― Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 16:07 (nineteen years ago) link
also, i amazingly didn't get Lipps, Inc. until quite recently. sheesh.
― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 19:01 (nineteen years ago) link
Is I Love Everything a pun?
― DV (dirtyvicar), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 19:17 (nineteen years ago) link
― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 19:34 (nineteen years ago) link
Perry Farrell took a while, too.
― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 19:39 (nineteen years ago) link
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 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 19:43 (nineteen years ago) link
― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 19:46 (nineteen years ago) link
― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 19:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 19:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 19:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 19:51 (nineteen years ago) link
i realized abt two years after the film was released that "con air" was a pun.
― m. (mitchlnw), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 19:52 (nineteen years ago) link
A man phoned me last night, singing "Stand and Deliver". I told him he'd got the wrong number, but he was Adam Ant.
― Steve.n. (sjkirk), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 19:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 22:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 22:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 22:16 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 22:18 (nineteen years ago) link
― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 22:20 (nineteen years ago) link
― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 22:20 (nineteen years ago) link
http://www.ociojoven.com/ezimagecatalogue/catalogue/variations/150x500/17042-150x500.jpg
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 22:23 (nineteen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 22:26 (nineteen years ago) link
― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 22:39 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 22:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― m. (mitchlnw), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 22:58 (nineteen years ago) link
Puns should be really obvious.
― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 23:09 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 23:21 (nineteen years ago) link
― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 23:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― papa november (papa november), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 23:38 (nineteen years ago) link
Is Perry Farrell seriously a deliberate joke and therefore presumably not his real name, then?
xpost haha too true.
― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 23:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 23:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― oops (Oops), Thursday, 2 December 2004 01:10 (nineteen years ago) link
― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Thursday, 2 December 2004 01:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 2 December 2004 08:41 (nineteen years ago) link
― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 2 December 2004 10:36 (nineteen years ago) link
The pun I missed for a long time was Sue is Fine = suicide. I just took the tracklisting's word for it.
On a similar-ish theme, on the Point album by Cornelius, I actually failed to check that the chorus that sounds like SU-MO... is in fact s-moke.
― Japanese Giraffe (Japanese Giraffe), Thursday, 2 December 2004 13:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ken L (Ken L), Thursday, 2 December 2004 13:53 (nineteen years ago) link
The Human Stain, I like it.
I have to admit that I had read the name Diagon Alley twice or maybe even three times before I copped it. And that's about as obvious as it gets.
― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Thursday, 2 December 2004 17:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 2 December 2004 17:12 (nineteen years ago) link
I had only thought of The Human Stain in the 'human condition' sense. I think I like the other sense better.
― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 2 December 2004 17:14 (nineteen years ago) link
Soz, Ken, i didn't pick up in this straightaway.
― Japanese Giraffe (Japanese Giraffe), Thursday, 2 December 2004 17:16 (nineteen years ago) link
― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Thursday, 2 December 2004 17:32 (nineteen years ago) link
― mark p (Mark P), Thursday, 2 December 2004 20:28 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ken L (Ken L), Thursday, 2 December 2004 20:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 2 December 2004 20:46 (nineteen years ago) link
His real name is Perry Weinstein, I believe.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 2 December 2004 21:56 (nineteen years ago) link
So I sort of forget about mine until the internet happens and I use it as a pseudonym for a bit, for e-mails and stuff, about six months all in all.
Then three days ago I decide to revive it and write off another mail and it is only when I am going through my own sent-messages folder that I REALISE R.SIPIENT CONTAINS A PUN.
― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Monday, 10 January 2005 01:18 (nineteen years ago) link
― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Monday, 10 January 2005 01:19 (nineteen years ago) link
Decades to see Space Merchants as pun on spice merchants. Probably as kid read "The Space Merchants" years before I heard of spice merchants. Lay Off The Space Merchants
― Mayne of Fules (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 30 October 2011 11:59 (twelve years ago) link
Does Goodwill feature prominently in the movie (never seen it).
― President of the Canadian Council of Bassoonists (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 17 April 2024 17:28 (one week ago) link
...me neither, I just always assumed it was a pun...
― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Wednesday, 17 April 2024 17:53 (one week ago) link
on the phrase we are all saying all the time, "Goodwill hunting"
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Wednesday, 17 April 2024 17:59 (one week ago) link
After puzzling over it, I concluded it referred to Damon and Affleck appealing to producers to show them some good will by bankrolling their project.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Wednesday, 17 April 2024 18:06 (one week ago) link
Skylar has inherited money under a will, but learns that what is truly important is human connection with a man named Will. The movie Good Will Hunting tells the journey of Skylar "hunting" her emotions about the "good" Will out from among the complex web of feelings she has around the "bad" will.
The sequel Good Will Hunting 2: aka Applesauce, Byiatch! did not receive a wide release.
― felicity, Wednesday, 17 April 2024 18:24 (one week ago) link
isn't the character's name Will Hunting (I also haven't seen it)
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Wednesday, 17 April 2024 18:45 (one week ago) link
Yes
― CEO Greedwagon (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 17 April 2024 18:53 (one week ago) link
I am almost crying from laughing at this
― Cemetry Gaetz (DJP), Wednesday, 17 April 2024 19:22 (one week ago) link
so was I
― felicity, Wednesday, 17 April 2024 19:23 (one week ago) link
no no no, "Will Hunting" is what Matt Damon calls his penis
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 17 April 2024 19:23 (one week ago) link
ew
― CEO Greedwagon (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 17 April 2024 21:30 (one week ago) link