Rolling "oh I get it now!" puns/references thread.

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1) "Hi I'm Stereo Mike" (last week sometime)
2) Wizard is hungry (ditto)
3) Sociah T Azzahole (I got the Sociah T bit like five days ago and until this exact moment I was wondering why Stevem was caliing himself society asshole and it just hit me THIS EXACT MOMENT)

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Sunday, 20 November 2005 19:59 (twenty years ago)

i don't get any of it

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 20 November 2005 20:06 (twenty years ago)

Me in 1991: "Wonder why Ned's Atomic Dustbin named their album God Fodder?"

Me a couple of years ago: "Oh Jesus Christ."

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 20 November 2005 20:10 (twenty years ago)

me neither.

― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 20 November 2005 20:14 (twenty years ago)

me neither. Or more, I didn't realise there was something to get. *shrug*

― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 20 November 2005 20:16 (twenty years ago)

explain wizard is hungry

― oooh, Sunday, 20 November 2005 20:55 (twenty years ago)

Is not pun. Is reference to Gauntlet arcade game.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Sunday, 20 November 2005 20:58 (twenty years ago)

Now I feel dense because although I got the "Sociah T Azzahole" thing about a month after Steve started using it, I don't get or recognise any of the others.

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 20 November 2005 21:07 (twenty years ago)

i don't get any of it

Yeah, wizard is hungry would be forgivable if it I hadn't played gauntlet obsessively as a kid.

I always just assumed that Stereo Mike was a dude called mike rather than a microphone! I guess that it was a girl's voice should have taught me.

I just assumed Stevem was pretending to be a dude called Sociah for some some reason...

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Sunday, 20 November 2005 21:08 (twenty years ago)

I might even be wrong about the Stereo Mike one! Is there even such a thing as a stereo mike?

(ALSO a couple weeks ago I realised that my stereo said "auto reverse" because it automically played the reverse side of tapes, not because those words sounded cool together)

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Sunday, 20 November 2005 21:12 (twenty years ago)

It took me years to realise Sandy Shaw was a pun. Luckily when I tell this to people they often haen't noticed either.

Those comps on the Fierce Panda always had punning titles that were meaningless rather than clever. They are twats though.

(Yeah, there is a stereo mike/mic)

― Raw Patrick (Raw Patrick), Sunday, 20 November 2005 21:16 (twenty years ago)

Explain me God Fodder please!

(I got "Sandie Shaw" when someone told me it was a pun, but I wouldn't have realised if I hadn't been looking for it)

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 20 November 2005 21:31 (twenty years ago)

Three of the presenters on the spoof TV show KYTV were called Mike Stand, Mike Flex and Mike Hunt.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 20 November 2005 21:34 (twenty years ago)

God Fodder = Godfather.

There was a thread about these, I think, where someone said "haw haw I can't believe no-one got Dean Gulberry = dingleberry", and other people said "That's because the word is only known to 5% of the American population, jackass".

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Sunday, 20 November 2005 21:35 (twenty years ago)

God Fodder sounds like God Father said by Marlon Brando? That's what I think. I'd never thought about it 'til this thread though. It's crap if it's the truth.

(Mike Hunt also the drummer in the Breeders as well, of course.)

― Raw Patrick (Raw Patrick), Sunday, 20 November 2005 21:39 (twenty years ago)

Oh, God Fodder is SHITE.

Like most of these things, I "got" Dean Gulberry when it was pointed out to me that it was a pun (see also "Yerself Is Steam" and probably countless others).

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 20 November 2005 21:44 (twenty years ago)

isn't the stereo mike line from a Branvan 3000 song? maybe they were referencing something

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Sunday, 20 November 2005 22:04 (twenty years ago)

...else that is older

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Sunday, 20 November 2005 22:05 (twenty years ago)

i get all of these. do i get the keys to the kingdom now or what?

― j b goddamnfucking r (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 20 November 2005 22:17 (twenty years ago)

Sandy Shaw! OMG

There is a whole hidden word of these that has been going on under my nose it seems.

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Sunday, 20 November 2005 22:36 (twenty years ago)

haha "hidden word"

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 20 November 2005 22:51 (twenty years ago)

"What is that word, the word known to all men?"

― THIS IS THE SOUND OF ALTERN 8 !!! (noodle vague), Sunday, 20 November 2005 22:58 (twenty years ago)

what did the mushroom say when everyone said go away mushroom? "..but, I'm a fungi!" .. and everyone said go away mushroom, don't you know that fungi is plural and there's only one of you, fungus. not clever.

