puns that you had missed

What?

Aargh sorry:
Empire of the Sum

It’s about the history of the calculator.

That’s a pun

You mean pum

Can’t argue w that

Pa rum pa pum pun

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

I just got Funki Porcini.

https://www.asiagofood.it/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/FC116-funghi-porcini-secchi-speciali-500g-asiago-food-busta-360x500.png

Press Gang, the 80s moffat show about a school newspaper

Guitarists, linguist-historians, please help render a verdict:
Is power chord meant to be a pun?

If it is idgi

Chord = cord

This was a pun I had missed, if it was conceived that way.

Duh, yes. Seems unlikely anyone would bother making such a pun though?

Yeah, is it really missing it if it was punintentional?

I guess I'm even worse at puns than I thought. It literally just occurred to me that WhatsApp is a pun.

WHATSAAAAAAAAAAAP

The Crack-a-Joke Book

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.

Almost certainly.

Whoa! That never occured to me either.

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.

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"

altho, #onethread

I put it here because I just realized it (on my own) rather than "learned" it.

Interesting epistemological distinction

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.

pagerank / larry page

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.

A German(e) topic in fact.

...this wordplay is even more impressive since they are working in a second language.

Although I would submit the lyrics of "Rock You Like a Hurricane" as a demonstration of the pitfalls of working in a second language

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

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)

Ditto.

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

Never heard of that word so it seems extremely unlikely some new wavers from New York would have!

How many people realised their relationship with Twitter was over when they started calling it Ex.
Or should that be parted company with?

The 1980 Floor Show

Whoa!

Beware the savage floor

cluedo

Like, clue... judo?

Oh, clue ludo, yes that makes more sense.

this is why the americans were told to call it "clue" - because they don't call ludo "ludo" and therefore the vital pun would not have registered

ok, so two new / newly realised things here. all those references to americans playing parcheesi, they just mean 'ludo' (it's a brand name taken for the original indian word). and b) ludo is just from the latin for 'play'.

this is why the americans were told to call it "clue" - because they don't call ludo "ludo" and therefore the vital pun would not have registered

― conrad, Monday, February 12, 2024 6:17 AM

And here I am wondering, What does Col. Mustard have to do with Parcheesi?

Parcheesi does have several rule changes that improve on Ludo, objectively the worst board game.

ludo is like snakes & ladders but without the snakes or ladders, and organised in a way that means you can't immediately see who is winning

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