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Puns tagged ‘music’:
12/22/11
I’m thinking of buying a cat. I’ve heard cats can be finicky. In fact, the pet store said that the cat that I want only eats religiously consecrated fish — from the superorder elopomorpha. Pretty weird. So… when I get that feline, I need sectual eelings?
| Topic: cats, fish, music, pets | 2 COMMENTS »
12/08/11
After Timberlake went to that famed Ukrainian watershed - he wrote ‘Crimea River‘.
| Topic: bodies of water, justin timberlake, music, populat culture, rivers, ukraine | COMMENT »
11/18/11
Writing a symphony is a draw note process.
| Topic: composing, music, symphonies, writing | COMMENT »
11/09/11
Eminem owns two pipelines in Central Asia:
- Gas Uzbek
- ‘Stan
(what about Sallim Zashadi)?
| Topic: celebrities, centra asia, eminem, music, uzbekistan | COMMENT »
05/16/11
Do botanists play the xylem-phloem?
| Topic: botany, music | COMMENT »
03/21/11
NOISE POLLUTION?
Dear Pun Gents, I’m starting an a cappella group at our School of Natural Resources and Environment and I’d like a punny name that combines musical terms with environmental terms. ~Naomi, Ann Arbor, MI
AS THE PUN GENTS SEE IT:
- A cappellecology
- Sound Policy
- Resource Distraction
- Do no Harmony
| Topic: choir, music, the environment | COMMENT »
03/21/11
NO CHORUS HUMOR, PLEASE
Dear Pun Gents, my choir is getting t-shirts and I need a good pun to adorn them (high school-appropriate, please) ~Jac, Bay City
AS THE PUN GENTS SEE IT:
- I’m Choired Right Now
- Come to Sing Sing
- No Harmony Done
- Duet, Where my Harmony?
- And I Love Hymn
- Do You Watch the Sopranos?
| Topic: choir, high school, music, t-shirt | COMMENT »
03/09/11
MUSICAL ACCOMPANIMENT
Dear Pun Gents, I want to ask my guy friend to the prom as friends. We are both really into jazz music; I play trombone and he plays bass. I need a jazz/music pun for asking him to prom. ~Keri, Charlottetown, PEI
AS THE PUN GENTS SEE IT:
- Sorry, I can’t promise you sax.
- Keep me accompaniment?
- Come to the prom, but leave your boner at home.
- I wanted to jazz you a question…
- What time? Get me at 8/16
- This is not the night to be a Monk
| Topic: high school, jazz, music, prom | COMMENT »
03/02/11
MUSICAL LINEUP
Dear Pun Gents, I need a funny team name for a girls intramural softball team at my college. All of the girls are music majors or minors. Needs to be clean. ~Kassie, Brownwood, TX
AS THE PUN GENTS SEE IT:
- Bar Be Eyes [RBIs]
- Aces of Bases
- Ludwig van Basethrowven
- Handel the Bat
- Bat Girls
- Treble Play
- Fever Pitch
- Slide Trombones
- SwingandaMissimo
| Topic: music, softball, sports, team name | COMMENT »
02/14/11
RECORDER MONTALBAN?
Dear Pun Gents, I’m trying to come up with some names for a play I’m adapting and I need a name for a medieval musician. I already have Iona Lute. Need something along these lines but a male name. Thanks! ~Jess, Manchester, UK
AS THE PUN GENTS SEE IT:
- Martin Luter
- Robert Zithermann
- Coral Singer
- Armando Lin
- Shawm Reed
- See more medieval instruments here
| Topic: history, medieval, music, musical instruments | COMMENT »
02/08/11
THE ANSWER, MY FRIENDS…
Dear Pun Gents, we’re a trivia team needing a new name for the season. We are pretty good but awful at the music round. We are trying to incorporate a music theme this time. ~Kat, Winnipeg, MB
AS THE PUN GENTS SEE IT:
- She Drives Me Quizzy
- The Answer, My Friends, is Blowin’ in the Wind
- Ain’t No Party Like a JE-O-Pardy!
