A John Atkinson Wrong Hands cartoon:
An assortment of expressions (almost all Adj + N) that might at first glance seem to be internally contradictory — that is, oxymorons — but which are nevertheless sensical.
It would be a useful exercise to go through these examples and show how they gain their meaning.
(Note: there is now a Page on this blog on John Atkinson cartoons.)
On the Philosophy Matters Facebook page, this take on Magritte’s The Treachery of Images (which comes up on this blog every month or so):
(Men’s underwear, bodies, and fetishes, so not to everyone’s tastes.)
The Daily Jocks ad from the 19th displayed this vision from Cellblock 13 / CellBlock 13 / Cell Block 13 (plus my caption):
(#1) Commando jockstrap and neoprene harness, in camo/red
Over years, bit by bit, Butch
Stripped his clothing down to the
Bare minimum.
Today’s Zippy brings on scary clowns in Laff in the Dark tunnels:
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— and, worse, threatens to unleash Tom Cruise (and his Outsider Art).
On Facebook, from several sources, these vintage ads for Ovaltine, notable (these days) for their use of the adjective gay ‘light-hearted, carefree’:
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Two things here: the lexical items gay; and the beverage Ovaltine. Along the way we’ll pick up some Los Angeles lesbian rap.
(Men’s bodies, underwear, snarky captions, and some slang.)
A recent offer from Daily Jocks, SUP BRO t-shirts from the Australian company Supawear:
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That’s my shirt bro
It comes from A U
I’m Buster Brown
Look for me down there too
Another POP (phrasal overlap portmanteau) from Hilary Price in today’s Rhymes With Orange:
(#1) Edgar Allan Poe + po’ boy
The Raven flies to New Orleans.
Today’s ouchrageous pun (passed on to me by Chris Hansen):
(#1) By Dan Thompson (DT Page on this blog here)
Wildebeests, gnus, whetever — they’re all ungulates.
A classic Gary Larson cartoon, which came up on Pinterest this morning:
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Pun time at the protist corral, playing on Anglicized Spanish adios, amigos ‘goodbye, friends’ (perhaps better in AmE: ‘so long, buddies’).
(Another underwear ad, with my caption. Steamy topic, but not, I think, over the line.)
(#1) The company darling
Eddie found the company’s
Dress code peculiar, but he
Loved wearing the silky blue
Hooded lounge robe and
Scanty briefs at his desk.
