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Spring bulbs
… and other flowers. The plants come into bloom on a schedule that’s some complex of day length and temperature. Locally we’ve been having stretches of late cold weather (“patchy morning frost in...
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Dinobros
Link from Alon Lischinsky to this Dinosaur Comics (BROS OF HISTORY) on the 5th: A festival of broplay, with word substitutions (bros for forefathers, bros for men, bro down on them for fight them) and...
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Is that a Paschal Peep in your pouch?
From Chris Hansen on Facebook, a late entry in this year’s Easter Peepstakes: a model who dreamt he played with yellow Peeps in his Aronik swimwear: (#1) About the company, its products, its models,...
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Friday word play in the comics
Two cartoons to end the week: a Rhymes With Orange with a four-word play and a Bizarro with a POP (phrasal overlap portmanteau): (#1) The Cantonese American dish moo goo gai pan ‘chicken with button...
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blue jack
It started with my observing to a friend that a container in which a blue cheese had been stored can be used to start “blu(e)ing” any cheese, citing the blue cheddar I had recently created in my...
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Brainless Tales, with more news for penises
#4 in my “Squid Pro Quo” posting is from Marcus Connor’s Brainless Tales, a new webcomic for me, but one largely devoted to language play. And immediately I came across this cartoon, with a portmanteau...
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O Canada! Au Canada: le huard!
Today is Canada Day, the 150th, and also the 30th anniversary of the Canadian dollar coin, the loonie (le huard): (#1) Background: Canada Day. From Wikipedia: Canada Day (French: Fête du Canada) is the...
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POP go the pheromones
Two recent cartoons in my feed that play with language: a POP (phrasal overlap portmanteau) in Rhymes With Orange, an outrageous pun in Bizarro (a replay from 2009, first posted here on 2/15/14). (#1)...
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Brewster Rockit to the rescue
[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...
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POP with Poe
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. On the sandwich, from Wikipedia: (#2) Shrimp...
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Codpieces on Cellblock 13
(Men flaunting their junk, codpieces, prehistoric creatures, superheroes, language play, and more. Use your judgment.) On the 21st, a posting on Cellblock / CellBlock / Cell Block 13 garments,...
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A hot dog foodmanteau
In the tradition of the quesarito (quesadilla + burrito) comes the quesadoga (quesadilla + (hot)dog), which I learned about on Pinterest yesterday: (#1) A quesadilla hotdog: quesadilla wrapped around...
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WaynoPOPs
In my e-mail, a nice note from cartoonist Wayno about a type of wordplay that he likes to indulge in, exemplified by this Waynovision cartoon: (#1) The title is a portmanteau combination of two...
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Combos
Today’s Bizarro, in which Mr. Peanut (a registered brand) and Ms. GrapeJella (my invented name), a jar of grape jelly, face off: (#1) (If you’re puzzled by the odd symbols in the cartoon — Dan Piraro...
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More Zippy-O-Rama
Today’s Zippy takes us through three commercial establishments with (variants) of –orama names, while fretting ambivalently about American patriotism: (#1) Wein-O-Rama (Cranston RI), Billy’s...
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Make America grate again
Protests against pre-shredded cheese in today’s Bizarro: (#1) (If you’re puzzled by the odd symbols in the cartoon — Dan Piraro says there are 4 in this strip — see this Page.) A punning play on the...
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Solid Chet and lean Bo
Underwear ads again (from today’s Daily Jocks sale), with captions from me. Men’s bodies, mansex allusions, not for everyone. (#1) Sweat with me, baby Solid Chet the gym jock Sweats hard Lick the salt...
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The Fountain of Angels in America
(A return to Angels in America, after experiencing the NTE performance of Part Two: Perestroika last Sunday (the 27th); I posted about the NTE revival overall and about Part One: Millennium Approaches...
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douché!
An exclamation reported to me back in June by Lee Tucker, a transparent portmanteau of the slang slur douche (as in douchebag) and the exclamation touché! ‘good / clever point!’. But I didn’t know...
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One-hit grinders
The Zippy from September 30th, featuring Mary’s Coffee Shop, which also offers grinders: (#1) Plays on several senses of grind, plus the idiom one-hit wonder (with its phonological play on /wʌn/). The...
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