MAR 29, 2026, patients and maladies: knee effusion

Authors' Note: This verse resulted from the author’s personal experience (as patient).

  Following trauma, standard X-rays taken in the Emergency Department show most fractures where the bone fragments are displaced. They can not, however, diagnose many undisplaced fractures, particularly in elderly patients with reduced bone density. 

  Nonspecific swelling with evidence of leaking of fluid into the adjacent joint space (joint effusion) is particularly common in injuries about the knee, and is easily discerned on visual inspection and X-rays. Follow up radiographs after another 3 weeks sometimes display an initially missed healing fracture. In cases where instability, ongoing pain, or persistent effusion are prominent, injury to ligaments may be suspected. 

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MAR 27, 2026, American satire: "No Kings" protest rallies

poetry lyrics:/ "Fire the jesters", that vow is provoking/ Common folks to protest and,
no joking./ They'll defend their free speech/ (They might choose to impeach)./
 His responses their rancor is stoking.  

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MAR 25, 2026, submitted palindromes: RANDOM PILES 51

MAR 23, 2026, birdlore: in-flight videos

Today's Offering (March 23, 2026): 

snowy egret

black-crowned night heron

MAR 21, 2026, gruesome verse: ghostbusting equipment

Happy Hallowe'en!  

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MAR 19, 2026, postal places, Canada: Antigonish, NS

Authors' Note: NS is the official abbreviation for the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, in which the town of Antigonish, population 4,700, is located on the shore of Northumberland Strait, a source of excellent local seafood.

Based on an aboriginal Mi'kmak name, the town was founded in 1784 by a land grant from the British crown. It is now the home of the annual Antigonish Highland Games, and of Sir Francis Xavier University, highly reputed on a national level for undergraduate teaching.

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MAR 17, 2026, defining opinion: envision

 Our blogpost "Defining Opinion" on the topic-based blog "Edifying Nonsense" shows a selection of similar verses submitted to OEDILF (the online Omnificent English Dictionary in Limerick Form). You can see all of these on one visit by clicking HERE.

MAR 15, 2026, mammalian wildlife: "selfie with bison"

Authors' Note: It's hard to believe that there was a 'responsible driver' who let this young person out of the car to take this picture (isolated from a published video), but there you are. 

In national parks in both Canada and the United States, there are fines imposed for approaching wildlife too closely, and signage usually makes this abundantly clear.

A verse, and more pictures of the American bison (buffalo), can be found on this post. 

MAR 13, 2026, photo-collage: murals of Chemainus, British Columbia

flying over Ladysmith, BC, 
 just north of Chemainus

Lenora Mines at Mt. Sicker
Mural, Peter Bresnen
Chemainus Festival of Murals Society

Blog author inspecting the Historical Mural Series
Chemainus, B.C.

Local Resident Viewing the Mural
"Arrival of the Reindeer in Horseshoe Bay"
Chemainus, B.C.

"Second Chemainus Sawmill" muralist Bruce Rickett
Chemainus, B.C. (web-photo)

Rainbow over Ladysmith Harbour at Saltair
(village just north of Chemainus)

Ladysmith Harbour during a sunny interlude
 October, 2016

MAR 11, 2026, photo-collage: polka dots

 

MAR 9, 2026, exemplification: hillbilly

Authors' Note: It sure warn't easy to pack the whole bunch of neighbors and pals into a single verse. Sad to say, I had to leave out the following:  bumpkins, crackers, chawbacons, clodhoppers, good-ol'- boys, hayseeds,  and yokels. I'll include 'em next time! 

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MAR 7, 2026, homophonous verse: deserving/commendable

Authors' Note: 

syl: jargon used in the doggerel trade; a short form of syllable

Although the adjective deserving has come euphemistically to be applied to the needy, it classically was applied only to people or things that were commendable or admirable.

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MAR 5, 2026, American satire (prolongation): criminal lying

 

Authors' Note: Lines written in August 2023, two-and-a-half years after the sad events of January 6, 2021. What more can I say? 

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MAR 3, 2026, poetic non-sequitur: professor and madman

 

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MAR 1, 2026, planet-saving verse: fur-farming

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