puns that you had missed

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!"

lol, sorry DJP. I should have specified.

Definitely feel that Sesame Street is based more on an "Open Sesame" type reveal, street/seed don't rhyme... and yet, gotta think there's something there.

In the TV series Arrested Development, one of the main characters is a crooked real estate developer whom the cops want to arrest, but it's also a series about immature adults.

xp to flappy bird:

That always makes me think of this, which was in the video store I worked at 15 years ago.

http://www.dvd-covers.org/d/76744-3/211solgoode_scan_hires.jpg

(pronounced "good")

Xmessage

Sol Goode (pronounced 'good')

Funny thing is Goode is supposed to rhyme with "dude".

this may be a stretch, but is 'blowing session' (in reference to jazz records) a double entendre? for me it evokes

(1) a roomful of top jazz dudes exuberantly jamming away on their horns with little artistic direction, really showing off their chops but tending toward self-indulgence

(2) a roomful of top jazz dudes exuberantly sucking each other's (and their own?) dicks with little artistic direction, really showing off their chops but tending toward self-indulgence

but maybe that's just wishful thinking idk

Bit of a reacharound

On Rotten Tomatoes, "Weekly Ketchup" = "Weekly Catch-up".

Doc Hollywood as a pun on Doc Holliday

http://www.hiphopslam.com/bj/online_photos_2014/wfmu-1.jpg

Anna Domino <-> anno domini

Ari Up = Hurry up, yes?

yes

Not a pun but today I realized that maybe Mike Jones repeated his lines all the time to emulate the "chopped" parts of chopped and screwed records?

I just had 3/4s running through my head for some reason this afternoon when I started thinking about the alternative country band. Is it supposed to be a numerical pun or not.
Been a long time since I listened to them

Sorry Freakwater, Janet Beveridge Bean etc.

Meta: It just now, after 7 or so years on ILX, dawned on me what "Alfred, Lord Sotosyn" is a pun on

Oh yeah