Sometimes I'm a little slow

[andrewducker]

If you ask me "What does X mean?" then I can usually spot references, work out plots, etc.  But that part of my brain doesn't seem to engage automatically.

It took me, for instance, about four years to spot that Central Perk was a pun.

It also explains why I just wandered into the kitchen and spotted an ad for "Shaun the Sheep" on the back of Simon's Weetabix and realised that that was also a pun.

Comments

[princealbert.livejournal.com]

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[poisonduk.livejournal.com]

You gave me my first smile of the day!

[ladysisyphus.livejournal.com]

ladysisyphus: Why is 'Shaun the Sheep' a pun?
mrmoonpants: ...'Shorn', maybe?
ladysisyphus: Oh, I bet it's funnier if you're Scottish.
mrmoonpants: Likely.

[autodidactic.livejournal.com]

Shaun the Sheep is a bit of a stretch for my mouth. I tend to say it more like "shaaahn" than "shoooorn".

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Ah! I confess, I'd never noticed "Shuan" pun until now, and I'm still not convinced it's funny :)

And I'd never even noticed what Central Perk was called until Phoebe pointed it out, so I don't think that counts :)

I do have some anecdotes of learning exactly the same word in completely different contexts, and only much later bringing both definitions to mind at the same time and realising one was called after the other (possibly because I encountered all meanings only tangentially and while i was young, but enough to remember the word without examining the meaning): "Hornblower and the Atropos" and "Atropos, Lachesis and Clothos" and "Arsenal football team" and "Arsenal (a big royal building full of weapons)"

[johnbobshaun.livejournal.com]

What about Ro-jaws and Hammerstein?

[19-crows.livejournal.com]

I tend to hear words as they're spelled, so I usually don't get puns, though I understand plays on words just fine. I consider this a plus.

[cheekbones3.livejournal.com]

Oh wow, so it is!