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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

slang etymologies that you had misconstrued

conrad, Tuesday, 10 June 2014 09:36 (ten years ago) link

Oh. There you go

TMI@JFC.U_U (wins), Tuesday, 10 June 2014 09:43 (ten years ago) link

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"?

^ 諷刺 (ken c), Tuesday, 10 June 2014 12:45 (ten years ago) link

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

^ 諷刺 (ken c), Tuesday, 10 June 2014 12:45 (ten years ago) link

loooooool @ that thought

Who whom kissed? (imago), Tuesday, 10 June 2014 12:47 (ten years ago) link

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). :-)

how's life, Tuesday, 10 June 2014 12:56 (ten years ago) link

ari up

i r stupid

doctrine the house (electricsound), Tuesday, 17 June 2014 22:19 (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), Sunday, March 9, 2014 8:34 PM (3 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

macklemorange is the new wack (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 17 June 2014 22:34 (ten years ago) link

ari up

i r stupid

ooof

rage against martin sheen (sic), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 00:13 (ten years ago) link

still unsure if phil "the power" taylor is a pun

^ 諷刺 (ken c), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 12:24 (ten years ago) link


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