A blogsite (daily.edifyingnonsense.com) that offered thirty entertaining oddities each month from January, 2000 through December 2024, now slowed to ten per month, continuing as an archive for 2,000+ accumulated posts. Images -- poetic (including song-lyrics), photographic, and computer-simulated -- were drawn from professional pursuits, family-life, travel and fantasy. Illustrated poems and wordplay grouped by topic can also be found in accumulations on our ongoing blog "Edifying Nonsense".
ORIGINAL SONG (recipient/host): "Seven Bridges Road", written by Steve Young in 1969, covered by many groups, most famously The Eagles in 1980. For those who need their memories refreshed, a portion of the original song is found on minified slides at the bottom of this post.
UKULELE VERSION: Chordcharts for adaptation to ukulele were provided by Steve McNie at Toronto Ukes; (the key has been been transposed from D to F by G.C.)
PARODY COMPOSED: Giorgio Coniglio, August 2017. Note that the verses were reduced from 12 to 9, but the poem was otherwise essentially unchanged from the original.
PARODY-SONGLINK: To find ukulele chord-charts to help you accompany "AND NO BIRDS SING" on your favorite instrument, click HERE.
Authors' Note: This verse resulted from the author’s personal experience (as patient).
Following trauma, standard X-rays taken in the Emergency Department show most fractures where the bone fragments are displaced. They can not, however, diagnose many undisplaced fractures, particularly in elderly patients with reduced bone density.
Nonspecific swelling with evidence of leaking of fluid into the adjacent joint space (joint effusion) is particularly common in injuries about the knee, and is easily discerned on visual inspection and X-rays. Follow up radiographs after another 3 weeks sometimes display an initially missed healing fracture. In cases where instability, ongoing pain, or persistent effusion are prominent, injury to ligaments may be suspected.
Be sure to check out the whole collection of verses on 'Patients and their Maladies" by proceeding to our full-service blog, "Edifying Nonsense." CLICK HERE !
Who would ever have guessed? It turns out that an unparalleled word in generating anagrams (letter scrambles) is P-A-L-I-N-D-R-O-M-E-S. We have taken advantage of that property to create this unique series of wordplay maps of imaginary American (and Canadian) locales, each one completed by its official two-letter state (or provincial) abbreviation.
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.
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. The personal profiles for each of these contributors are displayed 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", continuing with other well-known phrases, such as "Dennis sinned". Otherwise, their contribution will be grouped in monthly 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).
You can access this delightful entertainment right here by entering submitted palindromes in one of the two search bars at the top of this post and scrolling downwards through the wordplay posts that you will discover, OR, just follow the links indicated above.
Devotees of palindromic wordplay can further explore limericks and other short verses about the classic palindromes (and quite a few recent concoctions) that are randomly scattered on this blog after September 2000, or collected into grouped postings on our more scholarly blog "Edifying Nonsense" -- start HERE.
You can review these illustrated verses in a wider context by proceeding to 'Reversing Verse: Limericks About Classic Palindromes' on the full-service blog 'Edifying Nonsense'.
TO ENLARGE any slide or stand-alone photo on this blog, just click on it. To reverse the process, and return to this standard view, find the little 'x' in the upper right corner of the black field and click there.
Today's collection should definitely wrap up this excessively extended effort. (But I am proud to say that you can now find some 350 anagrams developed as part of the total undertaking -- and some of them do seem to have some important meaning!)
You can review an amazing number of anagrams based on this book title on our full-service blog 'Edifying Nonsense'. There are two posts to view:
PARODY COMPOSED: Dr. G.H. and Giorgio Coniglio, 2015. This song is the seventh of nine in the series on Word-Pairs. You can find the links to the lyrics of the previous songs at the bottom of the post.
EXPLANATION: For a discussion of reduplications, checkan earlier post on this blog-site by clicking here. This post also honours our previous venture of Feb 15, 2017 entitled 'Abracadabra' to 'Zoom-zoom': possibly the world's largest compendium of reduplications'.
UKULELE and GUITAR-FRIENDLY LINK: Our whole series of songs can be found in a friendly format for ukulele (and guitar)-players on our sister blog "SILLY SONGS and SATIRE" with chord-charts and helpful performing suggestions. Click HEREto proceed to this site.
This post is a follow-up to "The Reduplications: A Lesson"
This collection of fascinating phrases has been modified somewhat since its original posting on the site AmIRight.com. Thanks are due to Al Silver, Becky Hurwitz and Uncle Paul for suggesting several examples which were incorporated into the current version.
WARNING! Do not attempt to sing this lesson at the pace of a patter-song. The management of this blog will take no responsibility for any injuries sustained.
Many of these words have fascinating stories of their origin and subsequent use; the hotlinks highlight those with instructive or amusing information available on the web.
There’s achy-breaky, artsy-fartsy, bigwig, BB, and aye-aye And bric-Ã -brac, abracadabra, boulder holder, and bye-bye And beriberi, Bora Bora, (great) bees knees!, and (bad) boo-boo Andbonbon, buddy-buddy, bunga-bunga, can-can, and choo-choo.
There’s crackerjack, chin-chin, and chili, chugalug, couscous, cocoa And clap-trap, culture vulture, chit-chat, chock-a-block, cluck-cluck, dodo And dilly-dally, deadhead, dumb-dumb, dingle-dangle, and clip-clop And easy-peasy, even Steven, fifty-fifty, and flip-flop.
There’s flim-flam, fiddle-faddle, fuddy-duddy, fat cat, funny mon- -ey; folderol, and fender bender, flower power, honey-bun. And four-door, ga-ga, goody-goody, golden-oldy, and hotshot And gibber-jabber, Henny Penny, honky-tonk,go-go, or not!
Hell’s bells! there’sheyday, holus-bolus, hootchie-kootch, hobnob, hoo-haw Hush-hush, knock-knock, New York, New York (its zip is fixed twixt MA and PA), Ill will, anditsy-bitsy, heyday, juju, ass-backwardblackjack And jingle-jangle, jeepers-creepers, kow-tow, kiwi, andknick-knack.
Ta-Dah !!!
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Many of these words and phrases have fascinating stories of their origin and subsequent use; the hotlinks highlight those with instructive or amusing information available on the web, as follows:
And, for those interested, here's how you find the lyrics-only-version
of the nine songs that make up this cycle. If you would like to accompany yourself on ukulele or guitar, find relevant chord charts by following the links that will take you to the versions in our blog "Silly Songs and Satire".
1. PAIRS, to the tune of "Words" in the style of the Beegees
... the following songs in the style of "The Elements" by Tom Lehrer
cucaracha: Spanish for cockroach, presumably giving rise in the early 17th century to the English name for the insect
cockroach: adjectival form for the common insect (of thousands of species, only four are characterized as pests; cockroachlike might also be used in appropriate instances) In the 1830s, Victorians adopted the shortened form roach to avoid the sexual connotations of the insect's name.
You can review Giorgio's other verses about pesty and occasionally beneficial insects, as collected in 'Buzzwords: Verses about Insects' on the full-service blog "Edifying Nonsense". Click HERE.
