Chant for a mailing tube

Yesterday’s (4/24) Zippy strip has our Pinhead singing the praises of everyday stationery supplies, in particular the cylinders (now usually made of plastic) used to convey rolled-up sheets of material with printing or designs on them: the telescoping plastic mailing tube: Zippy chants for the TPMT Four words of decreasing length (in number of syllables), in two phrases: — the adjectival modifiers telescoping ‘which telescopes’ and plastic ‘which is made of plastic’ (4 + 2 syllables) — and the head compound noun mailing tube ‘tube for mailing things’ (2 + 1 syllable) Thereby achieving the effect of building to a final one-syllable bang. Meanwhile, the strip is about Zippy’s onomatomania, defined by Merriam-Webster online as: an abnormal obsession with words or names; especially: a mania for repeating certain words or sounds From my 2/3/24 posting “Palilogia, we adore ya”: [The 2/2/24] Zippy strip shows our Pinhead submitting to (in his words) ‘the desire to repeat a word or phrase’, a…