― D.I.Y. U.N.K.L.E. (dave225.3), Sunday, 20 November 2005 23:28 (twenty years ago)

Can someone explain how Sandie Shaw is a pun. Somehow I still don't get it.

― 31g (31g), Monday, 21 November 2005 00:24 (twenty years ago)

I'm guessing "Sandy Shore" but with the eeenglish way of saying?

― Kim (Kim), Monday, 21 November 2005 00:30 (twenty years ago)

Stereo Mike, o MC êáé ðáñáãùãüò ðïõ êñýâåôáé ðßóù áðü ôï "Polis", ìáò ðáñá÷þñçóå çëåêôñïíéêÞ óõíÝíôåõîç áðü ôï Ëïíäßíï. Ìáò ìéëÜåé ãéá ôïí äßóêï ôïõ "ÓÜôõñïé ÍïìÜäåò" êáé ãéá ôçí áðüóôáóç ðïõ ôïí ÷ùñßæåé áðü ôçí ÅëëÜäá.

For me it was the gag "How do you get down from an elephant? You don't! You get down from a duck!" which stumped me between the ages of, ooh, 4 and 18, probably. See also "When is a door not a door? When it's a jar!".

― JimD (JimD), Monday, 21 November 2005 00:30 (twenty years ago)

It took me about five years hearing the album name before I said, "Oh! 'Return of the Rentals!' Hahahahahah!"

― monkeybutler, Monday, 21 November 2005 00:43 (twenty years ago)

it took me about fifteen years to catch onto adam ant

― estela (estela), Monday, 21 November 2005 00:56 (twenty years ago)

Me too (see also Manda Rin from Bis).

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 21 November 2005 01:00 (twenty years ago)

"How do you get down from an elephant? You don't! You get down from a duck!"

my god, that's brilliant.

― j b goddamnfucking r (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 21 November 2005 01:02 (twenty years ago)

it took me about fifteen years to catch onto adam ant

i assume atom ant must have been borne of similar thinking

― jim p. irrelevant (electricsound), Monday, 21 November 2005 01:05 (twenty years ago)

I still don't get Sociah T Azzahole!

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Monday, 21 November 2005 01:14 (twenty years ago)

SOCIETY ASSHOLE

― j b goddamnfucking r (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 21 November 2005 01:15 (twenty years ago)

society as a whole, no?

― Kim (Kim), Monday, 21 November 2005 01:17 (twenty years ago)

haha yeah that highly common phrase 'society asshole'

― jim p. irrelevant (electricsound), Monday, 21 November 2005 01:18 (twenty years ago)

oh jbr's probably laughing at me for thinking she's that dumb now. haha

― Kim (Kim), Monday, 21 November 2005 01:19 (twenty years ago)

On another thread somewhere, someone owned up to taking ages to get Mercury Rev's "Yerself is steam" and my reply was something like "What is there to g.. oh I get it now! I AM STUPID!"

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Monday, 21 November 2005 17:11 (twenty years ago)

yeah can someone please explain Sandy Shaw.

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Monday, 21 November 2005 17:20 (twenty years ago)

Onimo, that was probably me - I recall that as the example of me being dense when it comes to spotting puns. It also took me ages to work out why you are called Onimo.

Sandy Shaw = sandy shore. Hence why she was barefoot. It's a bit rubbish and, yes, someone had to explain it to me.

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 21 November 2005 17:34 (twenty years ago)

Wizard is hungry, I just picture a wizard eating a Big Mac.

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 21 November 2005 17:35 (twenty years ago)

puns that you had missed

Sometimes I think my whole life is just one missed pun after another.

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 21 November 2005 17:44 (twenty years ago)

no one's ever gotten the pun in my "handle"

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 21 November 2005 17:58 (twenty years ago)

So it is just "sandy shore"?? That's not very funny at all.

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Monday, 21 November 2005 18:04 (twenty years ago)

no one's ever gotten the pun in my "handle"

You have a pun in your penis?

― Dan (Ouch) Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 21 November 2005 18:11 (twenty years ago)

I remember reading something once that tried to claim Johnny Marr's name was meant to be a pun, based on something french - Je n'ai...something. But I never figured out what. Marr doesn't mean anything in french, as far as I know. Je n'ai mas? I don't own a farmhouse? Dunno.

