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Keister Island
In the 3/16 New Yorker, this cartoon by Jack Ziegler: (#1) Giant buttocks instead of giant heads. And the outrageous pun keister on the rhyming Easter. This is not the only exploitation of the...
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Knob in a red top
On Facebook yesterday, Chris Waigl posted the beginning of this story from the (UK) Independent, dated today: James May calls Jeremy Clarkson a ‘k**b’ after Top Gear star suspended by BBC Top Gear...
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Boobies
Annals of remarkable birds (like the hoatzin, here): an image passed on to me by Chris Hansen: (#1) Two blue-footed boobies. Yes, that’s their real color. But why boobies? About the birds, from...
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shtum
From the April 18th Economist, in the article “Putin’s targeted strike: The meaning of Russia’s weapons sale to Iran”: In July 2013 Russia remained silent when an Israeli air strike destroyed anti-ship...
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Light in the loafers
In response to possible Russian submarine intrusions in Swedish waters, a playful Distractify posting “Sweden’s New Defense Strategy Against Russian Submarines Is A Gay Dancing Sailor” by Myka Fox. A...
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Prairie cat
This morning’s Bizarro: A play on cat: ‘feline’ or ‘jazz musician’. With the former opposed to dog ‘canine’ in the idiomatic prairie dog. As I noted in a posting on prairie dog, those creatures are not...
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nutmeg, the verb
From Steve Anderson a few days ago, this cute story (by Seth Rosenthal on June 20th) from the world of basketball, on player Boogie Cousins: Hero child nutmegs DeMarcus Cousins, then scores in his face...
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The news for penises, including accidental ones
First, a little more on sexual tube steak. Then a couple images of accidental penises. Tube steak. First to reminisce. From a 8/28/12 posting on “Gidget and her friends”: [Tubesteak Tracy:] a reference...
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Happy Ending
(On the language of sex — but with a fair amount of sex, so this posting might not be to everyone’s taste.) “Happy Ending” was the header on this e-mail from the Daily Jocks people yesterday,...
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The news for penises, Norwegian edition
Passed on by Chris Hansen on Facebook, this story of 6/23 from thelocal.no (“Norway’s news in English”), “Is this the worst summer job ever?”: A nineteen-year-old in Norway has been hired by a sexual...
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the old college try
Today’s Calvin and Hobbes: As on other occasions, Calvin asks his father an information question and gets a less than useful response. In this case, the meaning of the old college try is clear, but its...
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What a hoot!
This morning’s Mother Goose and Grimm turns on a simple, silly ambiguity, but then the story gets more complicated: (#1) First pass: hooters (1) ‘creatures that hoot, i.e., owls’ (straightforward...
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Go for the nuts!
From Ned Deily on Facebook, a photo of the Sneaky, Snacky Squirrel Game for small children, which invited jokey comments playing on nuts ‘testicles’. And from there to other expressions for the...
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Ten language-y comics
On the Comics Kingdom blog on Tuesday the 8th: “Tuesdays Top Ten Comics on Grammar and Wordplay” (with grammar, as usual, understood broadly). CK distributes strips from King Features; it’s one of my...
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ExtenZe
(It’s going to be penis penis penis in this posting. But fairly decorously, and with some discussion of names, plants, and medicine.) Every so often there’s an outbreak of ExtenZe commercials on...
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The news for penises, issue #1 of 2016
A continuing series on this blog, with at least 9 postings before this under the heading “The news for penises” (plus a great many other penis postings not under that heading). Four items that have...
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Iron Man, Captain America, and antique slang
From Michael Carden on Facebook recently, this comic strip panel from Marvel, showing an exchange between Iron Man (whose nickname is Shellhead) and Captain America: (#1) Carden commented: Marvel has...
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butt/booty, dial/call
Yesterday’s Rhymes With Orange: The nouns butt and booty overlap in their uses, and so do the verbs dial and call, and so do the related nouns dial and call. However… the compound nouns butt dial and...
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Bruce Bruce Bruce
Or: Australia Australia Australia! From Daily Jocks on the 25th, this example of their own AUS line (with my caption appended): (#1) A triple threat: proudly Australian, proudly Working class, proudly...
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Lower bangs higher
(Some genuine language stuff in here, but in the context of serious man-man sex described in very plain language, so not for kids or the sexually modest.) On the 25th, this ad (from a gay porn...
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