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
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yq2jnPqRDd4
― Women, Fire, and Dangerous Zings (silby), Friday, 1 February 2013 21:40 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― 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
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
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
passed gasters
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 18 March 2013 15:25 (eleven years ago) link
"past master" or "passed master" is a phrase
― don't call it a cloud rap i've been high for years (zvookster), Monday, 18 March 2013 15:26 (eleven years ago) link
"passed muster" is a diff thing
― don't call it a cloud rap i've been high for years (zvookster), Monday, 18 March 2013 15:27 (eleven years ago) link
Yes and then no.
― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 18 March 2013 15:30 (eleven years ago) link
xpost
oh, ok - how would you use the phrase 'passed master', out of interest?
― Ward Fowler, Monday, 18 March 2013 15:31 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/passed%20master
― don't call it a cloud rap i've been high for years (zvookster), Monday, 18 March 2013 15:31 (eleven years ago) link
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).
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 18 March 2013 15:36 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― pssstttt, Hey you (dog latin), Monday, 18 March 2013 15:43 (eleven years ago) link
pass master is how one might describe xabi alonso
― ^ sarcasm (ken c), Monday, 18 March 2013 15:54 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 19 March 2013 15:39 (eleven years ago) link
There is a whole thread for the Modest Mouse/Mussorgsky controversy: Aresponse to a perfectly reasonable Modest Mouse/Modest Moussorgsky query...
― Eyeball Kicks, Tuesday, 19 March 2013 15:45 (eleven years ago) link
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
― Josefa, Friday, 29 March 2013 05:44 (eleven years ago) link
That's a great one.
― Eyeball Kicks, Friday, 29 March 2013 12:37 (eleven years ago) link
Thin Lizzy = pun on Tin Lizzie (nickname for Model T Ford)
― The O RLY of Everything (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 31 July 2013 01:56 (eleven years ago) link
Also realized recently that the "your obedient serpent" from the Beanie and Cecil cartoon theme song was a play on "your obedient servant."
― nickn, Wednesday, 31 July 2013 06:00 (eleven years ago) link
Toy Story is a play on "toy store"! And so is Toy Story 3.
― imago hard or go haim (wins), Sunday, 8 December 2013 13:43 (ten years ago) link
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
― Vinnie, Sunday, 8 December 2013 14:37 (ten years ago) link
nothing obviously punny about it, putting it down as happenstance
― mind totally brown (darraghmac), Sunday, 8 December 2013 14:58 (ten years ago) link
― 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 imagehttp://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Best-Of-Love/dp/B00007LTIE/ref=ntt_mus_ep_dpi_15Love 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.
― Stevolende, Sunday, 8 December 2013 15:05 (ten years ago) link
https://eu.rymimg.com/lk/o/l/4246b66b4744f0b4d8b95a85b55fea3b/1225097.jpgcouldn't get this to go to image before so hope it works this time.
Realised recently that that photo and this onehttps://eu.rymimg.com/lk/o/l/526728162b3b656bea7bea133c3c23bf/1225098.jpghad teh band in exactly the same clothing so have been wondering if they are part of the same photo session
― Stevolende, Sunday, 8 December 2013 15:10 (ten years ago) link
xxp wut
― imago hard or go haim (wins), Sunday, 8 December 2013 19:48 (ten years ago) link
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?
― imago hard or go haim (wins), Sunday, 8 December 2013 19:51 (ten years ago) link
Like why would you call a film toy story
― imago hard or go haim (wins), Sunday, 8 December 2013 19:53 (ten years ago) link
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?
― rp boo bryson (NickB), Sunday, 8 December 2013 19:59 (ten years ago) link
wow thin lizzie? toy story?? is EVERYTHING a pun? seems so.
― piscesx, Sunday, 8 December 2013 20:15 (ten years ago) link
yeah don't overthink it
it's a story about toys
― my whole family is catholic so look at the pickle i'm in (zachlyon), Sunday, 8 December 2013 20:16 (ten years ago) link
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.
― The Glam Of That All The Way From Memphis Man! (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 8 December 2013 23:20 (ten years ago) link
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.
― Stevolende, Monday, 9 December 2013 00:07 (ten years ago) link