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 28, domestic hazards: security system

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 26, at heart: heart block

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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. 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).

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 24, patients and their maladies: BPH

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

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.

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JAN 22, homophonous verse: bypassed glitches

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 theRange (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):

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: personal and family history, relations (illustrated poem)
2021: commercial products, web-purchased firearms (illustrated poem) 
2022: Panama palindrome parody, Amen .. Ipanema (illustrated poem)
2023: defining opinion, hose (poem)

2024: lowcountry wildlife, sequel to "crepuscular rendez-vous" (photo-collage)

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b) 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 18, sleek Greek prefixes: CHIRO-

 a) Reprise of material posted on January 18 in previous years ...

2020: trees, Norway maples (illustrated poem)
2021: anagrams, ELECTION-FRAUD contest, honorable mention (wordplay maps)

2022: mammalian wildlife, kri-kri, Cretan goat (illustrated poem) 
2023: reptiles, anoles going green (photo analysis)

2024: waterfowl, crepuscular rendez- vous (photocollage)

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b) Today's Offering (Jan 18, 2025):

 

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

 Clicking HERE will introduce you to our entire collection of verses about the Greek prefixes!

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JAN 17, doctors and their practices: the colonoscopist

a) Reprise of material posted on January 17 in previous years ...

2020: nuclear cardiology haiku, Seventeen Haiku Verses (traditional haiku' poems)
2021: palinku, partying 3 (poetic novelty) 

2022: palinku, puzzling and magic palindromes (poetic novelty)
2023: palinku, family life (poetic novelty)

2024: palinku, restaurants #2 (poetic novelty)

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b) Today's Offering (Jan 17, 2025):

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 16, mammalian wildlife: Geebo's angwantibo

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You, members of the audience of Daily Illustrated Nonsense, (D.I.N.), often have questions about the authors of this blog, and the purpose, history and organization of our online e-manations. To help answer these puzzlements, we have scrawled some material on the undated PAGES section of this blog. Please review these 'documents', although some remain under development. Although expansion of these explanations is contemplated, we admit to taking our time to write down what seems natural to us, but more outreach with this type of communication is planned.

So far, you can take a look at these important documents :

1) Our Blog (D.I.N.): Authors and Purpose (under construction)

2) Content of the blog, and its Historical Development

3) Distribution of Thematic Material

4) How can I contribute? (under construction)

a) Reprise of material posted on January 16 in previous years ...

2020: American satire, borscht (poem)

2021: anagram swarm, election fraud contest (wordplay) 
2022: death and afterlife, giving up the ghost (illustrated poem)
2023: classic palindrome,  no left felon (poem)

2024: Ontari-oases, fall colour tour (photo-collage)

b) Today's Offering (Jan 16, 2025):

poetry lyrics:/ Offered love at her Gabonese ranch/ By that raunchy angwantibo Blanche,/
Primatologist Geebo/ (In her monkey gazebo)/
Heeded urgings to "Hang from this branch."/ Such absurd loss-of-life we should stanch.  

Authors' Note:  The angwantibo (an-GWAN-tee-boh) or golden potto, Calabar angwantibo, is a small golden-haired primate inhabiting parts of Central Africa, including the country of Gabon. It undertakes its propagation rituals while hanging from tree-branches. The results of attempts at such matings by unskilled participants are unrecorded.

  To some readers the name Geebo may seem unlikely, but the author assures you that for the first twenty years of his life this nickname (one of the few of which he approved) was in common use, at least by his siblings; it is still used occasionally in close circles.

 

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