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1. about 8 hours ago on Nancy Classics

   She was born before her time.

2. about 16 hours ago on JumpStart

   In my sense of punnery, a real pun involves the use of words that logically express two (or more) different meanings simultaneously and logically. Pastis’s elaborate constructions are sound-alike words in phrases that have no real meaning but “sound like” other groups of words that actually and logically do. Certainly, there is a fun and humorous use of such concoctions if one temporarily suspends instinctive reliance on the idea that words mean what they say. Pastis does this well. Bilingual puns force the brain to skip nimbly from one meaning to another in which both uses make real-world sense. It’s that little jump from, “this means this” to “but it can also mean that” which sets up two or more reasonable interpretations of a given word cluster and then can be read in entirely one sense …and entirely in another. That’s the “aha!”moment.

   My favorite pun-like non-pun is from James Joyce: “No birdie aviary soar anywing to eagle it.”

3. 1 day ago on Lio

   A Hop on Pop-Up Book.

4. 1 day ago on Breaking Cat News

   The news in this part of the world is… not so hot… in at least two senses of that phrase.

5. 1 day ago on Back in the Day

   Btfsplk!

6. 1 day ago on Breaking Cat News

   I see it now, years later. Not a GA but a GN.

7. 1 day ago on JumpStart

   See a pin and pick it up and all the day you’ll have good luck;

   See a pin and let it lie, you’ll want that pin before you die.

8. 2 days ago on Wallace the Brave

   At the time, I lived in a communal situation. One of our money saving methods involved buying random bushel baskets of whatever the local farmers market had in excess. Five dollars for a bushel of fresh mixed veggies. Of course, that required creative use of the mix in any given week. The woman who was the “kitchen boss” was incredibly creative in coming up with ways to make delicious stuff out of… well, cabbage, for example. Another of her wonderful and unforgettable concoctions was a plum and cow’s brain sweet casserole. Again, she waited till we had all declared it delicious before telling us about the brain part. We had an entire cow butchered and frozen in the deep freeze on out back porch. We got a new one once a year from a ranch that we had a financial stake in….

9. 2 days ago on Wallace the Brave

   Multiple recipes online. The neat thing is that flavor, texture are seemingly unaffected by the presence of chopped cabbage. The one I was served was a chocolate bundt cake. No one at the table could guess the secret ingredient!

10. 2 days ago on Off the Mark

    The sequel is “The Spittle-Bug That Phoo-tooied Anchorage.”