We hope that you enjoyed this verse. You can find 30 more on this topic in 5 collections on our full-service blog 'Edifying Nonsense'. Click HERE to start!
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June 28, 2022 Mark Meadows' aide testifies at the Jan 6 committee hearings |
June 30, 2022
JUN 30, American satire: 'coups' in the news
June 29, 2022
JUN 29, palinku (poetic novelty): Canadiana
Get ready! CANADA DAY is coming up in just two days.
(Ed. note:) Verses of this type have continued to proliferate, and the total now is approaching 60. You can view them all at one swoop if you proceed to our more encyclopedic blog "Edifying Nonsense". Click HERE. Or, if you want to stay on this daily blog, you can enter 'Palinku' on the search line in the browser and find individual verses of this type published here over the last year.
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'He won snow, eh?' |
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A snowy Christmas Day, Toronto, 2020 |
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June 28, 2022
June 27, 2022
JUN 27, pluralia tantum: 'eruptions' -- medical nomenclature
Authors' Note: Eruption is a venerable medical term for a skin rash, in use since an earlier era when practitioners paid careful attention to characteristic skin lesions and various symptoms, but knew little of disease causality such as viral infection and allergy. Traditional names for medical symptoms and diseases in general are often based on lay vernacular terms dating from a much earlier time. Shingles is also known as herpes zoster, the second term referring to the belt-like distribution of lesions.
Grandpa Greg asked us to pass on this message: "You can view the entire collection of verses about 'pluralia tantum' by clicking HERE."
June 26, 2022
JUN 26, bi-lyrical limerick: fiefdom
Authors' Note: This verse is a seven-line concoction based on the limerick format (that we have nicknamed a 'limerrhoid'). The dual-rhyme scheme could only be maintained for the first five lines, but we feel we deserve a star in our notebook for trying!
Be sure to check out the whole grouped collection of 'bi-lyrical limericks' by proceeding to "Edifying Nonsense." CLICK HERE ! (Or, if you prefer, you could look over this stuff on Giorgio's Facebook photo-albums.)
links for any date: scroll over to the calendar-based listings of 'Past Posts' in the righthand column on this page, choose your month of interest, and then select (by clicking) the post of your choice.
June 25, 2022
JUN 25, patients and maladies: vitreous detachment
June 24, 2022
JUN 24, brief saga: anagram swarms
For the purpose of this blog, a 'brief saga' is defined as a poem, usually narrative, but occasionally expository, that tell its story in at least 15 lines. Most commonly, the format involves three stanzas in limerick form, constituting a single submission to the online humor site 'Omnificent English Dictionary in Limerick Form'. On the OEDILF site, rigorous standards for content and format are involved in a collaborative editing process that may take several weeks to over a year.
Generally, OEDILF has not been enormously welcoming of multi-verse submissions, but Giorgio Coniglio has persisted, and there are now over 70 of these multi-verse poems feature in his 'Author's Showcase'. The OEDILF number for each accepted multiverse poem is shown here on the slide with its first verse. We have been blog-publishing these poetic adventures here monthly.
To access the next 'brief saga', advance to 'careers (pluralia tantum)'
To access the most recent previous 'brief saga', back up to 'echoic binomials (Eco-pairs)'
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US Congressman Jamie Raskin |
June 23, 2022
JUN 23, non-sequitur: judge's gavel, plus yesterday's temperature perversion
Our collection of 'Non-Sequiturs' on our parent blog "Edifying Nonsense", contains an admittedly bizarre assortment of nonsensical odds-and-ends, that don't quite fit into other topic-based offerings. But should you want to review the entire collection, click HERE.
June 22, 2022
JUN 22, diagnostic imaging: AC (attenuation correction) for PET scanning
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!
June 21, 2022
June 20, 2022
JUN 20, organic brain poetry: hypothyroid depression
Authors' Note:
rarefactive: (a non-standard use) — the condition of becoming less frequent; under-functioning
By far the most common cause of thyroid hormone deficiency or hypothyroidism (historically known as myxedema for a type of puffy swelling and rash in the legs) is progressive destruction of normal hormone-producing tissue by the process of colloid degeneration. Owing to the metabolic role of thyroid hormone, most body functions then slow, resulting, for example, in reduced heart rate and weight gain. For the brain, somnolence and depression may be accompanied in extreme cases by disordered mentation known as 'myxedema madness'.
Under normal circumstances, the anterior pituitary gland, stimulated by the brain's hypophysis, plays a key role as the 'master gland' in regulating hormone production. When the thyroid gland is flagging, the master gland increases its production of TSH (thyroid stimulating hormone), a messenger that is excreted into the bloodstream, targeted to normalize the peripheral gland's production. Fortunately, the robust sensing mechanism in the hypophysis and pituitary, not impaired by the metabolic slowdown elsewhere, produces high levels of blood TSH so reliably that a simple test can be used as the best test for detection of the hypothyroid state.
You can view and review all our verses on the topic of 'Organic Brain Poetry' by following this link to the encyclopedic collection on "Edifying Nonsense."
