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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

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

― 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 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.

Stevolende, Sunday, 8 December 2013 15:05 (ten years ago) link

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

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.

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

three weeks pass...

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

kinder, Wednesday, 1 January 2014 21:40 (ten years ago) link

Ha, I never got that!

ailsa, Wednesday, 1 January 2014 21:47 (ten years ago) link

three weeks pass...

Sic Alps

pretty krulls make glaives (flamboyant goon tie included), Friday, 24 January 2014 03:23 (ten years ago) link

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

Doctor Casino, Monday, 3 February 2014 23:53 (ten years ago) link

What is 'Sic Alps' a pun on?

zanarkand bozo (abanana), Tuesday, 4 February 2014 00:05 (ten years ago) link

Scalps

flamboyant goon tie included, Tuesday, 4 February 2014 00:39 (ten years ago) link

I don't think I realised the Beatles was a pun until I was about 25.

― Jonathan Z. (Joanthan Z.)

I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Tuesday, 4 February 2014 18:18 (ten years ago) link

Actually had to explain it to friend in her 30s recently.

I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Tuesday, 4 February 2014 18:18 (ten years ago) link

Bandsplain

a horse divided cannot stand (darraghmac), Tuesday, 4 February 2014 18:41 (ten years ago) link

"Time flies like the wind; fruit flies like a banana."

I mean, I've never thought about the sentence much, just seen it around, but I guess I assumed it was about the figurative use of time "flying" vs. an actual banana that someone threw through the air, or something.

Eyeball Kicks, Wednesday, 5 February 2014 15:01 (ten years ago) link

When I was a kid it took me a couple hearings of the phrase "You lie like a rug" to get it.

nickn, Wednesday, 5 February 2014 19:43 (ten years ago) link

Flo Rida

zanarkand bozo (abanana), Friday, 7 February 2014 00:50 (ten years ago) link

So if I said I want your body now
Would you hold it against me?

I just got this last month when Groucho said it :(

the most important comma of all time (flamboyant goon tie included), Friday, 7 February 2014 01:03 (ten years ago) link

I don't think I realised the Beatles was a pun until I was about 25.

― Jonathan Z. (Joanthan Z.)

― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Tuesday, February 4, 2014 10:18 AM (4 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

oh because like "Beat"

the slow death of America's rich pastoral heritage (silby), Sunday, 9 February 2014 01:42 (ten years ago) link

I just turned 25, too

the slow death of America's rich pastoral heritage (silby), Sunday, 9 February 2014 01:42 (ten years ago) link

when I was a little kid I thought it was "Beat" + [indie rock band] "Battles", but I can't imagine being 25 and still not getting it.

his eye is on the sbarro (unregistered), Sunday, 9 February 2014 02:47 (ten years ago) link

So if I said I want your body now
Would you hold it against me?

I just got this last month when Groucho said it :(

I had never heard this before Britney, and I thought she was so clever!

jaymc, Sunday, 9 February 2014 08:54 (ten years ago) link

Only realized Lipps Inc of Funkytown fame was a pun about 25 years after the fact

Zelda Zonk, Sunday, 9 February 2014 11:38 (ten years ago) link

oh whoops

worthless lucubrations w/ ill-concealed apathy bro (zachlyon), Sunday, 9 February 2014 13:57 (ten years ago) link

three weeks pass...

Appletiser = Appetiser

inside out trousers (dog latin), Thursday, 6 March 2014 09:32 (ten years ago) link

Also until today I thought it was called Appletise

inside out trousers (dog latin), Thursday, 6 March 2014 09:32 (ten years ago) link

until 2003 it was

conrad, Thursday, 6 March 2014 10:03 (ten years ago) link

is three-piece suite a pun on three-piece suit?

conrad, Thursday, 6 March 2014 10:04 (ten years ago) link

no

conrad, Thursday, 6 March 2014 10:16 (ten years ago) link

it's good enough for me

eardrum buzz aldrin (NickB), Thursday, 6 March 2014 10:19 (ten years ago) link

:)

conrad, Thursday, 6 March 2014 10:34 (ten years ago) link

It's a pun on a 3p sweet.

Alba, Thursday, 6 March 2014 15:00 (ten years ago) link

Is this Walthamstow takeaway a pun on Hamburger Hill?

http://i.imgur.com/YyxnjA7.png

Alba, Thursday, 6 March 2014 15:05 (ten years ago) link

There's got to be a better pun out there.

inside out trousers (dog latin), Thursday, 6 March 2014 15:11 (ten years ago) link

Sorry, it's not a takeaway, what was I thinking?

Alba, Thursday, 6 March 2014 15:56 (ten years ago) link

Ice Capades: escapades

images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 6 March 2014 16:00 (ten years ago) link

Michelle Shocked. Good grief, that one only took 25 years to sink in.

pplains, Monday, 10 March 2014 00:19 (ten years ago) link

lol Morbs. What did you think capades were?

continually topping myself (flamboyant goon tie included), Monday, 10 March 2014 00:31 (ten years ago) link

there's a restaurant i drive past sometimes at the top of a gently sloping incline called 'thai on the hill' which i have come to think might be a lonely goatherd pun.

estela, Monday, 10 March 2014 00:31 (ten years ago) link

just got that "true detective" is a play on "turd detective"

Lode Runner/ Road-runner

Doctor Casino, Monday, 10 March 2014 00:57 (ten years ago) link


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