Aka: Piccolo’s bull and Rubin’s cow: cattle days in CartoonLand. A little post-eclipse diversion: cartoons that make allusion to, or illustrate a pun on, some formulaic expression, but withou...
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2024/04/09/two-cartoons-on-unstated-formulaic-themes/
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 ...
From the Raw Story site, “‘The stain is on you’: Ex-RNC chair slams GOP for silence on ’s call for blood purity” by Matthew Chapman on 12/18/23 (in this story refers to (Helmet) Grabpu...
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2023/12/20/kissing-the-proverbial-you-know-what/
(A lot of this posting is about the title of a Lucas gay porn movie, slated for full release in March 2024, but with its scenes being released one by one before then — the first, baldly titled ...
(Note this posting’s title — it’s totally not for kids or the sexually modest) It’s all about fucking in fur: two scenes from the MEN.com gay porn flick Norse Fuckers in which men mate wi...
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2023/11/26/fur-stoles-furry-boots-and-fcking-like-minks/
Melinda Shore on Facebook yesterday, the wry comment “How to spot the NY newspaper”, about this passage that Ann Burlingham had posted on FB: At Lot 77062, he started to get antsy. “I’m g...
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2023/11/17/the-yiddish-word-for-shpilkes/
Promised on 10/3 (yes, 19 days ago), in my posting “coming soon, two pun cartoons” (by Kaamran Hafeez and Tom Chitty), now realized: the puns hìp replácement (from KH, on the model híp r...
(some explorations in sexual slang, with some street language, so not suitable for kids or the sexually modest) A follow-up to yesterday’s posting “down there”, on male-genital down there, ...
🐅 🐅 🐅 three tigers! for ultimate May and the end of the spring months Facebook responses to my 5/24 posting “Who am I kidding?” (about this idiom) included two — very different in...
(Note: in this posting I’m going to be unrelentingly careful about the way I frame descriptions of linguistic phenomena (not falling back on the descriptive language of school grammar, which wo...