… in today’s Zippy:
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This visit framed in the Walk Into Bar joke format.
Archive for the ‘Jokes’ Category
Return to the Amherst Diner in Winchester VA
June 23, 2018Psychiatrist Meme Day
May 14, 2018… at King Features Syndicate, or so it seems. In my feed today, three cartoons (of my five regulars from King) with a psychoanalyst and his couch: a Bizarro/Wayno with an empty couch; a Zippy with Zippy on the couch; and a Mother Goose and Grimm with the dog Grimm on the couch.
Haiku Robot
March 25, 2018An Instagram site that searches for posted material that can be treated as a haiku (a 3-line poetic form with 5, 7, and 5 syllables in the lines). Recently, the robot took on sex between men (not at all graphically).
An example of a found haiku, based on a posting that went:
I suppose ant-man’s boss could be considered a micromanager
— to which the robot responded with the 5-7-5 version:
i suppose ant-man’s
boss could be considered a
micromanager
Two memic cartoons
March 4, 2018For today: a Zippy playing on the Walk Into Bar joke format and a Bizarro that combines three cartoon memes: the Psychiatrist, Multiple Personality, and Batman:
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(#2) For National Multiple Personality Day, March 5th
(If you’re puzzled by the odd symbols in the cartoon — Dan Piraro says there are 4 in this strip — see this Page.)
Husbands and wives
September 22, 2017Three veins of spousal humor, starting in the early 19th century and ending in an edgily close-to-life comic stereotype realized in cartoons, tv shows, and movies.
Revisiting 7: NL:W
September 17, 2017Yesterday, a posting on the story of a joke (Not Lady: Wife, NL:W for short) whose canonical form is
A: Who was that lady I saw you with last night?
B: That was no lady; that was my wife.
The vector for the spread of the joke seems to have been the vaudeville team Weber & Fields, who allegedly used it in their stage routines over a century ago. But I found no first-hand reports, so I appealed to the hounds of ADS-L for attestations. This netted a clear occurrence from 1859, but embedded in a long and complex back story (though again with the stage German accent of W&F). And an earlier British antecedent.
Then Larry Horn chimed in with some astute observations on the semantics and pragmatics of NL:W.
All will be reproduced here.
The NL:W punchline
September 16, 2017The lead-in tag to my recent posting on marmots:
That’s no beaver, that’s my marmot!
A take-off on a punchline to a vaudeville joke from long ago, a line that’s been played with many thousands of times in the last century. The No Lady: Wife (NL:W) formula, in two common instantiations in a two-man exchange:
1 A: Who was that lady I saw you with last night?
B: She was no lady. She was my wife.2 A: Who was that lady I saw you with last night?
B: That was no lady; that was my wife.
Reduced coordination, joke forms, and sociocultural categories
August 13, 2017Two days ago, I set a competition for readers:
Compose a follow-up to the following lead-in to a joke:
Tom, Taylor, and Jonathan Swift walk into a bar…
Three matters, having to do with reduced coordination, joke forms, and sociocultural categories.
Construct-a-joke
August 11, 2017It’s been another distressing news week. Folded in there was a story about Taylor Swift on the witness stand. So a diversion, an amusing competition:
Compose a follow-up to the following lead-in to a joke:
Tom, Taylor, and Jonathan Swift walk into a bar…
Post entries as comments on this posting on my blog (http://arnoldzwicky.org).
Amoeba humor
July 17, 2017A classic Gary Larson cartoon, which came up on Pinterest this morning:
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Pun time at the protist corral, playing on Anglicized Spanish adios, amigos ‘goodbye, friends’ (perhaps better in AmE: ‘so long, buddies’).
