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
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.
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 nowWould 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 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
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
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
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
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
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51M2YP5MZ7L.jpg
― eardrum buzz aldrin (NickB), Thursday, 6 March 2014 10:14 (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"
― a commentary on self-absorbed youth culture in the social media age (zachlyon), Monday, 10 March 2014 00:34 (ten years ago) link
Lode Runner/ Road-runner
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 10 March 2014 00:57 (ten years ago) link
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
― 龜, 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
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
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
The nasty party = the nazi party?
― Alba, Wednesday, 16 April 2014 12:35 (ten years ago) link
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