JUL 10, oncology verse: facial nerve malfunction

a) Reprise from material posted on July 10 in previous years ...

2020: reprehensible modern history, broken arrow (poem - 'brief saga')
2021: basic medical science, radiation exposure (illustrated poem - 'brief saga')
2022: singular plurals, careers (poem - 'brief saga')
2023: national verse, France (poem - 'brief saga')

b) Today's Offering (Jul 10, 2024)

poetry lyrics:/ 'Twas a slow-growing lump in parotid/ To preserve facial nerve,
 surgery slotted./ Now my tumor's excised,/ Facial branches revised:/
 One ear sweats when I chew food allotted. 

Authors' Note:  Following manipulation of the facial nerve during parotid gland surgery, bizarre malfunction often occurs. Sweating in the region around one ear provoked by eating, a state known as Frei’s syndrome, is seen commonly and may persits indefinitely. 

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JUL 9, floral delights: orchids

a) Reprise from material posted on July 9 in previous years ...

2020: political palindromes, III (wordplay)
2021: new world palindromes, #49 (wordplay maps) 
2022: doctors and practices, lithotripsist (poem)
2023: saving the planet, coy koi (illustrated poem)

b) Today's Offering (Jul 9, 2024):

JUL 8, defining opinion: expertise

a) Reprise from material posted on July 8 in previous years ...

2020: classic palindromes, gnu dung (illustrated poem)
2021: clot or not, pulmonary embolism (poem) 
2022: poets' corner, HELD, editorial state (poem)
2023: waterfowl, roseate spoonbills (illustrated poem)

a wildebeest (gnu)
photo:  B. Weinstock

b) Today's Offering (Jul 8, 2024): 

poetry lyrics: Norm's experience? Brief. No degrees:/ "My suave looks and bravado
 trump these./ I'll apply for the Cabinet (P'rhaps priesthood or rabbinate)./
 Staunch allegiance and loyalty/ May appeal to some 'royalty'./
  I'm straightforward; no fake expertise./ Let's discount the past question of sleaze./
 And the interview honcho agrees.   

Authors' Note: Norm's take on his employability, at some past point, would have been thought to smack of self-aggrandizement or worse, but appears in our time to be normalized.

Our series of blogposts, "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.

  

JUL 7, palinku (poetic novelty): restaurants #2, #3

 a) Reprise from material posted on July 7 in previous years ...

2020: political palindromes, HHH (wordplay)

2021: invertebrates, gastropods (illustrated poem) 
2022: trees, crepe myrtle (illustrated poem)
2023: waterfowl, mute swans pose (photo-op)

mute swan at Humber Bay

b) Today's Offering (Jul 7, 2024): 

The interplay between dining and sinning is also the topic of this recently discovered palindrome ...

"Dennis and Edna dined," said I, as Enid and Edna sinned. 

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JUL 6, postal places, USA: Champaign, IL

a) Reprise from material posted on July 6 in previous years ...

2020: new world palindromes, #27,28 (wordplay)
2021: domestic hazards, dangerous utensils (poem) 
2022: binomial phrases, down and out (poem)
2023: ambulatory verse, climb (poem)

b) Today's Offering (Jul 6, 2024):

poetry lyrics:/ The Chicagoan's scorn for the twain:/ "I have
 only ill-will for Champaign./  And as for Urbana,/ it's hardly nirvana -- /
 Towns we mourn/ (fields of corn). Such disdain!

Authors' Note: 

Chicagoan: resident of Chicago, IL

urbane: sophisticated, elegant, worldly

No banana!: slang for 'not prize-winning'

No pain, no gain: slang phrase indicating hard work as a requirement for advancement.

IL is the official abbreviation for the American state of Illinois, in which two neighboring towns, Champaign, population 88,000 and Urbana, population 38,000, make up the metropolitan area of Champaign-Urbana, located 135 miles (215 km) south of the megalopolis of Chicago. The names of both towns, dating from the nineteenth century, relate to earlier settlements in the nearby state of Ohio. Ultimately, the name, derived from archaic French, relates to a place 'in the countryside'.

Champaign-Urbana, IL is home to the flagship campus of the University of Illinois, and offers an appropriate spectrum of cultural opportunities. Surrounded by an extensive, flat, mid-west farming district, it is on occasion, as here, disparaged by residents of Chicago for its lack of "urbanity".

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JUL 5, travel reviews: INN-habits

a) Reprise of material posted on July 5 in previous years ...

2020: American satire, Disingenuous Don (poem)
2021: classic palindrome, go hang a salami ... (poem) 
2022: insects, cryoprotection (poem)
2023: medical testing, false-positives (poem)

b) Today's Offering (Jul 5, 2024):

poetry lyrics:/ Bring your pets; they can run up a tab -- it's/ A perk
 checking in at Inn-Habits./ We have great all-day spas -- / Dogs and cats
 (please, no claws); Also humans (no budgies or rabbits).

  

JUL 4, postal places, USA: Baton Rouge, LA

a) Reprise from material posted on July 4 in previous years ...

2020: political palindromes, GGG (wordplay)
2021: anagram swarm, election fraud (wordplay maps) 
2022: anagram swarm, election fraud (wordplay contest)
2023: geographic fantasy, Latin states of America (maps)

b) Today's Offering (Jul 4, 2024):

poetry lyrics:/ Faced with land loss and global deluge,/ Solid MAGA-red pols,
  Baton Rouge,/  LA, spout denial,/ Self-delusion so vile,/ Economic and eco-costs:
 huge! 

Authors' Note: LA is the official abbreviation for the American state of Louisiana, whose capital, Baton Rouge, with population 230,000, is situated 100 miles (160km) upriver from New Orleans.

   The original site, protected from flooding by its situation on bluffs along the east side of the Mississippi, had originally noted by exploring Europeans for a pole marking the dividing-line between two aboriginal territories. It was designated as the state capital in 1846, replacing New Orleans in that role, and with extension, its port became the tenth busiest in the US. The city hosts the flagship campuses of Louisiana State University and Southern University.

In recent decades, the Republican party acquired a strangle-hold on almost all local, state, and federal officials elected in Louisiana. Although Louisiana is otherwise agreed as being one of the locales on the planet most affected by climate change, coastal erosion and other negative results of human activity, resistance to that realization seems strongly entrenched locally.

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JUL 3, photo-collage, mammalian wildlife: bunnies on the trail (Toronto's Brickworks)

a) Reprise from material posted on July 3 in previous years ...

2020: sister-cities anagrams, Teardom/CruelNibs (wordplay map)
2021: sister-cities anagrams, Smarted/Lapbruise (wordplay map)

2022: English survey course, La Belle Dame/Keats (illustrated poem)
2023: American satire, Latin States 2 (wordplay maps)

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b) Today's Offering (Jul 3, 2024):

 

                                                                                                

JUL 2, W-I-P

 

JUL 1, Canadiana: 'founding cultures'

a) Reprise from July 1 in previous years

2020: Canadiana, Canadian defined (illustrated poem)
2021: Canadiana, Canadian moose (illustrated poem)
2022: Canadiana, Canadian weather (illustrated poem)
2023: Canadiana, Mounties (poem)

b) Today's Offering (Jul 1, 2024):

Authors' Note:  In earlier days, national discussion focused on the two founding cultures, as Canada struggled with incorporating the remnants of two different European traditions with different religions, customs and even legal systems, into its institutions. Today's realizations and reality render the buzzword outdated and the situation even more complex.

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

b) Incidental photo-collage

You can review these illustrated verses in a wider context by proceeding to 'Reverse Strokes: Limericks About Canoeing' on the full-service blog 'Edifying Nonsense'.