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“Long” too.

The Central Rockaliser (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 31 March 2022 13:16 (two years ago) link

"(Hey Won't You Play) Another Somebody Done Somebody Thong Song"

celebrating ten years of constant posting (breastcrawl), Thursday, 31 March 2022 13:19 (two years ago) link

Lol! I’m gathering that one was too sophisticated for the pun generator and you came up with it yourself.

The Central Rockaliser (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 31 March 2022 13:58 (two years ago) link

I'm too sexy for this pun

I'm too sophisti for the pun generator, so sophisti it hurts (breastcrawl), Thursday, 31 March 2022 14:17 (two years ago) link

An acquaintance with a dog called Bowie. I guess it could be a pun depending on how you pronounce it

Chuck_Tatum, Sunday, 3 April 2022 09:46 (two years ago) link

you'd think i would live in this thread, but these days i've realized people generally don't like puns. it's a difficult thing to come to realize

Punster McPunisher, Sunday, 3 April 2022 19:22 (two years ago) link

Duke [of W]Ellington hit me like a thunderbolt while doing a crossword yesterday, but I can see it's mentioned upthread and probably isn't a pun.

fetter, Monday, 4 April 2022 08:50 (two years ago) link

I was reminded of a pun when posting on the Steely Dan thread, about Wishbone Ash. I bought their live album Live Dates in high school and it took a few years for me to realize that the date palms on the cover related to the title.

nickn, Wednesday, 6 April 2022 20:54 (two years ago) link

Staples, the office supply chain

assert (matttkkkk), Friday, 8 April 2022 19:33 (two years ago) link

Elton John album Rock of the Westies

Josefa, Friday, 8 April 2022 20:16 (two years ago) link

more of a spoonerism, isn't it? good find tho

budo jeru, Monday, 11 April 2022 02:14 (two years ago) link

2014 was the year that I finally went "omg, Noodle Vague: Nouvelle Vague!" incidentally

― Sir Lord Baltimora (Myonga Vön Bontee), Wednesday, June 17, 2015 10:05 PM (six years ago) bookmarkflaglink

me just now

budo jeru, Monday, 11 April 2022 02:16 (two years ago) link

omg

we need outrage! we need dicks!! (the table is the table), Monday, 18 April 2022 00:53 (two years ago) link

I only got this relatively recently, also, perhaps more shamingly, that Alfred's is a pun on Tennyson. I mean come on man (me, not him).

Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Monday, 18 April 2022 18:23 (two years ago) link

Over the weekend I realized why the Geico Insurance mascot is a gecko. Why this was not glaringly obvious to me before I do not know.

Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Monday, 18 April 2022 18:28 (two years ago) link

Now having to workout if Lois & Clarke is a pun on the 19th century explorers or just a coincidence.
Somebody just used the similar sound in an advert for a podcast on the historic duo and I'm wondering if that is the first time or if it was built in to the naming.
Lewis and Clark, not sure how much recognition they have in common not specialist thought anyway.

Stevolende, Saturday, 23 April 2022 12:15 (one year ago) link

There's an 'Old Kent Lane' pun in there if you torture it hard enough

kinder, Saturday, 23 April 2022 12:20 (one year ago) link

Siegel & Shuster were renowned Monopoly fans and at least one of them was a canadian immigrant so it must follow.
Like cos everybody knows the colonials use UK boards innit.

Stevolende, Saturday, 23 April 2022 12:29 (one year ago) link

The TV show Lois and Clark:The New Adventures of Superman was definitely drawing on that pun, but can’t say if it was an original intention when the characters were first named

Lavator Shemmelpennick, Saturday, 23 April 2022 15:25 (one year ago) link

one month passes...

The band Girlpool. (Whirlpool).

Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Saturday, 28 May 2022 05:21 (one year ago) link

feel like everyone in this thread shd be forced to read william empson's seven types of ambiguity and have their branes explode at the dense and *PUN*gent terrine of similar joeks that thread thru the whole of eng lang poitry tbrr

mark s, Saturday, 28 May 2022 14:02 (one year ago) link

I've always thought that Empson should have titled his book "A Bunch of Types of Ambiguity."

I am just a squirrel in the world (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 28 May 2022 22:57 (one year ago) link

I just got Ice Capades (escapades).

The 25 Best Songs Ever Ranked In Order (Deflatormouse), Tuesday, 31 May 2022 04:37 (one year ago) link

Whoa

Kim Kimberly, Tuesday, 31 May 2022 05:09 (one year ago) link

"CBGB & OMFUG"

It is occurring to me now that despite what the official line is "OMFUG" was supposed to suggest what we would now express with "OMFG."