― JimD (JimD), Monday, 21 November 2005 18:17 (twenty years ago)

I have changed my name to avoid confusion.

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Monday, 21 November 2005 18:19 (twenty years ago)

Three of the presenters on the spoof TV show KYTV were called Mike Stand, Mike Flex and Mike Hunt.

Angus Deayton also played Mike Channel, unless you were thinking of this when you said Stand.

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Monday, 21 November 2005 18:20 (twenty years ago)

society mascara?

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 21 November 2005 18:24 (twenty years ago)

so roar at moussaka

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Monday, 21 November 2005 18:27 (twenty years ago)

Yes, I might have got that one wrong, Steve.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 21 November 2005 18:56 (twenty years ago)

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Just rubber-soled shoes.

― Josh in Chicago (Josh in Chicago), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 00:06 (twenty years ago)

rub her soul

― cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 00:07 (twenty years ago)

Rubber Soul = my soul is made of rubber / the rubber soles of my shoes / soul music played using rubber instruments / the middle plays (or "soul") of a rubber in the game of bridge / "rub her soul" / "rub her sole" / rubber (the French verb for "to re-zone or re-district") the city of Seoul, in South Korea, which, during this post-war period, had serious issues with pedestrian congestion and industrial inefficiency / "rubber's hole," a reference to a pregnancy scare involving George Harrison and a teenage girl from Des Moines, Iowa.

― nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 00:18 (twenty years ago)

I thought slocki was your original family name before it got changed!

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 00:57 (twenty years ago)

rubber (the French verb for "to re-zone or re-district") the city of Seoul, in South Korea, which, during this post-war period, had serious issues with pedestrian congestion and industrial inefficiency

i hate you. but it is the hate of love. < /ned>

― j b everlovin' r (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 01:07 (twenty years ago)

It took me ages to get the "New Answers" pun.

nuances?

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 02:08 (twenty years ago)

Na BIS co DING.

Okay, the nick: when I was twelve, I was reading a series of rubbish sci-fi novels edited by George R. Martin called "WILD CARDS" and in one of the books (and I'll mail you a dollar if you can give me the book number and page number and quote it) there's a poorly written sequence where the narration (describing a scene in a high-falutin', expensive vegetarian restaurant) reads, more or less, "At the top of the gleaming tower, celery snapped and forks clove tofu in the candlelight." For whatever reason, this stuck with me as utterly brilliant and became my general fallback answer for "What would you name your band?" and then, with the eventual advent of IRC and email, my general fallback nick. It also led to the tofu hut, but therein lies another boring and utterly uninteresting story.
Aaaaanyway. There you go. Now you "get it".

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 02:58 (twenty years ago)

and I'll mail you a dollar if you can give me the book number and page number and quote it

ooh, a challenge ... [googles] ... that i'm not going to take up.

but i feel i've learned something here, and can sleep easier in my bed.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 11:56 (twenty years ago)

I saw a bootleg remix of Rubber Soul about 15 years ago, (en)titled "Rabbi Saul". I'm still unclear as to why anyone would have paid $20 for it, but the play on words was clever, wasn't it.

― D.I.Y. U.N.K.L.E. (dave225.3), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 13:22 (twenty years ago)

i never got 'the mountain is getting her' thing.

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 13:23 (twenty years ago)

that's because it was utterly insane.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 13:28 (twenty years ago)

Yeah I figured that was some kerry-level nutsness.

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 13:33 (twenty years ago)

I think it was supposed to be 'higher' rather than 'her'. Clever play on Latin ends up insane typo.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 13:33 (twenty years ago)

I still don't get "wizard is hungry".

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 15:39 (twenty years ago)

It's a reference to the Gauntlet video game, as mentioned upthread. If you heard "Wizard needs food badly" you had to insert more ten pences/quarters/weird Finnish coins.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 15:50 (twenty years ago)

Guys, things aren't puns just because you declare them to be puns, you all realize this right?

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 17:30 (twenty years ago)

Ally, you have just puned everyone on this thread.

― Dan (BAM) Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 17:33 (twenty years ago)

puns/references

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 19:44 (twenty years ago)

I always thought "God Fodder" was some sort of "we're all the playthings of the Gods" reference, like the Gods are gonna turn us into compost.

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 20:00 (twenty years ago)

my email address

― cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 21:41 (twenty years ago)

Wait, didn't one of the Wild Card heroes get his powers from kooky tantric sex? Such a fun series for adolescents to read.

