puns that you had missed

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

did he admit to being familiar with rabbit runs

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.

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.

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.

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

I was raised by snakes, I lie all the time.

🤦

Was "Scarborough Country" a pun on "Marlboro Country"?

lol of course it was

"They leave the west behind" in Back in the USSR

Heh.

idgi

Rest behind. It's not the wordplay of the century.

Not a classic, true.

is Rhodes Must Fall a pun on Roads Must Roll or is there something that they both pun on?

(searching for "Roads Must" just turns up results for the latter. searching "Must Fall" results for the former)

dank 1308 memes

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

Took me a few years to figure out

"Chest Fever"

What's the pun there?

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

nope, still dgi

Google suggests that awareness of the pun is entirely contained within James' posts on ILX

That's probably over the line into being a dick, sorry.

The Mighty Fall, which is what John Peel often referred to Mark E Smith's band as.

ohhhh

Chest ColdFever

Google suggests that awareness of the pun is entirely contained within James' posts on ILX

xxxp hooollly shit!

this thread is always so humbling

The dictionary definition of "The mighty Fall" actually fits better with what Peel was saying. Not that it matters, but I don't think he was making a pun.

If “The Mighty Fall” is not a pun, it’s surely a play on words, and one I’d missed all these years. My reaction was roughly the same as sic’s.

What do you mean by the dictionary definition of the mighty Fall, everything?

And yes, a play on words, not strictly a pun, you're right, Tim.

I want to believe it was intentional, because they are, and they do

Mike Watt + the Secondmen

This post on the obituary thread today, about some tv show I haven't the foggiest clue about

Right! I don't totally remember but it seems to me from quick search that Nipsey Russell was an upper left seat.

Richard Dawson pretty much held down that bottom center for an eternity as far as I can remember, although I see some images of Dick Martin in that seat as well.

― Garu’s Got a Rona

taught me that the name Nipsey Hussle was a pun.

(TV programme is celebrity squares, the American version)

No, it's Match Game.

Hollywood Squares is the American version of Celebrity Squares.

Ok, thanks. American TV isn't the universal reference point the way they sometimes think it is and stuff like this never made it overseas (well maybe the formats did but not the regulars). I only know Nipsie from a reference in Milk and Cheese comics...

UK equivalent would perhaps be Charlie Drake

(oh, Nipsie *was* on Hollywood Squares, so I didn't misremember that, but the thing in that crow parody was Match Game)

(TV programme is Blankety Blank, the American version)

https://www.chortle.co.uk/books/2020/05/19/46138/alternative_comedy,_by_oliver_double

real name or punny stage name?

Hip hop producer Nosaj Thing - now that I hear it, guessing this is an intentional pun and not spelling your name backwards for no reason?

He's no Posdnous.

dammit! Posdnuos.

it was recently pointed out to me that 'house', as in the tv show featuring an irascible hugh laurie, is a pun on 'holmes', as in sherlock holmes

That is bad if true

Anyway, a house is famously not a home. Should have called him Dr Dwelling

isn't a house m.d. also a thing, though? Like, a doctor attached to a specific hospital, or am I making that up?

Is there a doctor in the ... ?

Electric Light Orchestra

idgi