling error.

waiting for guffman = waiting for godot

Daft punk's "Disco-very"
I feel like such a dumbass.
― barbarian radge (NotEnough), 5. april 2016 23:20 (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
But you did get the song Veridis Quo from the album?
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 5 April 2016 23:48 (3 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

deft puns

had never really processed "Staples" before today.

Whoa, I'd never thought about the dual meaning, and yet it is now so obvious.

the Beatles

Yeah think that one comes up from time to time. i think it may have just become so iconic that you forget the original play on words.
Like the name takes on an entity of its own that is so well established it's no longer looked at.

Porcupine Tree just hit me recently

(it makes more sense considering that Wilson conceived PT as a "lost" psychedelic band from the late 60's, and therefore exactly the sort of band that would have a lame/punning name)

I was just about ask what the pun was and then I saw it "Pine Tree."

Yes, you're right, that is lame (xp)

omg missed that one.

Now for long-winded story of a visual pun I just got a while ago.
A couple of years ago when Jody Foster and Mel Gibson were doing publicity for the move The Beaver, Jody (I think) appeared on a talk show with the puppet, and when I looked at it I finally realized why the female. errrm, "crotchal area" is referred to as a beaver. The two big white teeth, separated by a gap, resembles the vulva/slit. I swear there were whiskers or something on the puppet that resembled pubic hair, but none of the pictures I see on the net show any whiskers. I had always assumed the word was used because just it was a small, furry animal, with no other meaning, but I discovered there's more to it than that.

http://www.joblo.com/newsimages1/MelGibsonBeaver_post.jpg

Right that's it ban everyone itt ban them for life ffs

There was a medieval belief that a gap between the top front teeth indicated a lascivious nature. Came across that doing Chaucer at A level I think

Also Leonardo da Vinci said that they chewed their balls off when threatened, which would be an odd response to most stressful situations, but there you go. https://books.google.com.au/books?id=DcGkCQAAQBAJ&pg=PT65&lpg=PT65&dq=da+vinci+beaver+testicles&source=bl&ots=sUtgvPG7qo&sig=iMB8iPaoGpHvVVx_RdGA3Eq30jY&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiz-4fkk7_MAhWFFqYKHUfDBNsQ6AEILzAD#v=onepage&q=da vinci beaver testicles&f=false

da vinci beaver testicles&f=false indeed

in scritti politti's "die alone" when mos def raps "candy and sublime are friends of mine" is that meant to suggest kantian sublime

I am now pretty sure I am gay because I have seen beaver teeth and have never felt like sticking my dick in it

beavers nibble wood --- can we move on?

"Slick Willy" (for fmr. prez Clinton) was probably always a gross double entendre, right? I missed that for 20 years.

I realised the other day that the song "God loves a terrier" from Best In Show is most likely a pun on 'God loves a trier'.

twin peaks brothel "one-eyed jack's"

Voice of the Xtabay, the 1950 album by Peruvian singer Yuma Sumac with music by Les Baxter that was a landmark record for both of them…

"Xtabay" is not the name of some obscure Incan tribe but rather a quasi-pig latin rendition of "Baxter."

(Got this from the new Les Baxter biog by James Spencer)

wah, that's great!

Meanwhile, "Yma Sumac" is a name people think is some kind of pun, but isn't

So she ain't Amy Camus from Brooklyn then?

Hadn't heard that Xtabay thing before and I've been listening to the music since I was a kid. My grandparents had the Shellac album set of that lp. & I learnt not to clean shellac with spray on vinyl cleaner on the side for Monos from that.

Have always wondered what the Xtabay was so interesting to hear that. Back Latin.

She really was from Peru, although that may be the only part of her bio that was truthful. Yma Sumac was not her real name, she was really Zoila Augusta Emperatriz Chávarri del Castillo. She took the name Yma Sumac because, apparently, it was based on her mother's name and was also a Quechua phrase meaning "how beautiful" or "beautiful flower."

Charles Mingus - Mingus Dynasty

Is Rubber Soul a play on rubber sole(d) shoes? Because that literally never dawned on me until yesterday.

I'd assume it was a ringo riposte to people talking about blue-eyed soul or various other types. But not sure when various terms originated. Too early for references to Northen & Southern Soul presumably.
Or a response to soul being too plastic?

Funny seeing the old version of the lp being put under R for band name. Would have thought the distorted faces on the front were still too recognised. Remaster has the band name on the packaging.

yeah it's a play in rubber sole

cf the take of I'm Down, available on Anthology 2.

During the session, particularly between takes one and two, McCartney can be heard repeating the phrase "Plastic soul, man, plastic soul". He later revealed that the phrase, which the Beatles later adapted for the title of their album Rubber Soul, was used by black musicians to describe Mick Jagger.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%27m_Down

But yes, a play on rubber sole too, of course.

