Yesterday’s Get Frazzy:
Hat tip from Alon Lischinsky, who found that the main pun, in the final panel, really worked only in writing: for him, “Ishmael can only be /ˈɪʃ.meɪ.əl/ or /ˈɪʃ.meɪl/, while fishmeal has /iː/ and secondary stress on the last syllable”. For me, too, but I am also a fan of distant imperfect puns, which can be set up through context.
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Today’s Calvin and Hobbes, in which Calvin embarks on writing a book:
Extended discussion (with examples) of two types of fiction/biography crosses in “Memory and fictobiography” of 6/26/10:
(auto)biographical fiction, fiction with an (auto)biographical cast: biofiction for short
fictionalized (auto)biography, (auto)biography with a fictional cast: fictobiography for short
Calvin’s project is fictobiography, heavy on the ficto-.
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Passed on via Chris Waigl, this New Yorker cartoon by Leo Cullum:
But still a pointed metaphor.
(I’m assembling a Page for Leo Cullum cartoons. Stay tuned.)
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A crop of three comics for today, on three very different topics: a One Big Happy with an inventive reinterpretation of an expression; a Zits on the evolution of writing systems; and a Zippy with another Xmas parody:
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One by one:
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I’m suffering with one at the moment. And for (almost) everything, there’s a cartoon, in this case a Perk at Work strip by Jason Salas:
From OED3 (November 2010) on crick:
Sudden stiffness or immobility of the neck, back, or other part of the body, typically resulting from spasm of one or more muscles; an instance of this. [attested from the 15th century on]
The cartoon shows the characteristic immobility of someone with a serious crick: their neck is “frozen” in one position — in this case, hooked to one side. (In other cases, the neck is frozen in such a way that the sufferer appears to be looking upwards.)
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Following on my Messiah posting, Robert Coren points us to the Xmas day Frazz:
Ouch: course – chorus. A cute imperfect pun.
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Today’s Bizarro:
Notice that you’re seeing this on a blog.
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Parodies of “A Visit from St. Nicholas” are all over the place this time of the year. Here’s the Dingburg version:
From chard in fur on a sled to Vindaloo curry. And more.
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Today’s Zippy, with poignant seasonal nostalgia (Christmas Day snow on nearly deserted streets) along with the usual budget of Zippy oddness (imagined aliens from Neptune, Macadamia nuts, and Perry Mason):
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The title — Snowtopia — is a wintry portmanteau, of snow and Utopia.
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Yesterday’s Zits:
This is the -ist of prejudice: racist, sexist, ageist.
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