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when was the last time you realised that you missed an obvious pun? not necessarily a pun involving the word "obvious".

1. For about two years I never realised/thought of the product "Micro Chips" was a pun. I just thought "oh microwaveable chips!! great!" and then one day i was like OMG MICROCHIPS! and felt really embarrassed

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 17:39 (eighteen years ago) link

i guess, if you have longed for an old pun that you hadn't heard for ages, you can post about it here too.

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 17:40 (eighteen years ago) link

I don't think I realised the Beatles was a pun until I was about 25.

― Jonathan Z. (Joanthan Z.), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 17:42 (eighteen years ago) link

I didn't realise "Yerself is Steam" by Mercury Rev was a pun until someone mentioned it on ILM.

My brother never realised that Manda Rin out of Bis was a pun either.

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 17:50 (eighteen years ago) link

yerself is steam. ha. i get it now.

― peter smith (plsmith), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 17:51 (eighteen years ago) link

There's a mattress company here in NYC called "Sleepy's" and their more recent ad campaign has following tagline:

Trust Sleepy's For the Rest of Your Life!

I thought, "hmmmm.....that's an awful lot to ask of their customers...lifelong brand loyalty!" The pun of it being the rest of your life (as in relaxed slumber) was completely lost on me until just recently.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 17:53 (eighteen years ago) link

the arrow in the FedEx logo

― Frankenstein On Ice (blueski), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 17:55 (eighteen years ago) link

The arrows in the old British Rail logo. The shame.

― beanz (beanz), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 18:14 (eighteen years ago) link

my roomate got this silly mailing from cingular announcing their merger with at&t but it was in the format of a wedding invitation. At the bottom it said 'reception to follow' and I thought 'so where's the party at?' - little did I know that I was stupid.

on arrested development joe or whatever his name is bought a boat called the 'seaward.' my other roomate pointed out that it was a pun for c-word, that I didnt pick up on.

― still bevens (bscrubbins), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 18:48 (eighteen years ago) link

The michaael jackson video where MJ and girl are eating popcorn. The film ends and the announcer says "See you next tuesday".

Mmmm.

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 12:15 (eighteen years ago) link

Frank's APA.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 12:16 (eighteen years ago) link

I'm still wondering if 'Rock The Vote' is an allusion to the phrase 'rock the boat'.

― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 12:19 (eighteen years ago) link

The fact that there was a link between the alter egos of the rappers Blak Twang and Fallacy (Tony Rotton and Danny Vicious) escaped me until about a week ago.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 12:36 (eighteen years ago) link

is 'Trading Spouses' (the american version of 'Wife Swap') a pun on 'Trading Spaces' (the american version of 'Changing Rooms' (which is itself a pun) which is itself a pun on 'Trading Places')?

my brain hurts.

― koogs (koogs), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 12:39 (eighteen years ago) link

Mother of god, I can't believe I had to sit here and say 'yerself is steam, I don't get it' about four times before I got it. Me am tick.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 12:41 (eighteen years ago) link

I only realised THIS MORNING that Adam Ant was a pun.

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 12:44 (eighteen years ago) link

I still don't get 'yerself is steam' :( :( :(

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 13:05 (eighteen years ago) link

Your self-esteem.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 13:08 (eighteen years ago) link

(That's a pretty bad pun, innit?)

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 13:08 (eighteen years ago) link

I didn't get that either, Archel.

― caitlin (caitlin), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 13:11 (eighteen years ago) link

It took me decades to figure out the joke in "If I said you had a beautiful body, would you hold it against me?"

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 13:14 (eighteen years ago) link

your self esteem -- it's not a very good pun.

― dog latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 13:14 (eighteen years ago) link

[i]I only realised THIS MORNING that Adam Ant was a pun.[/i]

OMG!!! I hadn't seen that either! How embarrassing.

― Hanna (Hanna), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 13:15 (eighteen years ago) link

Haha, neither had I!

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 13:16 (eighteen years ago) link

Conclusion: all these puns are rubbish.

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 13:31 (eighteen years ago) link

"Don't think twice, it's alright" I was listening to this last night and *ding* it's saying both "don't bother" and "don't even begin to think leaving me was okay."

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 13:32 (eighteen years ago) link

That's not a pun; it's just ambiguity

― caitlin (caitlin), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 13:37 (eighteen years ago) link

the self esteem one works better in certain accents.

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 13:39 (eighteen years ago) link

I only got Aladdin Sane ("A lad insane") like last year or something. That was embarassing.

― papa november (papa november), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 13:43 (eighteen years ago) link

I never got that... wow.

