puns that you had missed

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paris is a moveable feast

or well is it that a pun or just wordplay

Well, liturgically speaking, a fixed feast day occurs on the same day every year - the feast of St. Patrick is always going to be March 17.

A moveable feast wanders around the calendar because its date depends on an astrological event (e.g., an equinox) and/or must be on a certain day of the week. Ash Wednesday, Mandy Thursday, and Good Friday, are moveable because they have to be calculated backwards from each year's Easter. Part of why different churches have different Easters.

I remember the history module on Medieval Ireland going into how the leader of teh Irish monks could calculate the date of Easter more accurately than Rome did. Through use of computans etc intricate counting systems and calculation using ones fingers, including various knuckles etc.
That at a time when the Irish monasteries were about the best place for maintaining Latin and Greek scholarship.

Also, reminded of Rabelais talking about Paris being named after laughter in Pantagruel but not having the details offhand. Pa Ris being the breakdown though.

In He-Man, the bad sorceress is (excellently) named 'Evil Lyn'. But now I'm wondering if it's a pun on Evelyn?

What would the pun be?

Always trying to provoke a Waugh

I thought he was just a bit brain dead.
Oddly seems to think he runs the place.

Smokey Robinson. I Second That Emotion.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mv9cWgkpIZ4

The seconder may state "I second the motion"

i honestly cannot believe i never put this together until today!

lol

this is as bad as my "Hip Hop Hooray"

the Elvis C. song "love for tender". was just this past weekend that i understood it as "legal tender". doy

From the album title puns thread:

Dodgy - Free Peace Sweet

that's probably the first pun I thought of myself. either that or 3p sweet.

It never occurred to me that the "gin" in The Gin Blossoms might refer to the cotton stripping machine rather than the spirit.

I thought a gin blossom was a weeping sore sprouting on the flesh of a terminal alcoholic?

Yeah, Matt#2's story is what I heard. Not "weeping sore" though, more like that perpetually red skin, especially on the nose.

Oh! so I guess it's kind of coincidence that a gin is used to process cotton blossoms as well.
Matt#2 I'm glad we addressed this issue in sequence (altho I'm sure you pre-date me on ILX!)

The movie Showgirls, about the titular profession, is also an imperative to "show girls".

i think your post might be the last straw for me bookmarking this thread

I might actually have gleaned that insight from a book I've forgotten.

Gary U.S. Bonds is a pun of sorts on government bonds, although it turns out Bonds isn't even his real name! I just thought he was called Gary Unwin Silas Bonds or somesuch.

He joined record producer Frank Guida's small Legrand Records label where Guida chose Anderson's stage name, U.S. Bonds, in hopes that it would be confused with a public service announcement advertising the sale of government bonds and thereby garner more DJ attention.[2]

Ulysses S. Grant was not his name at all. His name was Hiram.

As a result of a clerical error he was enrolled into West Point as Ulysses S. Grant. This became U.S.; as a result his academy nickname was Sam Grant (as in "Uncle Sam").

U.S., Ulysses, Sam. A panoply of names.

The fact remains that his name was Hiram.

The title of the Peter Hammill song "German Overalls" is a pun on "Deutschland Über Alles".

it's a Flanders & Swann joke

Now that I didn't know.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLee4QyhO7c

Meta: It just now, after 7 or so years on ILX, dawned on me what "Alfred, Lord Sotosyn" is a pun on

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yeah i just got this

Guitarist Earl Slick's birth name is Frank Madeloni and his stage name is, I assume, a pun on oil slick.

Meta: It just now, after 7 or so years on ILX, dawned on me what "Alfred, Lord Sotosyn" is a pun on

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yeah i just got this

Never got Earl/Oil Slick... googling it Oil Slick is the name of his publishing company so I guess the pun is deliberate.

Does a deflatormouse indicate the existence of an inflatormouse or is that like batshit like.

I mean, don't Strauss it, just asking like.

xxxp very charitable of you considering how many other deflatormice have had the same idea as me.

i like it cause i associate it with 4th grade music class, the teacher played us the awful Johann Strauss and i thought it was a funny word. stuck in my head long enough that when we got our first dial up internet connection a couple of years later i registered the AOL name and eventually the hotmail.

someone beat me to the gmail, reddit and some other things, and i think there was an emo singer/songwriter. it's still a nice reminder of something that made me laugh when i was 10.

Does a deflatormouse indicate the existence of an inflatormouse or is that like batshit like.

:)

Victoria Plum

it's a type of plum, it's a bathroom retailer (think plumb). not quite sure if it's related to Victorian Plumbing (another bathroom retailer). or victorian plumbing (the plumbing).

was victorian plumbing good or bad? i think i've heard it used as good examples for things and as an excuse for poorness.

sounds a bit plummy to me

also a story book character in the 80s or thereabouts. i had a cushion with her on it for some reason

Wait....

Are Pop Tarts a play on words for ...

https://i.imgur.com/0k8ZhpQ.png

Pop Art?

will you look at that popped art

popped plains

https://i.imgur.com/eoabYYM.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/SzbfR01.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/EOr7U3b.jpg

Wait a minute. Where's that guy from Quartz City at.

I sure have been missing a lot of puns lately.

Elvis Costelecom

I was just listening to the old time actress Frances Farmer singing "Aura Lea," which is the tune of "Love Me Tender" but with older lyrics.

It goes,

As the blackbird in the spring on the willow tree
Sat and piped I heard him sing
Singing Aura Lea

I thought, oh wow, that's a pun I missed.
But apparently it's not.

However, googling reveals that the comedian Allan Sherman recorded a joke version of "Aura Lea" in the 1960s that used that pun:

Every time you take vaccine, take it orally
As you know the other way is more painfully

I mostly associate Allan Sherman with the song "Sorry 'Bout That," that is approximately 40% enjoyable and approximately 60% OMG NO, DO NOT GO THERE.

Loads of 20th century comedy/satire is like that: may have seemed okay at the time but no, can we please try humor that isn't that?