puns that you had missed

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'.

twin peaks brothel "one-eyed jack's"

Voice of the Xtabay, the 1950 album by Peruvian singer Yuma Sumac with music by Les Baxter that was a landmark record for both of them…

"Xtabay" is not the name of some obscure Incan tribe but rather a quasi-pig latin rendition of "Baxter."

(Got this from the new Les Baxter biog by James Spencer)

wah, that's great!

Meanwhile, "Yma Sumac" is a name people think is some kind of pun, but isn't

So she ain't Amy Camus from Brooklyn then?

Hadn't heard that Xtabay thing before and I've been listening to the music since I was a kid. My grandparents had the Shellac album set of that lp. & I learnt not to clean shellac with spray on vinyl cleaner on the side for Monos from that.

Have always wondered what the Xtabay was so interesting to hear that. Back Latin.

She really was from Peru, although that may be the only part of her bio that was truthful. Yma Sumac was not her real name, she was really Zoila Augusta Emperatriz Chávarri del Castillo. She took the name Yma Sumac because, apparently, it was based on her mother's name and was also a Quechua phrase meaning "how beautiful" or "beautiful flower."

Charles Mingus - Mingus Dynasty

Is Rubber Soul a play on rubber sole(d) shoes? Because that literally never dawned on me until yesterday.

I'd assume it was a ringo riposte to people talking about blue-eyed soul or various other types. But not sure when various terms originated. Too early for references to Northen & Southern Soul presumably.
Or a response to soul being too plastic?

Funny seeing the old version of the lp being put under R for band name. Would have thought the distorted faces on the front were still too recognised. Remaster has the band name on the packaging.

yeah it's a play in rubber sole

cf the take of I'm Down, available on Anthology 2.

During the session, particularly between takes one and two, McCartney can be heard repeating the phrase "Plastic soul, man, plastic soul". He later revealed that the phrase, which the Beatles later adapted for the title of their album Rubber Soul, was used by black musicians to describe Mick Jagger.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%27m_Down

But yes, a play on rubber sole too, of course.

Honk if you're horny

Somehow never got this until a fb friend noted that he had just gotten it.

oh shit, i just got that :/

ohhhhhhhhhhhhh

Oh, shit!

:-O

Lads

http://i.imgur.com/GKFIUiC.gif

Lying in bed at night, I suddenly thought:

"Is 50 First Dates a pun on 51st State"?

"Fifty First Dates"

― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Sunday, 30 October 2011 18:02 (4 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Because it's like "Fifty-first States"? Never thought of that.

― Mayne of Fules (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 30 October 2011 18:15 (4 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

(I only remember because I hadn't realised before then)

I bet I saw that five years ago and it was just percolating in my unconscious.

Would've made more sense if it took place in PR.

Unless it was celebrating the first date + the 50th state.

Not sayin' y'all aren't on to something though...

Rising Sun :: Tokyo Rose

It's not a pun but airbnb - I thought it was air bnb as in air! the cloud! wifi! the internet! the future, man! no it's airb nb as in you sleep on an airbed. even though I wouldn't be surprised if there isn't a single listing in the world that offers that anymore.

Had no idea why it was called airbnb tbh.

I don't know what an air bed is.

airb nbd

(xp) Just be grateful you've never had to sleep on one.

my mattress is memory foam. absolutely no fun to sleep on unless you like waking up with a dead arm

I never got that pun, thanks for clearing up

Wait, I do know what an air bed is but had temporary word blindness from the implausibility of airbnb hosts offering you one.

Whiskas

Wow, I hadn't realized that either!

I blame the pronunciation o'er here, with a very hard, short 'as' at the end. It's probably the same in Finland,

What didn't you get?

they brand it as whiskas. like the way people pronounce puskas. it amazes me this one didn't register with you both!

In Denmark it's pronounced 'veeskas'. Never realized it was a pun either.

But that is also how u say whiskers

I can't remember which bond villain performance upon which I base this knowledge but I feel v sure about it

what's the pun with Whiskas?

other than it's the word whiskers, but that's not a pun.

We pronounce whiskers as 'k'nur-haw'

I recently came across some old LPs in my attic that I've had since I was 7 or 8 years old. They're recordings of stories adapted from or based on popular TV shows of the time -- Space: 1999, The Six Million Dollar Man, Star Trek.

The last one has four original stories, three written by Alan Dean Foster, and I noticed that one of them is called "To Starve a Fleaver." Seven-year-old me would never have gotten that pun.

Rock the Vote.

Only got Soft Cell the other day when listening to a Soft Cell song on Beats in Space where Marc Almond specifically refers to "the soft sell"

Oh yeah, I only got that one recently too. One of those where I was exposed to the pun before the thing it was punning on.

Rock the Vote.

omg

http://i.imgur.com/1txQgjG.gif

I just read that Aerosmith almost took the name "Spike Jones" when they were starting out, which made me think for the first time that "Spike Jones" could be a drug culture double entendre.

Apparently it's not, since Spike Jones got that nickname as a child, but then again he must have come across junkies in the '40s who would have been aware of the double meaning