Sorry Freakwater, Janet Beveridge Bean etc.
― Stevolende, Tuesday, 19 September 2017 23:31 (eight years ago)
Meta: It just now, after 7 or so years on ILX, dawned on me what "Alfred, Lord Sotosyn" is a pun on
― .oO (silby), Tuesday, 24 October 2017 23:08 (eight years ago)
Oh yeah
― Alba, Wednesday, 25 October 2017 03:49 (eight years ago)
I mean, I still don't know what sotosyn is but I guess that doesn't matter
― Alba, Wednesday, 25 October 2017 03:51 (eight years ago)
Last name Soto, I believe.
― nickn, Wednesday, 25 October 2017 04:52 (eight years ago)
A ha
― Alba, Wednesday, 25 October 2017 07:01 (eight years ago)
sotosyn thesis
― imago, Wednesday, 25 October 2017 07:58 (eight years ago)
Fats Domino/Chubby Checker
(just saw it on Twitter, never made the connection until just now)
― nate woolls, Wednesday, 25 October 2017 15:30 (eight years ago)
I only know that becauseThings you were shockingly old when you learned
― kinder, Wednesday, 25 October 2017 15:38 (eight years ago)
You've lost me there.
― Terry Micawber (Tom D.), Wednesday, 25 October 2017 15:38 (eight years ago)
*slaps forehead*
― iCloudius (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 25 October 2017 15:48 (eight years ago)
Both ripping off little-known ragtime artist Hefty Mahjong, of course.
― The Wetting Planner (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 25 October 2017 15:53 (eight years ago)
^^^ A+. (Even better if read in the voice of Seymour from Ghost World.)
― Christopher Futterwacken (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 25 October 2017 16:11 (eight years ago)
Donnie Trumpet
― niels, Thursday, 14 December 2017 14:59 (eight years ago)
"Tom Nook" is a pun on "tanuki"
― .oO (silby), Friday, 15 December 2017 23:05 (eight years ago)
the mighty mighty bosstones - 'bosstones' -> 'boston' (b/c they're from boston)
― 龜, Thursday, 28 December 2017 22:23 (eight years ago)
Mash Report is a pun on Match Report
― koogs, Thursday, 18 January 2018 22:10 (eight years ago)
The Silence of the Lambs is about Hannibal the cannibal
― StanM, Sunday, 25 February 2018 21:42 (eight years ago)
and I only found out because I saw this: https://i.imgur.com/Q24OqJt.png
― StanM, Sunday, 25 February 2018 21:47 (eight years ago)
What
― Simpson L. (darraghmac), Sunday, 25 February 2018 22:08 (eight years ago)
Are you whatting Stan or the fact?
― Alba, Monday, 26 February 2018 09:25 (eight years ago)
Stan!
― Simpson L. (darraghmac), Monday, 26 February 2018 09:57 (eight years ago)
I think I missed this pun till a few years ago. In my defence, I've never seen or read Silence of the Lambs.
― Alba, Monday, 26 February 2018 10:09 (eight years ago)
I'm not usually this slow :-/
― StanM, Monday, 26 February 2018 10:12 (eight years ago)
w... what is the pun
― Haribo Hancock (sic), Monday, 26 February 2018 10:46 (eight years ago)
maybe not a pun then? Hannibal the cannibal?
― StanM, Monday, 26 February 2018 11:13 (eight years ago)
what
― Haribo Hancock (sic), Monday, 26 February 2018 11:14 (eight years ago)
― Simpson L. (darraghmac), Monday, 26 February 2018 11:32 (eight years ago)
Does Hannibal become a cannibal in a jokey take on nominative determinism or is it presented as an amazing coincidence?
