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The punmanteau
Today’s Wayno / Piraro Bizarro hinges on a bit of language play that cuts across two categories of play: it’s a pun based on a portmanteau, a punmanteau: (#1) A cummerbund in the shape of a Bundt cake...
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The visiopun
… visiopun being my coinage referring to a punning word presented visually — not actually said or printed, but alluded to by some striking image, usually with some lead-on hinting at the pun. An...
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Two stock similes
Briefly noted, this Leigh Rubin cartoon passed on to me by Susan Fischer on Facebook today: To understand this, you need to recognize a bull and a young goat Two stock expressions, both of them...
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Cum All Ye Faithful
(About a gay porn flick, with naked hunky models displaying their bodies, but no actual genitals on display or descriptions of man-on-man sex, just some vulgar slang and reference to ejaculation....
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James and the knock-knock joke
A One Big Happy strip, recently in my comics feed: (#1) James (mis-)takes Ruthie’s meta-commentary — her talk about what’s going on in her interaction with James — to be part of that interaction, to be...
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ToF’s December 2023 Santa Claus
(Hey, it’s Tom of Finland, what do you expect? — it’s dripping with raunchy suggestiveness; not to everyone’s taste) rabbit rabbit rabbit to inaugurate December, and time for some seasonal sexy...
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The elf season
It’s December, and as the Christmas elves appear, there comes a startling elfshelfism joke (in abbreviated form), on Facebook today. I got it from Ryan Tamares, who got it from Britannic Xen Osiris...
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Sense-shifting pun jokes
A common joke form exploits an ambiguous expression E. Prior likelihood or the preceding context in the joke favors one understanding for E, but then fresh context (in the joke) brings out another,...
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Naked men in Santa caps
(Rampant nakedness, juicy description of man-on-man sex, definitely not for kids or the sexually modest) A piece of sheer raunchy frivolity. Two naked lads, a hunky bottom and a twink top, both wearing...
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Rehab return day
It’s a foggy day in Palo Alto town, on the anniversary of my return home from a Palo Alto rehab center on 12/5/20, after having given up drinking several weeks before, a decision that impelled me into...
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A visual sense-shifting pun joke
By Benjamin Schwartz in the 12/11/23 print issue of the New Yorker: On first looking at the cartoon, we go to the faces, because faces are so socially important to human beings. There are two: a woman,...
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Analogical extension as a joke form
Now for a joke type that isn’t pun-based. Instead, like snowclones, these jokes are based on formulaic expressions, and involve replacing items in the formulas by (semantically) analogous items; they...
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Country names and food
Country names, take me home To the place at the table where I belong (with apologies to John Denver and his collaborators) This posting is, first of all, about bare-bones pun jokes, typically a...
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I’ll take Manhattan
An Ellis Rosen pun cartoon (which came by me on Facebook this morning) in which ER manages to treat Manhattan, the name of the island that’s one of the boroughs of New York City, as a pun on Manhattan,...
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Packing Extreme Meat
(A lot of this posting is about the title of a Lucas gay porn movie, slated for full release in March 2024, but with its scenes being released one by one before then — the first, baldly titled “Dom...
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Randy elves, coming in Latin, and a Korean feast
(The randy elves of 12/22/23 are engaged in 3-way man-on-man sex, described here by its makers in street language, so this part of the program is unsuitable for kids and the sexually modest (IF THAT’S...
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The power of a tiny prick
(Vast amounts of penis-talk, and frank discussion of sexual acts, so not for kids or the sexually modest.) Appearing in the last few days, a spot tv commercial for Roman — or Ro, or ro — generic ED...
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The Hot Days of Christmas, days 2 – 4
I have this digital-artist friend (on the other side of the country) who proposed to give me a Christmas gift: daily cards (delivered by the USPS) for the AI Hot Hunk Days of Christmas (with Hot...
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Today’s food punmanteau
(Today has been difficult, so this is the best I can do in the way of posting — opening up a topic for further postings, soon to come.) It starts with this memic shoeshi image I encountered today on...
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Three shoeshis
Yesterday, in my posting “Today’s food punmanteau”, about this composition: (#1) The memic shoeshi is a work of art, made (mostly) from food; it is neither edible nor wearable — though it could be...
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