puns that you had missed

A thread filled with PUN, that’s what I love

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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

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.

Also I guess that it has two halves and a hinge - I don't think of either as a pun though.

In Hong Kong it's called an Octopus card.

The world is your octopus

puns that you had missed

Yeah, definitely not a pun. Should have gone in the 'things you only just learned' thread.

I.... oh... never mind

Puns that you had miffed

Puns that you had muffed

Dark Knight.

There really is no pun that I ever got first time around.

Puns that you had whiffed

If it ain’t stiffed, it ain’t worth a pun.

Not sure this is a pun but I just realized "self-own" and "cell phone" are homophones

It’s not a pun unless you use the homophone as the basis for a joke

For fuck’s sake

Is this just the rhyme thread now, I mean

you used to call me on my self-owns

Nicely done

vg+

paris is a moveable feast

or well is it that a pun or just wordplay

Well, liturgically speaking, a fixed feast day occurs on the same day every year - the feast of St. Patrick is always going to be March 17.

A moveable feast wanders around the calendar because its date depends on an astrological event (e.g., an equinox) and/or must be on a certain day of the week. Ash Wednesday, Mandy Thursday, and Good Friday, are moveable because they have to be calculated backwards from each year's Easter. Part of why different churches have different Easters.

I remember the history module on Medieval Ireland going into how the leader of teh Irish monks could calculate the date of Easter more accurately than Rome did. Through use of computans etc intricate counting systems and calculation using ones fingers, including various knuckles etc.
That at a time when the Irish monasteries were about the best place for maintaining Latin and Greek scholarship.

Also, reminded of Rabelais talking about Paris being named after laughter in Pantagruel but not having the details offhand. Pa Ris being the breakdown though.

In He-Man, the bad sorceress is (excellently) named 'Evil Lyn'. But now I'm wondering if it's a pun on Evelyn?

What would the pun be?

Always trying to provoke a Waugh

I thought he was just a bit brain dead.
Oddly seems to think he runs the place.

Smokey Robinson. I Second That Emotion.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mv9cWgkpIZ4

The seconder may state "I second the motion"

i honestly cannot believe i never put this together until today!

lol

this is as bad as my "Hip Hop Hooray"

the Elvis C. song "love for tender". was just this past weekend that i understood it as "legal tender". doy

From the album title puns thread:

Dodgy - Free Peace Sweet

that's probably the first pun I thought of myself. either that or 3p sweet.

It never occurred to me that the "gin" in The Gin Blossoms might refer to the cotton stripping machine rather than the spirit.

I thought a gin blossom was a weeping sore sprouting on the flesh of a terminal alcoholic?

Yeah, Matt#2's story is what I heard. Not "weeping sore" though, more like that perpetually red skin, especially on the nose.

Oh! so I guess it's kind of coincidence that a gin is used to process cotton blossoms as well.
Matt#2 I'm glad we addressed this issue in sequence (altho I'm sure you pre-date me on ILX!)

The movie Showgirls, about the titular profession, is also an imperative to "show girls".

i think your post might be the last straw for me bookmarking this thread

I might actually have gleaned that insight from a book I've forgotten.

Gary U.S. Bonds is a pun of sorts on government bonds, although it turns out Bonds isn't even his real name! I just thought he was called Gary Unwin Silas Bonds or somesuch.

He joined record producer Frank Guida's small Legrand Records label where Guida chose Anderson's stage name, U.S. Bonds, in hopes that it would be confused with a public service announcement advertising the sale of government bonds and thereby garner more DJ attention.[2]

Ulysses S. Grant was not his name at all. His name was Hiram.

As a result of a clerical error he was enrolled into West Point as Ulysses S. Grant. This became U.S.; as a result his academy nickname was Sam Grant (as in "Uncle Sam").

U.S., Ulysses, Sam. A panoply of names.

The fact remains that his name was Hiram.

The title of the Peter Hammill song "German Overalls" is a pun on "Deutschland Über Alles".

it's a Flanders & Swann joke

Now that I didn't know.