The Jargon Matrix
Yesterday’s Dilbert takes us into a dark world of language, the Jargon Matrix: (#1) The Matrix, but with jargon from the world of technology businesses. On the movie, from Wikipedia: (#2) The Matrix is...
View ArticleChub and chums in the morning
Yesterday’s morning name was chub (the name of a fish), which led me to the rest of the bilabial-final family: chum, chump, and chup. (And that led to the velar-final family chug, Chung, chunk, chuck,...
View ArticleThe Ballad of Clark and Bruce: SuperBat of Pink Steel Forever
Not a bit shy, Their desire Writes its name In the sky. Batman and Superman, locking together, man to man: (#1) Madrid wall art by Ze Carrión Image from my superhero-sex posting, which also has an...
View ArticleThe patriotic fig leaf
(About men’s bodies; some readers may want to exercise caution.) The Michael Lucas (gay porn studio) Fourth of July sale for this year: (#1) They are covering their junk with the Stars and Stripes (and...
View ArticleA vintage hat
Following up on yesterday’s “Fedora days” posting, about hats — the fedora, trilby, pork pie, bowler, and homburg — Benita Bendon Campbell produced this wonderful photo: A carefully staged re-creation...
View ArticleWonder Woman gets Milk Duds at the Charcoal Pit
In today’s Zippy, Bert and Bob talk movies at the Charcoal Pit: (#1) The topic is the new movie Wonder Woman, the candy Milk Duds comes up in passing, and the locale is the Charcoal Pit in Wilmington...
View ArticleOn offer at Daily Jocks
(Men’s bodies, underwear, snarky captions, and some slang.) A recent offer from Daily Jocks, SUP BRO t-shirts from the Australian company Supawear: (#1) That’s my shirt bro It comes from A U I’m Buster...
View ArticleSlangy Spanish hot dogs
In a Pinterest mailing on the 25th, a board entitled Cachorros — a word unfamiliar to me — that turned out to be yet another assemblage of hot dog recipes (a topic that comes up on this blog...
View ArticleThe many and the one
(Men and their underwear, plus suggestive mansexiness, so not for everybody.) Today’s Daily Jocks sale ad for Marco Marco (in this case, the company’s Light Tetra Brief), with a caption of mine wrapped...
View ArticleI like pig butts and I cannot lie
Noted on a sign in Dan Gordon’s in Palo Alto yesterday — a place that specializes in barbequed meat, especially brisket and pulled pork. Meanwhile, I like pig butts and I cannot lie, with its double...
View Articledouché!
An exclamation reported to me back in June by Lee Tucker, a transparent portmanteau of the slang slur douche (as in douchebag) and the exclamation touché! ‘good / clever point!’. But I didn’t know...
View ArticleHolimanteaus and restaumanteaus
Two bulletins in the portmanteau news: portmanteau holiday names for combinations of holidays (especially in the December holiday season); portmanteau restaurant names for types of restaurants with...
View ArticleYo Day 1: King/Saint Melchior
The 6th of January, generally known as Epiphany, but this year in my house it’s Yo Day. For the Three Kings (especially Saint Melchior) who came to Bethlehem with their gifts, saying (I translate...
View ArticleSaluting the presidents
(A posting on gay porn for Presidents Day in the US (yesterday, February 17th, this year), so awash in male genitals and mansex, described in raunchy street language — so entirely unsuitable for kids...
View ArticleJazzing Goes to College
(Mansex and raunchy sex talk; not for kids or the sexually modest) Today’s mailer from the HUNT e-magazine (representing Falcon Studios and its associated gay porn brands): (#1) Hot College Studs in...
View ArticleMessin’ with words
The One Big Happy from 3/17, in which Ruthie and Joe perform some silly word play together, with Ruthie taking off on the word rattle on a spelling test for Joe: (#1) Ruthie jokingly — note the...
View ArticleThe goblet with the hobbit has the wine that is fine
Yesterday’s Wayno/Piraro Bizarro, about gobs and goblets: (#1) Wayno’s title: “Liquid Economics” (if you’re puzzled by the odd symbols in the cartoon — Dan Piraro says there are 3 in this strip — see...
View ArticleSouth Cackalacky
Today’s morning name: South Cackalacky, mildly derogatory slang for South Carolina (suggesting crudeness, rusticity, and remoteness: the boondocks). And Cackalacky, for the Carolinas taken together,...
View ArticleButtocks IV: cake(s) and tail
(It’s about slang, but there are going to be buttocks, mostly men’s, some startlingly bare, so this posting will not to be everyone’s taste.) Following up on yesterday’s posting “Buttocks III:...
View Articlecandy-ass faggots
(Tons of abusive and offensive language; some sex talk, but only in passing.) Another posting from the back files, which somehow got disregarded. Investigating the slang candy-ass, I was taken back to...
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