puns that you had missed

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!

https://conwaytwitty.richardsandsouthern.com/media/catalog/product/cache/26/image/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/t/w/twitty_committee_8x10.png

Dollywood ratios in diagnostic testing!

(thank you, Pun Generator! I couldn’t have done it without you! highly recommended!)

all the "Elden Ring" puns it suggests are about it sounding like "Everything" - dunno, I'm more of a "I had to return my order at KFC, they gave me elden wings" kinda guy.

https://cdn.britannica.com/73/156173-050-A0DB5AB6/Howlin-Wolf-1964.jpg
I asked for my order
They gave me elden wings

KISS presents music from the Elden Wing

Found that pun generator when looking up “Everything You Know Is Thong.” Seems like it spit out every possible substitution of “thong” for “song” or “wrong.”

https://pungenerator.org/puns?q=thong

“Long” too.

"(Hey Won't You Play) Another Somebody Done Somebody Thong Song"

Lol! I’m gathering that one was too sophisticated for the pun generator and you came up with it yourself.

I'm too sexy for this pun

An acquaintance with a dog called Bowie. I guess it could be a pun depending on how you pronounce it

you'd think i would live in this thread, but these days i've realized people generally don't like puns. it's a difficult thing to come to realize

Duke [of W]Ellington hit me like a thunderbolt while doing a crossword yesterday, but I can see it's mentioned upthread and probably isn't a pun.

I was reminded of a pun when posting on the Steely Dan thread, about Wishbone Ash. I bought their live album Live Dates in high school and it took a few years for me to realize that the date palms on the cover related to the title.

Staples, the office supply chain

Elton John album Rock of the Westies

more of a spoonerism, isn't it? good find tho

2014 was the year that I finally went "omg, Noodle Vague: Nouvelle Vague!" incidentally

― Sir Lord Baltimora (Myonga Vön Bontee), Wednesday, June 17, 2015 10:05 PM (six years ago) bookmarkflaglink

me just now

omg

I only got this relatively recently, also, perhaps more shamingly, that Alfred's is a pun on Tennyson. I mean come on man (me, not him).

Over the weekend I realized why the Geico Insurance mascot is a gecko. Why this was not glaringly obvious to me before I do not know.

Now having to workout if Lois & Clarke is a pun on the 19th century explorers or just a coincidence.
Somebody just used the similar sound in an advert for a podcast on the historic duo and I'm wondering if that is the first time or if it was built in to the naming.
Lewis and Clark, not sure how much recognition they have in common not specialist thought anyway.