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i finally thought about that "rock the vote/boat" one last week. i suppose it doesn't exist over here so i don't feel too dumb.

i realized abt two years after the film was released that "con air" was a pun.

― m. (mitchlnw), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 19:52 (nineteen years ago) link

So y'all never heard the joke:

A man phoned me last night, singing "Stand and Deliver". I told him he'd got the wrong number, but he was Adam Ant.

― Steve.n. (sjkirk), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 19:52 (nineteen years ago) link

I am dumb. How is Con Air a pun?

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 22:11 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.conair.com/conair/index.jsp

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 22:12 (nineteen years ago) link

That's the part of the pun I got -- it took me a while to notice that the plot was about a convict being transported by an airline.

― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 22:16 (nineteen years ago) link

Oh nabisco...

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 22:18 (nineteen years ago) link

In my own defense, I didn't see the movie and had no interest in seeing it: it mattered very little to me what it was about. All I knew was that it was one of those movies from that season where every movie had a shot of an explosion and a piece of CGI debris flying directly into the camera.

― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 22:20 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm confused. What do blowdryers have to do with Con Air?

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 22:20 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm confused. What do blowdryers have to do with Con Air?

http://www.ociojoven.com/ezimagecatalogue/catalogue/variations/150x500/17042-150x500.jpg

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 22:23 (nineteen years ago) link

"that season"

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 22:26 (nineteen years ago) link

I take it that Con Air's an American thing = I am not as dumb as I thought.

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 22:39 (nineteen years ago) link

I hate to chide, but anybody who gives somebody a hard time for not getting the not-gotten pun is not being a good netizen.

― Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 22:45 (nineteen years ago) link

i'm neither american, nor have i seen con air.. but... AIR CON, ppl!

― m. (mitchlnw), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 22:58 (nineteen years ago) link

That's rubbish (as in, I didn't even think of that, and neither did anyone else, therefore too subtle, therefore rubbish).

Puns should be really obvious.

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 23:09 (nineteen years ago) link

Je ne voudrais pas CONtinuer cette CONversation!

― Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 23:21 (nineteen years ago) link

Why is con air = air con (or hairdryers for that matter) a pun for the film? I still dont get it.

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 23:37 (nineteen years ago) link

Dumb pun for even dumber movie.

― papa november (papa november), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 23:38 (nineteen years ago) link

I also never spotted the Yrself Is Steam one, thats grate!

Is Perry Farrell seriously a deliberate joke and therefore presumably not his real name, then?

xpost haha too true.

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 23:38 (nineteen years ago) link

Another fun hairdryer fact! The German word for hairdryer is Fön, from the word Föhn, meaning the dry wind that comes down from the mountains and makes Bavarians cranky. Fön, fön, fön, till her Vati takes her hairdryer away.

― Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 23:47 (nineteen years ago) link

Yes, it is Trayce. No, it's not his real name.

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 2 December 2004 01:10 (nineteen years ago) link

the roth thing makes sense, nabisco.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Thursday, 2 December 2004 01:25 (nineteen years ago) link

Baby Shambles.

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 2 December 2004 08:41 (nineteen years ago) link

oh right - i thought that con air was a pun on Continental Airlines like maybe whoever made the film once had a bad flight with them and wanted to paint the airline with a bad name of being full of convicts or something. and now i find out it's about blow dryers. great.

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 2 December 2004 10:36 (nineteen years ago) link

Con Air might have something to do with the fact that Con means twat in French. And in turn Con Air sounds a bit like connard, which means something like knobhead.

The pun I missed for a long time was Sue is Fine = suicide. I just took the tracklisting's word for it.

On a similar-ish theme, on the Point album by Cornelius, I actually failed to check that the chorus that sounds like SU-MO... is in fact s-moke.

― Japanese Giraffe (Japanese Giraffe), Thursday, 2 December 2004 13:48 (nineteen years ago) link

Con in French
See my French post above. It's something Anna Karina says to somebody she's tired of talking to in "Made in USA."

― Ken L (Ken L), Thursday, 2 December 2004 13:53 (nineteen years ago) link

I always think that a good pun is a bit like one of those magic eye pitures. Once you've seen the pun, you can never go back to seeing it other way.

The Human Stain, I like it.

I have to admit that I had read the name Diagon Alley twice or maybe even three times before I copped it. And that's about as obvious as it gets.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Thursday, 2 December 2004 17:11 (nineteen years ago) link

(hahahahahaha I am still crying at the "Con Air" controversy!)

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 2 December 2004 17:12 (nineteen years ago) link

Ha me too accentmonkey, and even then I didn't make the leap and get 'Knockturn Alley' for a few more months. Dense, me.

