puns that you had missed

Yeah I'm an uncultured dullard and even I gottit

Lana Kane from Archer

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Lana Lane?
Lidocaine?

Lanacane cream for pain

it always killed me that one of the leads in Cool Runnings was "Sanka Coffie"

Isn't Vaguely Threatening CAPTCHAs's point that it isn't a pun? There is no Tick character called "Deflatormouse", it's a mishearing of Die Fledermaus?

I think silby’s post was about ILX user Deflatormouse

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Puns I didn’t know had been done: Bee Movie.

Mentioned sixteen years ago, just dawned on me today: Adam Ant = adamant.

Because it was in a recent cryptic crossword?

Yesterday was the first time I ever realized that REM's "Begin the Begin" was a play on "Begin the Beguine."

That's one of those in the (to me) interesting class of puns that I heard before I knew the thing it was punning on. My childhood was full of those.

I maintain that the Led Zepplin song title "D'yer Mak'er" should be pronounced "do your maker" and, as a result, the pun doesn't make any sense

It works best if you're from the *Black Country.

(*that's one for US ILXors to unravel)

Not a pun, exactly, but I was for some reason thinking about the movie Pretty Woman the other day, and realized for the first time that the title is a variation on My Fair Lady. I knew the movie itself was, but I'd missed the joke in the title.

Aha.

Oooh

Wait till you find out about the pun in "My Fair Lady"

omg

Heavens above!

One that predates the musical, given its appearance in London Bridge Is Falling Down?

omg x2

Lerner settled on the title My Fair Lady, relating both to one of Shaw's provisional titles for Pygmalion, Fair Eliza, and to the final line of every verse of the nursery rhyme "London Bridge Is Falling Down". Recalling that the Gershwins' 1925 musical Tell Me More had been titled My Fair Lady in its out-of-town tryout, and also had a musical number under that title, Lerner made a courtesy call to Ira Gershwin, alerting him to the use of the title for the Lerner and Loewe musical

Seems to be implying the pun was coincidental but I'm certain Alan Jay Lerner spotted it.

idgi. “Mayfair Lady”?

That's it.

A sort of (cartoonish) version of how a Cockney might say Mayfair, specifically.

Dick Van Dyke style.

I get it but still don't get it. What's a "Mayfair" and why would someone say that, at least in the context of this film?

mayfair is and was a posh neighbourhood in London

“my fair” sounds a little like a cockney i.e. working class pronunciation of it

i think it’s a stretch frankly

https://d4c0fvduxq75z.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/mayfair.jpg

What's a "Mayfair" and why would someone say that, at least in the context of this film?

https://i.imgur.com/8jsIpCm.jpg

Certainly, the pun is mentioned in books about My Fair Lady:

https://www.google.com/search?tbm=bks&q=%22my+fair+lady%22+mayfair+cockney

Oh, I get it now. "Mayfair" is like y'alls Kings Landing.

https://i.imgur.com/VImNKqo.png

Mayfair Lady in London = Boardwalk Babe in Atlantic City

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHn6Pe8p1RM

Not a pun, but a Spoonerism maybe? Common wisdom is the band name Foghat coming from a nonsense word from a Scrabble game played by Dave Peverett and his brother. But yesterday I saw it as hog fat and now I can't unsee it.

I remember hearing (and posted somewhere on ILX, maybe here) that it is a pronunciation of "fuck it" that would be allowed on radio/TV/record stores, etc. It was Steve Jones of the Sex Pistols on his Jonesy's Jukebox show that I heard it.

Isn't there like a Thai town called Phuket

Indeed, but the Ph is just an aspirated P, ie what most anglophones might think of as a normal-ish P before a vowel. The u appears to be long, though, so while it doesn't contain a fuck, it does contain a poo.

Sting - Ten Summoner's Tales

Ten Sumner's Tales

it's been mentioned upthread several times, but only today for me: Camper Van Beethoven.

my Dutchness impeding me here on both sides, I think. the "van" thing is such a mundane feature of the Dutch language that we don't think twice about it, and I also never realised that what we simply call a "camper" an English speakers calls a "camper van".

...an English speaker* calls...

(I mean, I got it in Greta Van Fleet, but those guys are huuuge)

next up: deconstructing Randy Van Warmer

Delivery Van Morrison

third-tier late 90s act Days of the New - "News of the Day"

i've got this time on my hands
here are some puns to amuse

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