OY by virtue of ambiguous parsing of [[comic strip] bar] versus [comic [strip bar]]. But y’know, as Will Rogers is never quite quoted as saying, I never meta man I didn’t like. And also a man’s reach should exceed his grasp, else what’s a metaphor?
Who’s ready for a bit more Fusco?
In case you are unfamiliar with the referenced candy:
How did that #$%%^^&* pup Ernie get in here? Does he think he’s a squirrel?
Diacritical impatience?
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Yes, just as you suppose, this did appear on Talk Like A Pirate Day.
And more off the mark…
And a date-topical OY:
Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo.
Teamwork makes the team work.
Hurt people hurt people.
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Exercise in indexicality.
Quite an interesting question!
A couple of meta takes on this comic trope. The first one is from Will:
And another one for official Frankenstein Day:
And one directly addressing the occasion:
This from Chemgal, spotting an OY not in the comic overall but in a particular panel.
That’s right, it’s in what Chemgal calls “the third last panel”. I was going to have a fine old time on how different people, not to mention different nations, have different ways of counting from the back of a series, so the only safe way to label a “third from the end” or “second one from the last” or “position negative 3” is to adopt the technical-looking but easy-enough and safely unambiguous ANTEPENULTIMATE.
Oh but then! — but then I took a closer look, and I think the drawing is misleading, and actually the last panel includes both Adam’s speech balloon “Seriously .. all that?” as well as Katy’s and Clayton’s jibes. So the one with the cute shark tray pun is “second last” … or do you say “next to last”? Or “second back from the end”? Or “first before the last one”? Let’s go with PENULTIMATE!
“We prefer the British spelling diarrhoea as it shows a loss of control of your vowels.”
It bothers me (mitch) a little bit that this seems to depend on fission being more dramatically explosive than fusion. But still it’s wordplay and it’s pretty funny…
Parisi himself made the following comments:
“The coffin is ajar”
“Now he’ll be berried”
As for me, I’d like to toast the deceased.
Ah, the legacy of “Who’s on first?” never runs dry!
Lost in Translation?
This pair comes from Philip, who asks “But in the Strange Brew, why is the appendix in the middle of the book?”
A find-the-hidden-names puzzle from Pearls Before Swine!
(Yes, displayed twice for some viewers.)
As we said for a previous puzzle comic from PBS, This is a CIDU in the sense that there is something to solve. Or nineteen somethings to solve! And they are sort of OYs, to boot.
P.S. Geographic solvers, please “meter” your answer counts, and leave something for others to contribute.
