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

nickn, Thursday, 24 May 2012 04:58 (twelve years ago) link

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'

rock the swagon and g.o.a.t. it (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 24 May 2012 05:02 (twelve years ago) link

it was years before i got this one:

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

Ward Fowler, Thursday, 24 May 2012 05:10 (twelve years ago) link

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

me so fat (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Thursday, 24 May 2012 05:12 (twelve years ago) link

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

Three Word Username, Thursday, 24 May 2012 06:35 (twelve years ago) link

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

Pureed Moods (Trayce), Thursday, 24 May 2012 06:56 (twelve years ago) link

also "light orchestra" is a thing

ban halen (electricsound), Thursday, 24 May 2012 07:01 (twelve years ago) link

oh you pretty much said that

ban halen (electricsound), Thursday, 24 May 2012 07:02 (twelve years ago) link

aw shit ms. tree!

Doctor Casino, Thursday, 24 May 2012 07:09 (twelve years ago) link

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

StanM, Thursday, 24 May 2012 08:03 (twelve years ago) link

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

Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 24 May 2012 08:04 (twelve years ago) link

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

Pureed Moods (Trayce), Thursday, 24 May 2012 09:32 (twelve years ago) link

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

how's life, Thursday, 24 May 2012 11:58 (twelve years ago) link

Oh, this is like, elevator music or something.

how's life, Thursday, 24 May 2012 12:00 (twelve years ago) link

idg "war between the tates".

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


War Between The States aka The American Civil War

Ian Hunter Is Learning the Game (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 24 May 2012 12:42 (twelve years ago) link

Get it?

Ian Hunter Is Learning the Game (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 25 May 2012 02:58 (twelve years ago) link

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.

Pureed Moods (Trayce), Friday, 25 May 2012 03:48 (twelve years ago) link

five months pass...

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.

Una Stubbs' Tears (Trayce), Monday, 5 November 2012 02:53 (twelve years ago) link

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

Doctor Casino, Monday, 5 November 2012 02:57 (twelve years ago) link

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, 5 November 2012 06:19 (twelve years ago) link

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

nickn, Monday, 5 November 2012 06:23 (twelve years ago) link

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

Doctor Casino, Monday, 5 November 2012 06:24 (twelve years ago) link

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.)

nickn, Monday, 5 November 2012 06:26 (twelve years ago) link

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

Infamous dickbiscuits (silby), Monday, 5 November 2012 06:26 (twelve years ago) link

Is smashing pumpkins a pun?

B'wana Beast, Monday, 5 November 2012 07:07 (twelve years ago) link

two months pass...

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?

congratulations (n/a), Friday, 1 February 2013 17:48 (eleven years ago) link

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.

Doctor Flange, Friday, 1 February 2013 21:28 (eleven years ago) link

oh god that Led Zepplin one

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

Ima R.A.E.D. (DJP), Friday, 1 February 2013 21:30 (eleven years ago) link

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'

Ward Fowler, Friday, 1 February 2013 21:33 (eleven years ago) link

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

Women, Fire, and Dangerous Zings (silby), Friday, 1 February 2013 21:40 (eleven years ago) link

two weeks pass...

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.

s.clover, Monday, 18 February 2013 03:54 (eleven years ago) link

heavy

bnw, Monday, 18 February 2013 03:57 (eleven years ago) link

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.

Women, Fire, and Dangerous Zings (silby), Monday, 18 February 2013 04:08 (eleven years ago) link

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.

Sir Lord Baltimora (Myonga Vön Bontee), Monday, 18 February 2013 06:46 (eleven years ago) link

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

nickn, Monday, 18 February 2013 17:40 (eleven years ago) link

I disbelieve it anyway

Mark G, Monday, 18 February 2013 17:51 (eleven years ago) link

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

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

Plasmon, Monday, 18 February 2013 21:19 (eleven years ago) link

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

xp damn

1staethyr, Monday, 18 February 2013 21:21 (eleven years ago) link

two weeks pass...

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

Eyeball Kicks, Friday, 8 March 2013 16:32 (eleven years ago) link

right, hence Farm Aid etc MAKING NO SENSE

TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Friday, 8 March 2013 17:26 (eleven years ago) link

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

acid in the style of tenpole tudor (NickB), Friday, 8 March 2013 17:34 (eleven years ago) link

Rolling Cannabis Politics Thread

Aimless, Friday, 15 March 2013 03:17 (eleven years ago) link

what. OH.

hot young stalin (Merdeyeux), Friday, 15 March 2013 03:20 (eleven years ago) link

that one was a coincidence surely

a kissed out red popemobile (Trayce), Friday, 15 March 2013 07:36 (eleven years ago) link

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

Panaïs Pnin (The Yellow Kid), Monday, 18 March 2013 02:46 (eleven years ago) link

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

Ward Fowler, Monday, 18 March 2013 09:32 (eleven years ago) link

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

Esteban Buttiérrez (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 18 March 2013 09:48 (eleven years ago) link

i'm at past mast rn guys

This is called money bags. (zachlyon), Monday, 18 March 2013 10:02 (eleven years ago) link

i thought people cut the mustard rather than pass it

^ sarcasm (ken c), Monday, 18 March 2013 15:11 (eleven years ago) link


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