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A Friday punmanteau
In today’s Wayno / Piraro Bizarro, the punning portmanteau pontiff no return: pontiff ‘the Pope’ + point of no return ‘point at which turning back is no longer possible’ = pontiff no return ‘the Pope...
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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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Waynoratu Nosferamanteaus
It’s not only the worst week of the year (as I detailed in a posting yesterday), but in the Bizarro cartoon world, Wayno has made it Nosferatu Punmanteau Week (Nosferamanteau Week, for short),...
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Bite my punmanteau!
Continuing Bizarro‘s theme from Monday through Wednesday, today’s Waynoratu Nosferamanteau — a Wayno punmanteau based on the film title Nosferatu — examines Transylvanian dentitions: (#1) In the...
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Fangs for the memories
Very briefly: in entry 5 in the Waynoratu Nosferamanteau marathon, today, two anti-establishment vampires greet one another: A 1960s-style hippie on the right (peace symbol, long hair, headband, etc.),...
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Hats off to the vampires!
For yesterday, 1/18, in Bizarro, the 6th and I suppose last Waynoratu Nosferamanteau: The male nosferatu (holding a wineglass of what is presumably blood, and chatting with his young female companion...
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The culinary artmanteau
rabbit rabbit rabbit to welcome the month of February, the month of Lincoln Darwin Day and of Valentine’s Day (this year, Mardi Gras doesn’t come until early in March) It’s Rabbit Day, and what...
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