iceholics
― andrew m., Tuesday, 31 May 2022 15:21 (two years ago) link
alcohocapades?a good word to describe my 20s I guess
― silverfish, Tuesday, 31 May 2022 16:03 (two years ago) link
destroyer's icekaput
― Once Were Chemical Brothers (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 31 May 2022 16:05 (two years ago) link
alcohocapades?
― butt-mooning is a polysemous word, hoss! (breastcrawl), Tuesday, 31 May 2022 16:09 (two years ago) link
freebie for any beer league hockey teams looking for a name
― andrew m., Tuesday, 31 May 2022 18:22 (two years ago) link
When Ice Holes is already taken.
― nickn, Tuesday, 31 May 2022 20:28 (two years ago) link
Nolime you may have already been explained elsewhere that I haven't found but the name no lime tangier
is it one of these
If lime seems bland compared to the tanginess of a lemon. & you found a steady source of limes that belied that observation, could you advertise that source with the phrase 'no lime tangier'?
Or is it a Jesus quote meaning either don't touch me or don't hold on to me. Noli Me Tangere
Or is it a policy thing for a town in Morocco when limes are viewed as diseased.So if you're in the citrus smuggling business you need to watch out for No Lime Tangier?
Just wondering like.
― Stevolende, Tuesday, 28 June 2022 10:56 (one year ago) link
the disappointingly prosaic answer is: a bad pun based on a novel i once read
― no lime tangier, Tuesday, 28 June 2022 11:21 (one year ago) link
Bee Movie (B-movie)
― The 25 Best Songs Ever Ranked In Order (Deflatormouse), Monday, 11 July 2022 00:28 (one year ago) link
The berlin-based record label Toy Tonics
― o shit the sheriff (NickB), Tuesday, 12 July 2022 06:04 (one year ago) link
oh! like a moron I have always pronounced "Teutonic" as "tyoo-" so I guess I will be shunned now.
― assert (matttkkkk), Tuesday, 12 July 2022 06:14 (one year ago) link
That's not moronic, that's the way it is pronounced (in the UK at least - Americans will do too-tonic I guess)
― Alba, Tuesday, 12 July 2022 06:16 (one year ago) link
Teutonic is an English word and I've only ever hear it pronounced the way you say it matthew (I guess it would be teutonisch auf deutsch? And then you'd say toy-tonnish)
― o shit the sheriff (NickB), Tuesday, 12 July 2022 06:35 (one year ago) link
Sorry mattttt not matthew
― o shit the sheriff (NickB), Tuesday, 12 July 2022 06:37 (one year ago) link
the band Idles. idols. duh.
― StanM, Tuesday, 12 July 2022 07:00 (one year ago) link
Danny La Rue. Dans la rue. Took me ages.
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Tuesday, 12 July 2022 08:24 (one year ago) link
Doh!
― Eavis Has Left the Building (Tom D.), Tuesday, 12 July 2022 08:34 (one year ago) link
There's a Faust track called "Teutonentango".
― Eavis Has Left the Building (Tom D.), Tuesday, 12 July 2022 08:38 (one year ago) link
The title of the second This Heat album Deceit.
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Thursday, 14 July 2022 21:32 (one year ago) link
Funnily enough I was just playing that!
― Eavis Has Left the Building (Tom D.), Thursday, 14 July 2022 21:32 (one year ago) link
... the reason being my ears have kept pricking up this week every time someone on the news started going on about "this heat"!
― Eavis Has Left the Building (Tom D.), Thursday, 14 July 2022 21:34 (one year ago) link
Didn't they record it in a fridge or something? Feels like an attractive option right now.
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Thursday, 14 July 2022 21:36 (one year ago) link
Their studio was indeed called Cold Storage!
― Eavis Has Left the Building (Tom D.), Thursday, 14 July 2022 21:39 (one year ago) link
think I just got "Little Mix"
― link.exposing.politically (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 27 July 2022 18:15 (one year ago) link
go on
― Vance Vance Devolution (sic), Wednesday, 27 July 2022 18:32 (one year ago) link
a mix of "little minxes"really very icky indeed, tbh hope I'm wrong here
― link.exposing.politically (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 27 July 2022 18:37 (one year ago) link
Still flabbergasted at the This Heat one
― ~insert pun here~ (Matt #2), Wednesday, 27 July 2022 19:05 (one year ago) link
They were originally called Rhythmix, which is a different (more straightforward) kind of pun. Little Mix would seem to be a simple adjustment of that. I don't think "minxes" comes into it.
