puns that you had missed

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

Forgot about it but yeah

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.

...and perhaps Paul Simon in 1964, though the pun would make less sense as a lyric in "The Sound of Silence".

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."

whats the pun supposed to be in sound of silence

"words of the prophets/profits", which is definitely meant as a pun when quoted in the Rush song.

"Double Rondo" by Steve Howe seems to be a music/soccer pun.

idgi

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.

Never heard of the latter.

That still wouldn’t be a pun

The joke is that you think Howe is referring to some arcane musical term, but it's actually a soccer drill, thus deflating his potential pretensions and those of his audience.

Even though it has "puns" in the title this has become the all-purpose thread for wordplay one discovers in the wilds and wants to share.

Oughtn’t’ve

Howe's puns to be judged only by a Yessed-out jury

Steve Howe doesn't really strike me as someone who'd be familiar with football coaching sessions tbh

In other prog rock news, random googling tells me that in music, a six-part rondo can take the form ABACAB. Not very punny tbh, but new info to me anyway.

Steve Howe used his hall of fame induction to tell a mediocre joke. Not a pun, just an old and mediocre joke.

Approximately, "Son, don't go to the strip club; you'll see things you don't want to see. I went to a strip club and I saw... my dad."

Rick Wakeman, surely?

maybe you'd think all your jokes were funny too if you'd spent your life surrounded by yes men

🥁

The pun is that “my dad” sounds like “maighed add”

Pun that I did not miss: new book entitled Empire of the Sun.

What?

Aargh sorry:
Empire of the Sum

It’s about the history of the calculator.

That’s a pun

You mean pum

Can’t argue w that

Pa rum pa pum pun

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

I just got Funki Porcini.

https://www.asiagofood.it/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/FC116-funghi-porcini-secchi-speciali-500g-asiago-food-busta-360x500.png

Press Gang, the 80s moffat show about a school newspaper