puns that you had missed

I had to have explained to me that the name of DALL-E is a play on a robot (WALL-E) Dalí.

Was the name of 80s UK singer Vaughn Toulouse a play on Johnny Thunders' "Born to Lose"?

Ha, probably.

That reminds me I've always thought a good name for a singer would be Barnaby Wylde, I can imagine a sort of foppish late 60s pop crooner with that name.

I never, ever get puns at the time. It only occurred to me a few weeks ago that Legally Blonde is, in fact, a pun.

Hah. I knew it was a pun but don't think I quite parsed it 100% until you just mentioned it.

Its absolute gibberish without the pun aspect

Doesn't it work on a stereotypical level, synechdocal like. As in the butt of all jokes etc.
Presupposing a level of intelligence which she belies. Spoilers etc.
Which is partially covered by pun but also needs a cultural association for what certain hair colouration denotes.

Mansplaining in the middle of the night.

Think I mainly missed that pun mostly by not thinking about it! It's not a movie I've seen or am interested in, it's just a film title that pops up every now and then, I guess I half thought it was a play on the idea of a girl being 'legal' ie over the age of consent, but "legally blind" never occurred to me. Not sure it's an expression much used in British English but I could be wrong

I'm wondering if it is a slang term used anywhere. Sounds akin to some of the acronyms used by hospital staff denoting culpability etc. Or a thing like Florida Man.

but basic breakdown is term pun is based on = sight impaired,
Term as used indicates intellectual status based on a physical attribute. A hypothetical where the connotation is taken as given enough that it gives fixed status
& film turns that expectation on its head by making it a person that partially fits the stereotype or is a least label obsessed but is taking a legal degree.

I think the film was a bit better than i feared.

finding it ironic that one of the recognisable physical points of being aryan is also one taken to denote vacuity. Wondering how o0ld the stupid blonde trope is, if it is actually older than the race science BS that came up with the idea of the aryan. Obviously its a prejudice in itself and thought to be punching down. Does it tie in with the Slavic origins of slaves and hence the name slavery?

& what colour are the people who use the trope folicularly?

Er, what? I'd would think that it's a lot more modern than that. As in 20th century. Also it's pretty much exclusively aimed at women of course. This wiki page mentions the origin as a 1775 French play:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blonde_stereotype

I think it's more of a misogynistic trope about attractive women relying on their looks rather than their brains.

But then when did blonde=attractive become a thing?

"Fair hair was much esteemed by both the Greeks and Romans, and so they not only dyed and gold-dusted theirs ..., but also went so far as to gild the hair of their statues, as notably those of Venus de Medici and Apollo. In the time of Ovid (A.U.C. 711) much fair hair was imported from Germany, by the Romans, as it was considered quite the fashionable color. Those Roman ladies who did not choose to wear wigs of this hue, were accustomed to powder theirs freely with gold dust, so as to give it the fashionable yellow tint." [C. Henry Leonard, "The Hair," 1879]

^^^c/p-ed from the etymonline entry on "blond" (actual real etymology? disputed!)

I love that my random admission that I didn't get the legally blonde pun has led to a discussion on the attractiveness of blondes and the dumb blonde stereotype! I've just gone down a google rabbit hole on this and there are people out there that say men finding blondes more attractive is an evolutionary sexual selection thing, although colour me sceptical.

So, apparently Buckcherry is a play on Chuck Berry. This I did not know!

I learned that ITT a few years ago

I had to explain the "Blonde Ambition Tour" to someone way back when.

At this point is there any blind/blonde pun that hasn’t already been made?

maybe a German power metal act featuring all performers in blonde wigs, called Blonde Guardian

An all blond(e) Blondie tribute act called The Blonde leading the Blond.

an all-blind group called Concrete Blind

ok i'll stop

Debbie Hairy

That is actually how King Charles pronounces it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_PXvjM3WtQ

when I was a kid I thought the Grammys were music awards for really old ppl

I was correct

I thought the commercials on PBS for the Boston Pops concerts were calling the conductor "Pops" because he was so old.

Was there any Swiss Kriss involved?

the Kraft Daddy make ya
plump plump

WHy was the calendar so squeamish and unpredictable

His days were numbered

UK music press in the 80s was very fond of puns on vinyl/final (The Vinyl Frontier, Vinyl Solution...) which passed me by as a teenager at the time.

https://vinylfantasybk.com

lol i live a couple blocks from that place, been in several times, and never clocked the pun.

ah, the 80s, when the European chart show was called the Vinyl Countdown

Feel like I've seen vinyl/final in several places over the years and never noticed the pun.

There was a record shop in the town I grew up in called Roxcene Records, it took me 40 years to realise it was a pun on Rock Scene.

That’s not a great pun tbf, “rock scene” is barely a phrase

"rock scene" is totally a phrase, but Roxcene is a pretty rare name. I like it though! I recently found out that one of my great-great-great grandmothers was named Excene, like Exene Cervenka from X.

so could the name Roxette be a play on ‘rock set’? probably not, but…

Or "rocks it"

Not only does the film title refer to the two main characters switching roles, but Trading Spaces could also refer to the physical locations where the stocks are bought and sold.

Trading Places, goddammit.

Society as a whole as a transactional system. & one's place within it dependent on that, like.

Not a pun, I guess, but the Edgar Winter album title "They Only Come Out At Night" refers to his albinism. Saw a picture of both Winters on fb just now with that phrase, and it clicked. I had always thought it was just a rock-and-roll, party animal thing.

I just recently had the aha moment with bedding retailer The Mattress Firm.

Whoa!

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Caught onto Arrested Development opening with a scene of developers being arrested the other day :/

(NB I have not watched this in many years so perhaps they nodded outright to the title and I’ve forgotten and rediscovered this knowledge..)

I want to clarify that I was solid on the “development” pun but seem never to have thought about the “arrested” bit