OCT 16, news update: a new unity

   a) Reprise of material posted on October 16 in previous years ...

2020: anagrams, US scramble-towns 11 (wordplay maps)
2021: anagrams, Canadian scramble-towns 9 (wordplay maps) 
2022: Ontario nostalgia, bunkie (illustrated poem)
2023: terminal exclamation, YIKES! (limerick variation)

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b) Today's Offering (Oct 16, 2024):

OCT 15, Submitted Palindromes: RANDOM PILE #28

 a) Reprise of material posted on October 15 in previous years ...

2020: pandemic poetry, preventive cocktails (illustrated poem) 
2021: neologism, personal, POTUSA, abuelita latina (poem)

2022: Toronto ravines, mysterious lower East Don (photo-collage)
2023: decorative touches, Carolina lowcountry scenes (fabric art)

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 b) Today's Offering (Oct 15, 2024): 

  On the 25th of each month you will find a slide-filling group of palindromic phrases submitted to the editors by a panel of 7 palindromists. These folks have all been working on this project since January 2020. Their profiles are indicated in panels published here at the start of things, and then, we have asked them to provide (palindromically, of course) their views on one of the iconic items in the classic literature, starting with "A man, a plan, a canal -- Panama", and continuing with other well-known phrases, such as "Dennis sinned". Otherwise, their contribution will be grouped in random piles (a phrase that you might recognize as an anagram of the word p-a-l-i-n-d-r-o-m-e-s). 

OCT 14, US postal places: Green Bay, WI

 a) Reprise of material posted on October 14 in previous years ...

2020: Toronto ravines, Humber River Valley, 1 (photo-collage) 
2021: literature survey course, The Raven, Poe's epic poem

 (illustrated poem)

2022: doctors and practices, retiring dermatologist (poem)
2023: Toronto ravines, Humber River Valley, 3 (photo-collage)

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 b) Today's Offering (Oct 14, 2024): 

Authors' Note: WI is the official abbreviation for the American state of Wisconsin, in which the city of Green Bay, population 110,000, is situated. Founded in 1634 as a French trading post, this settlement on the northern part of Lake Michigan was known in its earlier days as La Baie Verte. Today it is best known as the home of the football team "Green Bay Packers"; activities of the city's priesthood are described in the poem Holy Communion by OEDILFian contributor Chuck Folkers.

 

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OCT 13, barely believable: bears up close!

  a) Reprise of material posted on October 13 in previous years ...

2020: mammalian wildlife, beavers, Rod the sculptor (poem)
2021: mammalian wildlife, batty idioms (illustrated poem)
2022: numbers, baker's dozen, bark mitzvah (poem)
2023: decorative touches, Ontario Lakeland Scene (fabric art) 

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fabric art, R.C.H.

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b) Today's Offering (Oct 13, 2024): 

  Apparently, the brown bear (Ursus arctos) is in many circumstances, less territorial, less aggressive, and less dangerous to humans than its relatives, members of the physically similar subspecies, the grizzly bears (Ursus arctos horribilis). 

  In Alaska, coastal brown bears, especially those growing up in national parks near the southern coast, become tolerant of the presence of humans, as shown by these photos from an expedition there, as recently obtained and kindly offered for viewing here by my wildlife-photographer buddy Bill Wingfield. 

photos by Dr. William Wingfield,
Lake Clark National Park,
Alaska, August 2024.
Thanks, Bill !

OCT 12, portraits of couples: skeletal spectres

  a) Reprise of material posted on October 12 in previous years ...

2020: Toronto ravines, salmon run on the Humber (photo-collage)
2021: portraits of couples, loons (poem) 
2022: singular plurals, pluralia tantum, rural plurals (poem)
2023: portraits of couples, mute swans (photo folio)

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jumping salmon

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b) Today's Offering (Oct 12, 2024):  

You can view all of our folio-photos from the collection of 'Couples' portraits in a wider context on our full-service blog "Edifying Nonsense". Click HERE.

OCT 11, cinematic guide: George Formby's films and songs

  a) Reprise of material posted on October 11 in previous years ...

2020: Canadiana, Canadian Thanksgiving (illustrated poem)
2021: garden intruders, gnome travel-adventures (poem) 
2022: patients and maladies, the hoarder (poem)
2023: Ontario nostalgia, stormy Ashbridge's Bay (illustrated poem)

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b) Today's Offering (Oct 11, 2024): 

Authors' Note: Perhaps the best-known song by British singer, actor, comedian and consummate ukulele artist George Formby, Jr. (1904–1961) was "When I'm Cleaning Windows." The song appeared in the 1936 film Keep Your Seats, Please; initially banned by the BBC, the song was later revealed to be a favorite of the royal family. 

online photo as displayed in "Ukulele Magazine"

In his films, Formby portrayed a good-natured but incompetent little man from rural county Lancaster, with songs interspersed throughout in which Formby, his character "laced with shy ordinariness", sings while accompanying himself adroitly on ukulele or banjo. Apparently, the Beatles, particularly George Harrison, were among the musicians influenced by Formby's performances. 

