A blogsite offering entertaining daily oddities since January 2020. There are now over fifteen hundred posts in these four years. Images, photographic, computer-simulated and poetic, are drawn from daily life, as well as from material grouped by topic on our parent blog "Edifying Nonsense". The poetry displayed is all original, although portions of it evolved through rigorous editing on a collaborative website.
September 30, 2021
SEP 30, life in Palindrome Valley: dalliance
September 29, 2021
SEP 29, domestic hazards: kettles
September 28, 2021
SEP 28, portraits of couples: Red Slider and his family
September 27, 2021
SEP 27, birdlore: American goldfinches
September 26, 2021
SEP 26, humorists' scurrilous talk: 'the C-word'
September 25, 2021
SEP 25, at heart: dipyridamole for stress myocardial imaging
September 24, 2021
SEP 24, Toronto ravines: Etobicoke Creek
Today we had a chance to meet with friends and do a a picnic and a hike through this shale-lined ravine situated at the western boundary of the city. Thanks to the Toronto Region Conservation Authority who created this series of wonderful parks in response to the damage done by Hurricane Hazel in 1954 !
If you are interested in wending your way through an encyclopedic collection of four blogposts stuffed with photo-collages on Toronto ravines, click HERE.
September 23, 2021
SEP 23, binomial phrases: "sin and redemption"
To review the poetic effusion that we have accumulated about binomial phrases, proceed to our blog "Edifying Nonsense", and enjoy the post 'Grandpa Greg's Grammar: Binomial Expressions'. Click HERE !
There is also an entire collection of lyrics to patter songs, somewhat older material, dedicated to various kinds of binomials, that provides more didactic material and an extensive series of examples, and allows you to sing these expressions for your own enjoyment, or for that of others around you. Click HERE !
September 22, 2021
SEP 22, scopes of medicine: ERCP
September 21, 2021
SEP 21, dental feelings (sentimental verse): deep dental cleaning
September 20, 2021
SEP 20 (2021), singable satire: Frank Sinatra sings "PROSTATE CANCER"
PARODY-LYRICS
ORIGINAL SONG: "Love and Marriage", 1955, Cahn and van Heusen, performed by Frank Sinatra, also Peggy Lee and Dinah Shore.PARODY COMPOSED: Dr.G.H. and Giorgio Coniglio, January 2016.
PROSTATE CANCER
(to the tune of “Love and Marriage”: indentations at beginnings of lines flag the syncopation.)
Danger lurking down there in your pants, sir?
Age-effect? guys wondered;
So, “Yes”, you’ll have it at one hunderd.
[6] recently, high-tech variants (laparoscopic and robotic surgery) have been developed, but their additional benefit is incompletely proven.
SEP 20, poetic Panama palindrome parody: 'one man ... a panameno'
September 19, 2021
SEP 19, American satire: fraudulent
September 18, 2021
SEP 18, wordplay maps: Scramble-towns of eastern Canada, #5 and #6
LINKS to other nonsense in this series:
September 17, 2021
SEP 17, patients and maladies: diabetes insipidus
September 16, 2021
SEP 16, culinary verse: gefilte fish
Find the collection of illustrated poems dealing with these issues on the post 'Culinary Verse' on our full-service blog 'Edifying Nonsense'. Click HERE!
September 15, 2021
SEP 15, curtained verse: horny rhino
September 14, 2021
SEP 14, variant Nantucket limerick: 'the Bay-Stater'
September 13, 2021
SEP 13, reptiles: leaping lizards -- origin of flight
Authors' Note: 'Leapin' Lizards' was a classic idiom used to express surprise, long before it was suspected that birds had evolved from reptiles!
September 12, 2021
SEP 12, STD-poetry: latent lues
September 11, 2021
SEP 11, garden intruders: leaf-blowers
September 10, 2021
SEP 10, mammalian wildlife: skunks (evolution)
September 9, 2021
SEP 9, palinku (poetic novelty): Kansas (KS)
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.
September 8, 2021
SEP 8, waterfowl: ruddy turnstones
ruddy turnstone, a high Arctic-breeding shorebird, scurries across a beach strewn with oyster shells, Patriots Point SC, May 2022 |