Today’s Bizarro, a Sunday Punnies in which all the puns are incorporated in portmanteaus:
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(#1) Three punmanteaus (if you’re puzzled by the odd symbols in the cartoon — Dan Piraro says there are 8 in this strip — see this Page)
Now each of them in detail, in turn. In each case, the pun comes in the material shared by the two contributors to the portmanteau — material that is understood one way as part of the first contributor and a different way as part of the second. And then the cartoon combines the two understandings in a single drawing: a (spiritually) aware werwolf (lupine zazen); ill-tempered tempered glass (oh shut up, Silica Boy!); and a matador doorman (the hand that stabs, the hand that opens).
awarewolf = (spiritully) aware ‘in a state of being conscious and connected to your inner self, as well as to a higher power or divine energy’ (from the Yoga Basics website) + werewolf ‘(in myth or fiction) a person who changes for periods of time into a wolf, typically when there is a full moon’ (NOAD); shared /wer/, understood as the ware element of aware, beware, and wary, conveying alertness or guardedness; or as the ‘man’ element wer in werwolf (literally ‘man-wolf’)
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(#2) A yoga meditation position for achieving spiritual awareness (from the Yoga Basics site)Image may be NSFW.
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(#3) A werewolf by the light of the moon (from the Monster Fandom wiki)
ill-tempered glass = ill-tempered ‘having a bad temper or disposition’ + tempered glass ‘a type of safety glass processed by controlled thermal or chemical treatments to increase its strength compared with normal glass’ (Wikipedia); shared /tɛmpǝrd/, understood as referring to emotional disposition in ill-tempered; or as ‘(of glass) treated to increase strength’
matadorman = matador ‘bullfighter’ + doorman ‘a man such as a porter, bouncer, or janitor who is on duty at the entrance to a large building’ (NOAD); shared /dɔr/. understood as an agent suffix –dor in matador; or as door ‘entrance to a building’ in doorman
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(#4) A matador in action (from my 8/1/19 posting “Understanding the bull”)Image may be NSFW.
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(#5) A famous doorman, William May (from the Food Gal site)
