puns that you had missed

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, 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.

i never made the tennyson connection before, but i don't know alfred IRL or anything like that to trigger a last-name connection.

the tender grace of a pun that was missed

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

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."

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)

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

Meek milton

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.

Explanation vmic, absolved

also, it's possible to have heard of tennyson yet not be so aware of the “alfred, lord tennyson" name/title construct, esp for non-brits unfamiliar with that convention

witness, wtf’s up with tennyson's name is frequent online question

I thought Emily Post Punk was like what she does on Twitter, post punk-related stories.

Though I've never heard of her until a dozen posts ago.

Does she do that as a career or is she a part-time post-punk?

let it be known that I almost adopted the DN "d3lg4do tha fun quixo most apian", but while he is fun & rides around ilx courteously righting wrongs I don't feel our eponymous hero pertains greatly to bees

lol

https://simpsonswiki.com/w/images/thumb/1/17/Bumblebee_Man.png/250px-Bumblebee_Man.png

accidentally racist display names i didn't make

ay

:-)

esp for non-brits unfamiliar with that convention

I don't think 'Alfred, Lord Tennyson' follows convention, off the top of my head I can't think of anyone else with that 'Forename, Lord Surname' construction - I'm very possibly wrong about that though!

B-b-but isn't Alfred his surname?

Tennyson, I mean, not Sotosyn.

Nope, he got me again. I blame Alfred College.

Time for a new screenname, I guess

still confused myself

http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/archive/index.php/t-306058.html

btw, even though it's ridiculously obvious, I'd never really thought about Alfred, Lord Sotosyn being a reference to Alfred, Lord Tennyson either!

That straight dope discussion was pretty useful, thanks. Now I sort know why in Isaac Newton bios the guy who got him a job at the mint and was apparently the paramour of his nice is variously referred to as Montagu or Halifax.

In the kindest way possible what the fuck is wrong with you all

this is my Ralph wiggum dreaming of a blue & white dress

wins, did you ever stop to think that when it seems like there's something wrong with the whole of ilx except you, that maybe there's nothing wrong with us? huh? well? did you?

(aimless folds his arms across his chest and looks exceedingly self-satisfied)

"george, lord byron"

About 30,000 results (0.38 seconds)

(this is where i confess i don't remember ever consciously recognising Alfred's DN as a Tennyson ref)

what the goddamn hell

what the goddamn hell

― put a skronk ornette (wins), Sunday, June 14, 2015 11:43 AM (48 seconds ago)

this incidence of dyspunia has clearly upset you

hey, it's entirely possible it has registered at some point down the years, but it's barely even a pun as such

It isn't a pun! Unless the "syn" corresponds to sth in which case I have missed a pun. This changes nothing

all freed, lord, so to sin

feel like after a bit any long-term display name just kinda drifts off your front brain without making an impression of meaning

I can see that, things like "dr morbius" are p divorced from their original referents by now. This changes nothing

Lol drash btw

(Xp)Of course it isn't a pun. If it were in fact a pun, some of us might have decoded it sooner. But there is no Display Names That Aren't Quite Puns That You Had Missed Thread.

psotoalfredrine

"george, lord byron"
About 30,000 results

correct shmorrect, just pointing out it had some public usage

Tarzan, Lord Ofthejungle

I hadn't really registered the Tennyson thing either tbh, sorry wins

oh i get it – "wins" like how a big tough guy is called "tiny".

kinda, yeah!

sticking with ilxors in cool navelgazing style while also watching the Spain match it just occurred to me that Sgt Biscuits = Sergio Busquets

or maybe not?