puns that you had missed

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).

It was several years after I first heard of Hayseed Dixie until I realised it was a pun on AC/DC.

I bought this album a couple of years ago, but got the pun only now.

ha i had to say that one out loud

This is the wrong thread for this, but read a news story on the Italian referendum with a picture of a ballot, and I thought I knew a bit Italian but had absolutely no idea why the two choices would be ON or IS. What does that mean in Italian? That they're ON board with a new constitution, or want to stay with the one that already IS? Then I realized the picture was upside down...

lol

spent hours looking at tracers post til i realised it was upside down

lºl

we're through the looking glass here, people

Arrested Development

― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, October 6, 2016 6:29 PM (three months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I just now got this and am feeling pretty stupid.

It took my nine-year-old daughter, badmouthing my favorite children's program from the 1970s by saying "Sesame is a seed," for me to go, holy crap, "street" does sound like "seed," doesn't it?

soft cell = soft sell

I don't think Sesame Street/Seed is a thing

yeah me neither

http://i.imgur.com/fIzu3Ze.jpg

^ Descartes

xpost it's definitely why the name of the show "works" even if it's basically subliminal

Not a pun exactly, but watching live action 101 Dalmatians movie with my kid, and never realized that the name "De Ville" has both devil and evil in it! (EVIL was Cruella's license plate.) I just thought of the Cadillac model.

I just now got this and am feeling pretty stupid.

I just spent way too long trying to figure out the pun in the band name Arrested Development

idgi

The television show Arrested Development is about a family whose patriarch has been arrested over shady dealings in his housing development.

Saul Goodman = "S'all good, man!"