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Conclusion: all these puns are rubbish.

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 13:31 (twenty-one years ago)

"Don't think twice, it's alright" I was listening to this last night and *ding* it's saying both "don't bother" and "don't even begin to think leaving me was okay."

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 13:32 (twenty-one years ago)

That's not a pun; it's just ambiguity

― caitlin (caitlin), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 13:37 (twenty-one years ago)

the self esteem one works better in certain accents.

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 13:39 (twenty-one years ago)

I only got Aladdin Sane ("A lad insane") like last year or something. That was embarassing.

― papa november (papa november), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 13:43 (twenty-one years ago)

I never got that... wow.

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 13:43 (twenty-one years ago)

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.

― papa november (papa november), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 13:47 (twenty-one years ago)

i knew the "insane" bit but never thought of "a lad"!

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 13:47 (twenty-one years ago)

isn't it about bowies brother, who had severe mental problems & committed suicide?

― DJ Salinger (joni), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 14:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Haha, I never got any of these before (Yerself is Steam, Adam Ant, Aladdin Sane)!

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 14:05 (twenty-one years ago)

It was "See you next Wednesday" in the Thriller video, which isn't a pun, but it is a phrase director John Landis puts in every one of his movies.

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 15:21 (twenty-one years ago)

The michaael jackson video where MJ and girl are eating popcorn. The film ends and the announcer says "See you next tuesday".

I so don't get it.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 15:32 (twenty-one years ago)

i think the answer lies in mark's tenuous grasp of 'pun'.

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 15:34 (twenty-one years ago)

.. and I was fibbing anyway.

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 15:37 (twenty-one years ago)

that's like C U Next Tuesday, right?

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 15:54 (twenty-one years ago)

I never got the visual pun of the 7-Up "Uncola" glass until some advanced age of decrepitude.

― Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 16:07 (twenty-one years ago)

walking up some steps just the other day, it struck me:
Rap City ... Rhadsody!

also, i amazingly didn't get Lipps, Inc. until quite recently. sheesh.

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 19:01 (twenty-one years ago)

I am now worried that there are loads of puns out there I haven't got yet.

Is I Love Everything a pun?

― DV (dirtyvicar), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 19:17 (twenty-one years ago)

This happens to me absolutely all the time, and in some cases -- even worse -- with that nagging must-be-a-pun sense that drives one nuts: I'm happy to have the Mercury Rev one finally worked out for me. I can't think of any good recent examples, though: the last one I recall was hearing a Spinanes song and noticing the "inane" in there.

― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 19:34 (twenty-one years ago)

I didn't get Yerself is Steam either. Knew all the others mentioned here, although admittedly it took a while for me to realise with Manda Rin.

Perry Farrell took a while, too.

― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 19:39 (twenty-one years ago)

In similar news I had a long and frustrating conversation with someone wherein I was pointing out, with amazement, that the title of Philip Roth's The Human Stain could be read in two different ways, and that ads for the film version seemed to be inflecting it in the one of those two ways that I hadn’t thought of. Unfortunately I couldn’t seem to make the different inflections clear to the person I was talking to. I’ll try it with you guys: I had always read the title (without having read the book) as being “The Human Stain” like “The Human Condition”; the film trailer suddenly made me realize it was possibly supposed to be “The Human Stain” like “The Human Cannonball” or “The Human Calculator,” referring to the individual character.

I share this only because I need some reassurance that I wasn't being a bonehead in this conversation.

― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 19:40 (twenty-one years ago)

And wait, what's the pun with Perry Farrell? (If it's supposed to be "peripheral," that is the worst thing I have ever heard.)

― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 19:40 (twenty-one years ago)

It's not a pun, it's a spoonerism.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 19:43 (twenty-one years ago)

yes Nabisco, peripheral.

― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 19:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Suddenly that's better than the "Ferry Peril" Spoonerism I thought Dan was hinting toward.

― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 19:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Aw.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 19:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Someone reassure me about The Human Stain, though, please.

― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 19:50 (twenty-one years ago)

I always assumed it referred to what was left after someone jumped off a building.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 19:51 (twenty-one years ago)

i finally thought about that "rock the vote/boat" one last week. i suppose it doesn't exist over here so i don't feel too dumb.

i realized abt two years after the film was released that "con air" was a pun.

― m. (mitchlnw), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 19:52 (twenty-one years ago)

So y'all never heard the joke:

A man phoned me last night, singing "Stand and Deliver". I told him he'd got the wrong number, but he was Adam Ant.

― Steve.n. (sjkirk), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 19:52 (twenty-one years ago)

I am dumb. How is Con Air a pun?

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 22:11 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.conair.com/conair/index.jsp

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 22:12 (twenty-one years ago)

That's the part of the pun I got -- it took me a while to notice that the plot was about a convict being transported by an airline.

― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 22:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh nabisco...

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 22:18 (twenty-one years ago)

In my own defense, I didn't see the movie and had no interest in seeing it: it mattered very little to me what it was about. All I knew was that it was one of those movies from that season where every movie had a shot of an explosion and a piece of CGI debris flying directly into the camera.

― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 22:20 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm confused. What do blowdryers have to do with Con Air?

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 22:20 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm confused. What do blowdryers have to do with Con Air?

http://www.ociojoven.com/ezimagecatalogue/catalogue/variations/150x500/17042-150x500.jpg

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 22:23 (twenty-one years ago)

"that season"

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 22:26 (twenty-one years ago)

I take it that Con Air's an American thing = I am not as dumb as I thought.

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 22:39 (twenty-one years ago)

I hate to chide, but anybody who gives somebody a hard time for not getting the not-gotten pun is not being a good netizen.

― Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 22:45 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm neither american, nor have i seen con air.. but... AIR CON, ppl!

― m. (mitchlnw), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 22:58 (twenty-one years ago)

That's rubbish (as in, I didn't even think of that, and neither did anyone else, therefore too subtle, therefore rubbish).

Puns should be really obvious.

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 23:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Je ne voudrais pas CONtinuer cette CONversation!

― Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 23:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Why is con air = air con (or hairdryers for that matter) a pun for the film? I still dont get it.

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 23:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Dumb pun for even dumber movie.

― papa november (papa november), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 23:38 (twenty-one years ago)

I also never spotted the Yrself Is Steam one, thats grate!

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

xpost haha too true.

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 23:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Another fun hairdryer fact! The German word for hairdryer is Fön, from the word Föhn, meaning the dry wind that comes down from the mountains and makes Bavarians cranky. Fön, fön, fön, till her Vati takes her hairdryer away.

― Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 23:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes, it is Trayce. No, it's not his real name.

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 2 December 2004 01:10 (twenty-one years ago)

the roth thing makes sense, nabisco.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Thursday, 2 December 2004 01:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Baby Shambles.

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 2 December 2004 08:41 (twenty-one years ago)

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Xxxpost I'm sure the people spreading this are also telling people they were today years old when they learned Michael Jackson was singing "ima say it one more time I'm not gon stop" on Wanna Be Starting Something

― Abby Gore (Neanderthal), Friday, 13 February 2026 18:24 (four months ago)

Chickens, that's where I'm a viking

― Abby Gore (Neanderthal), Friday, 13 February 2026 18:24 (four months ago)

Don't you know the YeOlde1800sFiresideTropes.com "Chicken Trample" trope of a chicken being killed by a horse-driven buggy going 2 mph?

― EsBeeKid (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 13 February 2026 18:25 (four months ago)

tbf anyone telling it in the modern era is totally summoning up a picture of a busy car-strewn road, knowing full well that chicked is probably toast. no-one hearing it now is thinking "why did the chicken cross a quiet country lane, 150 years ago?"

