Pod of Pushy Porpoises Protects Poppins Player

1. That’s all very well and good, but WHAT’S A ZEUGMA?

   Your answer had better not contain any guff about “using a single verb to act on multiple objects”.

2. I forgot a lot of my undergrad learning, so forgive me: is “Zeugma” pronounced with the g out loud, like the way my sister says Ermenegildo Zegna, or silently, like when she tells me I sound phlegmy on the phone?

3. I think it’s a version of smegma.

4. You’re lucky, Gus — my sister doesn’t say Ermenegildo Zegna at all.

   I would sound the g. Otherwise, who’s-a zeugmaing who, and that’s not allowed.

5. @1,
   ZEUGMA is Unpaid Intern Matt Luby’s secret Illuminati member name.

6. @4
   Yay! “who’s a zeugmaing who?” did you play that one could only point with their elbow? there were some other funny terms. i think Schwartz and Pfiligliano, others?

7. @2

   I think the “g” in “Ermenegildo” is a [ʤ] sound and the “gn” in “Zegna” is a [ɲ] sound (or [ɲɲ], if you say the whole word). Please encourage your sister to clean up her act.

8. @7, I was kind of dissing my sister on that, you know? But super thanks. So having just met I’m going out on a limb to predict you’re the sort who’ll have to mention what school you went to. I’d guess U. of Chicago, but recently enough you don’t have a sense of humor about it yet. Close?

   Sometimes I wish I had gifts beyond “getting off on the wrong foot”.

9. umm… TUNA is chicken of the sea. porpoises are the labradoodles of the sea.

10. Oh, Rob!

11. I can only assume that ZEUGMA is some sort of weird Stranger acronym, like SECB or something. But in their own Stranger way, they’re not tellin’.

12. @8

    Oh dear Gus, I was only teasing. And Chicago is a FAR better guess than the truth (you can always email me if you want to be disappointed).

13. All righty, I’m totally defanged by that, Zeugma. So who are you though? Is this like a Warhol Superstar persona?

14. Um, people: “The porpoises were unavailable for comment”!!!

15. I never thought I say this, but I’m glad Dick Van Dyke was not eaten by sharks.

16. @14, well, duh, Bethany; that’s what we’re here for.

17. great job stealing that line from a reddit commentor, hack.

18. Great job stealing that line from a reddit commentor, hack.
    SLOG: where copypasta is a requirement.

19. See what I did there?

20. If you’re sleeping while you’re surfing, you’re Doing It Wrong.

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