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#15 from Don Piraro:

The first is a straightforward phrasal overlap portmanteau (see my posting on Boomchickadee, with an inventory of POP postings). The last plays on the very close phonetic relationship of lawn and law ‘n’ (representing law and) — amounting to phonetic identity for some people some of the time.

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