Three varied cartoons fot the day: Rhymes With Orange, Pearls Before Swine, Dilbert.
Rhymes: a play on the idiom hear it through the grapevine.
Pearls: the conceit is that there’s someone (Willy) who decides which words can be used.
Dilbert: taking literally the idiom my gut tells me … , as if the gut can speak.
March 31, 2014 at 5:28 am |
More discussion of the Pearls by Mark Liberman on Language Log, here.