The Frazz comic, by Jeff Mallett, in today's newspaper (in our case, The Wichita Eagle) probably set Robert Frost to twirling in his grave. (OTOH: Frost had a great sense of humor, may he RIP.)
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Not quite : Frost's fork was in a yellow wood and the path less travelled was overgrown...
At least, as I remember it.
Good pun though :-)
Posted by: Ole Phat Stu | July 21, 2019 at 10:40 AM
Stu--I noted the pun in a recent headline on your blog: "Hold the front page!"
All--For those who haven't visited Stu's blog recently, the posting was a photo of Stu holding the front page of a German newspaper, Bild, from the day of the moon landing in 1969. As I translate the headline: "The moon is now a Yank."
Stu & All--Some of the European temperatures have been higher than ours were during our recent heat wave. Stu cited Lingen as having reached 108ᵒF and our newspaper said that Paris had set a new record high of 108.6ᵒF, if I recall correctly. We "only" reached 103ᵒF on the hottest of the several days.
Posted by: Cop Car | July 26, 2019 at 04:39 PM
The BILD headline is also a pun.
The headline could also mean : "The moon is now a friend",
punning on the French word "Ami".
Posted by: Ole Phat Stu | July 28, 2019 at 05:10 AM
Stu--When I first wrote my translation, I did translate "Ami" as "friend"; but, I realized that in French, the word would not be capitalized so went with the German idiomatic use. Somehow, it still didn't trip my "punic" (or should I use Punic - lol?) detector. Thanks for pointing it out.
Posted by: Cop Car | July 28, 2019 at 08:44 AM