Neologism, word playing, idiosyncratic humour

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Sherson.

The singular form of "Sheeple." E.g. "Steve doesn't even realise that Obama is a walking base station for Reptoid mind control transmissions. What a complete sherson!"

If you're with Thoreau, who said "the government which governs the least governs the best", then you would indeed favor "hypocracy". In contrast North Korea might be said to have "hypercracy".

But if you preach hypocracy and then get elected and enact hypercracy then you would be guilty of hypocrisy!

"Hippopocracy" is rule by hippos. Not to be confused with "Hippocracy," which is rule by Greek horses (real or metaphorical).

Weltmortar. n

Lit. "world mortar." A spoonerism of "meltwater," but pronounced with a V at the beginning to make it sound more German, like.

1. Anything ubiquitous that helps hold the civilised world together. e.g. "In recent months, many have come to realise that the Postal Service is a key weltmortar.
2. A simple projectile weapon that uses planets as ammunition.

Birden. n, v. A versatile word with three meanings.

1. n. An exhaustingly heavy load consisting of birds. "The chicken farmer laid down his birden by the entrance to the farmers market."

2. n. pl. Plural of "birds," when you want to indicate that the birds in question are German. "Chüp chüp chüp went the birden as they pecked up Hansel and Gretel's trail of breadcrumbs."

3. v. To make something birdlike. "With deft brushstrokes evoking a feathered texture, the artist birdened The Eagles' tour bus."

If i shoud see only the words in the picture, and not the cartoon itself i think my dyslectic brain shoud not see the message.

Whenever anyone says "Oh, deer Lord!" they are praying to pagan folk deity Herne the Hunter.

Moving company 'hernia'

Tarsi (adjective)
Tarsier (comparative)
Tarsiest (superlative)

The adjective "tarsi" means "small and skinny with long gangly legs and freakishly huge eyes."
The tarsier* is an animal so named because it is tarsier than any other primate. Bushbabies are quite tarsi- tarsiers are tarsier.
Science has yet to discover the tarsiest of them all.

*this is a real thing.

Although i dont like Trump and Biden, they are both much to right-winged in racial and capitalistic way, i do like the word-playing below.

You wanted books under the Christmas tree?

Liegnitz

Somewhere on the planet there is a city who is called 'Liegnitz'
I dont know what it means in the Polisch language.

In Dutch it means "Don't Lie"

Boxen.

A very situational plural of "box."

I've had to move house a lot, and some of my boxes have been used for many trips over the years. They've come to be familiar, almost to develop character, like old faithful beasts of burden. These are my herd of boxen.

^ That's in fairly common usage in IT - with "box" referring to one machine and "boxen" for many machines.
Also, but more rare, "Unixen" for various versions of the Unix OS.

Dorset: a group of doors with matching designs, or sharing common visual design elements if the usage prevents them being identical. E.g. "Which of these two dorsets would you prefer for the new offices?" (Dorset is also a county in England.)

^Interesting to hear that! I've occasionally heard IT folk speak of "herding" their machines....