June 19, 2022
JUN 19, binomial phrases: 'flotsam and jetsam'
Authors' Note: 'Floaters', in the eye, a common symptom may require expert medical attention when they first appear or become more numerous. Most often, they are insignificant and chronic. Jill might be surprised to learn that they are not caused by accumulation of discrete floating particles, e.g. jetsam, but are rather an effect attributed to fibrous strands traversing the vitreous (posterior) chamber of the eye.
Flotsam and jetsam is an intriguing binomial phrase. The original meaning of its two components is explained in a verse by OEDILFian contributor Kevin Lucas.
June 18, 2022
JUN 18, Ontario nostalgia: canoeing
You can review the entire series of illustrated poems about the good old days in Ontario by checking the post "Ontario Nostalgia" on our full-service blog "Edifying Nonsense". Click HERE.
June 17, 2022
JUN 17, waterfowl: loons (fantasy)
There are five collections of illustrated verses about Waterfowl on our encyclopedic blog 'Edifying Nonsense'. You can start into that entertaining adventure by clicking HERE.
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June 16, 2022
JUN 16, toxic vignette: anthracycline cardiotoxicity (monitoring left ventricular function)
Author's Note: Anthracycline antibiotics, e.g. doxorubicin (adriamycin) are among the most effective chemotherapy agents; they have been profitably incorporated in multidrug chemotherapy treatment routines for many types of cancer. These advantages are partially offset by a relatively unique adverse effect — the possibility of cardiotoxicity, permanent impairment of the systolic (contracting) function of ventricular heart muscle.
Development of this side effect can be minimized by pharmacological manipulations and by monitoring cardiac function periodically during longterm treatment.
Nuclear medicine techniques have classically been used, but echocardiography may also be of value (see the verse ‘Ejection Fraction’).
Review all our poems of toxicologic interest by clicking HERE.
June 15, 2022
JUN 15, doctors and their practices: ophthalmologist sibling xxxxxxxxxxxx Dr. JJ
A nostalgic recollection inspired by a birthday. Dr. JJ would be enjoying his 79th today.
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| at his younger bro's Bar Mitzvah |
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| surprise party (40th anniversary) for his folks |
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June 14, 2022
JUN 14, mammalian wildlife: Steller sea lions
Authors' Note: A falling birth rate due to 'nutritional stress' in females (along with ongoing hunting) has been proposed as a principal factor in the decline in the last century of Pacific Ocean populations of the Steller sea lion, Eumetopias jubatus. Although wanton polygamy has, to be honest, always been an option for females of this species of magnificent marine mammals, the particular efforts of concerned individuals like our heroine Bella may have contributed to a recent recovery.
Current ecological terminology denotes a species whose population is stable in the wild and not threatened as of 'lesser concern'. The EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) took the Steller sea lion off its US Endangered Species List in 2013.
You can review the whole collection of illustrated verses about mammals (both domestic and exotic) by checking out the more extensive post on our full-service blog "Edifying Nonsense". Click HERE !
June 13, 2022
JUN 13, English literature survey course: "Jabberwocky", Lewis Carroll's poem
You can review the entire curriculum for our 'English Classics Survey Course' at "Edifying Nonsense" by clicking HERE.
June 12, 2022
JUN 12: reprehensible modern history: submarine warfare #2
Charleston, South Carolina played a major role in the development of submarine warfare. The Cold War Submarine Memorial is located at Patriot's Point in Mt. Pleasant SC, on the eastern side of Charleston harbor.
At our full-service blog 'Edifying Nonsense', you can review our entire collection of panels about the history of submarine warfare, as well as the lyrics to the parody-song "Relic Submarines". Click HERE.
June 11, 2022
JUN 11, funny bones: Lisfranc fractures
Authors' Note:
crank: an unpleasant person who has difficulty with anger control
ORIF: acronym for surgical intervention for bone fractures — open reduction, internal fixation
plain films: medical jargon for two-dimensional x-ray studies, as opposed to CT, although digital media, not 'film' emulsion, are now generally used to analyze and record the images
With these injuries that involve one or more fractures, metatarsal bones of the lower foot are dissociated from the tarsus, making the mid-foot unstable. They were first observed in cavalry men during the Napoleonic Wars and later described by a French surgeon, Jacques Lisfranc de St-Martin. In English medical jargon they are known as Lisfranc (LIZ-frank or liz-FRANK) fractures. Self-diagnosis of this type of injury by a patient would be an unusual event.
You can view verses on this topic in a wider context by proceeding to the post 'Breaking News: FUNNY BONES' on our full-service blog "Edifying Nonsense". Click HERE!
June 10, 2022
June 9, 2022
JUN 9, reptiles: eviction notice
You can review photos and illustrated herpetologic verses in a wider context by proceeding to 'Verses about Reptiles' (don't worry! no snakes)' on the full-service blog 'Edifying Nonsense'.
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view of wildlife at Caw Caw Interpretive Center, Charleston County Parks, April 30, 2022. |
WATCH OUT!
You can review photos and illustrated herpetologic verses in a wider context by proceeding to 'Verses about Reptiles (don't worry! no snakes)' on the full-service blog "Edifying Nonsense".
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