Flo Rida
― zanarkand bozo (abanana), Friday, 7 February 2014 00:50 (twelve years ago)
So if I said I want your body nowWould you hold it against me?
I just got this last month when Groucho said it :(
― the most important comma of all time (flamboyant goon tie included), Friday, 7 February 2014 01:03 (twelve years ago)
I don't think I realised the Beatles was a pun until I was about 25.
― Jonathan Z. (Joanthan Z.)
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Tuesday, February 4, 2014 10:18 AM (4 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
oh because like "Beat"
― the slow death of America's rich pastoral heritage (silby), Sunday, 9 February 2014 01:42 (twelve years ago)
I just turned 25, too
when I was a little kid I thought it was "Beat" + [indie rock band] "Battles", but I can't imagine being 25 and still not getting it.
― his eye is on the sbarro (unregistered), Sunday, 9 February 2014 02:47 (twelve years ago)
I had never heard this before Britney, and I thought she was so clever!
― jaymc, Sunday, 9 February 2014 08:54 (twelve years ago)
Only realized Lipps Inc of Funkytown fame was a pun about 25 years after the fact
― Zelda Zonk, Sunday, 9 February 2014 11:38 (twelve years ago)
oh whoops
― worthless lucubrations w/ ill-concealed apathy bro (zachlyon), Sunday, 9 February 2014 13:57 (twelve years ago)
Appletiser = Appetiser
― inside out trousers (dog latin), Thursday, 6 March 2014 09:32 (twelve years ago)
Also until today I thought it was called Appletise
until 2003 it was
― conrad, Thursday, 6 March 2014 10:03 (twelve years ago)
is three-piece suite a pun on three-piece suit?
― conrad, Thursday, 6 March 2014 10:04 (twelve years ago)
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51M2YP5MZ7L.jpg
― eardrum buzz aldrin (NickB), Thursday, 6 March 2014 10:14 (twelve years ago)
no
― conrad, Thursday, 6 March 2014 10:16 (twelve years ago)
it's good enough for me
― eardrum buzz aldrin (NickB), Thursday, 6 March 2014 10:19 (twelve years ago)
:)
― conrad, Thursday, 6 March 2014 10:34 (twelve years ago)
It's a pun on a 3p sweet.
― Alba, Thursday, 6 March 2014 15:00 (twelve years ago)
Is this Walthamstow takeaway a pun on Hamburger Hill?
http://i.imgur.com/YyxnjA7.png
― Alba, Thursday, 6 March 2014 15:05 (twelve years ago)
There's got to be a better pun out there.
― inside out trousers (dog latin), Thursday, 6 March 2014 15:11 (twelve years ago)
Sorry, it's not a takeaway, what was I thinking?
― Alba, Thursday, 6 March 2014 15:56 (twelve years ago)
Ice Capades: escapades
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 6 March 2014 16:00 (twelve years ago)
Michelle Shocked. Good grief, that one only took 25 years to sink in.
― pplains, Monday, 10 March 2014 00:19 (twelve years ago)
lol Morbs. What did you think capades were?
― continually topping myself (flamboyant goon tie included), Monday, 10 March 2014 00:31 (twelve years ago)
there's a restaurant i drive past sometimes at the top of a gently sloping incline called 'thai on the hill' which i have come to think might be a lonely goatherd pun.
― estela, Monday, 10 March 2014 00:31 (twelve years ago)
just got that "true detective" is a play on "turd detective"
― a commentary on self-absorbed youth culture in the social media age (zachlyon), Monday, 10 March 2014 00:34 (twelve years ago)
Lode Runner/ Road-runner
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 10 March 2014 00:57 (twelve years ago)
Girls Aloud (thanks to Glenn Frey for clarifying this one)
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 26 March 2014 12:28 (twelve years ago)
Don't get it?
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 26 March 2014 12:46 (twelve years ago)
http://i.imgur.com/RQw6rx6.jpg
― 龜, Wednesday, 26 March 2014 12:48 (twelve years ago)
Ah! I thought the puns was something like "curse aloud", which would've been weak.
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 26 March 2014 13:08 (twelve years ago)
Just saw this, and just got this right now. Never even occurred to me that it might be a pun :-(
― ailsa, Wednesday, 26 March 2014 14:59 (twelve years ago)
omg. Me too.
