A moment with my mates Baz and Hazza
As a Z-person, I was immediately pulled into Bert Vaux’s query to his “British and Antipodean friends” on Facebook this morning: Bert is collecting examples of -Z(ZA) nicknames (what I’ll call...
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Just two days ago, it was (piecrust) crumblies. Now, Benita Bendon Campbell has sent me e-mail connecting crumblies to (garment) greeblies — which, as it turns out, I posted about on this blog way back...
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Benedico questa frociata
(Tasteless and obscene, in two languages, so not to everyone’s taste) (#1) A rainbow raised fist, representing proud defiance; image from Redbubble, by designer MAS-S (in Berlin, Germany) And now the...
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Zippo, the comic strip
The 3/14 Zippy strip shows Claude and Griffy (and eventually Zippy too) caught up in what seems to be affixoid attraction (similar to word attraction), an irrational appreciation of or enthusiasm for a...
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Who put the fuckin’ in Califuckinfornia?
(As you should gather from the title, this posting is entirely inappropriate for kids and the sexually modest. Tons of reference to sex between men.) There are two answers to the question in the title....
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The self-aware diner
Today’s Zippy strip (here) is about a diner called the Self-Aware Diner: (#1) This appears to be about the idea of a self-aware diner, rather than about any specific diner We get, from the 50s: James...
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B.Z.P.D.
Today’s Wayno/Piraro Bizarro collabo: (#1) (If you’re puzzled by the odd symbols in the cartoon — Dan Piraro says there are 4 in this strip — see this Page.) I’m going in disregard everything in this...
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Deviant Passover rites
A follow-up to my posting of the 28th, “Deviant Last Suppers”, about queer travesties of Leonardo’s Last Supper, a painting of the communal meal (celebrated on Maundy Thursday, yesterday this year)...
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Revisiting 9: ¡-ola!
A comment on the vulgar noun crapola in yesterday’s posting “A portmantriple”, from David Preston: [cited by AZ] “-ola, a suffix used humorously to extend standard words.” Wasn’t the original ‘ola’ the...
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More Zippy-O-Rama
Today’s Zippy takes us through three commercial establishments with (variants) of –orama names, while fretting ambivalently about American patriotism: (#1) Wein-O-Rama (Cranston RI), Billy’s...
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The clean-gasm
Friday’s Zits: (#1) The playful libfix –gasm, extracted from orgasm and suggesting great satisfaction (akin to orgasm). Here attached to clean (either Adj or V, probably Adj), Not apparently taken up...
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cartoonosity
Today’s Zippy, with a cartoon transformation: The three Dingburgers admiring Little Zippy (already cartoon characters) become more and more like cartoon characters, more cartoonish, more cartoony:...
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Coffeenyms and reservation names
From Andras Kornai, a link on my Facebook timeline, tagged as “for Mr. Alexander Adams”: a Schwa Fire piece, “The Name on the Cup: Brewing the Perfect Coffeenym” by Greg Uyeno. About choosing a name...
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Commercial playful morphology
In television commercials that recently came past me: yummify (and more) in a 5-hour ENERGY commercial; and waffulicious in an IHOP commercial. yummify etc. On this site, a commercial exhorting us to...
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More Zippy playful morphology
Yesterday’s Zippy: Another chapter in Zippy’s playful morphology, notably with -ity: seriosity and goofiosity. (The names Mrs. Decaf and Mr. Groundnuts are a bonus.) The laughter uh-hyuk is true...
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dorkage
Today’s Zits, with jocular morphology and some (Wurst-style) phallicity as well: Jeremy for Weenie World! Then there’s dorkage. Quinion’s affixes site on the noun-forming suffix -age: [Old French,...
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Eleganza
Today’s goofy Zippy: A grab-bag of stuff here, beyond the 60s clothes: the playful coolth (which has been around for some time) and Clauditude (certainly special to Zippy); the punning allusion to...
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Zippy nonsense
Today’s Zippy, which incorporates the comic-within-the-comic, Fletcher and Tanya: F&T is a recurrent feature in Zippy. It’s a masterpiece of (Gricean) irrelevance, in which the conversational...
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Zippifixation
Today’s Zippy, on the origin of humor: (#1) Bill Griffith is fond of playful morphology: here, humorology ‘the study of humor’ and humorologist, plus humorosity ‘humorousness’. Humorology has sometimes...
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Playing with French morphology
From Benita Bendon Campbell, this reminiscence of a moment during her time in Paris with Ann Daingerfield Zwicky, many years ago: Ann and I and aother friend were having afternoon tea at our local café...
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