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

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

2020: singable satire, R-I-C-E (parody lyrics)

2021: singable satire, Flight of the Loonie (parody lyrics)
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

b) Today's Offering (Apr 30, 2024): SINGABLE SATIRE

ORIGINAL PARODY-LYRICS

MUSICAL UNDERPINNINGS: "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 crooning 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.

 Sorry! These lyrics have been moved, along with ukulele chord suggestions, to a posting on our song-blog "Silly Songs and Satire".

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

APR 29, defining opinion: smut

 

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

2020: American satire, pelfirst impeachment trial (computer graphic)
2021: invertebrates, ghost crabs (illustrated poem) 
2022: patients and maladies, gluten sensitivity (poem)
2023: exemplification, hillbilly (poem)

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b) Today's offering (Apr 29, 2024): 

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.

APR 28, American satire: distortion

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

2020: insects, mosquitoes (poem)
2021: American satire, twitter-ban (poem) 
2022: pandemic poetry, the infirm (poem)
2023: defining opinion, cruddy (poem)

b) Today's Offering (Apr 28, 2024): 

We hope that you enjoyed this verse. You can find dozens more on this topic in 9 collections on our full-service blog 'Edifying Nonsense'. Click HERE to start! 

APR 27, photo-collage: Carolina lowcountry miscellany 2

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

2020: anagram swarm, US scramble-towns, 4 (wordplay map)

2021: anagram swarm, US scramble-towns, 16 (wordplay maps)

2022: anagram swarm, Canadian scramble-towns, 6 (wordplay map) 
2023: waterfowl, flight of the GBH (photo-analysis)

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

APR 26, exotic destination: LaBelle, Florida (swamp-cabbage festival) + "PAGES"

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 views from Swan Lake, SC (photo-collage)
2023: condo reno, second week pics (photo-collage)

b) Today's Offering (Apr 26, 2024):

photo courtesy of Uncommon Solutions

Other verses about 'Exotic Travel Destinations' can be found on our blog 'Edifying Nonsense'.     Click HERE.

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 Re PAGES: 

You, members of the audience of Daily Illustrated Nonsense, (D.I.N.), often have questions about the authors of this blog, and the purpose, history and organization of our online e-manations. To help answer these puzzlements, we have scrawled some material on the undated PAGES section of this blog. Please review these 'documents', although some remain under development. Although expansion of these explanations is contemplated, we admit to taking our time to write down what seems natural to us, but more outreach with this type of communication is planned.

So far, you can take a look at these important documents :

1) Our Blog (D.I.N.): Authors and Purpose (under construction)

2) Content of the blog, and its Historical Development

3) Distribution of Thematic Material

4) How Can I Contribute? (under construction)

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 OR, go back to the latest post on this blogsite ("Elegy to Tom Lehrer") HERE. 

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APR 25, submitted palindromes: RANDOM PILES 28

 

You have reached the "Submitted Palindromes" thread on the blog "Daily Edifying Nonsense", a light literary entity that emanates through the blogosphere daily (almost), i.e. 30 times per month.

  On the 25th of each month you will find a slide-filling group of palindromic phrases submitted to the editors by a panel of 7 palindromists. These folks have all been working on this project since January 2020. The personal profiles for each of these contributors are displayed in panels published here at the start of things, and then, we have asked them to provide (palindromically, of course) their views on one of the iconic items in the classic literature, starting with "A man, a plan, a canal -- Panama", continuing with other well-known phrases, such as "Dennis sinned". Otherwise, their contribution will be grouped in monthly random piles (a phrase that you might recognize as an anagram of the word p-a-l-i-n-d-r-o-m-e-s).

You can access this delightful entertainment right here 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, OR, just follow the links indicated above. 

Devotees of palindromic wordplay can further explore limericks and other short verses about the classic palindromes (and quite a few recent concoctions) that are randomly scattered on this blog after September 2000, or collected into grouped postings on our more scholarly blog "Edifying Nonsense" -- start HERE.

APR 24, appended adventures of Leslie Moore (suffixes): youthFULNESS

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

2020: scopes of medicine, endoscopic spectrum (poem)
2021: culinary verse, peel'm 'n' eat'm shrimp (illustrated poem) 
2022: Carolina lowcountry, beach ree-engineering (poem)
2023: word-pairs, rhyming binomials A-C (wordplay lexicon)

b) Today's Offering (Apr 24, 2024): 

Readers might enjoy reviewing our complete collection of poems about the adventures of linguist Leslie Moore in the land of suffixes. Click HERE! (or if you prefer prefixes, click HERE).

APR 23, waterfowl-in-flight 3

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

2020: new world palindromes, #19,20 (wordplay maps)
2021: reptiles, green anoles (illustrated verse) 
2022: binomial phrases, hem and haw (poem)
2023: doctors and practices, neighborhood analyst (illustated poem)

To access the details of any item in slide format, type its title, as displayed above in red font (e.g. ... green anoles), into one of the two search bars at the the top of your blog-page. Underneath the slide(s) for each entertaining delight that you discover, you will find a clickable link that lets you easily explore a more widespread collection of wonderments (verse, photos, wordplay, song-lyrics etc.) on the topic of your choice. 

green anole
 on vertical fence member

b) Today's Offering (Apr 23, 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: oncology verse, image-guided biopsy (poem) 
2022: waterfowl, swans at Swan Lake (illustrated poem)
2023: poetic non-sequitur, victims of bullying (illustrated poem)

Tb) Today's Offering (Apr 22, 2024): 

 To review our whole collection of "exemplary exemplifications", click HERE. 

APR 21, photo-collage: boiled peanuts (goober peas)

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: binomial phrases: fossil words (illustrated poem)
2023: Leslie Moore's suffixes, loveLINESS (poem)

b) Today's Offering (Apr 21, 2024): 

store display, in cellophane bags

ready to eat (a somewhat messy finger-food)

ramikin with empty shells. Delicious!

on-line photo: a nearby establishment in the Carolina lowcountry

Check out our previous post on this topic with an illustrated poem, song lyrics and more photos. Click HERE.

  

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 (Inferno), Dante's Song (parody lyrics)

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b) Today's Offering (Apr 20, 2024) SINGABLE SATIRE

MUSICAL UNDERPINNINGS:  "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 "THE UNIQUENESS OF NUCLEAR"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. 

Patter-Song Lyrics:

There's popular and insular and regular, oracular
Cuticular, vehicular, vesicular, vernacular ...

 Sorry! These lyrics have been moved, along with ukulele chord suggestions, to a posting on our song-blog "Silly Songs and Satire".