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Ethnic food week
Two items: yesterday’s morning name (piperade), a Basque dish in the colors of the flag of the Basque country; and a recipe from the April 2016 issue of bon appétit magazine, Matzo-Kimchi Pancakes, or,...
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Morning name: ivermectin
My morning name on the 18th, a very useful medication. From Wikipedia: Ivermectin [generic name; various brand names, e.g. Stromectol. Mectizan] is a medication that is effective against many types of...
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Perry Bible Fellowship
It’s been a long time — about 11 years — since I posted about Nicholas Gurewitch’s comic strip The Perry Bible Fellowship (in 5/17/05, “Ending with a preposition”), and now I come finally to...
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Ding Dong Deli
Today’s Zippy, which takes us to woodsy northern New Jersey (west of New York, east of Pennsylvania, south of Connecticut): This is the alliterative Ding Dong Deli, a diner and shop, in Oak Ridge NJ...
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Meatmen 1989-2004
(The X-rated images are on AZBlogX, here, but let’s face it, the poster is about comics depicting man-man sex, and there’s plenty of explicit talk, so this is not for kids or the sexually modest.) In...
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Just remove one letter
Some time ago, Tim Pierce passed along a game on Facebook: #RemoveOneLetterFromAMovieTitle. Example: POTLIGHT: a plucky team of old-school journalists completely miss a major news story right under...
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Lawyers, Gubs and Monkeys
My grand-daughter Opal arrived for breakfast on Saturday with a book she immediately immersed herself in. Not a children’s book, not a book of cartoons, but instead an entertaining 2015 book by jurist...
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Peter Kuper
It starts with a single-panel gag cartoon in the April 2016 Funny Times: (#1) First, things you need to know to get this cartoon. Then, information about cartoonist and graphic novelist Peter Kuper and...
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The cell phone of 1922
From Michael Palmer on Facebook, a link to this excellent story (from the Messy Nessy site on the 5th: “Calling on her Cell Phone in 1922: The Home-O-Phone”: Note that the receiver has to be grounded;...
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The gang double
Today’s Rhymes With Orange (guest cartoon by Rina Piccolo) plays on double and gang, incidentally threading into a bit of etymology: One ingredient here is the borrowed German word doppelgänger: an...
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Punch in the presence of the passenjare
About the British humo(u)r magazine (my cartoon/comics library has two anthologies from the publication; the second has the Ed Fisher cartoons I posted about yesterday) and about its long history...
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Female parts
Female parts: relatively transparent (and stylistically neutral) name for the sexual organs of a female (person, animal, or plant), with male parts as its counterpart. But there’s also a whole world of...
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On the Hi-Lo
Some men go on the down-low, but Zippy goes on the Hi-Lo. Yesterday’s strip is set in the diner of this name in Minneapolis MN: (#1) Seen here in a recent photo: (#2) Taken up later: grilling and...
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Two word-play cartoons
.Yesterday’s Bizarro, and a Liam Walsh cartoon from the May 30th New Yorker: (#1) (If you’re puzzled by the odd symbol in the cartoon — Dan Piraro says there’s one in this strip — see this Page.) (#2)...
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Memorial pun
On (US) Memorial Day Eve, this Dan Thompson Brevity cartoon passed on by Betsy Herrington on Facebook: (#1) A distant pun, with the original and the pun differing both segmentally and prosodically,...
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Geek compounds
Today’s Zippy, returning to Pancake Circus, to trade geek compounds: (#1) Three things: the expressions being traded, which start out in panel 1 as N + N compounds from the tech world, both Ns...
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Jeff Hobbs
In the June 2016 issue of Funny Times, a bit of language play, portmanteauing Oreos (referring to the brand of creme-filled chocolate cookie sandwiches) and areolas (referring to the rings of pigmented...
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Another dubious name
Passed on from Facebook posters by way of Chris Waigl, this storefront, with comments from readers about the store name Kum & Go: (Note the use of rhyme and alliteration in the follow-ups.) Another...
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Name play in Basingstoke
From my English correspondent RJP, this tradeperson’s van, photographed on the street: (#1) Flat Boy Skim is a bit of complex name play on Fatboy Slim. Well, you have to know who Fatboy Slim is,...
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Two Thursday cartoons
Words words words. Ruthie in One Big Happy is confounded by sandy, and Mother Goose and Grimm gives us a howling pun on Transcendental Meditation: (#1) (#2) In #1, Ruthie’s grandfather gums things up...
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