Caterpillars spinning platters
Yesterday’s Wayno/Piraro Bizarro, with songs you just can’t get out of your head: (#1) (If you’re puzzled by the odd symbols in the cartoon — Dan Piraro says there are 6 in this strip — see this Page.)...
View ArticleWhat question are you asking?
The 11/27 One Big Happy strip, which came up in my comics feed recently: The father’s question, asking for a choice, appears to be an opinion-seeking question, of a sort that adults often exchange...
View ArticleFrequently asked questions
A Roz Chast cartoon in the latest (2/1/21) New Yorker: Questions asked often enough that they border on clichés. They’re frequently asked questions — but they’re not Frequently Asked Questions,...
View ArticleFREDs and their kin
(References in plain language to men’s bodies viewed as sexual objects, with a photo, so not suitable for kids or the sexually modest.) On Facebook yesterday, information from train-watcher Ned Deily...
View ArticleThe heifer executive
Yesterday’s wry Rhymes With Orange strip, wordless and spare-looking, but packed with tons of meaning on two fronts, the dairy and the managerial; meanwhile, it presents a challenging exercise in...
View ArticleBFD is ASC
Yesterday, in my posting “This week’s astounding job offer”: All of this is suppositional, and I haven’t found any source of information about the entity I’ve been calling YangCo and its programs that...
View ArticleIn the mail: an 8-noun pile-up
Remarkable e-mail. Two days ago (12/2), a message on Sutter Health’s My Health Online site with the header: Sutter Palo Alto Center Laboratory Patient Experience Questionnaire This is an 8-noun pile-up...
View ArticleSUMC moments: NPO
On the nurses’ board, under “diet”, it said NPO; and if you asked if you could have some juice or whatever, nurses would tell you no, you were NPO — and then maybe they’d explain that meant ‘nothing by...
View ArticleToday’s satiric artwork
Also today’s food art. From Bill Badecker on Facebook this morning: [The Orange Menace]’s lawyers have assailed the Georgia case in their efforts to derail it ahead of any indictments. “It is one thing...
View ArticleVIO
Received in e-mail this morning, from Dave Sayers on the Variationist mailing list: We are delighted to announce the next in the 2023-24 series of online guest seminars here in the English section at...
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