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I only realised THIS MORNING that Adam Ant was a pun.

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 12:44 (twenty-one years ago)

I still don't get 'yerself is steam' :( :( :(

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 13:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Your self-esteem.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 13:08 (twenty-one years ago)

(That's a pretty bad pun, innit?)

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 13:08 (twenty-one years ago)

I didn't get that either, Archel.

― caitlin (caitlin), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 13:11 (twenty-one years ago)

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

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 13:14 (twenty-one years ago)

your self esteem -- it's not a very good pun.

― dog latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 13:14 (twenty-one years ago)

[i]I only realised THIS MORNING that Adam Ant was a pun.[/i]

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

― Hanna (Hanna), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 13:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Haha, neither had I!

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 13:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Conclusion: all these puns are rubbish.

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 13:31 (twenty-one years ago)

"Don't think twice, it's alright" I was listening to this last night and *ding* it's saying both "don't bother" and "don't even begin to think leaving me was okay."

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 13:32 (twenty-one years ago)

That's not a pun; it's just ambiguity

― caitlin (caitlin), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 13:37 (twenty-one years ago)

the self esteem one works better in certain accents.

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 13:39 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

I never got that... wow.

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 13:43 (twenty-one years ago)

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.

― papa november (papa november), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 13:47 (twenty-one years ago)

i knew the "insane" bit but never thought of "a lad"!

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 13:47 (twenty-one years ago)

isn't it about bowies brother, who had severe mental problems & committed suicide?

― DJ Salinger (joni), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 14:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Haha, I never got any of these before (Yerself is Steam, Adam Ant, Aladdin Sane)!

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 14:05 (twenty-one years ago)

It was "See you next Wednesday" in the Thriller video, which isn't a pun, but it is a phrase director John Landis puts in every one of his movies.

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 15:21 (twenty-one years ago)

The michaael jackson video where MJ and girl are eating popcorn. The film ends and the announcer says "See you next tuesday".

I so don't get it.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 15:32 (twenty-one years ago)

i think the answer lies in mark's tenuous grasp of 'pun'.

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 15:34 (twenty-one years ago)

.. and I was fibbing anyway.

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 15:37 (twenty-one years ago)

that's like C U Next Tuesday, right?

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 15:54 (twenty-one years ago)

I never got the visual pun of the 7-Up "Uncola" glass until some advanced age of decrepitude.

― Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 16:07 (twenty-one years ago)

walking up some steps just the other day, it struck me:
Rap City ... Rhadsody!

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

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 19:01 (twenty-one years ago)

I am now worried that there are loads of puns out there I haven't got yet.

Is I Love Everything a pun?

― DV (dirtyvicar), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 19:17 (twenty-one years ago)

This happens to me absolutely all the time, and in some cases -- even worse -- with that nagging must-be-a-pun sense that drives one nuts: I'm happy to have the Mercury Rev one finally worked out for me. I can't think of any good recent examples, though: the last one I recall was hearing a Spinanes song and noticing the "inane" in there.

― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 19:34 (twenty-one years ago)

I didn't get Yerself is Steam either. Knew all the others mentioned here, although admittedly it took a while for me to realise with Manda Rin.

Perry Farrell took a while, too.

― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 19:39 (twenty-one years ago)

In similar news I had a long and frustrating conversation with someone wherein I was pointing out, with amazement, that the title of Philip Roth's The Human Stain could be read in two different ways, and that ads for the film version seemed to be inflecting it in the one of those two ways that I hadn’t thought of. Unfortunately I couldn’t seem to make the different inflections clear to the person I was talking to. I’ll try it with you guys: I had always read the title (without having read the book) as being “The Human Stain” like “The Human Condition”; the film trailer suddenly made me realize it was possibly supposed to be “The Human Stain” like “The Human Cannonball” or “The Human Calculator,” referring to the individual character.

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

― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 19:40 (twenty-one years ago)

And wait, what's the pun with Perry Farrell? (If it's supposed to be "peripheral," that is the worst thing I have ever heard.)

― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 19:40 (twenty-one years ago)

It's not a pun, it's a spoonerism.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 19:43 (twenty-one years ago)

yes Nabisco, peripheral.

― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 19:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Suddenly that's better than the "Ferry Peril" Spoonerism I thought Dan was hinting toward.

― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 19:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Aw.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 19:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Someone reassure me about The Human Stain, though, please.

― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 19:50 (twenty-one years ago)

I always assumed it referred to what was left after someone jumped off a building.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 19:51 (twenty-one years ago)

i finally thought about that "rock the vote/boat" one last week. i suppose it doesn't exist over here so i don't feel too dumb.

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

― m. (mitchlnw), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 19:52 (twenty-one years ago)

So y'all never heard the joke:

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

― Steve.n. (sjkirk), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 19:52 (twenty-one years ago)

I am dumb. How is Con Air a pun?

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 22:11 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.conair.com/conair/index.jsp

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 22:12 (twenty-one years ago)

That's the part of the pun I got -- it took me a while to notice that the plot was about a convict being transported by an airline.

― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 22:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh nabisco...

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 22:18 (twenty-one years ago)

In my own defense, I didn't see the movie and had no interest in seeing it: it mattered very little to me what it was about. All I knew was that it was one of those movies from that season where every movie had a shot of an explosion and a piece of CGI debris flying directly into the camera.

― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 22:20 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm confused. What do blowdryers have to do with Con Air?

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 22:20 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm confused. What do blowdryers have to do with Con Air?

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

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 22:23 (twenty-one years ago)

"that season"

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 22:26 (twenty-one years ago)

I take it that Con Air's an American thing = I am not as dumb as I thought.

