puns that you had missed

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.

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

I disbelieve it anyway

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

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

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

xp damn

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

right, hence Farm Aid etc MAKING NO SENSE

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

Rolling Cannabis Politics Thread

what. OH.

that one was a coincidence surely

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

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

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

i'm at past mast rn guys

i thought people cut the mustard rather than pass it

passed gasters

"past master" or "passed master" is a phrase

"passed muster" is a diff thing

"past master" or "passed master" is a phrase

Yes and then no.

xpost

oh, ok - how would you use the phrase 'passed master', out of interest?

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/passed%20master

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).

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.

pass master is how one might describe xabi alonso

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.

There is a whole thread for the Modest Mouse/Mussorgsky controversy: Aresponse to a perfectly reasonable Modest Mouse/Modest Moussorgsky query...

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

That's a great one.

Thin Lizzy = pun on Tin Lizzie (nickname for Model T Ford)

Also realized recently that the "your obedient serpent" from the Beanie and Cecil cartoon theme song was a play on "your obedient servant."

Toy Story is a play on "toy store"! And so is Toy Story 3.

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

nothing obviously punny about it, putting it down as happenstance

Thin Lizzy = pun on Tin Lizzie (nickname for Model T Ford)

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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 image
http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Best-Of-Love/dp/B00007LTIE/ref=ntt_mus_ep_dpi_15
Love 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.

https://eu.rymimg.com/lk/o/l/4246b66b4744f0b4d8b95a85b55fea3b/1225097.jpg
couldn't get this to go to image before so hope it works this time.

Realised recently that that photo and this one
https://eu.rymimg.com/lk/o/l/526728162b3b656bea7bea133c3c23bf/1225098.jpg
had teh band in exactly the same clothing so have been wondering if they are part of the same photo session

xxp wut

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?

Like why would you call a film toy story

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?

wow thin lizzie? toy story?? is EVERYTHING a pun? seems so.

yeah don't overthink it

it's a story about toys

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.

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.

I only realised yesterday that Blades of Glory = blaze of glory. I are dumb

Ha, I never got that!

Sic Alps

MTV's "Room Raiders" was probably something to do with Tomb Raider.

What is 'Sic Alps' a pun on?

Scalps