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Sunday punmanteaus
Today’s Bizarro, a Sunday Punnies in which all the puns are incorporated in portmanteaus: (#1) Three punmanteaus (if you’re puzzled by the odd symbols in the cartoon — Dan Piraro says there are 8 in...
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Morning names: kelp and skulk
Immediately, I thought: Kelp and Skulk, Attorneys at Law, famously slimy and devious. But what came into my head on awakening was just the noun kelp, for the algae; and the verb skulk, roughly ‘lurk’....
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Snowball rock
Today’s Wayno / Piraro Bizarro, celebrating the seasonal rock band Icy/D.C. (Wayno’s title: “Seasonally Appropriate Music”), also today’s somewhat desperate affirmation that I am indeed, like Mary,...
View ArticleThree days to crown dark January
A sequence of birthdays: 1/25 Robbie Burns (the Scottish poet and lyricist), 1759 1/26 Edward Sapir (the American linguist, born in German Pomerania, in what is now northern Poland), 1884 1/27 BOTH...
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You’ve been seeing other fish
trois lapins to inaugurate the little month of February (which stretches this year to 29 days), beginning unfortunately in these parts in cold rains that will last for a week, and (this morning) in...
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Let’s dance
From the annals of visual allusion (bordering on parody or burlesque), this David Sipress cartoon in the 2/12&19/24 New Yorker: (#1) A stripped-down, cartoonized, goofy reinterpretation of a key...
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UNVOICING
From Chris Waigl on Facebook yesterday, coping with the day’s Spelling Bee game on the web, in which she was told that her candidate UNVOICING was not a word — well, not a word acceptable in the game....
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The final 5 Hot Days of Christmas
(Very heavy on gay content, with a number of raunchy allusions, so not to everyone’s taste.) I’m well aware that Christmas was over two months ago, but this is a complex posting and my life’s been...
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The headline writer’s dream story
Yesterday’s news from East Sussex (the old original Sussex, in southern England), a Sussex News story (by Jo Wadsworth) that kicks off with this juicy summary sentence: A handyman who masturbated over...
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Yet another band name pun
Today’s Wayno / Piraro Bizarro cartoon, with yet another pun on the name of a rock band; this time it’s Rage Against the Machine that’s being punned on: (#1) Wayno’s title: “Tomato Based Ideology”,...
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Easter punday
It’s Holy Thursday, and today’s Wayno / Piraro Bizarro: cartoon jumps the Easter gun, / with an outrageous rabbit pun: Wayno’s title: “Side Effects May Include Hallucinations” (if you’re puzzled by the...
View ArticleWriters’ night at the Hotel De Luxe
Last night: a long — stretching over three hours of sleep, with a whizz break in the middle — and vivid story dream in which Ellen Kaisse (an old friend and a frequent character on this blog) and I...
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Hold the mayo
Today’s Rhymes With Orange, a Psychiatrist cartoon in which a ketchup squeeze-bottle treats a mayonnaise jar: with a surprising pun on the verb hold, a pun that’s possible only because of the nature of...
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Love what Scrivan did with the rabbit pun!
three rabbits to inaugurate the new month, three jokers for April Fool’s Day, and three jaunes d’Avril. yellow flowers of April, all this as we turn on a dime from yesterday’s folk-custom bunnies of...
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The same great classic rock
for Solar Eclipse Day, Sisyphus and drive-time DJs intersect in a Venn diagram, where they generate a wonderful even-handed pun: (#1) The hinge is the ambiguous NP great classic rock; what Sisyphus...
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Two cartoons on (unstated) formulaic themes
Aka: Piccolo’s bull and Rubin’s cow: cattle days in CartoonLand. A little post-eclipse diversion: cartoons that make allusion to, or illustrate a pun on, some formulaic expression, but without actually...
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Out of nowhere, a rhino appeared and charged
Alternatively, someone appeared and charged the battery. Same image, text interpreted differently. It’s a little study in collocations — material that frequently cooccurs (while falling short of being...
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Big Mama Annie and her little boy
Following up on yesterday’s pun cartoon by Scott Hilburn (in the posting “Out of nowhere, a rhino appeared and charged”), I looked at his (huge) portfolio of pun cartoons for others I hadn’t already...
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It’s that actor again
If you watch television series — especially the dramatic series, like police procedurals and mysteries (which consume large numbers of cast members on a weekly basis) — you’ll see familiar actors again...
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Something in the way the pun unfolds
The Pearls Before Swine strip of 4/21 has cartoonist Stephan Pastis committing a formula pun joke, a genre of humor at which he’s a master: (#1) Pig assembles, for Goat as his straight man, the parts...
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