puns that you had missed

omg

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).

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.

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.

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

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.

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

The band Girlpool. (Whirlpool).

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

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

I just got Ice Capades (escapades).

Whoa

"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."

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

I just got Ice Capades (escapades).

What did you think a 'capade' was?!

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

-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).

good point

iceholics

alcohocapades?

a good word to describe my 20s I guess

destroyer's icekaput

alcohocapades?

iceholics

freebie for any beer league hockey teams looking for a name

When Ice Holes is already taken.

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.

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

Bee Movie (B-movie)

The berlin-based record label Toy Tonics

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

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

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)

Sorry mattttt not matthew

the band Idles. idols. duh.

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

Doh!

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".

The title of the second This Heat album Deceit.

Funnily enough I was just playing that!

... the reason being my ears have kept pricking up this week every time someone on the news started going on about "this heat"!

Didn't they record it in a fridge or something? Feels like an attractive option right now.

Their studio was indeed called Cold Storage!

think I just got "Little Mix"

go on

a mix of "little minxes"
really very icky indeed, tbh hope I'm wrong here

Still flabbergasted at the This Heat one

a mix of "little minxes"
really very icky indeed, tbh hope I'm wrong here

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.

glad to hear it

Meanwhile just saw an ad for an "anthemic indie" band called The Snuts, which is I suppose "Deez Nutz"

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)

"puns that you had imagined"