JUL 30, singable satire: "SIN and REDEMPTION" -- a traditional palindromic concoction

a) Review of material posted on July 30 in previous years ...

2020: singable satire, X66X (parody lyrics)
2021: singable satire, Pisa's Lean Trattoria (parody lyrics)
2022: singable satire, Flaking Out Is What They Do (parody lyrics)
2023: singable satire, Jeux-de-Mots (parody lyrics)

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

ORIGINAL PARODY-LYRICS

MUSICAL UNDEPINNNGS: "He's Got the Whole World In His Hands", traditional spiritual, first published in 1927.

PARODY COMPOSED: Giorgio Coniglio, January 2014, subsequently upgraded. 

PARODY-SONGLINK: To find ukulele (and guitar) chord-charts to help you accompany "SIN and REDEMPTION" on your favorite instrument, click HERE.

SIN AND REDEMPTION

(to the tune of "He's Got the Whole World In His Hands")

The Palindromes taught us, "Dennis sinned"
Taught all the sisters "Dennis, Madam, sinned"
Taught us "Dennis lived as a devil sinned"
We're taught to know that "Dennis sinned". 

You've got to know that "Dennis and Edna sinned"
Yes, "Dennis, Nell, Edna and Ellen sinned"
"Dennis, Nell, Edna, Hannah and Ellen sinned"
You know that "Dennis and Edna sinned".

We're taught that "Dennis, Nora, Al, Aaron sinned"
"Dennis, Nell, Edna, Gert, Reg and Ellen sinned"
At "Dennis's Inn: Edna and Ennis sinned"
"Dennis' tennis sin-net sinned".

"Dennis, Nat's DNA and Stan? Sin, Ned"
"Dennis's sensuousness? Sin, Ned"
"Bed Noel, Otto, Leon, Deb"
"Dennis lived at a devil's inn, Ed".

Dennis "Evil did deliver, reviled did live",
But if everybody here would just forgive,
It could be "drawn onward" on the wind -- 
"Dennis never even sinned".

                           -------------

(Ed. Note)

Additional thoughts about the above lyrics for those so inclined:

Dennis, Enid and Nadine sinned.

Dennis, Eva, Dave sinned.

Dennis and Edna dined. Enid and Edna sinned.

Dennis, Rod, Enid and Edna dined or sinned.

Dennis and Ed, Nadine, Enid and Edna sinned.

Dennis and Ed, Nadine, Eva, Dave, Enid and Edna sinned.

JUL 29, photo-collage: Cirque du Soleil's "Echo", #3 --- more aerialists

  a) Reprise of material posted on July 29 in previous years

2020: Toronto ravines, Park Drive Reservation (photo-collage)
2021: waterfowl, wood storks (illustrated poem) 
2022: reptiles, broad-headed skinks (photo-collage)
2023: mammalian wildlife, selfie with bison (photo and  commentary)

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b) Today's offering (July 29, 2024): 

 

JUL 28, appended adventures of Leslie Moore (suffixes): helpFULLY

  a) Reprise of material posted on July 28 in previous years

2020: insects, insect repellent, DEET (illustrated poem)
2021: doctors and practices, Pete the orthopod (poem) 
2022: waterfowl, snow geese (illustrated poem)
2023: anagram swarm, very-stable-genius 13,14 (wordplay)

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b) Today's offering (Jul 28, 2024):  

Authors' Note: For more than a decade, the author of this verse has routinely taken a bedtime dose of alginate, a seaweed-derived product useful as an adjunct in the treatment of gastroesophageal reflux.

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).

JUL 27, holidays and celebrations: unicorny fifth birthday

  a) Reprise of material posted on July 27 in previous years

2020: anagram swarm, US scramble-towns, 7 (wordplay map)
2021: insects, deer- and horse- flies (illustrated poem) 
2022: anagram swarm, Canadian scramble-towns, 9 (wordplay map) 
2023: Carolina lowcountry, sundown at Shem Creek (photo-essay)

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b) Today's offering (July 27, 2024): 

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, 

You-Know-Who !!!