OCT 10, singable satire: "PEN OF RABBITS" (non-hunters' martial melody)

  a) Reprise of material posted on October 10 in previous years ...

2020: hellenophilia, Cyclades Islands, Greece (poem - 'brief saga')
2021: exemplification, ablauts, verb past-tenses (poem - 'brief saga') 
2022: organic brain poetry, metabolic delirium (poem - 'brief saga')
2023: ambulatory verse, creep and its variants (poem - 'brief saga')

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Harlech castle, Wales

b) Today's Offering (Oct 10, 2024): 

PARODY-LYRICS

ORIGINAL SONG: "Men of Harlech", traditional Welsh hymn

PARODY COMPOSED: Giorgio Coniglio, August 2013.

Charlotte Church, child diva
 sings "Men of Harlech"

PEN of RABBITS

(to the tune of "Men of Harlech")

Welsh 'rarebit';
no rabbits harmed 

Singable Introduction:
Still today caer Harlech perches,

Dominating YouTube searches - 

Startling, stirring [1], song of Church's

Steals your breath away.

Here’s a song about Welsh Rare-bit, 

Squarely dealing with the hare-bits --

Seen on fare-bills quite a fair bit,

Patrons seem perplexed.

Rabbit Welsh –- offensive nomen-

-clature used by Saxon foemen ?

“No Welsh eats, but cheese and dough, man,

‘less they poach some game.” [2]

Meat-free choice? Just ask your hostess,

Beer-and-cheese-melt over toast; its

Celtic fans applaud and boast, it’s

Cambria’s national dish.

Some meat-shunners might eschew it

Thinking it a hunter’s stew –- but 
It lacks lagomorphs [3], that’s true –- Bugs

Outwits Elmer Fudd!

Rare-bit search is Brasch’s [2]

Hare terse-verse is Nash’s [4]                 

‘HoJo’ wrote the spoof ‘Woad Ode’ [5]

Coniglio [6] penned some flashes.

Hail a dish that harms no hopsters;

Not how Newberg hassles lobsters,

Fwycassees can fweak out sqwabsters --

Free the Cornish hen!

Easter rabbit hunt, New Zealand

Sadly, elsewhere, butchered rabbit

Satisfies game-lovers’ habits;

Easter special –- Braised Brunch-Basket:

Bunny-love abused.

Hard life in the burrows,

Where bereavement’s thorough.

Peters sad, their mom or dad

Got skewered for lunch ‘al burro’ [7].

Hail a world that harms no hopsters,

Fricassees make quail no squabsters,

Calves should escape escalope, sirs !

Peace in field and warren !

[1] Charlotte Church aged 13, recorded the traditional ‘Men of Harlech’, 1998.

[2] Dr R. Brasch discusses the origins of ‘Welsh rarebit/rabbit’ in ‘How Did It Begin’ , MJF Books, 2006.

[3] herbivorous mammals in a zoologic order which includes rabbits and hares.

[4] Ogden Nash’s well-known 2-line poem, ‘The Rabbits’

[5] Best-known spoof on the song: a Boy-Scout song based on the tradition among ancient Britons of fighting naked in woad dye, by Eton housemaster W. Hope-Jones, 'HoJo', 1921

[6] Coniglio: name derived from the Italian word for rabbit 

[7] culinary term in Italian for 'prepared in a butter sauce'

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OCT 9, higher connections: haredim

 a) Reprise of material posted on October 9 in previous years ...

2020: poets' corner, authorly skill (poem)
2021: bottom-line humor, borborygmi (poem) 
2022: waterfowl, black skimmers (illustrated poem)
2023: birdlore, pigeon-porn, billing and cooing (illustrated poem)

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pigeons

b) Today's Offering (Oct 9, 2024): 

Authors' note: 

(khah-ray-DEEM)

Various groups of strictly Orthodox or haredi (khah-RAY-dee) Jews represent an expanding demographic in Israel, assembling in particular neighborhoods (such as the suburbs of Jerusalem) where they carry out their lifestyle, rejecting and disdaining the secular environment, preferring a world characterized by observance of laws derived from the Torah (Bible). Their traditional dress reflects the groups' roots in 19th century Ashkenazi religious communities in eastern Europe. The name (the plural noun form) originates from a biblical reference to those who tremble at the word of God.

