DEC 30, Submitted palindromes: RANDOM PILES #35

 a) Review of material posted on December 30 in previous years ...

2020: holidays/celebrations (New Year's Eve), Auld Lang's Sine (poem - 'brief saga')   

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)

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b) Today's Offering (Dec 30, 2024): 

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

DEC 29, classic palindrome: "An igloo? Cool, Gina"

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

2020: patients and maladies, knee effusion (illustrated poem) 
2021: curtained verse, orchestral pecking-order (poem)

2022: w-i-p

2023: birdlore, new bird-feeder (illustrated poem)

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b) Today's Offering (Dec 29, 2024): 

You can review these illustrated verses in a wider context by proceeding to 'Reversing Verse: Limericks About Classic Palindromes' on the full-service blog 'Edifying Nonsense'.

DEC 28, OEDILFIAN limericks: "democracy"

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

2020: old world palindomes, #5 (wordplay maps)
2021: patients and maladies, non-tumorous  -omas  (illustrated poem)

2022: painterly poetry, Alfred Sisley (illustrated poem)
2023: Canadiana, Haida Gwaii (illustrated verse)

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b) Today's Offering (Dec 28, 2024): 

 

DEC 27, American satire: cabinet confirmation, 4

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

2020: non-sequitur, cumulative song (poem) 
2021: binomial phrases, fossil words (poem)

2022: non-sequitur, secret life of plants (poem)
2023: waterfowl, Ibis Hotel, poolside (photo)

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b) Today's Offering (Dec 27, 2024): 

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).

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

DEC 26, national and multi-national verse: imperialistic trio

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

2020: old world palindromes, #3,4 (wordplay maps) 
2021: reptile, geckos on ceiling (illustrated poem)

2022: mammalian wildlife, gerbils (illustrated poem)
2023: submitted palindromes, targeted, Zeus sees Suez. (wordplay)

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b) Today's Offering (Dec 26, 2024): 

This collection of verses constitutes a trio of imperialistic nonsense.  To see the first verse, you will have to return to the blogpost of December 16, "Don-tinental Unification - 'fifty-first' ". 

Authors' Note: This verse, along with Canal Zone (to follow) and fifty-first (preceding) constitutes a trilogy of diplomatic nonsense.

As of 2024, Greenland, with population of 56,000, is an autonomous territory of the Kingdom of Denmark.

Authors' Note: Late in 2024, the incumbent US president turned his attention from Canada, a friendly neighbour that he had threatened with massive tariffs, dangling the possibility of a sort of "Anschluss".

His sudden announcement that "excessive" shipping fees across the Panama Canal were a matter of vital national US interest was accompanied by threats to retake control of the Canal Zone, a region that had been under sole Panamanian control since 1979.

The author of the above poem in his prior work acclaim had discussed the role of President Theodore Roosevelt (T.R.) in construction of the Panama Canal, therein revealing the neo-palindrome A man, a plan, if final — Panama.

You can review our collection of verses about various individual nations, and about the groupings to which they belong, on our topic-based blog "Edifying Nonsense". Click HERE. 

 

DEC 25, reprise: Xmas anniversary

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

2020: OEDILFian limericks, every Adventuality 1 (collated verses) 
2021: personal/family history, brief bio  (illustrated poem)

2022: holiday

2023: reprise of 2020

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b) Today's Offering (Dec 25, 2024): 

DEC 24, what's up? contrails

 Happy Birthday, Trooper, wherever you are!

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

2020: holidays, "The Night Before Xmas"- (photo of poetic tribute to frontline workers) 
2021: classic palindromes, A Santa at NASA.  (illustrated poem)

2022: curtained verse, florid STD (poem)
2023: postal places, Red Deer, AB (illustrated poem)

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b) Today's Offering (Dec 24, 2024): 

DEC 23, basic medical science: homeostasis

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, U.P.

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

2020: political palindromes, PPP (wordplay) 
2021: variant limerick, zoophile from Nanoose (illustrated poem)

2022: objectionable adjective, fulsome (poem)
2023: around and about, seasonal city hall lights (live-action photo)

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b) Today's Offering (Dec 23, 2024): 

Authors' Note: For physiologists and physicians, the understanding of homeostatic mechanisms such as feedback loops, and how they get overwhelmed in disease, is critical. An example discussed here previously is regulation of thyroid hormone levels. Knowledge in this area has also expanded into the field of IT.

Readers can enjoy our whole collection of verses on this topic by clicking HERE. 

