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)
wish someone would put the dee dee in the kitchen sketch on youtube
― edited to reflect developments which occurred (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 10 November 2021 10:01 (four years ago)
Good use of the word 'dunt' in that sketch.
― Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Wednesday, 10 November 2021 10:08 (four years ago)
I was reading something about opera that mentioned Carmen and Elektra in the same sentence and it dawned on me that maybe the 2000s famous person Carmen Electra took her stage name from these operas...(?)
― Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Thursday, 11 November 2021 05:28 (four years ago)
perhaps in a recreation of the Mrs. Doubtfire naming scene, except when she looks down at her table there is the upcoming season of the local opera co's schedule. "Ma'am, this is Playboy calling, we'd love to feature you in our May issue. What stage name will you be using?"
TIL that irl Prince discovered her!
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Thursday, 11 November 2021 17:50 (four years ago)
the bookers at Playboy call all the models "ma'am" for propriety obv
"what's your name?"
*looks down at table, sees books*
"Mrs. Infinitejest"
― Cool Im An Situation (Neanderthal), Thursday, 11 November 2021 18:00 (four years ago)
Mrs. Infinitejest good soundcloud rapper name
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Thursday, 11 November 2021 18:02 (four years ago)