A blogsite offering entertaining daily oddities since January 2020. There are now over fifteen hundred posts in these four years. Images -- photographic, computer-simulated and poetic -- are drawn from daily life as well as from poems and wordplay grouped by topic on our parent blog "Edifying Nonsense". The poetry displayed is all original (as are the song-lyrics), although portions evolved through rigorous editing on a collaborative website.
July 14, 2022
JUL 14, national and multinational verse: la Francophonie
July 13, 2022
JUL 13, diagnostic imaging: DOGgraphy
You can review all our verses on this intriguing topic by proceeding to a post on 'Edifying Nonsense' entitled 'Selected Topics in Diagnostic Imaging'. Click HERE!
July 12, 2022
JUL 12, a brief saga (pluralia tantum) 'careers'
Authors' Note: For the purpose of this blog, a 'brief saga' is defined as a poem, usually narrative, but occasionally expository, that tell its story in at least 15 lines. Most commonly, the format involves three stanzas in limerick form, constituting a single submission to the online humor site 'Omnificent English Dictionary in Limerick Form'. On the OEDILF site, rigorous standards for content and format are involved in a collaborative editing process that may take several weeks to over a year.
Generally, OEDILF has not been enormously welcoming of multi-verse submissions, but Giorgio Coniglio has persisted, and there are now over 70 of these multi-verse poems feature in his 'Author's Showcase'. The OEDILF number for each accepted multiverse poem is shown here on the slide with its first verse. We have been blog-publishing these poetic adventures here monthly.
To access the most recent previous 'brief saga', back up to 'Anagram Swarms'
Grandpa Greg asked us to pass on this message: "You can view the entire collection of verses about 'pluralia tantum' by clicking HERE."
July 11, 2022
July 10, 2022
JUL 10, (re)duplication: hobos
July 9, 2022
JUL 9, doctors and their practices: lithotripsy specialist
Authors' Note: 'dais' may apparently be pronounced DYE-uhs or DAY-uhs, although the authors had been familiar with only the former pronunciation.
July 8, 2022
JUL 8, poets' corner: 'Held'
July 7, 2022
JUL 7, trees: crepe myrtle xxxxxxxxxxxxLil
You can review these illustrated verses in a wider context by proceeding to 'Uprooted Verse: 'Poems about Trees' on the full-service blog "Edifying Nonsense".
July 6, 2022
JUL 6, binomial phrases: "down and out"
There is also an entire collection of lyrics to patter songs, somewhat older material, dedicated to various kinds of binomials, that provides more didactic material and an extensive series of examples, and allows you to sing these expressions for your own enjoyment, or for that of others around you. Click HERE !
July 5, 2022
JUL 5, insects: cryoprotection
Authors' Note: The isabella tiger moth, Pyrrharctia isabella enters the cold season in wintry parts of North America in the form of a banded woolly bear caterpillar. Traditionally, her peer-group would attempt to get through the winter by altering their metabolism to manufacture compounds known as cryoprotectives, allowing them to recover from freezing. Our protagonist seems to have discovered another way around this challenge.
July 4, 2022
JUL 4, American anagram swarms: election fraud
reprise from July 4, 2021
JUL 4, anagram swarm: 'ELECTION FRAUD' #4
Continuing from the posts of January 16, January 18, January 20, January 22, January 24, and January 27. You might note that there are now more than 200 anagrams in this collection. Who would have guessed?
July 3, 2022
JUL 3, English literature survey course: "La Belle Dame sans Merci" (Keats' poem)
July 2, 2022
JUL 2, death and the afterlife: homes in heaven
You can review more poems about 'Death and the Afterlife' in context on our full-service blog 'Edifying Nonsense'. Click HERE!
July 1, 2022
* JUL 1, reprise: -- a Canadian defined
reprise from July 1, 2020
In honour of Canada Day (July 1),
June 30, 2022
JUN 30, American satire (prolongation): 'coups' in the news
We hope that you enjoyed this verse. You can find 40 more on this topic in 6 collections on our full-service blog 'Edifying Nonsense'. Click HERE to start!
June 28, 2022 Mark Meadows' aide testifies at the Jan 6 committee hearings |
June 29, 2022
JUN 29, palinku (poetic novelty): Canadiana
June 28, 2022
JUN 28, domestic hazards: security system
June 27, 2022
JUN 27, pluralia tantum: 'eruptions' -- medical nomenclature
June 26, 2022
Jun 26, (re)duplication: hanky-panky
June 25, 2022
JUN 25, patients and their maladies: vitreous detachment
June 24, 2022
JUN 24, a brief saga: anagram swarms
US Congressman Jamie Raskin |