NOV 30, singable satire: multicultural chestnut, "THE HILLTOP SONG"

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

2020: OEDILFian verse, Advent #1 (collated verse)
2021: singable satire, The Burning Grapevine (parody lyrics) 
2022: singable satire, James Taylor's Nessun Dorma (parody lyrics)
2023: singable satire, Crayfish Étouffée (parody lyrics)

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b) Today's Offering (Nov 30, 2024): 

PARODY-LYRICS
ORIGINAL SONG: "I'd Like To Teach the World To Sing", 1971, adapted by the New Seekers from the iconic commercial.
PARODY COMPOSED: Giorgio Coniglio, January 2016.


I DREAMED I'D TEACH THE WORLD TO SING

(to the tune of "I'd Like To Teach The World To Sing")

I dreamed I'd teach the world to sing
This multicultural song
But couldn't access You-Tube files
To learn to sing along. 

"Hilltop" TV ad, 1971.

Don Draper's real-world colleague
Scribbled what was later spoke
In Nineteen Seventy-One; he hoped 
'To buy the world a Coke'.  

Songwriters dubbed, and flubbed the song
"True Love and Apple Pie",
But when they filmed the "Hilltop" ad
Awards began to fly.

New Seekers somehow got the rights,
DeCoked the English words
But other people 'round the globe - 
Still need their voices heard.

These days we should be welcoming
Ethnic diversity 
With sentiments that echo from
That shoot in Italy.

I'd like to sing that hilltop song
Each language gets one verse,
So Google-Translate fills the gap
For better or for worse.

(It's the song I dream)
Please submit a verse
Help contribute today - 
An appeal-thing!

So, to get started, here's the 2nd verse of the iconic song in a spectrum of available languages. (I will admit that these choices appear Eurocentric)

Portuguese
Quero ensinar o mundo a cantar
Em harmonia perfeita,
Eu quero segurá-la em meus braços
E mantê-la como companheira.
Esperanto
Mi celas instrui al la mondo kanti
En perfekta harmonio,
Mi volas teni ĝin en miaj brakoj
Kaj festu gxin kiel kunulo.
Polish
Chciałbym nauczyć świat śpiewać
W doskonałej harmonii,
Chcę trzymać go w moich ramionach
I zachować go jako towarzysza
Swedish
Jag skulle vilja lära världen att sjunga
I perfekt harmoni,
Jag vill hålla det i mina armar
Och hålla det som en följeslagare.
Irish
Déanaim iarracht a mhúineadh an domhan
A chanadh i chéile foirfe,
Ba mhaith liom é a choimeád i mo lámha
Agus é a choinneáil mar chompánach.

Comments on the attempted translations (they all need some polishing), and further 'submissions' are welcome!

 

NOV 29, around and about: Churchill's War Rooms

 a) Review of material posted on November 29 in previous years ...

2020: bi-lyrical limerick, 'a poet and his bros' (poem)  
2021: Panama palindrome parody, 'Pan's panama hat'. (illustrated poem)

2022: saving the planet, fur-farming (poem)

2023: mammalian wildlife, horsing around (illustrated poem)

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"Pan"

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b) Today's Offering (Nov 29, 2024): 

NOV 28, OEDILFian limericks: "Thanksgiving"

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

2020: savoir-faire, franglais (illustrated poem)
2021: American satire, Arizona 'fraudit' (poem) 
2022: savoir-faire, avant-garde savant (poem)
2023: decorative touches, "Oberlin Road" (fabric art)

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b) Today's Offering (Nov 28, 2024):

NOV 27, special event: Changing of the Guard, Buckingham Palace

a) Review of material posted on November 27 in previous years ...

2020: commercial product, 'Tucket (poem)
2021: curtained verse, complimentarily (poem)
2022: organic brain poetry, high-dose steroids (poem)
2023: poets' corner, doggerel (poem)

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b) Today's Offering (Nov 27, 2024)

via Green Park to Buckingham Palace

 

Editors' Note: Horse-lovers might also enjoy reviewing yesterday's photo-post about London sites in general.

NOV 26, around and about: London, UK

  a) Review of material posted on November 26 in previous years ...

2020: non-sequitur, dishwasher (illustrated poem)  
2021: death and afterlife, heavenly pie (illustrated poem)

2022: non-sequitur, changes in latitude (poem) 
2023: magic palindromes, more from Paris (wordplay)

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b) Today's Offering (Nov 26, 2024):

newly arrived visitor at Russell Square

skating rink at Somerset House

downstream view from the Waterloo Bridge
( St Paul's Cathedral on left bank)

the London "Eye"

a long escator in the " Tube"

stunning holiday streetlighting
(Xmas still 5 weeks hence)

now and again, your statues need a good cleaning!

global culture: the M and M store

ornate old hotel near Russell Square,
across the street from ours

London icons: taxi and pub

Editors' Note: An important photo, moments after the above scene was captured, is NOT available (cell-phone not extracted from pocket): As we were walking down Great Ormond Street, at the construction zone for the hospital expansion, a fox ran by. We hope to  arrange a followup photo-shoot opportunity on a subsequent visit to the UK.

NOV 25, Submitted Palindromes: RANDOM PILE #32

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

2020: reptiles, green anoles (photo-collage)  
2021: garden intruders, papyrus  (illustrated poem)

2022: pluralia tantum, singular plurals, high hopes (poem) 
2023: submitted palindromes (targeted), Lisa Bonet ... basil. (wordplay)

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b) Today's Offering (Nov 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. 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 delightful entertainment 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. 

 

NOV 24, exotic destination: Chester, UK

a) Review of material posted on November 24 in previous years ...

2020: waterfowl, great egrets (illustrated poem)  
2021: birdlore, desnooding, mohel (illustrated poem)

2022: reptiles, skink-busting (poem) 
2023: decorative touches, more abstract pieces (fabric art)

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fabric art, R.C.H.

b) Today's Offering (Nov 24, 2024):

the Roman wall and the Roman garden

you can view the old town
 as you walk the Roman wall

shopping section

occasionally there is bright sunshine for an instant

Chester castle

towards the Cathedral

Chester Cathedral interior

a model of the Cathedral

Cathedral garden

 watch out for the high-priced shops!

NOV 23, around and about: sunrise (photo)

  a) Review of material posted on November 23 in previous years ...

2020: political palindromes, PPP (wordplay)  
2021: waterfowl, trumpeter swans (illustrated poem)

2022: doctors and practices, diabetologist (poem) 
2023: Canadiana, crept and leapt (poem)

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b) Today's Offering (Nov 23, 2024):

sunrise view to the southeast, mid-November

For comparison, see our photo-post "Urban Concerns: Break of Day". Click HERE.

NOV 22, American satire: cabinet confirmation, 1

  a) Review of material posted on November 22 in previous years ...

2020: Canadiana, urban portaging, correspondance

2021: life in Palindrome Valley, palindrome bees (poem)  
2022: duplication, higgledy-piggledy (poem)

2023: pinkos, vegetarianism (illustrated poem)

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b) Today's Offering (Nov 22, 2024):

We hope that you enjoyed this verse. You can find dozens more on this topic in 6 collections on our full-service blog 'Edifying Nonsense'. Click HERE to start!