I had to explain the "Blonde Ambition Tour" to someone way back when.
― Halfway there but for you, Thursday, 3 November 2022 17:50 (one year ago) link
At this point is there any blind/blonde pun that hasn’t already been made?
― (We're Not) The Experimental Jet Set (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 3 November 2022 17:53 (one year ago) link
maybe a German power metal act featuring all performers in blonde wigs, called Blonde Guardian
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Thursday, 3 November 2022 18:03 (one year ago) link
An all blond(e) Blondie tribute act called The Blonde leading the Blond.
― Alba, Thursday, 3 November 2022 18:09 (one year ago) link
an all-blind group called Concrete Blind
ok i'll stop
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Thursday, 3 November 2022 18:10 (one year ago) link
Debbie Hairy
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 3 November 2022 18:11 (one year ago) link
That is actually how King Charles pronounces it.
― Alba, Thursday, 3 November 2022 18:18 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_PXvjM3WtQ
― (We're Not) The Experimental Jet Set (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 3 November 2022 18:43 (one year ago) link
when I was a kid I thought the Grammys were music awards for really old ppl
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Thursday, 3 November 2022 18:44 (one year ago) link
I was correct
I thought the commercials on PBS for the Boston Pops concerts were calling the conductor "Pops" because he was so old.
― Halfway there but for you, Thursday, 3 November 2022 18:49 (one year ago) link
Was there any Swiss Kriss involved?
― (We're Not) The Experimental Jet Set (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 3 November 2022 18:53 (one year ago) link
the Kraft Daddy make yaplump plump
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Thursday, 3 November 2022 19:04 (one year ago) link
WHy was the calendar so squeamish and unpredictable
His days were numbered
― | (Latham Green), Thursday, 3 November 2022 19:26 (one year ago) link
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.
― fetter, Monday, 14 November 2022 12:47 (one year ago) link
https://vinylfantasybk.com
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 14 November 2022 12:49 (one year ago) link
lol i live a couple blocks from that place, been in several times, and never clocked the pun.
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 14 November 2022 13:05 (one year ago) link
ah, the 80s, when the European chart show was called the Vinyl Countdown
― big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), Monday, 14 November 2022 13:20 (one year ago) link
Feel like I've seen vinyl/final in several places over the years and never noticed the pun.
― Kim Kimberly, Monday, 14 November 2022 13:50 (one year ago) link
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.
― nate woolls, Monday, 14 November 2022 22:35 (one year ago) link
That’s not a great pun tbf, “rock scene” is barely a phrase
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Monday, 14 November 2022 22:35 (one year ago) link
"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.
― peace, man, Tuesday, 15 November 2022 12:19 (one year ago) link
so could the name Roxette be a play on ‘rock set’? probably not, but…
― big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), Tuesday, 15 November 2022 12:29 (one year ago) link
Or "rocks it"
― nickn, Tuesday, 15 November 2022 18:37 (one year ago) link
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.
― pplains, Friday, 25 November 2022 04:30 (one year ago) link
Trading Places, goddammit.
― pplains, Friday, 25 November 2022 04:31 (one year ago) link
Society as a whole as a transactional system. & one's place within it dependent on that, like.
― Stevolende, Friday, 25 November 2022 05:49 (one year ago) link
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.
― nickn, Tuesday, 29 November 2022 22:03 (one year ago) link
I just recently had the aha moment with bedding retailer The Mattress Firm.
― Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 29 November 2022 23:07 (one year ago) link
Whoa!
― Kim Kimberly, Wednesday, 30 November 2022 01:16 (one year ago) link
!
― The Dark End of the Tweet (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 30 November 2022 01:44 (one year ago) link
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..)
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Thursday, 1 December 2022 01:16 (one year ago) link
I want to clarify that I was solid on the “development” pun but seem never to have thought about the “arrested” bit
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Thursday, 1 December 2022 01:20 (one year ago) link
xpost from the Police thread but repeating my admission that I've owned the album Reggatta de Blanc for 40ish years without realising the title is a play on "white reggae" and unrelated to sailing.
― assert (matttkkkk), Thursday, 1 December 2022 01:57 (one year ago) link
I thought they might be referring to a "white race," which I hoped was a self-deprecating thing about their reggae sound.
― nickn, Thursday, 1 December 2022 02:16 (one year ago) link
Issey Miyake's 1992 fragrance L'Eau d'Issey... a ref to L'Odyssée?? I've never spoken the perfume's name aloud until today, upon which I was all "hang on!"
― anatol_merklich, Tuesday, 6 December 2022 20:41 (one year ago) link
Good one! I remember figuring this out in 1997, I think.
― Soda Stereo Total (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 6 December 2022 20:44 (one year ago) link
Also I brought you up on The Kingdom thread when it was asked whether there were any Danes on the board. I said not as far as I know but maybe some near misses. Hope you don't take offense.
― Soda Stereo Total (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 6 December 2022 20:45 (one year ago) link
Haha no prob! Didn't Frederik B make a reappearance not long ago?
The Kingdom as in Riget? It was pretty huge here as well (ie Norway), but I totally suck at TV and wouldn't know anything.
― anatol_merklich, Tuesday, 6 December 2022 20:49 (one year ago) link
Felt silly having missed this one despite having heard the song dozens of times, but the pun that makes up the entire set of lyrics for the song "David Bowie" by Phish. It's just a bunch or repetitions of first "David Bowie" over and over, followed by repetitions of "UB40".
I always thought it was just a silly mindless repetition of musicians until I recently read that it was written in the run-up to Bowie's fortieth birthday.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 6 December 2022 22:29 (one year ago) link
Sounds great, man
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Tuesday, 6 December 2022 22:39 (one year ago) link
I didn't say it was a good pun.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 6 December 2022 22:50 (one year ago) link
Beetlejuice being the "ghost with the most" is a play on the phrase "host with the most" which I was unfamiliar with.
― formerly abanana (dat), Friday, 20 January 2023 14:38 (one year ago) link
Not so much a pun I guess, but it's taken until his dying for me to make the link btw Tom Verlaine's initials and the name of his band.
― fetter, Sunday, 29 January 2023 18:25 (one year ago) link
Woah
― Alicia Silver Stone (Boring, Maryland), Sunday, 29 January 2023 18:27 (one year ago) link
same
― assert (matttkkkk), Sunday, 29 January 2023 18:48 (one year ago) link
Oh wow
― Alba, Sunday, 29 January 2023 23:52 (one year ago) link
ditto, but intentional?
― nickn, Monday, 30 January 2023 00:55 (one year ago) link
is Tiki Barber’s name an intentional pun I had missed?
― omar little, Friday, 10 February 2023 04:33 (one year ago) link
Andy Capp
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 22 February 2023 15:15 (one year ago) link