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John Klamik
About the gay erotic artist and cartoonist John Klamik, so there wil be references to men’s bodies and mansex, though the hardcore images are off in a posting on AZBlogX. But the topic will obviously...
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A diversion at the beginning of election week
This morning’s little entertainment from the Daily Jocks site: (#1) A bit of word play on mask and masc(uline), underwear models being chosen for their projection of high masculinity (as here)...
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The self-aware diner
Today’s Zippy strip (here) is about a diner called the Self-Aware Diner: (#1) This appears to be about the idea of a self-aware diner, rather than about any specific diner We get, from the 50s: James...
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Tiers of a clown
Today’s Wayno/Piraro Bizarro, with an outrageous pun (on tears and tiers): (#1) (If you’re puzzled by the odd symbols in the cartoon — Dan Piraro says there are 4 in this strip — see this Page.)...
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The fish art of Ray Troll
An accidental find in preparing yesterday’s posting on Ray Troll’s 2011 political cartoon “Octopi Wall Street”: a whole vein of Ray Troll fish art, most of it silly or raunchy, full of bad puns and...
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Who put the fuckin’ in Califuckinfornia?
(As you should gather from the title, this posting is entirely inappropriate for kids and the sexually modest. Tons of reference to sex between men.) There are two answers to the question in the title....
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Two parrots and a pear tree
On Pinterest recently, a board devoted to Bizarro cartoons, including a fair number relevant to this blog but not previously posted here — from which, the three below (all the work of Dan Piraro alone,...
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The bull validates Peter’s family
Three more Bizarro cartoons from the past, from another crop on Pinterest, with: an allusion you need to catch to understand the cartoon; a complex pun; and laugh-inducing names. From 6/9/09, the bull....
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The octocrat
Yesterday’s (2/8) Wayno/Piraro Bizarro, with a pun on autocrat: octocrat, itself a portmanteau of octopus and autocrat: (#1) (If you’re puzzled by the odd symbols in the cartoon — Dan Piraro says there...
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Slip and pipers
Today’s Bizarro offer some transposition (spooneristic) word play, involving the exchange of the initial syllables of the two accented words in the clichéd expression pipe and slippers — giving the...
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Hello, sailor
(This posting is about (real or fictive) sexual encounters between men, sometimes discussed in street language, so it’s not for kids or the sexually modest.) The Daily Jocks ad from 2/15, under the...
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Seeing the Invisible Man
Popped up on Pinterest, this Bizarro from 12/13/04: (#1) A pun that takes advantage of an ambiguity in see: ‘perceive with the eyes’ (something one does not do with the Invisible Man) vs.sense 4c from...
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The bristly brute
On Reddit on 2/22, posted by u/Tom7454: “On the anniversary of Arthur Schopenhauer’s birth, David Bather Woods, a Schopenhauer expert at the University of Warwick, recommends five books on...
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Pornstars do this so you don’t have to
(All about sex between men, discussed mostly in street language, so totally unsuitable for kids and the sexually modest.) It started with a mailing yesterday from the NakedSword gay porn folks,...
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The Zanzibar carnival
From the Economist‘s 2/20/21 issue, p. 39 “Tree trade: Coconut shy”, beginning: Zanzibar: Why palm trees are driving property moguls nuts The island of Zanzibar has more than 4m coconut trees, and each...
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Pig mistake
Headline in a brief box story (on Price controls in the Philippines) in The Economist of 3/6/21 (p. 35). An obvious piece of word play: the story is about a big mistake on pigs. In this brief story...
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The St. Patrick’s Day spriticide
The event: the leprechaun has been murdered, with a porcelain figure. How to describe the event as concisely as possible? Today’s Rhymes with Orange strip shows us a police detective who can do it in...
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Zippo, the comic strip
The 3/14 Zippy strip shows Claude and Griffy (and eventually Zippy too) caught up in what seems to be affixoid attraction (similar to word attraction), an irrational appreciation of or enthusiasm for a...
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Tramp stamps
and odalisques (with their erotic lumbar regions, aka lower backs) and rhyming disparagements (like tramp stamp and slag tag). It starts with the Zits comic strip of 3/26: (#1) The rhyming (and...
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dildo, the insult
A Twitter comment on yesterday’s posting on dildos, the sex toys — entitled “Mitch is always DTF” (Mitch is a dildo) — reminded me that the word dildo has developed a use as a slur or term of abuse,...
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