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DEC 31, photo-collage: Talking Heads, non-avian

This tongue-in-cheek collection is a followup to an earlier blog-post "Talking Heads, avian". All the photos (except for two noted exceptions) were taken by G.C.

Current contents: Carolina green anole, Welsh corgi, olive baboon, American toad, cottontail rabbit, ghost crab, horse, raccoon, tur(ibex), koi, llama, green chameleon, goat, turtle, grizzly bear, bearded dragon, broad-headed skink, squirrel, hippopotamus, southern toad, Pan, orangutan, mule, basset hound. 

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Carolina (green) anole

Welsh corgi

olive baboon

American toad

cottontail bunny

ghost crab

horse

raccoon

tur (ibex)

koi

llama

green chameleon

goat

turtle

grizzly bear
(photo contributed by W.Wingfield)

bearded dragon (lizard)

broad-headed skink

grey squirrel (black variant)

hippopotamus

southern toad

Greek god Pan
(Lady Lever Museum, UK)

mule

basset hound

Talking Heads are a media resource:

Seasoned viewers at breaking news' source,

As in sports, storms, disasters.

But they're sometimes just 'masters'

Who the show-host's weird views reinforce.

possible further additions: giraffe, bumblebee?

DEC 30, singable satire: "BIG ROB REHAB CLINIC"

 a) Review of material posted on December 30 in previous years ...

2020: origin of our bloggerel, song lyrics (didactic piece)   

2021: singable satire, Canadian School Reunion (parody lyrics) 

2022: singable satire, Carolina Winter Morning (parody lyrics)
2023: singable satire, Auld Lang's Sine, song version  (parody lyrics)

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b) Today's Offering (Dec 30, 2024): 

  PARODY-LYRICS

ORIGINAL SONG: "Big Rock Candy Mountain" Harry McClintock 1928, also recorded by Burl Ives, Johnny Cash etc.
PARODY COMPOSED: Giorgio Coniglio, May 2014.

Of interest, the original song is a described as a folk music song about a hobo's version of paradise, a modern extension of the medieval concept of "Cockaigne".

BIG ROB REHAB CLINIC

  

(to the tune of "Big Rock Candy Mountain")

On a private flight

To escape from sight,

A burly mayor sat drinking. 

“Who’d shoot video

 Here in Chicago? 

 It could get a guy to thinking."

This song he sang

As he dreamed he’d hang

In a land with no detection,

Where a mayor’s rants get a second chance,

Then go home for the Election.

“Oh-ohhhhhhhhh!       

The buzzing in my brain,

Pass that bottle once again

Soon we’re going to show those cynics.                                      

It’s so easy to fly straight

I’ll get fit and  lose some weight, 

At the Big Rob Rehab Clinic.”

 “In the Big Rob Rehab Clinic

They’ve ashtrays if you smoke.

Staff will be compassionate

When you step outside to toke.”

 “The landscaped grounds are lush with flowers,

With surveillance cameras blind. 

No reporters spy,

You can still get high. 

You can smoke some crack

On the pond out back 

In the Big Rob Rehab Clinic.”

“Ohhhhhhhhhh!       

Some workout in the gym,

Go to chapel, sing a hymn,

Double-double chez Tim Horton. 

Guess the coke has got to go

Like my town, Etobicoke, 

No more pics of pipes or snortin’.” 

“In the Big Rob Rehab Clinic

You shouldn’t pass a roach,

There’s quite a few big-screen TVs

And the waiters call you Coach.”

"When there’s a Big Game on the air,

They postpone Group Therapy. 

In your room there’re snacks,

With no charge or tax; 

So you’re in control

And not on the dole 

In the Big Rob Rehab Clinic.”

“Ohhhhhhhhhh!       

Some workout in the gym,

Go to chapel, sing a hymn,

Double-double chez Tim Horton. 

Guess the coke should really go

Like my town, Etobicoke, 

No more shots of pipes or snortin’.” 

“In the Big Rob Rehab Clinic

 You text or yack ad lib,

They don’t approve the one ‘Big Lie’,

But there’s lots of little fibs.”

 “I know that More Responsible ’s

 An option to select - at 

 A later date.

Make Ford Nation wait? 

They need spending pruned

And more subways soon 

 - Maybe, once I’m re-elected.”

“Ohhhhhhhhhh!       

The buzzing in my brain

Pass that bottle once again

Soon we’ll finger-sign those critics.    (GESTURE!)                                   

It’s so easy to fly straight

I’ll get fit and lose some weight, 

At the Big Rob Rehab Clinic.

At the Big Rob Rehab Clinic.”

c) Important note for readers of Daily Illustrated Nonsense:

With today's post, we have completed our original goal of producing an almost-daily blog (360 posts per year) for 5 years. That's a total of 1800 blogposts, and the task has produced near-terminal exhaustion, and used up the repository of material that we had previously stored for this purpose. Moreover, we have not had quite enough time to tighten and tweak the offerings as we have gone along.

