Mitch4 sends in this stinker: “This should really lead into another classic groaner:
You rip-pa deese?
You mend-a deese!”
Thanks to Mitch4 for sending this in: “guess it’s not strictly speaking puns, but certainly some kind of word-play. And it did take me a couple panels to see that there was some rule-following going on.”
Two addenda on the Yaffle I sent in:
I suppose “mother load” for “motherlode” was an accidental error on their part, and not some subtle joke.
Also, see my comment in CIDU’s Random Comments thread a couple days ago about the term “yaffle” and the comments to the strip along the lines of “I found the yaffle today”. It’s a dialect term for a green parakeet. And the artist does place one in the picture most days, sometimes rather hidden, and sometimes (as in this one) right there.
I enjoyed all of these ! Maybe the Shoe most of all, as I have a hobbyhorse about challenging the “sometimes y” part of that familiar list of orthographic letters that count as vowels in English spelling. What examples would you offer where a “y” is written in the standard spelling of an English word and does NOT represent a vowel sound? And what tests are you applying to make that classification?
I was floored when I saw that Peanuts! I do some music programs for my residence (just streaming performances), and the other day was jotting down some plans for future events. For January I listed “And for dessert, some lemon Schubert” and “Another big scoop of Schubert”.
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The plumbing comedy act would only be funny if the artist had drawn the sink with lips, IMO.
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