hmmyesterday i said to my son “that’ll put some stank on ya” and was like ohhhhhh
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 26 December 2020 09:39 (five years ago)
it's used with that double meaning in the lyrics at the end of the album
― wasdnuos (abanana), Saturday, 26 December 2020 14:29 (five years ago)
lol "puns you were too faded to have clocked"
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 26 December 2020 17:12 (five years ago)
Lindley took no notice, went to compete in a rodeo, and was told by the doubtful rodeo manager that there would be "slim pickin's" (i.e. little chance of any prize money) for him.
― new variant (onimo), Thursday, 14 January 2021 21:45 (five years ago)
There's a major fashion franchise here in Australia called Cotton On. It's been around for decades but I only just twigged the other day.
― Zelda Zonk, Thursday, 14 January 2021 22:47 (five years ago)
you only just what?
― shivers me timber (sic), Thursday, 14 January 2021 22:57 (five years ago)
I only just got it!
― Zelda Zonk, Thursday, 14 January 2021 23:01 (five years ago)
would you say you... cottoned on?
― shivers me timber (sic), Thursday, 14 January 2021 23:06 (five years ago)
Indeed I would!
― Zelda Zonk, Thursday, 14 January 2021 23:13 (five years ago)
lol
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 15 January 2021 07:29 (five years ago)
Only just this moment realized that Indiegogo is a play on indigo.
Yeah, I know, I've already scheduled the tests for my brain.
― Vladislav Bibidonurtmi (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 20 January 2021 14:51 (five years ago)
I don't know if it is? why would it be? It's not their brand color or anything
― Canon in Deez (silby), Wednesday, 20 January 2021 19:24 (five years ago)
New Power GenerationLike, I only thought of it as the name of a new generation. But power generation is a thing. Maybe it’s even a pun on nuclear power generation.
― Alba, Thursday, 4 February 2021 03:19 (five years ago)
I had missed the indigo/indiegogo thing too
― Alba, Thursday, 4 February 2021 03:21 (five years ago)
Purple puns you had missed
― Alba, Thursday, 4 February 2021 03:22 (five years ago)
Deflatormouse
― Canon in Deez (silby), Monday, 8 February 2021 05:15 (five years ago)
d'oh!
― budo jeru, Monday, 8 February 2021 06:45 (five years ago)
Ditt'oh!
― Waterloo Subset (Tom D.), Monday, 8 February 2021 11:17 (five years ago)
Omg
― The Ballad of Mel Cooley (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 8 February 2021 11:27 (five years ago)
!!
― John Wesley Glasscock (Hadrian VIII), Monday, 8 February 2021 13:17 (five years ago)
Puns that weren't actually there: When I was a kid there was a character on The Tick whose name I was sure was Deflator Mouse. Years later I learned about Die Fledermaus and I was like oh, "Deflator Mouse" from The Tick was a clever pun! Then years after that I was shocked and disappointed to find out his name was actually Die Fledermaus.
― Vaguely Threatening CAPTCHAs, Monday, 8 February 2021 15:30 (five years ago)
Oh, there was I thinking you were all saying it was a pun on Dangermouse.
― Alba, Monday, 8 February 2021 16:20 (five years ago)
Thought that for quite a long time as well.
― The Ballad of Mel Cooley (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 8 February 2021 16:21 (five years ago)
I actually can't believe y'all didn't get that pun.
― it's like edging for your mind (the table is the table), Saturday, 20 February 2021 01:11 (five years ago)
Yeah I'm an uncultured dullard and even I gottit
― The Mandolinrainian (Old Lunch), Saturday, 20 February 2021 01:41 (five years ago)
Lana Kane from Archer
― Notes on Scampo (tokyo rosemary), Saturday, 20 February 2021 01:42 (five years ago)
?
― Canon in Deez (silby), Saturday, 20 February 2021 01:43 (five years ago)
Lana Lane?Lidocaine?
