MAY 30, singable satire: "ICELAND" show-tune, written by Gershwin and Coniglio

 

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

2020: singable satire, w-i-p (parody lyrics) 
2021: singable satire, Dylan's "Otto" (parody lyrics)
2022: singable satire, The Play's A Sting (parody lyrics)
2023: singable satire, Ewe-Yew-You (parody-lyrics)

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

PARODY SONG-LYRICS

ORIGINAL SONG: The melody for the spiritual ballad "Summertime" from the George Gershwin opera "Porgy and Bess".

PARODY COMPOSED: Giorgio Coniglio (registered pseudonym) and Dr. GH, August 2018. 

EVOLUTION of the LYRICS: The song-lyrics originated as limerick verses composed by Giorgio Coniglio 2017, and compiled in January 2017. The details of the lyrics were based on GC's family trip to Iceland in June 2015. Most of the verses also appear, mildly modified, in the online limerick dictionary OEDILF.com. They were subsequently   posted on GC's blog, at that time known as "Ukable Parodies", adapted as a parody-song collage. 

SONGLINK:  Our whole series of songs can be found in a friendly format for ukulele (and guitar)-players on our blog  "SILLY SONGS and SATIRE". Click HERE to proceed and view how to accompany the song-medley "ICELAND" on your favorite instrument.

While visiting there, you might also be on the lookout for a calypso-style song derived from the same visit to Iceland in June 2015 under the title "Nordic Journal: Island in the Sun".                                   

CONTENTS: 

1. Iceland / Ísland  
2. Geysir: OEDILF 
3. Eyjafjallajökull / E15 
4. Second-Hand Geyser
5. Stopover in Reykjavik 

ICELANDIC SAGA

(to the tune of "Summertime") 

1. In the far North Atlantic there’s dry land:
Friendly Iceland – it’s my kind of island.
You’ll be welcomed in Ísland *; cool and damp but at-peace land; 
Summer-sun-all-day-but-you-won’t-fry land.

2. Tourists learn the Norse thermal god plays here;
The Icelandic locale known as ‘Geysir’.
From hot pools steam erupts - belching after he sups.
Then they head for the sign (that says),“Tour Bus Stays Here.”

3. E15, Iceland stratovolcano,
Spews out fog that can clog up your plane, Oh
If explain it I must - it’s just ashes and dust;  
Can’t they flush it away with some Drano?

4. A cheap gift: though Björn thought he’d surprise her,
Björg rejected his second-hand geyser,                                              
“What I’d prize is a freezer. Your poor wife, why displease her?
It just proves you’re a nasty old miser.”

5. If you’re planning an Iceland stopover:
There's no Northern Lights, but come in June or July.  
Reykjavik stays bright, bars stay open 'til morning.  

TourAdvisor warns book early; prices are high.

* pronounced as EES-lahndt.

MAY 29, pill-poppin' poetry: fentanyl addiction

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

2020: etymology, haven / havoc (poem)
2021: oncologic verse, cancerophobia (poem) 
2022: Ontario nostalgia, commuting by rail (illustrated poem)
2023: excursions, polka dots (photo-collage)

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b) Today's Offering (May 29, 2024): 

 Authors' Note: Everything you might want to know about fentanyl can be found in a verse at OEDILF (the Omnificent English Dictionary in Limerick Form) by fellow contributor-editor DavidGries. Click HERE.

MAY 28, poets' corner: subtle bullying, editorial

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

2020: Charleston gardens: creeping fig (illustrated poem)

2021: funny bones, avascular necrosis (poem) 
2022: ancient languages, Homo latinophonius  (illustrated poem)
2023: condo reno, pictures at renovation (photo-collage)

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b) Today's Offering (May 28, 2024): 

Authors' Note: Used here in a loose sense, with no implications for ownership, cooperative refers to a group effort by like-minded individuals. Collaborative writing sites, such as the on-line dictionary OEDILF (nursery for many of Giorgio's concoctions), have the potential advantage to contributors of learning from peers, and ultimately higher rates of publication. Contributing editors ('eds'), however, may entertain estimations of their personal relevance and productivity that influence their editorial comments on others' work. Rarely, such notions are translated into malevolent actions by these poet-leaders.

Other problems with cooperative groups are discussed HERE.

You can find lots of other verses on this blog under the listing "Poets' Corner".  Click HERE.

MAY 27, photo-story: injured bee

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

2020: anagram swarm, US scramble-towns, 5 (wordplay map)

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

2022: anagram swarm, Canadian scramble-towns, 7 (wordplay map) 
2023: excursion, around Washington, DC (photo-collage)

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b) Today's Offering (May 27, 2024): 

incidental current photo

A sad but determined bumblebee, having lost its left wings, likely in an altercation with some physical object (building?), makes its way on foot across a stone patio.  

