Similarly when I read the phrase “pretty closely related” I take it to mean “exactly the same”
― wins, Wednesday, 9 March 2022 16:25 (two years ago) link
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.
― Mardi Gras Mambo Sun (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 9 March 2022 16:57 (two years ago) link
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.
― Tim, Wednesday, 9 March 2022 17:06 (two years ago) link
gawd, "as in pros and...", that was supposed to say
― Tim, Wednesday, 9 March 2022 17:07 (two years ago) link
Mind yr pos and cons.
― Mardi Gras Mambo Sun (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 9 March 2022 17:14 (two years ago) link
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.
― Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Monday, 21 March 2022 19:35 (two years ago) link
woah, hadn't noticed that!
― o shit the sheriff (NickB), Monday, 21 March 2022 19:39 (two years ago) link
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...
― Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Monday, 28 March 2022 05:58 (two years ago) link
Dollywood
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 29 March 2022 16:11 (two years ago) link
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.
― Stevolende, Wednesday, 30 March 2022 18:20 (two years ago) link
― Alba, Wednesday, 30 March 2022 20:56 (two years ago) link
I’m serious. I didn’t realise until like two years ago.
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 30 March 2022 21:04 (two years ago) link
Tracer, Tracer, Trace-er Ha-a-andI'm begging of you please don't get my punTracer, Tracer, Trace-er Ha-a-andPlease don't get it just because you can
― celebrating ten years of constant posting (breastcrawl), Wednesday, 30 March 2022 21:15 (two years ago) link
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?
― Alba, Wednesday, 30 March 2022 21:16 (two years ago) link
Which part did you miss: that it had her name in it or that it sounded like Hollywood?
― Alba, Wednesday, 30 March 2022 21:19 (two years ago) link
bollywood rather than hollywood surely
― conrad, Wednesday, 30 March 2022 21:20 (two years ago) link
Alba - the latter!
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 30 March 2022 21:29 (two years ago) link
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.
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 30 March 2022 21:32 (two years ago) link
I should mention the real Twitty City is/was in central Tennessee but they had an outpost of some sort near Gatlinburg.
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 30 March 2022 21:33 (two years ago) link
the itty bitty twitty committee
― The Central Rockaliser (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 30 March 2022 21:34 (two years ago) link
If there was a Townes Van Zandt theme park they could call it Townes Town.
― ban slug pellets now (Matt #2), Wednesday, 30 March 2022 21:58 (two years ago) link
If there was a Herbie Hancock theme park they could call it Herb's 'Burb.
― Zelda Zonk, Wednesday, 30 March 2022 22:04 (two years ago) link
DIdn't Jerry Jeff Walker have one of these?
― The Central Rockaliser (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 30 March 2022 22:06 (two years ago) link
Disappointed there's a Twitty City when he got the name from the cities of Conway and Twitty!
― pplains, Thursday, 31 March 2022 00:29 (two years ago) link
RIght, it's kind of folded in on itself in a disconcerting manner.
― The Central Rockaliser (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 31 March 2022 00:34 (two years ago) link
Oh noes!
― The Central Rockaliser (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 31 March 2022 03:44 (two years ago) link
https://conwaytwitty.richardsandsouthern.com/media/catalog/product/cache/26/image/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/t/w/twitty_committee_8x10.png
― Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Thursday, 31 March 2022 05:49 (two years ago) link
Dollywood ratios in diagnostic testing!(thank you, Pun Generator! I couldn’t have done it without you! highly recommended!)
― celebrating ten years of constant posting (breastcrawl), Thursday, 31 March 2022 06:18 (two years ago) link
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.
― StanM, Thursday, 31 March 2022 06:45 (two years ago) link
https://cdn.britannica.com/73/156173-050-A0DB5AB6/Howlin-Wolf-1964.jpgI asked for my orderThey gave me elden wings
― The Central Rockaliser (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 31 March 2022 10:57 (two years ago) link
KISS presents music from the Elden Wing
― Otto Insurance (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, 31 March 2022 12:54 (two years ago) link
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
― The Central Rockaliser (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 31 March 2022 13:16 (two years ago) link
“Long” too.
"(Hey Won't You Play) Another Somebody Done Somebody Thong Song"
― celebrating ten years of constant posting (breastcrawl), Thursday, 31 March 2022 13:19 (two years ago) link
Lol! I’m gathering that one was too sophisticated for the pun generator and you came up with it yourself.
― The Central Rockaliser (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 31 March 2022 13:58 (two years ago) link
I'm too sexy for this pun
― I'm too sophisti for the pun generator, so sophisti it hurts (breastcrawl), Thursday, 31 March 2022 14:17 (two years ago) link
An acquaintance with a dog called Bowie. I guess it could be a pun depending on how you pronounce it
― Chuck_Tatum, Sunday, 3 April 2022 09:46 (two years ago) link
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
― Punster McPunisher, Sunday, 3 April 2022 19:22 (two years ago) link
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.
― fetter, Monday, 4 April 2022 08:50 (two years ago) link
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.
― nickn, Wednesday, 6 April 2022 20:54 (two years ago) link
Staples, the office supply chain
― assert (matttkkkk), Friday, 8 April 2022 19:33 (two years ago) link
Elton John album Rock of the Westies
― Josefa, Friday, 8 April 2022 20:16 (two years ago) link
more of a spoonerism, isn't it? good find tho
― budo jeru, Monday, 11 April 2022 02:14 (two years ago) link
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
― budo jeru, Monday, 11 April 2022 02:16 (two years ago) link
omg
― we need outrage! we need dicks!! (the table is the table), Monday, 18 April 2022 00:53 (two years ago) link
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).
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Monday, 18 April 2022 18:23 (two years ago) link
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.
― Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Monday, 18 April 2022 18:28 (two years ago) link
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.
― Stevolende, Saturday, 23 April 2022 12:15 (two years ago) link
There's an 'Old Kent Lane' pun in there if you torture it hard enough
― kinder, Saturday, 23 April 2022 12:20 (two years ago) link
Siegel & Shuster were renowned Monopoly fans and at least one of them was a canadian immigrant so it must follow.Like cos everybody knows the colonials use UK boards innit.
― Stevolende, Saturday, 23 April 2022 12:29 (two years ago) link