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Beatles in My Passway (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 16 April 2023 12:25 (one year ago) link

Dark Knight.

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

Zelda Zonk, Sunday, 16 April 2023 12:50 (one year ago) link

Puns that you had whiffed

Hideous Lump, Sunday, 16 April 2023 20:08 (one year ago) link

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

The Titus Andromedon Strain (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 16 April 2023 20:46 (one year ago) link

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

when you wish upon a tsar (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 22 April 2023 20:02 (one year ago) link

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

G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Saturday, 22 April 2023 20:24 (one year ago) link

For fuck’s sake

G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Saturday, 22 April 2023 20:24 (one year ago) link

Is this just the rhyme thread now, I mean

G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Saturday, 22 April 2023 20:24 (one year ago) link

you used to call me on my self-owns

got it in the blood, the kid's a pelican (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 22 April 2023 23:38 (one year ago) link

Nicely done

m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Sunday, 23 April 2023 03:00 (one year ago) link

vg+

Mark G, Sunday, 23 April 2023 09:21 (one year ago) link

paris is a moveable feast

corrs unplugged, Monday, 24 April 2023 08:36 (one year ago) link

or well is it that a pun or just wordplay

corrs unplugged, Monday, 24 April 2023 08:41 (one year ago) link

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.

when you wish upon a tsar (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 24 April 2023 10:37 (one year ago) link

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.

Stevo, Monday, 24 April 2023 10:56 (one year ago) link

two weeks pass...

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

a hallan shaker loon (dowd), Tuesday, 9 May 2023 12:41 (eleven months ago) link

What would the pun be?

Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 10 May 2023 12:53 (eleven months ago) link

Always trying to provoke a Waugh

contrapuntal aversion (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 10 May 2023 13:01 (eleven months ago) link

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

Stevo, Wednesday, 10 May 2023 13:08 (eleven months ago) link

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

The seconder may state "I second the motion"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_(parliamentary_procedure)

budo jeru, Thursday, 11 May 2023 16:21 (eleven months ago) link

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

budo jeru, Thursday, 11 May 2023 16:21 (eleven months ago) link

lol

Cosmo’s Hacienda (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 11 May 2023 16:39 (eleven months ago) link

this is as bad as my "Hip Hop Hooray"

the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 11 May 2023 16:42 (eleven months ago) link

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

matcha man (outdoor_miner), Thursday, 11 May 2023 17:35 (eleven months ago) link

From the album title puns thread:

Dodgy - Free Peace Sweet

Kim Kimberly, Saturday, 13 May 2023 12:27 (eleven months ago) link

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

kinder, Saturday, 13 May 2023 19:06 (eleven months ago) link

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

assert (matttkkkk), Tuesday, 23 May 2023 22:40 (eleven months ago) link

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

purveyors of landfill zeuhl (Matt #2), Tuesday, 23 May 2023 22:42 (eleven months ago) link

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

nickn, Wednesday, 24 May 2023 00:05 (eleven months ago) link

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!)

assert (matttkkkk), Wednesday, 24 May 2023 01:32 (eleven months ago) link

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

Halfway there but for you, Friday, 26 May 2023 15:33 (eleven months ago) link

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

budo jeru, Friday, 26 May 2023 16:17 (eleven months ago) link

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

Halfway there but for you, Friday, 26 May 2023 16:33 (eleven months ago) link

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]

just the sound of four guys smelting in a room (Matt #2), Saturday, 3 June 2023 16:33 (ten months ago) link

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.

sayonara, capybara (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 4 June 2023 01:42 (ten months ago) link

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

Halfway there but for you, Thursday, 15 June 2023 20:05 (ten months ago) link

it's a Flanders & Swann joke

the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 15 June 2023 20:13 (ten months ago) link

Now that I didn't know.

Renaissance of the Celtic Trumpet (Tom D.), Thursday, 15 June 2023 21:15 (ten months ago) link

two weeks pass...

Meta: It just now, after 7 or so years on ILX, dawned on me what "Alfred, Lord Sotosyn" is a pun on

― .oO (silby), Tuesday, October 24, 2017 7:08 PM (five years ago) bookmarkflaglink

yeah i just got this

carthage marine park (Deflatormouse), Saturday, 1 July 2023 02:09 (nine months ago) link

one month passes...

Guitarist Earl Slick's birth name is Frank Madeloni and his stage name is, I assume, a pun on oil slick.

Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 1 August 2023 21:29 (eight months ago) link

Meta: It just now, after 7 or so years on ILX, dawned on me what "Alfred, Lord Sotosyn" is a pun on

― .oO (silby), Tuesday, October 24, 2017 7:08 PM (five years ago) bookmarkflaglink

yeah i just got this

Your screenname is the best pun of all, Deflatormouse. Think I only got it when someone mentioned it upthread.

Poor Little Fool Killer (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 2 August 2023 00:40 (eight months ago) link

Never got Earl/Oil Slick... googling it Oil Slick is the name of his publishing company so I guess the pun is deliberate.

Zelda Zonk, Wednesday, 2 August 2023 01:08 (eight months ago) link

Does a deflatormouse indicate the existence of an inflatormouse or is that like batshit like.

Stevo, Wednesday, 2 August 2023 07:29 (eight months ago) link

I mean, don't Strauss it, just asking like.

Stevo, Wednesday, 2 August 2023 08:55 (eight months ago) link

xxxp very charitable of you considering how many other deflatormice have had the same idea as me.

i like it cause i associate it with 4th grade music class, the teacher played us the awful Johann Strauss and i thought it was a funny word. stuck in my head long enough that when we got our first dial up internet connection a couple of years later i registered the AOL name and eventually the hotmail.

someone beat me to the gmail, reddit and some other things, and i think there was an emo singer/songwriter. it's still a nice reminder of something that made me laugh when i was 10.

Deflatormouse, Wednesday, 2 August 2023 11:55 (eight months ago) link

Does a deflatormouse indicate the existence of an inflatormouse or is that like batshit like.

:)

Deflatormouse, Wednesday, 2 August 2023 11:58 (eight months ago) link

two weeks pass...

Victoria Plum

it's a type of plum, it's a bathroom retailer (think plumb). not quite sure if it's related to Victorian Plumbing (another bathroom retailer). or victorian plumbing (the plumbing).

was victorian plumbing good or bad? i think i've heard it used as good examples for things and as an excuse for poorness.

koogs, Monday, 21 August 2023 08:23 (eight months ago) link

sounds a bit plummy to me

Tracer Hand, Monday, 21 August 2023 08:30 (eight months ago) link

also a story book character in the 80s or thereabouts. i had a cushion with her on it for some reason

kinder, Tuesday, 22 August 2023 19:32 (eight months ago) link


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