― Eyeball Kicks, Monday, 1 August 2022 09:57 (one year ago) link
glad to hear it
― link.exposing.politically (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 1 August 2022 10:00 (one year ago) link
Meanwhile just saw an ad for an "anthemic indie" band called The Snuts, which is I suppose "Deez Nutz"
― link.exposing.politically (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 1 August 2022 10:02 (one year ago) link
just heard yesterday's news on the radio about some "rebel" racing driver. was actually "Red Bull" but got me thinking about whether the company name was actually a pun (prob not)
― koogs, Monday, 1 August 2022 11:18 (one year ago) link
"puns that you had imagined"
I have some friends who are big Last Unicorn fans and they maintain that it's a reference to thishttps://thelastunicorn.fandom.com/wiki/Red_Bull
― link.exposing.politically (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 1 August 2022 11:20 (one year ago) link
I'm alive! I'm aliiiiiiiiive!
I'm a big Last Unicorn fan too. However...
In 1976, Chaleo Yoovidhya introduced a drink called Krating Daeng in Thailand,[20] which means "red gaur" in English. It was popular among Thai truck drivers and labourers. While working for German manufacturer Blendax (later acquired by Procter & Gamble) in 1982, Dietrich Mateschitz travelled to Thailand and met Chaleo, owner of T.C. Pharmaceutical. During his visit, Mateschitz discovered that Krating Daeng helped cure his jet lag.[21] In 1984, Mateschitz co-founded Red Bull GmbH with Yoovidhya and turned it into an international brand.
1976 is after the publication of the novel Last Unicorn and before the movie. Did the dude from Thailand naming his truck-driver drink after an American fantasy novel?
― peace, man, Monday, 1 August 2022 12:58 (one year ago) link
probably not, I would say
― link.exposing.politically (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 1 August 2022 13:09 (one year ago) link
Yeah, that's what I was saying as well, although probably too indirectly. Anyway, inspired me to listen to my Last Unicorn soundtrack album just now, so that was good.
― peace, man, Monday, 1 August 2022 14:04 (one year ago) link
There is also the fact that a central ingredient of both Krating Daeng and Red Bull is taurine, a compound so named because it was "first isolated from ox bile in 1827", to quote Wikipedia.
― anatol_merklich, Tuesday, 2 August 2022 14:03 (one year ago) link
I've been watching Tuca & Bertie on Adult Swim, now on season three, and I just got last week that Bertie = Birdy (do you see!). Tuca for Toucan I got right away.
― nickn, Wednesday, 17 August 2022 07:09 (one year ago) link
I don't know if this *is* a pun but it dawned on me that the classic Wilco cover art is two hotels, Yankee hotels? which might be seen as dance partners.
― assert (matttkkkk), Monday, 5 September 2022 21:10 (one year ago) link
They’re condos I think
― Histoire de BradNelson (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 6 September 2022 02:13 (one year ago) link
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marina_City
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 6 September 2022 02:19 (one year ago) link
ah good, I just saw one of them flash up in an episode of The Bear and it got me thinkin
― assert (matttkkkk), Tuesday, 6 September 2022 05:40 (one year ago) link
And only Southerners and perhaps Britishes would refer to Chicago as "Yankee".
― pplains, Tuesday, 6 September 2022 13:49 (one year ago) link
otm
― When Harpo Played His ARP (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 6 September 2022 20:07 (one year ago) link
It's Y,H,F in the International Radiotelephony Spelling Alphabet.
The album was given the title Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, referencing a series of letters in the phonetic alphabet that Tweedy had heard on the Irdial box set The Conet Project: Recordings of Shortwave Numbers Stations.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yankee_Hotel_Foxtrot
I think the cover photo is meant to convey a sense of loneliness, bleakness maybe.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 6 September 2022 20:13 (one year ago) link
beigeness
― peace, man, Wednesday, 7 September 2022 10:59 (one year ago) link
Or blueness if you got the alternate cover.
― Hideous Lump, Wednesday, 7 September 2022 11:18 (one year ago) link
I also always made the connection between the cover and the refs in "Jesus, Etc" to tall buildings and "skyscrapers scraping together"
Regardless of whether it was intended (really, people, let's separate the art from the artist here), I love the idea that what we're actually looking at is a coupla Yankee Hotels doing the Foxtrot. Great retroactive pun!
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Wednesday, 7 September 2022 15:29 (one year ago) link
Pplains is correct: no one from Illinois or Missouri or Chicago or St. Louis identifies culturally as a Yankee. To midwesterners that term refers to New England / New York. The only context in which an Illinoisan could plausibly be called a Yankee is during the actual Civil War, when it meant Unionist (as opposed to Confederate). Tweedy et al. were not referring to that time and place so it's a red herring.
Wilco's reference is to the phonetic alphabet and to 20th century radio communication culture.
― the floor is guava (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 8 September 2022 02:20 (one year ago) link
yeah I knew that, the sample breaks through in "Poor Places" and I also have the CONET project CD it was lifted from (which is weirdly compelling background work music), I just thought the cover might have been a pun on that.
― assert (matttkkkk), Thursday, 8 September 2022 02:47 (one year ago) link