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
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
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?
― butt-mooning is a polysemous word, hoss! (breastcrawl), Tuesday, 31 May 2022 16:09 (one year ago) link
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
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
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
... the reason being my ears have kept pricking up this week every time someone on the news started going on about "this heat"!
― Eavis Has Left the Building (Tom D.), Thursday, 14 July 2022 21:34 (one year ago) link
Didn't they record it in a fridge or something? Feels like an attractive option right now.
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Thursday, 14 July 2022 21:36 (one year ago) link
Their studio was indeed called Cold Storage!
― Eavis Has Left the Building (Tom D.), Thursday, 14 July 2022 21:39 (one year ago) link
think I just got "Little Mix"
― link.exposing.politically (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 27 July 2022 18:15 (one year ago) link
go on
― Vance Vance Devolution (sic), Wednesday, 27 July 2022 18:32 (one year ago) link
a mix of "little minxes"really very icky indeed, tbh hope I'm wrong here
― link.exposing.politically (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 27 July 2022 18:37 (one year ago) link
Still flabbergasted at the This Heat one
― ~insert pun here~ (Matt #2), Wednesday, 27 July 2022 19:05 (one year ago) link
They were originally called Rhythmix, which is a different (more straightforward) kind of pun. Little Mix would seem to be a simple adjustment of that. I don't think "minxes" comes into it.
― Eyeball Kicks, Monday, 1 August 2022 09:57 (one year ago) link
glad to hear it
― link.exposing.politically (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 1 August 2022 10:00 (one year ago) link
Meanwhile just saw an ad for an "anthemic indie" band called The Snuts, which is I suppose "Deez Nutz"
― link.exposing.politically (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 1 August 2022 10:02 (one year ago) link
just heard yesterday's news on the radio about some "rebel" racing driver. was actually "Red Bull" but got me thinking about whether the company name was actually a pun (prob not)
― koogs, Monday, 1 August 2022 11:18 (one year ago) link
"puns that you had imagined"