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News for French penises
Passed on by friends on Facebook, a French dildo / vibrator in the shape of La Tour Eiffel: (#1) Yes, you can pleasure yourself (vaginally or anally) with a replica of this world-famous landmark. While...
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Piñata under the gun
(Bonus content: a news bulletin for penises, with two items.) Today’s Wayno/Piraro combo: (#1) (If you’re puzzled by the odd symbols in the cartoon — Dan Piraro says there are 5 in this strip — see...
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holibolups
From Jeff Shaumeyer on Facebook, this plush Xmas Peep (an XChick?): (#1) A holibolup, a holiday/symbol mashup. Horrified reader: I find the idea of a Christmas peep offensive. Next we’ll have...
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Revisiting 19: more proxy names
Following up on my 10/20/18 posting “Numbers and names”, where I wrote: The current avalanche of comments spam comes from a proxies site that creates random usernames for its comments from a gigantic...
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Sweet stuff
Three candy bulletins from the last month: the news (which came to me from Scott Schwenter on Facebook, reporting exultantly from Pickerington OH) that Trix Fruity Shapes (from General Mills) are back...
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Panda Puffs and Fruity Pandas
A few days ago, on the 1st, another adventure in sugary breakfast cereals (and their names and their mascots): “Sweet stuff”, with a section on Trix Fruity Shapes. From the conglomerate General Mills,...
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Mandala swimmer, Kali tat, Banksia stamp
(Hunk in a swmsuit, oblique literate raciness. Plus religion, art, and plants.) Today’s mailing from the Daily Jocks company takes us to the beaches of Oz, where an ad for the Aussie homowear firm...
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Halloween detritus
A bit late for the train, a recent snack treat from mccormick.com — McCormick & Co., the spice, seasonings, and condiments firm — that appeared on a Pinterest board for Halloween: (#1) Combining...
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News for penises: salt and pepper
A bulletin from Coral Gables FL, with penis pepper mills in gorgeous hand-turned wood; and a patriotic phallic (salt/pepper) shaker, standing tall for US Veterans Day (today). Photos under the fold (so...
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Morning at the bottom of the sea
Today’s morning name surfaced from the depths of the ocean: benthic, especially in the phrase benthic worm. No, I don’t know why. (Insert here a note about the salty fellow Benthic Worm, a denizen of...
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Festoonists
(Warning: brief reference to sexual body parts in a caption.) As I observed yesterday, in the posting “22-festoon!”, today (December 22nd) is the holiday of Festoonus, celebrating “the victory of light...
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Beat Noel
Today’s Zippy, “Merry Whatever”, set in the Beatnik District of Dingburg, supplies (in the second panel) a burlesque of a beloved Christmas carol: (#1) So you can line up the burlesque with the model:...
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Four presents
Small but entertaining little gifts for my Christmas, from Elizabeth Daingerfield Zwicky, Opal Armstrong Zwicky, Kim Darnell, and Maggie Ainsworth-Darnell — plus an excellent dim sum lunch at Tai Pan...
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On the 8th day
(Despite its theme, this posting is notably lacking in salaciousness and jokiness.) News for penises. Mail from a colleague reminds me that on the Christian liturgical calendar, January 1st (coming up...
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News for penises: Bourdain’s Bhutan
(The title should be warning enough.) Earlier today, I reported on Anthony Bourdain in Armenia on Parts Unknown, on this blog in “Yet another Switzerland”. Later in the series Bourdain and film...
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Nighthawks on New Year’s
A memorable New Yorker cover for the New Year: an Owen Smith parody of Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks (one of a great many such parodies): (#1) Three things: Nighthawks parodies, Owen Smith, and party...
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One more January 20th penguin
For Penguin Awareness Day, one more spheniscid moment, this time from Canada, where the creatures infest the banking industry. (#1) Percy the Penguin, mascot of CIBC (formerly Canadian Imperial Bank of...
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Uri and Avi
Uri and Avi Sitting in a tree K-I-S-S-I-N-G! The US/UK children’s chant — meant to embarrass the kids named in it –realized in this photo of an Israeli Jew I’ve called Uri and a Palestinian Muslim I’ve...
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Blue roses
Today’s ad from Daily Jocks, with a sale on men’s high-end underwear from Australian firms, in recognition of Australia Day (tomorrow, the 26th): (#1) The 2eros Midnight Rose pattern (blue roses on a...
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The symbolisms of the pig
Today is the lunar New Year, celebrated as the beginning of the Year of the Pig in China, Vietnam, and a number of other places. From Wikipedia: The Pig (豬) is the twelfth of the 12-year cycle of...
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