
Mitch4 sends this in as an OY, but it’s a bit of a CIDU to me. Does dyslexia lead to Spoonerisms?

Mitch4 sends this in as an OY, but it’s a bit of a CIDU to me. Does dyslexia lead to Spoonerisms?


I spent several years at a job where i was paid to make errors.


Maybe the vet is in a community theatre group that does one Elizabethan drama a year.

Another alternative. Perhaps for a police dog?


No man is a hero to his dental hygienist.

Happy Halloween!











Halloween is tomorrow. Here’s a few to help you get ready.





When doing research (wasting time on the internet) I often find cartoons I am amused by, and take a screenshot, intending to post them here, usually as LOLs or OYs. But I’ve got a backlog, and so I’m dumping a few of those screenshots here today.







From Jack Applin:

He notes:
In this scene from The Shining, it’s funny that he would call a blood splatter expert to analyze thousands of gallons of blood. Ha! The mystery is the names. Who is Tom Wilkins? Who is Phil?
Well, I’m Phil, but not THAT Phil, so I’m with him! Anyone??
Perhaps even weirder, when I search for
“Tom wilkins” blood spatter
I get mostly hits for this cartoon–including from the Andertoons site, where it’s filed under “Holiday Cartoons”. What kind of holiday?!?!

I don’t get it. The couple in the tan car aren’t colored. Is that a colorist’s error, or part of a joke?
Mitch4 sends this in as a momentary CIDU / OY

This comic has had a week of these microbrew jokes. Here’s another:

David Montgomery sends in this pair of chiasmuses? chaismi? chiasmae? Both are from October 18.


I went to Merriam-Webster online to look up the plural, but they don’t provide one; nor does the M-W Collegiate Dictionary, 11th edition. The example given online of the use of chiasmus cleverly avoids committing to a particular plural:

The word comes from Greek, so chiasmae would be confusing a Greek root and a Latin plural form, but stranger things have occurred in English. I think Sam Bray had it right: find a way to duck the issue.




File this under “conversations that seldom actually occur” — which is, of course, the joke.






