A Bizarro/Wayno (the POP), a Rhymes With Orange (the Caveman meme plus relations between the sexes), and a One Big Happy (the recursion):
Archive for the ‘Ambiguity’ Category
Mood swings
April 4, 2018A vulgar but entertaining cartoon passed around on Facebook without attribution. Then I found this version with a source:
(Unfortunately, the source was PMSLweb (‘piss myself laughing’) The Internet Scavengers from 10/4/16 — a aggregation site for tasteless jokes. So we don’t actually know anything about the source.)
Another Magrittean disavowal
April 2, 2018Passed around on Facebook:
The 1929 Magritte original, often riffed on, went Ceci n’est pas une pipe ‘This is not a pipe’, a disavowal that sets up a contradiction between text and image. So here we have another Magrittean disavowal, as I’ve come to call the phenomenon; there’s a survey in my 8/19/17 posting “Magrittean disavowals”.
But they come in two species, and it’s not entirely clear which one the example above belongs to.
Know Your Menu
April 1, 2018A bit of clever cartoon humor created by Michael Babich for the Google+ community UX/UI Design (and posted on Facebook):
A play on the icons used on computer platforms for various ways of displaying information, likening the shape of the icons to the shape of kinds of food (a hamburger, döner kebab on a vertical rotisserie, a bento box, a kebab on a stick, meatballs). And exploiting the ambiguity of the noun menu — in its older sense in a food context and in a metaphorical sense in computing.
fresh underwear
March 9, 2018
lubricity
March 8, 2018(Shirtless guy, sexual slang, lots of sexlube, suggestive naming, but nothing truly hard-core.)
Yesterday’s Daily Jocks ad, for Amity Jack products:
(#1) Model in jock strap applying BANG Oil from Amity Jack
Trade names Jack and BANG, both chosen to suggest uses for the company’s main products, sexlubes for gay men: to jack oneself or another guy off, to bang a guy.
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
Syntext: basic concepts
February 10, 2018Continuing my 1/23/18 posting “Syntax assignments from 20 years ago”, now with a section of these materials on some basic concepts in syntax.
No vacancy
January 1, 2018In today’s Zippy, our Pinhead seeks signs … in signs, specifically at the West Motel, on Historic Lincoln Highway, 4040 Columbia Avenue, Columbia PA:
(#1)
Lord, give me a sign! he cries. And as Zippy watches the West Motel sign, searching for something to believe in, there comes a sign: the NO of NO VACANCY blinks on; Zippy is no longer vacant.
Plays on the ambiguity of sign and on the ambiguity of vacant.
Another crop of homoXmas ads
December 22, 2017(The title tells the story. There will be some plain talk about men’s bodies and mansex, so not for kids or the sexually modest.)
For this year: a Daily Jocks Xmas ad with a somewhat disheveled St. Nick in Santa cap and red mini-brief (available for $20 off the regular price!); and a TitanMen Xmas sale offering pornstar David Anthony (amiably smiling well-muscled big-dicked daddy-top) wearing absolutely nothing at all (so he’s #1 in an accompanying AZBlogX posting “More Xmas porn”).
From last year: the TitanMen sale, offering “12 Gage of Xmas”, 12 days of Joe Gage porn scenes (a ponderously phallic poster, so also in the AZBlogX posting, #2); and a Twitter Xmas card from Dallas Steele (@DallasSteeleXXX) and his boyfriend Taylor Bishop (@boySteele), doing the Daddy-Boy thing in scraps of red and green (and gold and white) and big smiles.
