APR 30, W-I-P

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): 

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)

b) Today's offering (Apr 29, 2024):

poetry lyrics:/ Wynn the word-maven (wonder) thick-skinned/ Has expended

 a whole lot of wind:/ "I've got smut on each sinner,/ But the topic's a winner -- 

/ I've extended the phrase 'Dennis sinned'." (Dennis, Enid and Nadine sinned), etc.

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): 

poetry lyrics:/ Over gulible eyes, leaders pull/ A web of deceit made of wool -- /
  Frank lies or distortion/ 'Bout borders, abortion,/ And whether
 our cup is half-full./ They've got bucketfuls stuffed with such bull!

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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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 :

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3) Distribution of Thematic Material

4) How Can I Contribute? (under construction)

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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): 

poetry lyrics:/ Leslie Moore will confess that, in truthfulness/ It's a useless task to explain
 'ruthfulness'./ True -- grown old you are youthless/ (Thus, in-dentured or toothless):/
 What a loss, at great cost, to lose youthfulness!

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)

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)

b) Today's Offering (Apr 22, 2024): 

poetry lyrics:/ Giorgio's parallel list (that's eponymous)/ With equivalent words to
 synonymous:/ Identical, equal/ (Tune in for the sequel);/ Same, homologous, peer,/
 Mirror, replica (-near),/ Doppelganger's a copy autonomous./ It's unanimous --
 Leave it anonymous. 

 

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, W-I-P

APR 19, postal places, Canada: Paris, ON

a) Reprise of material posted on April 19 in previous years ...

2020: new world palindromes, #17,18 (wordplay maps)
2021: etymology, dog (illustrated poem) 
2022: American satire, Deceit, social (poem)
2023: American satire, obstruction of justice (poem)

b) Today's Offering (Apr 19, 2024):

Authors' Note: 

fini (fee-NEE): occasionally used French loanword to emphatically indicate 'finished'

ON is the official abbreviation for the Canadian province of Ontario, in which the town of Paris, (population in 2024 of 15,000), is situated on the Grand River 110 km (70 miles) west of Toronto.

 

Gypsum, a partly hydrated sulphate salt of calcium, is used after pulverizing to form rigid structures that set on wetting. Plaster of Paris, a prized form of gypsum, originally found in deposits in France, has been widely used in surgical casts for broken bones. 

Paris, with its preserved Victorian architecture, was flagged as "Canada's prettiest town" by an international travel magazine. The town's name presumably derives from development of the townsite, in the mid-nineteenth century, to exploit the nearby gypsum deposits, not from involvement of French-speaking settlers nor any other French connection.

Francophones, comprising 5% of the province's total population, make up the majority of inhabitants of a few small towns in other regions of Ontario; surprisingly, some of these places have unequivocally Anglophone names including Hearst, Hawkesbury, and Moonbeam.

At one fell swoop, you can review all our postal poems about intriguing places in the USA and Canada, by proceeding to the encyclopedic blog "Edifying Nonsense". Click HERE !

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APR 18, photo-collage: this week's Carolina lowcountry miscellany

a) Reprise of material posted on April 18 in previous years ...

2020: magic canal palindrome, A man, a plan .. Paris (wordplay)

2021: to clot, or not, clotting factor deficiencies (poem)
2022: excursions, further afield, SC (photo-collage)
2023: condo reno, pics (photo-collage)

To access the details of any item in slide format, type its title, as displayed above in red font (e.g. ... Hippocratic), 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. 

b) Today's Offering (Apr 18, 2024): 

Henrietta, the sociable great egret,
at Shem Creek boardwalk

"Blue-tailed skink",
 the origin of that common name is obvious here;
(juvenile five-lined skinks and broad-headed skinks
 have a similar appearance)

jellyfish, recently washed ashore,
Sullivan's Island, SC

a weight-lifting skink

foraging nocturnal opossum
 captured in our porch light 

Henrietta watching kayakers

"Hop to it" (on one leg),
peculiar habit of many shorebirds

African iris
(floral break from all the fauna)

pelican flight

Editor's Note: More photos on this topic can be found on a later posting HERE.