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 26 March 2014 16:49 (twelve years ago)
whoa
i had to say it out loud just now and heeeey
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 26 March 2014 17:56 (twelve years ago)
Ah! I thought the puns was something like "curse aloud", which would've been weak. --Tuomas
The "come trues" of our time
― open-y, ob-la-da (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 26 March 2014 17:59 (twelve years ago)
Arena spectacles meant to bore small children to tears.
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 26 March 2014 18:15 (twelve years ago)
The nasty party = the nazi party?
― Alba, Wednesday, 16 April 2014 12:35 (twelve years ago)
Not a pun exactly but it's only just occurred to me that the slang word "phizzog" is likely a corruption of "visage"
― [email protected]_U (wins), Tuesday, 10 June 2014 06:56 (twelve years ago)
Physiognomy, more likely (which may be related to visage).
― nickn, Tuesday, 10 June 2014 07:08 (twelve years ago)
it was physiognomy and they come from distinct roots
visage
Middle English: via Old French from Latin visus ‘sight’, from videre ‘to see’.
physiognomy
Origin
late Middle English: from Old French phisonomie, via medieval Latin from Greek phusiognōmonia ‘judging of a man's nature (by his features)’, based on gnōmōn ‘a judge, interpreter’.
― arid banter (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 10 June 2014 07:17 (twelve years ago)
slang etymologies that you had misconstrued
― conrad, Tuesday, 10 June 2014 09:36 (twelve years ago)
Oh. There you go
― [email protected]_U (wins), Tuesday, 10 June 2014 09:43 (twelve years ago)
Is smashing pumpkins a pun?― B'wana Beast, Monday, 5 November 2012 07:07 (1 year ago) Permalink
OMG as in "fantastic jugs" and/or "destroying fruit"?
― ^ 諷刺 (ken c), Tuesday, 10 June 2014 12:45 (twelve years ago)
no idea if "pumpkins" is a word to describe jugs
loooooool @ that thought
― Who whom kissed? (imago), Tuesday, 10 June 2014 12:47 (twelve years ago)
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/10/29/article-0-0BD23771000005DC-457_468x596.jpg
― how's life, Tuesday, 10 June 2014 12:55 (twelve years ago)
3.1 Origin of nameMost answers to this question are only semi-serious, as they've heard it way too often. The March '93 fan club newsletter gave the following story: "Gene Simmons came to us in a dream and said: 'Joe Strummer is a pumpkin,drunken and smashed.'" On Vieuphoria, they simply said "It's a joke." However, the most serious answer comes from an interview with D'Arcy by the Washington Post(11/19/93): "The name of the band is a stupid name, a dumb bad joke and a bad idea, OK?" she says. "Billy named the band before there even was a band. He was like, 'I'm gonna have a band and it's gonna be called this.' 'Smashing' is not a verb, it's an adjective. It's not like we like to smash pumpkins or anything. And we are not amused by pumpkin jokes anymore." So, there you have it. "Smashing" is an adjective, not a verb (think British here if you're still having trouble). :-)
Most answers to this question are only semi-serious, as they've heard it way too often. The March '93 fan club newsletter gave the following story:
"Gene Simmons came to us in a dream and said: 'Joe Strummer is a pumpkin,drunken and smashed.'"
On Vieuphoria, they simply said "It's a joke." However, the most serious answer comes from an interview with D'Arcy by the Washington Post(11/19/93):
"The name of the band is a stupid name, a dumb bad joke and a bad idea, OK?" she says. "Billy named the band before there even was a band. He was like, 'I'm gonna have a band and it's gonna be called this.' 'Smashing' is not a verb, it's an adjective. It's not like we like to smash pumpkins or anything. And we are not amused by pumpkin jokes anymore."
So, there you have it. "Smashing" is an adjective, not a verb (think British here if you're still having trouble). :-)
― how's life, Tuesday, 10 June 2014 12:56 (twelve years ago)
ari up
i r stupid
― doctrine the house (electricsound), Tuesday, 17 June 2014 22:19 (twelve years ago)
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― macklemorange is the new wack (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 17 June 2014 22:34 (twelve years ago)
ooof
― rage against martin sheen (sic), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 00:13 (twelve years ago)
still unsure if phil "the power" taylor is a pun
― ^ 諷刺 (ken c), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 12:24 (twelve years ago)