That still wouldn’t be a pun
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Tuesday, 28 November 2023 19:00 (two years ago)
The joke is that you think Howe is referring to some arcane musical term, but it's actually a soccer drill, thus deflating his potential pretensions and those of his audience.
― Halfway there but for you, Tuesday, 28 November 2023 19:48 (two years ago)
Even though it has "puns" in the title this has become the all-purpose thread for wordplay one discovers in the wilds and wants to share.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Tuesday, 28 November 2023 19:57 (two years ago)
Oughtn’t’ve
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Tuesday, 28 November 2023 21:01 (two years ago)
Howe's puns to be judged only by a Yessed-out jury
― Halfway there but for you, Tuesday, 28 November 2023 21:16 (two years ago)
Steve Howe doesn't really strike me as someone who'd be familiar with football coaching sessions tbh
― blazin' squab (NickB), Tuesday, 28 November 2023 21:20 (two years ago)
In other prog rock news, random googling tells me that in music, a six-part rondo can take the form ABACAB. Not very punny tbh, but new info to me anyway.
― blazin' squab (NickB), Tuesday, 28 November 2023 21:25 (two years ago)
Steve Howe used his hall of fame induction to tell a mediocre joke. Not a pun, just an old and mediocre joke.
Approximately, "Son, don't go to the strip club; you'll see things you don't want to see. I went to a strip club and I saw... my dad."
― Iris Demented (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 28 November 2023 21:40 (two years ago)
Rick Wakeman, surely?
― Halfway there but for you, Tuesday, 28 November 2023 21:43 (two years ago)
maybe you'd think all your jokes were funny too if you'd spent your life surrounded by yes men
― blazin' squab (NickB), Tuesday, 28 November 2023 21:50 (two years ago)
🥁
― Shifty Henry’s Swing Club (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 28 November 2023 21:55 (two years ago)
The pun is that “my dad” sounds like “maighed add”
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Tuesday, 28 November 2023 23:38 (two years ago)
Pun that I did not miss: new book entitled Empire of the Sun.
― Shifty Henry’s Swing Club (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 29 November 2023 00:10 (two years ago)
What?
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Wednesday, 29 November 2023 00:41 (two years ago)
Aargh sorry:Empire of the Sum
― Shifty Henry’s Swing Club (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 29 November 2023 00:55 (two years ago)
It’s about the history of the calculator.
That’s a pun
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Wednesday, 29 November 2023 01:00 (two years ago)
You mean pum
― the new drip king (DJP), Wednesday, 29 November 2023 12:16 (two years ago)
Can’t argue w that
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Wednesday, 29 November 2023 14:42 (two years ago)
Pa rum pa pum pun
― Iris Demented (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 29 November 2023 15:34 (two years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywFbpDjpZno
― Shifty Henry’s Swing Club (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 29 November 2023 15:45 (two years ago)
I just got Funki Porcini.
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― anatol_merklich, Saturday, 9 December 2023 16:24 (two years ago)
Press Gang, the 80s moffat show about a school newspaper
― koogs, Wednesday, 13 December 2023 21:18 (two years ago)
Guitarists, linguist-historians, please help render a verdict:Is power chord meant to be a pun?
― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 13 December 2023 21:21 (two years ago)
If it is idgi
― Free Ass Ange (Tom D.), Wednesday, 13 December 2023 22:12 (two years ago)
Chord = cord
This was a pun I had missed, if it was conceived that way.
― Halfway there but for you, Wednesday, 13 December 2023 22:16 (two years ago)
Duh, yes. Seems unlikely anyone would bother making such a pun though?
― Free Ass Ange (Tom D.), Wednesday, 13 December 2023 22:24 (two years ago)
Yeah, is it really missing it if it was punintentional?
― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 13 December 2023 22:59 (two years ago)
I guess I'm even worse at puns than I thought. It literally just occurred to me that WhatsApp is a pun.
― Zelda Zonk, Wednesday, 17 January 2024 05:07 (two years ago)
WHATSAAAAAAAAAAAP
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 17 January 2024 11:50 (two years ago)
The Crack-a-Joke Book
― Alba, Thursday, 18 January 2024 18:50 (two years ago)
Love the ones that reveal themselves to you after 40 years
Is the title of The The's Soul Mining a pun on coal mining? Because if it is, that's another one I've just got after 40 years.
― lord of the rongs (anagram), Friday, 19 January 2024 15:41 (two years ago)
Almost certainly.
― Bulky Pee Pants (Tom D.), Friday, 19 January 2024 15:59 (two years ago)
Whoa! That never occured to me either.
― Kim Kimberly, Friday, 19 January 2024 16:31 (two years ago)
Not really a pun, but I was just thinking about that line in 10000 Maniacs "Hey Jack Kerouac" that goes "In Harelm, howling at night" and realized in addition to describing wild behavior it also references the Ginsberg poem.
― nickn, Thursday, 25 January 2024 17:32 (two years ago)
if it's not really a pun you can put it in the "things you were shockingly old when you learned" thread, which should really be renamed "things"
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Thursday, 25 January 2024 19:42 (two years ago)
altho, #onethread
I put it here because I just realized it (on my own) rather than "learned" it.
― nickn, Thursday, 25 January 2024 19:52 (two years ago)
Interesting epistemological distinction
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Friday, 26 January 2024 05:15 (two years ago)
The The's pun would have landed for me if it'd been spelled "Soulmining", but I am pleased to have seen the light after listening to it for 40 years, how the fuck is that even possible.
― assert (matttkkkk), Friday, 26 January 2024 06:07 (two years ago)
pagerank / larry page
― 龜, Friday, 26 January 2024 15:10 (two years ago)
The exclamation "here I am!" in "Rock You Like a Hurricane" by Scorpions doubles as an imperative to "hear (that) I am" - take this music as sonic proof of my existence. A germane topic, since (one of) the theme(s) of the song is Scorpions' ability and desire to Rock You with that music.
― Halfway there but for you, Friday, 26 January 2024 15:48 (two years ago)
A German(e) topic in fact.
― Bulky Pee Pants (Tom D.), Friday, 26 January 2024 15:49 (two years ago)
...this wordplay is even more impressive since they are working in a second language.
― Halfway there but for you, Friday, 26 January 2024 15:50 (two years ago)
Although I would submit the lyrics of "Rock You Like a Hurricane" as a demonstration of the pitfalls of working in a second language
― Josefa, Friday, 26 January 2024 16:18 (two years ago)
I have decided after all these decades that the band The Comateens chose their name as a play on the Scots word for committee, comatee. #yinthreid
― Al Green Explores Your Mind Gardens (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 1 February 2024 21:00 (two years ago)
it took me about a half-dozen viewings of "This is Spinal Tap" to pick up on the "Isle of Lucy" pun.― Sir Lord Baltimora (Myonga Vön Bontee), Monday, February 18, 2013 1:46 AM (ten years ago)
― Sir Lord Baltimora (Myonga Vön Bontee), Monday, February 18, 2013 1:46 AM (ten years ago)
― mookieproof, Monday, 5 February 2024 06:08 (two years ago)
Ditto.
― The British Boy of Film Classification (Tom D.), Monday, 5 February 2024 07:30 (two years ago)
Never heard of that word so it seems extremely unlikely some new wavers from New York would have!
― The British Boy of Film Classification (Tom D.), Monday, 5 February 2024 07:32 (two years ago)