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The Summer Hummer
(Male genitals — not displayed only because I fuzzed a penis out for WordPress modesty — and discussion of man-on-man sex acts in street language, so not suitable for kids or the sexually modest)...
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The Marquis de Sad
(Innocent posting until I get to Pasolini’s Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom, a section that is absolutely not for kids or the sexually modest. I’ll issue a warning when it’s coming up.) Today’s Wayno /...
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Brief shot: cock time
(Obviously unsuitable for kids or the sexually modest.) cock time, an atrocious pun on clock time, from the Tumblr gallery of penis4u: a very substantial, fully erect penis wearing a (sturdily...
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Crotch pong
(Intimate talk about male bodies, mostly mine, in plain terms, though not so racy as to ban kids — but I will freely use the vernacular noun and verb piss, nouns dick and balls. In any case, some...
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Penal Grigio, the big house brew
Today’s Wayno / Piraro Bizarro (Wayno’s title: Big House Brew — an alternative would have been Big House Hooch), with an outrageous pun on Pinot Grigio: (#1) A vintage cellmate (if you’re puzzled by...
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The sourdough self-starter
The Rhymes With Orange strip of 5/9/21, with a play on two senses of self-starting (and self-starter): (#1) The strip illustrates the noun self-starter, very roughly ‘an independent go-getter’, which...
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The grand jury’s cough drop
The political / medicinal pun RICO Law / Ricola: on Facebook on 8/15, Kyle Wohlmut passed along — “meanwhile in Switzerland” — the 8/14 Mike Scollins titling RICO LAW of an image from the classic...
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croiss-ants
In today’s Wayno / Piraro Bizarro: croissants as a characteristically French pastry; then pulling out the ANTS part of the spelling CROISSANTS (never mind how this word is actually pronounced, in...
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herd it / heard it
The pay-off to an elaborate set-up tale, giving a pun on a familiar expression (in this case a song title). From Vince the Sign Guy: Vince Rozmiarek of Indian Hills CO and (from his Facebook page) “his...
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A Biblical moment at the therapist’s
Today’s Wayno / Piraro Bizarro, a Psychiatrist cartoon with a Biblical theme: (#1) Wayno’s title:”Revised Translation” (if you’re puzzled by the odd symbols in the cartoon — Dan Piraro says there are 4...
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Original Rockers
“Original Rockers”: Wayno’s title for yesterday’s Wayno / Piraro Bizarro; the published title “AC/BC” is a pun on the name AC/DC (for the rock band), cavemen being from a great many years BCE (#1) Lead...
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(Brief but penis-dense, so not to everyone’s taste; there are, alas, no images) My morning name today — a natural for someone as phallically oriented as I am — was pillicock, according to the OED...
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Never-ending rock & roll
Today’s Wayno / Piraro Bizarro is a Sisyphus cartoon — the Greek mythological king (punished by having to endlessly roll a rock uphill) made into in a cartoon meme (many examples listed on the Page on...
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Playing guitar
(This is sick day 2 for me, and I’m barely functioning, but here’s proof that I’m Not Dead Yet.) On Facebook today, Probal Dasgupta, provoked by this Rich Tennant cartoon, asks about the various...
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A brief follow-up to yesterday’s posting “Bonus letter Z!”, about a 2007 (Steve) Martin & (Roz) Chast alphabet book, with couplets by Martin for each letter and complex full-page illustrations by...
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Promissory note: a cascade of fishy puns
(I am wretchedly sick again and in great pain, for complicated reasons I won’t explain here. Had nevertheless hoped to show that I could do a posting using only my damaged right hand. This is as much...
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Green grow the pickles, O
This remarkable photo left me dumbstruck yesterday when Monica Macaulay passed it along on Facebook, having gotten it from the Art Deco FB group on 10/10: The Pickle Sisters, a vaudeville group from...
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From the Harry Pottery Barn
In today’s Wayno / Piraro Bizarro cartoon, really wizard vases from the Harry Pottery Barn: A POP (phrasal overlap portmanteau) Harry Pottery = Harry Potter + Pottery: vases in the style of J. K....
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Two pun cartoons
Promised on 10/3 (yes, 19 days ago), in my posting “coming soon, two pun cartoons” (by Kaamran Hafeez and Tom Chitty), now realized: the puns hìp replácement (from KH, on the model híp replàcement) and...
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Doctor vs. vampire
A wonderful wordless cartoon by Liana Finck from the 10/30/23 issue of the New Yorker presents a challenge in cartoon understanding: what do you have to know and what do you have to recognize in the...
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