JAN 30, singable satire, "DIETARY NOTES"

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

2020: literature survey, "La Belle Dame Sans Merci" (illustrated poem)
2021: singable satire, Babel-Talky, multilingual 'Jaberwocky (parody lyrics) 
2022: singable satire, Fickle Twist of Verse, #3 (parody lyrics)
2023: singable satire, Nessun Dorma (parody lyrics)

2024: singable satire, While My Uke Wordlessly Sings (parody lyrics)

b) Today's Offering (Jan 30, 2025): SINGABLE SATIRE

ORIGINAL PARODY-LYRICS

MUSICAL UNDERPINNINGS: "Mairzy Doats", Drake, Hoffman, Livingston 1943. THis children's song was  initially recorded by Al Trace, covered by Andrews Sisters, Sharon, Lois and Bram, and many others. 

PARODY COMPOSED: Giorgio Coniglio, September 2015, performed at the Corktown Ukulele Jam.

PARODY SONG-LINK:  To find ukulele and guitar chord-charts to help you accompany "DIETARY NOTES" on your favorite instrument, click HERE.

DIETARY NOTES

(to the tune of "Mairzy Doats")

My family thinks I’m nutty as a fruitcake
Have to hunt on menus, find what I can eat.

These lyrics have been moved, along with ukulele chord suggestions, to a posting on our personal song-blog "Silly Songs and Satire".

Scene from "The Elephant Show"

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JAN 29, avian talking heads, 2 (C to G)

a) Reprise of material posted on January 29 in previous years ...

2020: magical palindromes, introduction (poem and wordplay)

2021: old world palindromes, 9, 10 (wordplay maps) 
2022: hellenophilia, Santorini wines (illustrated poem)
2023: poetic non-sequitur, professor and madman (poem)

2024: birdlore, in-flight videos, (photo-collage)

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 b) Today's Offering (Jan 29,2025): TALKING HEADS

Photos of this ilk, and subsequent posts displaying mammals and 'lower' animals, were obtained by Giorgio Coniglio, using an i-phone camera, at various locations, mostly in the 'wild'; a minority was obtained at zoos, museums, aquariums and wildlife sanctuaries. The initial collection of a dozen-or-so consultant avians was originally posted on this personal blog on September 19, 2023, but has been extended since that date; this will be the second such offering of avian talking heads.

prior avian participants (January 19 -- click HERE):  (anhinga), bald eagle, black-crowned night heron, black skimmer, black swan, blue jay, (eastern) bluebird, boat-tailed grackle, brown pelican, California scrub jay, Canada goose, cardinal, cedar waxwing.

CURRENT PARTICIPANTS:

chickadee, chicken, city pigeon, common coot, cormorant, crow, domestic turkey, Egyptian goose, emu, flamingo, gallinule (moorhen), feral duck.

trumpeter swan, stretching 

Use web-photos? Wide prohibition,

Though it's sometimes allowed, on condition.

But the bird-pics I'm showing

Are justified, knowing

I've obtained their Creator's permission.

Giorgio Coniglio

If you enjoyed this foolish collection, you might want to proceed to several more posts featuring avian talking heads. Eventually, there may even be posts featuring mammals and other life forms! 

Click here to proceed to avian talking heads D to G.

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JAN 28, domestic hazards: security system

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

2020: Canadiana, western funky towns (wordplay maps)
2021: etymology, horse (illustrated poem) 
2022: gun control verse, anger and guns (illustrated poem)
2023: word-pairs, alliterative binomials H-K (wordplay lexicon)

2024: mythed opportunities, shooting dice with Satan (poem) 

Authors' Note: A back patio reconstruction project was delayed, and could not be completed prior to our leaving town on a vacation trip. Our property was left without a back gate for security. We called the Alarm Service to inform them that the back side of the house required surveillance while we were away. Lines 4 and 5 of the poem describe the agent's response. 

