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".
December 31, 2022
* DEC 31, HOGMANAY (New Year's Eve): Auld Lang's sine
December 30, 2022
DEC 30, creative anachronism: Roget's Roman "Thesaurus"
December 29, 2022
DEC 29, ecto-parasites: bedbugs
December 28, 2022
DEC 28, painterly poetry: Alfred Sisley, en plein air
December 27, 2022
DEC 27, non-sequitur: "The Secret Life of Plants" (+ US news)
December 26, 2022
DEC 26, mammalian wildlife: gerbils
December 25, 2022
* DEC 25, Holiday season -- every Adventuality
December 24, 2022
DEC 24: holidays and celebrations: poinsettias
Happy Birthday to Trooper, wherever you are!
Incidentally, although the plant is assumed by many to be toxic, that possibility appears based on an incorrect original report, and is unsupported by other evidence.
December 23, 2022
DEC 23, objectionable adjectives: fulsome
Authors' Note: Pretentiousness may be at work when the word fulsome is (ab)used by a writer or speaker who feels that 'full' is not sufficiently impressive.
December 22, 2022
DEC 22, higher connections: great chain of being
December 21, 2022
DEC 21, defining opinion: hollow
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 in Limerick Form). You can see all of these on one visit by clicking HERE.
December 20, 2022
DEC 20, mythed opportunities: Aurora and Tithonus (eternally)
You can take advantage of the whole spectrum of illustrated poems dealing with 'Mythed Opportunities' that we have collected on our full-service blog 'Edifying Nonsense'. Click HERE!
December 19, 2022
DEC 19, death and the afterlife: where bad Jews go
December 18, 2022
DEC 18, news-post: FIFA (soccer) World Cup 2022
FIFA WORLD CUP 2022:
Final at Qatar venue ends in 3-3- tie.
Thrilling tie-breaker, Argentina, Messi: What more can you say ?
December 17, 2022
DEC 17, waterfowl: flightless seabirds
December 16, 2022
DEC 16, patients and their maladies: Graves' disease
Among several effective treatments, antithyroid drugs, taken over months or years, block production of these hormones, and often result in resumption of the euthyroid (normal) state.
December 15, 2022
DEC 15, reptiles: herpetophobes
December 14, 2022
DEC 14, classic palindrome: go hang a salami ...
December 13, 2022
DEC 13: (re)duplication: harum-scarum
Authors' Note: The grammatical term (re)duplications is also discussed by the author in a verse about hanky-panky.
Readers willing to go down an internet rabbit-hole HERE can easily get to our other nine short verses dealing with specific reduplications, as well as three fairly lengthy patter-songs about this fascinating linguistic phenomenon.
December 12, 2022
DEC 12, planet-saving verse: drought
You can help save the planet by viewing all our verses in this series at "Edifying Nonsense". Click HERE!
December 11, 2022
DEC 11, signs of confusion: second collection
This post is the second in a series of 5. You can attempt to get all of this straight by reviewing the collection in the previous post of November 16, '22
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toplessness? |
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as a child, I believed that 'Pickering' was an abbreviation for 'pickled herring'. I guess I was wrong |
This post is the second in a series of 5. You can push onwards and review the collections in these subsequent posts ...