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
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLee4QyhO7c
― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 15 June 2023 21:20 (ten 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
― carthage marine park (Deflatormouse), Saturday, 1 July 2023 02:09 (nine months ago) link
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) bookmarkflaglinkyeah i just got this
― 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
:)
― Deflatormouse, Wednesday, 2 August 2023 11:58 (eight months ago) link
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
Wait....
Are Pop Tarts a play on words for ...
https://i.imgur.com/0k8ZhpQ.png
Pop Art?
― pplains, Wednesday, 30 August 2023 20:09 (seven months ago) link
will you look at that popped art
― brimstead, Wednesday, 30 August 2023 20:14 (seven months ago) link
popped plains
― budo jeru, Wednesday, 30 August 2023 20:16 (seven months ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/eoabYYM.jpg
― pplains, Tuesday, 17 October 2023 16:56 (six months ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/SzbfR01.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/EOr7U3b.jpg
Wait a minute. Where's that guy from Quartz City at.
― pplains, Thursday, 19 October 2023 18:32 (six months ago) link
I sure have been missing a lot of puns lately.
Elvis Costelecom
― budo jeru, Thursday, 19 October 2023 21:58 (six months ago) link
I was just listening to the old time actress Frances Farmer singing "Aura Lea," which is the tune of "Love Me Tender" but with older lyrics.
It goes,
As the blackbird in the spring on the willow tree Sat and piped I heard him sing Singing Aura Lea
I thought, oh wow, that's a pun I missed.But apparently it's not.
However, googling reveals that the comedian Allan Sherman recorded a joke version of "Aura Lea" in the 1960s that used that pun:
Every time you take vaccine, take it orallyAs you know the other way is more painfully
― Josefa, Friday, 20 October 2023 01:48 (six months ago) link
I mostly associate Allan Sherman with the song "Sorry 'Bout That," that is approximately 40% enjoyable and approximately 60% OMG NO, DO NOT GO THERE.
Loads of 20th century comedy/satire is like that: may have seemed okay at the time but no, can we please try humor that isn't that?
― The Royal House of Hangover (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 20 October 2023 02:46 (six months ago) link
on the other hand, calling people fink: classic
― budo jeru, Friday, 20 October 2023 03:45 (six months ago) link
Even though the song is called "Waiting Room," the cleverness of "I am a patient boy, I wait, I wait, I wait" only just struck me.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 4 November 2023 20:33 (five months ago) link
I knew Leos Carax is an anagram of "Alex Oscar", but according to IMDB it is also meant to read in French as "Le Oscar à X", though the "e" would be apostrophized.
― Halfway there but for you, Monday, 6 November 2023 16:26 (five months ago) link
A throwback, but: Frank and Ernest.
They were the names of the characters in the comic strip, but clearly as a child I didn't realize that frank and earnest are close to synonymous.
― don't let days go by, Listerine (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 6 November 2023 21:31 (five months ago) link
It took me a few weeks to get 'rich men of Richmond'. I'm hopeless with puns/wordplay.
― Zelda Zonk, Monday, 6 November 2023 22:08 (five months ago) link
Fruit of the Loom = Fruit of thy womb?
― deep wubs and tribral rhythms (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 8 November 2023 11:26 (five months ago) link
Gender reveal party where they cut into the cake and a 6-pack of briefs falls out
― the new drip king (DJP), Wednesday, 8 November 2023 13:59 (five months ago) link
lol, but I was thinking specifically of the “Hail Mary”: Blessed be the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.
― deep wubs and tribral rhythms (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 8 November 2023 14:12 (five months ago) link
In many of the depictions of Jesus I've seen, he's wearing the rare *loosey* whities.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 8 November 2023 14:18 (five months ago) link
lmao DJP
― a very very unfair (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 8 November 2023 15:12 (five months ago) link
― deep wubs and tribral rhythms (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, November 8, 2023 3:26 AM (five hours ago)
No, it’s a kenning, where the analogy is fabric is to loom as fruit is to tree
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Wednesday, 8 November 2023 16:29 (five months ago) link
Is Hangover Square a pun on Hanover Square?
― Shifty Henry’s Swing Club (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 13 November 2023 21:36 (five months ago) link
Yes!
― Tim, Monday, 13 November 2023 21:39 (five months ago) link
Is Pawn Stars a pun on Porn Stars?
― Large, Complex, Detailed but Irrefutable POST (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 15 November 2023 22:11 (five months ago) link
Yes
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Wednesday, 15 November 2023 23:33 (five months ago) link