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JAN 27, higher connections: haredim

  

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

2020: anagram swarm, US scramble-towns, 1 (wordplay maps)

2021: anagram swarm, US scramble-towns, 13 (wordplay maps)

2022: anagram swarm, Canadian scramble-towns, 3 (wordplay map)
2023: anagram swarm, Canadian scramble-towns, 15 (wordplay map) 

2024: waterfowl, Ibis Hotel (photo-collage)

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bee working purple asters

b) Today's Offering (Jan 27, 2025):

Authors' note: 

(khah-ray-DEEM)

Various groups of strictly Orthodox or haredi (khah-RAY-dee) Jews represent an expanding demographic in Israel, assembling in particular neighborhoods (such as the suburbs of Jerusalem) where they carry out their lifestyle, rejecting and disdaining the secular environment, preferring a world characterized by observance of laws derived from the Torah (Bible). Their traditional dress reflects the groups' roots in 19th century Ashkenazi religious communities in eastern Europe. The name (the plural noun form) originates from a biblical reference to those who tremble at the word of God.

With large families (averaging 7 children per woman), these groups made up 4% of Israeli citizens in 1980, and 13% in 2021.

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JAN 26, at heart: heart block

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

2020: waterfowl, great blue herons (illustrated poem)

2021: anagram swarm, ELECTION-FRAUD contest, state entries (wordplay)  

2022: reptiles, amphisbaenians (illustrated poem)
2023: parasites, the parasitologist (host) (poem)

2024: limerick extension, Giorgio's 7-liners (poem collection)

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b) Today's Offering (Jan 26, 2025):

You can view more poems on this topic by proceeding to "Cardiologic Tracings: AT HEART" (parts #1 and #2) on our full-service blog "Edifying Nonsense". Click HERE!

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JAN 25, submitted palindromes: RANDOM PILES 54

 

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

2020: fabric art, the fabric artist (illustrated poem)

2021: submitted palindromes, random piles 6 (wordplay) 
2022: submitted palindromes, random piles 18 (wordplay)
2023: submitted palindromes, random pile 30 (wordplay)

2024: submitted palindromes, random piles 42 (wordplay)

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b) Today's Offering (Jan 25, 2025): 

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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JAN 24, patients and their maladies: BPH

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

2020: new world palindromes, #3 (wordplay maps)
2021: American satire, freedom-from-Trump Day (illustrated poem) 
2022: dental felings, implants (illustrated poem)
2023: bi-lyrical limerick, aphonic (poetic novelty)

2024: defining opinion, homogenized milk (poem)

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b) Today's Offering (Jan 24, 2025):

Authors' Notes: 

-trophy: a Greek suffix, as in hypertrophy, atrophy or dystrophy, derived from trophe (nourishment)

trophy: a decorated cup or other prize, from the Greek root tropaion, a rout or victory.

  The author has had first-hand experience of these unpleasant symptoms. In fact, despite the comment in the verse, having BPH does not eliminate the chance of also having cancer. Consult your physician; they will likely do tests to ensure that cancer is not also present.

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JAN 23, Canadiana: joual

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

2020: sister-cities anagrams, 5,6 (wordplay maps)

2021: minerals and vitamins, zinc (illustrated poem) 
2022: anagrams, US postal service (wordplay maps)
2023: basic medical science, homonymous hemianopsia (poem)

2024: death and the afterlife, decease in the crease (illustrated poem)

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b) Today's Offering (Jan 23, 2025):

Authors' Note: Accent is a word written similarly, but spoken very differently in French and English. Joual (ZHWAHL) is the name for the accent, grammar and even spelling used naturally by many speakers in the Canadian province of Quebec; this dialect had evolved over several centuries separately from the language spoken in France. In schools, businesses and media in Quebec and other francophone areas of Canada, 'québécois' (kay-bay-KWA), more standard French, with a local inflection and local vocabulary, now predominates. In Canadian English and French, residents of the province are known as Quebeckers or Québécois respectively.

 You can review poems, pictures and diverse nonsense related to Canada on the post "Canadiana" on our full-service blog  "Edifying Nonsense". 

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JAN 22, homophonous verse: bypassed glitches

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

2020: American satire, laying blame (poem)

2021: anagram swarm, ELECTION-FRAUD contest, other national entries (wordplay maps) 
2022: neologism, classic, snafus (illustrated poem)
2023: poets' corner, noun-verb contractions (poem)

2024: unusual wildlife, Toronto (photo-collage)

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b) Today's Offering (Jan 22, 2025): 

Authors' Note: Of course, the concept that bribes would be of benefit to authors submitting to OEDILF is patently nonsensical. There are a certain number of identity rhymes that appear in the database of edited verses there. The prosaic explanation, however, is that these bypassed initial glitches, being rather subtle in comparison with other flaws, are often under-observed and overlooked.

