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.
― Ngolo Cantwell (Chinaski), Wednesday, 12 February 2020 11:58 (four years ago) link
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.
― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 13 March 2020 08:28 (four years ago) link
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.
― Bougy! Bougie! Bougé! (Eliza D.), Wednesday, 1 April 2020 17:22 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbyqnpcmPXI
I was raised by snakes, I lie all the time.
🤦
― oder doch?, Thursday, 9 April 2020 10:54 (four years ago) link
Was "Scarborough Country" a pun on "Marlboro Country"?
― Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Saturday, 6 June 2020 06:29 (three years ago) link
lol of course it was
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 6 June 2020 11:09 (three years ago) link
"They leave the west behind" in Back in the USSR
― Alba, Saturday, 13 June 2020 10:48 (three years ago) link
Heh.
― pplains, Saturday, 13 June 2020 10:50 (three years ago) link
idgi
― Subverted by buggery (Tom D.), Saturday, 13 June 2020 10:54 (three years ago) link
Rest behind. It's not the wordplay of the century.
― Alba, Saturday, 13 June 2020 11:00 (three years ago) link
Not a classic, true.
― Subverted by buggery (Tom D.), Saturday, 13 June 2020 11:01 (three years ago) link
is Rhodes Must Fall a pun on Roads Must Roll or is there something that they both pun on?
― koogs, Thursday, 18 June 2020 07:48 (three years ago) link
(searching for "Roads Must" just turns up results for the latter. searching "Must Fall" results for the former)
― koogs, Thursday, 18 June 2020 07:52 (three years ago) link
dank 1308 memes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hospitaller_conquest_of_Rhodes
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 18 June 2020 08:03 (three years ago) link
Took me a few years to figure out
"Chest Fever"
― ABBA O RLY? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 21 September 2020 13:39 (three years ago) link
What's the pun there?
― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 21 September 2020 14:25 (three years ago) link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acute_bronchitis
― ABBA O RLY? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 21 September 2020 14:42 (three years ago) link
nope, still dgi
― how do i shot moon? (Noodle Vague), Monday, 21 September 2020 14:43 (three years ago) link
Google suggests that awareness of the pun is entirely contained within James' posts on ILX
― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 21 September 2020 14:46 (three years ago) link
That's probably over the line into being a dick, sorry.
― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 21 September 2020 14:47 (three years ago) link
The Mighty Fall, which is what John Peel often referred to Mark E Smith's band as.
― Alba, Friday, 25 September 2020 23:22 (three years ago) link
ohhhh
― erratic wolf angular guitarist (sic), Saturday, 26 September 2020 00:08 (three years ago) link
Chest ColdFever
― ABBA O RLY? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 26 September 2020 01:25 (three years ago) link
― ABBA O RLY? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 26 September 2020 01:39 (three years ago) link
xxxp hooollly shit!
― error prone wolf syndicate (Hadrian VIII), Saturday, 26 September 2020 02:13 (three years ago) link
this thread is always so humbling
― error prone wolf syndicate (Hadrian VIII), Saturday, 26 September 2020 02:14 (three years ago) link
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.
― everything, Saturday, 26 September 2020 06:12 (three years ago) link
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.
― Tim, Saturday, 26 September 2020 06:58 (three years ago) link
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.
― Alba, Saturday, 26 September 2020 08:57 (three years ago) link
I want to believe it was intentional, because they are, and they do
― error prone wolf syndicate (Hadrian VIII), Saturday, 26 September 2020 19:23 (three years ago) link
Mike Watt + the Secondmen
― Thoia Thoing, Maryland (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, 26 September 2020 21:34 (three years ago) link
This post on the obituary thread today, about some tv show I haven't the foggiest clue about
Right! I don't totally remember but it seems to me from quick search that Nipsey Russell was an upper left seat.Richard Dawson pretty much held down that bottom center for an eternity as far as I can remember, although I see some images of Dick Martin in that seat as well.― Garu’s Got a Rona
Richard Dawson pretty much held down that bottom center for an eternity as far as I can remember, although I see some images of Dick Martin in that seat as well.
― Garu’s Got a Rona
taught me that the name Nipsey Hussle was a pun.
― anatol_merklich, Tuesday, 13 October 2020 21:41 (three years ago) link
(TV programme is celebrity squares, the American version)
― koogs, Wednesday, 14 October 2020 03:07 (three years ago) link
No, it's Match Game.
Hollywood Squares is the American version of Celebrity Squares.
― Josefa, Wednesday, 14 October 2020 03:17 (three years ago) link
Ok, thanks. American TV isn't the universal reference point the way they sometimes think it is and stuff like this never made it overseas (well maybe the formats did but not the regulars). I only know Nipsie from a reference in Milk and Cheese comics...
UK equivalent would perhaps be Charlie Drake
― koogs, Wednesday, 14 October 2020 06:55 (three years ago) link
(oh, Nipsie *was* on Hollywood Squares, so I didn't misremember that, but the thing in that crow parody was Match Game)
― koogs, Wednesday, 14 October 2020 06:57 (three years ago) link
(TV programme is Blankety Blank, the American version)
― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 14 October 2020 08:54 (three years ago) link
https://www.chortle.co.uk/books/2020/05/19/46138/alternative_comedy,_by_oliver_double
real name or punny stage name?
― koogs, Thursday, 29 October 2020 16:09 (three years ago) link
Hip hop producer Nosaj Thing - now that I hear it, guessing this is an intentional pun and not spelling your name backwards for no reason?
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Thursday, 29 October 2020 17:41 (three years ago) link
He's no Posdnous.
― Un-fooled and placid (sic), Thursday, 29 October 2020 19:24 (three years ago) link
dammit! Posdnuos.
it was recently pointed out to me that 'house', as in the tv show featuring an irascible hugh laurie, is a pun on 'holmes', as in sherlock holmes
― mookieproof, Thursday, 29 October 2020 20:07 (three years ago) link
That is bad if true
― Alba, Thursday, 29 October 2020 21:30 (three years ago) link
Anyway, a house is famously not a home. Should have called him Dr Dwelling
― Alba, Thursday, 29 October 2020 21:33 (three years ago) link
isn't a house m.d. also a thing, though? Like, a doctor attached to a specific hospital, or am I making that up?
― Lily Dale, Thursday, 29 October 2020 21:36 (three years ago) link
Is there a doctor in the ... ?
― pplains, Friday, 30 October 2020 00:00 (three years ago) link
Electric Light Orchestra
― Alba, Monday, 2 November 2020 13:14 (three years ago) link
― sound of scampo talk to me (El Tomboto), Monday, 2 November 2020 14:56 (three years ago) link
Light orchestra as in 'soft' and also as in 'electric light'?
― Lover of Nixon (or LON for short) (Neanderthal), Monday, 2 November 2020 14:58 (three years ago) link
a "light orchestra" is a generally amateur orchestra that plays pops and well-known tunes rather than full blown heavy symphonic stuff
― big man on scampus (Noodle Vague), Monday, 2 November 2020 14:59 (three years ago) link