JUN 30, W-I-P

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

2020: singable satire, Suburbs Guy (parody lyrics)
2021: singable satire, Sesquicentennial 2017 (parody lyrics) 
2022: singable satire, Whole Foods (parody lyrics)
2023: singable satire, Under My Own Steam 2 (parody lyrics)

b) Today's Offering (Jun 30, 2024): 

JUN 29, defining opinion: post-mortem exam

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

2020: Greek prefixes, AN- (poem)
2021: poets' corner, collaboration (poem) 
2022: defining opinion, crepuscular (illustrated poem)
2023: 'nature' outings, High Park Zoo, (photo-collage)

raccoon (urban)

 

b) Today's Offering (Jun 29, 2024): 

poetry lyrics: / John's cadaver (before it's interred)/ Proposed in his

 very last word:/ "Let's proceed with inspection,/ Tissue samples, dissection -- /

 We might learn why my death had occurred."

 

JUN 28, appended adventures of Leslie Moore (suffixes): loneLINESS

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

2020: anagram swarm, very-stable-genius 8 (wordplay)
2021: classic palindromes, Sex at noon taxes. (poem) 
2022: waterfowl, wood ducks (illustrated poem)
2023: parasites, endoparasites (poem)

b) Today's Offering (Jun 28, 2024): 

poetry lyrics:/ Cell-phones crushed bring deep feelings of loneliness,/ With no calls,
 texts or bleeps, you mourn phoneliness./  One dilemma that's worse/ (Leslie Moore
 penned this verse)/ -- Jailed drug dealer -- bid farewell to stoneliness.

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).

   

JUN 27, W-I-P

 a) Reprise of material posted on June 27, in previous years

2020: anagram swarm, US scramble-towns, 6 (wordplay map)
2021: Greek prefixes, chiro- (poem) 
2022: anagram swarm, Canadian scramble-towns, 8 (wordplay map) 
2023: duplication, hodge-podge (poem)

JUN 26, patients and their maladies: hives (urticaria)

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

2020: political palindromes, EEE (wordplay)

2021: mammalian, concupiscent rabbit (illustrated poem) 
2022: duplication, hanky-panky (poem)
2023: Carolina lowcountry, birding map (wordplay, puzzle)

b) Today's Offering (Jun 26, 2024): 

Authors' Note: Hives, known medically as urticaria, is a symptomatic skin condition attributed to the release of the immune mediator histamine, and manifesting at some point in up to 20% of people. Allergy is a common underlying instigator, with drug reactions being causative in some cases. The onset, with progressive randomly distributed spread of batches of reddish raised lesions, is often acute, but the condition may be repetitive and "chronic", (i.e. on-again, off-again), as is the case with Yves' experience.

Formulation of the above poem required the use of binomial phrases, as indicated by italics.

You can view collections of verses on this topic by proceeding to "Nurse-Verse: PATIENTS and their MALADIES" on our full-service blog "Edifying Nonsense". Click HERE!

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JUN 25, submitted palindromes: RANDOM PILES 30

 

  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).

  

JUN 24, American satire: home schooling

 a) Reprise of material posted on June 24 in previous years

2020: classic palindrome, Flee to me, remote elf. (illustrated poem)
2021: new-world palindromes, #41 (wordplay maps) 
2022: digits, base-10 (illustrated poem)
2023: word-pairs, (re)duplications M-N (wordplay lexicon)

poetry lyrics:/ Johnny's parents, not quite reassured:/ "His woke teachers,
 their zeal undeterred,/ Might use surgical toys/ To make girls
 out of boys;/ We won't send him." (Home schooling's preferred). 

Author's Note: The above verse admittedly panders to those believing in transphobic conspiracy theories.  

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! 

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JUN 23, gruesome verse: horripilation (goose bumps)

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

2020: trees, red mulberry (illustrated poem)

2021: funny bones, prosthetic hipster (poem) 
2022: non-sequitur, judge's gavel (illustrated poem)
2023: national verse, Haiti (poem)

b) Today's Offering (Jun 23, 2024): 

poetry lyrics:/  Goose bumps, caused by arrector (m.) pili: / Ogling films
 with BB -- reveal thrilly;/ When you're chilled in the night,/ Heebie-jeebies from fright;/
 Old friend gives you a slight ---you'll look silly.   

Authors' Note: Goose bumps or goose pimples are a common transient physiological change produced by stimulation of the skin's small and widely distributed arrector pili, tiny muscles at the base of each hair follicle. Their appearance may be provoked by physical conditions (such as a cold environment) or emotional factors, including embarassment, a sexual turn-on, or fear. The latter, accompanied by profound anxiety (the heebie-jeebies), and "hair standing on end" (piloerection or horripilation) is a reaction scaled down from that found in the animal kingdom, e.g. porcupines throwing their quills to put off predators. 

  Heebie-jeebies is gramatically another of those appealing (re) duplications, like helter-skelter and hocus-pocus, and represents a topic appropriate for discussion on Hallowe'en.

Check out the whole collection called "Gruesome Verse" on our blog "Edifying Nonsense" HERE.

