puns that you had missed

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

― piscesx, Sunday, 30 October 2011 18:23 (1 year ago) Permalink

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

― StanM, Sunday, 30 October 2011 18:26 (1 year ago) Permalink

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.

― ailsa, Sunday, 30 October 2011 18:41 (1 year ago) Permalink

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.

― ailsa, Sunday, 30 October 2011 18:45 (1 year ago) Permalink

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

― jaxon, Saturday, October 29, 2011 2:40 PM (21 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

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

― despite all my rage I am still just a Latter Day Saint (Abbbottt), Sunday, 30 October 2011 18:52 (1 year ago) Permalink

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!"

― Solid State Casualty (CONGO, M.D.), Sunday, 30 October 2011 19:42 (1 year ago) Permalink

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.

― Stevolende, Monday, 2 April 2012 15:54 (1 year ago) Permalink

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

― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, 2 April 2012 16:05 (1 year ago) Permalink

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

― dayo, Tuesday, 3 April 2012 01:35 (1 year ago) Permalink

The War Between The Tates

― Shakes-a-maxion (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 15 May 2012 04:20 (1 year ago) Permalink

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.

― get wolves (get bent), Tuesday, 15 May 2012 04:30 (1 year ago) Permalink

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.

― EveningStar (Sund4r), Tuesday, 15 May 2012 05:16 (1 year ago) Permalink

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.

― EveningStar (Sund4r), Tuesday, 15 May 2012 05:19 (1 year ago) Permalink

it's not a pun

do not let anyone convince you it's a pun

― of family bonds and individual triumph. Narrated by Tim Allen, (zachlyon), Tuesday, 15 May 2012 05:49 (1 year ago) Permalink

I didn't see the artwork until after I'd figured out the pun, which took ages

― barman's bar mitz (unregistered), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 18:48 (1 year ago) Permalink

idg "war between the tates".

― Pureed Moods (Trayce), Thursday, 24 May 2012 04:51 (1 year ago) Permalink

I bought a Velvets bootleg once on "Lurid" records and many years later realized lurid = Lou Reed.

― nickn, Thursday, 24 May 2012 04:58 (1 year ago) Permalink

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

― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, April 2, 2012 12:05 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it's not a pun, its a reference to barfin'

― rock the swagon and g.o.a.t. it (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 24 May 2012 05:02 (1 year ago) Permalink

it was years before i got this one:

― Ward Fowler, Thursday, 24 May 2012 05:10 (1 year ago) Permalink

good god i didn't get ms. tree until just now

― me so fat (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Thursday, 24 May 2012 05:12 (1 year ago) Permalink

One of my Facebook friends just figured out Electric Light Orchestra. Many of his other friends are unironically praising him for his genius.

― Three Word Username, Thursday, 24 May 2012 06:35 (1 year ago) Permalink

Whats to miss? Theyre a light orchestra that're electric, but lol electric light.. how the fuck could anyone miss that?

― Pureed Moods (Trayce), Thursday, 24 May 2012 06:56 (1 year ago) Permalink

also "light orchestra" is a thing

― ban halen (electricsound), Thursday, 24 May 2012 07:01 (1 year ago) Permalink

oh you pretty much said that

― ban halen (electricsound), Thursday, 24 May 2012 07:02 (1 year ago) Permalink

aw shit ms. tree!

― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 24 May 2012 07:09 (1 year ago) Permalink

I STILL didn't get it until just now ("does she mistreat everyone,or what?") and then suddenly, duh.

― StanM, Thursday, 24 May 2012 08:03 (1 year ago) Permalink

Not everyone thinks of EG lightbulbs as "Electric light", though - you kind of have to know someone who remembers non electric light for that.

― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 24 May 2012 08:04 (1 year ago) Permalink

I get the impression its the "light orchestra" bit that people miss, from my googling!

― Pureed Moods (Trayce), Thursday, 24 May 2012 09:32 (1 year ago) Permalink

the only google results I get for "light orchestra" are for ELO

― how's life, Thursday, 24 May 2012 11:58 (1 year ago) Permalink

Oh, this is like, elevator music or something.

― how's life, Thursday, 24 May 2012 12:00 (1 year ago) Permalink

idg "war between the tates".

― Pureed Moods (Trayce), Thursday, May 24, 2012 12:51 AM (7 hours ago)

― Ian Hunter Is Learning the Game (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 24 May 2012 12:42 (1 year ago) Permalink

Get it?