You can view our whole collection on this topic -- verses intentionally crafted with contentious repetition of the rhyming syllables --  in a wider context on our full-service blog "Edifying Nonsense". Check the post "Homophonous Verse" by clicking HERE. 

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JAN 21, terminal (poetic) exclamation: OUT OF SIGHT!

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

2020: American satire, First Term on the Range (wordplay/parody lyrics)

2021: classic palindromes, Drawn onward. (illustrated poem)
2022: limerick variations, singable limericks (illustrated poem) 
2023: creative anachronism, dawning of history (illustrated poem)

2024: terminal exclamation, "I'm Sold!" (poem)

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b) Today's Offering (Jan 21, 2025):

You can review our collection of poems on the topic of "Terminal Exclamation (Limerick Variations)" as it evolves on our more encyclopedic blog "Edifying Nonsense"; click HERE. 

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JAN 20, singable satire: "OFF-PATENT DRUG NINETEEN"

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

2020: singable satire, First Term on the Range (parody lyrics)
2021: singable patter-satire, Reduplications L to Z (parody lyrics) 
2022: singable satire, Jailhouse, Now (parody lyrics)
2023: singable satire, Thunder Bay, Ontario (parody lyrics)

2024: singable satire, Robbie Burns Day (parody lyrics)

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b) Today's Offering (Jan 20, 2025): SINGABLE SATIRE 

ORIGINAL PARODY-LYRICS

MUSICAL UNDERPINNINGS: "Love Potion Number Nine" , The Clovers, 1959.  

PARODY COMPOSED: Giorgio Coniglio, December 2012. The song was performed at an open mike at the Corktown Ukulele Jam's weekly session, meeting in a pub located a stone' throw from where two principal downtown streets, King St., and Queen St., deviate slightly from their parallel course and intersect at the Don River. 

UKULELE and GUITAR-FRIENDLY LINK: Our whole series of songs can be found in a friendly format for ukulele (and guitar)-players on our sister blog "SILLY SONGS and SATIRE" with chord-charts for both the parody and original song, as well as helpful performing suggestions. 

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From Wikipedia...... In November 2012, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that the patent on Viagra was invalid from the beginning as the company had not provided full disclosure.
This song imagines that Madame Ruth had relocated to Toronto towards the end of her career, pursuing her profession in the section known as Corktown - also known for massive ukulele-jam meetings at a local pub.


OFF-PATENT DRUG #NINETEEN
or Madame Ruth's Lament

(to the tune of "Love Potion Number Nine")

I had some troubles making magic pills,

You’ll know the new ones, like sildenafil;

In ‘62 I palmed some off and then I did some time:

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Cop-assault seemed part of ... Love Potion Number Nine.

My new blue Love-Drug could be guys’ delight,
They'd stand to attention for part of the night.

How hard could it be to direct their urge at chicks?

The patent gave the details since ...  Nineteen Ninety-Six.

If they’d buy my knock-offs they would never flop,

I could scope out more ingredients and set up shop.

A good place to test it might be “where King meets Queen” -

I needed a success with ... Generic Drug Nineteen.

Got turned around and flustered when I checked out the lists;

The patent called for extracts in a strange solvent mix.

I swirled it in the bathtub with some weird catalysts;  

It stank like Potion Nine but I breathed in a few whiffs.

I packed it up though it was smoking green,

And grabbed and cabbed it to the Corktown scene,

But when I kissed the cop down at River Street and Queen,

She broke my 30 vials of  ...   Off-Patent Drug Nineteen.

Those vials were smoking  green,

That lady cop was mean,
Off-Patent Drug Nine-teen !

Psst!  Psst!

If you have troubles when you’re in a hug,

There’s knock-off drug enough to fill a jug;

But please ignore the fact that the pills are shocking green,

And please avoid the corner of  ...   River St and Queen.

Off-Patent Drug Nineteen x2

Off-Patent Drug Nineteen!

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