― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 13:08 (twenty years ago)
― caitlin (caitlin), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 13:11 (twenty years ago)
― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 13:14 (twenty years ago)
― dog latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 13:14 (twenty years ago)
OMG!!! I hadn't seen that either! How embarrassing.
― Hanna (Hanna), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 13:15 (twenty years ago)
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 13:16 (twenty years ago)
― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 13:31 (twenty years ago)
― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 13:32 (twenty years ago)
― caitlin (caitlin), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 13:37 (twenty years ago)
― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 13:39 (twenty years ago)
― papa november (papa november), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 13:43 (twenty years ago)
― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 13:43 (twenty years ago)
Yep, me too.
― papa november (papa november), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 13:47 (twenty years ago)
― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 13:47 (twenty years ago)
― DJ Salinger (joni), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 14:00 (twenty years ago)
― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 14:05 (twenty years ago)
― Colin Meeder (Mert), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 15:21 (twenty years ago)
I so don't get it.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 15:32 (twenty years ago)
― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 15:34 (twenty years ago)
― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 15:37 (twenty years ago)
― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 15:54 (twenty years ago)
― Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 16:07 (twenty years ago)
also, i amazingly didn't get Lipps, Inc. until quite recently. sheesh.
― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 19:01 (twenty years ago)
Is I Love Everything a pun?
― DV (dirtyvicar), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 19:17 (twenty years ago)
― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 19:34 (twenty years ago)
Perry Farrell took a while, too.
― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 19:39 (twenty years ago)
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 years ago)
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 19:43 (twenty years ago)
― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 19:46 (twenty years ago)
― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 19:47 (twenty years ago)
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 19:48 (twenty years ago)
― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 19:50 (twenty years ago)
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 19:51 (twenty years ago)
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 years ago)
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 years ago)
― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 22:11 (twenty years ago)
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 22:12 (twenty years ago)
― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 22:16 (twenty years ago)
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 22:18 (twenty years ago)
― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 22:20 (twenty years ago)
― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 22:20 (twenty years ago)
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 years ago)
― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 22:26 (twenty years ago)
― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 22:39 (twenty years ago)
― Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 22:45 (twenty years ago)
― m. (mitchlnw), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 22:58 (twenty years ago)
Puns should be really obvious.
― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 23:09 (twenty years ago)
― Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 23:21 (twenty years ago)
― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 23:37 (twenty years ago)
I'm sure was covered in depth waaay earlier in this thread! or another thread - who can say
― kinder, Friday, 18 April 2025 07:21 (two months ago)
When I was a child my parents were weirdly into light opera
― I pity the foo fighter (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 18 April 2025 10:43 (two months ago)
> Jane Dark
jean d'arc?
(see also: Large Door)
― koogs, Monday, 28 April 2025 12:34 (two months ago)
I've been aware of the band Fischer-Z for about 40 years and have only just realised that their name is a pun.
― bored by endless ecstasy (anagram), Tuesday, 29 April 2025 08:47 (two months ago)
Errrrrr... what?
― Blake the Messenger (Tom D.), Tuesday, 29 April 2025 08:48 (two months ago)
fish's 'ead
― bored by endless ecstasy (anagram), Tuesday, 29 April 2025 08:52 (two months ago)
Had to look it up. That seems very weak – not surprised you didn't get it. Do people even talk about fish's heads? Just fish head is the norm, isn't it?
― Alba, Tuesday, 29 April 2025 08:52 (two months ago)
It's so dire I hate them now.
― Blake the Messenger (Tom D.), Tuesday, 29 April 2025 08:54 (two months ago)
huey smith's "rockin' pneumonia" = walking pneumonia
― budo jeru, Monday, 5 May 2025 22:29 (two months ago)
yes and boogie woogie flu = Ougadougou Flu
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Tuesday, 6 May 2025 16:41 (two months ago)
!!
