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 (three months ago) link
Ditto.
― The British Boy of Film Classification (Tom D.), Monday, 5 February 2024 07:30 (three months ago) link
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!
― The British Boy of Film Classification (Tom D.), Monday, 5 February 2024 07:32 (three months ago) link
How many people realised their relationship with Twitter was over when they started calling it Ex.Or should that be parted company with?
― Stevo, Thursday, 8 February 2024 14:23 (three months ago) link
The 1980 Floor Show
― B. Amato (Boring, Maryland), Sunday, 11 February 2024 03:05 (three months ago) link
Whoa!
― Kim Kimberly, Sunday, 11 February 2024 03:10 (three months ago) link
Beware the savage floor
― The Ginger Bakersfield Sound (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 11 February 2024 03:57 (three months ago) link
cluedo
― conrad, Sunday, 11 February 2024 23:07 (three months ago) link
Like, clue... judo?
― Andrew Farrell, Sunday, 11 February 2024 23:32 (three months ago) link
Oh, clue ludo, yes that makes more sense.
― Andrew Farrell, Sunday, 11 February 2024 23:33 (three months ago) link
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, 12 February 2024 12:17 (three months ago) link
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'.
― koogs, Monday, 12 February 2024 13:18 (three months ago) link
― conrad, Monday, February 12, 2024 6:17 AM
And here I am wondering, What does Col. Mustard have to do with Parcheesi?
― pplains, Monday, 12 February 2024 16:29 (three months ago) link
Parcheesi does have several rule changes that improve on Ludo, objectively the worst board game.
― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 13 February 2024 11:19 (three months ago) link
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
― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 13 February 2024 12:05 (three months ago) link
"Your Mind and We Belong Together"
― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 14 February 2024 13:22 (three months ago) link
Took me a little bit to get that but yes. Kind of spoils the psychedelic nuttiness of the title somewhat.
― The British Boy of Film Classification (Tom D.), Wednesday, 14 February 2024 14:01 (three months ago) link
sorry, it's a bit of an obscure one if you don't know the song (as I didn't until today)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuYGq8e9lY4
― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 14 February 2024 14:11 (three months ago) link
I never knew that's why it's Cluedo here. I just thought it was another cutesy thing.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Wednesday, 14 February 2024 14:18 (three months ago) link
also - snakes and ladders is another game that's called something different in the US
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Wednesday, 14 February 2024 14:19 (three months ago) link
Found out last year that Sorry is called Mensch ärgere Dich nicht in German which means something like Man, don't be angry. That tickled me.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Wednesday, 14 February 2024 14:22 (three months ago) link
― B. Amato (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 14 February 2024 14:40 (three months ago) link
Yes because you slide down chutes and go up ladders
Not sure how many people have ever slid down a snake. Maybe it happens a lot in the UK idk
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 14 February 2024 14:46 (three months ago) link
A snake looks better than a chute.
― The British Boy of Film Classification (Tom D.), Wednesday, 14 February 2024 14:47 (three months ago) link
... it's (yet another) game the British brought back from India where the snakes have a deeper meaning than just something you slide down... apparently.
― The British Boy of Film Classification (Tom D.), Wednesday, 14 February 2024 14:50 (three months ago) link
chutes are just fundamentally less exciting than snakes
― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 14 February 2024 14:55 (three months ago) link
Personally I would definitely prefer having my butt on a chute vs. a snake; your opinion may vary.
Snakes? Not my kink. And also consent is an issue. Have the snakes enthusiastically consented to this arrangement?
― Sane clown posse (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 14 February 2024 15:01 (three months ago) link
the snakes are willing participants, if anything it's their idea
― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 14 February 2024 15:05 (three months ago) link
The do tend to look very jolly on the playing board
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 14 February 2024 15:16 (three months ago) link
why do the snakes have to consent, they're not eating your ass
― Neanderthal, Wednesday, 14 February 2024 15:25 (three months ago) link
Someone doesn’t know how to play snakes and ladders correctly
― the new drip king (DJP), Wednesday, 14 February 2024 15:38 (three months ago) link
― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length)
Until they fail to open.
― nickn, Wednesday, 14 February 2024 17:05 (three months ago) link
my chute's closed baby
― Neanderthal, Wednesday, 14 February 2024 17:46 (three months ago) link
like I said
― Cemetry Gaetz (DJP), Wednesday, 14 February 2024 19:33 (three months ago) link
The other day my wife pointed out a Masonic Temple and I realised that I had been missing a particular album title’s pun for over 30 years.
― Kraal Disorientation Chamber (emsworth), Tuesday, 20 February 2024 08:54 (three months ago) link
Then there's this, kinda going back the other way:
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51XFKDJ3HEL._SR600%2C315_PIWhiteStrip%2CBottomLeft%2C0%2C35_PIStarRatingFIVE%2CBottomLeft%2C360%2C-6_SR600%2C315_SCLZZZZZZZ_FMpng_BG255%2C255%2C255.jpg
― JRN, Wednesday, 21 February 2024 22:33 (three months ago) link
Neu - Seeland
― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 27 February 2024 19:29 (two months ago) link
ha nice!
― assert (matttkkkk), Tuesday, 27 February 2024 22:40 (two months ago) link
Welcome Inn
― Alba, Thursday, 14 March 2024 06:22 (two months ago) link
Right next to the Dew Drop Inn!
― Don’t Want to Say Goodbye Jumbo (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 14 March 2024 06:25 (two months ago) link
as someone who used to drink in a dew drop inn thirty years ago can I just say, fuck.
― gene besserit (ledge), Thursday, 14 March 2024 06:38 (two months ago) link
Have enjoyed a drink at the Done Right Inn....
― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Thursday, 14 March 2024 07:41 (two months ago) link
there was a dew drop inn right across from my house in london for years; at one point it changed proprietors and they changed the name to “the dew drop” 🤦
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 14 March 2024 08:22 (two months ago) link
it doesn't work with an English accent, so I'm sure they missed it too
― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 14 March 2024 09:16 (two months ago) link
It works with a Norfolk accent.
― man in suit and red tie raising his fist (Tom D.), Thursday, 14 March 2024 09:28 (two months ago) link
That Caran d'Ache, the pencil company, takes its name from the Russian word for pencil. I did lots of drawing in high school and also took Russian, but somehow I never put the two words together before.
― Lily Dale, Thursday, 21 March 2024 00:03 (two months ago) link
This shitty meme just turned on a light in my head.
https://i.imgur.com/DezcbV3.png
https://i.imgur.com/oDiKoDS.png
― pplains, Saturday, 23 March 2024 00:33 (two months ago) link
GOOP being in some way a play on Gwyneth Paltrow's name had escaped my attention until today.
― Alba, Tuesday, 26 March 2024 12:10 (one month ago) link
Filofax = file of facts
― Zelda Zonk, Tuesday, 26 March 2024 16:07 (one month ago) link
Filet-o-fish = filet of fish
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Tuesday, 26 March 2024 20:01 (one month ago) link