Play Penned

So much for the dream house

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Bowl of E-Chairs

(Note: the e-chair pictured here was designed by Fritz Mesenbrink, http://www.hallofritz.com/)

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Sacred cash cow

Commit to the Eight-bill-fold path, follow your dough-rma, and ease the cause of your suffer-bling

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Caddie cornered

"Welcome to the school of hard Nocturnes"

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Gen Irrational

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Compassion Fatigues

Some people are just not suited to the profession of helping people who are having a fit.

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External Locust of Control

External Locust of Control

(This poor guy will probably be fired for insexting...)

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Alzheimer's Dementor

[Note: I hope that no one takes offense to this. It is meant as a simple play-on-words]

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The Angle [sic] of Death

Otherwise known as "geomicide" or "Pythagore"

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Paranormal Distribution

Every now and then, just to be different (and to at least put up SOMETHING), I'll include some stuff from my course powerpoint slides.

This one is from my Spring 2013 course called "Neurobiology & Spirituality."

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Angling Participle

My how time flies...
So, one of my students innocently sent me a link to a text series about two friends exchanging fish puns (see below).
I innocently forwarded this to a friend, with whom I shared MC duties at a camp talent show, where at one point, we, you guessed it, exchanged fish puns.
I should have known what would happen, but I did not expect this...

Saturday, November 17, 2012 8:46 AM

From: Kassie Brandenborg
To: Ken Fogel
Subject: Some more puns

You send me pertinent articles, I send you puns, enjoy!

http://www.collegehumor.com/upick/6694928/text-puns

Nov 17, 2012, at 3:03 PM

From: Ken Fogel
To: John Male
 
Hey John,

One of my students sent this to me this morning. Remind you of something?

Nov 20, 2012, at 8:35 PM

From: John Male
To: Ken Fogel

Ken -

FYI - that was one oft top ten favorite days of my life.

Tuesday, November 20, 2012 7:40 PM

From: John Male
To: Ken Fogel

 Sorry for the poor spelling. Goddamn iPhone (Best device ever made).

Something is fishy with my delete button.

Nov 20, 2012, at 9:48 PM

From: Ken Fogel
To: John Male

 'cuz you were hitting d-eel-ete instead

Tuesday, November 20, 2012 9:11 PM

From: John Male
To: Ken Fogel

 Kenny -

 Don't get me started. I don't want to have to take you out behind the woodshedd aquarium and take you to school on fish puns. I'm hatchling a plan right now to fry you down to your sole.

Axis II Malware

After viruses, Trojan horses, worms, bots, and other spyware, the latest in computer malware started from mental health billing software. It is malicious code that gives your computer a Personality Disorder. It might be difficult to detect, since every computer has a "personality." The following list should help distinguish "normal" computer "quirks" from actual pathology.

How to recognize the types identified thus far:

Antisocial

• Sells your private info to other ASPD computers on network
• hogs processing power from other programs, corrupting their files in doing so

High Five

This one goes out to the Newly Licensed triathlete AWESOME!!!!

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Fake It 'Til You Make It

While I'm giving my drawing hand a break (how's that for an excuse), I want to include one definition that was forged after the original list was committed to Word. My wife and I conjured this one up:

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A bit of a tangent

I wouldn't ordinarily do this, because I tend to be a stickler for self-imposed rules, but I feel the need sometimes to express myself in words rather than toons (weird condition, I know). Anyways, a couple of years ago, I started getting emails from friends that included a list of words from a Washington Post contest or something, where the goal was to provide new definitions for words by altering the original words by one letter (for example, Sarchasm (n): The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.).

So, taking up the challenge on my own, I decided to come up with my own personal list, sticking to the rules for the most part (adding, removing, or changing a single letter). Furthermore, as a compulsive quirk, I organized the list with representatives of each letter of the alphabet. SO, here they are, a non-visual deconstruction of the English Language:

Acronymph - Some EXpert Pornstar’s Official Title

Angoraphobia - the fear of wearing scratchy sweaters

Conan

Another stretch for the new year, this time requiring an effort of Punz & Franz to pump--YOU up! But then push-comes-to-shove'll get you every time.
(p.s. check out who's on TV... in a ditch-ital format, spade-for by pub-lic Attilavision. C'mon, everyone, pylon!)
I dedicate this toon to my mom, who passed away one year ago today

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Nosferatu

Happy New Year!! I thought I would start the year off with a bit of a stretch.

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Llamas

A hit from yesteryear, boy time sherpa-sses by quickly.

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Horabull

Another one from the archives, singing Bovi-nagila. Sometimes being a bull in a china shop is a welcome thing, I guess

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Parisites

What happens when you eat too many French fries, French toast, and French dressing. Get an Eiffel of this... and you will be stricken by Arche-hives... Puni encore!

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