and they all work at a hi-fi shop
― Mr. Murphy in the wine bar. (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 25 May 2015 18:34 (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, May 25, 2015 4:39 AM (13 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
how the fuck didn't you, I mean
― an absolute feast of hardcore fanboy LOLs surrounding (imago), Monday, 25 May 2015 18:36 (nine years ago) link
God, never heard of the show before so was wondering what the pun actually was. Now looking it up on IMDB looks like i got the pun without having seen the show.
― Stevolende, Monday, 25 May 2015 19:15 (nine years ago) link
lol i dont know how i didnt get it
― just sayin, Tuesday, 26 May 2015 01:14 (nine years ago) link
www.trannailery.com
― zionsmommy (mattresslessness), Tuesday, 26 May 2015 01:41 (nine years ago) link
tbf i only got as far in getting it as 'trans'
― ♛ LIL UNIT ♛ (thomp), Tuesday, 26 May 2015 12:07 (nine years ago) link
ha i did not get the <i>transparent</i> pun until now, either.
― jaymc, Tuesday, 26 May 2015 12:20 (nine years ago) link
my god ppl
― thoughts you made second posts about (darraghmac), Tuesday, 26 May 2015 12:21 (nine years ago) link
encephalitic worms all round
― an absolute feast of hardcore fanboy LOLs surrounding (imago), Tuesday, 26 May 2015 12:24 (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
I figured this out when I saw the French translation of the title which is something like "50 tons de Grey", which doesn't really make any sense as a title. I mean, why not also change the guy's name in the book so that the title actually works?
― silverfish, Tuesday, 26 May 2015 17:21 (nine years ago) link
i still haven't figured out why there are 50
― aaaaablnnn (abanana), Tuesday, 26 May 2015 19:40 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/m7a4PIa.jpg
this Staind album (2003) actually makes sense because it has 14 tracks. I feel so bad for Aaron Lewis, though: he must have been so angry and confused when 50SoG got popular ("this kid is eating my lunch!")
― the geographibebebe (unregistered), Tuesday, 26 May 2015 19:53 (nine years ago) link
in the novel Mr. Grey has 50 dalmatians
― Mr. Murphy in the wine bar. (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 26 May 2015 19:57 (nine years ago) link
so you kinda have to read it to understand
― Mr. Murphy in the wine bar. (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 26 May 2015 19:58 (nine years ago) link
(they're sex dalmatians)
― Mr. Murphy in the wine bar. (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 26 May 2015 20:00 (nine years ago) link
all dalmatians are sex dalmatians! but I appreciate the explanation.
― the geographibebebe (unregistered), Tuesday, 26 May 2015 20:04 (nine years ago) link
Mr. Grey is a Ray-Ban salesperson trying to meet a quota, iirc.
― The Freewheelin' Denny Dillon (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 26 May 2015 20:04 (nine years ago) link
!! Just this instant got that the band name Spacehog had two meanings. I never got thought of the one about hitting space.
― Je55e, Sunday, 14 June 2015 03:35 (nine years ago) link
I didn't realize until I read this month's Rolling Stone that the name ZZ Top was a take-off on B.B. King.
― pplains, Sunday, 14 June 2015 04:01 (nine years ago) link
It took a while to realize Stephin Merrit's band Gothic Archies referenced a Gothic arch. I just figured the comic book characters as Goths was the whole thing.
― nickn, Sunday, 14 June 2015 07:28 (nine years ago) link
the twitter name "emily post-punk" (i thought it was just an emily who liked post-punk)
― music begins where words leave off (get bent), Sunday, 14 June 2015 08:03 (nine years ago) link
antacid -> aunt acid -> Uncle Acid (& the deadbeats)
right?
― rallizes mcguire (unregistered), Sunday, 14 June 2015 13:07 (nine years ago) link
What does this mean? And, for that matter, this:
― Willibald Pirckheimers Briefwechsel (Tom D.), Sunday, 14 June 2015 13:30 (nine years ago) link
yeah me neither
― kinder, Sunday, 14 June 2015 13:31 (nine years ago) link
portmanteau of emily post/post-punk
― put a skronk ornette (wins), Sunday, 14 June 2015 13:33 (nine years ago) link
http://www.designcatwalk.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Emily_Post_etichette_good-manners.jpg
― drash, Sunday, 14 June 2015 13:34 (nine years ago) link
she was very small
― put a skronk ornette (wins), Sunday, 14 June 2015 13:37 (nine years ago) link
(xp) Thx!
