This fine New Yorker cartoon by Arnie Levin, sent to me by Sally Page Byers and Amanda Walker (along with an X-rated composition by Pierre et Gilles and an X-rated photograph by Wolfgang Tillmans; posting on Tillmans on AZBlogX, here):
(#1)
A play on the proverbial “An elephant never forgets”.
Posted in Ambiguity, Language play, Linguistics in the comics, Memory, Playful morphology, Proverbs, Social life | 1 Comment »
Today’s Zippy returns to the topic of facial expression and gesture in Dingburg:
Five stances (or gestures), each with an absurdly specific meaning (some of which suggest, in snowclonish way, proverbs or quotations). Plus an appearance of Lithuanians.
Posted in Chiasmus, Linguistics in the comics, Proverbs, Puns, Snowclones, Word aversion and attraction | Leave a Comment »
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