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Start spreading the gnus
Today’s ouchrageous pun (passed on to me by Chris Hansen): (#1) By Dan Thompson (DT Page on this blog here) Wildebeests, gnus, whetever — they’re all ungulates. Takes some work to set things up for the...
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POP with Poe
Another POP (phrasal overlap portmanteau) from Hilary Price in today’s Rhymes With Orange: (#1) Edgar Allan Poe + po’ boy The Raven flies to New Orleans. On the sandwich, from Wikipedia: (#2) Shrimp...
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I sing the body elastic
(Men’s underwear, sexy song lyrics, nicknames, half-rhymes, and more. Some of it raunchy enough to have been banned in Malaysia, but then we’re not in Malaysia, are we?) (#1) His name is Mikey Bustos,...
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Electric charges
Earlier today, the posting “I sing the body elastic”, about Mikey Bustos’s parodic hymn to Speedos, the skimpy elastic men’s swim suits — with a title playing on “I Sing the Body Electric”, a poem from...
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The queer quilt
Saturday’s gift: a 12-panel queer quilt (roughly 6 x 3 ft), made mostly of old queer t-shirts of mine (some political, some playful, some artistic), assembled into a quilt by Janet Salsman, with the...
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The clean-gasm
Friday’s Zits: (#1) The playful libfix –gasm, extracted from orgasm and suggesting great satisfaction (akin to orgasm). Here attached to clean (either Adj or V, probably Adj), Not apparently taken up...
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Kangaroo Paste, the Australian hair gel
Viewed the morning of the 8th, S2 E9 (“Bounty Hunters!”, 2007) of the tv series Psych, with several references to a (fictional) Australian hair gel for men, Kangaroo Paste, which the central character...
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All the /do/s
(#1) Homer Simpson ejaculates From the American tv show Psych, S2 E12 “The Old and the Restless” (2008): Shawn Spencer: Can you check for a John Doe, please? [Desk clerk nods, turns to her computer]...
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Metalinguistic tasks
In a recent One Big Happy, Ruthie’s father tries to get her to play with tongue twisters, but she treats the texts as stories about events in a real world: Playing with tongue-twister texts is...
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More Zippy-O-Rama
Today’s Zippy takes us through three commercial establishments with (variants) of –orama names, while fretting ambivalently about American patriotism: (#1) Wein-O-Rama (Cranston RI), Billy’s...
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August 21st: two cartoons
… in the New Yorker. By Tom Toro (cartoon meme and self-referential as well) and Sara Lautman (pun!): (#1) (#2) Tom Toro now has a Page of his own on this blog., with links to other cartoons and...
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Make America grate again
Protests against pre-shredded cheese in today’s Bizarro: (#1) (If you’re puzzled by the odd symbols in the cartoon — Dan Piraro says there are 4 in this strip — see this Page.) A punning play on the...
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Revisiting 2: Despacito
Earlier on this blog: a 7/26 posting on the song “Despacito” and the Mikey Bustos parody of it; a 7/27 posting following up on that; and a 7/28 posting on covers of the song. Now from Norma...
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Turkey Perky Jerky
Yesterday morning, foraging in the Whole Foods around the corner for something to take as a food contribution for the annual Palo Alto all-day shapenote singing (we eventually settled on some truly...
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The cop and the gunner’s mate
Another underwear ad, with a somewhat raunchy (but indirect) caption, with references to mansex, so not to everyone’s taste. This will lead us to Swiss comedians on ice skates, the Backstreet Boys, and...
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The fan, the spathiphyllum, and the impressionist garden
Juan came by on Friday to replace the left fan in my laptop (it had reached airplane takeoff mode) and bring me small birthday presents: some mini-cheesecakes from Whole Foods (one berry, one...
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The many and the one
(Men and their underwear, plus suggestive mansexiness, so not for everybody.) Today’s Daily Jocks sale ad for Marco Marco (in this case, the company’s Light Tetra Brief), with a caption of mine wrapped...
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Three rocks
Yesterday’s Zippy: (#1) Great wisdom comes from the 3 Rocks. But not necessarily an understanding of what’s going on in the cartoon, which appears to be no more than playful surrealism, with a trio of...
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Bear chairs
Today’s Zippy lumbers through some plays on bear, in a bear chair: (#1) The bear figure as both comforting and threatening Bear chairs, gay bears, flags, and more. Lexical matters. A first hack at the...
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Two from 9/8
… in the September 8th issue of the New Yorker. Both presenting the usual challenges to understanding — there’s a lot you have to know to make sense of them — and both playing on language. (#1) by...
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