― Reggaeton Sax (NickB), Friday, 13 February 2026 18:31 (four months ago)

Anyone who hears this joke in the modern era that doesn't know its reputation as the seminal example of anti-humor is maybe a 7 year old who isn't going to get your pun anyway

― EsBeeKid (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 13 February 2026 18:50 (four months ago)

all true but i'm never going to be able to unsee the pun there now, whether i want to or not

― Reggaeton Sax (NickB), Friday, 13 February 2026 18:56 (four months ago)

The body of folklore/jokelore around chicken jokes is interesting as a case study of pre-internet meme spread.

The template being amenable to riffage and variation is also interesting. The turtle? To get to the shell station. The turkey? He was stapled to the chicken.

― calmer chameleon (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 13 February 2026 19:21 (four months ago)

I only just realised the pun in Small Prophets!

― bored by endless ecstasy (anagram), Friday, 20 February 2026 18:53 (three months ago)

one month passes...

Just realized that the Harlem Globetrotters were not only trotting round the world playing basketball, but were also trotting up and down the court bouncing a globe.

― Halfway there but for you, Thursday, 26 March 2026 00:54 (two months ago)

New Power Generation

Like I thought it was because they were new, powerful, and replacing the previous generation

I didn’t make the connection that “power is something that is generated” until I saw the words “Ontario Power Generation” for the 1000000th time and thought, once again: “it’s cute that Ontario’s power company named itself after Prince’s band”

― washed spice (flamboyant goon tie included), Thursday, 2 April 2026 00:02 (two months ago)

Snoopy fights the red baron because he's a dog fighter.

― adam t (dat), Thursday, 2 April 2026 00:08 (two months ago)

Mind... blown

― a burrito, my gazebo (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 2 April 2026 00:33 (two months ago)

woah

― Cow_Art, Thursday, 2 April 2026 03:03 (two months ago)

ok I need to reassess everything I thought I once knew

― Mollusk, Virginia (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, 2 April 2026 09:13 (two months ago)

Night Moves

― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 2 April 2026 12:19 (two months ago)

it’s about chess

― Mollusk, Virginia (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, 2 April 2026 12:42 (two months ago)

two weeks pass...

The double meaning of "The truth is out there".

― Alba, Friday, 17 April 2026 12:06 (one month ago)

one month passes...

This one's for the parents out there

Eminently popular children's book/learn-to-read series Elephant and Piggy by Mo Willems, featuring Piggy and Elephant Gerald

Elephant Gerald

Ella Fitzgerald

my mind is suitably blown

― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Thursday, 28 May 2026 15:10 (two weeks ago)

Needs a supporting character named Ascot Fits, who helps people try on silk neckwear at the department store.

― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 28 May 2026 17:47 (two weeks ago)

Art Bears took their name from a sentence in Jane Ellen Harrison's book Ancient Art and Ritual (1913): "Even to-day, when individualism is rampant, art bears traces of its collective, social origin". Chris Cutler explains that it was a deliberate out-of-context quote, but that "not too much should be read into this; it just sounds intriguing, has an animal in it, plays with ambiguity and is mildly ridiculous".

― bendy, Sunday, 7 June 2026 15:50 (one week ago)

i know some art bears

― The Immortal Bird of Avon (Boring, Maryland), Sunday, 7 June 2026 15:52 (one week ago)

I've seen some art bares.

― nickn, Sunday, 7 June 2026 17:44 (one week ago)

Not a pun exactly, but I’ve known of the existence of The Stanky Brown Group for years and only today realized the meaning behind the name.

― cinematic hobo hip-hop rock ‘n’ roll blues-jazz soul-review (Dan Peterson), Monday, 8 June 2026 01:02 (six days ago)

is it shit

― The Immortal Bird of Avon (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 8 June 2026 01:31 (six days ago)

Yes. I honestly thought it was the name of someone in the band. “Stanky” never dawned on me.

― cinematic hobo hip-hop rock ‘n’ roll blues-jazz soul-review (Dan Peterson), Monday, 8 June 2026 01:48 (six days ago)

Alien Nation

― Cow_Art, Monday, 8 June 2026 03:01 (six days ago)

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