puns that you had missed

I realized that the name one of my favorite older punk bands, Naked Raygun, is a homophone for Naked Reagan. Cannot believe I didn't put that together before.

It's also presumably a nod to the Sex Pistols.

As is Celibate Rifles, which I didn't pick up on before I saw it explained

the original band name presumably does tie in with the management being the pair behind the clothes shop Sex too dunnit?
& i think it as with several other suddenly prevalent odd word couplings has given birth to a load of different puns on the name.
& some of those share the same apparent phallic theme.
Did wonder if Tender Lugers was a variation on that too. Think they were a Brum band from the early 80s.

or possibly that everybody in the Sex Pistols hung out in Sex or worked there so presumably the name is a reference to teh shop as well as being a phallic euphemism that sounds like it comes out of like Victorian porn or something.
NOw if i could just come across a reference as to why these individuals would see themselves as Pistols. Sounds like a synonym for stalwart or defender or something though dunnit.

"oh boy, sex! that's where i'm a pistol"

lol

Sleep Vikings played SXSW in 2011

Another one, just yesterday: a friend runs an art publishing concern called Michel Obultra Editions.

Michelob Ultra Editions.

I felt like such an idiot.

That brings up the question of why they want to be associated with Michelob Ultra.

Also not a pun.

I was shocked to learn recently that Michelob Ultra now outsells Budweiser in the US. Perhaps this friend just wants to be associated with a winner.

a joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word or the fact that there are words which sound alike but have different meanings.

For Tom D.

:-)

Hmmmm

The Jam album All Mod Cons

i don't think it's a pun?

More a double entendre?

yes if by double entendre you mean a pun

Lol, what the hell is going on here.

Desperate to know what this double entendre is now.

The title, a British idiom one might find in housing advertisements, is short for "all modern conveniences" and is a pun on the band's association with the mod revival.

The mod of the phrase all mod cons and the mod of mods are the same word in pretty closely related senses, it’s not much of a play on words tbf

Yes, whenever I saw a property being advertised with all mod cons I always assumed it included youths with sharp haircuts on scooters.

Similarly when I read the phrase “pretty closely related” I take it to mean “exactly the same”

It certainly was intriguing here in the US but the word that was really confusing was the last one. And this was before CON AIR. So yet another Britishism I didn’t get until I read or heard something so not qualified to judge. See also Elvis Costello’s “Senior Service.”

Another thing that’s not a pun but amusing accidental wordplay: place in Astoria called EL FISH SHACK, but when the spacing is too tight it looks like ELFISH SHACK.

The mod of mod is modernist though - closely related but not identical was correct I think.

Cons, on the other hand, might be a bit of a pun: conveniences, cons (as is pos and...) and cons as in swindles.

I'm not sure the title ever made much sense.

gawd, "as in pros and...", that was supposed to say

Mind yr pos and cons.

I always read the musician Eartheater’s name as “earth eater”. But it just occurred to me today that it could also be “ear theater”. Whether that’s intentional wordplay, I’m not sure.

woah, hadn't noticed that!

My child plays the Switch game Splatoon 2. In the game, the store where you buy paint guns, brushes, rollers, etc. is called "Ammo Knights". In spite of the fact that the whole game is chock full of sea creature puns, it took me about a month to catch on... Ammonites...

Dollywood

Just realised that the mop in the logo for Cleanup On Aisle 45 is a trump quiff. So a visual pun.
Not sure how I missed that before.

Dollywood

I’m serious. I didn’t realise until like two years ago.

Tracer, Tracer, Trace-er Ha-a-and
I'm begging of you please don't get my pun
Tracer, Tracer, Trace-er Ha-a-and
Please don't get it just because you can

I’m now wondering if I’m missing something myself. It’s Dolly Parton’s theme park and it rhymes with Hollywood. That’s it, right?

Which part did you miss: that it had her name in it or that it sounded like Hollywood?

bollywood rather than hollywood surely

Alba - the latter!

I mean it is crazy, i know. Dogwood trees are big in East Tennessee.. I dunno, it never occurred to me. It's only about 15 minutes from "Twitty City", a complex devoted to erstwhile country music star Conway Twitty. I'm grasping at straws here.

I should mention the real Twitty City is/was in central Tennessee but they had an outpost of some sort near Gatlinburg.

the itty bitty twitty committee

If there was a Townes Van Zandt theme park they could call it Townes Town.

If there was a Herbie Hancock theme park they could call it Herb's 'Burb.

DIdn't Jerry Jeff Walker have one of these?

Disappointed there's a Twitty City when he got the name from the cities of Conway and Twitty!

RIght, it's kind of folded in on itself in a disconcerting manner.

Oh noes!