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Now serving at the Raven Cafe
Today’s Mother Goose and Grimm, with the POP (phrasal overlap portmanteau) Edgar Allan Po’ Boy = Edgar Allan Poe (the American writer and poet) + po’ boy (the superb New Orleans submarine sandwich):...
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The loboe and the velveteenager
Two Wayno / Piraro Bizarro POPs (phrasal overlap portmanteaus) that have been accumulating on my desktop: the lobo oboe from 4/22, the velveteen teenager from 7/11: (#1) The reedy wolf (If you’re...
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Many a pickle packs a pucker
O pickle, my love / What a beautiful pickle you are! Blame it on Nancy Friedman (@Fritinancy on Twitter), who took us down to the pickle plant in Santa Barbara on 7/18, citing these 5 delights, with...
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Three peanuts meet in a bar
Today’s Wayno / Piraro Bizarro, requiring a boatload of popcultural knowledge to understand: (#1) The easy part: these are three anthropomorphic peanuts, M, M, F from left to right, and they are...
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The Monster and the Minotaureador
Today’s Wayno/Piraro Bizarro, with an instance of one of the house specialties — the Psychiatrist cartoon meme — rich in mythic resonances, and incorporating a bovine Nietzschean pun: Not just any old...
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Outrageous POP
tiger tiger tiger for ultimate September; tomorrow the inaugural rabbits of October will bound in In today’s Wayno / Piraro Bizarro, set in the Schmancy auction house — think Christie’s or Sotheby’s...
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The penguin Christmas card
In the mail, from Mary Ballard, this penguin Christmas card (from Fantus Paper Products), featuring the conventional schematic cute penguin, which can be seen in many variants all over the place, not...
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Lizardry
(#1) Xmas card from Tiny Bee Cards, offered on Amazon Lizard warnings, lizzard warnings, lizards falling from the trees. Lizard warnings. I wrote on Facebook on 12/22: I know these dire weather...
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Eggs Benedict Arnold
Suppose you’re a cartoonist, and this POP (phrasal overlap portmanteau) has, well, popped into your head: eggs Benedict Arnold = eggs Benedict (breakfast dish of sliced ham on English muffin with...
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The wildebeest caper
trois lapins to inaugurate the month of February. But wait! Are those the hoofbeats of … wildebeests? Stand clear! Make way for gnus! Out with the old month, in with the gnu. From my 5/31/13 posting...
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Narcisyphus
A Mark Anderson Andertoon (brought to my attention by several Facebook posters) with an excellent portmanteau: Narcisyphus = Narcissus + Sisyphus: (#1) Anderson’s selfie cartoon #7599 (he has a whole...
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Robotic ravioli
Today’s Wayno / Piraro Bizarro, in which George Lucas tangles with Hector Boiardi in an interleaved portmanteau: (1) (If you’re puzzled by the odd symbols in the cartoon — Dan Piraro says there are 5...
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Ruthie meets the challenge of the unfamiliar
It’s an old theme on this blog: 6-year-old Ruthie in the comic strip One Big Happy as a constantly entertaining source of efforts to cope with unfamiliar words and larger expressions by assimilating...
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Zwicky on the Art of the Skateboard
Notified via Google Alert on Saturday: on the Jenkem Magazine (skateboarding) site, “Allies: Calder Zwicky of MOMA” (with a YouTube video) by Alexis Castro & Ollie Rodgers on 10/2/18. Another...
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Alien jeans
Today’s Wayno / Piraro Bizarro, featuring the straight-leg denim favored by the spacefolk who visit us in the Nevada desert: (#1) Levi’s 501® Originals, always the choice of the discerning visitors to...
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POP POP
Phrasal Overlap Portmanteau time, starting with one from yesterday’s Wayno / Piraro Bizarro, which is (by accident) regrettably topical; and going on to a more complex one from cartoonist Leigh Rubin’s...
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POP Art Rock
(Today’s quickie not-dead-yet posting.) The Bizarro from 3/9/21, with a POP (phrasal overlap portmanteau) that combines art — in the form of the painter Georgia O’Keeffe — with rock music — in the form...
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Nanabots
Today’s whimsical Wayno / Piraro Bizarro: (if you’re puzzled by the odd symbols in the cartoon — Dan Piraro says there are 3 in this strip — see this Page) A complex bit of wordplay here, which...
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From Tim Evanson (in Cleveland OH) on Facebook this morning: Whew, it’s muggy out here…. I’ll get to the weather in Cleveland in a little while, but first, about the word muggy. The word muggy sounds...
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Barthropods seeking silverfish
Today’s Wayno / Piraro Bizarro, a complex composition in which two centipedes look for bar snacks: (#1) First bit of language play: the portmanteau barthropod = bar + arthropod, centipedes being...
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