Also no blue jays, but the three-NP version has the best music.
This is mostly about pests and my life, but there’s language and music in there too. Also a pro wrestler performing angry rejection:
(#1) Daniel Bryan of WWE’s SmackDown show
I’ll start with my pests (in more or less chronological order) and go on to uses of negation.
Posted in Formulaic language, Language and animals, Movies and tv, Music, My life, Negation | 4 Comments »
In the tradition of the quesarito (quesadilla + burrito) comes the quesadoga (quesadilla + (hot)dog), which I learned about on Pinterest yesterday:
(#1) A quesadilla hotdog: quesadilla wrapped around hotdog.
Posted in Language and food, Portmanteaus | Leave a Comment »
(Men flaunting their junk, codpieces, prehistoric creatures, superheroes, language play, and more. Use your judgment.)
On the 21st, a posting on Cellblock / CellBlock / Cell Block 13 garments, featuring a young man in a commando harness (plus a jockstrap). Then in yesterday’s mail, a Daily Jocks ad with another remarkable CellBlock 13 costume (plus my caption):
(#1) X-Wing Harness and X-treme Hybrid Short, in red
Vic the Prick, cynosurus,
Caught every eye at the
Reptile Ball.
Posted in Captions, Clothing, Etymology, Gender and sexuality, Language and animals, Movies and tv, Phallicity, Portmanteaus, Underwear | 1 Comment »
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.)
Posted in Compositional semantics, Linguistics in the comics, Oxymoron, Semantics | 1 Comment »
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):
Posted in Philosophy, Reference, Semantics | Leave a Comment »
(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.
Posted in Captions, Clothing, Gender and sexuality, Language in advertising, Underwear | 1 Comment »
Today’s Zippy brings on scary clowns in Laff in the Dark tunnels:
(#1)
— and, worse, threatens to unleash Tom Cruise (and his Outsider Art).
Posted in Actors, Linguistics in the comics, Movies and tv, Names, Pop culture, Technical and ordinary language | Leave a Comment »
On Facebook, from several sources, these vintage ads for Ovaltine, notable (these days) for their use of the adjective gay ‘light-hearted, carefree’:
(#1)
(#2)
Two things here: the lexical items gay; and the beverage Ovaltine. Along the way we’ll pick up some Los Angeles lesbian rap.
Posted in Language and food, Language in advertising, Lexical semantics, Movies and tv, Music | 4 Comments »
(Men’s bodies, underwear, snarky captions, and some slang.)
A recent offer from Daily Jocks, SUP BRO t-shirts from the Australian company Supawear:
(#1)
That’s my shirt bro
It comes from A U
I’m Buster Brown
Look for me down there too
Posted in Address terms, Clothing, Gender and sexuality, Idioms, Language and the body, Slang, Style and register, Underwear | Leave a Comment »
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.
Posted in Books, Language and food, Language play, Linguistics in the comics, Parody, Phrasal overlap portmanteaus, Puns | 1 Comment »
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