― Ian Hunter Is Learning the Game (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 25 May 2012 02:58 (1 year ago) Permalink

Well that makes sense now, yah. Not that it was a phrase I was familiar with. Either the original, or what I see by google is apparently a movie title. Didnt know either one. Cest la.

― Pureed Moods (Trayce), Friday, 25 May 2012 03:48 (1 year ago) Permalink

Oh my god. Only recently I was very embarrassed to realise the pun in the Simpsons episode "Hell Toupee". That was bad enough... just now I overheard 2 workmates talking about old PC and console games and I heard someone mention Boulder Dash.

...and suddenly got the pun for THAT, as well, after fuck knows how many years.

― Una Stubbs' Tears (Trayce), Monday, 5 November 2012 02:53 (7 months ago) Permalink

Oh man, I played a lot of Boulder Dash and definitely didn't "get" it as a kid. Cool game though.

― Doctor Casino, Monday, 5 November 2012 02:57 (7 months ago) Permalink

Tom Leher sang "as someone once remarked to Schubert, take us to your leader", and I didn't make the connection to lieder.

― B'wana Beast, Monday, 5 November 2012 06:19 (7 months ago) Permalink

I had a VU bootleg for many years before I realized the label, Lurid, was a pun on Lou Reed.

― nickn, Monday, 5 November 2012 06:23 (7 months ago) Permalink

Those last couple seem like they could make great Young Money lyrics.

― Doctor Casino, Monday, 5 November 2012 06:24 (7 months ago) Permalink

I bought a Velvets bootleg once on "Lurid" records and many years later realized lurid = Lou Reed.

― nickn, Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Which I mentioned back in May! (Knew I had posted it before somewhere on ILX, but thought it was on ILM.)

― nickn, Monday, 5 November 2012 06:26 (7 months ago) Permalink

Tom Leher sang "as someone once remarked to Schubert, take us to your leader", and I didn't make the connection to lieder.

― B'wana Beast, Monday, November 5, 2012 1:19 AM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

fuck, always just heard this as a non sequitur. only been 10 years tho, thanking u

― Infamous dickbiscuits (silby), Monday, 5 November 2012 06:26 (7 months ago) Permalink

Is smashing pumpkins a pun?

― B'wana Beast, Monday, 5 November 2012 07:07 (7 months ago) Permalink

i did not get that "d'yer maker" was a pun until this morning when i heard a radio dj announce it. i guess not even really a pun. a weird homonym?

― congratulations (n/a), Friday, 1 February 2013 17:48 (4 months ago) Permalink

Not a pun, OK, but the lurid / Lou Reed thing somehow reminded me of a discovery I made a few years ago, which is that the third Jimi Hendrix album, the one with his cover of "All Along The Watchtower" on it, is called Electric LaDYLANd.

My brain nearly exploded at the time.

― Doctor Flange, Friday, 1 February 2013 21:28 (4 months ago) Permalink

oh god that Led Zepplin one

I remember learning that and then promptly forgetting it because the pronunciation made no sense

― Ima R.A.E.D. (DJP), Friday, 1 February 2013 21:30 (4 months ago) Permalink

the led zep one is a play on a v olde english 'joke' eg

'my wife went to the carribean'

'jamaica?'

'no she went of her own accord'

― Ward Fowler, Friday, 1 February 2013 21:33 (4 months ago) Permalink

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yq2jnPqRDd4

― Women, Fire, and Dangerous Zings (silby), Friday, 1 February 2013 21:40 (4 months ago) Permalink

oh pfft I guess autoembed doesn't work with https, w/e

― Women, Fire, and Dangerous Zings (silby), Friday, 1 February 2013 21:40 (4 months ago) Permalink

not a pun, but an etymological thing. they call it _petting_ because you do it to _pets_. somehow i never put the two together, at least consciously.

― s.clover, Monday, 18 February 2013 03:54 (4 months ago) Permalink

heavy

― bnw, Monday, 18 February 2013 03:57 (4 months ago) Permalink

1953 A. C. Kinsey et al. Sexual Behav. Human Female ix. 389 The most responsive females may be the ones who most often pet to orgasm before marriage.

― Women, Fire, and Dangerous Zings (silby), Monday, 18 February 2013 04:08 (4 months ago) Permalink