I just got Camper Van Beethoven. Tbf, I never listened to them.
― One must put up barriers to keep oneself intact (Sund4r), Saturday, 18 January 2020 13:42 (six years ago)
Heh, you and me both.
― pomenitul, Saturday, 18 January 2020 13:47 (six years ago)
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
― closed beta (NotEnough), Tuesday, 21 January 2020 15:15 (six years ago)
That one passed me by too.
― Bidh boladh a' mhairbh de 'n láimh fhalaimh (dowd), Thursday, 23 January 2020 05:58 (six years ago)
And I’m usually vigilant around ‘incs’ after failing to notice Lipps inc for a long time.
― Bidh boladh a' mhairbh de 'n láimh fhalaimh (dowd), Thursday, 23 January 2020 05:59 (six years ago)
The person blown into Munchkinland by a strong wind is named Dorothy... Gale
― Okay, you're an ambulance (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 4 February 2020 11:08 (six years ago)
She doesn't get a surname until two books later, though!
― don't care didn't ask still clappin (sic), Tuesday, 4 February 2020 11:36 (six years ago)
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.
― Eyeball Kicks, Tuesday, 4 February 2020 16:41 (six years ago)
sic - hmph. you and your fancy-ass "books." sheesh.
― Okay, you're an ambulance (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 4 February 2020 16:49 (six years ago)
They’re not that fancy, my sister has an Oz omnibus printed in two columns and bound like a phone book.
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Tuesday, 4 February 2020 16:51 (six years ago)
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.")
― don't care didn't ask still clappin (sic), Tuesday, 4 February 2020 20:59 (six years ago)
is the falcon and the winter soldier a pun on the falcon and the snowman?
― conrad, Wednesday, 5 February 2020 11:33 (six years ago)
i think you might be overthinking that one tbrr
― Homegrown Georgia speedster Ladd McConkey (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 5 February 2020 11:36 (six years ago)
Valid question!
― pplains, Wednesday, 5 February 2020 12:38 (six years ago)
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.
― Dr. Teeth and the Women (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 5 February 2020 13:01 (six years ago)
Reminds me of my friend who alleged that Silver Jews' "Smith & Jones Forever" was actually about the 1997 hit film, Men In Black.
― pplains, Wednesday, 5 February 2020 14:28 (six years ago)
I guess he wasn't familiar with the UK comedy duo?
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 5 February 2020 16:53 (six years ago)
surprised by tuomas there. but he may not be aware of this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alas_Smith_and_Joneshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alias_Smith_and_Jones
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― koogs, Wednesday, 5 February 2020 17:20 (six years ago)
No, man. Men In Black, the science-fiction motion picture that starred Ted Kennedy's nephew and the sexy Welsh singer.
― pplains, Wednesday, 5 February 2020 17:28 (six years ago)
UConn Huskies apparently not a pun, but it should have been
― wasdnuos (abanana), Tuesday, 11 February 2020 01:49 (six years ago)
"Progressive rock" is just another way of saying Rolling Stone.
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 12 February 2020 09:37 (six years ago)
:)
― Le Bateau Ivre, Wednesday, 12 February 2020 09:39 (six years ago)
haha I always just assumed David Berman was a fan of 80s UK TV comedy. Never questioned it
― doorstep jetski (dog latin), Wednesday, 12 February 2020 09:46 (six years ago)
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?
― romanesque architect (pomenitul), Wednesday, 12 February 2020 09:48 (six years ago)
Is "Beastie Boys" a (bad) pun on Beach Boys?
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 12 February 2020 09:51 (six years ago)
I don't think so. They did invent a backronym for it. can't remember the origin tho
― doorstep jetski (dog latin), Wednesday, 12 February 2020 09:57 (six years ago)
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
― conrad, Wednesday, 12 February 2020 10:06 (six years ago)
John Updike claimed never to have heard of the British WW2 song "Run, Rabbit, Run" until after his novel Rabbit, Run was published.
― fetter, Wednesday, 12 February 2020 10:14 (six years ago)
did he admit to being familiar with rabbit runs
― conrad, Wednesday, 12 February 2020 10:22 (six years ago)
Jesus, I've only just got the pun in Izzy Stradlin. I'm basing my lack of awareness on it being the most shite, lacklustre pun I've ever heard.
― Ngolo Cantwell (Chinaski), Wednesday, 12 February 2020 11:58 (six years ago)
I've only just realised that the animated "Will Smith is James Bond is a pigeon" movie is supposed to be read as Spies in The Skies.
― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 13 March 2020 08:28 (six years ago)
It just occurred to me yesterday that. Miles Davis's album "Milestones" is not just the obvious correspondence of his first name with "milestone," but it's literally Miles Tones.
― Bougy! Bougie! Bougé! (Eliza D.), Wednesday, 1 April 2020 17:22 (six years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbyqnpcmPXI
I was raised by snakes, I lie all the time.
🤦
― oder doch?, Thursday, 9 April 2020 10:54 (six years ago)
Was "Scarborough Country" a pun on "Marlboro Country"?
― Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Saturday, 6 June 2020 06:29 (six years ago)
lol of course it was
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 6 June 2020 11:09 (six years ago)
"They leave the west behind" in Back in the USSR
― Alba, Saturday, 13 June 2020 10:48 (six years ago)
Heh.
― pplains, Saturday, 13 June 2020 10:50 (six years ago)
idgi
― Subverted by buggery (Tom D.), Saturday, 13 June 2020 10:54 (six years ago)
Rest behind. It's not the wordplay of the century.
― Alba, Saturday, 13 June 2020 11:00 (six years ago)
Not a classic, true.
― Subverted by buggery (Tom D.), Saturday, 13 June 2020 11:01 (six years ago)
is Rhodes Must Fall a pun on Roads Must Roll or is there something that they both pun on?
― koogs, Thursday, 18 June 2020 07:48 (six years ago)
(searching for "Roads Must" just turns up results for the latter. searching "Must Fall" results for the former)
― koogs, Thursday, 18 June 2020 07:52 (six years ago)
dank 1308 memes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hospitaller_conquest_of_Rhodes
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 18 June 2020 08:03 (six years ago)
Took me a few years to figure out
"Chest Fever"
― ABBA O RLY? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 21 September 2020 13:39 (five years ago)
What's the pun there?
― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 21 September 2020 14:25 (five years ago)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acute_bronchitis
― ABBA O RLY? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 21 September 2020 14:42 (five years ago)
nope, still dgi
― how do i shot moon? (Noodle Vague), Monday, 21 September 2020 14:43 (five years ago)
Google suggests that awareness of the pun is entirely contained within James' posts on ILX
― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 21 September 2020 14:46 (five years ago)