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The Xmas run
Following on my Messiah posting, Robert Coren points us to the Xmas day Frazz: Ouch: course – chorus. A cute imperfect pun.
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Set of three
A crop of three comics for today, on three very different topics: a One Big Happy with an inventive reinterpretation of an expression; a Zits on the evolution of writing systems; and a Zippy with...
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Distant punning
Yesterday’s Get Frazzy: Hat tip from Alon Lischinsky, who found that the main pun, in the final panel, really worked only in writing: for him, “Ishmael can only be /ˈɪʃ.meɪ.əl/ or /ˈɪʃ.meɪl/, while...
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Snowtoons
Yesterday I posted a “starving artist” cartoon featuring Frosty the Snowman, but wasn’t able to identify the artist. This morning’s advance was that Larry Schourup found a copy with the artist’s...
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Pun pun
Passed on by Betsy Herrington and John Lawler: A cartoon, or playful image (I’m not entirely sure how to classify some of these things), with a pun involving puns. [Amended 1/7/15: Mary Beckman has...
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Weak heel
Passed on to me by Mike Pope, this cartoon with a complex pun: The noun heel (the body part) and the verb heel — “(of a dog) follow closely behind its owner: these dogs are born with the instinctive...
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batricide
Briefly noted, in “No Time for Bats to Rest Easy’ by Natalie Angier in yesterday’s NYT Science Times: “A politician in Australia said, ‘Bomb the bats,’ ” Dr. Wang [bat virologist Lin-Fa Wang] said....
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The noirwhal
Wednesday’s Rhymes With Orange, with a portmanteau/pun: (Film) noir and narwhal. Film noir has come up on this blog several times, in connection with Zippy cartoons about the genre, in particular:...
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Façade
Following my posting on perilla and phonologically similar words, I was playing with Camilla Perilla and sashimi and that’s my spicy duchess hanging on the wall scooby dooby, and I caught an echo of...
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The French pastry revolution
Yesterday it was the noirwhal; today on Rhymes With Orange, it’s the French pastry revolution: A complex tissue of puns, portmanteaus, and cultural allusions. Start with the title: French pastry + the...
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rappers
Today’s One Big Happy commits a pun: Wrapping gifts, rapping on gifts. Well, rapping on gift wrapping. Ouch.
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Robert Deyber
Visual play on formulaic language from artist Robert Deyber. A sample: (#1) Guess the caption… Ahhh: Cock Tease. (He’s also done a Cock Sucker painting, but I haven’t found a good image of it.) About...
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Whore-igami
Briefly noted: in the short story “I Can See Right Through You” by Kelly Link in McSweeeney’s No. 48 (2014), on p. 81: Meggie says, “She’s a nice kid. Makes Whore-igami in her spare time and sells it...
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cartoonosity
Today’s Zippy, with a cartoon transformation: The three Dingburgers admiring Little Zippy (already cartoon characters) become more and more like cartoon characters, more cartoonish, more cartoony:...
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Cheeses
Passed on to me, this 2007 Phil Selby cartoon: (#1) A take-off on door-to-door evangelizing, by (in particular) Jehovah’s Witnesses and Mormons, using the pun Jesus – cheeses to move things to the...
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Captain Rehab
Found in the latest Funny Times, a Speed Bump cartoon from September 30th: A distant pun (rehab – Ahab) that works only if you recognize both pieces of background: the story of Melville’s Moby-Dick and...
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Anti-vaxxer Family Circus
On Princess Sparkle Pony’s Photo Blog, a parody of Family Circus: Measles has been much in the news recently, about objections to the vaccine for it and the spread of measles to unvaccinated children....
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Groundhog consequences
On George Takei’s Facebook page, this (unattributed) composition: Phil did in fact predict six more weeks of winter this year. Takei’s comment, functioning as a caption: “He had his Phil.” The idiom...
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Valentine moose-knuckle
(Not much about language) From Channel 1 Releasing, an ad for a Valentine Day’s special of porn: Puns are a standard feature of Valentine Day’s greetings: here heart-on (referring to the heart-covered...
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Morning name: a playful portmanteau
This morning’s name (which just popped into my head; I’m pretty sure I’d never seen or heard it before) was the playful Elrond Hubbard, which has been adopted by a fair number of people on the net —...
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