Four cartoons today: a Dilbert, a Bizarro, a Mother Goose and Grimm, and a Scenes from the Multiverse:
The Dilbert, on word choice:
(#1)
Two things: what’s sometimes called thesaurizing, choosing “high-level” vocabulary; and understanding analogies.
The Bizarro:
(#2)
The dangers of texting while walking. (Yes, the cartoon is packed with Piraro icons.)
The MGG, playing on the ambiguity of lie:
(#3)
And the Multiverse, ostensibly about Oreos, meanwhile introducing amazing phrases like dog felching and intrauterine sibling cannibalism:
(#3)
March 31, 2014 at 4:30 pm |
Intrauterine cannibalism has been reported from a variety of animals, eg some sharks and fish (see Wikipedia under ‘Cannibalism (zoology)’). Since only siblings can be eaten in the uterus, the word ‘sibling’ is probably redundant.