April 30, 2024

APR 30, singable satire: "THREE BEARS IN OUR HOT-TUB"


a) Reprise of material posted on April 30 in previous years ...

2020: exotic destination, Nome, Alaska (illustrated poem)
2021: poems of Nuclear Medicine, SPECTiloquy (Shakespearean verse) 
2022: singable satire, Carolina, a redawning (parodley* lyrics)
2023: singable satire, adenoma (pair-ody** lyrics)
* parody based on a medley of intertwined lyrics
** parody based on two underlying song melodies

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b) Today's Offering (Apr 30, 2024): 


PARODY-LYRICS
ORIGINAL SONG"Three Coins in The Fountain", 1954, as performed by Frank Sinatra. The song was written by Jule Styne (melody) and Sammy Cahn (lyrics) for the romantic film "Three Coins in the Fountain". The film has a plot involving Rome's famous Trevi Fountain, with a man named Giorgio as one of the principal characters. The song received an Academy Award in 1955 for Best Original Song. Hear Sinatra croon the tune HERE.

PARODY COMPOSED: Giorgio Coniglio, 2016. 

PARODY-SONGLINK: To find ukulele and guitar chord-charts to help you accompany "Three Bears in Our Hot-Tub" on your favorite instrument, click HERE.


INSPIRATION: A newsfeed story related that a California man found his outdoor jacuzzi invaded by a bear who had climbed over his fence; the animal drank a cocktail at tub-side, then left the property and fell asleep in a nearby tree. Similar tales are not uncommon in the Pacific Northwest, but the current story of ursine home-invasion is considerably more elaborate than any single news report found online. 


THREE BEARS IN OUR HOT-TUB

(to the tune of "Three Coins in the Fountain")



Three-meter-high barriers
Should ensure your privacy.
Yogi swings with his cronies,
Down from that overhanging tree.

Three bears in our hot-tub
Each one loosening its bowels.
Good guests should wipe up messes;
These bears use our new white towels.

Three bears drank our cocktails,
Each snarfed snacks in our lanai.
Bare bears then tried romance
When margaritas got them high.

Is the new pool-liner wrecked?
Is the new pool-liner wrecked?

Three bears on our pool-deck,
Snoring after so much fun.
"I can no longer bear it - 
Get help! (I think that that's a pun.)"

"Nine-One-One.
Nine-One-One.
Nine-One-One."


"Three Bears", Anna Hyatt Huntington,
aluminum sculpture,
Brookgreen Gardens, SC.
 










April 29, 2024

APR 29, Olympic sport: pole vault

 a) Reprise of material posted on April 29 in previous years ...


2020: American satire, first impeachment (computer art)
2021: invertebrates, ghost crabs (illustrated poem) 
2022: defining opinion, gluten sensitivity, (poem)
2023: exemplification, hillbilly (illustrated poem)

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b) Today's Offering (Apr 29, 2024): 


Olympic sport



April 28, 2024

APR 28, OEDILFian limericks: W-I-P + Olympic sport: balance beam

a) Reprise of material posted on April 28 in previous years ...

2020: insects, mosquitoes (poem)
2021: American satire, twitter-ban (poem) 
2022: objectionable adjective, flaccid (poem)
2023: defining opinion, cruddy (poem)

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b) Today's Offering (Apr 28, 2024):


Olympic sport


balance beam




April 27, 2024

APR 27, photo-collage: Carolina lowcountry wildlife, with another trip to the pelicatessen

a) Reprise of material posted on April 27 in previous years ...

2020: Carolina lowcountry, chainsaw sculpture (photo-collage)
2021: culinary, peel'm 'n' eat'm shrimp (illustrated poem) 
2022: save the planet, clean coal (poem)
2023: waterfowl, flight of the GBH (photo-analysis)

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b) Today's Offering (Apr 27, 2024): 

A continuation from the post of April 18 


processing the morning's catch


the "pelicatessen" reopens for lunch


See our previous posts about the "pelicatessen", and brown pelicans.



Henrietta poses for a formal portrait


another five-lined skink



tractor-seat plant


snowy egret, afternoon fishing




sediment balls, intertidal zone,
sign of crabs' feeding activity.



fiddler crab, carrying food,
sandy edge of brackish marsh at low tide

glossy privet hedge in bloom

great blue heron, in crepuscular light 

Get a poetic glimpse of the term "crepuscular" by clicking HERE.


sunset view from the boardwalk




April 26, 2024

APR 26, Olympic sport: freestyle wrestling

a) Reprise of material posted on April 26 in previous years ...

2020: trees, gnarling (illustrated poem)
2021: classic palindrome, Panama canal (illustrated poem) 
2022: waterfowl, tranquil iews from Swan Lake SC (illustrated poem)
2023: condo reno, pictures, second week (photo-collage)

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b) Today's Offering (Apr 26, 2024): 



Olympic sports
wrestling, freestyle

















April 25, 2024

APR 25, Submitted Palindromes: RANDOM PILE #11

a) Reprise of material posted on April 25 in previous years ...

