puns that you had missed

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.

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.

Whoops - excuse rubbish formatting.

Calling a woman a cunt is not acceptable in the UK either, it's pretty much always men who are called cunts.

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.

If you translate Anal Cunt half into US slang and half into UK slang, they could be called the Fanny Fannies.

U.S. fanny is about butt cheeks, not anus.

I feel sure Mr Putnam would be delighted to know his choice of band name continues to be over-analysed a full decade after his sad and premature demise.

I interviewed him once in the basement of CBGB. When I played the recording back there wasn't a single decipherable sentence on his end.

Lost Prophets = Lost Profits

nah

I just saw the phrase in the Dominion OAN lawsuit and jumped on it. I know next to nothing about the band.

all you need to know is "Ian Watkins is a monster"

If not for that, I would know nothing.

the movie Con Air

:O

you mean because of the hair dryers?

I think I noticed about 10 years ago that the protesters on the campaign I was working with were being taken away on Conway buses when they were arrested.

xp

swap the two words

wow we apparently visited that one a long time ago too

I am dumb. How is Con Air a pun?
― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, December 1, 2004 5:11 PM bookmarkflaglink

http://www.conair.com/conair/index.jsp
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, December 1, 2004 5:12 PM bookmarkflaglink

That's the part of the pun I got -- it took me a while to notice that the plot was about a convict being transported by an airline.
― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, December 1, 2004 5:16 PM bookmarkflaglink

ha!

i didn’t get EITHER pun tbch

i don't want to waste any brain cells on con air.

I did think that a pun should have some semantic hangover from the original meaning which I can't really make sense of with a manual dryer thing.
The direct understanding a Con air might be an air service that carried convicts is pretty obvious but it just lacks any level of overlap with original meaning doesn't it

Yes this is a very good point.

Air con

(as in ...ditioning)

would work about as well and make as much sense in context. I mean yes Conair is a company that makes hairdryers, and yet the people in the movie do not appear to have meticulously styled their hair in any way

Aer Con

this movie works on levels we never knew, truly the thinking man's action film

Aer Con

I mean yes Conair is a company that makes hairdryers, and yet the people in the movie do not appear to have

https://i.imgur.com/74DGy.gif

Not a pun exactly, but only just realised the bird name whippoorwill is a sentence.

In my defence we don’t have them here so I hadn’t ever heard one.

Wailin' Jennys (?)

Outlaw country musician Waylon Jennings.

The Justice Prisoner and Alien Transportation System (JPATS), nicknamed "Con Air",[1] is an agency of the federal government of the United States charged with the transportation of persons in legal custody

oh shit!

xxp yes, i had missed that pun but now see it. the (?) was to indicate that i wasn't 100% sure that it was an intended pun. but i assume so

Not a pun exactly, but only just realised the bird name whippoorwill is a sentence.

This bird is sometimes confused[5] with the related chuck-will's-widow

In the same vein: it was years before I clicked that Palmolive was palm olive. My brain grew up parsing it as Pal-molive

amazing

I never get any pun names - Adam Ant, Michelle Shocked, Lipps Inc - nope, never got them until years or decades later. Latest one is a drag performer and now TV personality here, Courtney Act. Only just twigged the other day.

OK, I've just got Michelle Shocked. LOL.

I tend not to notice puns that aren't very good tbh.

Glad to be of assistance!

Took me a minute to get Courtney Act.

I confess Courtney Cox used to provoke some juvenile sniggers.