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^eeeeevil poster

Lover of Nixon (or LON for short) (Neanderthal), Monday, 2 November 2020 21:19 (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 ..............

Give me a Chad Smith-type feel (map), Friday, 13 November 2020 20:59 (three years ago) link

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

haha today i learned...

― 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

"mick signals"

budo jeru, Monday, 23 November 2020 03:02 (three years ago) link

Since 1988 I've thought that Prince's track "Anna Stesia" was a Prince-ified version of the name Anastasia, so I always heard him sing it "Anna Staysia". Today I read a piece suggesting it was a play on "anaesthesia" - sure enough I now hear "Anna Steesia" and the whole track suddenly makes more sense. I don't know what's weirder, the change in perception or the fact that I've been listening to Lovesexy for 32 years.

assert (MatthewK), Sunday, 29 November 2020 21:38 (three years ago) link

Oh wow me too

Alba, Sunday, 29 November 2020 21:39 (three years ago) link

waht and also lol and I sincerely mean that in the least mocking way possible; I've never even imagined the possibility of Anastasia

anatol_merklich, Monday, 30 November 2020 01:49 (three years ago) link

I think it's as simple as the fact that I had a friend called Anastasia at the time and she claimed the song as her own, and I never thought about it since!

assert (MatthewK), Monday, 30 November 2020 04:07 (three years ago) link

I only got this when I said the title out loud for the first time, like 25 years after it came out.

https://i.imgur.com/yC6HO55.jpg

Johnny Fever, Monday, 30 November 2020 04:15 (three years ago) link

Not so sure I buy "Anna Stesia" as "Anesthesia," but I've also never decided whether "Annie Christian" is supposed to be a half-assed play on "anti-Christian." Because if it is, it's awful.

Hideous Lump, Monday, 30 November 2020 07:02 (three years ago) link

"Anna Stesia" is absolutely 100% "anesthesia" and "Annie Christian" is absolutely 100% "anti-Christian" (the chorus goes "Annie Christian / Antichrist / Until I'm crucified / I'll live my life in taxicabs" so it's not like it's subtle)

DJP, Monday, 30 November 2020 15:32 (three years ago) link

how could Anna Stesia be anything other than "anesthesia"

Lover of Nixon (or LON for short) (Neanderthal), Monday, 30 November 2020 15:33 (three years ago) link

"anus thieves here"?

Lover of Nixon (or LON for short) (Neanderthal), Monday, 30 November 2020 15:33 (three years ago) link

I mean, it is Prince, who knows what that was a temple for

DJP, Monday, 30 November 2020 15:34 (three years ago) link

how could Anna Stesia be anything other than "anesthesia"

I don't think Anastasia is such a reach! Surely he was at least punning on that name?

Alba, Monday, 30 November 2020 15:46 (three years ago) link

For a long time I didn't realise that 'Finger FOC' was spelled like that because it was by Friends of Carlotta..... DURRR

Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 30 November 2020 15:49 (three years ago) link

I am 41 and have had this book since I was 8 or 9, have read it maybe 15 times and never twigged any of these apart from "Ed Banger"

32 years late, I am suddenly realising that all the names on Murder on the Midnight Plane are puns, including this one. pic.twitter.com/oko5R0e1mO

— Centuries of Sound (@Centuries_Sound) November 30, 2020

discogs marketplace of ideas (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 30 November 2020 15:52 (three years ago) link

Secretary of State nominee A. Blinken.

a certain derecho (brownie), Monday, 30 November 2020 16:21 (three years ago) link

HAHA

Lover of Nixon (or LON for short) (Neanderthal), Monday, 30 November 2020 16:26 (three years ago) link

!

early-Woolf semantic prosody (Hadrian VIII), Monday, 30 November 2020 20:14 (three years ago) link

Not so sure I buy "Anna Stesia" as "Anesthesia," but I've also never decided whether "Annie Christian" is supposed to be a half-assed play on "anti-Christian." Because if it is, it's awful.

Can I introduce you to Silverchair's "Anna's Song," which makes a very deep and important point with the lyric

"'Cos Anna wrecks ya heart
Like Anna wrecks
ya"

huge rant (sic), Monday, 30 November 2020 20:22 (three years ago) link

we're about two seconds away from posting "If You Seek Amy" in here

DJP, Monday, 30 November 2020 20:24 (three years ago) link

oh christ, I always hated that fucking lyric. I liked the song ok enough until I heard that

the full second lyric is actually "and Ana wrecks your life/like an anorexia life"

and the opening is "Please die Ana/for as long as you're here, we're not"

ugh

Lover of Nixon (or LON for short) (Neanderthal), Monday, 30 November 2020 20:24 (three years ago) link

dang, my sneered-at but misheard version is actually better

huge rant (sic), Monday, 30 November 2020 20:43 (three years ago) link

Annie Areyouokay

velcro-magnon (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 30 November 2020 20:50 (three years ago) link

poor ol' Annie Ruok

DJP, Monday, 30 November 2020 21:03 (three years ago) link

xps well tbf Daniel Johns struggled with anorexia for years, I can forgive the cringe pun

assert (MatthewK), Monday, 30 November 2020 21:08 (three years ago) link

I really wanna say "death of the author" but

huge rant (sic), Monday, 30 November 2020 21:53 (three years ago) link

I realized today the title of the movie Sully is a dumb and obvious pun that I had missed, ie that the NTSB inquiry is an attempt to "sully" the pilot's reputation?

Sam Weller, Tuesday, 1 December 2020 13:48 (three years ago) link

I mean, it's the actual nickname of the actual pilot?

Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 1 December 2020 14:01 (three years ago) link

Hence a pun!

Alba, Tuesday, 1 December 2020 14:05 (three years ago) link

circles within circles

DJP, Tuesday, 1 December 2020 14:11 (three years ago) link

xxpost

Yes, thank you for that information.

Sam Weller, Tuesday, 1 December 2020 14:33 (three years ago) link

Is 'Roland Schitt' a pun?

― Bidh boladh a' mhairbh de 'n láimh fhalaimh (dowd), Tuesday, December 8, 2020 2:00 PM (eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

From the television program Schitt's Creek

Lavator Shemmelpennick, Tuesday, 8 December 2020 19:09 (three years ago) link

which is a pun, to be clear

it bangs for thee (Simon H.), Tuesday, 8 December 2020 19:16 (three years ago) link

Schitt's Creek = pun I had not missed
Roland Schitt = pun I had missed

Lavator Shemmelpennick, Tuesday, 8 December 2020 19:17 (three years ago) link

To be clear, it was a genuine question. I don't know if it's a pun or not.

Bidh boladh a' mhairbh de 'n láimh fhalaimh (dowd), Tuesday, 8 December 2020 19:29 (three years ago) link

On 'roll in shit' or 'roll and shit'? I guess both would be a bit lame for different reasons.

Alba, Tuesday, 8 December 2020 19:42 (three years ago) link

A roll and shit, like a roll and sausage.

Bidh boladh a' mhairbh de 'n láimh fhalaimh (dowd), Tuesday, 8 December 2020 19:42 (three years ago) link


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