a) Review of material posted on December 30 in previous years ...
2020: origin of our bloggerel, song lyrics (didactic piece)
2021: singable satire, Canadian School Reunion (parody lyrics)
2022: singable satire, Carolina Winter Morning (parody lyrics)
2023: singable satire, Auld Lang's Sine, song version (parody lyrics)
2023: singable satire, Auld Lang's Sine, song version (parody lyrics)
To access the details of any item in slide format, type its title, as displayed above in red font (e.g. ... Canadian school reunion), 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 (Dec 30, 2024):
PARODY-LYRICS
ORIGINAL SONG: "Big Rock Candy Mountain" Harry McClintock 1928, also recorded by Burl Ives, Johnny Cash etc.PARODY COMPOSED: Giorgio Coniglio, May 2014.
Of interest, the original song is a described as a folk music song about a hobo's version of paradise, a modern extension of the medieval concept of "Cockaigne".
BIG ROB REHAB CLINIC
On a private flight
To escape from sight,
A burly mayor sat drinking.
“Who’d shoot video
Here in Chicago?
It could get a guy to thinking."
This song he sang
As he dreamed he’d hang
In a land with no detection,
Where a mayor’s rants get a second chance,
Then go home for the Election.“Oh-ohhhhhhhhh!
The buzzing in my brain,
Pass that bottle once again
Soon we’re going to show those cynics.
It’s so easy to fly straight
I’ll get fit and lose some weight,
At the Big Rob Rehab Clinic.”
“In the Big Rob Rehab Clinic
They’ve ashtrays if you smoke.
Staff will be compassionate
When you step outside to toke.”
“The landscaped grounds are lush with flowers,
With surveillance cameras blind.
No reporters spy,
You can still get high.
You can smoke some crack
On the pond out back
In the Big Rob Rehab Clinic.”
Some workout in the gym,
Go to chapel, sing a hymn,
Double-double chez Tim Horton.
Guess the coke has got to go
Like my town, Etobicoke,
No more pics of pipes or snortin’.”
You shouldn’t pass a roach,
There’s quite a few big-screen TVs
And the waiters call you Coach.”"When there’s a Big Game on the air,
They postpone Group Therapy.
In your room there’re snacks,
With no charge or tax;
So you’re in control
And not on the dole
In the Big Rob Rehab Clinic.”
“Ohhhhhhhhhh!
Some workout in the gym,
Go to chapel, sing a hymn,
Double-double chez Tim Horton.
Guess the coke should really goLike my town, Etobicoke,
No more shots of pipes or snortin’.”
“In the Big Rob Rehab Clinic
You text or yack ad lib,
They don’t approve the one ‘Big Lie’,
But there’s lots of little fibs.”
“I know that More Responsible ’s
An option to select - at
A later date.
Make Ford Nation wait?
They need spending pruned
And more subways soon
- Maybe, once I’m re-elected.”
“Ohhhhhhhhhh!
The buzzing in my brain
Pass that bottle once again
Soon we’ll finger-sign those critics. (GESTURE!)
It’s so easy to fly straight
I’ll get fit and lose some weight,
At the Big Rob Rehab Clinic.
At the Big Rob Rehab Clinic.”
c) Important note for readers of Daily Illustrated Nonsense:
With today's post, we have completed our original goal of producing an almost-daily blog (360 posts per year) for 5 years. That's a total of 1800 blogposts, and the task has produced near-terminal exhaustion, and used up the repository of material that we had previously stored for this purpose. Moreover, we have not had quite enough time to tighten and tweak the offerings as we have gone along.
So, it is with great regret that we have decided that there will be no new stuff posted on upcoming dates as we move forward into 2025. You can use the material posted here as an ARCHIVE, and you might rediscover some material that you had forgotten about, or missed when it first was displayed.
Most of the material posted here, particularly the illustrated poems and the wordplay, have also been grouped by topic on the blog "Edifying Nonsense", whose offerings (four posts per month) may continue into the future. As well, some parody-song lyrics targeted at the ukulele community may get posted among the scattered emanations of the blog "Silly Songs and Satire".
To improve your enjoyment of "Daily Illustrated Nonsense" as an archive of funky humor, we will likely carry on in the background to make some subtle upgrades. This may include deleting some overlapping or low-value material, filling in a few empty slots ('postholes'?), upgrading info on the publication status of the poems (OEDILF), improving links with our other two blogs, and even adding some more photo-illustrations.
Thanks for your indulgence. Have a HAPPY NEW YEAR in 2025.
See y'all +/- later !!!
Your editors,
Dr.G.H. and Giorgio Coniglio
