In the April 16th New Yorker, this Lars Kenseth cartoon on the POP (phrasal overlap portmanteau) museum loan shark:
(#1) museum loan + loan shark
Archive for the ‘Linguistics in the comics’ Category
Lars Kenseth
April 17, 2018Cave painting
April 15, 2018On Facebook, Tony Woodbury has passed on this favorite cartoon of his, from the old Saturday Review (of Literature):
Zombie animations in development
April 14, 2018In today’s Zippy: zombies defy their declining pop culture fortunes by commandeering Frank Sinatra and partnering with Betty Boop and Gyro Gearloose:
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New frontiers in POPs
April 14, 2018Today’s Bizarro/Wayno collaboration:
(If you’re puzzled by the odd symbols in the cartoon — Dan Piraro says there are 3 in this strip — see this Page.)
The Psychiatrist meme, with a POP (phrasal overlap portmanteau), all in letter names: E I E I O (conventionalized onomatopoeia from the nursery song “Old MacDonald Had a Farm”) + the initialism O.C.D. (obsessive-compulsive disorder) — with Old MacDonald unable to resist the compulsion to catalog farm animals and the noises they (conventionally) make.
Tail caps
April 14, 2018Passed on by Chris Hansen on Facebook, this Scott Hilburn cartoon from last year:
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A role-reversal joke, based on X-skin caps, caps of animal fur with the tail attached.
Thumbing his thoughts
April 13, 2018Today’s Zits, in which Jeremy demonstrates equal facility with either hand:
Instagrambidextrous = Instagram + ambidextrous ‘ambidextrous at Instagram’.
Fisto
April 12, 2018(Given the topic, not to everyone’s taste.)
The third, and last, posting on fist as a verb and on fist imagery, now (thanks to Arne Adolfsen on Facebook) from He-Man and the Masters of the Universe. He-Man together with the character Fisto, the wielder of a gigantic metal fist:
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The sounds of spring
April 12, 2018
Two cartoons from friends
April 10, 2018(Cartoons, language play, food, and humor, but also plain discussion of some sexual practices, so not for kids or the sexually modest.)
Cartoons come to me via friends on Facebook all the time, but only occasionally are they directed to me specifically, because I would especially enjoy them. Two of them yesterday, however, of very different character (one sweetly silly, one sophomorically crude): a Dave Coverly Speed Bump cartoon from 11/10/10 “Boomeringue” (passed on by Chris Hansen); and a Charlie Higson Heck If I Know comic from 4/7/18 “A Truck” (passed on by Michael Palmer):
Three weekend cartoons: POP goes the caveman couple, recursively
April 8, 2018A Bizarro/Wayno (the POP), a Rhymes With Orange (the Caveman meme plus relations between the sexes), and a One Big Happy (the recursion):