Today’s Zippy, touring the center of historic Dingburg:
A great compendium of Zippy preoccupations: Hostess cupcakes and Little Debbie snack cakes, bowling, Poindexter barbats, topknots, beatniks, and much more. Somehow frozen in a past between 1885 and 1945, so that it’s historical, fantastical, and absurd, all at once.
And then there’s the conversational language: beep, honk, and urp.
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(#1) Homer Simpson ejaculates
From the American tv show Psych, S2 E12 “The Old and the Restless” (2008):
Shawn Spencer: Can you check for a John Doe, please?
[Desk clerk nods, turns to her computer]
Shawn Spencer: Actually, can you check all the Does? Tae Kwon, Cookie, Play, Do-Si…
An extended play on the syllable /do/ in English.
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In yesterday’s national edition of the NYT, a Jason Bromwich story with the arresting head:
Oy or Yo? Sculpture With Something to Say Lands at Brooklyn Bridge
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The rude interjection is a staple of New York life. Now, the landscape of the city will itself heckle residents and tourists, with a brash new sculpture in Brooklyn Bridge Park that yells “YO” if you are looking at it from Manhattan or “OY” if you are gazing out from Brooklyn.
The sculpture, “OY/YO,” is the first of this size from the artist Deborah Kass, who describes herself as a “total, absolute, 100 percent provincial New Yorker.” It was commissioned by a Brooklyn developer, Two Trees Management Company, and was placed in the park on Monday.
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