puns that you had missed

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

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/0tcAAMXQcVNQ9Hsh/s-l500.jpg

The Mekons song "Bob Hope & Charity."

Foxygen

is there more to it than foxy + oxygen?

Foxontherunlikeoxygen

is there more to it than foxy + oxygen?

As bendy said on this ILM thread, I just parsed it as foxy generation and somehow missed the oxygen thing. The foxy generation thing may be unintentional for all I know.

It seems it was.

Pitchfork: Which one of you came up with the name Foxygen?

Sam France: It was something my friend said about a guy that she found attractive. She said he was sexy or hot, or that he was her foxygen, or something like that. We were probably about 13. I don't know why, but it stuck.

Cardi B

something to do with D.B. Cooper's getaway car?

Cardi O)))

Bacardi?

I was hoping the pun was Cartier/Cardi B, but yeah it's from Bacardi

Bacardi was apparently her sister Hennessy's nickname for her growing up, later shortened to Cardi.

the Klaxons self-invented genre "new rave" was meant to sound like "new wave"

Blood Orange

- provided it is indeed a play on “blood red”
- and provided that qualifies as a pun