puns that you had missed

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

xpost haha too true.

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.

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.

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

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

His real name is Perry Weinstein, I believe.

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.

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

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

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

I don't get 'Camper van Beethoven'

Roland Butter.a shop that sells sandwiches.

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

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

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

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

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

^^^^ unreleased Public Enemy EP

"Fifty First Dates"

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

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'.

there must be loads more of these, ones so subtle none of us are getting them.

what's the True Lies one that i'm clearly not seeing that's mentioned upthread?

It's not a pun per se, more two terms that mean the opposite. Lies aren't true.

Roland Butter.a shop that sells sandwiches.

Yes! I walked past these every day for about 15 years before it was pointed out to me.

I always assumed that Fifty First Dates was a pun on 51st State, but then there was a thread on here which went some way to convincing me it wasn't a pun and was just coincidence.

i am going as french kiss. striped shirt, beret and KISS makeup

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I thought this was v lol just out of silliness, but it took a few minutes before "ohhhhh I get it" came to me.

There's a mattress company here in NYC called "Sleepy's" and their more recent ad campaign has following tagline:

Trust Sleepy's For the Rest of Your Life!

I thought, "hmmmm.....that's an awful lot to ask of their customers...lifelong brand loyalty!" The pun of it being the rest of your life (as in relaxed slumber) was completely lost on me until just recently.

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― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, November 30, 2004 5:53 PM (6 years ago) Bookmark

"Tonight is the first night of the rest of your life!"

Arthur Lee has a few.
I guess most people will get the title of the 4th lp pretty easily, think it's a song that Billy Holliday et al sang.
Four Sail.

but the single between that and Forever Changes has one side called
'Your Mind & We Belong Together' which I suddenly got one day and wondered if I'd just forgotten getting it before. Cliched phrase about true love redirected by substituting a letter with the one next to it in the alphabet.

somebody told me once that "soul coughing" (the band) was a pun but i didn't get it, and still don't

the movie title free willy is a pun made from free will.

The War Between The Tates

it took me years to get the sleepy's ("for the rest of your life") one that alex mentioned. the REST of your life. yes. cuz sleepy's sells mattresses. that you rest on.

It took me decades to figure out the joke in "If I said you had a beautiful body, would you hold it against me?"
Yep, me too.

Ha, I feel better about myself now.

But if Fifty First Dates was a pun on "fifty-first state", that doesn't make sense to me. Hawaii is one of the fifty states, right? Maybe I'm just too tired.