SEP 27, planet-saving verse: beach foam

 a) Reprise of material posted on September 27 in prior years ...

2020: anagram swarm, US scramble-towns, 9 (wordplay map)
2021: birdlore, American goldfinch (illustrated poem) 
2022:  anagram swarm, Canadian scramble-towns, 11 (wordplay map) 

2023: ambulatory verse, scamper (poem)

b) Today's Offering (Sep 27, 2024): 

poetry lyrics:/ "Please contribute. Put sea-health in reach!. Foam/
 Accumulates toxic stuff. Each foam/ Forms our spume living-room/
  Or a frothy=death tomb."/ Signed by Plankton-for-Whom-Home-Is-Beach-Foam. 

You can help save the planet by viewing all our verses in this series at "Edifying Nonsense". Click HERE!

SEP 26, diagnostic imaging: DOGgraphy

a) Reprise of material posted on September 26 in prior years ...

2020: Toronto oases, Humber Bay park (photo-collage)
2021: new world palindromes, #46 (wordplay map) 
2022: organic brain poetry, CTE traumatic encephalopathy (poem)

2023: decorative touches, Tulip Fields (fabric art)  

b) Today's Offering (Sep 26, 2024): 

poetry lyrics:/ We've invented a type of holography/ To help view

 patients' body-geography./ Neither CAT-scan nor PET,/ Dual Orbits we Get./

Have your vet set you up for your DOGgraphy.

Authors' Note:   The confusing terminology for advanced, i.e. 3D medical imaging, uses acronyms that may be historically based or poorly explained. The development of a method of imaging known as ‘DOGgraphy’ is apocryphal. 

CAT: computerized axial tomography, X-ray imaging of a body section; better described in modern terms as ‘x-ray CT’

PET: positron (dual-photon) emission tomography; a Nuclear Medicine technique involving prior injection of a positron-emitting radionuclide ('isotope'); becoming an important modality in cancer assessment

Holography: processing of fields of light or other radiation scattered from objects; well developed with lasers, but with limited current application in medical imaging.

 You can review all our verses on this intriguing topic by proceeding to a post on 'Edifying Nonsense' entitled 'Selected Topics in Diagnostic Imaging'. Click HERE!

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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)

SEP 25, submitted palindromes: RANDOM PILES 33

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.

SEP 24, magical palindromes: examples #26 - #30

 a) Reprise of material posted on September 24 in prior years ...

2020: trees, sago palms (illustrated poem)
2021: Toronto ravines, Etobicoke Creek (photo-collage) 
2022: toxic vignettes, antifreeze poisoning (poem)
2023: word-pairs, echoic binomials P-Z (wordplay lexicon)

sago palm
(a sexy male cycad)

b) Today's Offering (Sep 24, 2024):

You can view our entire collection of these intriguing wordplay oddities, in a post on our blog "Edifying Nonsense", entitled "Magical Palindromes: a compendium".

SEP 23, life in Palindrome Valley: dalliance

 a) Reprise of material posted on September 23 in prior years ...

2020: poets' corner, limerick adddiction (poem)
2021: binomial phrases, sin and redemption (illustrated poem) 
2022: cl, civil lawsuit --Fore! (illustrated poem)
2023: waterfowl, flightless seabirds (illustrated poem)

b) Today's Offering (Sep 23, 2024):

poetry lyrics:/ Here's a reason to linger, to dally/ When you travel to Palindrome Valley:/
 Restless palindromes roam;/ Letters find a new home/ 'Scramble-towns' boost the
 anagram tally,/ "Ill stay several more days" exclaims Sally. 

You can review other illustrated verses on this topic by proceeding to the collection 'Life in Palindrome Valley' on our full-service blog 'Edifying Nonsense'.

SEP 22, poets corner: summary (poetic resume)

a) Review of material posted on September 22 in prior years ...

2020: Toronto ravines, Riverdale Farm (photo-collage)
2021: scopes of medicine, ERCP (illustrated poem) 
2022: classic palindome, Step on no pets. (poem)
2023: condo reno, finishing touches (photo-collage)

b) Today's Offering (Sep 22, 2024): 

SEP 21, birdlore: tufted tit(mouse)

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

2020: Toronto ravines, Riverdale Farm (illustrated poem)
2021: dental feelings, deep dental cleaning (poem) 
2022: higher connections, the Queen's funeral (photo-collage)
2023: objectionable adjectives, forced (illustrated poem)

forced bulbs

b) Today's Offering (Sep 21, 2024): 

 this verse has been approved for publication at OEDILF, #128209

poetry lyrics:/ Little bird we call "tufted tit" (mouse)/ Comes to feed on the seed

 near our house./ Looking tufted, not tittish,/ When he visits, acts skittish./

 Check that out with his look-alike spouse.

