Asking the same question, for a friend.
― Think Fast, Mr. Mojo Risin’ (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 11 March 2023 12:42 (one year ago) link
It kind it has to be, otherwise it doesn’t make any sense. It’s a weekly show
― Tracer Hand, Saturday, 11 March 2023 15:31 (one year ago) link
Doesn’t it go back to when they’d only show one match rather than highlights from everywhere.
― Dan Worsley, Saturday, 11 March 2023 15:35 (one year ago) link
Might still be a play on catch of the day I suppose.
― Dan Worsley, Saturday, 11 March 2023 15:36 (one year ago) link
It’s inconclusive to me.
― Think Fast, Mr. Mojo Risin’ (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 11 March 2023 18:01 (one year ago) link
Even if it’s a weekly show, could mean the match they chose to show on that day, or the match they think you should watch on that day as opposed to other matches you could watch elsewhere.
― Think Fast, Mr. Mojo Risin’ (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 11 March 2023 18:02 (one year ago) link
I guess if the three words “of the day” were not used other than in “catch of the day” then it would mean yes, it is a pun. You’ve convinced me, rabbit. I’ll look elsewhere in the city for puns.
― Think Fast, Mr. Mojo Risin’ (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 11 March 2023 18:05 (one year ago) link
Seems like sometimes people make the pun go back in the other direction and say “catch of the day” instead of “match of the day.”
― Think Fast, Mr. Mojo Risin’ (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 11 March 2023 18:07 (one year ago) link
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2772487/Catch-Day-BBC-famous-Match-Day-set-sale-cost-10-000.html
― Think Fast, Mr. Mojo Risin’ (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 11 March 2023 18:10 (one year ago) link
IMDbhttps://m.imdb.com › title › moviec...Match of the Day (TV Series 1964– ) - Connections"The Little and Large Show" Episode #2.6 (TV Episode 1980). Spoofed as "Catch of the Day". "What's Up Doc?" Episode #1.23 (TV Episode 1993).
― Think Fast, Mr. Mojo Risin’ (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 11 March 2023 18:11 (one year ago) link
Also...
... the title was first used by the BBC for its Wimbledon tennis highlights programme in June 1964
― Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Saturday, 11 March 2023 18:25 (one year ago) link
You couldn't watch any other matches when it started, it was the only football highlight show on Saturday nights - and it only showed one match, the match of the day.
― Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Saturday, 11 March 2023 18:29 (one year ago) link
You couldn’t go watch a match in person?
― Think Fast, Mr. Mojo Risin’ (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 11 March 2023 18:38 (one year ago) link
OF course, but it was the only place to watch football on TV on Saturday night - in England, that is, they didn't show it in Scotland for years.
― Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Saturday, 11 March 2023 18:44 (one year ago) link
In my dialect, "match" and "catch" are near-rhymes at best.
― pplains, Monday, 13 March 2023 14:47 (one year ago) link
Honey Don't
― Think Fast, Mr. Mojo Risin’ (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 14 March 2023 19:12 (one year ago) link
I mean I figured it out a few decades ago but still.
― Think Fast, Mr. Mojo Risin’ (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 14 March 2023 19:13 (one year ago) link
Now there's a jar I'll reach into.
― pplains, Tuesday, 14 March 2023 19:15 (one year ago) link
I had to ask Bing Chat what it was a pun on. Never heard of honey do.
― Alba, Tuesday, 14 March 2023 19:58 (one year ago) link
honeydew!
― satori enabler (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 14 March 2023 20:01 (one year ago) link
Honey do list
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 14 March 2023 20:09 (one year ago) link
Puns with punshttps://i.imgur.com/yWpEMXL.png
― Alba, Tuesday, 14 March 2023 20:14 (one year ago) link
Precisely
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 14 March 2023 20:20 (one year ago) link
I don’t think it’s a pun on the word “honeydew”
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Tuesday, 14 March 2023 21:15 (one year ago) link
I've always heard it as a pun.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 14 March 2023 21:53 (one year ago) link
Next thing y’all will be telling us is that Dew Drop Inn is not a pun.
― Think Fast, Mr. Mojo Risin’ (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 14 March 2023 22:12 (one year ago) link
Curl Up and Dye Salon
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 14 March 2023 22:20 (one year ago) link
Mötley Crüe: "I'm a live, live wire", which is also "I'm alive, live wire".
― Halfway there but for you, Friday, 17 March 2023 01:18 (one year ago) link
What
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Friday, 17 March 2023 03:00 (one year ago) link
Do any of you know what a pun is ffs
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Friday, 17 March 2023 03:01 (one year ago) link
dew you???
― budo jeru, Friday, 17 March 2023 04:59 (one year ago) link
Mötley Crüe = motley crew
― pplains, Friday, 17 March 2023 13:49 (one year ago) link
lol are you trolling silby
― piedro àlamodevar (wins), Friday, 17 March 2023 14:00 (one year ago) link
Motörhead: motorhead
― piedro àlamodevar (wins), Friday, 17 March 2023 14:01 (one year ago) link
lol nm, I can only remember four posts ago on a Friday
― piedro àlamodevar (wins), Friday, 17 March 2023 14:03 (one year ago) link
My example doesn't make sense unless you rhyme "live" with "jive", not with "give".
― Halfway there but for you, Friday, 17 March 2023 16:10 (one year ago) link
'cause I'm a live ... Liv Tyler!
― peace, man, Friday, 17 March 2023 16:26 (one year ago) link
pun-ditry itt is pun-ishing
― at bottom, wrapping my arms around some tripe called "Quest" (breastcrawl), Friday, 17 March 2023 16:48 (one year ago) link
reading this thread is a lot of pun
― TWELVE Michelob stars?!? (seandalai), Friday, 17 March 2023 22:36 (one year ago) link
A thread filled with PUN, that’s what I love
― Think Fast, Mr. Mojo Risin’ (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 18 March 2023 13:51 (one year ago) link
Tragic Kingdom 🤦♂️
― The true speed of Billy Joel (Deflatormouse), Thursday, 6 April 2023 20:54 (one year ago) link
slay tracks
― ledge, Friday, 7 April 2023 06:59 (one year ago) link
Not a pun, but I saw Night at the Museum for the first time, and just realized the title is not supposed to mean “A Night at the Museum” (it takes place over three nights!) and is instead “Nighttime at the Museum”i.e., it is not the story of one eventful night at the museum but instead an exploration of what happens to the museum at night
― young sussy (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, 9 April 2023 06:56 (one year ago) link
It has only just dawned on me that the Oyster card used to travel around London is named for the idiom 'the world is your oyster'. I am a doofus.
― Shard-borne Beatles with their drowsy hums (Chinaski), Saturday, 15 April 2023 09:11 (one year ago) link
Also I guess that it has two halves and a hinge - I don't think of either as a pun though.
― Andrew Farrell, Saturday, 15 April 2023 10:13 (one year ago) link
In Hong Kong it's called an Octopus card.
― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 15 April 2023 11:00 (one year ago) link
The world is your octopus
― doja catharsis (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 15 April 2023 12:18 (one year ago) link
puns that you had missed
― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 15 April 2023 12:26 (one year ago) link
Yeah, definitely not a pun. Should have gone in the 'things you only just learned' thread.
― Shard-borne Beatles with their drowsy hums (Chinaski), Saturday, 15 April 2023 13:27 (one year ago) link
I.... oh... never mind
― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 15 April 2023 15:30 (one year ago) link