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.
― pplains, Friday, 25 November 2022 04:30 (one year ago) link
Trading Places, goddammit.
― pplains, Friday, 25 November 2022 04:31 (one year ago) link
Society as a whole as a transactional system. & one's place within it dependent on that, like.
― Stevolende, Friday, 25 November 2022 05:49 (one year ago) link
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.
― nickn, Tuesday, 29 November 2022 22:03 (one year ago) link
I just recently had the aha moment with bedding retailer The Mattress Firm.
― Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 29 November 2022 23:07 (one year ago) link
Whoa!
― Kim Kimberly, Wednesday, 30 November 2022 01:16 (one year ago) link
!
― The Dark End of the Tweet (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 30 November 2022 01:44 (one year ago) link
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..)
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Thursday, 1 December 2022 01:16 (one year ago) link
I want to clarify that I was solid on the “development” pun but seem never to have thought about the “arrested” bit
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Thursday, 1 December 2022 01:20 (one year ago) link
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.
― assert (matttkkkk), Thursday, 1 December 2022 01:57 (one year ago) link
I thought they might be referring to a "white race," which I hoped was a self-deprecating thing about their reggae sound.
― nickn, Thursday, 1 December 2022 02:16 (one year ago) link
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!"
― anatol_merklich, Tuesday, 6 December 2022 20:41 (one year ago) link
Good one! I remember figuring this out in 1997, I think.
― Soda Stereo Total (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 6 December 2022 20:44 (one year ago) link
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.
― Soda Stereo Total (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 6 December 2022 20:45 (one year ago) link
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.
― anatol_merklich, Tuesday, 6 December 2022 20:49 (one year ago) link
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.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 6 December 2022 22:29 (one year ago) link
Sounds great, man
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Tuesday, 6 December 2022 22:39 (one year ago) link
I didn't say it was a good pun.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 6 December 2022 22:50 (one year ago) link
Beetlejuice being the "ghost with the most" is a play on the phrase "host with the most" which I was unfamiliar with.
― formerly abanana (dat), Friday, 20 January 2023 14:38 (one year ago) link
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.
― fetter, Sunday, 29 January 2023 18:25 (one year ago) link
Woah
― Alicia Silver Stone (Boring, Maryland), Sunday, 29 January 2023 18:27 (one year ago) link
same
― assert (matttkkkk), Sunday, 29 January 2023 18:48 (one year ago) link
Oh wow
― Alba, Sunday, 29 January 2023 23:52 (one year ago) link
ditto, but intentional?
― nickn, Monday, 30 January 2023 00:55 (one year ago) link
is Tiki Barber’s name an intentional pun I had missed?
― omar little, Friday, 10 February 2023 04:33 (one year ago) link
Andy Capp
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 22 February 2023 15:15 (one year ago) link
Oh no
― rob, Wednesday, 22 February 2023 15:35 (one year ago) link
Like “anti-capitalist”? Idgi
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Wednesday, 22 February 2023 16:45 (one year ago) link
mate what’s yer ‘andicap
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 22 February 2023 17:07 (one year ago) link
Handicap, because he's always betting on the dog races.
― Halfway there but for you, Wednesday, 22 February 2023 17:07 (one year ago) link
his son is buster capp!
it's puns all the way down in that family
― mark s, Wednesday, 22 February 2023 17:08 (one year ago) link
More comic strip puns with the Flagston family: Hi and Lois, Chip, and Ditto!
― Halfway there but for you, Wednesday, 22 February 2023 17:12 (one year ago) link
Frank and Ernest
― peace, man, Wednesday, 22 February 2023 18:04 (one year ago) link
Horses surely?
― Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Wednesday, 22 February 2023 18:50 (one year ago) link
Andy Capp and Orson Carriage
― let us now celebrate ama ‘piano’ smith & the clowns (breastcrawl), Wednesday, 22 February 2023 19:06 (one year ago) link
dogs *and* horses apparently
https://cdn.alphacomedy.com/37/2014/07_10_14_97025f29acd1fd92fb54a61d4c60a3da.jpg
― mark s, Wednesday, 22 February 2023 19:11 (one year ago) link
Adam Ant
― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Wednesday, 22 February 2023 19:23 (one year ago) link
That one's hard to understand.
― peace, man, Wednesday, 22 February 2023 19:27 (one year ago) link
important adam ant context!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwWV5H_toA4
― mark s, Wednesday, 22 February 2023 19:32 (one year ago) link
Izzy Stradlin
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Thursday, 23 February 2023 15:59 (one year ago) link
Anagrams that you might have missed: Axl Rose
― Halfway there but for you, Thursday, 23 February 2023 16:03 (one year ago) link
nope, knew about that one. Izzy Stradlin? No, Axl Rose
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Thursday, 23 February 2023 16:16 (one year ago) link
there was a band in the Seattle in the mid00s called Paxil Rose
― not too strange just bad audio (brimstead), Thursday, 23 February 2023 16:17 (one year ago) link
the Seattle
Lox arse.
So relax.
Arse lox?
Or axels.
I don't get it
― nat king cole slaw (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 23 February 2023 16:26 (one year ago) link
O_ _ _ S_ _
― Halfway there but for you, Thursday, 23 February 2023 16:27 (one year ago) link
Oral Swex
― least said, sergio mendes (sic), Thursday, 23 February 2023 16:28 (one year ago) link
Loraxes?
― nat king cole slaw (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 23 February 2023 16:29 (one year ago) link
After moving to Los Angeles, he became so engrossed in his band AXL that his friends suggested he call himself Axl Rose.[16][31] He legally changed his name to W. Axl Rose prior to signing his contract with Geffen Records in March 1986.
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Thursday, 23 February 2023 16:30 (one year ago) link
The "W" is just for plausible deniability!
― Halfway there but for you, Thursday, 23 February 2023 16:31 (one year ago) link