Tag / Dan Thompson

by multipleciduers

Sunday Funnies – LOLs – October 25, 2026

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.

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by multipleciduers

Saturday Morning OYs October 10, 2026

Mitch4 sends in this OY (maybe a momentary CIDU).

So, as a cure, will that leg have to be Hermetically sealed?

Marrose sends this in:

That famous scene:

This is Dan Thompson’s Brevity, so it’s almost certainly a pun, and probably one that is easily explained, so I’m not posting it as a CIDU. But I don’t get it, so pan-der to your editor and explain it to me.

by zbicyclist

Tiny Bubbles

Bob Ball sends this in: “Don’t those small bubbles rising from near the stern mean that whoever’s behind the wheel is drunk?”

The bubbles seem like a odd addition to an otherwise clever double pun. There’s the obvious pun around the sailors being on the mast, and the alternative definition of mast: “fruits, seeds, or nuts (such as berries, pine seeds, or acorns) of trees or shrubs that serve as food for wild or domestic animals and typically accumulate on the ground”