puns that you had missed

neenan

noonan

hannibal

cannibal

let's call the whole thing off

tom neenan and tom noonan in conversation with bbc newsperson nina nannar, tonight at nine

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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.

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 .

Yeah, they have and it's pretty obvious.

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.

Looking at the current WDYLL thread just now I realized that ILXor Noodle Vague got his name from the phrase Nouvelle Vague (I assume).

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..

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>.

gnaaah bbcode AGAIN sry

huh, I figured it was an homage to aviation pioneer Falcon Heene

is su tissue (aka susan mclane from suburban lawns) a pun? is it a pun on suits you?

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.

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OMG

Looking through Pushkin titles and just now made the Boris Badenov connection...sheeeeeeesh.

I got the Tang joke at the time, but got Flaming Moe 1.3 seconds after reading Liz's post

Help me out

Hint: what does Homer prefer to be flaming

Assume I Am Legend is a play on biblical “I am Legion.”

This is like that time I only just got "Sneed's Feed and Seed (formerly Chuck's)" recently.

(I have likely mentioned that on here before lol)

Assume I Am Legend is a play on biblical “I am Legion.”

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until today: stan lee

i am dense sometimes.

ohhhhhhhh...!

as in stanley? kind of like kal penn.

Stan the man's real surname was Leiber, so I'm not sure the 'Stanley' pun of his pseudonym was intentional.

The name of the health and beauty store The Body Shop is a play on automotive body shops.

Yeah, I remember clocking that about 20 years too late.

more of a 'huh' than a 'whaaaaat!'.

Harry's Shave Club

Captain Bee Fart

... is BBC's Countryfile for countryphiles?

It's a programme aimed at farmers so anything that clever is unlikely.

xp

haven't you seen the hit youtube phenomena The Countryphile Hunter? Some ex dads 4 justice/edl thug hunts down rogue farmers who haven't been rotating their soil properly and have been feeding beefburgers to swans.

^ under-appreciated reference

Jah Wobble. Literally only this morning got it for the first time ever.

(I think?)

According to Wikipedia:

Jah Wobble acquired his stage name through the drunken, mumbled version of Wardle's name by Sid Vicious, which Wobble kept because "people would never forget it".

Yes, it's not a pun.

Oh. Okay. I assumed it was a multivalent play on both 'jahwohl' and the oft-referenced deity 'Jah' of reggae/dub fame. Never mind me.

(TBF, I'd gone the bulk of my life never thinking it was a play on anything, so perhaps we could all just agree that I'm having a hypoglycemic spell today and call it fair dos.)

It's based on John Wardle innit, so sounds like a rationalisation of a drunken slur like Inna Gadda Da Vida was In The Garden Of Eden after Doug Ingle had several bottles of wine one night. NOt a pun.

An old colleague had a cat called "fluffy dickens" because that was her boyfriend's drunken attempt to say "fucking dickhead"

Didn't realise that donkey's years was a pun on the length of donkey's ears.

Have been familiar with mall sneaker store Shoe Biz for years, thinking the name just referred to the fact that their business was selling shoes. The lame pun on show biz just now registered.

To many people, "podcast" is a hilarious perfect rhyme for "broadcast."

Boyzone = Boy's Own

Comedy metal act Goblin Cock = gobblin' cock, i.e. performing oral sex on a male member (fnarr) of the species. Any species, I guess.