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Today’s cartoon is #15 in a series of puns submitted by readers. Sometimes I get fully-realized ideas, sometimes just a pun phrase that I then try to craft into a joke. If you’ve got an ORIGINAL pun that you’d like to submit, leave it in the comments section of this post.
NOTE: I won’t publish the pun suggestions so as not to ruin the fun for others if I use it (or publicly embarrass you if it’s awful!), so you’ll never see them in the comments section. But I will read them and consider. If your pun ends up in the paper, I’ll send you and email to warn you to look for it.
Thanks, boys, girls, men, women, and undecided. While you’re here, read some other posts and see what kind of monkeyshines I get up to here.
Many years of Bizarro cartoons, including the one above, can be found by date here.
“Lawn Order”! Awesome!
There it is! Thanks for choosing my idea and working it out. I told everyone in town about it.
Love the Bizarro comics but chuckled at the Twilight “Calzone”, it is the “Canolli” that is actually a pastry. The “Calzone” is a stuffed, baked sandwich. LOL!
Right you are, but I guess I think of the stuff on the outside as pastry dough. Hmm.
an original punnie: a reptile dysfunction
(I’ll leave the visual to you, that is if it’s even printable, ha!)
–Oz
I like this gag but already did it a couple years back. It’s hard to come up with an idea nobody else has happened upon before. Believe me! :o)
Not to be picky, but isn’t “calzone” supposed to be pronounced “cal-zone-eh”? I know a lot of people don’t include the final “eh” sound, but as an Italian word, it seems like it should be included. Maybe the guy in the comic is Italian and has been watching old dubbed episodes of The Twilight-a Zone-a?
Yes, you’re right, but often we have to bend rules like that for the sake of humor. :o)
A Silician friend insists that in his dialect, it’s cal-zone (no “eh”), so this is the Sicily version. (Also, manicotti is “man-a-gott.”)
My family is Sicilian and I can attest to the fact that they pronounce everything wrong. A bit like the rural southern U.S. vs. England. :o)
Is the tiny alien (and spacecraft sometimes) your depiction of the censor? if not, what does it represent? Love your work-my kind of humor, and i am 67 years old!
The alien and the other small icons I hide in my pics are really just for the fun of finding them. No real message. Thanks for the note, so glad to hear you enjoy my work!
Steve, have a look here:
http://www.bizarro.com/symbols/index.htm
More Punnies- dolly llama; doily llama; deli llama. You’re the semi-highly paid one in this equation, I’m sure you can picture these.. ;-)
Thanks, Jeff. These are all fun but they’ve been done already. I’ve even done a couple myself. :o)
So I came up with a punny idea this week that I hope hasn’t been done before: “Pilates of the Caribbean”.
It’s a great pun, but I did it a few years back. :o)
Dan,
Very funny! I like what you did with Lawn Order. C Aldridge
Love the blog and of course the funnies!
Another pun for you, “You’re a walrus on my mind…” Not sure if it suits Willie or Elvis better, and won’t be too surprised if it’s been done.
Would that Ultra Top Secret Project (or whatever it’s called) you’re involved in in L.A. happen to be a cameo role in “Green Slattern”, a sendup of the techno-brilliant new movie Green Lantern? It’s thoughts like the foregoing which prompt family members to wish I would “act my age”. If I did, the Hamletish dialog would go:
“To forget; or to . . . hmmm”
Okay, you figured it out. Mum’s the word.