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Alaskan-cod-pieces
An entertaining photo that’s been floating around the Internet for some time: (#1) In speech, the intended parsing (1) [ Alaskan cod ] [ pieces ] is indistinguishable from the humorous parsing (2) {...
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Rushing Sugar
The latest ad from the Daily Jocks company, with a caption: (#1) The head-scratcher He didn’t know Where he was or How he got there; Last he remembered, He was rocking to “El Bimbo” at the Blue...
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An underwear Thanksgiving
Today’s Daily Jocks ad, wishing us Happy Thanksgiving through a stud with a carefully sculptured body, wearing an Ibiza Brief in white, from Marcuse; and, as it turns out, offering gift boxes and gift...
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Pockets in his trunks
(Only a little about language here, beyond the hanky code, but there is plain talk about gay sex, so this is not for kids or the sexually modest.) On the 22nd from Daily Jocks, with a sale offer: Get a...
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Extreme underwear, some in rainbow
(Mostly about underwear, but a bit about language.) Stumbled onto the StevenEven premium underwear site, with tons of astonishing stuff on sale, in particular things in the company’s Pikante...
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The news for penises, issue #1 of 2016
A continuing series on this blog, with at least 9 postings before this under the heading “The news for penises” (plus a great many other penis postings not under that heading). Four items that have...
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Two New Yorker cartoons
A Mick Stevens from the December 21st/28th issue (illustrating some cartoon conventions) and a Ben Schwartz from the January 4th issue (showing, once again, just how much you might need to know to...
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More on the Bundy Bunch
Passed on by Gregory Ward yesterday, this clever mash-up (ultimate source not identified), representing the confluence of two very silly themes issuing from an utterly serious news story, about the...
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Signage models
Today’s Bizarro: (If you’re puzzled by the odd symbols in the cartoon — Don Piraro says there are 4 in this strip — see this Page.) Ah, drawing from life, so important for the artist in training. Note...
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Classless but far from sexless
Today from Daily Jocks: a sale on Marcuse wear, including the swim briefs modeled here by Friedrich (in Bondi Blue) and his man Karl (in Vamper Sky): (#1) (#2) Friedrich quips that he and Karl are...
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Huge News For Men!
The News for Penises, 1/26/16 edition. In the February issue of GQ magazine (pp. 80-83, 119), this feature article: Heavy phallicity from the outset: the symbolic cactus, the U of Huge made into a...
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P.C. Vey
A cartoonist new to this blog, encountered in the New Yorker issue for the 25th, as the artist for the week’s cartoon caption contest: (#1) It caught my eye as a remarkable instance of Phallicity: The...
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Some news not for penises
Despite my well-known interest in penises — in the actual body-parts, in phallic symbols, and in terms for the penis (starting from the basic slang vocabulary cock and dick and going on from there) —...
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The news for, um, monkeys
Today is Super Bowl Sunday, but tomorrow is a real holiday: the Lunar New Year, ushering in the Year of the Monkey (next week we get a Valentine’s Sunday then for Americans on Monday, Presidents Day)....
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The news for testicles (and, oh yes, penises)
From RJP, this bagpipe-ish image — from the ‘Hours of Joanna the Mad’ [a lavish book of hours created for Queen Juana], Bruges 1486-1506: BL [British Library], Add 18852, fol. 299r — which certainly...
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A passion for pickles
Note: this posting is about pickles (in the American sense: pickled cucumbers) and uses of the word pickle, especially in proper names; my main theme is that pickles and the word pickle tend to be...
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The grief of ulnarism
This will turn into another News for Penises postings. Today’s Bizarro shows a man in the throes of what we might call ulnarism: (If you’re puzzled by the odd symbols in the cartoon — Dan Piraro says...
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Mid-February news for penises
An accumulation of penis-related items to help fill in that celebratory gap between Valentine’s Day and St. Patrick’s Day. Meanwhile, mark your calendars: The annual Penis Festival in Japan will be...
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a katakana para
A piece of silliness for Thursday that will take us to many far-flung places and cultures and bring us into contact with a wide variety of people and food. a katakana para: maranatha! patapan patapan,...
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Comic consciousness
The Scenes From A Multiverse from the 26th has Snake One suddenly, and comically, conscious of the limitations of his body for performing his duties under Snake Leader in the Spacespider Colonies :...
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