― if you meh them, shut up (Neanderthal), Saturday, 20 February 2021 01:48 (five years ago)
Lanacane cream for pain
― Josefa, Saturday, 20 February 2021 01:51 (five years ago)
it always killed me that one of the leads in Cool Runnings was "Sanka Coffie"
― if you meh them, shut up (Neanderthal), Saturday, 20 February 2021 01:53 (five years ago)
Isn't Vaguely Threatening CAPTCHAs's point that it isn't a pun? There is no Tick character called "Deflatormouse", it's a mishearing of Die Fledermaus?
― Andrew Farrell, Saturday, 20 February 2021 09:26 (five years ago)
I think silby’s post was about ILX user Deflatormouse
― Vaguely Threatening CAPTCHAs, Saturday, 20 February 2021 15:55 (five years ago)
http://www.coverbrowser.com/covers/witchblade
― stilt in the wings (sic), Thursday, 25 February 2021 21:29 (five years ago)
Puns I didn’t know had been done: Bee Movie.
― The Ballad of Mel Cooley (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 28 February 2021 00:08 (five years ago)
Mentioned sixteen years ago, just dawned on me today: Adam Ant = adamant.
― Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Monday, 1 March 2021 20:59 (five years ago)
Because it was in a recent cryptic crossword?
― The Ballad of Mel Cooley (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 1 March 2021 21:08 (five years ago)
Yesterday was the first time I ever realized that REM's "Begin the Begin" was a play on "Begin the Beguine."
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 12 April 2021 14:14 (five years ago)
That's one of those in the (to me) interesting class of puns that I heard before I knew the thing it was punning on. My childhood was full of those.
― Alba, Monday, 12 April 2021 15:25 (five years ago)
I maintain that the Led Zepplin song title "D'yer Mak'er" should be pronounced "do your maker" and, as a result, the pun doesn't make any sense
― Dana Jel Pey (DJP), Monday, 12 April 2021 16:18 (five years ago)
It works best if you're from the *Black Country.
(*that's one for US ILXors to unravel)
― Duncan Disorderly (Tom D.), Monday, 12 April 2021 16:26 (five years ago)
Not a pun, exactly, but I was for some reason thinking about the movie Pretty Woman the other day, and realized for the first time that the title is a variation on My Fair Lady. I knew the movie itself was, but I'd missed the joke in the title.
― Lily Dale, Monday, 12 April 2021 16:45 (five years ago)
Aha.
― Duncan Disorderly (Tom D.), Monday, 12 April 2021 16:55 (five years ago)
Oooh
― Alba, Monday, 12 April 2021 17:10 (five years ago)
Wait till you find out about the pun in "My Fair Lady"
― Josefa, Tuesday, 13 April 2021 00:33 (five years ago)
omg
― Duncan Disorderly (Tom D.), Tuesday, 13 April 2021 08:08 (five years ago)
Heavens above!
― Alba, Tuesday, 13 April 2021 08:41 (five years ago)
One that predates the musical, given its appearance in London Bridge Is Falling Down?
― Alba, Tuesday, 13 April 2021 08:52 (five years ago)
omg x2
― Duncan Disorderly (Tom D.), Tuesday, 13 April 2021 08:56 (five years ago)
Lerner settled on the title My Fair Lady, relating both to one of Shaw's provisional titles for Pygmalion, Fair Eliza, and to the final line of every verse of the nursery rhyme "London Bridge Is Falling Down". Recalling that the Gershwins' 1925 musical Tell Me More had been titled My Fair Lady in its out-of-town tryout, and also had a musical number under that title, Lerner made a courtesy call to Ira Gershwin, alerting him to the use of the title for the Lerner and Loewe musical
Seems to be implying the pun was coincidental but I'm certain Alan Jay Lerner spotted it.
― Duncan Disorderly (Tom D.), Tuesday, 13 April 2021 09:01 (five years ago)
idgi. “Mayfair Lady”?
― It Is Dangerous to Meme Inside (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 13 April 2021 11:16 (five years ago)