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
― Alba, Tuesday, 13 April 2021 14:18 (three years ago) link
Oh, I get it now. "Mayfair" is like y'alls Kings Landing.
https://i.imgur.com/VImNKqo.png
― pplains, Tuesday, 13 April 2021 14:22 (three years ago) link
Mayfair Lady in London = Boardwalk Babe in Atlantic City
― calstars, Tuesday, 13 April 2021 15:19 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHn6Pe8p1RM
― It Is Dangerous to Meme Inside (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 13 April 2021 15:44 (three years ago) link
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.
― Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 13 April 2021 17:06 (three years ago) link
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.
― nickn, Tuesday, 13 April 2021 22:47 (three years ago) link
Isn't there like a Thai town called Phuket
― Stevolende, Wednesday, 14 April 2021 07:52 (three years ago) link
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.
― anatol_merklich, Saturday, 17 April 2021 21:56 (three years ago) link
Sting - Ten Summoner's Tales
Ten Sumner's Tales
― Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Wednesday, 19 May 2021 19:26 (three years ago) link
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".
― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Friday, 11 June 2021 07:56 (two years ago) link
...an English speaker* calls...
― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Friday, 11 June 2021 07:57 (two years ago) link
(I mean, I got it in Greta Van Fleet, but those guys are huuuge)
― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Friday, 11 June 2021 08:21 (two years ago) link
next up: deconstructing Randy Van Warmer
― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Friday, 11 June 2021 08:23 (two years ago) link
Delivery Van Morrison
― I like big bunnies and I cannot lie (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 11 June 2021 08:30 (two years ago) link
third-tier late 90s act Days of the New - "News of the Day"
― Bobo Honk, real name, no gimmicks (Doctor Casino), Friday, 18 June 2021 19:24 (two years ago) link
i've got this time on my handshere are some puns to amuse
― butyrate humbucker bobbins (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 18 June 2021 20:25 (two years ago) link
https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/0tcAAMXQcVNQ9Hsh/s-l500.jpg
― bruce spr!ngisH3r3 on broadway (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 18 June 2021 22:08 (two years ago) link
The Mekons song "Bob Hope & Charity."
― Lily Dale, Friday, 18 June 2021 22:55 (two years ago) link
Foxygen
― Alba, Monday, 28 June 2021 18:55 (two years ago) link
is there more to it than foxy + oxygen?
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Monday, 28 June 2021 19:29 (two years ago) link
Foxontherunlikeoxygen
― ten man poland chasing this means hamsik feasts (breastcrawl), Monday, 28 June 2021 19:31 (two years ago) link
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.
― Alba, Monday, 28 June 2021 19:35 (two years ago) link
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.
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.
― Alba, Monday, 28 June 2021 19:37 (two years ago) link
Cardi B
― I can yeet a yeti (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 28 June 2021 22:24 (two years ago) link
something to do with D.B. Cooper's getaway car?
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Tuesday, 29 June 2021 12:55 (two years ago) link
Cardi O)))
― in walked airbud (unregistered), Tuesday, 29 June 2021 12:57 (two years ago) link
Bacardi?
― cancel culture club (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 29 June 2021 13:08 (two years ago) link
I was hoping the pun was Cartier/Cardi B, but yeah it's from Bacardi
― Josefa, Tuesday, 29 June 2021 13:11 (two years ago) link
Bacardi was apparently her sister Hennessy's nickname for her growing up, later shortened to Cardi.
― Alba, Tuesday, 29 June 2021 13:12 (two years ago) link
the Klaxons self-invented genre "new rave" was meant to sound like "new wave"
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Thursday, 1 July 2021 21:24 (two years ago) link
Blood Orange- provided it is indeed a play on “blood red”- and provided that qualifies as a pun
― ten man poland chasing this means hamsik feasts (breastcrawl), Friday, 2 July 2021 15:02 (two years ago) link
a blood orange is a (delicious) type of orange with red flesh, so i don't think so
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Friday, 2 July 2021 15:04 (two years ago) link
Yes
― Planck Generation (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 2 July 2021 15:39 (two years ago) link
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.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Friday, 2 July 2021 16:00 (two years ago) link
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).
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Friday, 2 July 2021 16:05 (two years ago) link
The name Anal Cunt came from Seth Putnam's attempt "to get the most offensive, stupid, dumb, etc. name possible".[6]
― maybe you just don't need to comment on that (Matt #2), Friday, 2 July 2021 16:08 (two years ago) link
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
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Friday, 2 July 2021 16:09 (two years ago) link
― ten man poland chasing this means hamsik feasts (breastcrawl), Friday, 2 July 2021 16:10 (two years ago) link
but also fuck you (unperson) at 5:00 2 Jul 21It just occurred to me that the band name Anal Cunt would be received totally differently by a British person than by a US person.
― A viking of frowns, (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 2 July 2021 16:19 (two years ago) link
― Alba, Friday, 2 July 2021 16:37 (two years ago) link
US: Anal Cunt - just two sexual/excretory words combined to achieve offenseUK: Anal Cunt - a description of an annoying person ("cunt") who is anal about things
― but also fuck you (unperson), Friday, 2 July 2021 16:45 (two years ago) link
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.
― Alba, Friday, 2 July 2021 16:48 (two years ago) link
I've only really thought about it as two nouns put together to cause maximum offence
― Alba, Friday, 2 July 2021 16:50 (two years ago) link
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.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Friday, 2 July 2021 16:55 (two years ago) link
i How is anal a noun? As in short for “anal sex”? Confused even more!
Aye - that's how I parsed it in the few seconds I thought about it! Shit band name, either way.
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Friday, 2 July 2021 17:25 (two years ago) link
Whoops - excuse rubbish formatting.
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Friday, 2 July 2021 17:26 (two years ago) link
Calling a woman a cunt is not acceptable in the UK either, it's pretty much always men who are called cunts.
― Are Animated Dads Getting Hotter? (Tom D.), Friday, 2 July 2021 17:27 (two years ago) link
Whatever the gender differences of cunt as an insult, I definitely didn't parse cunt in Anal Cunt as that anyway. Just a gratuitously offensive phrase meaning, I guess, a vagina for the anus. Anal in the Freudian sense would have taken away from the offensiveness.
― Alba, Friday, 2 July 2021 17:43 (two years ago) link
If you translate Anal Cunt half into US slang and half into UK slang, they could be called the Fanny Fannies.
― Hideous Lump, Friday, 2 July 2021 20:48 (two years ago) link
U.S. fanny is about butt cheeks, not anus.
― peace, man, Friday, 2 July 2021 22:17 (two years ago) link