With large families (averaging 7 children per woman), these groups made up 4% of Israeli citizens in 1980, and 13% in 2021.

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OCT 8r, OEDILFian limericks: haiku poetry, 2

 a) Reprise of material posted on October 8 in previous years ...

2020: Ontario nostalgia, stormy Ashbridge's Bay (photo-collage)
2021: variant Nantucket limerick, moeurs of Nantucket  (illustrated poem) 
2022: poets' corner, editorial balking (poem)
2023: decorative touches, kimono (fabric art)

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Ashbridge's Bay

b) Today's Offering (Oct 8, 2024): 

OCT 7, palinku (poetic novelty): 45th prez, 3/7

a) Reprise of material posted on October 7 in previous years ...

2020: Toronto oases, Leslie Street Spit, 1 and 2 (photo-collage)  
2021: waterfowl, hooded merganser (illustrated poem) 
2022: American satire, meticulous archivist (poem)
2023: Toronto oases, Leslie Street Spit, 3 and 4 (photo-collage)

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view of Toronto,
from 'the spit'

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b) Today's Offering (Oct 7, 2024): 

 You can readily view all our verses of this type if you proceed with a single click to our more encyclopedic blog "Edifying Nonsense". Click HERE. 

OCT 6, curtained verse: braless

a) Reprise of material posted on October 6 in previous years ...

2020: political palindromes, OOO (wordplay)  
2021: death and afterlife, [sic] to death (poem)

2022: duplication, helter-skelter (illustrated poem) 
2023: trinomial phrases, healthy, wealthy and wise (poem)

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b) Today's Offering (Oct 6, 2024): 

EDITORS' WARNING: You must be at least 12 years of age to read this post! 

 You can review other mildly scurrilous illustrated verses in a wider context by proceeding to 'Curtained verse: Faintly Obscene (Selected) Limericks' on the full-service blog 'Edifying Nonsense'.

OCT 5, Submitted Palindromes: RANDOM PILE #27

You have reached the "Submitted Palindromes" thread on the blog "Daily Edifying Nonsense", a light literary entity that emanates through the blogosphere daily (almost), i.e. 30 times per month.

a) Review of material posted on October 5 in previous years ...

2020: Carolina lowcountry, sunset, with shrimpboats (photo)
2021: insects, computer bugs (illustrated poem) 
2022: inspired by Ogden Nash, a sloth in a slough (illustrated poem)
2023: submitted palindromes, targeted, Was it a rat I saw? (wordplay)

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shrimpboats at sunset 

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b) Today's Offering (Oct 5, 2024): 

  On the 25th of each month (more recently buoyed up by additional postings on the 5th and 15th) you will find a slide-filling group of palindromic phrases submitted to the editors by a panel of 7 palindromists. These folks have all been working on this project since January 2020. Their profiles are indicated in panels published here at the start of things, and then, we have asked them to provide (palindromically, of course) their views on one of the iconic items in the classic literature, starting with "A man, a plan, a canal -- Panama", and continuing with other well-known phrases, such as "Dennis sinned". Otherwise, their contribution will be grouped in random piles (a phrase that you might recognize as an anagram of the word p-a-l-i-n-d-r-o-m-e-s).

OCT 4, poets' corner: argumentively (the Cans and the Can'ts)

 a) Review of material posted on October 4 in prior years ...

2020: classic palindromes, 'saw' and 'see' lines, ... (illustrated poem) 
2021: numbers, quartets, foursomes (illustrated poem)
2022: variant Nantucket limerick, lad from Salinas (illustrated poem)

2023: signs of confusion, 5th collection (photo-collage)

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a sign of confusion

b) Today's Offering (Oct 4, 2024): 

 You can find lots of other verses on this blog under the listing "Poets' Corner".  Click HERE. 

OCT 3, waterfowl: white ibis (photo-collage)

 a) Review of material posted on October 3 in prior years ...

2020: magic palindromes, A man, ... à Paris. (wordplay) 
2021: oncologic verses, benign tumors, a guidebook (poem)
2022: bar-fauna, Gary the (alli)gator (illustrated poem)

2023: invertebrates, dew worms (illustrated poem)

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Gary, the gator

b) Today's Offering (Oct 3, 2024): 

You might want to start by reviewing the 2020 illustrated poem "American white ibises". Click HERE.

 

white ibis trio,
crepuscular view (return to pond)

Immature form (under two years)
showing chocolate-brown body color