A Walk in the WoRds

"The face of a child can say it all.  Especially the mouth part of the face." - Jack Handey

While the contradiction itself is humorous, this photo also would have been a perfect photo to go with last Friday's post . Image v...

My first thought upon seeing this plate from a distance was, "underway, cute and appropriate." As I got closer, I noticed I ha...

It's not a homonym; it is a drawmonym. From one of my favorite cartoonists, John Atkinson at Wrong Hands . A visual homonym: dr...

No ... Click here . I recently had the excruciating pleasure of reading an advance copy of The Speculative Grammarian's Essential...

The Wall Street Journal recently published an article by Barry Newman titled  Theres a Question Mark Hanging Over the Apostrophes Future . ...

This humorous image reminded me of the recent post,  6 Cartons of Anaphora . In this instance, the pronoun it is meant to refer to t...

I couldn't resist throwing a bit of alliteration into the title for the added wordplay effect. Thank you, Steve, for bringing thi...

From a restaurant in northern Michigan.

A wife asks her husband, "Could you please go shopping for me and buy one carton of milk, and if they have avocados, get 6." A s...

The Adventures of Noam Chomsky  by Jeffrey Weston is a series of comics based on Chomsky's political views. While I don't follow C...

I would never normally post something like this but it was just too cute. I mean the kitten really looks like it is singing.

My cousin recently sent me a link to this UK  DailyMailOnline  post titled "Lost in translation: Hilarious advice signs from foreign a...

Click on images to enlarge. The rollover: "How often does somebody actually WONDER ABOUT ETYMOLOGY in my PRESENCE?? You GOTTA ...

I wish I could give credit where it is due but I received this as an email and I don't know who created it. I sure do love it though.

From the Grey Poupon YouTube page: "GREY POUPON began in 1777 in Dijon, France, when Maurice Grey met his associate, Auguste Poupo...

I received the following image as Valentine's Day text message from a friend who loves Fireball. I'm not sure where it originated a...

Just read it in reverse: First let me say that I’m cursed.  I’m a poet who gets time reversed.  Reversed time,  Gets who poet a I’m,  ...

I was trying to figure out how to adjust the kerning in an an MS Word document when I came across this wonderfully appropriate newer term th...

I asked my friend to hand me a newspaper. "Don't be silly," she replied, "use my iPad."  That spider never knew wha...