Today’s Zippy, with a parody of (part of) Lewis Carroll’s “The Walrus and the Carpenter”, from the (mostly political) dreaming mind of Claude Funston:
The parody reproduces the recurring /ɪŋz/ rhyme of the original, once as /ɪŋz/ (the things of the original), three times as /ɪŋ/.
The most recent entry in the sweepstakes was the Pizza Hut Hot Dog Bites, and now we have a new entry that that doesn’t come directly from a fast-food company, but is produced by amending a fast-food item: the deep-fried Big Mac, displayed in a UK BuzzFeed news story by Alan White on the 25th, “Is This Deep-Fried Big Mac Completely Disgusting Or Absolutely Wonderful? I’ll be honest, I really can’t say”:
Says White:
The recipe’s pretty simple: Just scramble some eggs and coat the burger with them, cover with breadcrumbs, and dip it in the deep fat fryer.
Maybe McDonald’s should start selling these at state fairs in the US, state fairs being the native land of Deep Fried Everything.
Passed on by Chris Hansen on Facebook, this story of 6/23 from thelocal.no (“Norway’s news in English”), “Is this the worst summer job ever?”:
A nineteen-year-old in Norway has been hired by a sexual health charity to play a giant penis who surprises passers-by by spraying them with golden confetti.
“I thought it was hilarious. If I can do a good thing for others, just by being a dick, there is nothing better,” Philip van Eck, the man inside the penis costume, told Norway’s Tønsberg Blad newspaper.
It’s all about STDs.
Today’s Rhymes With Orange:
A subtle pun on bait — understood literally, as in bait for fish, or understood figuratively, as an enticement (in this case to click on a link).
Tom Tomorrow’s This Modern World on the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision (yesterday) guaranteeing marriage as a right for same-sex couples throughout the United States:
Scalia insists that marriage has been unchanged for centuries, so that it must continue to be unchanged; two observers dispute the claim of changelessness. (Meanwhile, essentially all of the Republican candidates for President frame their opposition as being to “a redefinition of marriage“, as if this were a matter of words rather than things, and appeal to a definition that they see as given by God — He doesn’t recognize same-sex marriage — and not by lawyers or judges.)
Passed on to me by Paul Foster from a Facebook source:
Rather more adult males than you’d expect in a pride of lions — but then these are gay lions, so they bond with pleasure.
Tucked in among other coverage of Clementa Pinckney, the Charleston SC religious and political leader cut down absurdly young in the recent massacre there, is some information about the source of his first name (pronounced like Clemente): he was named after the baseball player Roberto Clemente, who was black and Puerto Rican, a fine man as well as a fine ballplayer, and something of a genuine hero. See my appreciation in a 5/11/06 Langage Log posting on “The hispanicization of American baseball …”
Pride weekend is upon us; Sunday is Stonewall Day. And from the Advocate magazine from last year (6/23/14), a rundown of “Essential Films of All Time for LGBT Viewers”. Actually, an overwhelming list, of “the top 175” such films! And that’s excluding anything from television.
Well, they’re ranked, with Brokeback Mountain at #1.
(There’s a posting on this blog from 2010 on gay and on this movie.)
(On the language of sex — but with a fair amount of sex, so this posting might not be to everyone’s taste.)
“Happy Ending” was the header on this e-mail from the Daily Jocks people yesterday, announcing the last hours of their big sale; the caption below is mine.
(#1)
He got him off, then he
Kissed him off.