David Astle (alias DA)

Vale @kudelka.bsky.social

The world tongue-twister champion has just been arrested.

I hear they're gonna give him a really tough sentence.

Midwife for sale.
Can deliver.

Her: How’s your anger management therapy going?

Me: Long time no seethe.

NEW WINTER OLYMPIC SPORT: synchronized snow blowing. 🤷🏽‍♂️

Panel 1: Some social scientists (five stick figure portraits of scientists) Economist Archaeologist Geographer Psychologist Anthropologist Panel 2: Some antisocial scientists (five stick figures scuttling out of the panel) Introverted Astronomer Solitary Mathematician Reclusive Biologist Misanthropic Chemist Withdrawn Physicist

My cartoon for this week’s @newscientist.com

I was caught on camera stealing from the Botanic Gardens. It was a little orchid

If you want something sweet, sugary, fresh, scrumptious and delicious, I can recommend a synonym roll

Ian McKellen performs “The Strangers’ Case” speech from “Sir Thomas More” on Colbert.

So intriguing Jesse & Dennis. I’m getting HIMER & HEAR for the first pair.

CROW (Palindrome)

Deft,
I saw a crow
over us,
a sure vow or caw
as it fed.

i don’t see how The Who doesn’t open for every superb owl

That awkward lag between the TV news host and a field reporter is called a TELECHASM

Three red and white chickens inspect a red and white water spigot.

“Hey, who’s the new girl?”

I spend my evenings attending a dramatic live performance called “Starving Cats Who Ate One Hour Ago.”

Wordsworthy. Plathetic. Atwooden. The replies are just as good.

Why did they call them cigars and not bigarettes?

My extreme sport is typing without glasses

Words that resemble what they mean - bed, boob, llama, zigzag, parallel - are called iconomatopoeia

Commas are just apostrophes with a fear of heights

When I was 14 and I said "recently" that meant within the last week.

At 64 it means anytime since 1989.

A book on a rack whose title is How to Date Buildings: An Easy Reference Guide.

whatever you do don’t ask their age

Those who cringe at the word moist may wish to join the wetness protection program.

Pronunciation-wise, February is the Wednesday of months

What’s happened to my BlueSky scroll? Seems to be “infected” by images of pets and landscapes from accounts I don’t follow. Did I miss a memo?

@lrlr.bsky.social @dontattempt.bsky.social

Words nursing their opposites L to R:

there (here)
friend (fiend)
pest (pet)
feast (fast)
wonderful (woeful)
thorough (rough)
resign (reign)
flight (fight)
sunlit (unlit)
covert (overt)

capybarinas

Moira knows it. The fans know it. Now is the time to lament the Vocabulary Queen. Vale Catherine O’Hara

Remember, never let anyone ruin your day.

It's your day. Be an adult.

Ruin it yourself.