September 30, 2024

SEP 30, singable satire: a lament -- "WHERE HAS NEUROPHYLIS GONE?"

  a) Reprise of material posted on September 30 in prior years ...


2020: insects, yellow jackets (illustrated poem)
2021: singable satire, Yogi Berra's wisdom (parody lyrics)
2022: singable satire, Postcard to Chubby Checker (parody lyrics)
2023: singable satire, Broken Arrow (parody lyrics)


To access the details of any item in slide format, type its title, as displayed above in red font (e.g. ... yellow jackets), 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 blog-stuff (verse, photos, wordplay, song-lyrics etc.) on the topic of your choice. 

b) Today's Offering (Sep 30, 2024)

PARODY-LYRICS
Pete Seeger, "America's tuning fork"
ORIGINAL SONG: "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?" Pete Seeger 1960, additional lyrics by Joe Hickerson, also recorded by Kingston Trio in 1962, and later by Peter, Paul and Mary, Marlene Dietrich, etc. Check out the YouTube videos by Seeger here, and by the Kingston Trio here.
PARODY COMPOSED: Giorgio Coniglio, June, 2014, performed at the CUJ (Corktown Ukulele Jam) Theme-Night, with photo here.


WHERE HAS NEUROSYPHILIS GONE?


(to the tune of "Where Have All the Flowers Gone")

Where is early Alzheimer’s?
Home-care agencies.
Mod’rate cases, few years passed
Fill long-term nursing homes
Weren’t some medications tried?
Functions slid and patients died;
Care system’s overburdened - 
When will we ever  learn?

Where has neurosyphilis gone,
Headstones fading?
Textbooks say it filled asylums
Long time ago.
Where Trep. pallidum would lurk,
Course of Penicillin works,
One thing we clearly learned,
One thing we clearly learned.

Where is all the Wernicke’s
encephalopathy?
Confabulating, filling wards
I saw it long ago.
Malnourished boozers off the road
Saved by whopping thiamine load
Another thing we’ve learned, 
A useful thing we’ve learned.

Hypothyroid mania?
 - Hormone treatment
Tots doomed by leukodystrophy?
 - Lorenzo’s oil
Polio? Almost gone, my son
- Vaccinated everyone.
Perhaps, few things we’ve learned,
I guess few things we’ve learned.

Where’s dementia research gone?
Some fills graveyards
Prod choline receptors? – seems not
Helpful in long term. 
Inhibit amyloid?
Doesn’t fill the treatment void.
Where’s that key thing to learn? 
Where’s that key thing to learn?
  
Where've Alzheimer's patients gone ?
Home-care agencies.
Mod’rate cases, few years passed
Fill long-term nursing homes.
Weren’t “preventive measures” done?
Gone to graveyards every one;
Care-system's overburdened - 
I hope someday we’ll learn.

September 29, 2024

SEP 29, defining opinion: hors d'oeuvres

 a) Reprise of material posted on September 29 in prior years ...


2020: savoir-faire, French enologists (illustrated poem)
2021: domestic hazards, kettles (poem) 
2022: STD poetry, monkeypox (poem)
2023: postal places, Canada, Antigonish, NS (illustrated poem)


To access the details of any item in slide format, type its title, as displayed above in red font (e.g. ... kettles
 fish), 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 blog-stuff (verse, photos, wordplay, song-lyrics etc.) on the topic of your choice. 


b) Today's Offering (Sep 29, 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 iLimerick Form). You can see all of these on one visit by clicking HERE.


September 28, 2024

SEP 28, OEDILFian limericks: 'identity' rhymes

 

 a) Reprise of material posted on September 28 in prior years ...


2020: pandemic poetry, D.Y.O.D. (illustrated poem)
2021: portraits of couples, red slider turtles (photo folio) 
2022: invertebrates, chelipods (illustrated poem)
2023: duplications, hocus-pocus 
(illustrated poem)


To access the details of any item in slide format, type its title, as displayed above in red font (e.g. ...chelipods ), into one of the two search bars at the the top of your blog-page. Underneath the slides for each entertaining delight that you discover, you will find a clickable link that lets you easily explore a more widespread collection of blog-stuff (verse, photos, wordplay, song-lyrics, etc.) on the topic of your choice. 

another red-slider grouping



b) Today's Offering (Sep 28, 2024)





September 27, 2024

SEP 27, planet-saving verse: beach foam

  a) Reprise of material posted on September 27 in prior years ...


