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Language cartoon Wednesday
That would be today, with three language-related cartoons in my inbox: a Rhymes With Orange, a Mother Goose and Grimm, and a Bizarro: (#1) (#2) (#3) #1. The punc band. A pun on punk ‘form of loud,...
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In the Basque diaspora
(Warning: much of this posting is about gay porn and male hustling, and it refers in plain language to the male body and to male-male sexual acts; the photographs are not actually X-rated — such images...
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Ice cream, roadside fiberglass, Caillebotte, and more
Today’s Zippy takes us lots of places: (#1) It shows our Pinhead talking French Impressionism with a roadside ice cream stand that happens to be a fiberglass replica of an ice cream cone. (In Zippy,...
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Fidel of the Castro
The latest Funny Times arrived a couple days ago, and as usual there was a bunch of cartoons I laughed at, and some I wanted to post, but I couldn’t find usable copies or even identify the artists,...
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California squirrels
In the October Funny Times, a cartoon by Cara and Andy Singer, parodying the Beach Boys song “California Girls”. I haven’t been able to find an image anywhere, so I’ll talk you through the thing. The...
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Joseph Gordon-Levitt
In my posting on Batman vs. the Batman in The Dark Knight Rises, I touched on the actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt, who has an important role in the film: (#1) Now more about the actor, who at the age of 34...
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Adventures in Arnoldia
In response to my recent posting on Saint Arnold craft beers, two friends wandered further, to Arnold Island (Luc Vartan Baronian, who, however, did it in French, since the island is in Québec) and to...
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That’s a moray
Yesterday I posted about (among other things) the song “That’s Amore”, as made famous by Dean Martin. Immediately friends began providing plays on the title: That’s a Moray”. Eels! It turns out that...
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Morning: monotreme, marsupial
The morning names a little while back came as a pair (monotreme, marsupial) — with related referents (both are taxonomically eccentric mammals) and names that are somewhat similar phonologically. And...
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Going to the dogs
Two dog (after a fashion) cartoons: one by Dale Coverly (from his Speed Bump strip), one by Phil Selby (from his blog): (#1) (#2) Coverly. Cartoon #1 has a POP (phrasal overlap portmanteau), but one...
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Bread play
From Ann Burlingham, this Scott Milburn cartoon from 2012, with a pun avalanche, or punvalanche for short, of bread-related vocabulary: breadwinner, the verb loaf, (slice of) toast, Melba (toast),...
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R(e)ubenesque
I start with a Mark Stivers cartoon (from 11/16/14) that was reprinted (in b&w) in the November Funny Times: (#1) Reubenesque in the cartoon (referring to the Reuben sandwich, illustrated there),...
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peanut(s), penis, and Cracker Jack
In a posting three days ago on matters having to do with a Pop-Tart commercial on tv, I reported that at first I heard the peanut in peanut butter as penis. Now a Facebook poster adds his own...
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The morning after
Today’s Rhymes With Orange celebrates All Saint’s Day, the beginning of the Day of the Dead (in Mexico), and (this year) the Death of Daylight Time (in the U.S.): It’s also the Feast of the Candy Pun....
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Born out of breadlock
Today’s Rhymes With Orange, with a pun: The cronut, a hybrid food with a portmanteau name. See section 1 (on the cronut) of my 5/30/13 posting about portmanteaus.
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Pastiche
In the NYT Book Review on Sunday (November 1st), a review by James Parker of The Big Book of Sherlock Holmes Stories (edited by Otto Penzler) and Mycroft Holmes (by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Anna...
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PUMP! Boys and Trojans
(Not much about language here — mostly about men’s bodies and the projection of personas.) Saturday’s ad from Daily Jocks, which led me to a rich collection of images from the PUMP! underwear firm....
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Annals of zeugma
From Ann Burlingham, this zeugmatic dialogue from the tv series Leverage (“The Long Way Down Job”, season 4, episode 1, first aired 6/26/11), at 17:27: (1) Drexel gets paid and away scot-free (Drexel...
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Foodnited States
Through Facebook friends, this entertaining Mental Floss piece, “All 50 States Reimagined as Food Puns” by Rebecca OConnell: (#1) If you had to assign one piece of food to represent each state, which...
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On the campaign trail with Vermin Supreme
Through various people on Facebook, reports on the presidential candidacy of Vermin Supreme. (#1) From Wikipedia: Vermin Love Supreme is an American performance artist and activist who is known for...
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