A clever LOL-OY-CIDU from Keith Knight.
The CIDU aspect is not anything deeply puzzling, but let’s just ask how long it took you to see how the bananas got into the discourse.
State of the yun-yun
Category / Oy
Twas the OY before Kicksmess – December 24th, 2022
Andréa sends in these. Good to see the Ministry of Silly Walks getting into the holiday spirit.
A perpetual favorite mixup:
… and what did we just say?
More Bizarro.
Here’s one for the “not a classic pun, but generalized language play” … also it’s time to acknowledge the “dad jokes” category in pop culture.
Saturday Morning OYs – December 17th, 2022
Thanks to Andréa for this Half Full:
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I’ve been to the Hermitage, but …
Your editor is not very familiar with the discography of Herman’s Hermits, and needs some help here.
Saturday Morning OYs – December 10th, 2022
We start off with a twofer on the same pun idea:
That’s sticking it to them! (or not)
We picked up this Wiley Miller one from the Why Evolution Is True website where it was sent in by a reader.
This Rubes from Andréa makes a deprecated usage exactly right for once!
Birthday note!
Today is the 200th for César Franck.
Here is a performance of his Violin Sonata in A:
Saturday Morning OYs – December 3rd, 2022
Let’s see, where is the checkbox for category “Food Neurosis Puns”?
The reader sending in this Barney & Clyde wrote: Heh heh, she said “stern”!
Vintage Funky from this week, recycled from when it was a gag strip.
Callback to Bizarro’s “Casual Frida” from October?
Saturday Morning OYs – November 26th, 2022
Sent in anonymously, with the suggestion that the last balloon coulda/shoulda been printed on a single line.
A blatant case of obnoxious literalism
Pardon my outrage! (Bonus OY)
Realistically, he would not have so simply found a vet who would go along with this. It still is a bit of a shocker!
Saturday Morning OYs – November 19th, 2022
Is anybody else bothered by the use of “interrogate” in Theory-laden political and social discourse?
If you’re having any uncertainty about the main pun (which comes about third in sequence), think brand name.
Remind you of the title of a contemporary pun-loving panel comic?
Saturday Morning OYs – November 12th, 2022
And here’s another Lard for you for this week!
I wanted to say something like “This is not just a pun, but etymologically correct!”. It turns out something like that is justified, but not quite so simple and direct. Both Etymonline and Dictionary.com recognize a verb maze or amaze meaning “to daze, perplex, or stupefy” or “overwhelm or confound with sudden surprise or wonder,” but seem unclear on how it is related to the noun meaning “labyrinth, baffling network of paths or passages” . But yes, it is related, some way.
Oh gosh, and here’s this entry mazy (adj.) “like a maze, winding, intricate,” 1570s, from maze (n.) + -y (2).! Brings back writing a paper on Book 9 of Paradise Lost, full of narrative about “the mazy serpent”.
The pun is not new, but as an oldie it is a goody!
Truss didn’t make it as prime minister long enough to outlast a head of lettuce, or the lead time for this comic.
