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 (11 months ago) Permalink
idg "war between the tates".
― Pureed Moods (Trayce), Thursday, 24 May 2012 04:51 (11 months 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 (11 months ago) Permalink
― 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 (11 months ago) Permalink
it was years before i got this one:
― Ward Fowler, Thursday, 24 May 2012 05:10 (11 months 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 (11 months 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 (11 months 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 (11 months ago) Permalink
also "light orchestra" is a thing
― ban halen (electricsound), Thursday, 24 May 2012 07:01 (11 months ago) Permalink
oh you pretty much said that
― ban halen (electricsound), Thursday, 24 May 2012 07:02 (11 months ago) Permalink
aw shit ms. tree!
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 24 May 2012 07:09 (11 months 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 (11 months 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 (11 months 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 (11 months ago) Permalink
the only google results I get for "light orchestra" are for ELO
― how's life, Thursday, 24 May 2012 11:58 (11 months ago) Permalink
Oh, this is like, elevator music or something.
― how's life, Thursday, 24 May 2012 12:00 (11 months ago) Permalink
idg "war between the tates".― Pureed Moods (Trayce), Thursday, May 24, 2012 12:51 AM (7 hours ago)
― 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 (11 months ago) Permalink
Get it?
― Ian Hunter Is Learning the Game (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 25 May 2012 02:58 (11 months 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 (11 months 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 (6 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 (6 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 (6 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 (6 months ago) Permalink
Those last couple seem like they could make great Young Money lyrics.
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 5 November 2012 06:24 (6 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
― 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 (6 months ago) Permalink
― 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 (6 months ago) Permalink
Is smashing pumpkins a pun?
― B'wana Beast, Monday, 5 November 2012 07:07 (6 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 (3 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 (3 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 (3 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 (3 months ago) Permalink
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yq2jnPqRDd4
― Women, Fire, and Dangerous Zings (silby), Friday, 1 February 2013 21:40 (3 months ago) Permalink
oh pfft I guess autoembed doesn't work with https, w/e
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 (3 months ago) Permalink
heavy
― bnw, Monday, 18 February 2013 03:57 (3 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 (3 months ago) Permalink
I experienced something similar just a couple of years ago with the word "duck" - it just all of a sudden occured to me "omg! ducks are always lowering their heads and dipping them under the water; and that's how duck-as-a-verb came to be! "to duck" = "to behave like a duck"
Also, it took me about a half-dozen viewings of "This is Spinal Tap" to pick up on the "Isle of Lucy" pun.
― Sir Lord Baltimora (Myonga Vön Bontee), Monday, 18 February 2013 06:46 (3 months ago) Permalink
Well, I'm 55 and never realized that about "duck" until I read your post.
― nickn, Monday, 18 February 2013 17:40 (3 months ago) Permalink
I disbelieve it anyway
― Mark G, Monday, 18 February 2013 17:51 (3 months ago) Permalink
association runs the other way: duck (v) --> duck (n)
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=duck
― Plasmon, Monday, 18 February 2013 21:19 (3 months ago) Permalink
it's actually the other way around—ducks are called that because they duck (i.e. the verb came first)
xp damn
― 1staethyr, Monday, 18 February 2013 21:21 (3 months ago) Permalink
I have only just realised that Band Aid was a pun.
― Eyeball Kicks, Friday, 8 March 2013 16:32 (2 months ago) Permalink
right, hence Farm Aid etc MAKING NO SENSE
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Friday, 8 March 2013 17:26 (2 months ago) Permalink