Boise Ed sends this in: “I couldn’t pass up submitting this as an “oy.” It’s right there in the punch line.”
An OY by definition.
(Would Apple TV be an OY by high definition?)
Mitch4 sends this in: “Yes, this pun also tickled my funny bone! (And is even a trifle topical, for the “returning to the office” news theme.)”
A nod to the Winter Olympics:
Aye, Matey!
Rob S. sends this in: “Excellent play on words. Didn’t get it at first, then it came to me.”
Mitch4 is driven to send in this OY:
Took me a while to get this, but a definite OY.
And I still maintain that the ugly Internet phenomenon of “trolling” started being called that from a metaphor on the fishing practice (dragging a baited hook behind a quiet small boat), and not the Scandinavian bridge-dwelling threateners.
Are we done with Bizarro for this post? Never say so!
I was preparing to protest that the expression is traditionally “strait and narrow” — which would be preferable despite its redundancy. The pattern of redundancy in rhetorical pairs remains hale and hearty, though some may wish it null and void.
But no! The useful sources recognize only “straight and narrow”, with just a nod to the echoes of “strait”. Here’s Etymonline f’ristance [in entry for straight (adj.2) = “conventional,” especially “heterosexual,” 1941]:
probably suggested by the stock phrase straight and narrow path or way, “course of conventional morality and law-abiding behavior” (by 1842), which is based on a misreading of Matthew vii.14 (where the gate is actually strait); another influence seems to be strait-laced.
No, let’s not get started on straight-jacket!
Et tu, Jeremy?
There is a rather old joke involving a misunderstanding of that kind of signage (and based on a now-possibly-objectionable euphemistic term) — but wait!, it turns out this Crabgrass is not using that joke, but rather one based on a different misunderstanding of it.
Picked up from Counterpoint
Is that an electric plug in her hand, at the end of a wire? So she has unplugged a phonograph from playing one of the objectionable original versions?
It’s very simple, but (therefore?) almost perfect.
(it was established in the previous days that these are temporary tattoos)
Hmmm, takes a bit of work…
This week’s Oy-Ewww:
No, it’s not an inexplicable synchronicity — this Wednesday was Periodic Table Day, as the Dave cartoon points out. Still, a pleasing convergence on the same choice of elements!
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