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Top Ten Puns on Barry Manilow's Name

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1) Barely Manenough
2) Fairy Manilow
3) Barry Maniblow

(it helps to have been a kid in the '70s)

― Mark (MarkR), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 19:57 (twenty-two years ago)

4) Burly Man'o'steel

― Mark (MarkR), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 19:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Bury Me in Blow!

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 19:59 (twenty-two years ago)

6)Born in Manilla

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 19:59 (twenty-two years ago)

andy fairweather-low

― scott seward, Wednesday, 3 December 2003 20:01 (twenty-two years ago)

8) Barely Manatall

― Mark (MarkR), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 20:02 (twenty-two years ago)

9) Savetha Manatee

― Mark (MarkR), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 20:03 (twenty-two years ago)

10) Bored of Matrimony

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 20:06 (twenty-two years ago)

11)Bowel Movement

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 20:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Hahaha

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 20:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Burning Man-in-law
(my sister married
this large hippie figurehead,
he's quite a pyro)

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 20:10 (twenty-two years ago)

(have you been reading Meltzer, Haikunym?)

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 20:10 (twenty-two years ago)

no, does he exist?
(if so where? and why? and how?
so many questions)

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 20:13 (twenty-two years ago)

(uh, well, you parsed your puns much like Meltz parses anagrams)

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 20:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Even in middle school, we referred to him as Boring Manislow.

― d.w., Wednesday, 3 December 2003 20:16 (twenty-two years ago)

okay huck much thanks
I have not read him for years
maybe it sunk in

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 20:26 (twenty-two years ago)

I just read his new 'un, and realized that he shoulda been a humourist. or should be read as one. at least more as a humourist than as a rock-crit.
anyway, I liked yr pun and explanation thereof.

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 20:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Bette Midler

― Nom De Plume (Nom De Plume), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 20:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Barry Man-in-love

― man, Wednesday, 3 December 2003 20:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Boxy Manhole

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 20:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Buried Manifold

― Mark (MarkR), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 20:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Boinked by Marilyn

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 20:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Bawdy Monologue

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 20:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Born in Malaysia

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 20:46 (twenty-two years ago)

[Conrad] Birdie Wannabee

― Mark (MarkR), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 20:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Hairy Manloaf

― BrianB, Wednesday, 3 December 2003 20:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Airy Stranglehold

― may pang (maypang), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 21:16 (twenty-two years ago)

I apologize in advance
Fairy Man-in-love

― Speedy Gonzalas (Speedy Gonzalas), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 21:17 (twenty-two years ago)

"I apologize in advance" is a good one.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 21:20 (twenty-two years ago)

My cousin worked in a Tony Roma's somewhere in Manhattan a few years ago, and she would tell about how a large group of elderly women making up the "Barry Manilow fan club" would come in each month for a huge feast.

They wore t-shirts that said things like "Bananas Over Barry," and identified themselves as "The Manilovers."

― Ben Boyer (Ben Boyer), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 22:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Scary Man, you know

― Christian Rawk (Christian Rawk), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 22:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Hairy man: I'll blow

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 23:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Now do Englebert Humperdinck

― Vinnie (vprabhu), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 23:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Barman Low

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Thursday, 4 December 2003 00:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Perry Danilow

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Thursday, 4 December 2003 00:18 (twenty-two years ago)

mangy bendy-toy

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 4 December 2003 00:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Perry "Mason" Low-Como

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Thursday, 4 December 2003 00:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Hairy man to blow

― Ann Sterzinger (Ann Sterzinger), Thursday, 4 December 2003 00:23 (twenty-two years ago)

englebert humperDICK!!! hahahahahahahahahaha
*sigh*

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 4 December 2003 01:12 (twenty-two years ago)

His career has barry mani lows.

hahahahahah

― Debito (Debito), Thursday, 4 December 2003 01:13 (twenty-two years ago)

babs me with a guantanamo
(hotter than a coco-co. banner though)

― george gosset (gegoss), Thursday, 4 December 2003 01:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Barry: Man, he blows

― My name is Kenny (My name is Kenny), Thursday, 4 December 2003 01:33 (twenty-two years ago)

this isn't really a pun, but i remember on the New Mickey Mouse Club, (pre-britney/justin era) that Fred Newman played a character called "Larry Blannilow" who made albums of himself singing the text of TV mailorder ads and the phonebook.

It was really really really funny, I was 12.

― kevin erickson, Thursday, 4 December 2003 10:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Manky Bungalow

― NickB (NickB), Thursday, 4 December 2003 10:39 (twenty-two years ago)

"I Was A Teenage Barry Manilow Fan"

― Poppy (poppy), Thursday, 4 December 2003 19:59 (twenty-two years ago)

31) Neil Diamond Impersonator

― Lord Custos Omicron (Lord Custos Omicron), Thursday, 4 December 2003 20:32 (twenty-two years ago)

six months pass...
Benny Marry Lou

― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 13:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Joe Montanalow

― tylero (tylero), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 17:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Since seeing him referred to as Barry Marrow-nose in Smash Hits (or similar) many years ago, I haven't been able to hear his name any other way.

― Graeme (Graeme), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 18:21 (twenty-two years ago)

A marrow, yesterday:

http://www.northumbriasmallholders.fsnet.co.uk/images/marrow.jpg


― Graeme (Graeme), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 18:22 (twenty-two years ago)


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