A blogsite offering entertaining daily oddities since January 2020. There are now over thirteen hundred unique posts in these four years. Images, both photographic 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!
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, curtained verse: florid
Authors' Note:
Although it's principal meanings revolve around the Latin term for flowery or flourishing, florid has come to imply, in the medical context, "referring to a disease or to a symptom in its fully developed form", or perhaps "fragrantly, flagrantly florid".
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.
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!
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
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, dental feelings (sentimental verse): gnashing, bruxism
You can review the collection of illustrated verses on this topic by proceeding to the post 'Dental Feelings' on our full-service blog 'Edifying Nonsense'.
December 10, 2022
DEC 10, palinku (poetic novety): diapers
December 9, 2022
DEC 9, inspired by Ogden Nash: ultimate tribute
December 8, 2022
DEC 8, doctors and their practices: Doctors Without Borders
This verse is dedicated to Dr. M. G., an Irish-Canadian emergency physician, now serving as a hospital administrator in Yemen.
You can view these informative verses in a wider context by proceeding to the collection 'DOCTORS and their PRACTICES' on our full-service blog "Edifying Nonsense". Click HERE!
December 7, 2022
DEC 7, urban concerns: break of day
December 6, 2022
DEC 6, bar-fauna: Hamlet at the pub
If you liked this offering, you might want to refer to our entire collection of verses about human and animal denizens of bars, pubs and other watering-holes. Click HERE.
December 5, 2022
DEC 5, insects: entomologists
Authors' Note: Fact-sheets dealing with related key information have been posted here by etymologists. These include short poems pertaining to insects that eat woollens, scavenge for food, destroy wood structures, prey on human blood and torment domestic pets.
December 4, 2022
DEC 4, pluralia tantum: 'moronics' -- unusual fields of study
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Grandpa Greg asked us to pass on this message: "You can view the entire collection of verses about 'pluralia tantum' by clicking HERE."
December 3, 2022
DEC 3, binomial phrases: 'publish or perish'
Authors' Note: The above treatise was assisted by a grant from the Foundation for Classic Binomial Expressions, under which permission was obtained for the use of song and dance, ants in one's pants, and publish or perish. (Other paired expressions, cheer and cherish, and funding and grants, are under development).