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Grandma Rose knows
In the One Big Happy strip from 4/30, Ruthie explains, impishly, that there’s a name for her grandma’s special brand of perceptiveness: Even better, that name rhymes with the historical model for nouns...
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Phosphorus and Hesperus
(Folded into this posting there will be some discussion of male-male sexual acts, and paintings of these, so the posting isn’t suitable for kids or the sexually modest.) To greet the new month — Pride...
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The mirror of the manatee
In today’s Wayno/Piraro Bizarro — Wayno’s title: “The Mammal in the Mirror” (a play on the song title “Man in the Mirror”) — a manatee primps at his vanity, yielding the vanity + manatee portmanteau...
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Travails of blogging 8/18/21
The second in what I fear will become a continuing series: on the increasingly out-of-control software for weeding out comments spam on this blog. The first installment was my posting “Travails of...
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The Triceramisu
A hybrid beast with a portmanteau name: Triceratops + tiramisu, that is, Tricera (tops) + (tira) misu: (#1) A fine portrait of the beast, artist as yet unknown (it’s one of those cartoons that has been...
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The snow border collie
It was 8/30, and the comic strip Mother Goose and Grimm went POP!, exploded in a phrasal overlap portmanteau, the one in the title: (with the snow-sliding dog seen doing an airborne trick in the...
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How does Wilderrama sleep at night?
From the tv series NCIS, Season 14 Episode 6, “Shell Game”, an exchange between the NCIS-Agent characters Tim McGee (played by Sean Murray) and Nick Torres (played by Wilmer Valderrama, whose name I am...
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The pengring
In the mail yesterday (in transit for a month from Italy), this neon purple penguin key ring — a pengring, portmanteau of penguin + ring — a little gift of friendship in difficult times, from Anna...
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Masculinity comics 2
[Proviso: this posting is about, among other things, ritual insult — a kind of verbal play-fighting — but it doesn’t pretend to be an essay on the very large number of forms and functions of ritual...
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Office zombies
The New Yorker daily cartoon for 10/11 by Navied Mahdavian and Asher Perlman commits an unusually long POP (phrasal overlap portmanteau): “We both have work in the morning.” The ingredients: the...
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The scent of a pumpkin
It’s that time of the year again, you can smell it in the air: Pumpkin Spice Season. For some, a keenly arousing moment, as in this e-card (#1 in my 10/26/17 posting “Three more pumpkin-spicy bits”):...
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Four cartoons on familiar themes
… in recent days, covering a wide territory: in chronological order, — from 10/31, a Mother Goose and Grimm Psychiatrist cartoon with a Halloween theme and some puns — from the 11/1 New Yorker, a...
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The illusion of macrophallicity
(A posting about (among other things) big penises, gay porn, the male body, and man-man sex, so not for kids or the sexually modest.) It begins with an ad for last week’s 2021 Cyber Week sale from the...
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Bizarros of the Solstice, Festivus, and Christmas
Wayno/Piraro Bizarro cartoons for the 21st (Winter Solstice), 23rd (Festivus, for the airing of grievances), and 25th (Christmas Day). The first two are Christmas-related, but today’s is not (at least...
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Eating like a Pygmalion
… Wayno’s portmanteauing title for yesterday’s (12/27) Wayno/Piraro Bizarro: (#1) A play on Shaw / slaw (If you’re puzzled by the odd symbols in the cartoon — Dan Piraro says there are 4 in this strip...
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The portmanteau truck
(tiger – tiger – tiger, rather than rabbit- rabbit – rabbit) anticipating by a bit the new month tomorrow (February, holding the promise that — in the Northern Hemisphere — winter will in fact come to...
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Metalico Cat
The 2/7 Wayno/Piraro Bizarro strip offers the complex portmanteau Metalico Cat = Metallico + Calico Cat (plus a cute title from Wayno: “The Shredder”): (#1) (If you’re puzzled by the odd symbols in the...
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The cartoon marziportmandemic
Today’s Piccolo/Price Rhymes With Orange, with a perfect XYZ (= XY + YZ) portmanteau: (#1) marzipandemic = /ˈmartsəˌpæn/ marzipan + /ˌpænˈdɛmɪk/ pandemic Apparently, a marzipan pandemic in a...
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The Tides of March
For the 15th of March, Tim Evanson created this image (reproduced here with his permission): (#1) Tim used a picture from a “Kittendales” calendar; a free clipart calendar page of March; and pictures...
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The sequel to my allergic ass
pour le premier mai. A follow-up to yesterday’s posting “My allergic ass”, which was (mostly) about pronominal ass — possessive pronoun + ass, used of a person, to refer not to their buttocks but to...
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