Archive for the ‘Clothing’ Category
April 28, 2017
Two cartoons to end the week: a Rhymes With Orange with a four-word play and a Bizarro with a POP (phrasal overlap portmanteau):
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The Cantonese American dish moo goo gai pan ‘chicken with button mushrooms and sliced vegetables’, with a pun on each word: onomatopoetic moo, onomatopoetic goo, the informal noun guy, the Greek god Pan.
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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.)
Doctors Without Borders + Border Collie(s).
(Note that there are a lot of things you need to know to appreciate these comics.)
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April 24, 2017
From Chris Hansen on Facebook, a late entry in this year’s Easter Peepstakes: a model who dreamt he played with yellow Peeps in his Aronik swimwear:
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About the company, its products, its models, its symbol, and its name
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Posted in Gender and sexuality, Language and food, Language and religion, Names, Parody, Phallicity, Poetry, Portmanteaus, Sarcasm and irony, Signs and symbols, Underwear | Leave a Comment »
April 18, 2017
On Pinterest this morning, this Grim Reaper cartoon by Myke Ashley-Cooper (under the name Ashley Cooper):
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A pun on death/deaf or a mishearing, take your pick.
This cartoon led me to Ashley-Cooper’s site, which announces:
This Humor Website is about
Funny Cartoons and Funny Pictures as well as
Crazy Jokes and Animations
(many of them based on puns and wordplays). And that led me to Ashley-Cooper’s take-off on a famous painting:
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April 17, 2017
Yesterday’s morning name was chub (the name of a fish), which led me to the rest of the bilabial-final family: chum, chump, and chup. (And that led to the velar-final family chug, Chung, chunk, chuck, but I won’t pursue that one here.) As it is, the bilabials will lead us into many surprising places, including the Hardy Boys books, eyewear retainers, Australian dog food, gay slurs, and hunky underwear models.
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Posted in Abbreviation, Address terms, Dialects, Gender and sexuality, Language and animals, Language and the body, Language of sex, Morning names, Slang, Syntax, Synthetic compounds, Underwear | 1 Comment »
April 10, 2017
Another set of photos of my family, this time a page of 6 shots of me as a little kid (age 4-7). Some notes on memory, clothing, and names for things.
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April 8, 2017
(Racy allusions, but nothing hardcore. Use your judgment.)
Yesterday’s Daily Jocks ad (with a caption of mine):
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Pink X marks the
Spot of furtive mansex in the
Shadow of the highway, a dirty
Substreet trickland, where
Simon worshipped daily until the
Boys bronzed him,
Wrapped his package in
Lime green and red,
Mounted him on the
Pink X as a symbol of their
Delicious depravity.
Not the first time an underwear model has been bronzed.
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March 31, 2017
… and his servant Guran, in a scene from early in the 1996 movie The Phantom:
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Secure in the Chronicle Chamber within his jungle stronghold, The Phantom (Billy Zane) and his servant Guran (Radmar Agana Jao) discover the secret of the Skulls of Touganda.
The Phantom of course works shirtless in his jungle library (amidst his collection of manuscripts and books) — I mean it’s in the steamy goddam jungle (and anyway we all need to appreciate his pecs). Outside of the jungle (where he’s the 21st Phantom), he’s Kit Walker, raised in the U.S., college-educated, and NYC-savvy. Then there’s his servant Guran, who’s obviously not a member of the African tribe the Phantom works with; instead, he looks Filipino and is dressed in Indian garb. The movie is packed with cultural mixtures, and this is just one of them.
I’ll write some about these, but first a bit about the fascinating life story of Radmar Agana Jao.
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March 30, 2017
I first noticed him in some episodes of the tv series Charmed, playing a personable (and hunky) ex-demon named Drake. And now he’s coming past me again, in the second season of Twin Peaks, once again charming, boyish, playful, and sexy (his perennial actorial persona). In between Twin Peaks (1991) and Charmed (2005) came, among other things, the movie version of The Phantom (1996), with Zane in the title role.
So this will be about actors, the comics, tv and movies, and some of Zane’s masculine attributes: that persona, a strong physical presence, a sensuous masculine face, and (of course) an attractive body. Not a lot about language here.
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March 28, 2017
(About actors, movies, and tv, with very little language stuff in it.)
Watching Twin Peaks (the original tv series) on Netflix, and delighted to see Michael Ontkean (cute, amiable, and hunky) in it again. I’m a great fan of smiles, so here’s the young Ontkean smiling:
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