Honk if you're horny

Somehow never got this until a fb friend noted that he had just gotten it.

oh shit, i just got that :/

ohhhhhhhhhhhhh

Oh, shit!

:-O

Lads

http://i.imgur.com/GKFIUiC.gif

Lying in bed at night, I suddenly thought:

"Is 50 First Dates a pun on 51st State"?

"Fifty First Dates"

― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Sunday, 30 October 2011 18:02 (4 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Because it's like "Fifty-first States"? Never thought of that.

― Mayne of Fules (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 30 October 2011 18:15 (4 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

(I only remember because I hadn't realised before then)

I bet I saw that five years ago and it was just percolating in my unconscious.

Would've made more sense if it took place in PR.

Unless it was celebrating the first date + the 50th state.

Not sayin' y'all aren't on to something though...

Rising Sun :: Tokyo Rose

It's not a pun but airbnb - I thought it was air bnb as in air! the cloud! wifi! the internet! the future, man! no it's airb nb as in you sleep on an airbed. even though I wouldn't be surprised if there isn't a single listing in the world that offers that anymore.

Had no idea why it was called airbnb tbh.

I don't know what an air bed is.

airb nbd

(xp) Just be grateful you've never had to sleep on one.

my mattress is memory foam. absolutely no fun to sleep on unless you like waking up with a dead arm

I never got that pun, thanks for clearing up

Wait, I do know what an air bed is but had temporary word blindness from the implausibility of airbnb hosts offering you one.

Whiskas

Wow, I hadn't realized that either!

I blame the pronunciation o'er here, with a very hard, short 'as' at the end. It's probably the same in Finland,

What didn't you get?

they brand it as whiskas. like the way people pronounce puskas. it amazes me this one didn't register with you both!

In Denmark it's pronounced 'veeskas'. Never realized it was a pun either.

But that is also how u say whiskers

I can't remember which bond villain performance upon which I base this knowledge but I feel v sure about it

what's the pun with Whiskas?

other than it's the word whiskers, but that's not a pun.

We pronounce whiskers as 'k'nur-haw'

I recently came across some old LPs in my attic that I've had since I was 7 or 8 years old. They're recordings of stories adapted from or based on popular TV shows of the time -- Space: 1999, The Six Million Dollar Man, Star Trek.

The last one has four original stories, three written by Alan Dean Foster, and I noticed that one of them is called "To Starve a Fleaver." Seven-year-old me would never have gotten that pun.

Rock the Vote.

Only got Soft Cell the other day when listening to a Soft Cell song on Beats in Space where Marc Almond specifically refers to "the soft sell"

Oh yeah, I only got that one recently too. One of those where I was exposed to the pun before the thing it was punning on.

Rock the Vote.

omg

http://i.imgur.com/1txQgjG.gif

I just read that Aerosmith almost took the name "Spike Jones" when they were starting out, which made me think for the first time that "Spike Jones" could be a drug culture double entendre.

Apparently it's not, since Spike Jones got that nickname as a child, but then again he must have come across junkies in the '40s who would have been aware of the double meaning

the what double meaning?

spike = needle to inject heroin
to 'jones' = slang for craving drugs

aha, I see

https://www.wired.com/2016/09/pun-competitions/

FROM THE MOMENT he spoke, I knew I was screwed. On the surface, the guy wasn’t particularly fearsome—pudgy, late thirties, polo shirt, plaid shorts, baseball cap, dad sneakers—but he looked completely at ease. One hand in his pocket, the other holding the microphone loosely, like a torch singer doing crowd work. And when he finally began talking, it was with an assurance that belied the fact that he was basically spewing nonsense.

“I hate all people named John,” he said with surprising bravado. “Yeah, that’s right, that was a John diss!” The crowd roared. John-diss. Jaundice. A glorious, groan-inducing precision strike of a pun.

Nickelodeon = nickel + odeon

Yeah it becomes more obvious when you see what it was originally. A fairground or arcade attraction that you put a nickel in and saw a film short. Hence it becoming the nickname used for later film related devices and a kids cartoon network thing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gUNZAmFfKA

how is 'john diss sounds like the word jaundice' a pun

How to Wreck a Nice Beach

Now that's more like it

Arrested Development

how is 'john diss sounds like the word jaundice' a pun
― kinder, Thursday, 6 October 2016 20:10 (yesterday) Permalink

It was a "themed" round based on the theme "diseases" apparently.