DEC 22, veggies: sweet corn

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

2020: waterfowl, brown pelicans (illustrated poem) 
2021: saving the planet, shorebird council's demand (illustrated poem)

2022: higher connection, great chain of being (poem)
2023: decorative touches, marsh scene (fabric art)

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b) Today's Offering (Dec 22, 2024): 

Authors' Note: 'Sweet corn', eaten directly off the cob, is considered a vegetable. Originating in Mexico thousands of years ago, the plant was widely distributed to the rest of the world in the sixteenth century. As a grain, it is known in most countries and contexts by its original name "maize", and is now globally the world's most widely grown cereal crop.

The author is a skinny guy, but delights, as does Rob, in consuming corn on the cob when it's available in the late summer. An ear of corn (unbuttered) provides 50 to 100 calories, so normal consumption is not a major contributor to obesity.

DEC 21, American satire: cabinet confirmation, 3

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

2020: anagram swarms, a-very-stable-genius, Holiday Season (wordplay) 
2021: Carolina lowcountry, delicious December (photo-collage)

2022: W-I-P

2023: exemplification, hooligans (poem)

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b) Today's Offering (Dec 21, 2024):  

These verses are a followup to concerns expressed in the blogpost of November 22 and that of December 9.

DEC 20, singable satire: Shania Twain sings "VERSE"

a) Review of material posted on December 20 in previous years ...

2020: singable satire, Reduplications A to K (parody lyrics)  
2021: singable satire, Clothing-Moth Hat-Dance (parody lyrics)

2022: singable satire, Kooky Presidential Views (parody lyrics)
2023: singable satire, Nifty Ways to Leave your Mukluks (parody lyrics)

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b) Today's Offering (Dec 20, 2024):  

PARODY LYRICS  

ORIGINAL SONG: "Up!"  is the lead song in the eponymous album recorded by Shania Twain in 2002. The song, in a light country/western format, is notable for its use of a limerick-like rhyme, AABBA, in its five-line verses. As the scansion of "Up!" doesn't quite fit with the anapestic (x-x-X) triple-rhythm of limericks, some changes were required to modify the traditional limerick stories recounted in this parody.

PARODY COMPOSED: Giorgio Coniglio, January 2018. 
SONGLINK:  The verses of this song demonstrate the possibility of using novel song melodies to sing the stories of classic limericks. 

"VERSE!"

(to the tune of "Up!" by Shania Twain)

| I'm hooked on verse| x4

Seems things have gone from bad to worse:
Can't be effusive, must be terse, 
I found an online limerick site,
That would accept my poems alright,
And now I'm hooked on 5-line verse. 

Spend all my time in writing 'lim's.
Don't socialize with hers or hims. 
My brainscan shows a funny bulge  
Where I store and I indulge
All my versifying whims.

Limn, limn, limn -  
A verb for 'suffuse with light'.
Lim, lim- 
Great poem if your scansion's right 
Lim, lim'rick - 
A lulu, it's out of sight. 

Out on Nantucket lived a man;
Kept all his cash hid close at hand, 
Until the day when Nan his daughter
She eloped, she shouldn't oughter,
Then she ran off with his can. 

A flee and fly inside a flue
They didn't know just what to do.
The flea opined that they should fly
The fly declined, I don't know why;
They couldn't find the flaw, can you? 

A lady traveler named Miss Bright
On trips made time faster than light.
One day with relatives (poor lass)
Converted energy to mass,
Then she returned the previous night. 

Limn, limn, limn -  
A verb for 'suffuse with light'.
Lim, lim -   
Great poem if your scansion's right 
Lim, lim'rick  - 
A lulu, it's out of sight.

AABBA 
AABBA
AABBA
... yeah  

On limerick verse here is my slant:
No question if you should or shan't. 
If you just take aim and edit
And don't rant; that's to your credit
Once you shoot, you can't recant.

So, I'm addicted: writing lims.
Don't socialize with hers or hims.
My brainscan shows a funny bulge  
Where I store and I indulge
All my versifying whims.

I'm hooked on verse;
On 5-line verse;
| I'm hooked on verse| x2

AABBA 
AABBA
AABBA

Yeah ! 

DEC 19, around and about: action-photos from the Conservatory

 a) Review of material posted on December 19 in previous years ...

2020: anagrams, R-I-C 11 (wordplay maps)  
2021: non-sequitur, charity auction (illustrated poem)

2022: death and afterlife, where bad Jews go (poem) 
2023: ambulatory verse, falter (poem)

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b) Today's Offering (Dec 19, 2024): 

Live-action followup from the post of November on this topic ... 

an itchy turtle scratches