JUL 26, selected pics: ursine adventures

 

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

2020: magic canal palindromes, more far-flung venues (wordplay)
2021: Toronto ravines, Glen Stewart ravine (illustrated poem) 
2022: saving the planet, compostables (illustrated poem)
2023: creative anachronism, heavenly host (poem)

 

TODAY'S POEM ('senryu' *) 

  

Alaska ursines --

photographer's adventures.

safe return, old friend!

Giorgio Coniglio

* learn more HERE about "senryu", a term that designates a lesser-known Japanese short poem that shares the physical characteristics of haiku (nominally 17 'on' / syllables in three non-rhyming lines), but deals in a satiric or humorous way with human foibles rather than with Nature. 

Readers can check our other adventures about bears by clicking on this  parody-song. 

Authors' Note:   Apparently, the brown bear (Ursus arctos) is in many circumstances, less territorial, less aggressive, and less dangerous to humans than its relatives, members of the physically similar subspecies, the grizzly bears (Ursus arctos horribilis). 

  In Alaska, coastal brown bears, especially those growing up in national parks near the southern coast, become tolerant of the presence of humans, as shown by these photos from an expedition there, as recently obtained and kindly offered for viewing here by my wildlife-photographer buddy, Bill Wingfield, from an earlier ursine adventure. 

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JUL 25, submitted palindromes: RANDOM PILES 31

 GREETINGS, WORDPLAY ENTHUSIASTS !!!

  

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. Their profiles are indicated 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", and continuing with other well-known phrases, such as "Dennis sinned". Otherwise, their contribution will be grouped in 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 all of this material by entering submitted palindromes in one of the two search bars at the top of this post and scrolling downwards through the delightful material that you will discover. 

JUL 24, American satire: prolongation, voting from abroad

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

2020: Ontario nostalgia, Toronto ravines (illustrated poem)
2021: magical palindromes, selfless (wordplay) 
2022: Italian loanwords, fiasco (poem)
2023: lexicon of word-pairs, duplications D-G (wordplay)

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b) Today's offering (Jul 24, 2024): 

photos by Giorgio Coniglio... 

seating at an airport departure gate,
Vancouver, Canada

We owe a debt of gratitude to the volunteers who staff organizations like this.. 

Unrelated to the previous photos, here's the reworking (for enhanced legibility) of a sign attached to a housefront, as posted recently on the internet. ...

JUL 23, defining opinion: holler

 

 a) Reprise of material posted on July 23 in previous years

2020: anagram swarm, very-stable-genius 12 (wordplay)
2021: scopes of medicine, fiberoptic laryngoscopy (illustrated poem) 
2022: toxic vignette, gadolinium (illustrated poem)
2023: Carolina lowcountry, suburban wildlife (photo-essay)

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b) Today's offering (Jul 23, 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.

JUL 22, basic medical science: left ventricular ejection fraction

  

a) Reprise of material posted on July 22 in previous years

2020: at heart, myocardial ischemia (illustrated poem)
2021: death and afterlife, cardiac arrest (illustrated poem) 
2022: at heart, arteriopath (poem)
2023: patients and maladies, nervous bladder (poem)

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b) Today's offering (Jul 22,2024): 

Authors' Note: In disease states, including those producing congestive heart failure, the ejection fraction of the left ventricle, a measure indicating the strength of contraction, provides important information concerning prognosis (potential outcome) and the need for treatment. 

   The ejection fraction can be measured by echocardiography, magnetic resonance imaging, or several different nuclear (radio-isotope) techniques. These techniques measure the volume of the ventricle at the end of diastolic (relaxation) and systolic (contraction) phases of the cardiac cycle. Despite the name, the change during systole is generally given in medical jargon as the percent relative change, rather than as a true fraction; e.g. 60% is good, 30% is bad.

 

Readers can enjoy our whole collection of verses on the topic of "basic medical science" by clicking HERE.