I guess in that case it can certainly be a pun

How to Wreck a Nice Beach🔗

trivial pursuit

don't know how, I think it's one of those things where a thing is called something & you're like yep those are some words sure

Is that a thing where what was used as a dismissal of an activity sparked the idea for a game through over literalism?

Gosh we may never know

Rolling Benoitballs Thread

When I started this thread I didn't know what ben wah balls were; I was just saying it in a Private Eye "Colemanballs" kind of way

"men's wearhouse"

Had not heard of the play that 'morning becomes eclectic' was punning on

somehow only just realised that Split Enz is spelt "Split Enz" because they are from NZ (I thought it was just an intentional mispelling of "split ends", with no deeper significance)

dunno that it was intentional (probably just my childish brain) but when one of the baddies keeps chanting "20 seconds, no more dick, 20 seconds no more dick" before an impending explosion in the Dick Tracy movie, that it could also be doubling for saying that Tracy's balls are about to get blown off

"The crowd roared. John-diss. Jaundice."

NY mag column "Select/All"

omg

Dead Can Dance = decadence

Ha, that's so lame.

hm, really? In an aus accent it kinda doesnt work...

Always wondered what that meant so I suppose this explanation is as good as any other.

Dec Can Dance would be better but I guess Ant and Dec weren't really a thing back in the early 80s.

The wealthy family from Fresh Prince of Bel-Air is named BANKS.

Pun, or just hacky writing?

both. last night I watched Sabrina, the Audrey Hepburn movie, with my wife. Sabrina's last name was Fairchild. hacky writers have always loved this ploy.

took me a while to figure out the title of Jim O'Rourke's "Halfway to a Threeway." it's about a guy talking about having sex with a paralyzed amputee

still trying to figure out what "Not Sport, Marital Art" means (not a typo, marital as in marriage).

It was several years after I first heard of Hayseed Dixie until I realised it was a pun on AC/DC.

I bought this album a couple of years ago, but got the pun only now.

ha i had to say that one out loud

This is the wrong thread for this, but read a news story on the Italian referendum with a picture of a ballot, and I thought I knew a bit Italian but had absolutely no idea why the two choices would be ON or IS. What does that mean in Italian? That they're ON board with a new constitution, or want to stay with the one that already IS? Then I realized the picture was upside down...

lol

spent hours looking at tracers post til i realised it was upside down

lºl

we're through the looking glass here, people

Arrested Development

― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, October 6, 2016 6:29 PM (three months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I just now got this and am feeling pretty stupid.

It took my nine-year-old daughter, badmouthing my favorite children's program from the 1970s by saying "Sesame is a seed," for me to go, holy crap, "street" does sound like "seed," doesn't it?

soft cell = soft sell

I don't think Sesame Street/Seed is a thing

yeah me neither

http://i.imgur.com/fIzu3Ze.jpg

^ Descartes

xpost it's definitely why the name of the show "works" even if it's basically subliminal

Not a pun exactly, but watching live action 101 Dalmatians movie with my kid, and never realized that the name "De Ville" has both devil and evil in it! (EVIL was Cruella's license plate.) I just thought of the Cadillac model.

I just now got this and am feeling pretty stupid.

I just spent way too long trying to figure out the pun in the band name Arrested Development

idgi

The television show Arrested Development is about a family whose patriarch has been arrested over shady dealings in his housing development.

Saul Goodman = "S'all good, man!"

lol, sorry DJP. I should have specified.

Definitely feel that Sesame Street is based more on an "Open Sesame" type reveal, street/seed don't rhyme... and yet, gotta think there's something there.

In the TV series Arrested Development, one of the main characters is a crooked real estate developer whom the cops want to arrest, but it's also a series about immature adults.

xp to flappy bird:

That always makes me think of this, which was in the video store I worked at 15 years ago.

http://www.dvd-covers.org/d/76744-3/211solgoode_scan_hires.jpg

(pronounced "good")

Xmessage

Sol Goode (pronounced 'good')

Funny thing is Goode is supposed to rhyme with "dude".

this may be a stretch, but is 'blowing session' (in reference to jazz records) a double entendre? for me it evokes

(1) a roomful of top jazz dudes exuberantly jamming away on their horns with little artistic direction, really showing off their chops but tending toward self-indulgence

(2) a roomful of top jazz dudes exuberantly sucking each other's (and their own?) dicks with little artistic direction, really showing off their chops but tending toward self-indulgence

but maybe that's just wishful thinking idk

Bit of a reacharound

On Rotten Tomatoes, "Weekly Ketchup" = "Weekly Catch-up".

Doc Hollywood as a pun on Doc Holliday

http://www.hiphopslam.com/bj/online_photos_2014/wfmu-1.jpg

Anna Domino <-> anno domini

Ari Up = Hurry up, yes?