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 (nine 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 (nine 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 (nine 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 (nine months ago) link
I mean, don't Strauss it, just asking like.
― Stevo, Wednesday, 2 August 2023 08:55 (nine 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 (nine months ago) link
:)
― Deflatormouse, Wednesday, 2 August 2023 11:58 (nine 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 (eight months ago) link
will you look at that popped art
― brimstead, Wednesday, 30 August 2023 20:14 (eight months ago) link
popped plains
― budo jeru, Wednesday, 30 August 2023 20:16 (eight 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 (six 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 (six 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 (six 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 (six months ago) link
Fruit of the Loom = Fruit of thy womb?
― deep wubs and tribral rhythms (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 8 November 2023 11:26 (six 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 (six 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 (six 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 (six months ago) link
lmao DJP
― a very very unfair (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 8 November 2023 15:12 (six 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 (six 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 (six months ago) link
Yes!
― Tim, Monday, 13 November 2023 21:39 (six 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
spoiler: hardcore pawn is also a pun
― formerly abanana (dat), Thursday, 16 November 2023 04:34 (five months ago) link
Never got Hangover Square! I have a pun blindspot
― Zelda Zonk, Thursday, 16 November 2023 05:09 (five months ago) link
ŋ<->n puns don't work that well because they aren't the same sound at all. see also: diddy's kong quest.
― formerly abanana (dat), Thursday, 16 November 2023 07:17 (five months ago) link
Mentioned in Owen Wilson article at the Guardian today: Shanghai Noon.
― Kim Kimberly, Thursday, 16 November 2023 16:29 (five months ago) link
oh shit, missed that one
― corrs unplugged, Thursday, 16 November 2023 19:03 (five months ago) link
Forgot about it but yeah
― Shifty Henry’s Swing Club (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 17 November 2023 01:48 (five months ago) link
The Grateful Dead's "Estimated Prophet", the same pun that Supertramp used that same year in "Fool's Overture" and Rush did three years later in "The Spirit of Radio". Since it was a reggae song, I thought "estimated" was some kind of Rasta encomium.
― Halfway there but for you, Sunday, 26 November 2023 17:14 (five months ago) link
...and perhaps Paul Simon in 1964, though the pun would make less sense as a lyric in "The Sound of Silence".
― Halfway there but for you, Sunday, 26 November 2023 17:32 (five months ago) link
Was reading the Zappa thread and just realized (I think) that "a token of his extreme" was based on the phrase "a token of his esteem."
― nickn, Sunday, 26 November 2023 21:23 (five months ago) link
whats the pun supposed to be in sound of silence
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Sunday, 26 November 2023 21:29 (five months ago) link
"words of the prophets/profits", which is definitely meant as a pun when quoted in the Rush song.
― Halfway there but for you, Sunday, 26 November 2023 23:34 (five months ago) link
"Double Rondo" by Steve Howe seems to be a music/soccer pun.
― Halfway there but for you, Tuesday, 28 November 2023 17:41 (five months ago) link
idgi
― Tom D has a right to defend himself (Tom D.), Tuesday, 28 November 2023 17:49 (five months ago) link
A rondo is a compositional structure, a double rondo doesn't have any musical meaning but seems to be some kind of soccer or football drill/practice.
― Halfway there but for you, Tuesday, 28 November 2023 18:17 (five months ago) link
Never heard of the latter.
― Tom D has a right to defend himself (Tom D.), Tuesday, 28 November 2023 18:18 (five months ago) link