JUL 21, Canadiana: Canadian spelling

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

2020: anagram swarm, very-stable-genius 11  (wordplay)
2021: excursion, Niagara Falls (photo-collage) 
2022: anagram swarm, bilateral North American (wordplay maps)
2023: terminal poetic exclamation, KAPOW! (poem)

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b) Today's offering (Jul 21, 2024): 

Authors' Note:

centre: word-form used for 'population hubs' in the majority of English-speaking countries, exactly equivalent to the American center

traveller: ditto (American = traveler)

   The American visitors were not quite correct. We Canucks, if we were so motivated, would "practise pre-empting dissenters". But, as Canadians are inherently mannerly, few among us would ever consider such a response, eh? 

You can review poems, photos and diverse nonsense related to Canada by proceeding to "Canadiana" a post on our full-service blog "Edifying Nonsense".

JUL 20, singable satire: The Beatles sing "RELIC SUBMARINES"

 a) Reprise of material posted on July 20 in previous years

2020: singable satire, Alliterative Binomials 1  (parody lyrics)
2021: singable satire, Hats Off to Victor (parody lyrics) 
2022: singable satire, Rosenstein (parody lyrics)
2023: singable satire (Inferno), Acheron Riviera (parody lyrics)

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b) Today's offering (Jul 20, 2024): SINGABLE SATIRE

ORIGINAL PARODY SONG-LYRICS

MUSICAL UNDERPINNINGS:  "Yellow Submarine", The Beatles 1966, with lead vocals by Ringo Starr.

U.S.S. Clamagore at Patriots Point
(background: Arthur Ravenel Bridge, in fog)

BACKGROUND: Giorgio's substitute lyrics draw on his personal experience as an occasional resident of South Carolina. With prominent tourist sites for the display of submarines from the Civil War, World War II and the Cold War, Charleston, SC and the adjacent suburb of Mt Pleasant seem like a grim version of The Beatles' fantasy "land of submarines". 

SATIRE COMPOSED: Dr G.H. and Giorgio Coniglio, 2018. As a bonus, you can read about the history of development and deployment of submarines in Charleston SC in three informative blogposts on this blog, "Daily Illustrated Nonsense", (HERE, HERE, and HERE).

PARODY-SONGLINK: To find ukulele and guitar chord-charts to help you accompany "RELIC SUBMARINES" on your favorite instrument, click HERE.

[Giorgio's other satire lyrics substituted to Beatles' songs include "Vonnegut" (Imagine); "Saturday Night" (Yesterday); "Brennan's Tweet" (Let It Be); "Jake" (While My Guitar Gently Weeps)].

RELIC SUBMARINES

(to the tune of "Yellow Submarine")

In the town where I’ve retired

A Memorial’s awfully near.

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

JUL 19, special event: rooftop crane dismantling, finishing the job! (part 2)

 a) Reprise of material posted on July 19 in previous years

2020: anagram swarm, very-stable-genius 9, 10 (wordplay)
2021: at heart, dobutamine for imaging (poem) 
2022: organic brain poetry, Alzheimer's (poem)
2023: duplication, cootchie-coo (poem)

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b) Today's offering (Jul 19, 2024): 

In yesterday's post we showed how a large retrieval crane was erected on the street and used to remove pieces of a smaller rooftop crane; the latter had been used for a year to hoist construction materials, and was repositioned progressively on the topmost floor of the nearby building as it was constructed skyward to over 30 stories. This morning, the large ladder-like yellow upper tower for the rooftop crane was brought down to street level.

Today, we'll see the retrieval crane used to remove more temporary pieces from the top of the new building, and then all the cranes will be disassembled, loaded on large trucks and carried away. 

  yellow tower supporting the rooftop crane
brought to earth using the retrieval crane
(large red vertical structure on the right) 

additional pieces of the rooftop construction crane
progressively brought to street-level for transport

control module for the rooftop crane
lowered towards the street

pieces of the rooftop crane are packed
 on a flat-bed truck for removal  

the large retrieval crane is then brought flat 
for packing up, with the aid of a smaller working crane

early evening: only the base of the retrieval device
and its smaller helper-crane remain on site

9 o'clock on the second morning:
all equipment removed, the street reopened

Other issues of interest to readers who live in deep downtown locations can be found in illustrated poems on our more encyclopedic blog "Edifying Nonsense". Click HERE for the collection entitled "Urban Concerns".