A deeply silly morning name today, a play on the title Le Malade Imaginaire. Which then led me to some ethereal culinary musings.
Archive for the ‘Silliness’ Category
Morning: La Salade Imaginaire
February 24, 2017The carniguin
January 5, 2017On Facebook, this came from Michael Palmer, who got it from Seth Andrew. (As with many such things, the creators of the image and the text are not identified.)
Whimsical Park
January 2, 2017From several Facebook friends, a link to this FB group:
Giraffic Park is Northern California’s preeminent rescue service and habitat for giraffes. This page will feature Giraffic Park’s many inhabitants.
Yes, a piece of whimsy, with a silly pun on the name of the movie Jurassic Park — a pun that seems to have been made many times, as part of several different kinds of playfulness (including movies in which giraffes are crossed with tyrannosaurs and then escape from the parks to which they’ve been confined).
The news for cigars
November 18, 2016Following up on yesterday’s posting “No cigar”, on a Tom Chitty cartoon with phallic foodstuffs striving to become cigars, two items: You’re no Cigar (Lloyd Bentsen: You’re no Jack Kennedy) and Sometimes a cigar is a lot more than a cigar (apocryphal Sigmund Freud: Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar).
The Penguin of Revenge
August 28, 2016Passed on by Kim Darnell, a “desktop ally” from the goofy Red Rocket Farm (whimsical on-line site and store):
Our playful entomologists
July 25, 2016In the August 2016 Funny Times, a wonderful piece “The Name Game” by M.K. Wolfe, about binomial nomenclature for living things, but with special reference to the taxonomic names of insects (there are, after all, so very many of them). A copy of the piece (which you should embiggen for easier reading):
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An entertaining tour of playful, even silly, names that have been adopted. As far as I can tell, these are all entirely accurate, even the insects Agra vation, Lalsapa lusa, Pison eu, and Vera peculya.
On the question of packing peanuts
May 22, 2016Earlier today, a goofy Zippy in which styrofoam packing peanuts figured prominently. I was horrified by the idea that Zippy might have discovered a way to cultivate them in his garden so that they, omigod, multiplied. That reminded Benita Bendon Campbell of an excellent Breaking Cat News in which cats and people find themselves at cross purposes on the question of packing peanuts.
Morning name: ivermectin
April 22, 2016My morning name on the 18th, a very useful medication. From Wikipedia:
Ivermectin [generic name; various brand names, e.g. Stromectol. Mectizan] is a medication that is effective against many types of parasites. It is used to treat head lice, scabies, river blindness, strongyloidiasis, and lymphatic filariasis, among others. It can be either applied to the skin or taken by mouth.
Ivermectin was discovered in 1975 and came into medical use in 1981. It is on the World Health Organization’s List of Essential Medicines, the most important medications needed in a basic health system. The wholesale cost is about US$0.12 for a course of treatment. In the United States it costs $25–50 [an economic/political side note, but an important one in light of the medication’s utility against some serious scourges].
More on the medication, then some flagrant silliness based on my understanding the name of the medication as a proper name Ivor MecTin, which will lead us to Ivor Novello and a gay world that was at once highly public and deeply secret.
Two Thursday cartoons
March 17, 2016From 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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