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A Wrong Hands cartoon by John Atkinson, from 9/18/12:

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What happens when you take idioms literally.

Atkinson is new to this blog. His Wrong Hands website is not at all informative about him, except to say that he’s in Ottowa On.

Many of his cartoons are language based. Here’s a more recent one, from 9/19/14, with a POP (phrasal overlap portmanteau): Moby Dick + Dick Cavett:

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Ahab and the white whale on the Dick Cavett Show.



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