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"?
I mean, it is Prince, who knows what that was a temple for
― DJP, Monday, 30 November 2020 15:34 (three years ago) link
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
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 heartLike Anna wrecksya"
― 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 missedRoland 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
So is the name of US indie band Purling Hiss a spoonerism of Hurling Piss or what?
― sinewave boogie (Matt #2), Tuesday, 8 December 2020 19:42 (three years ago) link
xp to Dowd oh I definitely think it's there. Roll in shit.
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Tuesday, 8 December 2020 20:04 (three years ago) link
sounds great, no wonder it won all those Emmys
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Tuesday, 8 December 2020 22:26 (three years ago) link
Oh u
― Lover of Nixon (or LON for short) (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 8 December 2020 22:34 (three years ago) link
Just realized the word 'cube' is (phonetically) contained within the name 'Q-Bert'.
― You will notice a small sink where your sofa once was. (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 16 December 2020 17:57 (three years ago) link
woah
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 16 December 2020 18:18 (three years ago) link
Dick's Wings
― Looking for Cape Penis house (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 22 December 2020 03:58 (three years ago) link
Stankonia????!
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 25 December 2020 19:38 (three years ago) link
Wikipedia sez:
In March 1998, André 3000 and Big Boi purchased a studio off Northside Drive in Atlanta which had formerly belonged to R&B singer Bobby Brown. The studio had sentimental value for the duo, as it was the first place the two had ever recorded vocals together, on a remix of TLC's "What About Your Friends" (1992). The two named the studio "Stankonia", a word created by André 3000 as a combination of the words "stank", a slang synonym for "funky", and "Plutonia", the title of a poster in his bedroom depicting a futuristic city. He explained, "Stankonia is this place I imagined where you can open yourself up and be free to express anything".
― pomenitul, Friday, 25 December 2020 19:44 (three years ago) link
hmmyesterday i said to my son “that’ll put some stank on ya” and was like ohhhhhh
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 26 December 2020 09:39 (three years ago) link
it's used with that double meaning in the lyrics at the end of the album
― wasdnuos (abanana), Saturday, 26 December 2020 14:29 (three years ago) link
lol "puns you were too faded to have clocked"
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 26 December 2020 17:12 (three years ago) link
Lindley took no notice, went to compete in a rodeo, and was told by the doubtful rodeo manager that there would be "slim pickin's" (i.e. little chance of any prize money) for him.
― new variant (onimo), Thursday, 14 January 2021 21:45 (three years ago) link