flaccid (FLASS-id or FLAX-id): flabby or limp
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".
August 31, 2022
AUG 31, objectionable adjectives: flaccid
flaccid (FLASS-id or FLAX-id): flabby or limp
August 30, 2022
AUG 30, limerick for classic language lovers: anachronistically
ANACHRONISTICALLY
Anachronistically, Horace
August 29, 2022
AUG 29, classic palindrome: Egad! an adage!
EGAD! An ADAGE
Max finds (Egad!) an adage a chore;
Likewise precepts and edicts a bore.
'Tho he's unenthused when it's
The time to pen tenets,
Mix a maxim? He crafts them galore.
"How I wish I'd explored this before."
It is unclear why Max finds the maxim more worthy of indulgence than the tenet; the latter, it is noted is a palindrome. And so are Egad! an adage, and Mix a maxim, delightful phrases that may be found in lists of classic palindromes.
August 28, 2022
AUG 28, planet-saving verse: summer air quality
August 27, 2022
AUG 27, organic brain poetry: frontal meningioma
FRONTAL MENINGIOMA
In the frontal lobes, meningioma
Presses on, slowly grows in its stroma.
Meningioma is a not-uncommon slowly growing benign tumor within the cranium. Pressure on adjacent portions of normal brain induce neurological symptoms. When the tumor is located in the frontal cortex, neuropsychiatric manifestations may include bizarre thoughts, frequently paranoid, and unrepressed behavior. Fortunately, the tumors, when suspected, are readily diagnosed on neuro-imaging studies, and surgical therapy is often curative.
Brain tumours account for only a small portion of patients suffering such neuropsychiatric symptoms; however, medical practitioners frequently hope that such a correctable cause may be discovered.
August 26, 2022
AUG 26, a brief saga: Mar-a-lago (the dacha)
August 25, 2022
AUG 25, American satire: archival
August 24, 2022
AUG 24, patients and maladies: intermittent claudication
You can view these verses in a wider context by proceeding to 'Nurse-Verse: Patients and their Maladies' on our full-service blog "Edifying Nonsense". Click HERE!
August 23, 2022
AUG 23, Canadiana: 'compassionate use'
You can review poems, pictures and diverse nonsense related to Canada on the post "Canadiana" on our full-service blog "Edifying Nonsense".
August 22, 2022
AUG 22, funny bones: olecranon (elbow) fracture
August 21, 2022
AUG 21, classic palindrome: dogma: I am God
August 20, 2022
AUG 20, Toronto oases (cultural): Harbourfront Centre
August 19, 2022
AUG 19, patients and their maladies: torsade de pointes
TORSADE DE POINTES
Flying straight is a casual metaphor associated with performing expected or routine function.
August 18, 2022
AUG 18, Italian loanwords: cicerone
You can review our entire poetic outpouring about Italian loanwords by proceeding to a post on our full-service blog 'Edifying Nonsense'; click HERE.
If you prefer, you could view most of this topically arranged material on Facebook, in Giorgio's photo-albums. (About 20% of those offerings consist of political satire or adult limericks, and you will have to be a 'friend' of Giorgio's to view that stuff.)
Editors' Note: This blog has portrayed daily humour, entertainment and contemplation, focusing on the modalities of poetry, nature photography and computer art, for two and a half years. (That's almost 900 blogposts.) Unfortunately, that takes a lot of work, and so this stuff may be appearing irregularly and less frequently in the future. Owing to a number of distractions, there will be less frequent original new posts from mid-August forward. My previously productive pseudonym, Giorgio, is currently undergoing relaxation therapy, and might resume his full creative activities at some future point.
August 17, 2022
AUG 17, waterfowl: habitat restored (Crab Bank)
pelican take-off |
August 16, 2022
AUG 16, toxic vignette: digitalis toxicity
August 15, 2022
AUG 15, American satire: FBIer
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!
August 14, 2022
AUG 14, STD-poetry: the 'gon-dom' and the condom
August 13, 2022
AUG 13, American satire: classified documents!
This post is CLASSIFIED! (proper security clearance is required)
August 12, 2022
AUG 12, ecto-parasites: cat fleas
THE CAT FLEA (Ctenocephalides felis)
C. felis, its species, the cat flea:
Former tenant's dog Will
Wore a flea-collar; still,
His tormentors remain as our flat flea.
August 11, 2022
AUG 11, palinku (poetic novelty): reliable transport
(Ed. note:) Verses of this ilk have continued to accumulate. You can view them all at one swoop if you proceed with a single click to our more encyclopedic blog "Edifying Nonsense". Click HERE.
August 10, 2022
AUG 10, news-post: American satire -- taking the fifth
August 9, 2022
AUG 9, limerick variations: ka-pow! (terminal exclamation!)
August 8, 2022
AUG 8, reptiles: update on anole coloration
During the first week of May, 2022, with spring seriously underway in the Carolina Lowcountry, little lizards were out doing their thing in our yard (I presume that's hunting for insects, looking out for potential mates, and patrolling their territories to keep out intruders).
Harking back to previous reference on this site to anoles, I came across the following illustrated verses:
Events around our yard 'today' (May 3, i.e. taking down an old fence) made it a good day for further observations of green anoles and their remarkable penchant/ability to change colour, even though biologists insist that they are not true chameleons.
'Ollie' the green anole, looking greyish on old post |
'Ollie', posing again, in our backyard, on Ocala anise branch, 2 minutes later |
a different creature, ('Ollie's cousin?) climbing down crepe myrtle, few minutes later, 100 feet away |
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".
August 7, 2022
AUG 7, pluralia tantum: 'dependent' -- cooking ingredients
Grandpa Greg asked us to pass on this message: "You can view the entire collection of verses about 'pluralia tantum' by clicking HERE."
August 6, 2022
AUG 6, death and the afterlife: dining in Heaven
August 5, 2022
August 4, 2022
AUG 4, wordplay map: renamed US state capitals (western)
We presume that there are others out there who have found that the names of the US state capital cities are a chore to remember. So, here's a practical application of wordplay with anagrams!
We might eventually do the eastern US states, so stay tuned (but be patient).
August 3, 2022
AUG 3, palinku (poetic novelty): evil
In this post, we 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.)