puns that you had missed

occurred to me on watching the last Last Week Tonight last week that there is almost inevitably going to be a spate of shows at the end of the year called 2020 Hindsight.

Or 2020 Vision

"mick signals"

Since 1988 I've thought that Prince's track "Anna Stesia" was a Prince-ified version of the name Anastasia, so I always heard him sing it "Anna Staysia". Today I read a piece suggesting it was a play on "anaesthesia" - sure enough I now hear "Anna Steesia" and the whole track suddenly makes more sense. I don't know what's weirder, the change in perception or the fact that I've been listening to Lovesexy for 32 years.

Oh wow me too

waht and also lol and I sincerely mean that in the least mocking way possible; I've never even imagined the possibility of Anastasia

I think it's as simple as the fact that I had a friend called Anastasia at the time and she claimed the song as her own, and I never thought about it since!

I only got this when I said the title out loud for the first time, like 25 years after it came out.

https://i.imgur.com/yC6HO55.jpg

Not so sure I buy "Anna Stesia" as "Anesthesia," but I've also never decided whether "Annie Christian" is supposed to be a half-assed play on "anti-Christian." Because if it is, it's awful.

"Anna Stesia" is absolutely 100% "anesthesia" and "Annie Christian" is absolutely 100% "anti-Christian" (the chorus goes "Annie Christian / Antichrist / Until I'm crucified / I'll live my life in taxicabs" so it's not like it's subtle)

how could Anna Stesia be anything other than "anesthesia"

"anus thieves here"?

I mean, it is Prince, who knows what that was a temple for

how could Anna Stesia be anything other than "anesthesia"

I don't think Anastasia is such a reach! Surely he was at least punning on that name?

For a long time I didn't realise that 'Finger FOC' was spelled like that because it was by Friends of Carlotta..... DURRR

I am 41 and have had this book since I was 8 or 9, have read it maybe 15 times and never twigged any of these apart from "Ed Banger"

32 years late, I am suddenly realising that all the names on Murder on the Midnight Plane are puns, including this one. pic.twitter.com/oko5R0e1mO

— Centuries of Sound (@Centuries_Sound) November 30, 2020

Secretary of State nominee A. Blinken.

HAHA

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Not so sure I buy "Anna Stesia" as "Anesthesia," but I've also never decided whether "Annie Christian" is supposed to be a half-assed play on "anti-Christian." Because if it is, it's awful.

Can I introduce you to Silverchair's "Anna's Song," which makes a very deep and important point with the lyric

"'Cos Anna wrecks ya heart
Like Anna wrecks
ya"

we're about two seconds away from posting "If You Seek Amy" in here

oh christ, I always hated that fucking lyric. I liked the song ok enough until I heard that

the full second lyric is actually "and Ana wrecks your life/like an anorexia life"

and the opening is "Please die Ana/for as long as you're here, we're not"

ugh

dang, my sneered-at but misheard version is actually better

Annie Areyouokay

poor ol' Annie Ruok

xps well tbf Daniel Johns struggled with anorexia for years, I can forgive the cringe pun

I really wanna say "death of the author" but

I realized today the title of the movie Sully is a dumb and obvious pun that I had missed, ie that the NTSB inquiry is an attempt to "sully" the pilot's reputation?

I mean, it's the actual nickname of the actual pilot?

Hence a pun!

circles within circles

xxpost

Yes, thank you for that information.

Is 'Roland Schitt' a pun?

― Bidh boladh a' mhairbh de 'n láimh fhalaimh (dowd), Tuesday, December 8, 2020 2:00 PM (eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

From the television program Schitt's Creek

which is a pun, to be clear

Schitt's Creek = pun I had not missed
Roland Schitt = pun I had missed

To be clear, it was a genuine question. I don't know if it's a pun or not.

On 'roll in shit' or 'roll and shit'? I guess both would be a bit lame for different reasons.

A roll and shit, like a roll and sausage.

So is the name of US indie band Purling Hiss a spoonerism of Hurling Piss or what?

xp to Dowd oh I definitely think it's there. Roll in shit.

sounds great, no wonder it won all those Emmys

Oh u

Just realized the word 'cube' is (phonetically) contained within the name 'Q-Bert'.

woah

Dick's Wings

Stankonia????!

Wikipedia sez:

In March 1998, André 3000 and Big Boi purchased a studio off Northside Drive in Atlanta which had formerly belonged to R&B singer Bobby Brown. The studio had sentimental value for the duo, as it was the first place the two had ever recorded vocals together, on a remix of TLC's "What About Your Friends" (1992). The two named the studio "Stankonia", a word created by André 3000 as a combination of the words "stank", a slang synonym for "funky", and "Plutonia", the title of a poster in his bedroom depicting a futuristic city. He explained, "Stankonia is this place I imagined where you can open yourself up and be free to express anything".

hmm

yesterday i said to my son “that’ll put some stank on ya” and was like ohhhhhh

it's used with that double meaning in the lyrics at the end of the album

lol "puns you were too faded to have clocked"