puns that you had missed

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just noticed this logo is an emoticon smh

... interesting because I only noticed recently that every copy of i-D has someone winking on the cover.

... also that a guy I know was art director there in the 90s.

(an ilxor has been on said cover)

Darraghmac?

Would suggest momus but how would you know he wasn't just blinking

Just watched "Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!" and was like "ohhhhh"

Friday's Los Angeles Times had a story about Hitler's book coming out of copyright that was headlined "New Mein Kampf causes furor" yesterday, which I didn't notice until one of my sisters pointed it out.

Just seeing i.d. mentioned. Been hoping to find my box of early issues dating back to it being a fanzine.
The early editions were far more personal style orientated. They mainly consisted of individuals photographed in the street etc showing off their own personal style choices. I think that had to do with why the mag got the title. It was about personal identity as displayed through clothing hence i.d.
I've been leafing through copies in newsagents recently and think it's mainly lost that aspect. Seems to be more about trendier styling. More about stylists than the d.i.y. thing it started as.
You wouldn't think to look at its glossy current look that it started as a stapled post punk fanzine.

The World At One

strange the first thing I got reminded of was this thread

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 (11 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

not a pun but i did wonder what those stars at the bottom of the Blackstar sleeve meant, whether they were some kind of substitution cipher. but it's simpler than that...

b o w i e

is it a cipher or just stylised letters?

cos if it's a cipher, the black star would be an 'O' which is about as ominous as you can get if you wanted to read anything into it

> is it a cipher or just stylised letters?

stylised to the point of being a cipher 8) i think that's what threw me, i was envisaging a whole alphabet.

whoa @ "a lad insane"

lol

bridge of spies/bridge of sighs

Whoa - a Robin Trower reference!

Nero Burning ROM

(not sure if counts as pun or reference)

ha ha, never noticed that

"Blue" Gene Tyranny (Gene Tierney)

Daft punk's "Disco-very"

I feel like such a dumbass.

Talking about Puns you had missed, anybody know a book called Puns by a writer that I think was a French Philosopher or related? There was a copy I'd been thinking of buying in the local 2nd hand bookshop & it was sold when I went back today i.e. I missed it.
Should have noted title and author but didn't.

Daft punk's "Disco-very"

I feel like such a dumbass.

― barbarian radge (NotEnough), 5. april 2016 23:20 (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

But you did get the song Veridis Quo from the album?

xp walter redfern. I have a copy but only flicked through it

Thanks name rings a bell so I think that was probably it.

Ilxor-authored novel Us Conductors.

Only clicked the other day that the title of one of my favourite books, Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky, was a play on the Jules Verne book. I am very, very slow.

I've had the phrase 'That's my name, don't WEEEEEERRRRREEEE it out' stuck in my head since the days of Conor Smedley, so much so that close friends have started to say it regardless of knowing the context. Only the other day did I realise it was a pun on 'werewolf' and not just an amusing spelling error.

waiting for guffman = waiting for godot

Daft punk's "Disco-very"
I feel like such a dumbass.
― barbarian radge (NotEnough), 5. april 2016 23:20 (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
But you did get the song Veridis Quo from the album?
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 5 April 2016 23:48 (3 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

deft puns

had never really processed "Staples" before today.

Whoa, I'd never thought about the dual meaning, and yet it is now so obvious.

the Beatles

Yeah think that one comes up from time to time. i think it may have just become so iconic that you forget the original play on words.
Like the name takes on an entity of its own that is so well established it's no longer looked at.

Porcupine Tree just hit me recently

(it makes more sense considering that Wilson conceived PT as a "lost" psychedelic band from the late 60's, and therefore exactly the sort of band that would have a lame/punning name)

I was just about ask what the pun was and then I saw it "Pine Tree."

Yes, you're right, that is lame (xp)

omg missed that one.

Now for long-winded story of a visual pun I just got a while ago.
A couple of years ago when Jody Foster and Mel Gibson were doing publicity for the move The Beaver, Jody (I think) appeared on a talk show with the puppet, and when I looked at it I finally realized why the female. errrm, "crotchal area" is referred to as a beaver. The two big white teeth, separated by a gap, resembles the vulva/slit. I swear there were whiskers or something on the puppet that resembled pubic hair, but none of the pictures I see on the net show any whiskers. I had always assumed the word was used because just it was a small, furry animal, with no other meaning, but I discovered there's more to it than that.

http://www.joblo.com/newsimages1/MelGibsonBeaver_post.jpg

Right that's it ban everyone itt ban them for life ffs

There was a medieval belief that a gap between the top front teeth indicated a lascivious nature. Came across that doing Chaucer at A level I think

Also Leonardo da Vinci said that they chewed their balls off when threatened, which would be an odd response to most stressful situations, but there you go. https://books.google.com.au/books?id=DcGkCQAAQBAJ&pg=PT65&lpg=PT65&dq=da+vinci+beaver+testicles&source=bl&ots=sUtgvPG7qo&sig=iMB8iPaoGpHvVVx_RdGA3Eq30jY&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiz-4fkk7_MAhWFFqYKHUfDBNsQ6AEILzAD#v=onepage&q=da vinci beaver testicles&f=false

da vinci beaver testicles&f=false indeed

in scritti politti's "die alone" when mos def raps "candy and sublime are friends of mine" is that meant to suggest kantian sublime

I am now pretty sure I am gay because I have seen beaver teeth and have never felt like sticking my dick in it

beavers nibble wood --- can we move on?

"Slick Willy" (for fmr. prez Clinton) was probably always a gross double entendre, right? I missed that for 20 years.

I realised the other day that the song "God loves a terrier" from Best In Show is most likely a pun on 'God loves a trier'.