Today’s Wayno / Piraro Bizarro, celebrating the seasonal rock band Icy/D.C. (Wayno’s title: “Seasonally Appropriate Music”), also today’s somewhat desperate affirmation that I am indeed, like Mary, Queen of Scots, not dead yet:
(#1) A dark midwinter — how can there still be a week of January to go? — punning tribute to the band AC/DC (if you’re puzzled by the odd symbols in the cartoon — Dan Piraro says there are 4 in this strip — see this Page)
Not the first Bizarro punning tribute to AC/DC. See my 9/16/23 posting “Original Rockers”, on this Bizarro cartoon about the caveman rock band AC/BC, with information about AC/DC:
(#2)
Wider horizons. Once you’ve seen the punning band names AC/BC and Icy/D.C., you realize that so long as you stick to very familiar formulaic expressions, stunningly distant puns on AC/DC could be made to work as band names. For Wayno and Dan to use as they wish, I offer the foodie rock band Osso/Buco (you could just eat those guys up), the game-playing rock band Acey/Deucy, the infantile rock band Upsy/Daisy, and the simple-minded rock band Easy/Peasy.
Some lexical notes.
— from NOAD,
the noun osso buco: an Italian dish made with veal shank containing marrowbone, stewed in wine with vegetables and seasonings.
— From Wikipedia, on the board game:
Acey-deucey is a tables game, a family of board games that includes backgammon. Since World War I, it has been a favorite game of the United States Navy, Marine Corps, and Merchant Marine. Some evidence shows that it was played in the early 1900s aboard U.S. Navy ships. The game is believed to be rooted in the Middle East, Greece, or Turkey [AZ: the name is from ace for a playing card with a single spot on it, deuce for a playing card with two spots on it]
Wikipedia also mentions two further nouns acey-deucy:
Gambling: Acey Deucey is a gambling game using playing cards in the same family as poker.
Horse racing: Acey-deucey is deliberately riding a horse with one stirrup shorter than the other. It is most often seen in racing in the United States, where a jockey will slightly lengthen the inside stirrup to gain better balance on turns, all of which are left-handed in America. Some riders believe this helps them
— from the Merriam-Webster dictionaries:
the interjection upsy-daisy [with many spelling variants]: used to express reassurance typically to a small child when it is being lifted
— and from the Cambridge dictionaries:
the adjective easy-peasey: (UK informal or child’s word) very easy [the peasey is nonsense material invented to make a rhyme]