The last few weeks I’ve felt that Wrong Hands has been a bit off their best form. But this one seems a good case of returning to their former standard.
So here is another Wrong Hands, sent in by Philip, who notes that as an Oy it would be tripartite. (Have we seen this one before?)
I have never sat down on a cat …. that did not immediately make the situation known! :-)
(Also adding in another Condron as he was unfamiliar to me.)
Arrgh, they just missed the chance to pun it off against serialism, the academic successor to atonal or twelve-tone music as a body of theory and compositional practice. To boot, cerealism and serialism are pronounced identically, while surrealism is distinguishable! Well OY to that, or indeed ARRRGH!
This time the squirrel does have something to say — and he’s clearly wrong.
Here’s an Oy-Ewww. Wait, do I know the actual etymology? And how’s about “steak tartare”?
An OY-LOL: Actually, by me the pun is pretty weak, but the execution of the planner page is quite fun!
Something of a nerd-Oy. Thanks to Mark Jackson for sending!
Seems like Brevity tries out a pun every single day. Sometimes they may hit all right.
Ah well, this may raise the perpetual question, Can an auditory pun survive being put into writing when that breaks up a double meaning?
From Andréa, as a kind of Arlo-OY:
Also Andréa:
This is not a full-fledged Sunday comic, but the intro and the two “throwaway” panels. Yet here is where the funny bit was!
From Mark Jackson:
Of course people have always thought “Ira Roth” could be someone’s name.
Oh wait! Just noticed that Arnold Zwicky’s blog goes into linguistic and referential detail about this one.
Do they have something backwards, tho?
Hmm, the status as an OY may be slightly dubious, but it’s worth it.
A possible double pun, from Andréa:
(A Super-Fun-Pak Comix)
Bizarro provides an excellent new word! Via Andréa:
Also via Andréa:
From Andréa, here is a matched pair of geezer-warning Oys!
Was that a good word-play or more simply a LOL?
A real groaner from XKCD, sent to us by Mark Jackson:
This Argyle Sweater from Andréa — but is it still sweater weather there?
Thanks to Andréa and Boise Ed for this Ewww about superhero color sensitivity:
Has this appeared on CIDU before? Maybe not, but at this previous thread there was an Argyle with a closely related question.
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