puns that you had missed

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

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

ari up

i r stupid

ooof

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

i guess, if you have longed for an old pun that you hadn't heard for ages, you can post about it here too.
― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, December 1, 2004 3:40 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol <3 this nonsense.

someone's got to make power suits

I had no idea the "Vesper Lynd" (from Casino Royale) was a pun until it was pointed out to me by the internet today.

Had to google it.

have heard before but remain skeptical. it is so crappy. is there some kind of authoritative confirmation? i mean, why would Flem bother with the D at the end if that was legit?

Is Courtney Love a pun on 'Courtly Love'? I had just assumed this was the case for like, about a decade, since I first heard the latter term, but I've just come across someone who seems to think it's a coincidence?

unless her parents were fans of tenuous puns, no.

courtly love is a very well known literary term so I don't think it's that tenuous. always assumed it was a pun too

unless her parents were fans of tenuous puns, no.

Courtney Michelle Love (born Courtney Michelle Harrison, July 9, 1964)

so I think it's a name she adopted herself at some point?

so it was, my bad.

Someone just said "legally blind" on the Commonwealth Games coverage and Legally Blonde clicked.

Ha I just got that one recently too.

Yeah it took me a few years that one

not seeing it

Empire claim it is a pun on 'legally bound', which is almost as weak: http://www.empireonline.com/empireblogs/words-from-the-wise/post/p1164

yeah tbh neither rly work imo

i mentioned the title when it was about to come out (i was 12) and my mom yelled at me for making an insensitive joke in her "shhh don't say that out loud!" voice and i seriously had no idea what she was talking about

the title is pretty much gibberish w/o knowing the pun tho

i mean it's legal for her to be blonde, it isn't illegal, still makes sense

I think "Legally Blonde" is actually a pretty good title, because the whole point of the movie is to satirize the idea that being a blonde cheerleader type means you're somehow "handicapped". Also, it's about a blonde who studies law, so the title also has a nice double meaning.

Tuomas gets it

Also, it's about a blonde who studies law, so the title also has a nice double meaning.

is this too long for a dn, i'm not gonna take it but someone should take it

none of that....makes any sense

I know, a blonde studying law? That's Hollywood for ya!

Also, it's about a blonde who studies law, so the title also has a nice double meaning.

oh shit

i just got it

legally .... BLONDE

that's brilliant

Luckily the anti-blonde legislation was repealed here in jolly old Britain after WWI, so a good few generations now have not lived under the yoke of low eumelanin oppression. Although it might have been interesting to have had Bleacheasies like the US

i think what you're all missing is the reese witherspoon character specialised in representing victims of lower limb injuries, so she was actually a leg ally who also happened to be blonde

Also, it's about a blonde who studies law, so the title also has a nice double meaning

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legally_Blondes

It also had a sequel which didn't involve law at all, so the title has a nice double meaning.

"The Crystal Method"

You just don't get things when you're a kid

Hope Grand Funk Railroad wasn't punning on anything

grand funk railroad is what they call soul train in france

Gravity's Rainbow = GR = General Relativity?

Although maybe this isn't really I pun and I might have been told it before so I didn't really miss it.

Yeah, don't know about that. But GR was the second book Pynchon started after V, and it's about V2's.

No, it's a real scientific term. Here's an explanation from a surprising source:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2521901/Forget-Big-Bang--Rainbow-Gravity-theory-suggests-universe-NO-beginning-stretches-infinitely.html

And also, of course, the projectory of the V2 is a parabola like a rainbow because of gravity. Plus rainbows actually aren't parabolas but circles, except we can't see half of it, indicating the counter-story half of the book, the importance of subjectivity, and how Werner von Braun went from sending rockets in parabolas to sending them into circuit.

Got really surprised when I saw half of a rainbow last year, so in fact it was just a quarter of one then?
So maybe it makes up for it if I have seen several double rainbows.