― Alba, Monday, 26 February 2018 12:22 (eight years ago)
I think it was the fictional tabloid take
Which certainly is trying to have your brain and eat it too but still
― Simpson L. (darraghmac), Monday, 26 February 2018 12:31 (eight years ago)
i believe they use the phrase "hannibal the cannibal" in the books
― adam the (abanana), Monday, 26 February 2018 15:21 (eight years ago)
― Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Monday, 26 February 2018 15:22 (eight years ago)
this hannibal-related diversion was confusing enough until i re-read that tweet and noticed it was from tom neenan, not manhunter actor tom noonan as i'd originally read it yesterday, and now my brain feels like it's melting
― NEW CHIMP THREAT (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 26 February 2018 15:25 (eight years ago)
neenan
noonan
hannibal
cannibal
let's call the whole thing off
― NEW CHIMP THREAT (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 26 February 2018 15:26 (eight years ago)
tom neenan and tom noonan in conversation with bbc newsperson nina nannar, tonight at nine
― NEW CHIMP THREAT (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 26 February 2018 15:27 (eight years ago)
waht
― Le Bateau Ivre, Monday, 26 February 2018 15:45 (eight years ago)
WHAT
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Monday, 26 February 2018 23:45 (eight years ago)
Pat Mills confirmed last week what I and thousands of others had missed for 40 years - RoJaws and Hammerstein of Ro-Busters/ABC Warriors are named in tribute to Richard and Oscar, the theatrical composers.
― Bimlo Horsewagon became Wheelbarrow Horseflesh (aldo), Thursday, 1 March 2018 20:38 (eight years ago)
Odd that you missed that I thought it was pretty clear.Think I've even seen them break into song/dance together in a closing frame .
― Stevolende, Thursday, 1 March 2018 21:00 (eight years ago)
Yeah, they have and it's pretty obvious.
― Bimlo Horsewagon became Wheelbarrow Horseflesh (aldo), Thursday, 1 March 2018 21:19 (eight years ago)
It took a while to realize Stephin Merrit's band Gothic Archies referenced a Gothic arch. I just figured the comic book characters as Goths was the whole thing.
I only got this this morning.
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Friday, 13 July 2018 15:47 (seven years ago)
Looking at the current WDYLL thread just now I realized that ILXor Noodle Vague got his name from the phrase Nouvelle Vague (I assume).
― nickn, Friday, 27 July 2018 16:20 (seven years ago)
I have been aware of the band Icy Demons for well over a decade but I guess I never actually said the band's name aloud before. Sheeeeesh, I am slow..
― Things To Do For Dinner When You're Dad (Old Lunch), Saturday, 28 July 2018 02:07 (seven years ago)
SpaceX's naming of their <i>Falcon</i> series of spacecraft seemed to go further than just a falcon being a flying thing when I noticed that the future flagship craft, the one that the Japanese billionaire has just signed on for a spin around the Moon in, is called the <i>BFR</i>, for <i>Big Falcon Rocket</i>.
― anatol_merklich, Tuesday, 18 September 2018 13:26 (seven years ago)
gnaaah bbcode AGAIN sry
huh, I figured it was an homage to aviation pioneer Falcon Heene
― ilxor-com-dog-meat-drawer-7-840-x-600.jpg (unregistered), Tuesday, 18 September 2018 13:48 (seven years ago)
is su tissue (aka susan mclane from suburban lawns) a pun? is it a pun on suits you?
― andrew m., Tuesday, 18 September 2018 14:15 (seven years ago)
Not really a pun, but rather a double entendre, in any case I never, ever got this until today. I always just figured it was a joke about Clinton's notorious weakness for junk food. This one's a sleeper on the level of Flaming Moe.
https://frinkiac.com/meme/S05E15/350399.jpg?b64lines=IEhFTExPLCBJUyBUSElTIFBSRVNJREVOVAogQ0xJTlRPTj8gR09PRCEgSSBGSUdVUkVECiBJRiBBTllPTkUgS05FVyBXSEVSRSBUTwogR0VUIFNPTUUgVEFORywgSVQnRCBCRQogWU9VLg==
― Plinka Trinka Banga Tink (Eliza D.), Thursday, 27 September 2018 12:47 (seven years ago)
OMG
― Mummenschanz in a Metal Mood (Old Lunch), Thursday, 27 September 2018 13:01 (seven years ago)
Looking through Pushkin titles and just now made the Boris Badenov connection...sheeeeeeesh.
― Mummenschanz in a Metal Mood (Old Lunch), Friday, 28 September 2018 02:54 (seven years ago)