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 (three years ago)
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 (three years ago)
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 (three years ago)
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 (three years ago)
Sounds great, man
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Tuesday, 6 December 2022 22:39 (three years ago)
I didn't say it was a good pun.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 6 December 2022 22:50 (three years ago)
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 (three years ago)
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 (three years ago)
Woah
― Alicia Silver Stone (Boring, Maryland), Sunday, 29 January 2023 18:27 (three years ago)
same
― assert (matttkkkk), Sunday, 29 January 2023 18:48 (three years ago)
Oh wow
― Alba, Sunday, 29 January 2023 23:52 (three years ago)
ditto, but intentional?
― nickn, Monday, 30 January 2023 00:55 (three years ago)
is Tiki Barber’s name an intentional pun I had missed?
― omar little, Friday, 10 February 2023 04:33 (three years ago)
Andy Capp
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 22 February 2023 15:15 (three years ago)
Oh no
― rob, Wednesday, 22 February 2023 15:35 (three years ago)
Like “anti-capitalist”? Idgi
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Wednesday, 22 February 2023 16:45 (three years ago)
mate what’s yer ‘andicap
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 22 February 2023 17:07 (three years ago)
Handicap, because he's always betting on the dog races.
― Halfway there but for you, Wednesday, 22 February 2023 17:07 (three years ago)
his son is buster capp!
it's puns all the way down in that family
― mark s, Wednesday, 22 February 2023 17:08 (three years ago)
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 (three years ago)
Frank and Ernest
― peace, man, Wednesday, 22 February 2023 18:04 (three years ago)
Horses surely?
― Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Wednesday, 22 February 2023 18:50 (three years ago)
Andy Capp and Orson Carriage
― let us now celebrate ama ‘piano’ smith & the clowns (breastcrawl), Wednesday, 22 February 2023 19:06 (three years ago)
dogs *and* horses apparently
https://cdn.alphacomedy.com/37/2014/07_10_14_97025f29acd1fd92fb54a61d4c60a3da.jpg
― mark s, Wednesday, 22 February 2023 19:11 (three years ago)
Adam Ant
― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Wednesday, 22 February 2023 19:23 (three years ago)
That one's hard to understand.
― peace, man, Wednesday, 22 February 2023 19:27 (three years ago)
important adam ant context!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwWV5H_toA4
― mark s, Wednesday, 22 February 2023 19:32 (three years ago)
Izzy Stradlin
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Thursday, 23 February 2023 15:59 (three years ago)
Anagrams that you might have missed: Axl Rose
― Halfway there but for you, Thursday, 23 February 2023 16:03 (three years ago)
nope, knew about that one. Izzy Stradlin? No, Axl Rose
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Thursday, 23 February 2023 16:16 (three years ago)
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 (three years ago)
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 (three years ago)
O_ _ _ S_ _
― Halfway there but for you, Thursday, 23 February 2023 16:27 (three years ago)
Oral Swex
― least said, sergio mendes (sic), Thursday, 23 February 2023 16:28 (three years ago)
Loraxes?
― nat king cole slaw (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 23 February 2023 16:29 (three years ago)
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 (three years ago)
The "W" is just for plausible deniability!
― Halfway there but for you, Thursday, 23 February 2023 16:31 (three years ago)
(Joke, by the way. I knew the intended anagram.)
In the meantime I suggest to you that The Velvet Underground can be anagrammed as Vented Doughnut Lever.
― nat king cole slaw (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 23 February 2023 16:34 (three years ago)
Whoa
I know this isn't quite the point but I've just realised Match of the Day is a pun on catch of the day— Sophie Hall (@SophLouiseHall) March 10, 2023
― Alba, Saturday, 11 March 2023 11:41 (three years ago)
is it really though
― StanM, Saturday, 11 March 2023 12:31 (three years ago)
Asking the same question, for a friend.
― Think Fast, Mr. Mojo Risin’ (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 11 March 2023 12:42 (three years ago)
It kind it has to be, otherwise it doesn’t make any sense. It’s a weekly show
― Tracer Hand, Saturday, 11 March 2023 15:31 (three years ago)
Doesn’t it go back to when they’d only show one match rather than highlights from everywhere.
― Dan Worsley, Saturday, 11 March 2023 15:35 (three years ago)
Might still be a play on catch of the day I suppose.
― Dan Worsley, Saturday, 11 March 2023 15:36 (three years ago)
It’s inconclusive to me.
― Think Fast, Mr. Mojo Risin’ (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 11 March 2023 18:01 (three years ago)
Even if it’s a weekly show, could mean the match they chose to show on that day, or the match they think you should watch on that day as opposed to other matches you could watch elsewhere.
― Think Fast, Mr. Mojo Risin’ (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 11 March 2023 18:02 (three years ago)
I guess if the three words “of the day” were not used other than in “catch of the day” then it would mean yes, it is a pun. You’ve convinced me, rabbit. I’ll look elsewhere in the city for puns.
― Think Fast, Mr. Mojo Risin’ (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 11 March 2023 18:05 (three years ago)
Seems like sometimes people make the pun go back in the other direction and say “catch of the day” instead of “match of the day.”
― Think Fast, Mr. Mojo Risin’ (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 11 March 2023 18:07 (three years ago)
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2772487/Catch-Day-BBC-famous-Match-Day-set-sale-cost-10-000.html
― Think Fast, Mr. Mojo Risin’ (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 11 March 2023 18:10 (three years ago)