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 13:43 (eighteen years ago) link

It took me decades to figure out the joke in "If I said you had a beautiful body, would you hold it against me?"

Yep, me too.

― papa november (papa november), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 13:47 (eighteen years ago) link

i knew the "insane" bit but never thought of "a lad"!

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 13:47 (eighteen years ago) link

isn't it about bowies brother, who had severe mental problems & committed suicide?

― DJ Salinger (joni), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 14:00 (eighteen years ago) link

Haha, I never got any of these before (Yerself is Steam, Adam Ant, Aladdin Sane)!

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 14:05 (eighteen years ago) link

It was "See you next Wednesday" in the Thriller video, which isn't a pun, but it is a phrase director John Landis puts in every one of his movies.

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 15:21 (eighteen years ago) link

The michaael jackson video where MJ and girl are eating popcorn. The film ends and the announcer says "See you next tuesday".

I so don't get it.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 15:32 (eighteen years ago) link

i think the answer lies in mark's tenuous grasp of 'pun'.

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 15:34 (eighteen years ago) link

.. and I was fibbing anyway.

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 15:37 (eighteen years ago) link

that's like C U Next Tuesday, right?

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 15:54 (eighteen years ago) link

I never got the visual pun of the 7-Up "Uncola" glass until some advanced age of decrepitude.

― Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 16:07 (eighteen years ago) link

walking up some steps just the other day, it struck me:
Rap City ... Rhadsody!

also, i amazingly didn't get Lipps, Inc. until quite recently. sheesh.

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 19:01 (eighteen years ago) link

I am now worried that there are loads of puns out there I haven't got yet.

Is I Love Everything a pun?

― DV (dirtyvicar), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 19:17 (eighteen years ago) link

This happens to me absolutely all the time, and in some cases -- even worse -- with that nagging must-be-a-pun sense that drives one nuts: I'm happy to have the Mercury Rev one finally worked out for me. I can't think of any good recent examples, though: the last one I recall was hearing a Spinanes song and noticing the "inane" in there.

― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 19:34 (eighteen years ago) link

I didn't get Yerself is Steam either. Knew all the others mentioned here, although admittedly it took a while for me to realise with Manda Rin.

Perry Farrell took a while, too.

― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 19:39 (eighteen years ago) link

In similar news I had a long and frustrating conversation with someone wherein I was pointing out, with amazement, that the title of Philip Roth's The Human Stain could be read in two different ways, and that ads for the film version seemed to be inflecting it in the one of those two ways that I hadn’t thought of. Unfortunately I couldn’t seem to make the different inflections clear to the person I was talking to. I’ll try it with you guys: I had always read the title (without having read the book) as being “The Human Stain” like “The Human Condition”; the film trailer suddenly made me realize it was possibly supposed to be “The Human Stain” like “The Human Cannonball” or “The Human Calculator,” referring to the individual character.

I share this only because I need some reassurance that I wasn't being a bonehead in this conversation.

― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 19:40 (eighteen years ago) link

And wait, what's the pun with Perry Farrell? (If it's supposed to be "peripheral," that is the worst thing I have ever heard.)

― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 19:40 (eighteen years ago) link

It's not a pun, it's a spoonerism.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 19:43 (eighteen years ago) link

yes Nabisco, peripheral.

― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 19:46 (eighteen years ago) link

Suddenly that's better than the "Ferry Peril" Spoonerism I thought Dan was hinting toward.

― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 19:47 (eighteen years ago) link

Aw.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 19:48 (eighteen years ago) link

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the Seattle

― not too strange just bad audio (brimstead), Thursday, 23 February 2023 16:17 (one month ago) link

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 (one month ago) link

O_ _ _ S_ _

― Halfway there but for you, Thursday, 23 February 2023 16:27 (one month ago) link

Oral Swex

― least said, sergio mendes (sic), Thursday, 23 February 2023 16:28 (one month ago) link

Loraxes?

― nat king cole slaw (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 23 February 2023 16:29 (one month ago) link

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 (one month ago) link

The "W" is just for plausible deniability!

― Halfway there but for you, Thursday, 23 February 2023 16:31 (one month ago) link

(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 (one month ago) link

two weeks pass...

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 (two weeks ago) link

is it really though

― StanM, Saturday, 11 March 2023 12:31 (two weeks ago) link

Asking the same question, for a friend.

― Think Fast, Mr. Mojo Risin’ (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 11 March 2023 12:42 (two weeks ago) link

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 (two weeks ago) link

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 (two weeks ago) link

Might still be a play on catch of the day I suppose.

― Dan Worsley, Saturday, 11 March 2023 15:36 (two weeks ago) link

It’s inconclusive to me.

