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Cu, Co, Ni, & Zn!
Yesterday’s Wayno / Piraro Bizarro strip, set at a rock concert and turning on a straightforward pun heavy metals on the model heavy metal (band): (#1) Cu on drums, Co on (electric) guitar, Ni on...
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Datoro!
Two Datoro cartoons from the July 22nd New Yorker (the one with Anita Kunz’s “The Face of Justice” — six 45s and three women — on the cover): Joe Dator offering goldfish snacks in a cat bar, Tom Toro...
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Monday morning delight
For Pied-Piping Day — see my 7/23/13 posting “Pied-Piping Day”, on 7/22 as Ratcatcher’s Day (cue the Pied Piper of Hamelin), with a discussion of pied-piping in syntax — the wonderful French-English...
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The Cumberbatch-birthday risonymic riff
Posted on Facebook on 7/19 by James Fell: a riff of 12 risonyms on the name Benedict Cumberbatch (on the occasion of his 48th birthday) — 12 risible names scattered over a factual, plainly told,...
View ArticleAnnals of diminutive /li/
Just two days ago, it was (piecrust) crumblies. Now, Benita Bendon Campbell has sent me e-mail connecting crumblies to (garment) greeblies — which, as it turns out, I posted about on this blog way back...
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Puns, clever and raunchy
Sunday (7/28) is once again Punday, with a clever pun from the PunHub site and a couple of raunchy puns in a gay porn ad on the Gay DVD Empire site. (Warning: the raunchy section is unsuitable for kids...
View ArticleFrom the annals of setup / payoff formula puns
A particularly elaborate example, which came to me yesterday on the Americana Music Society site on Facebook — on this site because it’s all about Johnny Cash. The story begins: Few people know that...
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Watt, Ware, Wynn, and Y.A.
rabbit rabbit rabbit to inaugurate August (inaugurust?) — and for Swiss National Day (yes, I am wearing my Swiss-flag gym shorts): happy 733rd birthday, Helvetia! — Uri! Schwyz! Unterwalden! — plus...
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The Banana Bread Song
Day-old bread, an’ we wan’ go home, as this Dale Coverly Speed Bump cartoon of 3/1/24 has it: day-old as a pun on day-o, which then licenses the full-out substitution of day-old bread for daylight come...
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Bijlert, Leonardo, parody magnets, and the Priapic-Apollonian opposition
The July 26th opening ceremonies for the Paris Olympic games included a tableau — of drag queens posed as presiding over a banquet — that vaguely resembled Leonardo da Vinci’s Last Supper painting:...
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Flavor of the Week
The New Yorker cover for the August 12th, 2024 issue is a great big Roz Chast cartoon. With the accompanying cover story, “Roz Chast’s “Flavor of the Week”: The artist’s enticing (and not so enticing)...
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Toto, Tonto, let’s call the whole thing off
Today’s Dan Piraro Bizarro, in three panels: an odd title panel that seems to be mostly about phallicity in the mythic Old West, and two Toto / Tonto confusion panels: the Lone Ranger and Toto (with a...
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(Yes, el sexo. There will be somewhat raunchy penis-talk, in two languages, which won’t be to everyone’s taste, so you’ve been warned. But the centerpiece is the sort of dirty joke that cracks...
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Giving two figs, for science
A delightful science-nerd cartoon manifested in several versions being passed around on the net. In my favorite, we’re given a science-illustrator’s b&w drawing of two (edible) figs in...
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Said the hip flask to the lab flask
Today’s Wayno /Piraro Bizarro: A flasky put-down pun, from the hip flask to the lab flask (if you’re puzzled by the odd symbols in the cartoon — Dan Piraro says there are 4 in this strip — see this...
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The cob-canine corn dog
Steven Levine on Facebook on 8/23, reporting in from an enormously crowded Minnesota State Fair, posted this cartoon t-shirt from the fair, with a note of distress: (#1) SL: I find this t-shirt design...
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Labor Gay 2024
(There will be nekkid guys and man-on-man sex, treated in street language, so this posting is not suitable for kids or the sexually modest) Today is penultimate August (the first Emperor of Rome is...
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Robotic dim sum
tiger tiger tiger for ultimate August, the Roman Emperor’s last day in office, and (by some reckonings) summer’s end, as the tigers are about to be pushed off the scene by autumnally school-going...
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The cartoon glory that was Rome
In this morning’s comics feed, two linguistic jokes from the Roman Empire (in a Rhymes With Orange and a Bizarro); maybe it’s just something in the air, but on the other hand, September 4th, 476, marks...
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Summa Cum Load
(Consider the title; the posting is thoroughly unsuitable for kids and the sexually modest) Yes, a heavy-handed, cheerily vulgar pun on summa cum laude (for an undergraduate degree with highest...
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