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The Putin-on-Ritz pun
Passed on by Susan Fischer yesterday, this item from the We Love PUNS site: (#1) Three things you need to know about or recognize to understand the pun joke here: Vladimir Putin (depicted here without...
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Datoro!
Two Datoro cartoons from the July 22nd New Yorker (the one with Anita Kunz’s “The Face of Justice” — six 45s and three women — on the cover): Joe Dator offering goldfish snacks in a cat bar, Tom Toro...
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Meat shoes
From Ruth Lawrence on Facebook yesterday, a version of these meat-shoe photos, which had come to her on the net (the way things are customarily passed around, without sourcing): (#1) The meat shoes But...
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Former Frog in Fableland
Today’s Wayno / Piraro Bizarro, in which a prince grouses, over a tipple, about his amatory career, to a nobleman, one of his courtiers: It seems the prince was once a frog and could rake in the chicks...
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A homo thesaurus
An alert yesterday from Ernesto Cuba about the Homosaurus project: an LGBT thesaurus, with a portmanteau name homosaurus = homo(sexual) + thesaurus — thesaurus from Ancient Greek, meaning ‘treasure,...
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Flavor of the Week
The New Yorker cover for the August 12th, 2024 issue is a great big Roz Chast cartoon. With the accompanying cover story, “Roz Chast’s “Flavor of the Week”: The artist’s enticing (and not so enticing)...
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The NASCAR snail races
That is, the NASCARGOT races, as a Bizarro of 12/26/10 has it, reveling in the portmanteau of NASCAR and escargot (French ‘snail’) and showing us Dan Piraro’s goofy conception of snails in a NASCAR...
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The helicopterodactyl
From Season Devereux this morning, this excellent image on Threads, from the poster linguisticdiscovery: Two flying entities, the helicopter and the pterodactyl, are about to hybridize, to merge into a...
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Sweatless in the poolside sun
(There will be mentions — in vernacular but not actually vulgar terms — of male-male sexual practices that some will find icky, so this posting will not be to everyone’s taste; and it might stretch...
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Doctor The Who
For today’s Bizarro, a portmanteau title — Doctor Who + The Who = Doctor The Who [with the overlapping material underlined] — for a hybrid cartoon character, who is simultaneously Mark Baker’s 4th...
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