AUG 30, W-I-P

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

2020: singable satire, novel melodies for limericks (parody lyrics)

2021: singable satire, Fickle Twist of Fate 2 (parody lyrics)

2022: singable satire, F.O.P.-shop Wine (parody lyrics)
2023: singable satire, Funniversary Song (parody lyrics)

 

The Fitzgerald in Nov '75, just prior to the iconic shipping disaster

AUG 29, postal places, USA: Duluth, MN

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

2020: magical canal palindromes, A man ... Paris. (wordplay)
2021: amphibians, Kermit the Frog, reincarnated (illustrated poem) 
2022: exotic destination, Mt Pleasant, SC (photo-collage)
2023: defining opinion, envision (poem)

b) Today's Offering (Aug 29, 2024): 

poetry lyrics:/ Sven recounted a tale from his youth/ He was raised in the town of Duluth,/ MN: "Wish we'd washed; Local record we quashed,/ When friends crowded a telephone booth."   

Authors' Note: MN is the official abbreviation for the American state of Minnesota, in which Duluth, a town with population 90,000 is situated. At the western end of lake Superior, the town was transiently, at the beginning of the 1900s, the busiest port in the United States.

The town's unusual name derives from the area's first known European explorer, the French soldier Daniel Greysolon, Sieur du Lhut. Duluth is now home to the annual "Magic Smelt Parade" and the University of Minnesota Duluth. Despite the region's French connection, the largest immigrant group in Minnesota has hailed from Scandinavia, accounting for the Swedish name of the verse's protagonist.

"Telephone-booth stuffing" was a short-lived global craze among college-age kids in the 1950s. Of interest, in the UK the activity was known as "telephone-booth squash", and the "rules" required that a phone-call be made from the overcrowded booth.

  At one swell foop, 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 !

AUG 28, OEDILFian limericks: haiku poetry 1

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

2020: new world palindromes, 30 (wordplay)
2021: culinary verse, zucchini/courgettes (illustrated poem) 
2022: saving the planet, summer air quality (poem)
2023: reptiles, painted turtles (illustrated poem)

b) Today's Offering (Aug 28, 2024):  

 

AUG 27, flying 'back east'

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

2020: anagram swarm, US scramble-towns, 8 (wordplay map)
2021: waterfowl, tricolored herons (illustrated poem)
2022:  anagram swarm, Canadian scramble-towns, 10 (wordplay map) 
2023: word-pairs, reduplications U-Z (wordplay lexicon)

b) Today's Offering (Aug 27, 2024): 

 Above the Canadian portion of the planet (photos by Giorgio Coniglio) ...

(dated Aug 25)

safety information in French and English, coast to coast

taking off from Nanaimo, British Columbia;
 very short flight to YVR (Vancouver)

rolling into Vancouver

starting out from YVR
across the Fraser River

icefields of the Rocky Mountains

flying over the foothills/prairies,
just east of the Rocky peaks

descending to the airport in Calgary, Alberta

next morning's descent;
 the final flight terminates in Toronto

AUG 26, photo-collage: great egrets, sunny afternoon (Toronto)

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

2020: insects, gnat repellents (poem)
2021: reptiles, five-lined skinks (illustrated poem) 
2022: American satire, taking the fifth (illustrated poem)

2023: painterly poetry, Van Gogh at Auvers-sur-Oise (illustrated poem)

b) Today's Offering (Aug 26, 2024):

 A sunny afternoon at the Duck Ponds, Toronto's High Park, as photographed using his i-phone 13, by Giorgio Coniglio... 

 

view of photographic apparatus
(see the detailed description)

To see even more of these birds, you might want to review our posts "illustrated verse: white ibises",  and "folio entry: a white ibis couple". 

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AUG 25, submitted palindromes: RANDOM PILES 32

 

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.

  

AUG 24, decorative touches: "Gaudi bench" (fabric art)

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

2020: American satire, miscellany (poems, various)
2021: poet's corner, free verse (poem) 
2022: patients and maladies, intermittent claudication (poem)
2023: Leslie Moore's suffixes, feckLESSNESS (poem)

 b)Decorative Touches: "Gaudi Bench" 

 Continuation from "Pictures at a Renovation -- finishing touches", (fabric artwork), September 22, 2023. 

 fabric art by R.C.H., presented with thanks

AUG 23, Captain R's impossible mission: quixotic dream

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

2020: limerick variations, embedded illustrations (illustrated poem)
2021: limerick variation, C-rhyme extension (illustrated poem) 
2022: Canadiana, compassionate use (poem)
2023: scopes of medicine, endoscopic collage (selected poems)

b) Today's Offering (Aug 23, 2024): 

poetry lyrics:/ Captain R dreams his mission methodically-- / To combat speech
 that's spoken spasmodically:/ Rescue Rs from exclusion,/ Slay unwritten intrusion,/
 And restore rhotic phonics quixotically.

