In the current (January 9th) New Yorker, a Paul Noth cartoon with a cute POP (phrasal overlap portmanteau):
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The book title Stranger in a Strange Land overlapped with Land’s End catalog (referring to a catalog for the Land’s End clothing stores [note added later: the company name is actually Lands’ End]). And illustrated with a combination of typical model figures from the catalogs and a figure from the cover of one of the editions of the book.
Today’s Rhymes With Orange:
Hilary Price is enormously fond of POPs (phrasal overlap portmanteaus). Here we get:
gingerbread house + house of correction = gingerbread house of correction
On the occasion of my posting a Bob Eckstein (“bob”) cartoon (#1 in 6/22/16, “Two tests in cartoon understanding”), the cartoonist has friended me on Facebook (earlier Eckstein from 5/30/15, “Earworms, snowmen, and parodies”). So now a few more of his cartoons, of several different types.
The Rhymes With Orange from a few days ago:
Hilary Price is fond of POPs (phrasal overlap portmanteaus), and here’s another: distracted driving + driving a hard bargain. The customer is distracted from his bargaining by messages on his cellphone.
From my King Features feed today, two cartoons of linguistic interest: a Mother Goose and Grimm with a POP (phrasal overlap portmanteau) and a Zippy that happens to use a playful verb with, it turns out, a long history:
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Today’s Rhymes With Orange:
It’s been a while since we had a POP (phrasal overlap portmanteau), but here’s a cute one (Hilary Price is fond of them): prairie dog + dog walker = prairie dog walker, which is what the fellow in the cartoon is — definitely a niche occupation, not much in demand.
Yesterday’s Bizarro, with a POP (phrasal overlap portmanteau):
(Dan Piraro says there’s just one of his secret symbols in this cartoon: the eyeball. For an explanation, see this Page.)
In any case: Victoria’s Secret (the women’s underwear stores) + secret agent (or maybe Secret Agent, the Joseph Conrad novel or any number of films and tv shows with that name).
Yesterday’s Rhymes With Orange, with a POP (phrasal overlap portmanteau):
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That’s The Wrath of Khan + Hanukkah. (Hilary Price is fond of POPs.) Hanukkah began at sunset yesterday — note the one candle already lit in the menorah — and will continue for eight days, one day for each of the eight branches of the menorah. The admonitory figure in the cartoon is the villainous Khan from Star Trek, as played by Ricardo Montalbán. By order of Khan, Spock and Kirk will get no Hanukkah gelt or other desirable presents, just socks. Oy
In today’s Mother Goose and Grimm, a mash-up of Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young (the folk rock group) and Young Frankenstein (the movie), in a phrasal overlap portmanteau (POP):
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It’s a Monster Mash, as in the 1962 novelty song.
Two cartoons this morning, a Rhymes With Orange and a Bizarro:
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A POP (phrasal overlap portmanteau) on a usage-peeve theme; and borrowed vocabulary put to slangy uses.