October 5, 2024

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: unfulfilled opportunity, W-I-P
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)

To access the details of any item in slide format, type its title, as displayed above in red font (e.g. ... computer bugs), into one of the two search bars at the the top of your blog-page. Underneath the slides for each entertaining delight that you discover, you will find a clickable link that lets you easily explore a more widespread collection of wonderments (verse, photos, wordplay, song-lyrics etc.) on the topic of your choice. 

b) Today's Offering (Oct 5, 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).


October 4, 2024

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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b) Today's Offering (Oct 4, 2024)


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

October 3, 2024

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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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

 

October 2, 2024

OCT 2, portraits of couples: Canada goose family

 a) Reprise of material posted on October 2 in previous years ...


2020: Greek prefixes, chrono- (poem)
2021: anagram swarms, Canadian scramble-towns 7 (wordplay maps) 
2022: Italian loanwords, ciao (illustrated poem)
2023: decorative touches, Gaudi bench (fabric art)

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b) Today's Offering (Oct 2, 2024):  



 Enjoy an illustrated poem about Canada geese by clicking HERE.

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



October 1, 2024

OCT 1, pill-poppin' poem: simethicone for abdominal bloating

 

 a) Reprise of material posted on October 1 in prior years ...


2020: new world palindromes, 39 (wordplay maps)
2021: STD-poetry, tabes dorsalis (tertiary syphilis) (poem) 
2022: waterfowl, more snowy egrets, (photo-collage)
2023: chemical states,
 US, western (wordplay maps)

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b) Today's Offering (Oct 1, 2024)


Authors' Note: Simethicone (simeticone), a silicon-based product, is the active ingredient in most current over-the-counter remedies to relieve abdominal distension and gaseous bloating. With coalescence of the offending small bubbles, the gas is dispersed by flatulence and belching.
You can review these illustrated verses in a wider context by proceeding to 'Pharmaceutical (pill-poppin') Poems' on the full-service blog "Edifying Nonsense". Click HERE.




September 30, 2024

SEP 30, singable satire: a lament -- "WHERE HAS NEUROPHYLIS GONE?"

  a) Reprise of material posted on September 30 in prior years ...


2020: insects, yellow jackets (illustrated poem)
2021: singable satire, Yogi Berra's wisdom (parody lyrics)
2022: singable satire, Postcard to Chubby Checker (parody lyrics)
2023: singable satire, Broken Arrow (parody lyrics)


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b) Today's Offering (Sep 30, 2024)

PARODY-LYRICS
Pete Seeger, "America's tuning fork"
ORIGINAL SONG: "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?" Pete Seeger 1960, additional lyrics by Joe Hickerson, also recorded by Kingston Trio in 1962, and later by Peter, Paul and Mary, Marlene Dietrich, etc. Check out the YouTube videos by Seeger here, and by the Kingston Trio here.
PARODY COMPOSED: Giorgio Coniglio, June, 2014, performed at the CUJ (Corktown Ukulele Jam) Theme-Night, with photo here.


WHERE HAS NEUROSYPHILIS GONE?


(to the tune of "Where Have All the Flowers Gone")

Where is early Alzheimer’s?
Home-care agencies.
Mod’rate cases, few years passed
Fill long-term nursing homes
Weren’t some medications tried?
Functions slid and patients died;
Care system’s overburdened - 
When will we ever  learn?

Where has neurosyphilis gone,
Headstones fading?
Textbooks say it filled asylums
Long time ago.
Where Trep. pallidum would lurk,
Course of Penicillin works,
One thing we clearly learned,
One thing we clearly learned.

Where is all the Wernicke’s
encephalopathy?
Confabulating, filling wards
I saw it long ago.
Malnourished boozers off the road
Saved by whopping thiamine load
Another thing we’ve learned, 
A useful thing we’ve learned.

Hypothyroid mania?
 - Hormone treatment
Tots doomed by leukodystrophy?
 - Lorenzo’s oil
Polio? Almost gone, my son
- Vaccinated everyone.
Perhaps, few things we’ve learned,
I guess few things we’ve learned.

Where’s dementia research gone?
Some fills graveyards
Prod choline receptors? – seems not
Helpful in long term. 
Inhibit amyloid?
Doesn’t fill the treatment void.
Where’s that key thing to learn? 
Where’s that key thing to learn?
  
Where've Alzheimer's patients gone ?
Home-care agencies.
Mod’rate cases, few years passed
Fill long-term nursing homes.
Weren’t “preventive measures” done?
Gone to graveyards every one;
Care-system's overburdened - 
I hope someday we’ll learn.

September 29, 2024

SEP 29, defining opinion: hors d'oeuvres

 a) Reprise of material posted on September 29 in prior years ...


