Mitch4 sends this in: “A pun that surprised me.”
Mitch4 sends this in: “Another pun that tickled me this morning. But with Frank and Ernest, you *always* expect a pun.”
billr sends this in: “oy? or is there an ewww?”
Your editor had a total knee replacement on Monday, and has been using stool softeners of both types all week. (all is well now)
JMcAndrew sends in several that qualify for our Ewww category. Some also may qualify as CIDUs:
Mark. H. suggested this Mother Goose & Grimm a partial CIDU, commenting: “Grimmy tries to encourage the dog singing the song. But the song is not about the singer – it’s about the one the singer is singing to (‘You ain’t nothin’ but a hound dog…‘). The singer might very well have caught a rabbit himself, but that wouldn’t change the song.“
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Is it really just as simple as Grimmy mistaking the subject? Should I have added this to the Sunday Funnies, instead?
This mashup in The Big Picture recently appeared in an article at The Daily Cartoonist:
Mark H. sends this one in. “Bad pun! Bad! Bad!”
Sometimes the joke lands immediately and you don’t need it spelled out, or an attempt to cap it.
Here they aren’t strictly speaking separate panels, but the effect is the same.
Here, the name “Fading Sunset” in the first panel is much funnier than the predictable punchline in panel 3.
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?
It could pass for simply an innocent pun — that’s a screwdriver so it’s driving for the two screws. But doesn’t something foreboding come thru anyway?
I guess I missed out Part I. This is trying hard, maybe too hard, but deserves to be seen for cheerful persistence even if not really for brilliant OY-ness.
Since this strip seems to offer a pun every day, it is hard not to over-indulge. But this one was immediately right in the OY spirit!
Ohhhh nooo! There is no way to stop at just one!
In His Last Bow, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle mentions that Holmes retired to a small farm on the Downs five miles from Eastbourne where he was “living the life of a hermit” among his bees and books. This would hardly be orange and lemon growing territory.
This was initially posted as a CIDU. Then, all at once, ZBicyclist realized it belonged on the OY page.
Fun with homonyms.
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