This month’s winner — meriting the November trophy, the Silver Fook of St. Andrew’s Day — was committed by Stephanie Shih:
(#1) Steph in her tuturo, singing “I love it when I get to live out a pun. 
🎶tutu-ro tu tu ro“
A punmanteau, tutu + Totoro. Steph is in a tutu, wearing a Totoro jersey. If you know about Totoro as well as tutus, it’s a massive, satisfying November groan.
From a chain of Facebook friends, this Dan Thompson Brevity cartoon:
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The outside (perfect) pun: Gallos’ humor / gallows humor (which depends on your knowing about the Gallo brothers and also the concept of gallows humor). The inside, Ernest and Julio, (imperfect) pun: Bordeaux (wine) / border (collie) (which depends on your knowing about both the wines and the dogs).
Two recent One Big Happy strips on linguistic themes, one phonological / orthographic, the other semantic / pragmatic:
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From King Features’ Comics Kingdom on the 1st, “Ask A Cartoonist: Favorite Authors!”, with a cartoon from Isabella Bannerman of Six Chix:
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That’s French peau ‘skin, pelt’. Some people have bear skins on the floor in front of the fireplace; literary types opt for poet pelts.
From Alex [Alessandro Michelangelo] Jaker yesterday on Facebook, this photo of him at the Mr. Pickle’s in Millbrae CA, very near SFO (in 2005, when he lived above the shop and right under the jet planes):
(#1) Another line of trochaic tetrameter: Mister Pickle Alex Jaker
A wry bilingual word play, involving the alternative Latin 3rd decl. neut. nouns
nom. sg. alec, gen. alecis
nom. sg. allec or allex, gen. allecis
all meaning ‘fish sauce, herrings, pickle’. Alex is Mr. Pickle.
(With the inevitable phallic allusion to images of or references to pickled cucumbers, usually referred to briefly as just pickles.)
Or: zoology, geometry, geography, and medicine. In three visual + verbal jokes that have been floating around the internet. Starting, A, with a punning coordinate bears composition — playing geometrically with polar bear — that came to me from Mike Reaser (who got it from an aggregation source), and a buildup to a portmantriple, C, that came to me from Kim Darnell (who got it from the Exploding Fish Shitposting and Senseless Drivel, Inc. Facebook page) — a combo of geometry, medicine, and animals (hippos rather than polar bears). The first led to more geometric play, B, on polar bear, taking us into medical (specifically psychiatric) territory. And then, bonus, there’s some simple geographic play, D, with polar bear.
(‘Whatever Seurat is, Seurat is’, that is, ‘Seurat is what he is’. That’s with English que /ke/, as in “Que Sera, Sera”.)
A photo by Elizabeth Zwicky on Facebook on the 14th:
(#1) Boston harbor; the orange bit is a reflection of a construction crane
In the photo (of ripples in water, with reflected points of sunlight), Ellen Evans, on Facebook, saw life imitating art, in this case, Seurat’s pointillism, and I agreed, hence the title of this posting. Robert Coren suggested Monet, and that’s not impossible, but a pointillist painter is a better fit.
(Fun with names and language play, but mostly Zippyesque popular culture in many manifestations.)
In recent days, Zippy has gone to a psychic shop (offering “crystals, past lives, tarot cards”), to the Tropical Treat in Hanover PA, to Luna Park in Sydney (NSW), to the ghost of a Mickey Rooney hotel in Downington PA, and to the ghost of the Justin Time diner in Meriden CT.
Protests against pre-shredded cheese in today’s Bizarro:
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(If you’re puzzled by the odd symbols in the cartoon — Dan Piraro says there are 4 in this strip — see this Page.)
A punning play on the political slogan Make America Great Again.
Note red baseball caps on several of the protesters.
