Two Calvin and Hobbes cartoons that came past me recently, showing Calvin’s dad spouting misinformation about birth and infant development:
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A form of parental kidding, almost always performed by a father rather than a mother, and most commonly directed at a boy — here a deliberate scheme of messing with the kid’s mind.
On Facebook, Jeff Bowles links to a Pearls Before Swine I don’t seem to have posted about:
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Another one of Stephan Pastis’s elaborate puns, set up through a wandering tale — and complete with a rebuke from Rat to the cartoonist.
Into a world that already has the Whopperrito, the Sushirrito, and the turkerito there now bursts the Protein Bar-rito (from the Protein Bar & Kitchen). Where will this end?
Photo on the hoof by Mike Pope, from the Protein Bar location at 151 N. Michigan Ave. in Chicago:
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By day it looks like this:
(#1) The washateria ( = laundromat) at 37th and Guadalupe in Austin TX
But UT linguistics professor Steve Wechsler reports that at night, thanks to a defect in the lighting, it looks like this:
A recent ad campaign for Blue Diamond almonds proclaims:
Don’t deny your cravings. Eat them.
(Well, actually, Eat ’em.)
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You can view one (somewhat overwrought) ad here.
Yes, it’s straightforwardly about food, but still, many will detect a double entendre in the exhortation to eat your cravings. Well, I went right for it, but then my thoughts incline that way.
About bodies and their presentations.
This remarkable image today in a Daily Jocks ad:
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A deliberate (and elaborate) mix of gender messages, but primarily framed as male — this is a men’s underwear site, after all, and the model has a notable Adam’s apple and really serious musculature (even though such muscles have been achieved by some female bodybuilders — but that’s genderbending too).
But the hair. And especially the clothes.
That would be the national day of the Netherlands, currently known as King’s Day and celebrated today (April 27th), but it’s a movable feast.
This posting is inspired by this photo of two American friends (now resident in Den Haag) celebrating King’s Day:
Husbands Matt and Justin Adams, breaking out in Dutch orange (with red, white, and blue highlights)
Paul Noth in the April 30th New Yorker:
(#1) “Et tu, Little Caesar?”
Two contributing factors that intersect in the name Caesar.
Just posted on AZBlogX, “On the piss patrol”, about the Urinal Piss Gag (I’m not making this up); piss drinking; and piss play in general.
