Heartland

mine

we knew the words
we knew the score.......

"Gift, nothing to lose,
Stuck inside of Memphis in a mobile home"

The name of my attorney is Susan Jones. I sometimes refer to her as Sue the Lawyer.

Classic.

three more

We serve an old man in a dry season

With always close around

Love is a many splintered thing



@ Jim

khepri II wrote: With always close around

Please explain this to me, never got it and never knew it was a pun i can take solace in the fact that english is not my first language.

Incidentally, my favourite pun comes from the same song,
"if you would name the things that bring you down on me" ehh

dei

"one blinding flash of sense
just like the presidents....."

"On the loan and on the level"

Black Shuk wrote:"Gift, nothing to lose,
Stuck inside of Memphis in a mobile home"

is it not "Stuck inside of Memphis with the mobile blues again"?

from Blood on The Tracks by a certain Mr B Dylan and ressurected by Von....

Zuma wrote:

Black Shuk wrote:"Gift, nothing to lose,
Stuck inside of Memphis in a mobile home"

is it not "Stuck inside of Memphis with the mobile blues again"?

from Blood on The Tracks by a certain Mr B Dylan and ressurected by Von....

Adapted from, but not a direct rip...

Zuma wrote:

Black Shuk wrote:"Gift, nothing to lose,
Stuck inside of Memphis in a mobile home"

is it not "Stuck inside of Memphis with the mobile blues again"?

from Blood on The Tracks by a certain Mr B Dylan and ressurected by Von....

no, that's the whole idea of the pun

itnAklipse wrote:

khepri II wrote: With always close around

Please explain this to me, never got it and never knew it was a pun i can take solace in the fact that english is not my first language.

Incidentally, my favourite pun comes from the same song,
"if you would name the things that bring you down on me" ehh

dei

If walk away is about Marx , as well as some chick, then maybe it's

"you can't take the pressure of this new album and that's why you're gonna bugger off.."

the next line being all about doors an' all

"A desperate choice for desperate times" - Andrew talking about Bush/Noriega in 1991

"f**k me and marry me young" - Great T,shirt

"All the people who've asked me for autographs have been under 16 and female. It's amazing"

"Mundane by day inane at night" - Floorshow

"This is the floorshow the last ideal
It’s populist got mass appeal
The old religion redefined
For the facile futile totally blind" - Floorshow

"Twenty five whores in the room next door, Twenty five floors and I need more" - Vision Thing(possibly the best opening lyrics to an album EVER)

"Get real, get another"

"I can love my fellow man, but I'm damned if I'll love yours"

"Pass the crystal spread the Tarot, In illusion comfort lies" - My veiws exactly on the subject of Wikka, or whatever it's called.

"Sometimes in the world as is you've Got to shake the hand that feeds you"

@ nick: some of my persnal faves there

not to mention most of "under the gun"

"so the highest hand is joking wild
and the house soon fold and no-one stand"

and

"you can set the controls for the heart or the knees
and the meek'll inherit what they damn well please"

"Nothing scheduled at the moment".

"inter alia"

"happiness is a loaded weapon" under the gun

"everybody got assignations
I got mine " train

"seven shades of shiva rising, I am come" war on drugs

t'internet wrote:pun, use of words, usually humorous, based on (a) the several meanings of one word, (b) a similarity of meaning between words that are pronounced the same, or (c) the difference in meanings between two words pronounced the same and spelled somewhat similarly

khepri II wrote:Love is a many splintered thing

I think even that one's stretching the term 'pun' a bit. Splintered / splendid, don't sound the same at all, surely. As for some of the others quoted in this thread, no way are they puns. e.g. Stuck inside of Memphis in a mobile home is a deliberate misquote intened to demonstrate that Mr Eldritch knows his Dylan (and possibly more complex allusory significance).

@ Francis. I've been itching in my pedantry-gland. I'm glad someone beat me to it; that way I don't look too much of a saddo

Dark wrote:"Nothing scheduled at the moment".

and

markfiend wrote: @ Francis. I've been itching in my pedantry-gland. I'm glad someone beat me to it; that way I don't look too much of a saddo

I felt the same way but you all seemed to be having so much fun I saw no reason to chip in.

time wounds all heels

Is the quote, that he wears that ring, "to keep the flies off" matching with your high quality pun norm, Francis?

Francis wrote:Splintered / splendid, don't sound the same at all, surely.

Splendoured, surely?

smiscandlon wrote:

Francis wrote:Splintered / splendid, don't sound the same at all, surely.

Splendoured, surely?

I noticed that spelling mistake too - American English in all its splendour

easy.......

Now that the moribund relationship with East West Records is officially over, it seemed reasonable to bang out a few singles - independently - while we're putting an album together (which usually takes a long time) and getting somebody to put it out with a bit of muscle (which usually takes even longer).

LMFAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

canon docre wrote:Is the quote, that he wears that ring, "to keep the flies off" matching with your high quality pun norm, Francis?

Wasn't that just a joke?

smiscandlon wrote:

Francis wrote:Splintered / splendid, don't sound the same at all, surely.

Splendoured, surely?

I've been waiting for that one. Close enough I suppose.

Dave R wrote:easy.......

Now that the moribund relationship with East West Records is officially over, it seemed reasonable to bang out a few singles - independently - while we're putting an album together (which usually takes a long time) and getting somebody to put it out with a bit of muscle (which usually takes even longer).

LMFAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I think that's called irony Dave.

I know I'm a bit late but couldn't the pun be that he is stuck (ie can't move) when the actual home is described as mobile?