Modes of persuasion
I have no training and but little skill in rhetoric, but I find the bits of it that I've seen fascinating, especially the names for things. I recently learned that...
Archive for Puns
Dual-interpretation sketches
Vardibidian recently pointed to a Ronnie Corbett sketch involving double meanings of terms like “Blackberry.” I enjoyed the sketch; fun verbal comedy. And I was pleased, because I often see...
Handling
Unintentionally funny bit from an article today. The article discusses the lack of delays today from passengers requesting a “pat-down” instead of going through backscatter machines. Then it switches topics...
The future of pot is hazy. Get it? Get it? I made a joke!
Nearly every major-news-venue article I've seen about California's Proposition 19 (the one to legalize marijuana) has used the word “hazy” and/or some other pun about marijuana smoke or getting high....
Punny names
An assortment of real-life British punny names, with more in the comments following the article. Including a couple that are so British I didn't get them. It took me a...
comma sutra
This morning, the phrase "comma sutra" popped into my head, don't know why. I immediately thought it would make a good name for this blog, which I've been thinking of...
Cute tees
Happened across the BustedTees T-shirt company the other day. (Run by the CollegeHumor.com people.) Most of the T-shirt companies I see have a bunch of crass, obnoxious, racist, sexist, and...
nn: Secret Identities
"'We name our fondlings in alphabetical order. The last was a S—Swubble, I named him. This was T—Twist, I named him. The next one as comes will be Unwin, and the next Vilkins. I have got names ready made to the end of the alphabet, and all the way through again when we come to […]