Frazz by Jef Mallett for February 23, 2018

Oh, deer. Will you settle for a buck?

1806, Americanism; < Shawnee wa·piti literally, white rump (equivalent to Proto-Algonquian *wa·p- white + *-etwiy- rump); introduced as an E word by U.S. physician and naturalist Benjamin S. Barton

Straight from dictionary.com

And all these centuries I thought the “D” was silent.

Once again you’ve driven us to our dictionaries, Jef. Well done!

Wasn’t that a nickname someone came up with for her not to long ago? (With a little prompting from Frazz as I recall. He claimed that he “forgot” the actual meaning of the name).

Somewhere out there an ass owes me a buttocks joke.

Anne Elk?

A burro is an ass. A burrow is a hole in the ground. Now everyone should be able to tell their ass from a hole in the ground.

Nature can provide all the jokes you need, evolutionary niches can be insane!

And where did Sir Francis Drake sleep on his journeys? Why, in his Golden Hind Quarters, of course.

“The elks live up in the hills, and in the spring they come down for their annual convention. It is very interesting to watch them come to the water hole. And you should see them run when they find it is only a water hole. What they’re looking for is an elk-a-hol.” – Groucho

I thought “Kemo Sabe” meant “White Behind.” Oh, wait, behind isn’t the exact word……

D-oh…

Like a wheel of fortune. I heard my fate turn turn turn. And I went running down a white sand road. I was running like a white-assed deer. Running to lose the blues. To the innocence in here.Joni MitchellI wonder if she thought of using “wapiti” at any point

Just because Uranus has a valid non-body part meaning has never prevented it from being used as a butt of jokes.

Frazz12 hrs ·

There’s a point out there past which the returns diminish, no question. There’s also no question that we’re still far from it. But history would be a lot easier to remember if it were filled with more slightly racy potential double entendres.

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Drake really kneaded that ship, to name it doe.