puns that you had missed

I had to explain the "Blonde Ambition Tour" to someone way back when.

At this point is there any blind/blonde pun that hasn’t already been made?

maybe a German power metal act featuring all performers in blonde wigs, called Blonde Guardian

An all blond(e) Blondie tribute act called The Blonde leading the Blond.

an all-blind group called Concrete Blind

ok i'll stop

Debbie Hairy

That is actually how King Charles pronounces it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_PXvjM3WtQ

when I was a kid I thought the Grammys were music awards for really old ppl

I was correct

I thought the commercials on PBS for the Boston Pops concerts were calling the conductor "Pops" because he was so old.

Was there any Swiss Kriss involved?

the Kraft Daddy make ya
plump plump

WHy was the calendar so squeamish and unpredictable

His days were numbered

UK music press in the 80s was very fond of puns on vinyl/final (The Vinyl Frontier, Vinyl Solution...) which passed me by as a teenager at the time.

https://vinylfantasybk.com

lol i live a couple blocks from that place, been in several times, and never clocked the pun.

ah, the 80s, when the European chart show was called the Vinyl Countdown

Feel like I've seen vinyl/final in several places over the years and never noticed the pun.

There was a record shop in the town I grew up in called Roxcene Records, it took me 40 years to realise it was a pun on Rock Scene.

That’s not a great pun tbf, “rock scene” is barely a phrase

"rock scene" is totally a phrase, but Roxcene is a pretty rare name. I like it though! I recently found out that one of my great-great-great grandmothers was named Excene, like Exene Cervenka from X.

so could the name Roxette be a play on ‘rock set’? probably not, but…

Or "rocks it"

Not only does the film title refer to the two main characters switching roles, but Trading Spaces could also refer to the physical locations where the stocks are bought and sold.

Trading Places, goddammit.

Society as a whole as a transactional system. & one's place within it dependent on that, like.

Not a pun, I guess, but the Edgar Winter album title "They Only Come Out At Night" refers to his albinism. Saw a picture of both Winters on fb just now with that phrase, and it clicked. I had always thought it was just a rock-and-roll, party animal thing.

I just recently had the aha moment with bedding retailer The Mattress Firm.

Whoa!

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Caught onto Arrested Development opening with a scene of developers being arrested the other day :/

(NB I have not watched this in many years so perhaps they nodded outright to the title and I’ve forgotten and rediscovered this knowledge..)

I want to clarify that I was solid on the “development” pun but seem never to have thought about the “arrested” bit

xpost from the Police thread but repeating my admission that I've owned the album Reggatta de Blanc for 40ish years without realising the title is a play on "white reggae" and unrelated to sailing.

I thought they might be referring to a "white race," which I hoped was a self-deprecating thing about their reggae sound.

Issey Miyake's 1992 fragrance L'Eau d'Issey... a ref to L'Odyssée?? I've never spoken the perfume's name aloud until today, upon which I was all "hang on!"

Good one! I remember figuring this out in 1997, I think.

Also I brought you up on The Kingdom thread when it was asked whether there were any Danes on the board. I said not as far as I know but maybe some near misses. Hope you don't take offense.

Haha no prob! Didn't Frederik B make a reappearance not long ago?

The Kingdom as in Riget? It was pretty huge here as well (ie Norway), but I totally suck at TV and wouldn't know anything.

Felt silly having missed this one despite having heard the song dozens of times, but the pun that makes up the entire set of lyrics for the song "David Bowie" by Phish. It's just a bunch or repetitions of first "David Bowie" over and over, followed by repetitions of "UB40".

I always thought it was just a silly mindless repetition of musicians until I recently read that it was written in the run-up to Bowie's fortieth birthday.

Sounds great, man

I didn't say it was a good pun.

Beetlejuice being the "ghost with the most" is a play on the phrase "host with the most" which I was unfamiliar with.

Not so much a pun I guess, but it's taken until his dying for me to make the link btw Tom Verlaine's initials and the name of his band.

Woah

same

Oh wow

ditto, but intentional?

is Tiki Barber’s name an intentional pun I had missed?

Andy Capp