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
That still wouldn’t be a pun
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Tuesday, 28 November 2023 19:00 (five months ago) link
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.
― Halfway there but for you, Tuesday, 28 November 2023 19:48 (five months ago) link
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.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Tuesday, 28 November 2023 19:57 (five months ago) link
Oughtn’t’ve
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Tuesday, 28 November 2023 21:01 (five months ago) link
Howe's puns to be judged only by a Yessed-out jury
― Halfway there but for you, Tuesday, 28 November 2023 21:16 (five months ago) link
Steve Howe doesn't really strike me as someone who'd be familiar with football coaching sessions tbh
― blazin' squab (NickB), Tuesday, 28 November 2023 21:20 (five months ago) link
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.
― blazin' squab (NickB), Tuesday, 28 November 2023 21:25 (five months ago) link
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."
― Iris Demented (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 28 November 2023 21:40 (five months ago) link
Rick Wakeman, surely?
― Halfway there but for you, Tuesday, 28 November 2023 21:43 (five months ago) link
maybe you'd think all your jokes were funny too if you'd spent your life surrounded by yes men
― blazin' squab (NickB), Tuesday, 28 November 2023 21:50 (five months ago) link
🥁
― Shifty Henry’s Swing Club (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 28 November 2023 21:55 (five months ago) link
The pun is that “my dad” sounds like “maighed add”
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Tuesday, 28 November 2023 23:38 (five months ago) link
Pun that I did not miss: new book entitled Empire of the Sun.
― Shifty Henry’s Swing Club (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 29 November 2023 00:10 (five months ago) link
What?
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Wednesday, 29 November 2023 00:41 (five months ago) link
Aargh sorry:Empire of the Sum
― Shifty Henry’s Swing Club (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 29 November 2023 00:55 (five months ago) link
It’s about the history of the calculator.
That’s a pun
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Wednesday, 29 November 2023 01:00 (five months ago) link
You mean pum
― the new drip king (DJP), Wednesday, 29 November 2023 12:16 (five months ago) link
Can’t argue w that
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Wednesday, 29 November 2023 14:42 (five months ago) link
Pa rum pa pum pun
― Iris Demented (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 29 November 2023 15:34 (five months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywFbpDjpZno
― Shifty Henry’s Swing Club (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 29 November 2023 15:45 (five months ago) link
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
― anatol_merklich, Saturday, 9 December 2023 16:24 (five months ago) link
Press Gang, the 80s moffat show about a school newspaper
― koogs, Wednesday, 13 December 2023 21:18 (five months ago) link
Guitarists, linguist-historians, please help render a verdict:Is power chord meant to be a pun?
― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 13 December 2023 21:21 (five months ago) link