Another POP (phrasal overlap portmanteau) from Hilary Price in today’s Rhymes With Orange:
(#1) Edgar Allan Poe + po’ boy
The Raven flies to New Orleans.
POP with Poe
July 18, 2017Start spreading the gnus
July 17, 2017Today’s ouchrageous pun (passed on to me by Chris Hansen):
(#1) By Dan Thompson (DT Page on this blog here)
Wildebeests, gnus, whetever — they’re all ungulates.
Amoeba humor
July 17, 2017A classic Gary Larson cartoon, which came up on Pinterest this morning:
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Pun time at the protist corral, playing on Anglicized Spanish adios, amigos ‘goodbye, friends’ (perhaps better in AmE: ‘so long, buddies’).
The company darling
July 16, 2017(Another underwear ad, with my caption. Steamy topic, but not, I think, over the line.)
(#1) The company darling
Eddie found the company’s
Dress code peculiar, but he
Loved wearing the silky blue
Hooded lounge robe and
Scanty briefs at his desk.
A blue period
July 16, 2017It’s about plants — the chaste tree, balloon flowers, bellflowers — moving from Palo Alto through the Swiss Alps and on to the Eastern European Wilds, the Carpathians. Mostly a portrait in blue, with digressions into purple, pink, and white. I start with Pablo Picasso’s self-portrait Blue of 1901, which inaugurated his Blue Period:
(#1) Picasso, very blue, at the age of 20
And a bow here to William H. Gass’s On Being Blue: A Philosophical Inquiry (1976), described by Brian Dillon in a 3/15/14 Guardian review of its reissue this way:
the entire book is a catalogue of sorts containing blue things, desires, concepts and usages
Ostentatious euphemisms
July 15, 2017A recent tv commercial for Jack Link’s beef jerky builds up to the punch line, the claim that the jerky
beats the snack out of other snacks
ostentatiously using snack as a euphemism for shit.
Wonder Bears!
July 15, 2017Passed on by Tim Pierce, this wonderful photo on Twitter from Coinneach MacLeòid, combining bear culture, drag, and the new Wonder Woman movie:
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The tweet’s text:
When you’re in the queue for a drink behind four Wonder Women, you know you’ve made it to Provincetown Bear Week
Surreal juxtaposition
July 15, 2017One of Dan Piraro’s specialties in his Bizarro strip. Today’s strip brings Pinocchio to the beach, offering to exchange favors:
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(If you’re puzzled by the odd symbols in the cartoon — Dan Piraro says there are 2 in this strip — see this Page.)
Brewster Rockit to the rescue
July 15, 2017[revised version]
From David Preston, yesterday’s Brewster Rockit comic strip, in a male character attempts to mansplain mansplaining to Pamela Mae Snap (aka Irritable Belle):
(#1) (Note strategic use of speech bubbles in the third panel.)
Wonder Woman gets Milk Duds at the Charcoal Pit
July 14, 2017In today’s Zippy, Bert and Bob talk movies at the Charcoal Pit:
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The topic is the new movie Wonder Woman, the candy Milk Duds comes up in passing, and the locale is the Charcoal Pit in Wilmington DE.
