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Helping the kid out
From the most recent NYT “Metropolitan Diary” (on-line on the 26th, in the national edition on the 28th), a contribution from Michael Joseloff that begins: Two teenagers with clipboards were stopping...
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Edible adjectives
The xkcd cartoon (#1774 Adjective Foods) from the 19th: Mark Liberman posted this on Language Log on the 19th, with a link to a 2004 posting of his and with the video of Monty Python’s “Crunchy Frog”...
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Haiku Robot
An Instagram site that searches for posted material that can be treated as a haiku (a 3-line poetic form with 5, 7, and 5 syllables in the lines). Recently, the robot took on sex between men (not at...
View ArticleAttaching an 8-page essay at Wheaton College
Reported back on the 19th, a stunner of a 2017 headline about Wheaton College (IL) events dating back to 2016. First, the story from a source other than the one that produced the remarkable headline:...
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What’s he like?
In today’s comics feed, the One Big Happy for September 21st: Playground Lady intends a WH question with (a reduced variant of) the auxiliary V is + a predicative PP headed by the P like ‘similar to’....
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Annals of indirection
Chip Dunham’s Overboard strip from December 28th: (#1) Captain Crow and his dog Louie An exercise in both syntax/semantics and semantics/pragmatics: on syntactic constructions and their semantics, and...
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NO PENGUINS
A generic penguin ban sign (sold on Amazon, a CD Visionary no-penguins button): (#1) What’s banned? Spheniscid birds. Why? Who knows. (They smell. They steal fish. They get underfoot. Whatever.) and a...
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Smearing and taunting
(Adapted and expanded from a Facebook comment of mine a while back. Some coarse sexual language, notably from American newsmakers, but also enough about sexual bodies and mansex from me to make the...
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DISNEY ON ICE
Well, the title pretty much gives the joke away. An outrageous (but phonologically perfect) pun in a Bizarro cartoon from 9/6/12: (#1) (If you’re puzzled by the odd symbol in the cartoon — Dan Piraro...
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You look pretty dirty
What her mother says to Ruthie in a vintage One Big Happy comic strip that came up in my comics feed some time ago: How to understand the sentence (X) You look pretty dirty? Ruthie’s mother intends X...
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