― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 13:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― DJ Salinger (joni), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 14:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 14:05 (nineteen years ago) link
― Colin Meeder (Mert), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 15:21 (nineteen years ago) link
I so don't get it.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 15:32 (nineteen years ago) link
― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 15:34 (nineteen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 15:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 15:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 16:07 (nineteen years ago) link
also, i amazingly didn't get Lipps, Inc. until quite recently. sheesh.
― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 19:01 (nineteen years ago) link
Is I Love Everything a pun?
― DV (dirtyvicar), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 19:17 (nineteen years ago) link
― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 19:34 (nineteen years ago) link
Perry Farrell took a while, too.
― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 19:39 (nineteen years ago) link
I share this only because I need some reassurance that I wasn't being a bonehead in this conversation.
― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 19:40 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 19:43 (nineteen years ago) link
― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 19:46 (nineteen years ago) link
― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 19:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 19:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 19:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 19:51 (nineteen years ago) link
i realized abt two years after the film was released that "con air" was a pun.
― m. (mitchlnw), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 19:52 (nineteen years ago) link
A man phoned me last night, singing "Stand and Deliver". I told him he'd got the wrong number, but he was Adam Ant.
― Steve.n. (sjkirk), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 19:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 22:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 22:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 22:16 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 22:18 (nineteen years ago) link
― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 22:20 (nineteen years ago) link
― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 22:20 (nineteen years ago) link
http://www.ociojoven.com/ezimagecatalogue/catalogue/variations/150x500/17042-150x500.jpg
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 22:23 (nineteen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 22:26 (nineteen years ago) link
― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 22:39 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 22:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― m. (mitchlnw), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 22:58 (nineteen years ago) link
Puns should be really obvious.
― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 23:09 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 23:21 (nineteen years ago) link
― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 23:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― papa november (papa november), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 23:38 (nineteen years ago) link
Is Perry Farrell seriously a deliberate joke and therefore presumably not his real name, then?
xpost haha too true.
― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 23:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 23:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― oops (Oops), Thursday, 2 December 2004 01:10 (nineteen years ago) link
― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Thursday, 2 December 2004 01:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 2 December 2004 08:41 (nineteen years ago) link
― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 2 December 2004 10:36 (nineteen years ago) link
The pun I missed for a long time was Sue is Fine = suicide. I just took the tracklisting's word for it.
On a similar-ish theme, on the Point album by Cornelius, I actually failed to check that the chorus that sounds like SU-MO... is in fact s-moke.
― Japanese Giraffe (Japanese Giraffe), Thursday, 2 December 2004 13:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ken L (Ken L), Thursday, 2 December 2004 13:53 (nineteen years ago) link
The Human Stain, I like it.
I have to admit that I had read the name Diagon Alley twice or maybe even three times before I copped it. And that's about as obvious as it gets.
― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Thursday, 2 December 2004 17:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 2 December 2004 17:12 (nineteen years ago) link
I had only thought of The Human Stain in the 'human condition' sense. I think I like the other sense better.
― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 2 December 2004 17:14 (nineteen years ago) link
Soz, Ken, i didn't pick up in this straightaway.
― Japanese Giraffe (Japanese Giraffe), Thursday, 2 December 2004 17:16 (nineteen years ago) link
ew
― CEO Greedwagon (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 17 April 2024 21:30 (two months ago) link
Band name (and long ago ilx screen name) Girl Scout Heroin just dawned on me now.
― Requiem for a Dream: The Musical! (Dan Peterson), Monday, 29 April 2024 20:46 (one month ago) link
heh
― budo jeru, Monday, 29 April 2024 22:24 (one month ago) link
Just realised the old Mac game Myst refers to both the mystery of the game and the literal mist onscreen concealing the graphics
― assert (matttkkkk), Tuesday, 30 April 2024 19:22 (one month ago) link
does it
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Tuesday, 30 April 2024 19:56 (one month ago) link
The game's name, as well as the overall solitary and mysterious atmosphere of the island, was inspired by the book The Mysterious Island by Verne.[3]
― visiting, Tuesday, 30 April 2024 20:07 (one month ago) link
puns that you had myst
― jaymc, Tuesday, 30 April 2024 20:14 (one month ago) link
BAM
― assert (matttkkkk), Tuesday, 30 April 2024 21:52 (one month ago) link
chips ahoy as a pun on ships ahoy
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 1 May 2024 23:58 (one month ago) link
ok that's a good one
― budo jeru, Thursday, 2 May 2024 01:46 (one month ago) link
Attack chips on fire off the belt of Orion
― Are you addicted to struggling with your horse? (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, 2 May 2024 02:02 (one month ago) link
Brick Layer Cake. How did I never decipher this before?
― Requiem for a Dream: The Musical! (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 8 May 2024 18:08 (one month ago) link
Swedish Fish
― Mrs. Ippei (Steve Shasta), Sunday, 9 June 2024 14:23 (one week ago) link
‘splain please?
― Overly dramatic elevator music (Dan Peterson), Sunday, 9 June 2024 14:45 (one week ago) link
Sweet-ish Fish
― Mrs. Ippei (Steve Shasta), Sunday, 9 June 2024 14:51 (one week ago) link
Never considered that, and I don’t think so.
Swedish Fish is a fish-shaped, chewy candy originally developed by Swedish candy producer Malaco in 1957 for the U.S. market.[1]
― Overly dramatic elevator music (Dan Peterson), Sunday, 9 June 2024 15:11 (one week ago) link
puns that you invented
― budo jeru, Sunday, 9 June 2024 16:00 (one week ago) link
Kind of an obscure one but Rainer Ptacek's 2000 album "Alpaca Lips" is a pun on apocalypse
― prog's nearly man (Matt #2), Sunday, 9 June 2024 16:16 (one week ago) link
Frasurbane
― Deflatormouse, Wednesday, 12 June 2024 01:24 (five days ago) link