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Sunday punmanteaus

Today’s Bizarro, a Sunday Punnies in which all the puns are incorporated in portmanteaus: (#1) Three punmanteaus (if you’re puzzled by the odd symbols in the cartoon — Dan Piraro says there are 8 in...

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The unfortunate pivot

From the annals of astounding coordination, this head-scratcher reported to me yesterday by Ellen Kaisse. — EK: See bold-face below. I had to read it twice to see why I was having trouble parsing it....

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You’ve been seeing other fish

trois lapins to inaugurate the little month of February (which stretches this year to 29 days), beginning unfortunately in these parts in cold rains that will last for a week, and (this morning) in...

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Baby foods

 three tigers for ultimate February; for Leap Day, the US is having wild weather (four days of cold rain predicted here on the SF peninsula, where the first flowering fruit trees are already in bloom)...

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It’s a mystery

Very much a MQoS Not Dead Yet posting, as I’m barely functioning after one of those stunning drops in air pressure. Hanging around on my desktop for just just an occasion, this mystery-pun Pearls...

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The Bizarro dog park

In today’s Bizarro, a dog park, with parking meters, where you can park your pooch by the hour: Surprise! The strip exploits a possible sense of the N+N compound dog park — roughly, ‘an area or...

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Now we are twenty

That would be my grandchild, Opal Eleanor Armstrong Zwicky — what a string of names! — who is (decimal) 20 today. For OEAZ on the occasion, this tiny poem: One score for Opal Vigesimal 10, the first...

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Nobody expects a baby

A carefully composed, subtle, and surprising ambiguity-driven cartoon by Mick Stevens in the New Yorker 1/1&8/2024 issue (on-line on 12/2/23): Were we expecting a baby?, conveying not ‘Were we...

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The headline writer’s dream story

Yesterday’s news from East Sussex (the old original Sussex, in southern England), a Sussex News story (by Jo Wadsworth) that kicks off with this juicy summary sentence: A handyman who masturbated over...

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Yet another band name pun

Today’s Wayno / Piraro Bizarro cartoon, with yet another pun on the name of a rock band; this time it’s Rage Against the Machine that’s being punned on: (#1) Wayno’s title: “Tomato Based Ideology”,...

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