If not for that, I would know nothing.
― peace, man, Tuesday, 10 August 2021 17:33 (four years ago)
the movie Con Air
― Tracer Hand, Sunday, 31 October 2021 16:06 (four years ago)
:O
― maybe these baps are legends (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 31 October 2021 16:12 (four years ago)
you mean because of the hair dryers?
― kinder, Sunday, 31 October 2021 16:13 (four years ago)
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.
― Stevolende, Sunday, 31 October 2021 16:15 (four years ago)
xp
swap the two words
― maybe these baps are legends (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 31 October 2021 16:15 (four years ago)
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
― the utility infielder of theatre (Neanderthal), Sunday, 31 October 2021 16:27 (four years ago)
ha!i didn’t get EITHER pun tbch
― Tracer Hand, Sunday, 31 October 2021 16:43 (four years ago)
i don't want to waste any brain cells on con air.
― adam t. (abanana), Sunday, 31 October 2021 17:18 (four years ago)
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
― Stevolende, Sunday, 31 October 2021 17:22 (four years ago)
Yes this is a very good point.
― Fine, Fine, Superfine Career Opportunities (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 31 October 2021 17:35 (four years ago)
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
― gin and catatonic (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 31 October 2021 17:42 (four years ago)
Aer Con
― Andrew Farrell, Sunday, 31 October 2021 17:43 (four years ago)
this movie works on levels we never knew, truly the thinking man's action film
― the utility infielder of theatre (Neanderthal), Sunday, 31 October 2021 17:44 (four years ago)
― Fine, Fine, Superfine Career Opportunities (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 31 October 2021 17:45 (four years ago)
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
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Sunday, 31 October 2021 18:03 (four years ago)
Not a pun exactly, but only just realised the bird name whippoorwill is a sentence.
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Sunday, 7 November 2021 00:49 (four years ago)
In my defence we don’t have them here so I hadn’t ever heard one.
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Sunday, 7 November 2021 00:50 (four years ago)
Wailin' Jennys (?)
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Monday, 8 November 2021 14:59 (four years ago)
Outlaw country musician Waylon Jennings.
― Kim Kimberly, Monday, 8 November 2021 15:56 (four years ago)
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
― Kim Kimberly, Monday, 8 November 2021 16:13 (four years ago)
oh shit!
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 8 November 2021 16:39 (four years ago)
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
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Monday, 8 November 2021 17:05 (four years ago)
This bird is sometimes confused[5] with the related chuck-will's-widow
― Kim Kimberly, Monday, 8 November 2021 18:55 (four years ago)
In the same vein: it was years before I clicked that Palmolive was palm olive. My brain grew up parsing it as Pal-molive
― Alba, Monday, 8 November 2021 19:13 (four years ago)
amazing
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 8 November 2021 21:16 (four years ago)
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.
― Zelda Zonk, Monday, 8 November 2021 22:15 (four years ago)
OK, I've just got Michelle Shocked. LOL.
― Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Monday, 8 November 2021 22:22 (four years ago)
I tend not to notice puns that aren't very good tbh.
― Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Monday, 8 November 2021 22:23 (four years ago)
Glad to be of assistance!
― Zelda Zonk, Monday, 8 November 2021 22:28 (four years ago)
Took me a minute to get Courtney Act.
― nickn, Monday, 8 November 2021 22:41 (four years ago)
I confess Courtney Cox used to provoke some juvenile sniggers.
― Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Monday, 8 November 2021 22:45 (four years ago)
Lol
― fix up luke shawp (darraghmac), Monday, 8 November 2021 23:15 (four years ago)
The ads for pal-molive used to pronounce it pal-molive so I think that should be on them
― fix up luke shawp (darraghmac), Monday, 8 November 2021 23:16 (four years ago)
The Firesign Theatre to thread!
― Exploding Plastic Bertrand (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 8 November 2021 23:23 (four years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mYoEpVXFbs
― Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Monday, 8 November 2021 23:38 (four years ago)
Amazing. I've never seen that before.
― Alba, Tuesday, 9 November 2021 10:57 (four years ago)
I had never thought of the pun there (intentional or otherwise) - amazing!
― brain (krakow), Tuesday, 9 November 2021 18:31 (four years ago)
Actually I've just noticed it myself, I posted that in response to deems' post about how Palmolive was pronounced in adverts!
― Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Tuesday, 9 November 2021 18:45 (four years ago)
Hang on - with pun is krakow talking about?
― Alba, Tuesday, 9 November 2021 18:52 (four years ago)
Think Douglas Glenn Colvin...
― brain (krakow), Tuesday, 9 November 2021 19:07 (four years ago)
Oh!
― Alba, Tuesday, 9 November 2021 19:10 (four years ago)
What?
― Tim, Wednesday, 10 November 2021 07:48 (four years ago)
Just that the Limmy video Tom posted itself has a pun in its title (Dee Dee Danone / Dee Dee Ramone)
― Alba, Wednesday, 10 November 2021 08:24 (four years ago)
Yeah I'm confused
― Sam Weller, Wednesday, 10 November 2021 08:33 (four years ago)
Dee Dee is the name of that Limmy character
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Wednesday, 10 November 2021 09:45 (four years ago)
I dont think they do sing it dannon tbh but i enjoyed the sketch
― fix up luke shawp (darraghmac), Wednesday, 10 November 2021 09:49 (four years ago)
no dee dee was righthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNBLRGexOvs
― edited to reflect developments which occurred (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 10 November 2021 09:53 (four years ago)
Thats just an accent imo
Too cheap to get the jingle done in every country
― fix up luke shawp (darraghmac), Wednesday, 10 November 2021 09:55 (four years ago)
Dee Dee is always right.
― Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Wednesday, 10 November 2021 09:56 (four years ago)