Officially entering August – and thereby also entering the dog days of summer – I hereby reserve the right to continue an uninterrupted string of cartoon/humor posts. (Don’t like ’em? Well then I guess you’ll have to go soak yer head, buddy!) But with an eye toward providing y’all with a timeless bit of advertising enlightenment, I will say this much: The below cartoon is funny all on its own. But when paired with the accompanying Nurtec (migraine medication) ad in today’s online New Yorker? Well friends, that’s what’s known as priceless product placement.
I know, I know, all you hard core beer drinkers out there are saying “I told ya so.” Well, maybe. But can wine tasting with a man-bun lead you far astray?
Sorry, they can’t be called man buns any more. They buns is now the correct pronoun. Could also go with penis-haver bun but I’ll leave the guy with MD after his name to do the proper confirmation checking before going with that one in our biologically fluid world.
Well, actually… “man” can be a noun or a verb, and, in this instance even an adjective, I suppose, but man* most definitely isn’t a pronoun.
And technically, anyone can “have” a penis, but not everyone owns one. And, that might even be up for debate. I suppose, categorically, you’ve got your biological penis-havers, you’re assumed penis-havers, your adopted penis-havers, your married-into penis-havers (aka chattel penises), and your Bobbitt penis-havers, errr penis- takers?, well…maybe penis-tossers is even more on point?
But if you’re really focused on fluidity, let’s talk Merlot. Just sitting there. Minding it’s own business. And suddenly it’s now suspect (along with that ridiculously stupid excuse for a boy, not man, but BOY, to knot his excessively long hair atop his head – a BoyBun – because he’s too lazy to find a barber – or a scissors, and resolve the issue. So let’s not blame the Merlot. If anything’s astray, in all likelihood, is the fault of the boy under the BoyBun.
*For those who are interested…
ORIGIN OF MAN
First recorded before 900; Middle English “human being, person, mankind, adult male, husband,” Old English man(n) “human being, person, servant, vassal”; cognate with German Mann, Dutch man, Old Norse mathr, Gothic manna; akin to Sanskrit mánu- “human being, man,” Polish mąż “husband,” Russian muzh “man, husband”; see also muzhik