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The Sunday Funnies word of the week is torture:

tor-ture |ˈtôr ch ər|

noun

the action or practice of inflicting severe pain on someone as a punishment or to force them to do or say something, or for the pleasure of the person inflicting the pain.

• great physical or mental suffering or anxiety : the torture I've gone through because of loving you so.

• a cause of such suffering or anxiety : dances were absolute torture because I was so small.

verb [ trans. ]

inflict severe pain on : most of the victims had been brutally tortured.

• cause great mental suffering or anxiety to : he was tortured by grief.

DERIVATIVES

torturer noun

ORIGIN late Middle English (in the sense [distortion, twisting,] or a physical disorder characterized by this): via French from late Latin tortura ‘twisting, torment,’ from Latin torquere ‘to twist.’

1. The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth...hurts.

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2. Tiny Tim has a dickens of a time asking God to bless the subjects of the previous cartoon...

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3. That was then; this is now...

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4. You voted for Bush and Cheney, not once, but twice. Now, take your medicine.

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5. The Turn Of The Screw...And The Screwed

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6. In case you didn't know...

Lady Liberty has an official name. It is Liberty Enlightening The World. However, I don't think this is quite what Auguste Bartholdi had in mind when he designed and named his statue.

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7. The Story of the Mc-Cain En-Abel

Where were these words when you were supporting the morally bankrupt policies of "W" and his sadistic, self-righteous, hate-mongering Veep, Johnny-Boy?

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8. The Former-Veep touts his bona fides as a sadistic, self-righteous, hate-monger.

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9. As a result of his efforts, Dick has made a friend in low places.

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10. Naturally, he has like-minded friends in the halls of Congress

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11. The brainwashing continues every week on the Sunday morning "news" programs.

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12. Coming Soon to a Classroom in Your Home Town...

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13. The Truth Will Out!

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14. The End!

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The Sunday Funnies word of the week is subtle:

sub-tle |ˈsətl|

adjective ( -tler , -tlest )

(esp. of a change or distinction) so delicate or precise as to be difficult to analyze or describe : his language expresses rich and subtle meanings.

• (of a mixture or effect) delicately complex and understated : subtle lighting.

• making use of clever and indirect methods to achieve something : he tried a more subtle approach.

• capable of making fine distinctions : a subtle mind.

• arranged in an ingenious and elaborate way.

• archaic crafty; cunning.

DERIVATIVES

subtleness noun

subtly adverb

ORIGIN Middle English (also in the sense [not easily understood] ): from Old French sotil, from Latin subtilis ‘fine, delicate.’ .

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This week's selections have been carefully chosen to challenge your cognitive skills as they simultaneously and subtly tickle your funny bone.

1. Let's begin by jogging memories you may have of being a kid at Christmas Time.

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2.  A Subtle, But Devilishly-Clever, Lowdown, Circular Reference

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3.  A Subtly Taut Lesson In Semantics

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4. A Subtly Unsubtle Coda

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5. Forced Subtlety

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6. Subtle Geekery

Food For Thought

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7. Subtle Parenting

Dad

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Mom

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8. Subtle Discernment

A bonus of 5,000 Francs to your Swiss account and advancement to the accelerated ring if you lepton the subtle pun in the title. No bonus if you needed the previous sentence to discern it.

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9. Subtle Levity

Perhaps you'll get a rise out of this one.

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10. A Subtle Misstatement

Look carefully. You'll see the misstatement bubble to the surface in the turn of a phrase.

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11. Letter Perfect Subtelty

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12. Way Too Subtle For Me

Higher Mathematics?

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The Sunday Funnies phrase of the week is Thanksgiving Leftovers:

This week I'm serving leftover turkey although there may be a comment or two tossed in for variety.

1. Ah! So that's how they get in there!

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2. A Maize-ing Versatility

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3. There goes the neighborhood.

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4. Second Helpings?

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5. Three Burned Turkeys - A Thanksgiving Movie

The Theater Ending

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The Director's Alternate Ending

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6. Cows of a Feather Drawn Together

#1

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7. Proof that today's Republicans are Id-iots.

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Can you say, "It's déjà vu all over again?"

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8. Wattle they think of next?

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9. I'll Volt for That!

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10. Preemptive Strike

#1

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11. ...and that's why they're called turkeys.

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12. The End of the Leftovers

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The Sunday Funnies word of the week is vive la différence:

vive la dif-fér-ence |ˈvēv(ə) lä ˌdifəˈräns|

exclamation chiefly humorous

an expression of approval of difference, esp. that between the sexes.

ORIGIN from French , literally ‘long live the difference.’

1. Vive la différence? Not if you lean right politically.

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New Oxford American Dictionary:

dif-fer-ent |ˈdif(ə)rənt|

adjective

1 not the same as another or each other; unlike in nature, form, or quality : you can play this game in different ways. | ( different from/than) the car is different from anything else on the market.• informal novel and unusual : try something deliciously different.2 distinct; separate : on two different occasions.

Right-Wing Talking-Point Dictionary:

dif-fer-ent |ˈdif(ə)rənt|

adjective

1 not like us. | He's Black.

2. I beg to differ.

It's not that bureaucracies do things half-fast; rather, it's that those who run bureaucracies tend to undertake vast projects for-vast reasons.

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3. Observable Differences

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4. Anatomical Differences

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5. Behavioral Differences

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6. Generational Difference

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7. Class Differences

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8. No Difference

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9. It Makes A Difference

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10. Healthcare Differences

#1 - Economic

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#2 - Ethical

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#3 - Administrative

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11. Differences in Perspective

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12. What's The Difference?

And so, dear reader, we end with a cartoon, which illustrates a subtle fact. Quite often, the differences we detest and deride in the behavior of others are merely projections of our own prejudices.

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