puns that you had missed

i only realised earlier this year that it was called '50 shades of grey' because the guy's name was grey

I figured this out when I saw the French translation of the title which is something like "50 tons de Grey", which doesn't really make any sense as a title. I mean, why not also change the guy's name in the book so that the title actually works?

i still haven't figured out why there are 50

http://i.imgur.com/m7a4PIa.jpg

this Staind album (2003) actually makes sense because it has 14 tracks. I feel so bad for Aaron Lewis, though: he must have been so angry and confused when 50SoG got popular ("this kid is eating my lunch!")

in the novel Mr. Grey has 50 dalmatians

so you kinda have to read it to understand

(they're sex dalmatians)

all dalmatians are sex dalmatians! but I appreciate the explanation.

Mr. Grey is a Ray-Ban salesperson trying to meet a quota, iirc.

!! Just this instant got that the band name Spacehog had two meanings. I never got thought of the one about hitting space.

I didn't realize until I read this month's Rolling Stone that the name ZZ Top was a take-off on B.B. King.

It took a while to realize Stephin Merrit's band Gothic Archies referenced a Gothic arch. I just figured the comic book characters as Goths was the whole thing.

the twitter name "emily post-punk" (i thought it was just an emily who liked post-punk)

antacid -> aunt acid -> Uncle Acid (& the deadbeats)

right?

!! Just this instant got that the band name Spacehog had two meanings. I never got thought of the one about hitting space.

What does this mean? And, for that matter, this:

the twitter name "emily post-punk" (i thought it was just an emily who liked post-punk)

yeah me neither

portmanteau of emily post/post-punk

http://www.designcatwalk.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Emily_Post_etichette_good-manners.jpg

she was very small

(xp) Thx!

it was a massive tome

try balancing that fucker on your head

What's that hat all about btw?

That's a dinner roll. Again: very small.

it is explained in emily post's hatiquette.

http://www.emilypost.com/everyday-manners/common-courtesies/479-hats-off-the-who-what-when-where-of-the-hat

(Cancer patients are exempt from hat rules. They may keep their hats or caps on at all times if they wish.)

Alfred, Lord Sotosyn

(although I still don't know if there is an actual pun in there)

wait, what?

are you saying that you didn't get that "alfred, lord sotosyn" is a reference to "alfred, lord tennyson" or is there something else

why, then you'll be a man, my soto!

i don't know what possessed me to post that

are you saying that you didn't get that "alfred, lord sotosyn" is a reference to "alfred, lord tennyson" or is there something else

― put a skronk ornette (wins), Sunday, June 14, 2015 10:42 AM (10 minutes ago)
Yes, I am saying exactly that. It took me ages to see that. Sorry for the thread derail. Nothing to see here, carry on.

i never made the tennyson connection before, but i don't know alfred IRL or anything like that to trigger a last-name connection.

the tender grace of a pun that was missed

lol

this is blowing my mind a bit. Why would you have to know alfred personally to make the connection with the only person in history who has been called alfred, lord anything

Alfred, Lord Tennyson was a powerful name. This what its owner had to say of it:

"A kind of walking trance I have frequently had, quite up from boyhood, when I
have been all alone. This has often come upon me through repeating my own name
to myself silently till, all at once, as it were, out of the intensity of the
consciousness of individuality, the individuality itself seemed to dissolve and
fade away into boundless being; and this not a confused state, but the clearest
of the clearest, the surest of the surest, the weirdest of the weirdest,
utterly beyond words, where death was an almost laughable impossibility, the
loss of personality (if so it were) seeming no extinction, but the only true
life."

yeah, why would you need to know a minor Victorian poet personally to make the connection with the world's greatest living rock critic? (xpost)

Well if you've never heard of Tennyson that's one thing, & not really "missing the pun". But like... If you were aware that there was a recording artist called del tha funky homosapien, and I posted for like a decade under the name "d3lg4do tha funky homosapien" & you didn't realise that the one was related to the other, that would be crazy whether or not you knew that that was my surname or were familiar with dtfh's oeuvre

Meek milton

In my case for a long time some part of my brain decided it was a play on the Cordwainer Smith character Lord Sto Odin and even though I know Alfie doesn't read that stuff I just couldn't dislodge this clearly erroneous thought and see the obvious.

Explanation vmic, absolved

also, it's possible to have heard of tennyson yet not be so aware of the “alfred, lord tennyson" name/title construct, esp for non-brits unfamiliar with that convention

witness, wtf’s up with tennyson's name is frequent online question

I thought Emily Post Punk was like what she does on Twitter, post punk-related stories.

Though I've never heard of her until a dozen posts ago.

Does she do that as a career or is she a part-time post-punk?

let it be known that I almost adopted the DN "d3lg4do tha fun quixo most apian", but while he is fun & rides around ilx courteously righting wrongs I don't feel our eponymous hero pertains greatly to bees

lol

https://simpsonswiki.com/w/images/thumb/1/17/Bumblebee_Man.png/250px-Bumblebee_Man.png

accidentally racist display names i didn't make

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