2020: Toronto ravines, Sherwood (photo-collage)
2021: birdlore, American goldfinch (illustrated poem) 
2022: defining opinion, 
diaphoretic (poem)
2023: ambulatory verse, scamper (poem)


To access the details of any item in slide format, type its title, as displayed above in red font (e.g. ... diaphoretic), 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 blog-stuff (verse, photos, wordplay, song-lyrics etc.) on the topic of your choice. 








b) Today's Offering (Sep 27, 2024)







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



September 26, 2024

SEP 26, diagnostic imaging: DOGgraphy

a) Reprise of material posted on September 26 in prior years ...

2020: Toronto oases, Humber Bay (photo-collage)
2021: humorists' scurrilous talk, the C-word (poem) 
2022: organic brain poetry, CTE, traumatic encephalopathy (poem)
2023: gruesome verse, hidey-hole (poem)

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

mute swan at Humber Bay


b) Today's Offering (Sep 26, 2024):   


Authors' Note:   The confusing terminology for advanced, i.e. 3D medical imaging, uses acronyms that may be historically based or poorly explained. The development of a method of imaging known as ‘DOGgraphy’ is apocryphal. 

CAT: computerized axial tomography, X-ray imaging of a body section; better described in modern terms as ‘x-ray CT’
PET: positron (dual-photon) emission tomography; a Nuclear Medicine technique involving prior injection of a positron-emitting radionuclide ('isotope'); becoming an important modality in cancer assessment
Holography: processing of fields of light or other radiation scattered from objects; well developed with lasers, but with limited current application in medical imaging.


 You can review all our verses on this intriguing topic by proceeding to a post on 'Edifying Nonsense' entitled 'Selected Topics in Diagnostic Imaging'. Click HERE!


September 25, 2024

SEP 25, Submitted Palindromes: RANDOM PILE #26


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.

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

2020: Toronto ravines, Park Drive Reservation (photo-collage)
2021: at heart, dipyridamole, cardiac stress agent (illustrated poem) 
2022: classic palindromes, step on no pets (poem)
2023: submitted palindromes, targeted, Won't lovers revolt now? (wordplay)

To access the details of any item in slide format, type its title, as displayed above in red font (e.g. ... dipyridamole), 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 (Sep 25, 2024): 





   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).

September 24, 2024

SEP 24, magical palindromes: examples #26 - #30

 a) Reprise of material posted on September 24 in prior years ...


2020: trees, sago palms (illustrated poem)
2021: Toronto ravines, Etobicoke Creek (photo-collage) 
2022: toxic vignettes, antifreeze poisoning (poem)
2023: lexicon of word-pairs, echoic binomials P (wordplay)

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

sago palm
(a sexy male cycad)

b) Today's Offering (Sep 24, 2024):




You can view our entire collection of these intriguing wordplay oddities, in a post on our blog "Edifying Nonsense", entitled Magical Palindromes: a compendium".


September 23, 2024

SEP 23, life in Palindrome Valley: dalliance

 a) Reprise of material posted on September 23 in prior years ...


2020: poets' corner, limerick adddiction (poem)
2021: binomial phrases, sin and redemption (illustrated poem) 
2022: American satire, civil lawsuit --Fore! (illustrated poem)
2023: waterfowl, flightless seabirds (illustrated poem)

To access the details of any item in slide format, type its title, as displayed above in red font (e.g. ... civil lawsuit), 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 (Sep 23, 2024)








You can review other illustrated verses on this topic by proceeding to the collection 'Life in Palindrome Valley' on our full-service blog 'Edifying Nonsense'.


September 22, 2024

SEP 22, Olympic sport: bicycle motocross

a) Review of material posted on September 22 in prior years ...

2020: Toronto ravines, Riverdale Farm (photo-collage)
2021: scopes of medicine, ERCP (illustrated poem) 
2022: braincheck, hippocampus (illustrated poem)
2023: condo reno, finishing touches (photo-collage)

To access the details of any item in slide format, type its title, as displayed above in red font (e.g. ... hippocampus), 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  (verse, photos, wordplay, song-lyrics etc.) on the topic of your choice. 



b) Today's Offering (Sep 22, 2024)






September 21, 2024

SEP 21, birdlore: tufted tit(mouse)

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

2020: Toronto ravines, Riverdale Farm (illustrated poem)
2021: dental feelings, deep dental cleaning (poem) 
2022: higher connections, the Queen's funeral (photo-collage)
2023: objectionable adjectives, forced (illustrated poem)

To access the details of any item in slide format, type its title, as displayed above in red font (e.g. ... forced), 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 stuff (verse, photos, wordplay, song-lyrics etc.) on the topic of your choice. 

forced bulbs

b) Today's Offering (Sep 21, 2024)


Authors' Note: The tufted titmouse, Baeolophus bicolor, a small cute bird that inhabits the eastern part of North America is named for the crest of feathers on his head, and for old English words for "little bird". Other species of Baeopholus are found in North America, and there are related genera of songbirds known as "titmice" in Europe. The archaic suffix "-mouse" currently adds little to the description of this perky visitor, so he is often known simply as a "tufted tit".

