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News on the edible penis front
Following on yesterday’s edible-penguin posting (focused mostly on cookies and chocolates), I return today to phallic foodstuffs, a topic last discussed here in connection with penis-shaped...
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Departments: Amazing food
Two finds: the pizza smoothie, discovered in today’s Zits – (#1) – and cockolate (yes, more chocolate penises), especially in the form of Cockolate Pops. The pizza smoothie turns up in other playful...
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Portmanteau news
Three portmanteau finds in recent days: cronut, vog, and Prancercise. 1. cronut. Now the craze in New York City. From “ ’Cronut’ Fever Taking New York (And The Country) By Storm” in the Huffington Post...
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Dilbertmanteau
Today’s Dilbert: Not just an entreprenidiot (entrepreneur + idiot), but a serial entreprenidiot, someone with one dumb business idea after another.
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The metastrip
Today’s Doonesbury is a metastrip, a cartoon about cartoons: On the number of characters in Doonesbury: Doonesbury has a large group of recurring characters, with 24 currently listed at the strip’s...
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funyak
In the June/July issue of Instinct magazine (aimed at young gay men), a travel story by Jonathan Higbee, “Risen From the Ashes: The gay scene spread across the volcanic lands of New Zealand rises from...
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Foodmanteaus
In his Boston Globe blog on the 8th, Ben Zimmer tackles the cronut (which I too have posted about) — croissant + doughnut — and food portmanteaus more generally: Why we love ‘cronuts’: The devilish...
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-licious sex
It began with the porn flick Twinkalicious (a 5-hour compilation of scenes featuring twink sex, that is, sex between twinks). The front cover of the DVD (showing a twink sucking cock) and the back...
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Penguin cartoons
Today’s cartoon crop includes a Tundra strip (passed on by Chris Waigl) with a penguin as the central character (and a pun and an implicature) and a penguinless one (today’s Pearls Before Swine) that’s...
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Osteoarthritic portmanteau
Today’s Frazz (via Robert Coren): Ouch: ligament + mints (as in wintergreen). On glucosamine: Glucosamine is marketed to support the structure and function of joints and the marketing is targeted to...
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Brief mention: telescoping
In my collection of linguistic errors (from both speech and writing) there are some of the telescoping, or “jump ahead” variety. Recently, in writing about young men judged to be twinkalicious /...
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Onomatopoeia in the comics
Today’s Zippy: The onomatopoetic lexical items murmur, yodel, belch, and gargle give Bill Griffith an excuse for the phrasal overlap portmanteau Yoko Onomatopoeia.
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Comic vocabulary
Today’s Pearls Before Swine: Pig’s grasp of English vocabulary is somewhat unsteady. Faced with the unfamiliar surreptitious ‘kept secret, esp. because it would not be approved of’ (NOAD2), he guesses...
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Saturday comics
Two cartoons this morning that hark back to familiar topics on this blog — A Zippy with barbats and a Mother Goose and Grimm with sporks: (#1) (#2) Poindexter barbats — a recurrent theme in Zippy —...
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More dubious portmanteaus
For the Fourth of July (Independence Day) weekend, an advertising campaign on the TLA Adult Gay Video site: Celebrate Foreskindependence (intended: foreskin + independence). Meanwhile, for some time...
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Sconic sections
From several sources on the net, this entertaining story posted 6/25/13 on the Evil Mad Scientist site: Play with your food: How to Make Sconic Sections The conic sections are the four classic...
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twerking
The latest dance rage. From Wikipedia: Twerking is a “dance move that involves a person shaking their upper hips and lower hips in an up and down bouncing motion, causing them to shake, ‘wobble’ and...
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Odds and ends: portmanteaus to penises
An accumulation of miscellanea: portmanteaus, porn flick and pornstar names, (in the continuing Remarkable Underwear series) black lace skivvies, and (in the continuing News for Penises series), the...
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barihunk
Portmanteau of the week: barihunk (baritone + hunk). And the barihunk of the moment is Andrew Garland, shirtless: (#1) (Hat tip to Arne Adolfsen on Facebook.) This is from the Barihunks website, which...
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Two portmanteaus in the mail
Two portmanteaus in my mail: a hybrid animal (not new on this blog, but offered here because I now have a really adorable photo) and yet another way of referring to the male anus viewed as a sexual...
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