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 6 May 2025 16:50 (two months ago)
xp definitely a reference to an avian flu of foreign origin, but i'm assuming you're joking with the "ougadougo"
― budo jeru, Tuesday, 6 May 2025 18:49 (two months ago)
indeed i am joking. but if I had to guess I would venture that "rockin' pneumonia" is in fact intended to be a pun on "walking" and it is one that I too missed until pointed out here. just having a lil fun
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Tuesday, 6 May 2025 20:25 (two months ago)
heh, i thought it was cute but i had to ask because this is one of those threads where sometimes you just can't tell!
― budo jeru, Tuesday, 6 May 2025 21:39 (two months ago)
I like to think I had noticed it years ago, but Massive Attack's Mezzanine mentions "all these half-flaws / will lead to mine" in the title track. A mezzanine being a half-floor.
― assert (matttkkkk), Saturday, 10 May 2025 09:01 (one month ago)
The internet suggests that "half floors" is the actual lyric.
― Kim Kimberly, Saturday, 10 May 2025 16:07 (one month ago)
https://i.imgur.com/kZfpeiS.jpeg
― jaymc, Saturday, 10 May 2025 16:10 (one month ago)
Who you callin a diphthong
― zydecodependent (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 10 May 2025 20:48 (one month ago)
This is giving me flashbacks of a sketch from 'hilarious' 1980s comedy duo Little & Large that went approximately like this: "Is this lift OK?" "It's flawless" (man steps into lift and plummets) "I told him it was floorless". I guess this doesn't work in America (unless you're from Long Island?).
― Nasty, Brutish & Short, Saturday, 10 May 2025 21:59 (one month ago)
Pawn by which I mean the chess piece, not pawn as in salacious material
― zydecodependent (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 10 May 2025 22:09 (one month ago)
Same model as the Sandie Shaw pun that (most) Americans don’t get
― Josefa, Saturday, 10 May 2025 22:23 (one month ago)
It doesn't work in parts of the UK either.
― Blake the Messenger (Tom D.), Saturday, 10 May 2025 22:32 (one month ago)
imagining Massive Attack sung in a Zummerzet accent
― assert (matttkkkk), Saturday, 10 May 2025 23:04 (one month ago)
Exactly, it doesn't work in Bristol!
― Blake the Messenger (Tom D.), Saturday, 10 May 2025 23:15 (one month ago)
Taco hell
― doe on a hill (Deflatormouse), Saturday, 7 June 2025 05:34 (one month ago)
Because it got mentioned elsewhere on ilx today:
B.C.'s Quest for Tires is a horizontally scrolling video game designed by Rick Banks and Michael Bate and published by Sierra On-Line in 1983.[...] The game's title is a play on the contemporaneous film Quest for Fire.
[...] The game's title is a play on the contemporaneous film Quest for Fire.
― Kim Kimberly, Thursday, 12 June 2025 15:24 (three weeks ago)
this is embarrassing but somehow I only just realized the other day that Paramore = paramour
― rob, Thursday, 12 June 2025 15:35 (three weeks ago)
really a spoonerism, but the volker kriegel track "mindwill"
― budo jeru, Saturday, 14 June 2025 23:39 (three weeks ago)
Aerosmith’s album Draw The Line features a caricature line drawing as cover art.
― once beloved, recently troubled (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 19 June 2025 15:57 (two weeks ago)
Boy, that ain't the only meaning either behind that one.
― pplains, Thursday, 19 June 2025 16:44 (two weeks ago)
lol yeah. Wiki lists many reasons other than the cover: "Draw The Line is a classic title that says it all, the coke lines, heroin lines, drawing symbolic lines and crossing them all – no matter what."[17]
― once beloved, recently troubled (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 19 June 2025 17:42 (two weeks ago)
The shared discovery of the multiple references inherent in Draw The Line surely produced giggle fits amongst the band that went unmatched until the Night In The Ruts title was conceived.
― henry s, Thursday, 19 June 2025 17:55 (two weeks ago)