VP #43: Are You Bacon?

Around here when cookies come out of the oven you’re asked “What ya bacon?” We have this propensity to drop the g and end on the N. Be careful who you’re talking to and pronounce that ing.

VP #42: Reign Coat

Let’s hope that it’s only Reign outside and we don’t hear “Hail the King” when our royal one leaves the tailor shop with his new coat.

VP #41: The Wookie

 

What team wouldn’t want a Wookie Rookie to lead the offense? Thanks Tanner A. for another thoughtful pun. Maybe his first play from the line of scrimmage will be a stormtrooper sweep to the left or a lethal Death Star bomb for the end zone. Instead of Omaha, Omaha, I bet it’s Jabba, Jabba Hut, Hut, Hut…

VP #40: da Bait

 

The elections are over but the debate rages on…which is da best bait to use? Nightcrawlers? Minnows? Grubs? Remember as a kid searching the backyard with a flashlight for the elusive nightcrawler? We had some fishermen in the neighborhood who used minnows. It seemed so exotic. One guy swore by grubs. How about the uncle who said for best results, you had to keep the worms warm in your mouth or the fish wouldn’t bite.

VP Bonus #1: Breaking Point

These two brothers have reached the final “breaking point” with each other and decided to finish their dispute with a “teeter-off.” As my friend Ron would say “nothing good is going to come of this.” But, these two could also represent congress where Republicans are in the cat bird seat and Democrats have taken a tumble backwards. This is a bonus Visual Pun #1, because it doesn’t fit my normal format. It’s a feature if you will.

VP #39: Lamp Shades

 

From ghoulies and ghosties / And long-leggedy beasties / And things that go bump in the night, / Good Lord, deliver us!—a traditional Scottish poem.

Next time you’re alone in the house and you hear things, maybe all you need to do, is look up at the shades on the lamp illuminating your book, if you dare, that is. About the only time we here the term “shade” these days is when it refers to ghosts in a Shakespeare play.

In the meantime make sure your mask has good visibility, be careful when you cross streets and best of all — HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

VP #38: Scar Crow

Scare Crows didn’t always have the upper hand on crows. Let me take you back to the Pumpkin Prohibition Days. Pumpkin spice runners were everywhere and months before Scare Crow Ness and J. Edgar Ale-mode  were on the scene, there was Scar Crow calling the “shots” in the pumpkin seedy world of speakeasies and illegal pie shops.

VP #37: Parking Meteor

 

In North Dakota there is a state wide band on parking meters. Some mayors want that law repealed. Then I heard about some countries developing their space program (I think India was one of them, but, why fact check I’m only on the internets) so they can mine meteors in space. Then it dawned on me meter and meteor are only separated by one letter. Oh my lucky stars I have another visual pun.

VP #36: Cole’s Law

 

I give credit for the idea to one of my students, Tanner A, for this one. As always once an idea comes to me or I come up with one, I need to do thumbnails for a few days to come up with a composition. I know what you’re thinking—only a coupe days to come up with such fine art?

I’m having fun and for the time being that’s what matters. Maybe these fine men of science will appear again. I think a couple of them where behind the scenes in VP# 27: Kaleidoscope.

VP #35: The Kernel

Are you like me and wonder how you get Kernel out of Colonel? Here we have a Kocky Kernel of Korn with a Napoleon complex harassing the troops. If you think that there may be similarities between him and General MacArthur you may be right but hey, MacArthur wasn’t the only military man to smoke a corn cob pipe. And where would we be as a nation without the legion of corn growers throughout the midwest. We salute you Kernel!