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goon squad goon squad goon squad
Somewhere in the first Presidential “debate”, or its immediate surrounding net discussion, the phrase goon squad appeared and seized my attention, so that I repeated it like a mantra. I was in the grip...
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humongous
(Largely about men’s genitals and sex between men, in very direct street language, so entirely inappropriate for kids or the sexually modest.) On AZBlogX, a 10/7 posting “Humongous Cocks”, with two...
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The self-aware diner
Today’s Zippy strip (here) is about a diner called the Self-Aware Diner: (#1) This appears to be about the idea of a self-aware diner, rather than about any specific diner We get, from the 50s: James...
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Pre-cut walker balls
So the label announced, in big bold type, leading me to reflexively shield my testicles from harm with my right hand: no one’s going to cut my balls if I have anything to do with it. Oh, this is balls...
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True or false in Mushroomland
Yesterday on Gina Zwicky’s Twitter account (@GinaGoesOutside): (#1) Gina Z: I thought this was a death cap and excitedly sent pictures to my friends. it is a false death cap. I have been juked by a...
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The bull validates Peter’s family
Three more Bizarro cartoons from the past, from another crop on Pinterest, with: an allusion you need to catch to understand the cartoon; a complex pun; and laugh-inducing names. From 6/9/09, the bull....
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With knitted brows
(Significantly about sex between men, often in street language, so thoroughly unsuitable for kids and the sexually modest.) On 5/1, e-mail from HUNT magazine (which hawks gay video porn) featuring a...
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Woof!
Today’s Zippy strip — anticipating Teddy Bear Picnic Day by just one day (yes, this is relevant) — has our Pinhead engaged with a fiberglass Doggie head from the Doggie Diner chain (1948-86 in San...
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trouser trout
(It’s all about penises, with mildly raunchy playfulness in content and language, so not to everyone’s taste, but requiring (I think) no more warning than that.) A Dog Named Trouser. It begins with...
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Zippy exits, pursued by a board
(Warning: high fecality content, which some may find unpleasant.) Todays Zippy strip, in which Zippy is subjected to stoner / surfer verbal abuse: (#1) Zippy and his surf iron As usual, there’s a lot...
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Superhero action
(Male genitals and sexual acts discussed in street language, so not for kids or the sexually modest) In my 9/15/21 posting “Items of gay decor”, the section on The ritual of the action figures displays...
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Pissing and moaning with Ed Koren
From the 2018 cartoon collection Koren in the Wild (my copy of which arrived today), this New Yorker cartoon (published in the magazine on 9/6/99): Working-class masculinity — the bar, pissing and...
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zhuzh it up!
(#1) Available as a sticker from Redbubble, also as a t-shirt Enter Monica Macaulay (in Wisconsin), who posted this ad for seasoning packets from Uncommon Goods on Facebook yesterday, with her...
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Eye charts
Yet another cartoon meme, the Eye Chart, with an instance in today’s Wayno/Piraro Bizarro, set in the fictive city of Metropolis: (#1) It’s a bird… It’s a plane… It’s Superman (If you’re puzzled by the...
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Bizarros of the Solstice, Festivus, and Christmas
Wayno/Piraro Bizarro cartoons for the 21st (Winter Solstice), 23rd (Festivus, for the airing of grievances), and 25th (Christmas Day). The first two are Christmas-related, but today’s is not (at least...
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Sexy Italians
(References to sex between men in several places, so not to everyone’s taste.) The centerpiece is this 1900 painting Italian Man with a Rope by John Singer Sargent: (#1) Though reproductions are on...
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surfdom
The Zippy strip for 2/20, in which Bill Griffith gets to goof on surf vs. serf: (#1) Zippy’s title: “Serf City!!”, playing on the song title “Surf City” panel 1: the serf wakes up in his cell and gets...
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Half-assing things
(It’s all about some English expressions using the bodypart-term ass, but without any reference to human buttocks. The verb fuck (up), figuratively ‘mishandle, damage, ruin’, puts in a cameo appearance...
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A masculinity meze: face men
(This has turned out to be quite a large meze, but it’s only about one idiomatic slang expression. Well, men and masculinity come into the thing, and you know what can happen then.) Reflecting a couple...
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The cadenza and the coda
Morning names for today (4/29), set off by a cadenza in a Mozart piano concerto that was playing when I got up just after midnight for a brief whizz break. The word cadenza led me immediately to coda,...
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