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“T-Bone” Wolk

What's the pun in that?

A play on T-Bone Walker, I presume. That's not really a pun though.

No, guess not, but didn’t know what other thread to put it on.

I'm waiting for someone to call himself T-Bone Woke.

not so much a pun as a derivation but I just realised that strewth/struth came from "God's truth"

Oh, I've always assumed it comes from "is truth".

God or Christ are usually involved on these occasions.

Interesting. I thought it stemmed from 'sooth'.

ZOUNDS

GADZOOKS

sblood!

Criminy!

Cripes!

Goldurn!

homina homina homina

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minced_oath

huh, I always figured "for crying out loud" was a way of amending "FUCK ... rying out loud" but that article wants it to be a minced "for Christ's sake".

Crikey, (cor) blimey, gosh...

Odd’s Bodkin!

In addition to everything else he says, Bob Wills sometimes interjects “Domino!” Seeing that there was nobody in his band with that name as far as I know, I now assume it is a minced oath in place of “Damn!”

Also been meaning to post about another visual pun, namely that bodybuilder key image on the front door of a locksmith’s.

Saul Goodman

Damn! (Never seen the show, just seen the name in writing)

Read this yesterday and just got it now.

Just watching Better Call Saul and he spells it out in episode 3 and it was a lightbulb moment.

Happens to the best of us apparently

I saw 101 Dalmations in the 1970's so I've known about Cruella De Vil since then.

But it wasn't until the middle of last night in 2019 that I realized, oh it's Cruella DEVIL.

That's 50 years for a pun to sink in.

What thing has taken you too long to realize? #ShouldBeObvious pic.twitter.com/nn7CH22tun

— Josh Weinstein (@Joshstrangehill) October 29, 2019

The pun of it being the rest of your life (as in relaxed slumber) was completely lost on me until just recently.

HOLY SHIT

Eephus is referring to a post made 14 years ago, in case anyone is working to a more conventional span of attention.

Saul Goodman

― koogs, Wednesday, October 23, 2019 6:45 AM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink

Damn! (Never seen the show, just seen the name in writing)

― anatol_merklich, Wednesday, October 23, 2019 10:28 PM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink

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

Yesterday I saw a red Beetle with a sign on it reading

STAMP TRAMP
Mobile Notary

Which I think is pretty good.

I only realised a few weeks ago that "Unfinished Sympathy" (the Massive Attack song) is wordplay on "unfinished symphony". For almost 30 years I thought it was just a weird term they came up with.

What a film that looks like: 'Who is Sol Goode? Sol Goode (pronounced "good") is the man!"

Love the either Photoshopped or recently decapitated, preserved and reinstated head on the dude in the burgundy shirt, too.

"Unfinished Sympathy" also a piece by Mike Gibbs on Gary Burton's Ring from 1974.

lol deej the next sentence in the article is "As fresh as they sound, they’re not the first. Back in the ’90s, E-40, Suga Free and Silkk the Shocker each found new ways to melt the clock, cramming their lines with lumps of molten syllables, reminding us how mouth-music can loosen our sense of temporality."
― ANU (sisilafami), Monday, 16 December 2019 12:21 (nine hours ago)
This stuff is even more annoying, like ppl comparing Blueface to suga free to show off their rap history chops instead of just pointing to what immediately predated these guys ... like those old head radio djs saying tekashi sounds like onyx when he told them he was inspired by rondonumbanine
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40) maandag 16 december 2019 23:10

yeah it's pretty disingenuous, like I dunno he does tend to stick around with a hit every couple of years so they've probably heard or liked and E-40 song but if i were betting $100 of my own money i would not bet that they have even heard of suga free or silkk the shocker, but yeah i doubt 40 is an influence
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), maandag 16 december 2019 23:21

Isle of Dogs

i love dogs

Coincidentally,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isle_of_Dogs

Similarly, I only got this one relatively recently, Isle of Lucy,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TW6W9iOjTKM

oh shit at i love dogs, duh

That’s dumb

https://img.discogs.com/UUkOzolHiGZ_7kOozI9yX11PqJE=/fit-in/600x610/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-1643625-1568882537-7724.jpeg.jpg

I used to live near an Islay View, so named because you could see Islay from it.

I hadn’t twigged that Prince’s “New Power Generation” was a play on electrical generating as well as generational change.

Puns you thought you had missed but turned out not to actually be puns at all: Cole Porter is his real name, and not in fact a play on 'colporteur', a seller of stories. I had to google around to check this after encountering the word a few weeks ago.

^I always think this as well

Tbf a colporteur is basically a peddler (not necessarily of stories) or a huckster.

Oh wait I was thinking in French. I had no idea the word had been imported into English.