- Trebek in the Saddle
- The Who (What Where When How)
| Topic: music, team name, trivia | COMMENT »
02/07/11
| Topic: celebrities, fergie, in the news, music, popular culture, super bowl | COMMENT »
02/06/11
TRAGICALLY HIPPO
Dear Pun Gents, I need puns incorporating hippos and current pop songs. Thank you! ~Karen, Seattle, WA
AS THE PUN GENTS SEE IT:
- Just the Way You Artiodactyl
- Back to De-Semi-Aquatic
- Felt Good on My Hippos
- What’s uglier than a hippo? A Rihannaceros.
| Topic: animals, hippos, music, popular culture | 1 COMMENT »
12/20/10
Michael Jackson always wanted to fly like a bird. He even wrote that song, Be a Tit.
| Topic: michael jackson, music | COMMENT »
12/19/10
Does Bono buy expensive-brand groceries?
No, he shops where the treats have no name.
| Topic: Bono, celebrities, music, shopping, u2 | 1 COMMENT »
11/27/10
I lost the ability to sing! This situation is totally FEWBAR.
| Topic: music, swearing | COMMENT »
11/26/10
PLAGUE IT AGAIN, SAM
Dear Pun Gents, I am writing a news article on the story of the Pied Piper of Hamelin for both a tabloid and a broadsheet but I dont know what the two headlines should be, please could you help me with some clever puns? ~Greg, London, UK
AS THE PUN GENTS SEE IT:
- Plague it Again, Sam
- On a Fluting Spree
- Rattaboy!
- The Verminator
- He Just Rodent To Town…
- Now Appearing on Kids Row
| Topic: kids, music, myth and legend | COMMENT »
11/17/10
GEWURTZ + MUSIC BY…
Dear Pun Gents, we need a team name for a music-themed wine tasting and quiz. Team names are to include rock/music star/act and possibly be related to wine. We are three girls and one guy - please help! ~Catherine, Aberdeen, Scotland
AS THE PUN GENTS SEE IT:
- Death Cabernet for Cutie
- House of the Riesling Sun
- All Time Best Cellars
- Chordannay
- April Wine
- Port-ishead
- Brandy
- Glassic Rock
- We are the Champagnes
- We’re Hardcork
| Topic: alcohol, music, rock, team name, trivia, wine | COMMENT »
11/14/10
When Napster hit the music industry, it was like Sharenobyl.
| Topic: business, catastrophes, disasters, music | COMMENT »
10/19/10
There was a famous crooner who sang exclusively about peeing. He was quite the bladdeer. Some of his hits included:
- Urol Always On My Mind (duet with Urethra Franklin)
- Give Piss a Chance
- Looey Looey
- Yellow
- I Streamed a Dream
His name? Huddy Bedwetter .
| Topic: bodily functions, music, pee | COMMENT »
09/30/10
If they didn’t have Ringo, they’d have been the Beatless.
| Topic: music, the beatles | 1 COMMENT »
09/24/10
2000 years ago, pop diva Lady Cleopatra had a smash hit: ‘Bad Romans‘.
| Topic: Ancient Egypt, ancient rome, celebrities, history, music | COMMENT »
09/18/10
The monks kicked the priests out of their choir because they couldn’t carry a tunic.
| Topic: music, religion | COMMENT »
06/26/10
Barbershop quartets sing a capella. But In Africa, berbershop quartets sing a cape buffalo.
| Topic: geography, music, random | COMMENT »
06/24/10
Wasn’t there an oil rigger in that group, the Spillage People?
| Topic: accidents, in the news, music, oil, the environment | COMMENT »
04/18/10
My Stradivarius brand bike did not come with stopping devices. I had to install some to brake the cycle of violins.
| Topic: music, sports | COMMENT »
04/12/10
Was Ireland a hotbed of glam rock?