Check out a brief video (live photo) of the tufted titmouse HERE.  


 You can view an encyclopedic collection of illustrated poems on this topic by proceeding to the post 'Poems about BIRDLIFE' on our full-service blog "Edifying Nonsense". Click HERE


September 20, 2024

SEP 20, singable satire: Johnny Cash sings "FULSOME DICTION BLUES"

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


2020: singable satire, Rhyming Binomials A to L (parody lyrics)
2021: singable satire, Prostate Cancer (parody lyrics poem) 
2022: singable satire, Ballad of Giuliani (parody lyrics)
2023: singable satire, Minos's Tail-twist (parody lyrics, Inferno)

To access the details of any item in slide format, type its title, as displayed above in red font (e.g. ... ballad of Giuliani), 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 emanations (verse, photos, wordplay, song-lyrics etc.) on the topic of your choice. 

b) Today's Offering (Sep 20, 2024)

PARODY-LYRICS

ORIGINAL SONG: "Folsom Prison Blues" Johnny Cash 1955, covered by many other artists.
PARODYCOMPOSED: Giorgio Coniglio, June, 2014.




FULSOME DICTION BLUES


(to the tune of "Folsom Prison Blues")



I favor precise syntax, also terms that aren't obscure,
But skill in this regard don't earn no sinecure.
We're stuck with fulsome diction, careenin' round the curve.  
Objurgatin' parlous parlance takes vigor, vim and verve.

The origin of 'specious' lies deep within the soul;
You try to be ingenious, but suffice to be 'mindful'.
I classed a guy as 'restive' - what I meant was 'calmed'
Now I'll feel so meretricious until when I'm embalmed.

I presage Big Bananas in a gaudy chauffered Benz, 
They'll likely smoke Havanas with their double-malted blends;

They'll purvey inchoate music, an 'ivory-tickler' too,  And they'll launch the night's diversion without further 'adieu'. (pron. ad-yoo)

I sense those noisome symptoms, not 'symptomatology';
There is method in my madness, but not 'methodology'.
Post-cibal declamations -  they're what one calls verbose;
I'll forgo the panegyrics, when I'm more otiose. 


 I flaunt my proper diction with no expletives abstruse,
 'Though such punctilious practice serves no heuristic use; 
 To chide bombastic speaking needs vigor, vim and verve.

 A paradigm to strive for, from which one shouldn't swerve.

September 19, 2024

SEP 19, birdlore: bluebird attacking window, explicit video

a) Reprise of material posted on September 19 in prior years ...

2020: anagrams, Republicans-in-Canada, r-i-c 5 (wordplay maps)
2021: American satire, fraudulent (poem) 
2022: death and afterlife, garbage disposal in Heaven (poem)
2023: Toronto wildlife, great egrets at pond (photo-collage)

To access the details of any item in slide format, type its title, as displayed above in red font (e.g. ... fraudulent), 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 titillations (verse, photos, wordplay, song-lyrics etc.) on the topic of your choice. 



b) Today's Offering (Sep 19, 2024)


ongoing problems with window strikes:
a pair of apparently deranged bluebirds





September 18, 2024

SEP 18, birdlore: housefinch

 a) Review of material posted on September 18 in prior years ...


2020: savoir-faire, corniches, Nice (illustrated poem)
2021: anagram swarm, Canadian scramble-towns 5  (wordplay maps) 
2022: curtained verse, braless (poem)
2023: lexicon of word pairs, echoic binomials I to O (wordplay)

To access the details of any item in slide format, type its title, as displayed above in red font (e.g. ... braless), 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 blog-wonderments (verse, photos, wordplay, song-lyrics etc.) on the topic of your choice. 


b) Today's Offering (Sep 18, 2024):  

Authors' Note: The gregarious house finchHaemorhous mexicanus,  originally an inhabitant of the western US and Mexico, was introduced into Long Island, New York, in 1940. Although the female is not showy, the male is distinguished by the rosy red coloration of its face, neck and upper breast areas. The species quickly spread across the eastern US and southern parts of Canada. A strict vegetarian, this bird is now the most common visitor to feeders in many parts of its current range.

For more titillating pics of the house finch at our feeder, click HERE.



You can view an encyclopedic collection of illustrated poems on this topic by proceeding to the post "Poems about BIRDLORE" on our full-service blog "Edifying Nonsense". Click HERE.