puns that you had missed

Decades to see Space Merchants as pun on spice merchants. Probably as kid read "The Space Merchants" years before I heard of spice merchants. Lay Off The Space Merchants

I only got 'Camper Van Beethoven' earlier this year. Just thought that Camper was an unusual forename, I guess.

honestly never occurred to me that 'Charmless Man' by blur was a play on This Charming Man by The Smiths for years.

I don't get 'Camper van Beethoven'

Roland Butter.a shop that sells sandwiches.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campervan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_van_Beethoven

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idk that strikes me as more like a portmanteau than a pun

yeah i guess not getting an obvious portmanteau is even more stupid than not getting an obvious pun. :'(

This is the most mind-melting thread in ILX history for me.

Yeah, it's not very good for your self is steam, is it? :-/

^^^^ unreleased Public Enemy EP

"Fifty First Dates"

Because it's like "Fifty-first States"? Never thought of that.

For a long time I had no idea that "Every kiss begins with Kay" was a pun, just assumed that they were asserting that no kisses were not precipitated by jewelry from Kay.

Whereas what they are being clever about is that the word 'kiss' begins with the letter 'k'.

there must be loads more of these, ones so subtle none of us are getting them.

what's the True Lies one that i'm clearly not seeing that's mentioned upthread?

It's not a pun per se, more two terms that mean the opposite. Lies aren't true.

Roland Butter.a shop that sells sandwiches.

Yes! I walked past these every day for about 15 years before it was pointed out to me.

I always assumed that Fifty First Dates was a pun on 51st State, but then there was a thread on here which went some way to convincing me it wasn't a pun and was just coincidence.

i am going as french kiss. striped shirt, beret and KISS makeup

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I thought this was v lol just out of silliness, but it took a few minutes before "ohhhhh I get it" came to me.

There's a mattress company here in NYC called "Sleepy's" and their more recent ad campaign has following tagline:

Trust Sleepy's For the Rest of Your Life!

I thought, "hmmmm.....that's an awful lot to ask of their customers...lifelong brand loyalty!" The pun of it being the rest of your life (as in relaxed slumber) was completely lost on me until just recently.

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― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, November 30, 2004 5:53 PM (6 years ago) Bookmark

"Tonight is the first night of the rest of your life!"

Arthur Lee has a few.
I guess most people will get the title of the 4th lp pretty easily, think it's a song that Billy Holliday et al sang.
Four Sail.

but the single between that and Forever Changes has one side called
'Your Mind & We Belong Together' which I suddenly got one day and wondered if I'd just forgotten getting it before. Cliched phrase about true love redirected by substituting a letter with the one next to it in the alphabet.

somebody told me once that "soul coughing" (the band) was a pun but i didn't get it, and still don't

the movie title free willy is a pun made from free will.

The War Between The Tates

it took me years to get the sleepy's ("for the rest of your life") one that alex mentioned. the REST of your life. yes. cuz sleepy's sells mattresses. that you rest on.

It took me decades to figure out the joke in "If I said you had a beautiful body, would you hold it against me?"
Yep, me too.

Ha, I feel better about myself now.

But if Fifty First Dates was a pun on "fifty-first state", that doesn't make sense to me. Hawaii is one of the fifty states, right? Maybe I'm just too tired.

it's not a pun

do not let anyone convince you it's a pun

http://i46.tinypic.com/1z93bq.jpg

I didn't see the artwork until after I'd figured out the pun, which took ages

idg "war between the tates".

I bought a Velvets bootleg once on "Lurid" records and many years later realized lurid = Lou Reed.

somebody told me once that "soul coughing" (the band) was a pun but i didn't get it, and still don't

― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, April 2, 2012 12:05 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it's not a pun, its a reference to barfin'

it was years before i got this one:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/82/MsTree21.jpg/200px-MsTree21.jpg

good god i didn't get ms. tree until just now

One of my Facebook friends just figured out Electric Light Orchestra. Many of his other friends are unironically praising him for his genius.

Whats to miss? Theyre a light orchestra that're electric, but lol electric light.. how the fuck could anyone miss that?

also "light orchestra" is a thing

oh you pretty much said that

aw shit ms. tree!

I STILL didn't get it until just now ("does she mistreat everyone,or what?") and then suddenly, duh.

Not everyone thinks of EG lightbulbs as "Electric light", though - you kind of have to know someone who remembers non electric light for that.

I get the impression its the "light orchestra" bit that people miss, from my googling!

the only google results I get for "light orchestra" are for ELO

Oh, this is like, elevator music or something.

idg "war between the tates".

― Pureed Moods (Trayce), Thursday, May 24, 2012 12:51 AM (7 hours ago)

Get it?

Well that makes sense now, yah. Not that it was a phrase I was familiar with. Either the original, or what I see by google is apparently a movie title. Didnt know either one. Cest la.

Oh my god. Only recently I was very embarrassed to realise the pun in the Simpsons episode "Hell Toupee". That was bad enough... just now I overheard 2 workmates talking about old PC and console games and I heard someone mention Boulder Dash.

...and suddenly got the pun for THAT, as well, after fuck knows how many years.

Oh man, I played a lot of Boulder Dash and definitely didn't "get" it as a kid. Cool game though.