puns that you had missed

Bandsplain

"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.

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

Flo Rida

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 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"

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.

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!

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

oh whoops

Appletiser = Appetiser

Also until today I thought it was called Appletise

until 2003 it was

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

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51M2YP5MZ7L.jpg

no

it's good enough for me

:)

It's a pun on a 3p sweet.

Is this Walthamstow takeaway a pun on Hamburger Hill?

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

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

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

Ice Capades: escapades

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

lol Morbs. What did you think capades were?

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.

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

Lode Runner/ Road-runner

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

Don't get it?

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

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

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 :-(

omg. Me too.

whoa

i had to say it out loud just now and heeeey

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

The "come trues" of our time

lol Morbs. What did you think capades were?

Arena spectacles meant to bore small children to tears.

The nasty party = the nazi party?

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

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

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’.

slang etymologies that you had misconstrued

Oh. There you go

Is smashing pumpkins a pun?
― B'wana Beast, Monday, 5 November 2012 07:07 (1 year ago) Permalink

OMG as in "fantastic jugs" and/or "destroying fruit"?

no idea if "pumpkins" is a word to describe jugs

loooooool @ that thought

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/10/29/article-0-0BD23771000005DC-457_468x596.jpg

3.1 Origin of name

Most answers to this question are only semi-serious, as they've heard it way
too often. The March '93 fan club newsletter gave the following story:

"Gene Simmons came to us in a dream and said: 'Joe Strummer is a pumpkin,
drunken and smashed.'"

On Vieuphoria, they simply said "It's a joke." However, the most serious
answer comes from an interview with D'Arcy by the Washington Post(11/19/93):

"The name of the band is a stupid name, a dumb bad joke and a bad idea, OK?"
she says. "Billy named the band before there even was a band. He was like, 'I'm
gonna have a band and it's gonna be called this.' 'Smashing' is not a verb,
it's an adjective. It's not like we like to smash pumpkins or anything. And we
are not amused by pumpkin jokes anymore."

So, there you have it. "Smashing" is an adjective, not a verb (think British
here if you're still having trouble). :-)

ari up

i r stupid