Google suggests that awareness of the pun is entirely contained within James' posts on ILX
― 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
idgi
― 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
i'd never noticed before either tho
i mean there's a reason most of the puns in this thread have gone unnoticed
― big man on scampus (Noodle Vague), Monday, 2 November 2020 15:00 (three years ago) link
holy shit i got something right.
― Lover of Nixon (or LON for short) (Neanderthal), Monday, 2 November 2020 15:01 (three years ago) link
remember where u were this day etc
it truly is the most impressive pun of the century
― Welcome to Nonrock (breastcrawl), Monday, 2 November 2020 15:09 (three years ago) link
a new world record
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 2 November 2020 15:30 (three years ago) link
Obviously a British phenomenon.
― Young Boys of Bernie (Tom D.), Monday, 2 November 2020 15:31 (three years ago) link
https://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/the-real-meaning-of-the-name-electric-light-orchestra.67239/
During the late sixties a light orchestra was very popular, similar tothose of the BBC string quartets. Inspired by Denny Laines ElectricString Band, Roy Wood had the idea to incorporate the electric partusing more traditional rock instruments with the light orchestrainstruments, hence The Electric Light Orchestra.
Classic Roy
― Alba, Monday, 2 November 2020 16:11 (three years ago) link
compare "light opera"
― Kabob Dylan (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 2 November 2020 18:53 (three years ago) link
Is there a doctor in the ... ?― pplains, Thursday, October 29, 2020 8:00 PM bookmarkflaglinkElectric Light Orchestra― Alba, Monday, November 2, 2020 8:14 AM bookmarkflaglink
― pplains, Thursday, October 29, 2020 8:00 PM bookmarkflaglink
― Alba, Monday, November 2, 2020 8:14 AM bookmarkflaglink
this made me giggle
― shout-out to his family (DJP), Monday, 2 November 2020 19:35 (three years ago) link
^eeeeevil poster
― Lover of Nixon (or LON for short) (Neanderthal), Monday, 2 November 2020 21:19 (three years ago) link
I don't know how, but I only just got thishttps://img.discogs.com/NyZ3xhFFUQW22-Tnv9_ieOm3tE4=/fit-in/600x596/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-499100-1580382213-2044.jpeg.jpg
― assert (MatthewK), Friday, 13 November 2020 20:34 (three years ago) link
oooooooooh
― budo jeru, Friday, 13 November 2020 20:53 (three years ago) link
;hlksafdlkhasf
― Give me a Chad Smith-type feel (map), Friday, 13 November 2020 20:59 (three years ago) link
i literally just spent thirty seconds repeating the title in my head until i ...................... you know ..............
haha today i learned...
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 13 November 2020 20:59 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyiGHFGCf2U
― budo jeru, Friday, 13 November 2020 21:09 (three years ago) link
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0)
ditto
― nickn, Friday, 13 November 2020 21:10 (three years ago) link
I loved that song for ages, just like th e blindman god gave back his sight ..... Praise the Lord ...That and May You Be Alone really resonated with me.
But i think the Drifting Cowboys were areal archetype when it came to the formation of the band
― Stevolende, Friday, 13 November 2020 23:14 (three years ago) link
Soon over Babaluma is another country related word play thing.Been running through my head during the election, Moon over alabama. Or at least been thinking babaluma when i hear alabama
― Stevolende, Friday, 13 November 2020 23:20 (three years ago) link
oh wow
― budo jeru, Friday, 13 November 2020 23:43 (three years ago) link
voodoo chili
― Robert Gotopieces (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 21 November 2020 21:54 (three years ago) link
occurred to me on watching the last Last Week Tonight last week that there is almost inevitably going to be a spate of shows at the end of the year called 2020 Hindsight.
― Stevolende, Saturday, 21 November 2020 22:08 (three years ago) link
Or 2020 Vision
― nickn, Sunday, 22 November 2020 06:37 (three years ago) link