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 22:39 (twenty-one years ago)

I hate to chide, but anybody who gives somebody a hard time for not getting the not-gotten pun is not being a good netizen.

― Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 22:45 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm neither american, nor have i seen con air.. but... AIR CON, ppl!

― m. (mitchlnw), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 22:58 (twenty-one years ago)

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woah

― Cow_Art, Thursday, 2 April 2026 03:03 (five months ago)

ok I need to reassess everything I thought I once knew

― Mollusk, Virginia (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, 2 April 2026 09:13 (five months ago)

Night Moves

― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 2 April 2026 12:19 (five months ago)

it’s about chess

― Mollusk, Virginia (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, 2 April 2026 12:42 (five months ago)

two weeks pass...

The double meaning of "The truth is out there".

― Alba, Friday, 17 April 2026 12:06 (five months ago)

one month passes...

This one's for the parents out there

Eminently popular children's book/learn-to-read series Elephant and Piggy by Mo Willems, featuring Piggy and Elephant Gerald

Elephant Gerald

Ella Fitzgerald

my mind is suitably blown

― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Thursday, 28 May 2026 15:10 (four months ago)

Needs a supporting character named Ascot Fits, who helps people try on silk neckwear at the department store.

― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 28 May 2026 17:47 (four months ago)

Art Bears took their name from a sentence in Jane Ellen Harrison's book Ancient Art and Ritual (1913): "Even to-day, when individualism is rampant, art bears traces of its collective, social origin". Chris Cutler explains that it was a deliberate out-of-context quote, but that "not too much should be read into this; it just sounds intriguing, has an animal in it, plays with ambiguity and is mildly ridiculous".

― bendy, Sunday, 7 June 2026 15:50 (three months ago)

i know some art bears

― The Immortal Bird of Avon (Boring, Maryland), Sunday, 7 June 2026 15:52 (three months ago)

I've seen some art bares.

― nickn, Sunday, 7 June 2026 17:44 (three months ago)

Not a pun exactly, but I’ve known of the existence of The Stanky Brown Group for years and only today realized the meaning behind the name.

― cinematic hobo hip-hop rock ‘n’ roll blues-jazz soul-review (Dan Peterson), Monday, 8 June 2026 01:02 (three months ago)

is it shit

― The Immortal Bird of Avon (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 8 June 2026 01:31 (three months ago)

Yes. I honestly thought it was the name of someone in the band. “Stanky” never dawned on me.

― cinematic hobo hip-hop rock ‘n’ roll blues-jazz soul-review (Dan Peterson), Monday, 8 June 2026 01:48 (three months ago)

Alien Nation

― Cow_Art, Monday, 8 June 2026 03:01 (three months ago)

one month passes...

Boyzone

― Rose of Nevada Fighter (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 27 July 2026 00:27 (two months ago)

Nope, never got that one either.

― Zelda Zonk, Monday, 27 July 2026 01:55 (two months ago)

What's the pun?

― Josefa, Monday, 27 July 2026 02:32 (two months ago)

Boy's own, as in "real boy's own stuff", i.e. feats of derring-do. Also in this case a zone full of boys.

― mime is money (bastard) (Matt #2), Monday, 27 July 2026 02:58 (two months ago)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boy%27s_Own_Paper

― Ward Fowler, Monday, 27 July 2026 03:05 (two months ago)

Ah, I'd heard the expression and had a vague idea of what it meant, but it's not something Americans would know so thanks for the education.

― Josefa, Monday, 27 July 2026 03:10 (two months ago)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boy%27s_Own_Paper🕸

Bonus points for John Crowley mention!

― Rose of Nevada Fighter (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 27 July 2026 03:31 (two months ago)

And here I thought they were all from Boise, Idaho

― marzipandemonium (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 27 July 2026 09:33 (two months ago)

I'd be sceptical that it's something their fans knew either, though I suppose Louis Walsh has to entertain himself somehow.

― Andrew Farrell, Saturday, 1 August 2026 07:45 (two months ago)

It has taken me 25 years to notice the double meaning in DJ Luck and MC Neat’s “A Little Bit of Luck”

― Chewshabadoo, Saturday, 1 August 2026 07:57 (two months ago)

Just yesterday thanks to the forgotten cartoons thread I realised what the pun was for Commander McBragg (he makes up a lot of grand shite).

― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Monday, 3 August 2026 05:56 (one month ago)

In my defence I was 8 when I last saw or thought about that show.

― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Monday, 3 August 2026 05:57 (one month ago)

that the family in succession is the roys

― 龜, Monday, 10 August 2026 11:37 (one month ago)

I don't get it. Return on investment? Royals?

― Alba, Monday, 10 August 2026 16:33 (one month ago)

Rolls Royce?

― Cow_Art, Monday, 10 August 2026 17:34 (one month ago)

roi = king, i assume

― Tracer Hand, Monday, 10 August 2026 18:15 (one month ago)

Roy-al family

― leprechaundriac (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 10 August 2026 18:55 (one month ago)

Today I learned that the name of a favorite Breeders song means “king” in french.

― Cow_Art, Tuesday, 11 August 2026 14:40 (one month ago)

The Royle Family much less subtle

― Oaf To Joy (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 11 August 2026 15:12 (one month ago)

Im my logistics engineering newsletter days I wrote an article about return on investment and resisted the temptation to headline it "ROI is King."

Shoulda done "ROI est Mort, Vive Le ROI"

― leprechaundriac (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 11 August 2026 15:55 (one month ago)

Lol

― The Original Human Sandbox (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 11 August 2026 16:10 (one month ago)

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