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Fun with categories
Nightcharm.com is primarily a gay porn bundling site, offering “theaters” mostly from specific porn studios or featuring particular pornstars, but it also offers essays on topics of interest to gay...
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An outrageous but colorful pun
xkcd 1814 Color Pattern: (#1) As it turns out, “That’s Amore” has a history on this blog, but this is a new direction. (Hat tip to Alon Lischinsky.) On moiré patterns, from Wikipedia: In mathematics,...
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The wishing ill
The Rhymes With Orange from the 23rd: Language play based on wishing well, understood either as a synthetic compound (with well understood as an N: ‘a well for wishing (for something)’, specifically ‘a...
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Men swear about menswear
Today’s One Big Happy: (#1) Ah, a potential orthographic ambiguity, turning on word division: MENSWEAR as MENS WEAR ‘men’s clothing’ (what the store intends) or MEN SWEAR ‘men curse’ (what Ruthie...
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On the road, a/some head
(Reference to a dangerous sexual practice, but mostly in the spirt of fun. Use your judgment.) Today’s alarming Bizarro:: (#1) (If you’re puzzled by the odd symbols in the cartoon — Dan Piraro says...
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The trophy boys park the beef bus in tuches town
(The title tells the story. Racy topic, unquestionably alluding to hard-core mansex, but indirectly and playfully. Use your judgment.) The Steam Room Stories video that came by me yesterday morning:...
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Irritable vowel syndrome
A Scott Hilburn cartoon on Pinterest this morning: (#1) A pun on irritable bowel syndrome. The vowel letters I, A, and O are angry, throwing the letter L out of their club because he’s not a vowel....
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Three more Reapings
The latest bulletin from Pinterest featured a Reaper Jokes board maintained by Kathy-Lynn Cross. More Grim Reaper cartoons, including one that especially caught my eye because of the two idioms in the...
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The Further Adventures of Dick Dangler, Phallic Eye
Bulletin from Max Vasilatos, who got this ad (for an eye cream) on Facebook a few days ago and did a double-take: Yes, just a finger with a bit of eye cream on its tip. But for a moment, it takes us...
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Mindlessness
Today’s Zippy (for a change, not alluding in any way to POTUS): Zippy and Griffy are headless in Hyannis, or somewhere. Headless and therefore mindless. They are briefly Zippyized in panel 3, where...
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A scent of man
On Dan Piraro’s Bizarro blog on the 9th, thoughts on cartoon memes, especially the Ascent of Man meme, with this wonderful new cartoon: The Caveman meme, with the paleo guy lounging provocatively in a...
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A pun with death, a dance on the beach
On Pinterest this morning, this Grim Reaper cartoon by Myke Ashley-Cooper (under the name Ashley Cooper): (#1) A pun on death/deaf or a mishearing, take your pick. This cartoon led me to...
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Calla, calla, calla, California
An Easter gift from Kim Darnell on Sunday: a handsome purple calla lily, looking dark bluish-purple in yellow interior light, but in fact bright pinkish-purple in sunlight. Purple is the liturgical...
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You can call me Al
Yesterday, a posting on a mini-phal /mIni fæl/, a miniature Phalaenopsis (orchid). Which moved me to investigate names of the form /mIni Cæl/, for various consonants C: existing names and ones you can...
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Friday word play in the comics
Two cartoons to end the week: a Rhymes With Orange with a four-word play and a Bizarro with a POP (phrasal overlap portmanteau): (#1) The Cantonese American dish moo goo gai pan ‘chicken with button...
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Appeal to base instinct
The Daily Jocks ad from the 25th, with an appeal to base, or low, instincts (of taking pleasure in viewing the male body); to the basic, or fundamental, instinct of sexual appetite; and ultimately to...
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Rabbit, rabbit, rabbit: three cartoons for the 1st
It’s May Day, an ancient spring festival — think maypoles and all that — so, the beginning of the cycle of the seasons. (Everybody knows the Vivaldi. Try listening instead to the Haydn, here.) And it’s...
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A musical decline
Today’s Rhymes With Orange, which presents the reader with a challenge in understanding. You need to know something about music, and a lot about urban life: (#1) That’s a grand piano on a cinder block,...
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Star Wars Day
Today, May the Fourth. Yes: May the Fourth be with you. Groan. The original, by Yoda intoned: (#1) From Wikipedia: The Force is a metaphysical and ubiquitous power in the Star Wars fictional universe....
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Names in the comics
The One Big Happy in today’s comics feed: (#1) Ouch: Creighton Barrel / Crate & Barrel. There’s quite a path in the history of Creighton as a first name. This will take us to probably the most...
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