― kingfish hobo juckie (kingfish 2.0), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 21:50 (twenty years ago)

My favourite teacher at my primary school, Brownhill St Saviours C of E, rana group called Crossbearers. Given that it involved not even the slightest religious overtones and much frolicking it wasn't until years later I realised it wasn't anything to do with bears at all. I know none of this is technically a pun. The teacher later turned out to be a paedophile.

― matthew james (matthew james), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 22:19 (twenty years ago)

I bet that teacher was secretly calling it Crotchbarers.

― estela (estela), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 22:27 (twenty years ago)

My favourite teacher [...] later turned out to be a paedophile.

― Dan (This Was My Takeaway) Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 22:29 (twenty years ago)

"Wait, didn't one of the Wild Card heroes get his powers from kooky tantric sex? Such a fun series for adolescents to read."

Yes. What a terrible series (although I liked the initial Sleeper story.)

Is that quote from Book IV? I seem to remember a fight on top of a tower in that one.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 22:32 (twenty years ago)

GERONIMO!

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 22:36 (twenty years ago)

I'd never noticed any of these! Except Manda Rin. I is slow.

Yerself Is Steam = You selfish......team?????? What???

― Cracks (Crackity), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 23:40 (twenty years ago)

Your self-esteem.

― THIS IS THE SOUND OF ALTERN 8 !!! (noodle vague), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 23:44 (twenty years ago)

Yerself Is Steam = Your Self Esteem, which I got all of three minutes ago.

― RickyT (RickyT), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 23:47 (twenty years ago)

I note on the other thread I try to blame the Manda Rin stupidity on my brother.

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 23:49 (twenty years ago)

Ah yes. Very clever...

― Cracks (Crackity), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 23:51 (twenty years ago)

anyone ever played the game "babble on"? one person reads aloud from cards things such as "ex ten chunk hoard" or "lost and jealous" and his teammates try to guess the common phrase it sounds like. it can get pretty amusing because the reader has no idea what the phrase actually is, and so accents it in totally bizarre ways.

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 23:56 (twenty years ago)

ok now wtf oops? I cant work the examples you used out! haha

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 00:01 (twenty years ago)

you really have to be lenient with some of them. just sorta mumble them repeatedly til you're left with a fuzzy version of it.

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 00:03 (twenty years ago)

Haha, that sounds great. Are those real examples, I can get "Los Angeles" from "lost and jealous", but I may be misunderstanding and trying to get answers where they don't really exist? And that's just reading it. I totally don't get the other one though.

(xpost)

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 00:03 (twenty years ago)

Extension cord?

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 00:05 (twenty years ago)

the other one is a phrase only in the wheel-fortune sense of the word. it's an object found around the house. perhaps there's one right near your computer.
xpost yes!

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 00:06 (twenty years ago)

Haha, SOMETHING I AM GOOD AT!!!

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 00:07 (twenty years ago)

(I need to develop a life of some sort)

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 00:09 (twenty years ago)

THe band name Babyshambles is a lazy aspirant to a pun.

― matthew james (matthew james), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 17:35 (twenty years ago)

M.I.A. - "URAQT"... I used to called this track you-rakt even though I'd sing along with the chorus

― alex in montreal (alex in montreal), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 17:53 (twenty years ago)

Tails' real name, "Miles Prower", is a play on the term "Miles per Hour".

― Occam's Reznor (ex machina), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 19:47 (twenty years ago)

isn't GerryNemo also Geronimo said in like a Greek accent?

― A Nairn (moretap), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 20:37 (twenty years ago)

Hahaha URAQT! I never got that either until now somehow!

― Gravel Puzzlewirth, Wednesday, 23 November 2005 21:23 (twenty years ago)

FUNEX?

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 21:32 (twenty years ago)

SVFX!

― JimD (JimD), Thursday, 24 November 2005 02:09 (twenty years ago)

FUNEM?

― estela (estela), Thursday, 24 November 2005 02:11 (twenty years ago)

Ah, lovely. :)

YFNUNEX?

IFE 10 M

― JimD (JimD), Thursday, 24 November 2005 02:17 (twenty years ago)

― estela (estela), Thursday, 24 November 2005 02:22 (twenty years ago)

nine years pass...

I have literally just now realised that Dead Can Dance is a pun.

― emil.y, Tuesday, 6 January 2015 18:05 (eleven years ago)

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