puns that you had missed

A sort of (cartoonish) version of how a Cockney might say Mayfair, specifically.

Dick Van Dyke style.

I get it but still don't get it. What's a "Mayfair" and why would someone say that, at least in the context of this film?

mayfair is and was a posh neighbourhood in London

“my fair” sounds a little like a cockney i.e. working class pronunciation of it

i think it’s a stretch frankly

https://d4c0fvduxq75z.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/mayfair.jpg

What's a "Mayfair" and why would someone say that, at least in the context of this film?

https://i.imgur.com/8jsIpCm.jpg

Certainly, the pun is mentioned in books about My Fair Lady:

https://www.google.com/search?tbm=bks&q=%22my+fair+lady%22+mayfair+cockney

Oh, I get it now. "Mayfair" is like y'alls Kings Landing.

https://i.imgur.com/VImNKqo.png

Mayfair Lady in London = Boardwalk Babe in Atlantic City

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHn6Pe8p1RM

Not a pun, but a Spoonerism maybe? Common wisdom is the band name Foghat coming from a nonsense word from a Scrabble game played by Dave Peverett and his brother. But yesterday I saw it as hog fat and now I can't unsee it.

I remember hearing (and posted somewhere on ILX, maybe here) that it is a pronunciation of "fuck it" that would be allowed on radio/TV/record stores, etc. It was Steve Jones of the Sex Pistols on his Jonesy's Jukebox show that I heard it.

Isn't there like a Thai town called Phuket

Indeed, but the Ph is just an aspirated P, ie what most anglophones might think of as a normal-ish P before a vowel. The u appears to be long, though, so while it doesn't contain a fuck, it does contain a poo.

Sting - Ten Summoner's Tales

Ten Sumner's Tales

it's been mentioned upthread several times, but only today for me: Camper Van Beethoven.

my Dutchness impeding me here on both sides, I think. the "van" thing is such a mundane feature of the Dutch language that we don't think twice about it, and I also never realised that what we simply call a "camper" an English speakers calls a "camper van".

...an English speaker* calls...

(I mean, I got it in Greta Van Fleet, but those guys are huuuge)

next up: deconstructing Randy Van Warmer

Delivery Van Morrison

third-tier late 90s act Days of the New - "News of the Day"

i've got this time on my hands
here are some puns to amuse

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/0tcAAMXQcVNQ9Hsh/s-l500.jpg

The Mekons song "Bob Hope & Charity."

Foxygen

is there more to it than foxy + oxygen?

Foxontherunlikeoxygen

is there more to it than foxy + oxygen?

As bendy said on this ILM thread, I just parsed it as foxy generation and somehow missed the oxygen thing. The foxy generation thing may be unintentional for all I know.

It seems it was.

Pitchfork: Which one of you came up with the name Foxygen?

Sam France: It was something my friend said about a guy that she found attractive. She said he was sexy or hot, or that he was her foxygen, or something like that. We were probably about 13. I don't know why, but it stuck.

Cardi B

something to do with D.B. Cooper's getaway car?

Cardi O)))

Bacardi?

I was hoping the pun was Cartier/Cardi B, but yeah it's from Bacardi

Bacardi was apparently her sister Hennessy's nickname for her growing up, later shortened to Cardi.

the Klaxons self-invented genre "new rave" was meant to sound like "new wave"

Blood Orange

- provided it is indeed a play on “blood red”
- and provided that qualifies as a pun

a blood orange is a (delicious) type of orange with red flesh, so i don't think so

Yes

It just occurred to me that the band name Anal Cunt would be received totally differently by a British person than by a US person.

I've only really thought about it as two nouns put together to cause maximum offence. I've literally only just wondered if 'anal' might be an adjective (in the Freudian sense).

The name Anal Cunt came from Seth Putnam's attempt "to get the most offensive, stupid, dumb, etc. name possible".[6]

if only they had thought to put "Blood" in there like someone just did on one of the band name threads. Now THAT caused maximum offense, at least to me

a blood orange is a (delicious) type of orange with red flesh, so i don't think so

but also fuck you (unperson) at 5:00 2 Jul 21
It just occurred to me that the band name Anal Cunt would be received totally differently by a British person than by a US person.

It just occurred to me that the band name Anal Cunt would be received totally differently by a British person than by a US person.

US: Anal Cunt - just two sexual/excretory words combined to achieve offense
UK: Anal Cunt - a description of an annoying person ("cunt") who is anal about things

Ah, right. I (British) don’t read anal as meaning anally retentive in Anal Cunt, though it’s interesting to learn that usage doesn’t apply in the US.

I've only really thought about it as two nouns put together to cause maximum offence

it’s interesting to learn that usage doesn’t apply in the US

It does, but we don't tend to call people cunts in the gender-neutral way UK people do. If a US person calls someone a cunt, it's going to be a woman on the receiving end, and it's an n-word level insult.