puns that you had missed

oh! like a moron I have always pronounced "Teutonic" as "tyoo-" so I guess I will be shunned now.

That's not moronic, that's the way it is pronounced (in the UK at least - Americans will do too-tonic I guess)

Teutonic is an English word and I've only ever hear it pronounced the way you say it matthew (I guess it would be teutonisch auf deutsch? And then you'd say toy-tonnish)

Sorry mattttt not matthew

the band Idles. idols. duh.

Danny La Rue. Dans la rue. Took me ages.

Doh!

Teutonic is an English word and I've only ever hear it pronounced the way you say it matthew (I guess it would be teutonisch auf deutsch? And then you'd say toy-tonnish)

There's a Faust track called "Teutonentango".

The title of the second This Heat album Deceit.

Funnily enough I was just playing that!

... the reason being my ears have kept pricking up this week every time someone on the news started going on about "this heat"!

Didn't they record it in a fridge or something? Feels like an attractive option right now.

Their studio was indeed called Cold Storage!

think I just got "Little Mix"

go on

a mix of "little minxes"
really very icky indeed, tbh hope I'm wrong here

Still flabbergasted at the This Heat one

a mix of "little minxes"
really very icky indeed, tbh hope I'm wrong here

They were originally called Rhythmix, which is a different (more straightforward) kind of pun. Little Mix would seem to be a simple adjustment of that. I don't think "minxes" comes into it.

glad to hear it

Meanwhile just saw an ad for an "anthemic indie" band called The Snuts, which is I suppose "Deez Nutz"

just heard yesterday's news on the radio about some "rebel" racing driver. was actually "Red Bull" but got me thinking about whether the company name was actually a pun (prob not)

"puns that you had imagined"

I have some friends who are big Last Unicorn fans and they maintain that it's a reference to this

https://thelastunicorn.fandom.com/wiki/Red_Bull

I'm alive! I'm aliiiiiiiiive!

I'm a big Last Unicorn fan too. However...

In 1976, Chaleo Yoovidhya introduced a drink called Krating Daeng in Thailand,[20] which means "red gaur" in English. It was popular among Thai truck drivers and labourers. While working for German manufacturer Blendax (later acquired by Procter & Gamble) in 1982, Dietrich Mateschitz travelled to Thailand and met Chaleo, owner of T.C. Pharmaceutical. During his visit, Mateschitz discovered that Krating Daeng helped cure his jet lag.[21] In 1984, Mateschitz co-founded Red Bull GmbH with Yoovidhya and turned it into an international brand.

1976 is after the publication of the novel Last Unicorn and before the movie. Did the dude from Thailand naming his truck-driver drink after an American fantasy novel?

probably not, I would say

Yeah, that's what I was saying as well, although probably too indirectly. Anyway, inspired me to listen to my Last Unicorn soundtrack album just now, so that was good.

There is also the fact that a central ingredient of both Krating Daeng and Red Bull is taurine, a compound so named because it was "first isolated from ox bile in 1827", to quote Wikipedia.

I've been watching Tuca & Bertie on Adult Swim, now on season three, and I just got last week that Bertie = Birdy (do you see!). Tuca for Toucan I got right away.

I don't know if this *is* a pun but it dawned on me that the classic Wilco cover art is two hotels, Yankee hotels? which might be seen as dance partners.

They’re condos I think

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marina_City

ah good, I just saw one of them flash up in an episode of The Bear and it got me thinkin

And only Southerners and perhaps Britishes would refer to Chicago as "Yankee".

otm

It's Y,H,F in the International Radiotelephony Spelling Alphabet.

The album was given the title Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, referencing a series of letters in the phonetic alphabet that Tweedy had heard on the Irdial box set The Conet Project: Recordings of Shortwave Numbers Stations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yankee_Hotel_Foxtrot

I think the cover photo is meant to convey a sense of loneliness, bleakness maybe.

beigeness

Or blueness if you got the alternate cover.

I also always made the connection between the cover and the refs in "Jesus, Etc" to tall buildings and "skyscrapers scraping together"

Regardless of whether it was intended (really, people, let's separate the art from the artist here), I love the idea that what we're actually looking at is a coupla Yankee Hotels doing the Foxtrot. Great retroactive pun!

Pplains is correct: no one from Illinois or Missouri or Chicago or St. Louis identifies culturally as a Yankee. To midwesterners that term refers to New England / New York. The only context in which an Illinoisan could plausibly be called a Yankee is during the actual Civil War, when it meant Unionist (as opposed to Confederate). Tweedy et al. were not referring to that time and place so it's a red herring.

Wilco's reference is to the phonetic alphabet and to 20th century radio communication culture.

yeah I knew that, the sample breaks through in "Poor Places" and I also have the CONET project CD it was lifted from (which is weirdly compelling background work music), I just thought the cover might have been a pun on that.

The only yankee hotel I care about.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ieb3qkMHhaw

I love the idea that what we're actually looking at is a coupla Yankee Hotels doing the Foxtrot

Until this thread, that idea never occurred to me.

I wonder why that is

Not a pun, exactly, but I missed the joke in the Brad Paisley title Kentucky Jelly.

Don’t know if it is, but it occurred to me that Labradford’s album title Prazision could be a play on the medication prazosin. I always assumed it was “precision” in Czech or something.

The titles "An Affair to Remember" and "A Night to Remember" are small jokes on common party invitation phrases.

Nick Cash, singer of Brit-punk never-was losers 999. Amusingly the Fad Gadget/Members drummer had the same name, but for real.

I remember reading when The Smiths began that Johnny Marr was a play on "j'en ai marre", but in retrospect in doesn't seem likely.

^I wanted to believe as well

Hugh Manzou - the artist behind an obscure one-off Lover's Rock reggae 12" release in 1981.

The penny eventually dropped when searching for more information online (none readily available - so still a mystery).