puns that you had missed

good news YMP!

The last name of Gale was originally mentioned in Baum's script for the 1902 Broadway stage version of The Wizard of Oz, in which it was originally a setup for a punning joke. (DOROTHY: "I am Dorothy, and I am one of the Kansas Gales." SCARECROW: "That accounts for your breezy manner.")

is the falcon and the winter soldier a pun on the falcon and the snowman?

i think you might be overthinking that one tbrr

Valid question!

I don't know about 'pun' but I had similarly considered that it might be a vague allusion that most people would neither get nor particularly care about.

Reminds me of my friend who alleged that Silver Jews' "Smith & Jones Forever" was actually about the 1997 hit film, Men In Black.

I guess he wasn't familiar with the UK comedy duo?

surprised by tuomas there. but he may not be aware of this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alas_Smith_and_Jones
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alias_Smith_and_Jones

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No, man. Men In Black, the science-fiction motion picture that starred Ted Kennedy's nephew and the sexy Welsh singer.

UConn Huskies apparently not a pun, but it should have been

"Progressive rock" is just another way of saying Rolling Stone.

:)

haha I always just assumed David Berman was a fan of 80s UK TV comedy. Never questioned it

thinking back, it's a huge stretch of the imagination, but then doesn't Stephen Malkmus support Luton Town FC?

Is butt-rock just regressive rock?

Is "Beastie Boys" a (bad) pun on Beach Boys?

I don't think so. They did invent a backronym for it. can't remember the origin tho

being a fan of both bands though, it saved a lot of time when cd shopping back in the day

have you heard the song smith & jones forever doorstep jetski

John Updike claimed never to have heard of the British WW2 song "Run, Rabbit, Run" until after his novel Rabbit, Run was published.

did he admit to being familiar with rabbit runs

Jesus, I've only just got the pun in Izzy Stradlin. I'm basing my lack of awareness on it being the most shite, lacklustre pun I've ever heard.

I've only just realised that the animated "Will Smith is James Bond is a pigeon" movie is supposed to be read as Spies in The Skies.

It just occurred to me yesterday that. Miles Davis's album "Milestones" is not just the obvious correspondence of his first name with "milestone," but it's literally Miles Tones.

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

I was raised by snakes, I lie all the time.

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Was "Scarborough Country" a pun on "Marlboro Country"?

lol of course it was

"They leave the west behind" in Back in the USSR

Heh.

idgi

Rest behind. It's not the wordplay of the century.

Not a classic, true.

is Rhodes Must Fall a pun on Roads Must Roll or is there something that they both pun on?

(searching for "Roads Must" just turns up results for the latter. searching "Must Fall" results for the former)

dank 1308 memes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hospitaller_conquest_of_Rhodes

Took me a few years to figure out

"Chest Fever"

What's the pun there?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acute_bronchitis

nope, still dgi

Google suggests that awareness of the pun is entirely contained within James' posts on ILX

That's probably over the line into being a dick, sorry.

The Mighty Fall, which is what John Peel often referred to Mark E Smith's band as.

ohhhh

Chest ColdFever

Google suggests that awareness of the pun is entirely contained within James' posts on ILX

xxxp hooollly shit!

this thread is always so humbling

The dictionary definition of "The mighty Fall" actually fits better with what Peel was saying. Not that it matters, but I don't think he was making a pun.

If “The Mighty Fall” is not a pun, it’s surely a play on words, and one I’d missed all these years. My reaction was roughly the same as sic’s.

What do you mean by the dictionary definition of the mighty Fall, everything?

And yes, a play on words, not strictly a pun, you're right, Tim.