Josefa, Tuesday, 31 May 2022 05:56 (one year ago) link

Think that has bubbled along in my subconscious for a while as well.

Once Were Chemical Brothers (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 31 May 2022 09:54 (one year ago) link

I just got Ice Capades (escapades).

What did you think a 'capade' was?!

kinder, Tuesday, 31 May 2022 10:51 (one year ago) link

This was another one that I sort of figured out but probably took forever to surface.

Once Were Chemical Brothers (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 31 May 2022 11:00 (one year ago) link

-capades is like -holics -- it was just waiting for someone to turn it into an all-purpose suffix (NB I never got Ice Capades as a pun either until now).

Lavator Shemmelpennick, Tuesday, 31 May 2022 13:31 (one year ago) link

good point

Once Were Chemical Brothers (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 31 May 2022 13:36 (one year ago) link

iceholics

andrew m., Tuesday, 31 May 2022 15:21 (one year ago) link

alcohocapades?

a good word to describe my 20s I guess

silverfish, Tuesday, 31 May 2022 16:03 (one year ago) link

destroyer's icekaput

Once Were Chemical Brothers (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 31 May 2022 16:05 (one year ago) link

alcohocapades?


name of an early Inca dynasty if I’m not mistaken

butt-mooning is a polysemous word, hoss! (breastcrawl), Tuesday, 31 May 2022 16:09 (one year ago) link

iceholics

freebie for any beer league hockey teams looking for a name

andrew m., Tuesday, 31 May 2022 18:22 (one year ago) link

When Ice Holes is already taken.

nickn, Tuesday, 31 May 2022 20:28 (one year ago) link

four weeks pass...

Nolime you may have already been explained elsewhere that I haven't found but the name no lime tangier

is it one of these

If lime seems bland compared to the tanginess of a lemon. & you found a steady source of limes that belied that observation, could you advertise that source with the phrase 'no lime tangier'?

Or is it a Jesus quote meaning either don't touch me or don't hold on to me. Noli Me Tangere

Or is it a policy thing for a town in Morocco when limes are viewed as diseased.
So if you're in the citrus smuggling business you need to watch out for No Lime Tangier?

Just wondering like.

Stevolende, Tuesday, 28 June 2022 10:56 (one year ago) link

the disappointingly prosaic answer is: a bad pun based on a novel i once read

no lime tangier, Tuesday, 28 June 2022 11:21 (one year ago) link

Bee Movie (B-movie)

The 25 Best Songs Ever Ranked In Order (Deflatormouse), Monday, 11 July 2022 00:28 (one year ago) link

The berlin-based record label Toy Tonics

o shit the sheriff (NickB), Tuesday, 12 July 2022 06:04 (one year ago) link

oh! like a moron I have always pronounced "Teutonic" as "tyoo-" so I guess I will be shunned now.

assert (matttkkkk), Tuesday, 12 July 2022 06:14 (one year ago) link

That's not moronic, that's the way it is pronounced (in the UK at least - Americans will do too-tonic I guess)

Alba, Tuesday, 12 July 2022 06:16 (one year ago) link

Teutonic is an English word and I've only ever hear it pronounced the way you say it matthew (I guess it would be teutonisch auf deutsch? And then you'd say toy-tonnish)

o shit the sheriff (NickB), Tuesday, 12 July 2022 06:35 (one year ago) link

Sorry mattttt not matthew

o shit the sheriff (NickB), Tuesday, 12 July 2022 06:37 (one year ago) link

the band Idles. idols. duh.

StanM, Tuesday, 12 July 2022 07:00 (one year ago) link

Danny La Rue. Dans la rue. Took me ages.

joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Tuesday, 12 July 2022 08:24 (one year ago) link

Doh!

Eavis Has Left the Building (Tom D.), Tuesday, 12 July 2022 08:34 (one year ago) link

Teutonic is an English word and I've only ever hear it pronounced the way you say it matthew (I guess it would be teutonisch auf deutsch? And then you'd say toy-tonnish)

There's a Faust track called "Teutonentango".

Eavis Has Left the Building (Tom D.), Tuesday, 12 July 2022 08:38 (one year ago) link

The title of the second This Heat album Deceit.

joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Thursday, 14 July 2022 21:32 (one year ago) link

Funnily enough I was just playing that!

Eavis Has Left the Building (Tom D.), Thursday, 14 July 2022 21:32 (one year ago) link


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