JAN 30, singable satire, "DIETARY NOTES"

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)

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

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

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JAN 25, submitted palindromes, RANDOM PILES 37

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. 15 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).

You can access this delightful entertainment right here 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, OR, just follow the links indicated above. 

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.

JAN 23, Canadiana: joual

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

 Today's Offering (Jan 21, 2025):

poetry lyrics:/ I will grant you permission to cite/ What I've blogged,

 stuff I've flogged on my site./ You can quote what I've written,/ If you note that

 you're smitten/ With my view, that you'd rate "OUT OF SIGHT".

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JAN 19, avian talking heads, 1 (A to C)

 a) Reprise of material posted on January 19 in previous years ...

2020: 
2021:  
2022: 
2023: 

 Today's Offering (Jan 19,2025): TALKING HEADS, Avian, #1

Photos of this ilk, and other 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 (and a few, in desperation, were obtained when viewing outdoor display information). The collection was originally posted on his personal blog in September, 2023, but has been revised and extended since that date; this will be the first offering of avian talking heads. Listen in!

CURRENT PARTICIPANTS: (anhinga), bald eagle, black-crowned night heron, black skimmer, black swan, blue jay, bluebird, boat-tailed grackle, brown pelican, California scrub jay, Canada goose, cardinal, cedar waxwing.

Talking Heads are a media resource:

Seasoned viewers at breaking news' source,

As in sports, storms, disasters.

But they're sometimes just 'masters'

Who the show-host's weird views reinforce.

Giorgio Coniglio

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Editorial Note: You can now follow the links at the bottom of each post to continue on your alphabetic journey through more than a hundred of our wildlife photos. 

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missing: budgie, sparrow, starling

JAN 17, doctors and their practices: the colonoscopist

Today's Offering (Jan 17, 2025):

poetry lyrics:/ Colonoscopist: practiced profession/ That deserves a parade
 or procession./ They do prize-winning screening/ (The prep: colon 'cleaning')/
 Bowel problems? So prudent, each session,/ They probe, and prevent their progression. 

Authors' Note:

prep: medical jargon for preparatory measures needed before surgery or complex testing

  The general public is aware of the importance of colonoscopy for screening in early colon cancer. Colonoscopy also plays an important role in the diagnosis, treatment and followup of symptomatic colonic problems, including isolated polyps, diffuse polyposis of several kinds, colitis and gastrointestinal bleeding. Your colonoscopist is likely to be a surgeon, less commonly an internist, trained in gastrointestinal diseases and in the technical aspects of flexible fiberoptic endoscopy.

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JAN 15, binomial phrases: "poop and scoop"

Today's Offering (Jan 15, 2025): 

poetry lyrics:/ Twice each day, to escape from your coop/ You and Prince grab the
 leash, walk the loop./To where dog-owners troop,/ Each, bag-handed will stoop) --/ 
An activity (group) -- "Poop and scoop."  

Authors' Note:  The rhyming binomial phrase, poop and scoop, sometimes quoted as stoop and scoop, describes a group activity by pet-owners.
See also the authors' poem "dog park".  

     

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There is also an entire collection of lyrics to patter songs, somewhat older material, dedicated to various kinds of binomials, that provides more didactic material and an extensive series of examples, and allows you to sing these expressions for your own enjoyment, or for that of others around you. Click HERE !

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JAN 13, mammalian wildlife: beavers (Rod the sculptor)

Today's Offering (Jan 13, 2025):

poetry lyrics:/ In the footsteps of masters he trod -- / Rodent Rod, whom art crtitics applaud./

His fans wondered, "How could/ You sculpt mountains of wood?"/ 

He most modestly nodded, I gnawed."/ (Like Rodin's, his work's craftily flawed.) 

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JAN 11, planet-saving verse: clean coal

Today's Offering (Jan 11, 2025): 

poetry lyrics:/ Sang a choir of deniers in chorus/ Led by clowns who spread this view
 before us/: "Your poor state as a whole/ Could revive with clean coal"/ Their plan's
 porous, just bull (Latin: taurus)  

Authors' Note: In the polarized United States, the term denier, sometimes specified as science denier or climate-change denier, is taken to mean a person who denies either the existence or human causation of global warming.

Another discussion of clean coal can be found in an OEDILF verse by contributing editor Dr. Work:

We are led to believe that clean coal

Should be sought as a practical goal:

To store carbon dioxide

Deep under the dockside

Or pumped very deep down a hole.

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JAN 9, sleek Greek prefixes: CHIRO-

Today's Offering (Jan 9, 2025):

poetry lyrics:/ Now chiropody handles your feet -- / Treating corns, warts and
 bunions: its beat./ Chiropractics's assignment/ Is your spine's realignment./
 While chirography: handwriting, neat. 

 

Authors' Note: These names for professional endeavours, derived from the Greek root chiro (hand), have quite different meanings and pronunciations.

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JAN 7, American satire: bitter anniversary

Editors' Note:  Here's a poetic thought that we had about this issue on the morning of January 7, 2024: 

Jan. the sixth, 'twenty-five, came and went,

A perfunctory D.C. event.

Quickly vote counts were tallied

(No rioters rallied)

Pent-up anger it seems had been spent.

Yet our hearts cry out, "Sinners, repent!"

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JAN 5, portraits of couples: N to Z, background-subtracted format

BACKGROUND SUBTRACTED COUPLES

("True-and-Faux Photos")

pelicans

pigeons

pigs

turtles (red sliders)

trumpeter swans

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