i mean it's legal for her to be blonde, it isn't illegal, still makes sense
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Tuesday, 29 July 2014 06:06 (ten years ago) link
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, Tuesday, 29 July 2014 11:47 (ten years ago) link
Tuomas gets it
― kinder, Tuesday, 29 July 2014 12:34 (ten years ago) link
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
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Tuesday, 29 July 2014 18:12 (ten years ago) link
none of that....makes any sense
― Serious Men raised by the Issues Movement (darraghmac), Tuesday, 29 July 2014 18:15 (ten years ago) link
I know, a blonde studying law? That's Hollywood for ya!
― pplains, Tuesday, 29 July 2014 18:20 (ten years ago) link
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Tuesday, 29 July 2014 18:28 (ten years ago) link
oh shit
i just got it
legally .... BLONDE
that's brilliant
― Serious Men raised by the Issues Movement (darraghmac), Tuesday, 29 July 2014 18:33 (ten years ago) link
Luckily the anti-blonde legislation was repealed here in jolly old Britain after WWI, so a good few generations now have not lived under the yoke of low eumelanin oppression.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
― and she's crying in a stairwell in Devon (aldo), Wednesday, 30 July 2014 08:30 (ten years ago) link
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
― john wahey (NickB), Wednesday, 30 July 2014 09:13 (ten years ago) link
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.
― and she's crying in a stairwell in Devon (aldo), Wednesday, 30 July 2014 09:41 (ten years ago) link
"The Crystal Method"
You just don't get things when you're a kid
Hope Grand Funk Railroad wasn't punning on anything
― 龜, Thursday, 31 July 2014 17:36 (ten years ago) link
grand funk railroad is what they call soul train in france
― balls, Thursday, 31 July 2014 17:38 (ten years ago) link
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.
― Erdős Number 9 Dream (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 3 August 2014 19:06 (ten years ago) link
Yeah, don't know about that. But GR was the second book Pynchon started after V, and it's about V2's.
― Frederik B, Sunday, 3 August 2014 19:13 (ten years ago) link
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
― StanM, Sunday, 3 August 2014 19:17 (ten years ago) link
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.
― Frederik B, Sunday, 3 August 2014 19:42 (ten years ago) link
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.
― Stevolende, Sunday, 3 August 2014 23:47 (ten years ago) link
That is to say I saw half a parabola because of where the rain was falling, I hadn't seen that happen before. Is it a regular thing?But then I hadn't seen really localised rain until I moved to ireland as far as I recall. that is to say raining at one end of a street and not at the other. This rainbow must have meant rain on one side/direction of a motorway visible on my way to the bus stop and not on the other.
― Stevolende, Sunday, 3 August 2014 23:50 (ten years ago) link
none of these are puns
― Serious Men raised by the Issues Movement (darraghmac), Monday, 4 August 2014 01:47 (ten years ago) link
what do you call a quarter of an electronic rainbow?
e-bola (or e-para)
― ^ 諷刺 (ken c), Monday, 4 August 2014 13:15 (ten years ago) link
these are all puns, we just haven't got them yet
― john wahey (NickB), Monday, 4 August 2014 13:21 (ten years ago) link
the web series 'high maintenance'
― just sayin, Thursday, 7 August 2014 06:18 (ten years ago) link
The name "Paul Bearer" is a play on the term pall-bearer.
:0
― soref, Sunday, 17 August 2014 11:23 (ten years ago) link
ok, so i realised that (popular beat combo) Nosaj Thing is a pun on No Such Thing. but it was only last night that i realised it's jasoN backwards.
― koogs, Thursday, 21 August 2014 13:29 (ten years ago) link
bola - soup
― Scary Darey (dog latin), Thursday, 21 August 2014 13:33 (ten years ago) link
they didn't stop there though...
― koogs, Thursday, 21 August 2014 14:04 (ten years ago) link
Hipster Loser-Loser (Drugs A. Money) /
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omHvOWcGix8
― for sale: Bebe's boots, never worn (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 21 August 2014 14:36 (ten years ago) link
"Pulled Pork"
― koogs, Wednesday, 10 September 2014 19:02 (ten years ago) link
Dean Gulberry
― Rocking In The Broad Daylight (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 10 September 2014 19:14 (ten years ago) link
Kurt Vile = Kurt Weill
― Deliciously hard yet very accessible (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 23 October 2014 20:11 (nine years ago) link
Oh wait, that's apparently his birth name. nm.
― Deliciously hard yet very accessible (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 23 October 2014 20:20 (nine years ago) link
http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Diagon_Alley
(pulled pork not a pun, obv. more of a euphemism for masturbation that people have snuck onto every menu in the land, somehow)
― koogs, Thursday, 23 October 2014 20:31 (nine years ago) link
wait'll you figure out "Nocturn Alley"
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Thursday, 23 October 2014 22:04 (nine years ago) link
Diagon Alley - my 7 year old got that one before I did.
― everything, Thursday, 23 October 2014 22:18 (nine years ago) link
And wait till you go on the Nocturn Alley Mission.
― nickn, Thursday, 23 October 2014 23:56 (nine years ago) link
OMG, Buckcherry. Always wondered what their stupid name was supposed to mean.
― Your Soup Is Inside Me (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 17:29 (nine years ago) link
Haha, yeah that one was slow dawning on me too.
― The Thelonius Monk of nu-ki? (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 18:09 (nine years ago) link
Ah, but surely that's a Spoonerism, not a pun!
http://i.ytimg.com/vi/eHbHb0d4x3A/0.jpg
― Οὖτις Δαυ & τηε Κνιγητσ (Phil D.), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 18:14 (nine years ago) link
Gave up and googled it.
http://i.imgur.com/5ST9voA.gif
― pplains, Tuesday, 2 December 2014 18:16 (nine years ago) link
If one of their singles had been called "Label: Mean", I would've gotten it in a heartbeat.
― Your Soup Is Inside Me (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 18:18 (nine years ago) link
Tim Buckley, or as I prefer to call him Bum Tickley
― Letsby Avenue (Tom D.), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 18:27 (nine years ago) link
Barvinmerry
― pplains, Tuesday, 2 December 2014 18:37 (nine years ago) link
signs you've been on ilx too long:
http://i.imgur.com/l4V04l3.png
― pplains, Tuesday, 2 December 2014 18:40 (nine years ago) link
woah hang on just occurred to me:
is the 80s pornstar screenname Amber Lynn a pun/homophone on that of the second wife of Henry VIII?
― anatol_merklich, Friday, 5 December 2014 21:31 (nine years ago) link
the movie title free willy is a pun made from free will.
Just caught sight of a book on free will and made this connection for the first time. Or maybe I did see it two years ago upthread but it somehow refused to permanently flick switch in my brain.
― Alba, Thursday, 11 December 2014 14:53 (nine years ago) link
Ceefax
― sexpost TMIing! (wins), Saturday, 28 March 2015 09:44 (nine years ago) link
Sandie Shaw
― nate woolls, Saturday, 28 March 2015 09:47 (nine years ago) link
I saw the back car window sign 'Baby In Car' one day and became convinced that the 80s Manchester garage Birthday Party a likes Inca Babies was taken from it since it presumably is a sign with some proliferation.One member's since denied it but I'm not 100% convinced.
― Stevolende, Saturday, 28 March 2015 10:38 (nine years ago) link