JUN 22, pill-poppin' poetry: naloxone

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

2020: waterfowl, herons, T.O. ravines (photo-collage)
2021: new world palindromes, #40 (wordplay map)
2022: diagnostic imaging, attenuation correction (poem)
2023: homophonous verse, bypassed glitches (poem)

poetry lyrics:/ There's an antidote med I'm advising/ For opiate users demising/
  By OD or intention./ Inject stat: death's prevention./ Naloxone's a drug
 worth apprising. 

b) Today's Offering (Jun 22, 2024): 

Authors' Note: The euphemistic initialism OD, for drug overdose, in the parlance of emergency health providers, most often refers to an unintentional drug overdose of narcotic street drugs (e.g. heroin), by an unscheduled user. In a somewhat different context, it may refer to a suicide attempt with a variety of oral medications, including oral opioids, e.g. fentanyl. Naloxone is an antidote molecule, directed at the brain's opioid receptors that can promptly reverse the intense depression of respiratory centres caused by this specific class of drugs. Kits are available for use of this life-saving antidote by injection, and also, more recently, as a nasal spray.

You can view informative verses like this one in a wider context by proceeding to the collection "Pill-Popping Poems (selected pharmaceuticals)" on our full-service blog "Edifying Nonsense". Click HERE! 

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JUN 21, defining opinion: haunch

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

2020: political palindromes, DDD (wordplay)
2021: reptiles, broad-headed skinks (illustrated poem) 
2022: planet-saving verse, invasive species (poem)
2023: mythed opportunities, infernal, Dante's Divine Comedy  (illustrated poem)

b) Today's Offering (Jun 21, 2024): 

poetry lyrics:/ The paunchy percussionist Prussian/ Slipped and flipped as  through
 slush he was rushin'./ So this newsflash we'll launch:/ "He has fractured his haunch,/
 And he's suffered a minor concussion."  

 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.

JUN 20, W-I-P

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

2020: singable satire, Beegees sing "Pairs" (parody lyrics)
2021: singable satire, Lost Country (parody lyrics) 
2022: singable satire, Get Me Roger Stone (parody lyrics)
2023: singable satire (Inferno), Canto 2, "Bea ..." (parody lyrics)

JUN 19, waterfowl: yellow-crowned night heron

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

2020: geysers, British geysers (poem)
2021: waterfowl, oystercatchers (illustrated poem) 
2022: binomial phrases, flotsam and jetsam (poem)
2023: non-sequitur, ground down in traffic (poem)

mallard drake in flight,
Oakland, California

b) Today's Offering (Jun 19, 2024): 

Poetry lyrics:/ A monogamous marsh-dwelling guy,/ Called a night-lady
  (face-color's why)./ Dines on crabs every night,/ Stays near home, out of sight -- /
 He has buddies who migrate and fly. 

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JUN 18, excursion to San Rafael

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

2020: poetic non-sequitur, having the audacity (poem)
2021: birdlore, red-winged blackbirds (illustrated poem) 
2022: organic brain poetry, hypothyroid depression (poem)
2023: word-pairs, reduplication Ho-Hu (wordplay lexicon)

b) Today's Offering (Jun 18, 2024): 

A visit to the Marin County Civic Center, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, completed in 1972. San Rafael is the county seat of Marin County.

view of the SanFrancisco - Oakland Bay Bridge

leaving San Francisco on the Larkspur ferry

library dome

JUN 17, palinku (poetic novelty): lust deferred

 a) Reprise from material posted on June 17 in previous years ...

2020: OEDILFian verse, limericks about haiku (selected verse)
2021: palinku, ponderings (poetic novelty)
2022: palinku, evil (poetic novelty)

2023: palinku, meat-eating (poetic novelty)

b) Today's Offering (Jun 17, 2024): 

JUN 16, special events: Stanford graduation

a) Reprise of material posted on June 16 in previous years ...

2020: canoeing, g-nu trip (illustrated poem)
2021: amphibians, American toad (illustrated poem) 
2022: toxic vignette, anthracycline cardiotoxicity (poem)
2023: culinary verse, goober peas (boiled peanuts) (illustrated poem)

b) Today's Offering (Jun 16, 2024):  Stanford graduation

spectators at the stadium

a typical graduate

hard-core partying (on site)

politically motivated departures

sibling PhDs

more relaxed celebration

doctoral diploma in hand (5 months later)
"taking care of business"

 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)

JUN 15, creative anachronism: Latin authors ... xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxDrJJ

a) Reprise of material posted on June 15 in previous years ...

2020: bi-lyrical limerick, dual rhyme schemes (poem)

2021: patients and maladies, eye discharge (poem) 
2022: doctors and practices, ophthalmologist sibling (poem)
2023: word-pairs, (re)duplications H to Ho- (wordplay lexicon)

b) Today's Offering (Jun 15, 2024): 

poetic lyrics:/ Productively coughing in chorus,/ Poets Virgil, Catullus and Horace,/
 Unvaxxed, all got COVID,/ As did Livy and Ovid,/ Recorded an eon before us/
Who e-mailed the skinny?/ Lucretius and Pliny.

Authors' Note: When writers distort historic timelines intentionally or inadvertently in concocting their plots, they are said to write anachronistically.

Most of the above-mentioned Roman poets have also been discussed individually elsewhere on the OEDILF site. Many of these figures have had their true Latin names altered considerably to fit our Anglo-Latin construct. Apparently, however, none of these authors adopted the limerick format in their poetry.

Along the same lines, readers are invited to review our small but growing collection of "creative anachronisms" on our blog "Edifying Nonsense" by clicking HERE.

NOSTALGIC RECOLLECTION

(inspired by a birthday). Dr. JJ would be enjoying his 81nd today.

at his younger bro's Bar Mitzvah

 

surprise party (40th anniversary) for his folks

an iconic 50th anniversary celebration

 

For several dozen more photos on this theme, please refer to our daily blogposts from February 5th, 2022, to March 6th, 2022. 

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