An airborne colleague

MAY 26, postal places, Canada: Grande Prairie, AB

 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)

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

2020: Ontario nostalgia, Trent-Severn canal (illustrated poem)
2021: exotic destination, Chania, Greece (illustrated poem) 
2022: reptiles, fence lizards (illustrated poem)
2023: painterly poetry, birth of impressionism (illustrated poem)

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b) Today's Offering (May 26, 2024): 

 

Authors' Note: The above verse combines three disparate plot-elements: limericks about bar jokes, our verses on North America's postal places, and the approach of Hallowe'en.

If you want to know more about the Canadian province of Alberta, consult our verse on Red Deer, AB, or ask speedysnail, author of the OEDILFian poem Alberta.

 

MAY 25, submitted palindromes: RANDOM PILES 46

 

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

2020: targeted palindromes, classics D,E,F (wordplay)
2021: submitted palindromes, random piles 10 (wordplay)  
2022: submitted palindromes, random piles 22 (wordplay)
2023: submitted palindromes, random piles 34 (wordplay)

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b) Today's Offering (May 25, 2024): 

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.  

MAY 24, "pictures at a renovation": sixth week

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

2020: anagram swarm, very-stable-genius 7 (wordplay)
2021: new world palindromes, #39 (wordplay map)
2022: Palindrome Valley, organizing the rally (poem)
2023: exotic destination, Haifa, Israel (poem)

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b) Today's Offering (May 24, 2024): 

 The renewal kitchen is finally being installed ...

MAY 23, photo-collage: Lishman's sculptures

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

2020: new world palindromes, #25 (wordplay)
2021: clot or not, hemophilia (poem) 
2022: toxic vignette, mad as a hatter (erethism) (poem)
2023: classic palindrome, Mr. Owl ... (poem)

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b) Today's Offering (May 23, 2024): 

Bill Lishman's sculpture displayed at Tanenbaum Sculpture Garden, Bridgepoint Health, Toronto, is described by blogTO as "one of Toronto's best-kept art secrets". 

Note that Lishman, the inventor-aviator-naturalist father portrayed in the close-to-real-life story of the 1996 film "Fly Away Home", was a polymath who took up sculpting rather late in life.

TO SEE MORE STUFF: To see older or newer material  (posted daily, or at least on most  'good' days), CLICK below the Comments Section, on 'Older Post' or 'Newer Post'.

MAY 22, photo-collage (waterfowl): trumpeter swans

 

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

2020: sister-cities anagrams, 13,14 (wordplay maps)
2021: Greek prefixes, hyper- and hypo- (poem)
2022: binomial phrases, bump and grind (illustrated poem)
2023: ambulatory verse, amble (poem)

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b) Today's Offering (May 22, 2024): 

standing on one leg is a common pose

tranquil wateere, mysterious reflection. 

family photo:
immature forms have brownish feathers
. and crimson dappling of lower beak

trumpeter swan couples are usually monogamous for life

To see even more of these birds, you might want to review our posts "illustrated verse: trumpeter swans",  and "folio entry: a trumpeter-swan couple". 

MAY 21, Olympic sport: kayak cross

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

2020: geysers, geyser guru (poem)
2021: geysers, 'The Geysers', Ca., (illustrated poem) 
2022: Carolina lowcountry, farewell, wildlife (photo-collage)
2023: excursion, around Toronto, Victoria Day (photo-collage)

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b) Today's Offering (May 21, 2024): 

Olympic sport

boating, kayak cross

  

MAY 20, singable satire: more from Julie Andrews -- "JEUX-DE-MOTS, ENCORE"

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

2020: singable satire, Iceland (Gershwin showtune) (parody lyrics)
2021: singable satire, Stem Cells .. (parody lyrics) 
2022: singable satire, Indiana Song (parody lyrics)
2023: singable satire, Tourguide Known as Virgil (parody lyrics)

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

ORIGINAL PARODY-LYRICS, continuing from our prior blog-post of December 10, 2023.  

MUSICAL UNDERPININGS: "Do-Re-Mi" , as performed by Julie Andrews and the entourage of von Trapp family children in the hit musical "The Sound of Music".

  

PARODY COMPOSED: Giorgio Coniglio, September 2014; the medley, in fact, started with two spoofs based on English language homonyms, set to the same original song, developed for a never-performed spectacle entitled "The Sound of Homonyms". The French counterpart, reposted in April 2024, evolved shortly thereafter. And now we have another French-oriented spoof, never before published, to show you. 

PARODY-SONGLINK: To find ukulele and guitar chord-charts to help you accompany "Jeux-de-Mots, Encore)" on your favorite instrument, click HERE.

JEUX-de-MOTS, ENCORE

(to the tune of "Do-Re-Mi") 

Fardeau (far-DO) -- a burden, pain unearned
Doré (do-RAY) -- means clothed in golden rays

Remis (ruh-MEE) -- remailed, it was returned

Sofa (so-FA) -- where they eat canapés

Lasso (la-SO) -- a noose to catch taureaux (to-RO)

Zola (zoh-LA) -- a writer like Hugo

Sortie (sor-TEE) -- an outing or tirade

Pram for infant's jaunts -- Landau (lahn-DO).

FarDEAU, doRE, reMIS, soFA, lasSO, zoLA, sorTIE, lanDAU !