I had only thought of The Human Stain in the 'human condition' sense. I think I like the other sense better.

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 2 December 2004 17:14 (nineteen years ago) link

Je ne voudrais pas CONtinuer cette CONversation!
-- Ken L (lauter...), December 1st, 2004.

Soz, Ken, i didn't pick up in this straightaway.

― Japanese Giraffe (Japanese Giraffe), Thursday, 2 December 2004 17:16 (nineteen years ago) link

i didn't get Lee Ving for a while. duh. stupid! stupid! *pounds forehead with clenched fist*

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Thursday, 2 December 2004 17:32 (nineteen years ago) link

It took me a long time to clue into 'deangulberry'.

― mark p (Mark P), Thursday, 2 December 2004 20:28 (nineteen years ago) link

Then there was that Voice of The Beehive album title.

― Ken L (Ken L), Thursday, 2 December 2004 20:38 (nineteen years ago) link

Oh! "deangulberry"! I never thought to think about it being a pun!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 2 December 2004 20:46 (nineteen years ago) link

Is Perry Farrell seriously a deliberate joke and therefore presumably not his real name, then?

His real name is Perry Weinstein, I believe.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 2 December 2004 21:56 (nineteen years ago) link

one month passes...

So like seven, eight years ago my best friend and I are on holiday somewhere thinking up stupid pseudoyms we are gonna use when we're international software-design stars (we were about 13). His is Pep Sicola, which SHOULD HAVE CLUED ME IN.

So I sort of forget about mine until the internet happens and I use it as a pseudonym for a bit, for e-mails and stuff, about six months all in all.

Then three days ago I decide to revive it and write off another mail and it is only when I am going through my own sent-messages folder that I REALISE R.SIPIENT CONTAINS A PUN.

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Monday, 10 January 2005 01:18 (nineteen years ago) link

A possible close second: it took me eight years since I saw 'True Lies' to realise there was any sort of contradiction in the title. I just assumed it was, like, "veritable lies".

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Monday, 10 January 2005 01:19 (nineteen years ago) link

six years pass...

Decades to see Space Merchants as pun on spice merchants. Probably as kid read "The Space Merchants" years before I heard of spice merchants. Lay Off The Space Merchants

― Mayne of Fules (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 30 October 2011 11:59 (thirteen years ago) link

I only got 'Camper Van Beethoven' earlier this year. Just thought that Camper was an unusual forename, I guess.

― sunn :o))) (Merdeyeux), Sunday, 30 October 2011 15:13 (thirteen years ago) link

honestly never occurred to me that 'Charmless Man' by blur was a play on This Charming Man by The Smiths for years.

― piscesx, Sunday, 30 October 2011 16:19 (thirteen years ago) link

I don't get 'Camper van Beethoven'

― despite all my rage I am still just a Latter Day Saint (Abbbottt), Sunday, 30 October 2011 16:21 (thirteen years ago) link

Roland Butter.a shop that sells sandwiches.

― zverotic discourse (jim in glasgow), Sunday, 30 October 2011 16:23 (thirteen years ago) link

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campervan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_van_Beethoven

Xpost

― just sayin, Sunday, 30 October 2011 16:24 (thirteen years ago) link

idk that strikes me as more like a portmanteau than a pun

― despite all my rage I am still just a Latter Day Saint (Abbbottt), Sunday, 30 October 2011 16:29 (thirteen years ago) link

yeah i guess not getting an obvious portmanteau is even more stupid than not getting an obvious pun. :'(

― sunn :o))) (Merdeyeux), Sunday, 30 October 2011 16:40 (thirteen years ago) link

This is the most mind-melting thread in ILX history for me.

― She Got the Shakes, Sunday, 30 October 2011 17:14 (thirteen years ago) link

Yeah, it's not very good for your self is steam, is it? :-/

― StanM, Sunday, 30 October 2011 17:19 (thirteen years ago) link

^^^^ unreleased Public Enemy EP

― Neanderthal, Sunday, 30 October 2011 17:24 (thirteen years ago) link

"Fifty First Dates"

― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Sunday, 30 October 2011 18:02 (thirteen years ago) link

Because it's like "Fifty-first States"? Never thought of that.

― Mayne of Fules (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 30 October 2011 18:15 (thirteen years ago) link

For a long time I had no idea that "Every kiss begins with Kay" was a pun, just assumed that they were asserting that no kisses were not precipitated by jewelry from Kay.

Whereas what they are being clever about is that the word 'kiss' begins with the letter 'k'.

― whoop, up the butt it goes (silby), Sunday, 30 October 2011 18:22 (thirteen years ago) link

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