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

― caitlin (caitlin), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 13:37 (nineteen years ago) link

the self esteem one works better in certain accents.

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 13:39 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

I never got that... wow.

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 13:43 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 13:47 (nineteen years ago) link

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

― DJ Salinger (joni), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 14:00 (nineteen years ago) link

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

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 14:05 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 15:34 (nineteen years ago) link

.. and I was fibbing anyway.

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 15:37 (nineteen years ago) link

that's like C U Next Tuesday, right?

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 15:54 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 19:43 (nineteen years ago) link

yes Nabisco, peripheral.

― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 19:46 (nineteen years ago) link

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

― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 19:47 (nineteen years ago) link

Aw.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 19:48 (nineteen years ago) link

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

― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 19:50 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

I am dumb. How is Con Air a pun?

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 22:11 (nineteen years ago) link

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

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 22:12 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

Oh nabisco...

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 22:18 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 22:20 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

"that season"

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 22:26 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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

― m. (mitchlnw), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 22:58 (nineteen years ago) link

That's rubbish (as in, I didn't even think of that, and neither did anyone else, therefore too subtle, therefore rubbish).

Puns should be really obvious.

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 23:09 (nineteen years ago) link

Je ne voudrais pas CONtinuer cette CONversation!

― Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 23:21 (nineteen years ago) link

Why is con air = air con (or hairdryers for that matter) a pun for the film? I still dont get it.

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 23:37 (nineteen years ago) link

Dumb pun for even dumber movie.

― papa november (papa november), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 23:38 (nineteen years ago) link

I also never spotted the Yrself Is Steam one, thats grate!

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

xpost haha too true.

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 23:38 (nineteen years ago) link

Another fun hairdryer fact! The German word for hairdryer is Fön, from the word Föhn, meaning the dry wind that comes down from the mountains and makes Bavarians cranky. Fön, fön, fön, till her Vati takes her hairdryer away.

― Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 23:47 (nineteen years ago) link

Yes, it is Trayce. No, it's not his real name.

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 2 December 2004 01:10 (nineteen years ago) link

the roth thing makes sense, nabisco.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Thursday, 2 December 2004 01:25 (nineteen years ago) link

Baby Shambles.

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 2 December 2004 08:41 (nineteen years ago) link

oh right - i thought that con air was a pun on Continental Airlines like maybe whoever made the film once had a bad flight with them and wanted to paint the airline with a bad name of being full of convicts or something. and now i find out it's about blow dryers. great.

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 2 December 2004 10:36 (nineteen years ago) link

Con Air might have something to do with the fact that Con means twat in French. And in turn Con Air sounds a bit like connard, which means something like knobhead.

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.

― Japanese Giraffe (Japanese Giraffe), Thursday, 2 December 2004 13:48 (nineteen years ago) link

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I just got Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? The shame, the shame...

― Zelda Zonk, Sunday, January 5, 2020 4:55 AM (four years ago) bookmarkflaglink

for some reason, this same realization occurred to me suddenly last week, and i thought that i should post it here

― budo jeru, Tuesday, 17 September 2024 14:16 (two months ago) link

Perry Farrell

― bored by endless ecstasy (anagram), Wednesday, 18 September 2024 10:23 (two months ago) link

Oh god, that's Terry Bull

― Alba, Wednesday, 18 September 2024 11:38 (two months ago) link

> Perry Farrell took a while, too.
> - MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 19:39

― koogs, Wednesday, 18 September 2024 11:50 (two months ago) link

^^^ this has never dawned on me. I just had to look it up.

― Glam conspiracist (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 18 September 2024 12:39 (two months ago) link

That’s because it’s a witless failed pun

― assert (matttkkkk), Wednesday, 18 September 2024 12:42 (two months ago) link

From a witless failed rock star.

― pisspoor bung probe prog (Tom D.), Wednesday, 18 September 2024 12:45 (two months ago) link

lol

― The Clones of Dr. Slop (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 18 September 2024 16:10 (two months ago) link

is it supposed to be peripheral? i am struggling

― Ryan seaQuest (Will M.), Wednesday, 18 September 2024 16:51 (two months ago) link

yes

― bored by endless ecstasy (anagram), Wednesday, 18 September 2024 16:54 (two months ago) link

lol wow never had any idea. that's terrible (Terry Ball)

― the last visible dot (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 18 September 2024 22:08 (two months ago) link

Hello Fresh - hella fresh?

(company is originally from Germany & was called Jade 1314, I don't know if "hella" was in their minds when renaming it)

― StanM, Sunday, 29 September 2024 11:24 (one month ago) link

That seems highly unlikely.

― pisspoor bung probe prog (Tom D.), Sunday, 29 September 2024 11:50 (one month ago) link

Dino Ebel (Dodgers third base coach) took me years to register

― gneiss, gneiss, very gneiss (outdoor_miner), Sunday, 29 September 2024 11:52 (one month ago) link

???

― Glam conspiracist (Dan Peterson), Sunday, 29 September 2024 13:04 (one month ago) link

see no evil?

― gneiss, gneiss, very gneiss (outdoor_miner), Sunday, 29 September 2024 13:09 (one month ago) link

Some puns deserve to be missed.

― pisspoor bung probe prog (Tom D.), Sunday, 29 September 2024 13:17 (one month ago) link

Kraftwerk’s “It’s more fun to compute” comes from the phrase “it’s more fun to compete”, which appeared on old pinball machines.

― Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Wednesday, 2 October 2024 22:43 (one month ago) link

!!!

― Josefa, Wednesday, 2 October 2024 22:52 (one month ago) link

one month passes...

Once More with Felix

― Sir Lester Leaps In (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 10 November 2024 13:08 (one week ago) link

Jehovah Kill

― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 12 November 2024 18:27 (one week ago) link

... same here, terrible pun

― biting your uncles (Tom D.), Tuesday, 12 November 2024 18:49 (one week ago) link

don't read the title of the previous or subsequent albums in this trilogy!

― et a earwig (sic), Tuesday, 12 November 2024 18:58 (one week ago) link

have listened to a bunch of questlove supreme podcast episodes, but it wasn't until cindy blackman santana mentioned coltrane's "a love supreme" that it occurred to me it's a play on that. i don't think amir (or anyone?) goes around saying it that way--like the chant--though.

― andrew m., Tuesday, 12 November 2024 22:19 (one week ago) link

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