(Warning: high sexual content.)
Today’s Zippy:
(#1)
Three things, starting (1) with what looks like a glory hole for nasal sex — affording the opportunity for (2) a nose job in a new (sexual rather than surgical) sense — and (3) transforming those who use it into cartoon characters.
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On Language Log, a posting of today’s xkdc, #1483 on Quotative Like, posted by Geoff Pullum under the title “Linguists get tough on promoting language change”. And then from Mike Pope, a pointer to an earlier xkcd of linguistic interest that I’d missed:
One of Randall Munroe’s cartoons on how to annoy people.
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On George Takei’s Facebook page, this (unattributed) composition: 
Phil did in fact predict six more weeks of winter this year. Takei’s comment, functioning as a caption: “He had his Phil.” The idiom one’s fill and/or a reference to the groundhog Punxsatawney Phil. Groan. (more…)
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Today’s One Big Happy:
Ruthie (and her friends) turn the (for them) unusual word carb (short for carbohydrate) into the more familiar crab — which fits their view of Playground Lady.
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On Princess Sparkle Pony’s Photo Blog, a parody of Family Circus:
Measles has been much in the news recently, about objections to the vaccine for it and the spread of measles to unvaccinated children.
The standard MMR vaccine covers three diseases: measles, mumps, and rubella (“German measles”). In the parody, Dolly maliciously proposes moving on from measles to rubella.
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Today’s Rhymes With Orange:
Cross-species hybrid, portmanteau to do along with it. The model here is the names for mixed-breed dogs: -poo- mixes, of poodle plus something else (yorki(e)poo for poodle + yorkie) in a 1/29/12 posting, canine portmanteaus more generally (labradoodle, cockapoo) in a 1/31/14 posting.
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Today’s Zippy alludes distantly to the Charlie Hebdo massacre in France:
Do artists have the right to depict their subjects in ways that will offend some people (in particular, these subjects)? Well, in a large number of places, yes. What, then, if those offended respond with physical attacks?
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Today’s Scenes From a Multiverse (on-line, here) takes on vaccine denialism:
Jon Rosenberg nails not only the reliance on celebrities as a source of information, but also the profound rejection of experts, especially scientists. “It must be true because it’s unsupported by science” — wonderful,
(Still in my queue for posting, a piece on usage denialism and the rejection of experts, such as lexicographers and linguists.)
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A linguistic Get Fuzzy passed on to me by Jack Hamilton:
Satchel Pooch, taking a general knowledge quiz, is subverted by Bucky Katt.
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