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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

two weeks pass...

Girls Aloud (thanks to Glenn Frey for clarifying this one)

Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 26 March 2014 12:28 (ten years ago) link

Don't get it?

Tuomas, Wednesday, 26 March 2014 12:46 (ten years ago) link

http://i.imgur.com/RQw6rx6.jpg

, Wednesday, 26 March 2014 12:48 (ten years ago) link

Ah! I thought the puns was something like "curse aloud", which would've been weak.

Tuomas, Wednesday, 26 March 2014 13:08 (ten years ago) link

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

Just saw this, and just got this right now. Never even occurred to me that it might be a pun :-(

ailsa, Wednesday, 26 March 2014 14:59 (ten years ago) link

omg. Me too.

Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 26 March 2014 16:49 (ten years ago) link

whoa

i had to say it out loud just now and heeeey

set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 26 March 2014 17:56 (ten years ago) link

Ah! I thought the puns was something like "curse aloud", which would've been weak.
--Tuomas

The "come trues" of our time

open-y, ob-la-da (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 26 March 2014 17:59 (ten years ago) link

lol Morbs. What did you think capades were?

Arena spectacles meant to bore small children to tears.

images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 26 March 2014 18:15 (ten years ago) link

three weeks pass...

The nasty party = the nazi party?

Alba, Wednesday, 16 April 2014 12:35 (ten years ago) link

one month passes...

Not a pun exactly but it's only just occurred to me that the slang word "phizzog" is likely a corruption of "visage"

TMI@JFC.U_U (wins), Tuesday, 10 June 2014 06:56 (ten years ago) link

Physiognomy, more likely (which may be related to visage).

nickn, Tuesday, 10 June 2014 07:08 (ten years ago) link

it was physiognomy and they come from distinct roots

visage

Middle English: via Old French from Latin visus ‘sight’, from videre ‘to see’.

physiognomy

Origin

late Middle English: from Old French phisonomie, via medieval Latin from Greek phusiognōmonia ‘judging of a man's nature (by his features)’, based on gnōmōn ‘a judge, interpreter’.

arid banter (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 10 June 2014 07:17 (ten years ago) link


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