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Name that taqueria
From the annals of remarkable commercial names, a delicious punmanteau name for a Phoenix AZ taco truck, which just flashed by, without remark, in the first sentence of the piece “Motor Mouth” by Aaron...
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A custom-made eggcup
Today’s holiday news: today is (at least) three holidays, one deadly serious, two entertaining. I will discourse later about Four Dead in Ohio Day (remembering the 1970 Kent State shootings), Star Wars...
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Free-range folklore
… Wayno’s title for yesterday’s Wayno / Piraro Bizarro, with its excellent POP (phrasal overlap portmanteau) laissez-fairy godmother: (#1) laissez-faire + fairy godmother yields a hands-off mentor and...
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One of Hilburn’s puns of steel
In Pinterest this morning, Scott Hilburn’s Argyle Sweater comic strip of 9/25/20: (#1) This from the creator of the Puns of Steel collections #1 is a still from a sad tale of chickpeas smashed to death...
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Blutonic dialogue
In today’s Wayno / Piraro Bizarro, a Blutonic dialogue: an encounter in which a young woman discusses a platonic relationship with an apparently tamed (and clearly dismayed) incarnation of the...
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A Friday punmanteau
In today’s Wayno / Piraro Bizarro, the punning portmanteau pontiff no return: pontiff ‘the Pope’ + point of no return ‘point at which turning back is no longer possible’ = pontiff no return ‘the Pope...
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Shrink me, doctor!
Today’s Sunday Bizarro by Dan Piraro, yet another Bizarro Psychiatrist cartoon, this time with a guy in need of a shrink ‘act of shrinking’, appealing to a shrink ‘headshrinker, psychotherapist’ (so...
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More Kix on Route 66
Passed along by two friends on Facebook recently, this Manchild Manor cartoon, deploying Kix breakfast cereal in a pun on the title (of the theme song for a tv show) “Get Your Kicks on Route 66”: (#1)...
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The marine biologist on duty
Today’s Wayno / Piraro Bizarro is a little treasure chest of interesting morphosemantics, all from a pun on marine biologist, whose everyday use is to refer to a scientist specializing in marine...
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Q: What’s woolly, engorged, and good at scaffolding?
for the antepenultimate day of May … A: The Mammoth Erection company, providing scaffolding design and erection services, based in the northern Toronto suburb of Aurora ON. A genuine company that’s...
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In the can
Today’s Wayno / Piraro Bizarro takes us to the world of talking tennis balls, where one of them commits a bathroom pun on the noun can ‘cylindrical metal container’: (#1) Cylindrical metal containers...
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Queens Pride
To mark the eve of Pride Month, this digital composition passed on by Steven Levine on Facebook today: Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom, in the 7 ROY G. BIV, or Newtonian rainbow, colors,...
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The beetles’ Montanan wood
From Sally [Sarah G.] Thomason on Facebook yesterday, a beetle tunnel report from Montana: (#1) ST: I’ve seen [bark] beetle galleries on logs before, but this log, which lies across a trail we [AZ:...
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Vitruvianus stands in Belgrave Square
The title is a play on the song title “A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square” (that’s Berkeley pronounced like Barclay, not like Burkley), and after an introduction to my colleague Asya Pereltsvaig...
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Punday morning
To begin the new week, a bilingual rock-music groaner in today’s Wayno / Piraro Bizarro: To understand this cartoon, you have to know the Spanish gratitude formula muchas gracias ‘many thanks’, and you...
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The bate shop
(Utterly unsuitable for kids or the sexually modest) My title: yes, a groaner pun bate (a clipping of masturbate) on bait ‘food used to entice fish as prey’; I am shameless. Clearing things from my...
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Benedico questa frociata
(Tasteless and obscene, in two languages, so not to everyone’s taste) (#1) A rainbow raised fist, representing proud defiance; image from Redbubble, by designer MAS-S (in Berlin, Germany) And now the...
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The mantra ray
Today’s Wayno / Piraro Bizarro brings us a gigantic terrifying fish that flies underwater and, in their telling, repeats a meditative formula while doing so: (#1) With mantra ‘a word or sound [in this...
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Perfecto Fancy-Boy
Perfecto Fancy-Boy, the Dingburg psychoanalyst, analyzes the appeal of Helmet Grabpussy in today’s Zippy the Pinhead strip: (#1) Grabpussy’s real name is suppressed above, as too indecent to mention,...
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The Putin-on-Ritz pun
Passed on by Susan Fischer yesterday, this item from the We Love PUNS site: (#1) Three things you need to know about or recognize to understand the pun joke here: Vladimir Putin (depicted here without...
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