2020: Carolina lowcountry, further spring excursions (photo-collage)
2021: humorists' scurrilous talk, the fa#t (poem) 
2022: waterfowl, swans at Swan Lake, SC (illustrated poem)
2023: waterfowl, mute swans pose (photo-op)

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b) Today's Offering (Apr 25, 2024): 




 You can access more of this delightful entertainment by entering submitted palindromes in one of the two search bars at the top of this post and scrolling downwards through the wordplay posts that you will discover. 

April 24, 2024

APR 24, April showers

a) Reprise of material posted on April 24 in previous years ...

2020: scopes of medicine, endoscopic spectrum (poem)
2021: anagrams, US scramble-towns (wordplay maps) 
2022: toxic vignette, antifreeze poisoning (poem)
2023: creative anachronism, Hippocratic oath (illustrated poem)

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b) Today's Offering (Apr 24, 2024): 

see the post of March 4.

April 23, 2024

APR 23, Olympic sport: single canoe racing

 a) Reprise of material posted on April 23 in previous years ...


2020: new world palindromes, #15 (wordplay maps)
2021: reptiles, green anoles (illustrated verse) 
2022: binomial phrases, hem and haw (poem)
2023: saving the planet, last free lunch (photo-display)

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green anole
 on vertical fence member


b) Today's Offering (Apr 23, 2024): 





 Olympic sport

boating: canoe singles racing








April 22, 2024

APR 22, exemplification: synonymous (equivalent)


a) Reprise of material posted on April 22 in previous years ...

2020: boating, kayaking, My Blue Heaven (illustrated poem)
2021: diagnostic imaging, image-guided biopsy (poem) 
2022: pill-poppng poems, oral hypoglycemics (poem)
2023: non-sequitur, victims of bullying (illustrated poem)

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b) Today's Offering (Apr 22, 2024): 





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April 21, 2024

APR 21, Olympic sport: artistic (synchronized) swimming

a) Reprise of material posted on April 21 in previous years ...

2020: mammalian wildlife, star-nosed mole (illustrated poem)
2021: pandemic poetry, down the street (illustrated poem) 
2022: culinary verse, goober peas, boiled peanuts (illustrated poem)
2023: mammalian wildlife, elephant seals (illustrated poem)

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b) Today's Offering (Apr 21, 2024): 


You can find a song about the star-nosed mole on our blog 'Edifying Nonsense'. Click HERE to access it! 




Olympic sport
artistic swimming, team












  

April 20, 2024

APR 20, singable patter-satire: "The UNIQUENESS OF NUCLEAR"

a) Reprise of material posted on April 20 in previous years ...

2020: singable satire, My Blue Sit-on (parody lyrics)
2021: singable satire, Fickle Twist of Verse #1 (parody lyrics) 
2022: singable satire, Brennan's Tweet (parody lyrics)
2023: singable satire, Dante's Song (parody lyrics)

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b) Today's Offering (Apr 20, 2024)


ORIGINAL SONG:  "The Elements", Tom Lehrer, 1959. 
Tom Lehrer, parodist

PARODY COMPOSED: Giorgio Coniglio, October 2013, a follow-up to our childhood enjoyment of Latin classes, as expressed in the earlier song "No Elements". Please note that T.L.'s genius has provided inspiration for a further handful of parody patter-songs. 
An earlier version of this particular song was first web-published in 2013 on the site "AmIRight" under the title "
Residents and Presidents". It has now been extensively updated for presentation to you, our favorite readers. 

PARODY-SONGLINK: To find ukulele and guitar chord-charts to help you accompany this song on your favorite instrument, proceed to our lyrics-blog "SILLY SONGS and SATIRE" by clicking HERE (and when you get to the bottom of the SillySongs post, you can find links to our other songs inspired by Lehrer.) 



THE UNIQUENESS of 'NUCLEAR'

(to the tune of Tom Lehrer's "The Elements")

Singable Introduction:

There was a swarm of parodists who pounced straight for the jugular;
They satirized a Prez whose speech was smug yet sometimes struggular;
Disdain for George the Son, less blame for James from Plains in evidence;
They pegged the mis-spoke "NUCULAR" the catchword of the Presidents.

I toiled for several decades in the Section known as "NUCLEAR";
Though now fairly famili-ar, I still find it peculi-ar
That highly educated voices, palatal and uvular
Would schedule tests, requests infested with the mis-spoke "NUCULAR".



Presidents
 Jimmy Carter and George W Bush
test requests
(web-illustration)

 













Patter-Song Lyrics

There's popular and insular and regular, oracular
Cuticular, vehicular, vesicular, vernacular
And tabular and tubular and muscular and modular
And cellular and singular and circular and nodular.

There's fibular, follicular, and pustular and jocular 
Vestibular and valvular, auricular and ocular
And vascular, crepuscular and titular, testicular
Peninsular, peduncular, avuncular, particular.

Triangular, corpuscular, spectacular and annular,
Articular and angular, glomerular and granular,
And glandular and scapular and spicular and globular
Molecular, trabecular, lenticular and lobular. 

And endless adjectival terms in Med'cine and Biology
With current usage driven by their Latin deriv-ology,
Like saccular and secular and ovular, fascicular
Reticular, radicular, furuncular, funicular.


So, clearly there's no stimulus for apparatus cochlear,
That simulates the sound unique of proper-spoken "NUCLEAR".