                        

Authors' Note: The tufted titmouse, Baeolophus bicolor, a small cute bird that inhabits the eastern part of North America is named for the crest of feathers on his head, and for old English words for "little bird". Other species of Baeopholus are found in North America, and there are related genera of songbirds known as "titmice" in Europe. The archaic suffix "-mouse" currently adds little to the description of this perky visitor, so he is often known simply as a "tufted tit".

  This verse has been approved for publication at OEDILF, #128209

Check out a brief video (live photo) of the tufted titmouse HERE.  

 You can view an encyclopedic collection of illustrated poems on this topic by proceeding to the post 'Poems about BIRDLIFE' on our full-service blog "Edifying Nonsense". Click HERE. 

SEP 20, singable satire: Johnny Cash sings "FULSOME DICTION BLUES"

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

2020: singable satire, Rhyming Binomials A-L (parody lyrics)
2021: singable satire, Prostate Cancer (parody lyrics poem) 
2022: singable satire, Ballad of Giuliani, #1 (parody lyrics)
2023: singable satire (Inferno), Minos's Tail-twist (parody lyrics)

To access the details of any item in slide format, type its title, as displayed above in red font (e.g. ... ballad of Giuliani), into one of the two search bars at the the top of your blog-page. Underneath the slide(s) for each entertaining delight that you discover, you will find a clickable link that lets you easily explore a more widespread collection of emanations (verse, photos, wordplay, song-lyrics etc.) on the topic of your choice. 

b) Today's Offering (Sep 20, 2024): 

ORIGINAL PARODY-LYRICS

MUSICAL UNDERPINNINGS: "Folsom Prison Blues" is a popular country-and-western song recorded in its best-known form by Johnny Cash in 1955, covered by many other artists.

PARODY COMPOSED: Giorgio Coniglio, June, 2014.

PARODY-SONGLINK: To find ukulele and guitar chord-charts to help you accompany "MAUX-DE-TEXTE" on your favorite instrument, click HERE.

FULSOME DICTION BLUES

(to the tune of "Folsom Prison Blues")

I favor precise syntax, also terms that aren't obscure,
But skill in this regard don't earn no sinecure.
We're stuck with fulsome diction, careenin' round the curve.  
Objurgatin' parlous parlance takes vigor, vim and verve.

The origin of 'specious' lies deep within the soul;
You try to be ingenious, but suffice to be 'mindful'.I classed a guy as 'restive' - what I meant was 'calmed'
Now I'll feel so meretricious until when I'm embalmed.

I presage Big Bananas in a gaudy chauffered Benz, 
They'll likely smoke Havanas with their double-malted blends;
They'll purvey inchoate music, an 'ivory-tickler' too,  And they'll launch the night's diversion without further 'adieu'. (pron. ad-yoo)

I sense those noisome symptoms, not 'symptomatology';
There is method in my madness, but not 'methodology'.
Post-cibal declamations -  they're what one calls verbose;
I'll forgo the panegyrics, when I'm more otiose. 

 I flaunt my proper diction with no expletives abstruse,
 'Though such punctilious practice serves no heuristic use; 
 To chide bombastic speaking needs vigor, vim and verve.
 A paradigm to strive for, from which one shouldn't swerve.

SEP 19, birdlore: bluebird attacking window, explicit video

a) Reprise of material posted on September 19 in prior years ...

2020: anagrams, Republicans-in-Canada, r-i-c 5 (wordplay maps)
2021: American satire, fraudulent (poem) 
2022: death and afterlife, garbage disposal in Heaven (poem)
2023: Toronto wildlife, great egrets at pond (photo-collage)

b) Today's Offering (Sep 19, 2024): 

ongoing problems with window strikes:
a pair of apparently deranged bluebirds

SEP 18, birdlore: housefinch

 a) Review of material posted on September 18 in prior years ...

2020: savoir-faire, corniches, Nice (illustrated poem)
2021: death and the afterlife, Will's last testament (poem) 
2022: funny bones. distal radial fracture (poem)
2023: word pairs, echoic binomials I to O (wordplay lexicon)

b) Today's Offering (Sep 18, 2024):  

poetry lyrics:/ Your Atlantic-coast backyard seed feeder:/ For visits, this bird
 is the leader./ On its perches, in bunches,/ This perky guy munches -- /
 The house finch, a furious breeder.      

                                                                     

Authors' Note: The gregarious house finch, Haemorhous mexicanus,  originally an inhabitant of the western US and Mexico, was introduced into Long Island, New York, in 1940. Although the female is not showy, the male is distinguished by the rosy red coloration of its face, neck and upper breast areas. The species quickly spread across the eastern US and southern parts of Canada. A strict vegetarian, this bird is now the most common visitor to feeders in many parts of its current range.

 this verse has been approved at OEDILF, #131387

For more titillating pics of the house finch at our feeder, click HERE.

You can view an encyclopedic collection of illustrated poems on this topic by proceeding to the post "Poems about BIRDLORE" on our full-service blog "Edifying Nonsense". Click HERE.