No, Shamrock.
| Topic: ireland, music, rock and roll | 1 COMMENT »
04/10/10
Careful - if you kiss an Irish rock star, you might get Bono.
| Topic: diseases, hygiene, ireland, music, u2 | 1 COMMENT »
03/01/10
BAND ON THE PUN
Dear Pun Gents, I need a funny band name pun. ~Mikey, Plattsburgh, NY
AS THE PUN GENTS SEE IT:
- Band Aid
- Songofabitch
- Of Chorus
- Recorduroy
- The Strolling Strones
- Living Color Me Badly Drawn Boy George Michael Jackson Five for Fighting Miss Daisy
| Topic: band name, music | COMMENT »
02/16/10
If the group included a garbage man, they would have been the Swillage People. Their music was trashy anyway.
| Topic: music, occupations | COMMENT »
09/03/09
Justin Timberlake’s concerts feature everything but the kitsch ‘N Sync.
| Topic: music | COMMENT »
08/16/09
I’m going on a hip-hop vacation. I have tupac fa’ sure. But my suitcase is notoriously B.I.G. - it’s so Puffy! I better rap it up and Run to the DMV to get my car.
| Topic: music | COMMENT »
07/25/09
“Hithee hither!”: proof that Michael Jackson’s “Beat it”, when translated into Olde English, is a recipe for indiscriminate violence against both sexes.
| Topic: celebrities, languages, music | COMMENT »
07/12/09
Explaining how to write music is always a draw note conversation. It may treble you, so I’ll stick to bassics.
| Topic: music | COMMENT »
07/05/09
So many music stores are going out of business—because they are in the CD part of town.
| Topic: music | COMMENT »
06/07/09
Hear about the conductor who got in trouble for slapping a woman’s bass at a party? He was flouting etiquette, acting like a bassoon, so she cried, “Oboe you don’t! I’m not your sax partner!”
| Topic: battle of the sexes, music | 2 COMMENTS »
01/13/09
John Lennon was hungry, but he wouldn’t give pies a chance. He insisted on having a yellow submarine. Paul just said ‘Let it Brie.’
 John was hungry, but he wouldn't give pies a chance. He wanted a yellow submarine.
| Topic: food and drink, music | COMMENT »
12/07/08
People aren’t happy with music DRM laws against CD ripping and burning. There is a lot of disc content.
| Topic: music, popular culture | COMMENT »
11/19/08
I could never have predicted the success of Geddy Lee and Rush. But then again, I’m no progrocksticator.
| Topic: music | COMMENT »
09/15/08
Sixteenth century musicians were often guilty of lute behaviour. And any who denied it was considered a lyre.
| Topic: history, music, sex | COMMENT »
09/05/08
I won’t play music for my friend Monica. I don’t want to harm Monica.
| Topic: music, names | COMMENT »
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07/26/08
When the New Kids were finally able to grow their ’soul patches’, they wrote a song about it: “Hangin’ Tuft.”
| Topic: fashion, music | COMMENT »
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07/06/08
How would you describe most songs about farts?
Quite smell odious.
| Topic: bodily functions, music | COMMENT »
07/04/08
The phoneticist went on American Idol, but was booed off the stage on account of his lisp. Afterward this linguist was upset, saying “I can’t believe they dipthed my thong!”
| Topic: academia, entertainment, music, popular culture, television | COMMENT »
06/07/08
Most South Asian dance music originates from Bhangradesh.
| Topic: ethnic groups, geography, music | COMMENT »
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04/26/08
What song did Tom Jones write after misplacing his pet ungulate’s testicles?
“It’s Not a Gnu Jewel.”
| Topic: animals, music | COMMENT »
02/26/08
Listening to U2 in church gives me a mass-ive Bono.
| Topic: music, religion | COMMENT »
02/21/08
After Ravi Shankar was seriously burned in a fire, he had to get numerous skin grafts from a caucasian donor. After the tragedy he decided to take up singeing, and he was thereafter better known as “Apache Indian“.
| Topic: aboriginals, music | COMMENT »
02/09/08
Sex and money talk in the Indian music world, where the rock stars are often surrounded by screaming rupees, looking for a paisa the action. And ten thousand rupees certainly indicates a lak of it.
| Topic: ethnic groups, money, music, sex | COMMENT »
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02/01/08
Sounds effects pioneer Thomas Dolby graduated from university magna cum loud.
| Topic: academia, music | COMMENT »
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