puns that you had missed

somebody told me once that "soul coughing" (the band) was a pun but i didn't get it, and still don't

― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, April 2, 2012 12:05 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it's not a pun, its a reference to barfin'

it was years before i got this one:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/82/MsTree21.jpg/200px-MsTree21.jpg

good god i didn't get ms. tree until just now

One of my Facebook friends just figured out Electric Light Orchestra. Many of his other friends are unironically praising him for his genius.

Whats to miss? Theyre a light orchestra that're electric, but lol electric light.. how the fuck could anyone miss that?

also "light orchestra" is a thing

oh you pretty much said that

aw shit ms. tree!

I STILL didn't get it until just now ("does she mistreat everyone,or what?") and then suddenly, duh.

Not everyone thinks of EG lightbulbs as "Electric light", though - you kind of have to know someone who remembers non electric light for that.

I get the impression its the "light orchestra" bit that people miss, from my googling!

the only google results I get for "light orchestra" are for ELO

Oh, this is like, elevator music or something.

idg "war between the tates".

― Pureed Moods (Trayce), Thursday, May 24, 2012 12:51 AM (7 hours ago)

Get it?

Well that makes sense now, yah. Not that it was a phrase I was familiar with. Either the original, or what I see by google is apparently a movie title. Didnt know either one. Cest la.

Oh my god. Only recently I was very embarrassed to realise the pun in the Simpsons episode "Hell Toupee". That was bad enough... just now I overheard 2 workmates talking about old PC and console games and I heard someone mention Boulder Dash.

...and suddenly got the pun for THAT, as well, after fuck knows how many years.

Oh man, I played a lot of Boulder Dash and definitely didn't "get" it as a kid. Cool game though.

Tom Leher sang "as someone once remarked to Schubert, take us to your leader", and I didn't make the connection to lieder.

I had a VU bootleg for many years before I realized the label, Lurid, was a pun on Lou Reed.

Those last couple seem like they could make great Young Money lyrics.

I bought a Velvets bootleg once on "Lurid" records and many years later realized lurid = Lou Reed.

― nickn, Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Which I mentioned back in May! (Knew I had posted it before somewhere on ILX, but thought it was on ILM.)

Tom Leher sang "as someone once remarked to Schubert, take us to your leader", and I didn't make the connection to lieder.

― B'wana Beast, Monday, November 5, 2012 1:19 AM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

fuck, always just heard this as a non sequitur. only been 10 years tho, thanking u

Is smashing pumpkins a pun?

i did not get that "d'yer maker" was a pun until this morning when i heard a radio dj announce it. i guess not even really a pun. a weird homonym?

Not a pun, OK, but the lurid / Lou Reed thing somehow reminded me of a discovery I made a few years ago, which is that the third Jimi Hendrix album, the one with his cover of "All Along The Watchtower" on it, is called Electric LaDYLANd.

My brain nearly exploded at the time.

oh god that Led Zepplin one

I remember learning that and then promptly forgetting it because the pronunciation made no sense

the led zep one is a play on a v olde english 'joke' eg

'my wife went to the carribean'

'jamaica?'

'no she went of her own accord'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yq2jnPqRDd4

oh pfft I guess autoembed doesn't work with https, w/e

not a pun, but an etymological thing. they call it _petting_ because you do it to _pets_. somehow i never put the two together, at least consciously.

heavy

1953 A. C. Kinsey et al. Sexual Behav. Human Female ix. 389 The most responsive females may be the ones who most often pet to orgasm before marriage.

not a pun, but an etymological thing. they call it _petting_ because you do it to _pets_. somehow i never put the two together, at least consciously.

I experienced something similar just a couple of years ago with the word "duck" - it just all of a sudden occured to me "omg! ducks are always lowering their heads and dipping them under the water; and that's how duck-as-a-verb came to be! "to duck" = "to behave like a duck"

Also, it took me about a half-dozen viewings of "This is Spinal Tap" to pick up on the "Isle of Lucy" pun.

Well, I'm 55 and never realized that about "duck" until I read your post.

I disbelieve it anyway

association runs the other way: duck (v) --> duck (n)

http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=duck

it's actually the other way around—ducks are called that because they duck (i.e. the verb came first)

xp damn

I have only just realised that Band Aid was a pun.

right, hence Farm Aid etc MAKING NO SENSE

Oh where are you going to, my pretty farm aid,
With your red, rosy cheeks and your coal-black hair?

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what. OH.

that one was a coincidence surely

The Beatles albums "Past Masters" - I never knew "passed master" was a term until just now.

the phrase is 'passed muster'. a passed master would just be a master who has passed.

uneducated people say 'passed the mustard', like it's xmas dinner or something

i'm at past mast rn guys

i thought people cut the mustard rather than pass it

passed gasters