Oh, groan. A divine pun in today’s Zippy:
Bill Griffith’s enigmatic God is a recurrent character in the strip. Today we learn about God’s BMW and how He cares for it.
Archive for February, 2018
God is in the detailing
February 18, 2018Fun with spelling
February 17, 2018Today’s Pearls Before Swine, passed on to me by Susan Fischer and Lise Menn, in which giggling letters put themselves in order:
Note: they could have spelled ENLIST, INLETS, TINSEL — or in fact SILENT.
Morning millionaire
February 17, 2018My morning name from a few days ago: John Beresford Tipton, the tv millionaire. (more…)
Tell them you haven’t seen him
February 17, 2018Today’s Bizarro (another Piraro/Wayno collaboration):
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(If you’re puzzled by the odd symbols in the cartoon — Dan Piraro says there are 2 in this strip — see this Page.)
To understand the strip, you need to recognize the customer at the bar and know that finding him is a difficult enterprise; and to fully enjoy the strip, you should probably also recognize the cultural trope of the drinker at a bar who has the bartender tell people looking for him — most characteristically, his wife — that he’s not there and they haven’t seen him. (Call it the Toper in Hiding trope. The toper in hiding is a stock figure in jokes, situation comedies, and cartoons.)
yoozed
February 15, 2018The One Big Happy from January 13th, with a widespread nonstandard pronoun:
Freestanding youse /yuz/ (= you /yu/ + pl /z/) and modifying youse in youse guys ‘you guys’. In any case, a 2pl form distinct from 2sg you. The form is complexly distributed according to geography, social class, and other factors — in a way that suggests it has been invented several times in different contexts.
And then there’s the pun on used /yuzd/.
This week’s musical food toy pun
February 15, 2018From cartoonist Dan Thompson, passed on by several people on Facebook:
(#1) /áriò/ the rock band vs. /óriò/ the cookie
Annals of signs and symbols: gender-neutrality
February 15, 2018From Barbara Partee on Facebook on the 13th, this sign at the UMass Five College Credit Union:
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The sign was new to Barbara, though it seems to have been around for several years. Barbara merely pronounced it “interesting”, but I found the trans symbol — half male and half female — disturbing.
Days of sensual pleasure
February 14, 2018(Prominently featuring men’s bodies and mansex, so not for kids or the sexually modest.)
Yesterday, Mardi Gras, a day of license and pleasure (in all things, but especially food). And then today is Valentines Day, a celebration of love: romantic love, but also carnal love. Both high holidays in the gay precincts of the world. A matched pair from Daily Jocks and a steamy 3-way from the Lucas porn studios:
(#1) [header:] Hey there handsome… ❤
(#2) Diego Lauzen (left) and Wagner Vittoria (right), lovers in porn and in real life, plus Beau Reed (very much the man in the middle, a Valentine boy for them to share)
Header and text for the ad:
❤ Be Mine, Bareback Valentine! ❤
Lucas Entertainment features the hottest bareback action, award-winning gay porn movies, and the sexiest guys on the web!
Up in every way
February 13, 2018“Nothing can stop me, I’m all the way up”, the song goes, and it manages to pack a whole bagful of uses of up into a few verses.
(#1) “All the Way Up”, with drugs, bitches and hoes, sex (“I’m that nigga on Viagra dick”), bling, success
And then Mountain Dew (the soft drink) extracted just a bit of the song for its own purposes.
Briefly: edible trochaic tetrameter
February 11, 2018Noted on a Pinterest food board, this dish from the South of Your Mouth website:
Ah, found poetry: a nice line of trochaic tetrameter (with short fourth foot):
Thrée Meat Cróck Pot Cówboy Béans