Cocasse

Edmund White provides a bilingual pun. If you know French you get an extra jolt. If you don't, you still get a bit of fun.

[...] Didi dismisses them as vapid exhibitionists. "Look at their tight pants. Some are fascists, some communists, but to me there is no difference. All cock and ass, cock-ass."

From Nocturnes for the King of Naples

And so for day 764
15.01.2009

Blossom

From a friend who upon completing a reading of A Lover's Cock [poems by Verlaine and Rimbaud translated by J. Murat and W. Gunn (Gay Sunshine Press, 1979) made the wry comment on the pronunciation of the French poet's name:

Rim Bud

And so for day 661
04.10.2008