puns that you had missed

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

the what double meaning?

spike = needle to inject heroin
to 'jones' = slang for craving drugs

aha, I see

https://www.wired.com/2016/09/pun-competitions/

FROM THE MOMENT he spoke, I knew I was screwed. On the surface, the guy wasn’t particularly fearsome—pudgy, late thirties, polo shirt, plaid shorts, baseball cap, dad sneakers—but he looked completely at ease. One hand in his pocket, the other holding the microphone loosely, like a torch singer doing crowd work. And when he finally began talking, it was with an assurance that belied the fact that he was basically spewing nonsense.

“I hate all people named John,” he said with surprising bravado. “Yeah, that’s right, that was a John diss!” The crowd roared. John-diss. Jaundice. A glorious, groan-inducing precision strike of a pun.

Nickelodeon = nickel + odeon

Yeah it becomes more obvious when you see what it was originally. A fairground or arcade attraction that you put a nickel in and saw a film short. Hence it becoming the nickname used for later film related devices and a kids cartoon network thing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gUNZAmFfKA

how is 'john diss sounds like the word jaundice' a pun

How to Wreck a Nice Beach

Now that's more like it

Arrested Development

how is 'john diss sounds like the word jaundice' a pun
― kinder, Thursday, 6 October 2016 20:10 (yesterday) Permalink

It was a "themed" round based on the theme "diseases" apparently.

I guess in that case it can certainly be a pun

How to Wreck a Nice Beach🔗

trivial pursuit

don't know how, I think it's one of those things where a thing is called something & you're like yep those are some words sure

Is that a thing where what was used as a dismissal of an activity sparked the idea for a game through over literalism?

Gosh we may never know

Rolling Benoitballs Thread

When I started this thread I didn't know what ben wah balls were; I was just saying it in a Private Eye "Colemanballs" kind of way

"men's wearhouse"

Had not heard of the play that 'morning becomes eclectic' was punning on

somehow only just realised that Split Enz is spelt "Split Enz" because they are from NZ (I thought it was just an intentional mispelling of "split ends", with no deeper significance)

dunno that it was intentional (probably just my childish brain) but when one of the baddies keeps chanting "20 seconds, no more dick, 20 seconds no more dick" before an impending explosion in the Dick Tracy movie, that it could also be doubling for saying that Tracy's balls are about to get blown off

"The crowd roared. John-diss. Jaundice."

NY mag column "Select/All"

omg

Dead Can Dance = decadence

Ha, that's so lame.

hm, really? In an aus accent it kinda doesnt work...

Always wondered what that meant so I suppose this explanation is as good as any other.

Dec Can Dance would be better but I guess Ant and Dec weren't really a thing back in the early 80s.

The wealthy family from Fresh Prince of Bel-Air is named BANKS.

Pun, or just hacky writing?

both. last night I watched Sabrina, the Audrey Hepburn movie, with my wife. Sabrina's last name was Fairchild. hacky writers have always loved this ploy.

took me a while to figure out the title of Jim O'Rourke's "Halfway to a Threeway." it's about a guy talking about having sex with a paralyzed amputee

still trying to figure out what "Not Sport, Marital Art" means (not a typo, marital as in marriage).