puns that you had missed

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.

always thought it was a play on a coal porter, which I don't know for a fact even existed

Isle of Dogs

i love dogs

Okay but the Isle of Dogs as an area of London predates any punderstanding of it as "I love dogs."

Apparently it may have been a corruption of ducks or dykes. Seems unlikely that its 16th century roots were puntastic in nature, but I would be happy to be proven wrong.

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

... I did point that out right after the original post.

Ironically the Isle of Man did not decriminialise acts of male homosexuality until 1992.

Presumably Abanana was not talking about the geographical Isle of Dogs rather than the movie of the same name, where the pun could be intentional, even if it's not in the place name?

yeah the initial inspiration or the film came from Anderson seeing a road sign for the Isle of Dogs while shooting in London though

kinda glad he didn't see a sign for Catford

Is there an Isle of Dogs dog like the Catford cat?

I just got Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? The shame, the shame...

wow!

I just got Camper Van Beethoven. Tbf, I never listened to them.

Heh, you and me both.

This game is great, no idea how I missed the pun until like 20 minutes ago.

https://images.vice.com/vice/images/articles/meta/2015/12/09/invisible-inc-is-the-best-strategy-game-of-2015-where-any-decision-can-mean-life-or-death-110-1449660270.jpg

That one passed me by too.

And I’m usually vigilant around ‘incs’ after failing to notice Lipps inc for a long time.

The person blown into Munchkinland by a strong wind is named Dorothy... Gale

She doesn't get a surname until two books later, though!

I'm not sure this counts as a pun, but my getting a clue in a game of Taboo ruled out at the weekend was the first time I'd noticed that the band name Frankie Goes to Hollywood references/plays with the singer's first name. Even then, I supposed it was a coincidence, but it turns out the band was originally called Hollycaust, so there you go.

sic - hmph. you and your fancy-ass "books." sheesh.

They’re not that fancy, my sister has an Oz omnibus printed in two columns and bound like a phone book.

good news YMP!

The last name of Gale was originally mentioned in Baum's script for the 1902 Broadway stage version of The Wizard of Oz, in which it was originally a setup for a punning joke. (DOROTHY: "I am Dorothy, and I am one of the Kansas Gales." SCARECROW: "That accounts for your breezy manner.")

is the falcon and the winter soldier a pun on the falcon and the snowman?

i think you might be overthinking that one tbrr

Valid question!

I don't know about 'pun' but I had similarly considered that it might be a vague allusion that most people would neither get nor particularly care about.

Reminds me of my friend who alleged that Silver Jews' "Smith & Jones Forever" was actually about the 1997 hit film, Men In Black.

I guess he wasn't familiar with the UK comedy duo?

surprised by tuomas there. but he may not be aware of this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alas_Smith_and_Jones
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alias_Smith_and_Jones

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No, man. Men In Black, the science-fiction motion picture that starred Ted Kennedy's nephew and the sexy Welsh singer.

UConn Huskies apparently not a pun, but it should have been

"Progressive rock" is just another way of saying Rolling Stone.

:)

haha I always just assumed David Berman was a fan of 80s UK TV comedy. Never questioned it

thinking back, it's a huge stretch of the imagination, but then doesn't Stephen Malkmus support Luton Town FC?

Is butt-rock just regressive rock?

Is "Beastie Boys" a (bad) pun on Beach Boys?

I don't think so. They did invent a backronym for it. can't remember the origin tho

being a fan of both bands though, it saved a lot of time when cd shopping back in the day

have you heard the song smith & jones forever doorstep jetski

John Updike claimed never to have heard of the British WW2 song "Run, Rabbit, Run" until after his novel Rabbit, Run was published.