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humor

  • On bad penis puns.

    Modern English is built on a foundation of The King James Bible and William Shakespeare – the former, plagiarized from a person we burned on the stake for his efforts; the latter, Lord Regent of Bad Penis Puns, as though his very name compelled him: Willy-I-Am Shake-Spear, Billy Wagcock, old I am a dick now…

    March 8, 2021

    Frank Brown Cloud

    All posts, Book reviews, The writing process
    bad puns, Barbara Hamby, capon, Christopher Logue, competition, consensual nonmonogamy, cooperation, education, Emily Wilson, Entitled, etymology, Eugenia Cheng, fornicate, gender, history of English, humor, hysteria, James Joyce, jealousy, Joyce, Kate Manne, Mansplaining, Mathematician's Manifesto for Rethinking Gender, men, mythology, OED, Oxford English Dictionary, patriarchy, Penelope's Lament, penis, penis puns, poetry, polyamorous, polyamory, puns, scortatory, sex, sexuality, Shakespeare, slang, teaching, Telemachus, The Iliad, The Odyssey, Ulysses, vagina, vulgar slang, War Music, women, X+Y
    On bad penis puns.
  • On humor (and bad medical advice).

    In which I write a bodybuilding-mag-style paean to eating cat feces.

    November 23, 2015

    Frank Brown Cloud

    All posts, Excerpts from some other book, Medicine, Psychology, The writing process
    bodybuilding magazines, cat feces, dating advice, DIY brain modification, humor, medical advice, Neil Strauss, parasitic mind control, personality modification, pickup artists, The Game, toxoplasma, toxoplasma infection
    On humor (and bad medical advice).

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