NOV 30, 2024: W-I-P

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

2020: singable satire, Alajuela Chorus (parody lyrics) 
2021: singable satire, The Burning Grapevine (parody lyrics) 
2022: singable satire, Kooky Presidential Views (parody lyrics)
2023: singable satire, Crayfish Étouffée (parody lyrics)

b) Today's Offering (Nov 30, 2024): 

ORIGINAL PARODY-LYRICS

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)

"Pan"

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b) Today's Offering (Nov 29, 2024): 

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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):

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

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

2020: anagram swarm, US scramble-towns, 11 (wordplay maps)

2021: anagram swarm, Canadian scramble, 1 (wordplay map)
2022:  anagram swarm, Canadian scramble-towns, 13 (wordplay map) 
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: new world palindromes, #47 (wordplay map)

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

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.

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NOV 25, submitted palindromes, RANDOM PILES 35

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).

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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.

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)

fabric art, R.C.H.

b) Todays 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!

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NOV 23, American satire: cabinet confirmation -- e

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)

b) Today's Offering (Nov 23, 2024):

This verse is a followup to concerns expressed in the previous blogposts , and if you stay tuned, you will find another in several upcoming postings. 

Authors' Note: "Government Gangsters" is a 2023 book by Kash Patel about the perceived deep state in US politics; the same author produced a children's picture book entitled "The Plot Against the King" (the protagonist is King Donald). CLick HERE to learn more at Wikipedia.

Bill Barr (Republican) and Merrick Garland (Democrat) were Attorneys General in the 2017 and 2021 administrations respectively. 

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NOV 22, American satire: cabinet confirmation -- d

  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)

b) Today's Offering (Nov 22, 2024):

poetry lyrics:/ Our Health Czar will review our reliance/ On the tenets

 of medical science (Folks know best, even you!/ Blinded trials go askew),/

 Greeting expertise with due defiance.  

 Authors' Note: The particular nominee we had in mind is discussed HERE.

Sure! Despite the current emphasis on efficiencly, let's review yet again, the debunked idea that  vaccines  mysteriously cause diseases like autism!

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NOV 21, photo-collage, Toront-oases: the old conservatory

 a) Review of material posted on November 21 in previous years ...

2020: birdlore, desnooded fling (illustrated poem)  
2021: oncologic verse, malignant tumors (poem)

2022: American satire, legal precedence (poem) 
2023: ambulatory verse, reverse (poem)

b) Today's Offering (Nov 21, 2024):Readers may be interested in reviewing photos of a visit to the conservatory two years ago, and also those of the restoration project that was started in February 2023. Check the posts of January 1 and February 6, 2023 and the post of October 6, 2024. Or just use the searchline and type "conservatory". 

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red slider turtles

leopard plant (spotted farfugium)

"Leda and the Swan"

a raccoon strolls near the entrance

Previous Editors' Note (2023): We are fortunate to have moved into an apartment building just across the street from a public conservatory whose warm, humid, glass-roofed galleries offer the visitor views and dreams of escape to tropical floral environments. Visits are especially reinvigorating on dark and depressing winter days, and admission is free! Readers should note that the buiding, partly closed,  is undergoing a structural renovation that will be completed in 2025.

You might also enjoy reviewing photo-enhanced poetry posts related to poinsettias, koi, red-eared sliders(turtles), Canadian cactus, and Leda and the Swan at the same destination.

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