― Willibald Pirckheimers Briefwechsel (Tom D.), Sunday, 14 June 2015 13:38 (nine years ago) link
it was a massive tome
― drash, Sunday, 14 June 2015 13:39 (nine years ago) link
try balancing that fucker on your head
― put a skronk ornette (wins), Sunday, 14 June 2015 13:40 (nine years ago) link
What's that hat all about btw?
― Willibald Pirckheimers Briefwechsel (Tom D.), Sunday, 14 June 2015 13:40 (nine years ago) link
That's a dinner roll. Again: very small.
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 14 June 2015 13:42 (nine years ago) link
it is explained in emily post's hatiquette.
― estela, Sunday, 14 June 2015 13:45 (nine years ago) link
http://www.emilypost.com/everyday-manners/common-courtesies/479-hats-off-the-who-what-when-where-of-the-hat
― put a skronk ornette (wins), Sunday, 14 June 2015 13:50 (nine years ago) link
(Cancer patients are exempt from hat rules. They may keep their hats or caps on at all times if they wish.)
Alfred, Lord Sotosyn
(although I still don't know if there is an actual pun in there)
― Never Mind The Blecchs, Here's The James Redd Orche (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 14 June 2015 14:38 (nine years ago) link
wait, what?
― put a skronk ornette (wins), Sunday, 14 June 2015 14:41 (nine years ago) link
are you saying that you didn't get that "alfred, lord sotosyn" is a reference to "alfred, lord tennyson" or is there something else
― put a skronk ornette (wins), Sunday, 14 June 2015 14:42 (nine years ago) link
why, then you'll be a man, my soto!
― imago, Sunday, 14 June 2015 14:43 (nine years ago) link
i don't know what possessed me to post that
― imago, Sunday, 14 June 2015 14:44 (nine years ago) link
― put a skronk ornette (wins), Sunday, June 14, 2015 10:42 AM (10 minutes ago) Yes, I am saying exactly that. It took me ages to see that. Sorry for the thread derail. Nothing to see here, carry on.
― Never Mind The Blecchs, Here's The James Redd Orche (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 14 June 2015 14:54 (nine years ago) link
i never made the tennyson connection before, but i don't know alfred IRL or anything like that to trigger a last-name connection.
― here i am in the land of large breakfasts (Doctor Casino), Sunday, 14 June 2015 15:04 (nine years ago) link
the tender grace of a pun that was missed
― estela, Sunday, 14 June 2015 15:16 (nine years ago) link
lol
this is blowing my mind a bit. Why would you have to know alfred personally to make the connection with the only person in history who has been called alfred, lord anything
― put a skronk ornette (wins), Sunday, 14 June 2015 15:23 (nine years ago) link
Alfred, Lord Tennyson was a powerful name. This what its owner had to say of it:
"A kind of walking trance I have frequently had, quite up from boyhood, when I have been all alone. This has often come upon me through repeating my own name to myself silently till, all at once, as it were, out of the intensity of the consciousness of individuality, the individuality itself seemed to dissolve and fade away into boundless being; and this not a confused state, but the clearest of the clearest, the surest of the surest, the weirdest of the weirdest, utterly beyond words, where death was an almost laughable impossibility, the loss of personality (if so it were) seeming no extinction, but the only true life."
― quixotic yet visceral (Bob Six), Sunday, 14 June 2015 15:27 (nine years ago) link
yeah, why would you need to know a minor Victorian poet personally to make the connection with the world's greatest living rock critic? (xpost)
― rallizes mcguire (unregistered), Sunday, 14 June 2015 15:30 (nine years ago) link
Well if you've never heard of Tennyson that's one thing, & not really "missing the pun". But like... If you were aware that there was a recording artist called del tha funky homosapien, and I posted for like a decade under the name "d3lg4do tha funky homosapien" & you didn't realise that the one was related to the other, that would be crazy whether or not you knew that that was my surname or were familiar with dtfh's oeuvre
― put a skronk ornette (wins), Sunday, 14 June 2015 15:38 (nine years ago) link
Meek milton
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Sunday, 14 June 2015 15:41 (nine years ago) link
In my case for a long time some part of my brain decided it was a play on the Cordwainer Smith character Lord Sto Odin and even though I know Alfie doesn't read that stuff I just couldn't dislodge this clearly erroneous thought and see the obvious.
― Never Mind The Blecchs, Here's The James Redd Orche (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 14 June 2015 16:08 (nine years ago) link
Explanation vmic, absolved
― put a skronk ornette (wins), Sunday, 14 June 2015 16:16 (nine years ago) link