― Think Fast, Mr. Mojo Risin’ (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 11 March 2023 18:01 (two weeks ago) link

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 (two weeks ago) link

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 (two weeks ago) link

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 (two weeks ago) link

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 (two weeks ago) link

IMDb
https://m.imdb.com › title › moviec...
Match of the Day (TV Series 1964– ) - Connections
"The Little and Large Show" Episode #2.6 (TV Episode 1980). Spoofed as "Catch of the Day". "What's Up Doc?" Episode #1.23 (TV Episode 1993).

― Think Fast, Mr. Mojo Risin’ (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 11 March 2023 18:11 (two weeks ago) link

Also...

... the title was first used by the BBC for its Wimbledon tennis highlights programme in June 1964

― Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Saturday, 11 March 2023 18:25 (two weeks ago) link

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.

You couldn't watch any other matches when it started, it was the only football highlight show on Saturday nights - and it only showed one match, the match of the day.

― Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Saturday, 11 March 2023 18:29 (two weeks ago) link

You couldn’t go watch a match in person?

― Think Fast, Mr. Mojo Risin’ (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 11 March 2023 18:38 (two weeks ago) link

OF course, but it was the only place to watch football on TV on Saturday night - in England, that is, they didn't show it in Scotland for years.

― Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Saturday, 11 March 2023 18:44 (two weeks ago) link

In my dialect, "match" and "catch" are near-rhymes at best.

― pplains, Monday, 13 March 2023 14:47 (two weeks ago) link

Honey Don't

― Think Fast, Mr. Mojo Risin’ (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 14 March 2023 19:12 (two weeks ago) link

I mean I figured it out a few decades ago but still.

― Think Fast, Mr. Mojo Risin’ (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 14 March 2023 19:13 (two weeks ago) link

Now there's a jar I'll reach into.

― pplains, Tuesday, 14 March 2023 19:15 (two weeks ago) link

I had to ask Bing Chat what it was a pun on. Never heard of honey do.

― Alba, Tuesday, 14 March 2023 19:58 (two weeks ago) link

honeydew!

― satori enabler (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 14 March 2023 20:01 (two weeks ago) link

Honey do list

― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 14 March 2023 20:09 (two weeks ago) link

Puns with puns

https://i.imgur.com/yWpEMXL.png

― Alba, Tuesday, 14 March 2023 20:14 (two weeks ago) link

Precisely

― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 14 March 2023 20:20 (two weeks ago) link

I don’t think it’s a pun on the word “honeydew”

― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Tuesday, 14 March 2023 21:15 (two weeks ago) link

I've always heard it as a pun.

― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 14 March 2023 21:53 (two weeks ago) link

Next thing y’all will be telling us is that Dew Drop Inn is not a pun.

― Think Fast, Mr. Mojo Risin’ (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 14 March 2023 22:12 (two weeks ago) link

Curl Up and Dye Salon

― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 14 March 2023 22:20 (two weeks ago) link

Mötley Crüe: "I'm a live, live wire", which is also "I'm alive, live wire".

― Halfway there but for you, Friday, 17 March 2023 01:18 (one week ago) link

What

― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Friday, 17 March 2023 03:00 (one week ago) link

Do any of you know what a pun is ffs

― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Friday, 17 March 2023 03:01 (one week ago) link

dew you???

― budo jeru, Friday, 17 March 2023 04:59 (one week ago) link

Mötley Crüe = motley crew

― pplains, Friday, 17 March 2023 13:49 (one week ago) link

lol are you trolling silby

― piedro àlamodevar (wins), Friday, 17 March 2023 14:00 (one week ago) link

Motörhead: motorhead

― piedro àlamodevar (wins), Friday, 17 March 2023 14:01 (one week ago) link

lol nm, I can only remember four posts ago on a Friday

― piedro àlamodevar (wins), Friday, 17 March 2023 14:03 (one week ago) link

My example doesn't make sense unless you rhyme "live" with "jive", not with "give".

― Halfway there but for you, Friday, 17 March 2023 16:10 (one week ago) link

'cause I'm a live ... Liv Tyler!

― peace, man, Friday, 17 March 2023 16:26 (one week ago) link

pun-ditry itt is pun-ishing

― at bottom, wrapping my arms around some tripe called "Quest" (breastcrawl), Friday, 17 March 2023 16:48 (one week ago) link

reading this thread is a lot of pun

― TWELVE Michelob stars?!? (seandalai), Friday, 17 March 2023 22:36 (one week ago) link

A thread filled with PUN, that’s what I love

― Think Fast, Mr. Mojo Risin’ (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 18 March 2023 13:51 (one week ago) link

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