Passed on by Betsy Herrington and John Lawler:
A cartoon, or playful image (I’m not entirely sure how to classify some of these things), with a pun involving puns.
[Amended 1/7/15: Mary Beckman has identified the source, a TearablePuns website! In operation since 2012. People submit puns; these are posted one by one, and then in posters like the one above. The current poster collection is #4.]
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From quite some time ago, this cartoon, posted on a variety of websites:
(#1)
An eating-utensil version of the question so often asked of same-sex couples: which of you is the man and which is the woman?
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Today’s Bizarro:
(See this 5/6/11 posting for cartoonist Scott Hilburn’s take on conjugational visits, with information on the adjective conjugal and on conjugal visits.)
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Today’s Zippy, on the passage of time:
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We’re in Portland ME, at the (old) Miss Portland Diner.
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Today’s Zippy, with exquisitely (indeed, preposterously) specific hand signals:
Griffith takes up this theme every so often.
Watch what you do with your hands in Dingburg!
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Today’s Mother Goose and Grimm:
Mother Goose objects to (what she sees as) an innovation in politeness routines, seeing it as recent (and characteristic of kids) and especially associated with serving people. These criticisms has been leveled by many others.
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Today’s Calvin and Hobbes, in which Calvin shows his mastery of tabloid headline writing:
Calvin’s doing well on the headline register (simple present tense for reporting events, omission of articles) used with other stylistic features (lexical choices in ichthyoid, grim melee, devours) and a breathless framing of the report, to reproduce the genre of tabloid headlines.
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Yesterday I posted a “starving artist” cartoon featuring Frosty the Snowman, but wasn’t able to identify the artist. This morning’s advance was that Larry Schourup found a copy with the artist’s signature not cropped off — but he couldn’t read the signature! I’ve managed to decode it: Chad Carpenter, of the strip Tundra. Snowmen are one of his specialties.
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From a while back, this cartoon on the subject of transitory art:
It came from Aric Olnes, following up on a Calvin and Hobbes cartoon about transitory art, specifically Calvin on the aesthetics of melting snow art.
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