2020: savoir-faire, French enologists (illustrated poem)
2021: domestic hazards, kettles (poem) 
2022: STD poetry, monkeypox (poem)
2023: postal places, Canada, Antigonish, NS (illustrated poem)


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 fish), into one of the two search bars at the the top of your blog-page. Underneath the slide(s) for each entertaining delight that you discover, you will find a clickable link that lets you easily explore a more widespread collection of blog-stuff (verse, photos, wordplay, song-lyrics etc.) on the topic of your choice. 


b) Today's Offering (Sep 29, 2024)



  
Our blogpost "Defining Opinion" on the topic-based blog "Edifying Nonsense" shows a selection of similar verses submitted to OEDILF (the online Omnificent English Dictionary iLimerick Form). You can see all of these on one visit by clicking HERE.


September 28, 2024

SEP 28, OEDILFian limericks: 'identity' rhymes

 

 a) Reprise of material posted on September 28 in prior years ...


2020: pandemic poetry, D.Y.O.D. (illustrated poem)
2021: portraits of couples, red slider turtles (photo folio) 
2022: invertebrates, chelipods (illustrated poem)
2023: duplications, hocus-pocus 
(illustrated poem)


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another red-slider grouping



b) Today's Offering (Sep 28, 2024)





September 27, 2024

SEP 27, planet-saving verse: beach foam

  a) Reprise of material posted on September 27 in prior years ...


2020: Toronto ravines, Sherwood (photo-collage)
2021: birdlore, American goldfinch (illustrated poem) 
2022: defining opinion, 
diaphoretic (poem)
2023: ambulatory verse, scamper (poem)


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b) Today's Offering (Sep 27, 2024)







You can help save the planet by viewing all our verses in this series at "Edifying Nonsense". Click HERE!



September 26, 2024

SEP 26, diagnostic imaging: DOGgraphy

a) Reprise of material posted on September 26 in prior years ...

2020: Toronto oases, Humber Bay (photo-collage)
2021: humorists' scurrilous talk, the C-word (poem) 
2022: organic brain poetry, CTE, traumatic encephalopathy (poem)
2023: gruesome verse, hidey-hole (poem)

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mute swan at Humber Bay


b) Today's Offering (Sep 26, 2024):   


Authors' Note:   The confusing terminology for advanced, i.e. 3D medical imaging, uses acronyms that may be historically based or poorly explained. The development of a method of imaging known as ‘DOGgraphy’ is apocryphal. 

CAT: computerized axial tomography, X-ray imaging of a body section; better described in modern terms as ‘x-ray CT’
PET: positron (dual-photon) emission tomography; a Nuclear Medicine technique involving prior injection of a positron-emitting radionuclide ('isotope'); becoming an important modality in cancer assessment
Holography: processing of fields of light or other radiation scattered from objects; well developed with lasers, but with limited current application in medical imaging.


 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!


September 25, 2024

SEP 25, Submitted Palindromes: RANDOM PILE #26


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) Reprise of material posted on September 25 in previous years ...

2020: Toronto ravines, Park Drive Reservation (photo-collage)
2021: at heart, dipyridamole, cardiac stress agent (illustrated poem) 
2022: classic palindromes, step on no pets (poem)
2023: submitted palindromes, targeted, Won't lovers revolt now? (wordplay)

To access the details of any item in slide format, type its title, as displayed above in red font (e.g. ... dipyridamole), into one of the two search bars at the the top of your blog-page. Underneath the slide(s) for each entertaining delight that you discover, you will find a clickable link that lets you easily explore a more widespread collection of wonderments (verse, photos, wordplay, song-lyrics etc.) on the topic of your choice. 

b) Today's Offering (Sep 25, 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).

September 24, 2024

SEP 24, magical palindromes: examples #26 - #30

 a) Reprise of material posted on September 24 in prior years ...


2020: trees, sago palms (illustrated poem)
2021: Toronto ravines, Etobicoke Creek (photo-collage) 
2022: toxic vignettes, antifreeze poisoning (poem)
2023: lexicon of word-pairs, echoic binomials P (wordplay)

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sago palm
(a sexy male cycad)

b) Today's Offering (Sep 24, 2024):




You can view our entire collection of these intriguing wordplay oddities, in a post on our blog "Edifying Nonsense", entitled Magical Palindromes: a compendium".


September 23, 2024

SEP 23, life in Palindrome Valley: dalliance

 a) Reprise of material posted on September 23 in prior years ...


2020: poets' corner, limerick adddiction (poem)
2021: binomial phrases, sin and redemption (illustrated poem) 
2022: American satire, civil lawsuit --Fore! (illustrated poem)
2023: waterfowl, flightless seabirds (illustrated poem)

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b) Today's Offering (Sep 23, 2024)








You can review other illustrated verses on this topic by proceeding to the collection 'Life in Palindrome Valley' on our full-service blog 'Edifying Nonsense'.