A blogsite offering entertaining daily oddities since January 2020. There are now over a thousand unique posts in these three years. Images, both visual and poetic, are drawn from daily life, as well as from verses, photos and computer-graphics on our parent blog "Edifying Nonsense".
July 31, 2021
JUL 31, magical palindromes: 'Leon's as selfless as Eva''
July 30, 2021
JUL 30, humorists' scurrilous talk: 'the dick'
July 29, 2021
JUL 29, waterfowl: wood storks
July 28, 2021
JUL 28, doctors and their practices: Pete the orthopod
July 27, 2021
JUL 27, portraits of couples: feral ducks, armadillos
July 26, 2021
JUL 26, Toronto ravines; Glen Stewart Ravine (poem and photocollages #1-#2)
July 25, 2021
JUL 25, funny bones: comminuted fracture
July 24, 2021
JUL 24, pathos and poetry (gun control verse): hitman
July 23, 2021
JUL 23, scopes of medicine: fiberoptic laryngoscopy
Authors' Note:
July 22, 2021
JUL 22, palinku (poetic novelty): sweet treats
In this post, we will continue with a novel form of poetic wordplay. Inspired by Japanese haiku poetry, this new form is used for a terse verse with a total of 17 syllables displayed on three lines. Unlike its classic Japanese analogue, this concoction does not mandate the precise distribution of the syllables among the three lines, but does stipulate that each word in the poem be included in a palindromic phrase or sentence in English (i.e. one that can be read either forwards or backwards).
To help the reader discern the origin of the lyrics, each palindrome (generally occupying one of the three lines of the poem) has been color-coded.
(Ed. note:) Verses of this type have continued to accumulate, and there are now more than 50 of them. You can easily view them all if you proceed to our more encyclopedic blog "Edifying Nonsense". Click HERE.
(Or, if your prefer, you can view all this material on Facebook in Giorgio's photo-albums.)
July 21, 2021
JUL 21, excursion: Niagara Falls
American Falls, from Canadian side of River |
Canadian (Horseshoe) Falls |
Rainbow over Canadian Falls |
July 20, 2021
JUL 20, a brief saga: radiation exposure
Doctors and their Practices (part #1 and #2)
July 19, 2021
JUL 19, diagnostic imaging: dobutamine for myocardial perfusion 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!
July 18, 2021
JUL 18, amphibians: bufotoxin
July 17, 2021
JUL 17, death and the afterlife: cardiac arrest
July 16, 2021
JUL 16, reptiles: eastern glass lizards
July 15, 2021
JUL 15, variant Nantucket limerick: Cape Cod codger
July 14, 2021
JUL 14, holidays and celebrations: old world palindromes, en français
July 13, 2021
JUL 13, bi-lyrical limerick: 'goof'
To date, the archives on the OEDILF site lists over 60 limerick entries that are spoofs on the classic Nantucket limericks.
July 12, 2021
JUL 12, insects: deer-and horse- flies
July 11, 2021
July 10, 2021
JUL 10, poetic Panama palindrome parody: 'a dog... a pagoda'
July 9, 2021
JUL 9, wordplay maps: new world palindromes #49,50
July 8, 2021
JUL 8, to clot, or not: pulmonary embolism (lung clots)
You can view these verses in a wider context by proceeding to 'To Clot, or Not to Clot' on our full-service blog "Edifying Nonsense". Click HERE!
July 7, 2021
JUL 7, spineless verse (invertebrates): gastropods
READING MORE WIDELY:
You can find all our illustrated verses about various 'INVERTEBRATES' , as compiled on our full-service blog "Edifying Nonsense" HERE. But, in fact, we had hived off verses about INSECTS, and they are gathered in separate blogposts, that you can get into HERE. So, follow these links, and enjoy!