puns that you had missed

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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLee4QyhO7c

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

:)

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.

sounds a bit plummy to me

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

Wait....

Are Pop Tarts a play on words for ...

https://i.imgur.com/0k8ZhpQ.png

Pop Art?

will you look at that popped art

popped plains

https://i.imgur.com/eoabYYM.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/SzbfR01.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/EOr7U3b.jpg

Wait a minute. Where's that guy from Quartz City at.

I sure have been missing a lot of puns lately.

Elvis Costelecom

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 orally
As you know the other way is more painfully

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?

on the other hand, calling people fink: classic

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.

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.

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.

It took me a few weeks to get 'rich men of Richmond'. I'm hopeless with puns/wordplay.

Fruit of the Loom = Fruit of thy womb?

Gender reveal party where they cut into the cake and a 6-pack of briefs falls out

lol, but I was thinking specifically of the “Hail Mary”: Blessed be the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.

In many of the depictions of Jesus I've seen, he's wearing the rare *loosey* whities.

lmao DJP

Fruit of the Loom = Fruit of thy womb?

― 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

Is Hangover Square a pun on Hanover Square?

Yes!

Is Pawn Stars a pun on Porn Stars?

Yes

spoiler: hardcore pawn is also a pun

Never got Hangover Square! I have a pun blindspot

ŋ<->n puns don't work that well because they aren't the same sound at all. see also: diddy's kong quest.

Mentioned in Owen Wilson article at the Guardian today: Shanghai Noon.

oh shit, missed that one