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Stuck in Folsom Prison
Scott Hilburn’s Argyle Sweater cartoon from the 20th: A parody set off by a pun. From Wikipedia on the original: “Folsom Prison Blues” is a song written in 1953 and first recorded in 1955 by American...
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Tied up in paisley
Yesterday, from Steven Levine on Facebook: (#1) Not too long ago the Steven Levine necktie museum received a significant donation from the Arnold Zwicky tie archives, which included a goodly percentage...
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One-hit grinders
The Zippy from September 30th, featuring Mary’s Coffee Shop, which also offers grinders: (#1) Plays on several senses of grind, plus the idiom one-hit wonder (with its phonological play on /wʌn/). The...
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The news for musical chameleons
Through a Facebook connection, this .NAF. cartoon: Yet another play on an antic song title. Earlier on this blog, on 9/29/11, “Comma chameleons”, on cartoons with five commas and a chameleon, playing...
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Traveling around with Zippy
(Fun with names and language play, but mostly Zippyesque popular culture in many manifestations.) In recent days, Zippy has gone to a psychic shop (offering “crystals, past lives, tarot cards”), to the...
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A portmantriple
Tucked inside Reid Forgrave’s story in last Sunday’s New York Times Magazine about the Boundary Waters area of northern Minnesota was an admirable brand name, an off-color portmantriple (boldfaced...
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Que Seurat, Seurat
(‘Whatever Seurat is, Seurat is’, that is, ‘Seurat is what he is’. That’s with English que /ke/, as in “Que Sera, Sera”.) A photo by Elizabeth Zwicky on Facebook on the 14th: (#1) Boston harbor; the...
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Revisiting 9: ¡-ola!
A comment on the vulgar noun crapola in yesterday’s posting “A portmantriple”, from David Preston: [cited by AZ] “-ola, a suffix used humorously to extend standard words.” Wasn’t the original ‘ola’ the...
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Three more pumpkin-spicy bits
On the 23rd, “The pumpkin spice cartoon meme”, with a variety of developments of pumpkin spice ‘spice for pumpkin (pie)’ to concrete uses for the flavor of such spice and the scent of such spice and...
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Three kinds of cartoons
In an old New Yorker (from 7/6/15), two cartoons that especially struck me: a Mick Stevens meta-cartoon, and a Liana Finck with a playful word transposition. The second led me to a Finck from this...
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Puns and portmanteaus, polar bears and hippos
Or: zoology, geometry, geography, and medicine. In three visual + verbal jokes that have been floating around the internet. Starting, A, with a punning coordinate bears composition — playing...
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The flying fickle finger of foam
The 6/1 Wayno/Piraro Bizarro collabo, a medical cartoon: (#1) (If you’re puzzled by the odd symbols in the cartoon — Dan Piraro says there are 5 in this strip — see this Page.) The crucial thing here...
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South Cackalacky
Today’s morning name: South Cackalacky, mildly derogatory slang for South Carolina (suggesting crudeness, rusticity, and remoteness: the boondocks). And Cackalacky, for the Carolinas taken together,...
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Pavlov’s novelist
Today’s Wayno/Piraro Bizarro collabo, with a groaner pun on the name F. Scott Fitzgerald (the American writer) plus an instance of the Pavlov cartoon meme: (#1) (If you’re puzzled by the odd symbols in...
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Annals of ambiguity: I feel like making it rough for Schrödinger
Playing with ambiguity: — a One Big Happy cartoon with: I feel like a tuna fish sandwich — a domestic exchange about: I will make a dessert of my youth — a Pearls Before Swine cartoon with: Tell me...
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His banana Ana and his avocados Arnold
(Rudely suggestive song taking off on the names of toys for infants, so sure to be offensive to some.) Sighted by Ann Burlingham at a toy store in the Pittsburgh suburb of Oakmont (and posted on...
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At the Paleo Cafe
Today’s Wayno/Piraro Bizarro strip (Wayno’s title: “Farm to Slab”): (#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 combination...
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Donut alliteration
Today’s Zippy takes us to a perished donut shop (in Niceville FL), which gives him play for his well-known fascination with the sheer sounds of words: (#1) In panel 1, it’s alliteration with /d/:...
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Thighland
(Racy talk and joking about men’s bodies, so probably not to everyone’s taste.) The background story is an error committed by the Imperator Grabpussy in reading from his text recently, with /θaj/ for...
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The Connecticut mystery structure
A Zippy sequence that began back on 8/3 in this strip (reported on in a section of my 8/3 posting “The art of everyday objects”): (#1) The premise is that this little house just appeared one day in...
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