So, it is with great regret that we have decided that there will be no new stuff posted on upcoming dates as we move forward into 2025. You can use the material posted here as an ARCHIVE, and you might rediscover some material that you had forgotten about, or missed when it first was displayed.

Most of the material posted here, particularly the illustrated poems and the wordplay, have also been grouped by topic on the blog "Edifying Nonsense", whose offerings (four posts per month) may continue into the future. As well, some parody-song lyrics targeted at the ukulele community may get posted among the scattered emanations of the blog "Silly Songs and Satire".    

To improve your enjoyment of "Daily Illustrated Nonsense" as an archive of funky humor, we will likely carry on in the background to make some subtle upgrades. This may include deleting some overlapping or low-value material, filling in a few empty slots ('postholes'?), upgrading info on the publication status of the poems (OEDILF), improving links with our other two blogs, and even adding some more photo-illustrations.

Thanks for your indulgence. Have a HAPPY NEW YEAR in 2025.

See y'all  +/- later !!!  

 

Your editors,

Dr.G.H. and Giorgio Coniglio

DEC 29, stand on guard (Canada): tariff terror

 a) Review of material posted on December 29 in previous years ...

2020: patients and maladies, knee effusion (illustrated poem) 
2021: curtained verse, orchestral pecking-order (poem)

2022: reprise, Auld Lang's Sine (illustrated poem)

2023: birdlore, new bird-feeder (illustrated poem)

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b) Today's Offering (Dec 29, 2024): 

Collected poems in the series "Stand on Guard" can be viewed HERE.

DEC 28, OEDILFIAN limericks: "democracy"

a) Reprise of material posted on December 28 in previous years ...

2020: old world palindomes, #5 (wordplay maps)
2021: patients and maladies, non-tumorous omas  (illustrated poem)

2022: painterly poetry, Alfred Sisley (illustrated poem)
2023: Canadiana, Haida Gwaii (illustrated verse)

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b) Today's Offering (Dec 28, 2024): 

Editors' Follow-up Note:  Here's a thought that we had about this issue on the morning of January 7th:

Jan. the sixth, 'twenty-five, came and went,

A perfunctory D.C. event.

Quickly vote counts were tallied

(No rioters rallied)

Pent-up anger it seems had been spent.

Yet our hearts cry out, "Sinners, repent!"

Happy New Year ... Your blog-editors.

DEC 27, American satire: cabinet confirmation --- i

 a) Reprise of material posted on December 27 in previous years ...

2020: non-sequitur, cumulative song (poem) 
2021: binomial phrases, fossil words (poem)

2022: non-sequitur, secret life of plants (poem)
2023: waterfowl, Ibis Hotel, poolside (photo-display)

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b) Today's Offering (Dec 27, 2024): 

Authors' Note: A recent New York Times article was subtitled, "Linda McMahon, whose résumé mainly rests on running World Wrestling Entertainment, has faced questions for years over whether she is suitable for important education posts."

The president, who employed her in his first term as director of the Small Business Administration, nominated her in 2024 as Secretary of Education, but has repeatedly indicated that he would like to eventually eliminate the Department.

We hope that you enjoyed these verses. You can find 50 more on this general topic in 9 collections on our full-service blog "Edifying Nonsense". Click HERE to start.

DEC 26, national and multi-national verse (imperialistic trio): Greenland

a) Reprise of material posted on December 26 in previous years ...

2020: old world palindromes, #3,4 (wordplay maps) 
2021: reptile, geckos on ceiling (illustrated poem)

2022: mammalian wildlife, gerbils (illustrated poem)
2023: submitted palindromes, targeted, Zeus sees Suez. (wordplay)

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b) Today's Offering (Dec 26, 2024): 

Authors' Note: This collection of verses constitutes a trio of imperialistic nonsense.  To see the other verses, click HERE for "Panama Canal Zone" and HERE for "Canada - fifty-first'. 

As of 2024, Greenland, with population of 56,000, is an autonomous territory of the Kingdom of Denmark.

You can review our collection of verses about various individual nations, and about the groupings to which they belong, on our topic-based blog "Edifying Nonsense". Click HERE. 

 

DEC 25, reprise: Xmas anniversary

 a) Reprise of material posted on December 25 in previous years ...

2020: OEDILFian limericks, every Adventuality 1 (collated verses) 
2021: personal/family history, brief bio  (illustrated poem)

2022: classic palindromes, A Santa at NASA. (illustrated poem)

2023: OEDILFian limericks, every Adventuality (reprise)

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b) Today's Offering (Dec 25, 2024):