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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 (nine years ago) link

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

john wahey (NickB), Wednesday, 30 July 2014 09:13 (nine years ago) link

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 (nine 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

, Thursday, 31 July 2014 17:36 (nine years ago) link

grand funk railroad is what they call soul train in france

balls, Thursday, 31 July 2014 17:38 (nine 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 (nine 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 (nine 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 (nine 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 (nine 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 (nine 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 (nine years ago) link

none of these are puns

Serious Men raised by the Issues Movement (darraghmac), Monday, 4 August 2014 01:47 (nine 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 (nine years ago) link

none of these are puns

these are all puns, we just haven't got them yet

john wahey (NickB), Monday, 4 August 2014 13:21 (nine years ago) link

the web series 'high maintenance'

just sayin, Thursday, 7 August 2014 06:18 (nine years ago) link

The name "Paul Bearer" is a play on the term pall-bearer.

:0

soref, Sunday, 17 August 2014 11:23 (nine 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 (nine years ago) link

bola - soup

Scary Darey (dog latin), Thursday, 21 August 2014 13:33 (nine years ago) link

they didn't stop there though...

koogs, Thursday, 21 August 2014 14:04 (nine 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 (nine years ago) link

two weeks pass...

"Pulled Pork"

koogs, Wednesday, 10 September 2014 19:02 (nine years ago) link

Dean Gulberry

Rocking In The Broad Daylight (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 10 September 2014 19:14 (nine years ago) link

one month passes...

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

one month passes...

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

three months pass...

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

What's the pun in Ceefax?

Tuomas, Saturday, 28 March 2015 10:48 (nine years ago) link

Well not a pun exactly since ceefax isn't a word, but I never got that it's supposed to be a rendering of "see facts"

sexpost TMIing! (wins), Saturday, 28 March 2015 10:56 (nine years ago) link

three weeks pass...

Not a pun but I've only just noticed Duke of Wellington / Duke Ellington, is this just a coincidence?

Quack and Merkt (Tom D.), Wednesday, 22 April 2015 21:08 (nine years ago) link

one month passes...

Gaming site kotaku is a pun on cockatoo and otaku

koogs, Sunday, 24 May 2015 22:51 (nine years ago) link

(Perhaps)

koogs, Sunday, 24 May 2015 22:53 (nine years ago) link

What's the pun in Ceefax?

― Tuomas, Saturday, March 28, 2015 10:48 AM (1 month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Well not a pun exactly since ceefax isn't a word, but I never got that it's supposed to be a rendering of "see facts"

― sexpost TMIing! (wins), Saturday, March 28, 2015 10:56 AM (1 month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Point also being that it was the BBC run site (or service) wasn't it

Stevolende, Sunday, 24 May 2015 22:58 (nine years ago) link

the tv show, Transparent

slam dunk, Monday, 25 May 2015 01:36 (nine years ago) link

i only realised earlier this year that it was called '50 shades of grey' because the guy's name was grey

♛ LIL UNIT ♛ (thomp), Monday, 25 May 2015 04:22 (nine years ago) link

the tv show, Transparent

― slam dunk, Monday, May 25, 2015 2:36 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

:O

just sayin, Monday, 25 May 2015 04:39 (nine years ago) link


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