Authors' Note: "Captain R" is a muse who appears episodically in the authors' dreams. R. is their abbreviation for rhotic (ROA-tik) dialects in English, i.e. those that honour R-sounds as they are written. The Captain, who clearly has been influenced by the nearby letter "q" as in Don Quixote, and wears a tight-fitting shirt emblazoned with a large "R", has inspired a quest that culminated in the other verses in this collection (at the website OEDILF submitted as articulate, intrusive Rs, and articular.)

Quixotic, BTW, is used to described ideas and actions that are foolishly impractical and romantic.

You can find our other verses dealing with non-rhotic accents under the listing "Captain R's Impossible Mission".  Click HERE. 

AUG 22, planet-saving verse: enzootic viral ending

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

2020: Toronto ravines, lower Don valley (photo-collage)
2021: Panama palindrome parody, A dog, ... a pagoda. (wordplay) 
2022: funny bones, olecranon (elbow) fracture (illustrated poem)
2023: patients and maladies, ganglion cyst (poem)

b) Today's Offering (Aug 22, 2024):  

poetry lyrics:/ Man's sad fate, 'though undated awaits -- / Enzootic rogue
 virus mutates./ Source is likely a big farm,/ Mink, chicken or pig farm./
Viral spread, final chaos creates. 

                   

Authors' Note:  Having suffered the ravages of Covid-19, has humanity's ability to cope with outbreaks of infectious disease improved? Not too much. This pessimistic verse was written after seeing a TV documentary revealing updates on what we have learned about the potential threats of further epidemics. 

You can help save the planet by viewing all our verses in this series at "Edifying Nonsense". Click HERE!

AUG 21, photo-collage: Long Lake, Nanaimo, BC

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

2020: Greek prefixes, apo- (illustrated poem) 
2021: new world palindrome, #44 (wordplay map)

2022: classic palindrome, Dogma, I am God! (poem)
2023: terminal exclamation, YIPPEE! (poem)

b) Today's Offering (Aug 21, 2024):

  Photos obtained by Giorgio Coniglio, and edited on his i-phone 13 ...

    

 

AUG 20: W-I-P

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

2020: singable satire, Alliterative Binomials 2 (parody-lyrics)
2021: singable satire, Mel and His Hernia (parody-lyrics) 
2022: singable satire, Coach the Nestlings (parody-lyrics)
2023: singable satire, Limbo Rocks, or Not; Canto 4 (parody-lyrics)

b) Today's Offering (Aug 20, 2024):  

AUG 19, objectionable adjectives: 'estival' and 'hibernal,

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

2020: bottom line of humor, Beano (illustrated poem)
2021: dental feelings, prognathism (poem)

2022: toxic vignette, digitalis toxicity (poem) 
2023: Carolina lowcountry, beach at Sullivan's Island (photo-collage)

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

poetry lyrics:/  Lexicographers picket our festival -- /The insist, summer's midst, "it's
 an estival."/ They urge winter stay-cation/ Be termed hibernation. As the nerds
 who love words, they know best-of-all.

b) Today's Offering (Aug 19, 2024):

Authors' Note: In English there are fortunately many nouns that we can use as adjectives when the situation demands. In the opinion of this author, summer (adj.) and winter (adj.) are less cumbersome descriptors than estival and hibernal, despite the opinion of some lexicographers. 

You can review our editorially selected doggerel (eight verses) relating to 'Objectionable Adjectives' by clicking HERE.

 

AUG 18, verses about insects: beer bugs

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

2020: poets' corner, philosophy of limericks (poem)
2021: old world palindromes, national wrap-up (wordplay) 
2022: Italian loanwords, cicerone (poem)
2023: Toronto's Harbourfront, dance performance 3 (action photos)

b) Today's Offering (Aug 18, 2024): 

poetry lyrics: / It's too clear, our dear Doug's a career bug -- / A Glischrochilus, 
  eerily queer bug./ Ruining fruit crops and drinks/ (His aquatic skill stinks),/ He'll succinctly
 appear as a beer bug./  So, don't swig 'til you peer in your beer mug.   

You can review Giorgio's other verses about pesty and occasionally beneficial insects, as  collected in 'Buzzwords: Verses about Insects' on the full-service blog "Edifying Nonsense". Click HERE.

 

AUG 17, palinku (poetic novelty): global warming

 a) Review of material posted on August 17 in previous years ...

2020: palinku, veggies (poetic novelty)  
2021: palinku, sweet treats, 1 (poetic novelty) 
2022: palinku, Canadiana (poetic novelty)
2023: palinku, European capitals (poetic novelty)

(Editors' Note: Additional information is available for readers in our  poems about the "great auk", (an extinct bird species), and  "global warming").

You can readily view all our palinku verses (short poems of this type) if you proceed with a single click to our more encyclopedic blog "Edifying Nonsense". Click HERE.