labeled-object gag

One object drawn plainly, with leader lines running to labels written in the reader's own nouns. The object contributes almost nothing except a place for the labels to sit where they can be compared. The gag is that the labels are the argument and the picture is the excuse to line them up. It works because three phrases attached to one thing get read, and the same three phrases in a list do not.

One object drawn plainly, with leader lines running to labels written in the reader's own nouns. The object contributes almost nothing except a place for the labels to sit where they can be compared. The gag is that the labels are the argument and the picture is the excuse to line them up. It works because three phrases attached to one thing get read, and the same three phrases in a list do not.

Example

Best when you have three or four named causes in prose and none of them are being acted on.