JUN 10, #singable satire: "R-I-C-E" (REST, ICE, COMPRESSION, ELEVATION) seniors' sports-injury mantra

                                                          

ORIGINAL PARODY-LYRICS

MUSICAL UNDERPINNINGS: "Y.M.C.A." is a popular song recorded by the American disco group Village People in 1978. In 1979, the song as a single reached no. 2 sales in the US and no. 1 in the UK. The song retains current popularity, and is frequently played at sporting and social events with the crowds spelling out the four letters of the song-title with arm movements.  

PARODY COMPOSED: "R-I-C-E" by Giorgio Coniglio, April 2014, with lyrics posted on-line at the parody-song-website AmIRight.com, as found HERE.

EXPLANATION: The American organization YMCA (Young Men's Christian Association) built single-room facilities starting in the 1880s to house men from rural areas who moved into the cities to find work. By the 1970s, YMCA's tenants in American cities tended to be homeless people and youth facing life issues. "The Y", has always been interested in providing athletic facilities for youth, and retains that important community function in Canada, and many other countries around the world.

The Village People's lyrics emphasize the domiciliary and youth-support role of "the Y", with advice being given to a "young man" who would benefit by its services.

In his professional role, Giorgio Coniglio was frequently involved in the imaging assessment of older persons, including senior citizens, who had sustained athletic injuries. A four-letter mantra frequently voiced in the context of immediate care for these injuries, R.I.C.E, is essential in the initial care of injured patients of any age, but particularly in this instance seems directed at a wannabe athletic "old man" like the song's author. Ultimately, advice given to an ailing older patient, focused on a four-letter initialism grew into an earworm, and then a song. "Y.M.C.A." provided an obvious vehicle.  

UKULELE and GUITAR-FRIENDLY LINK: Our whole series of songs can be found in a friendly format for ukulele (and guitar)-players on our sister blog "SILLY SONGS and SATIRE" with chord-charts for both the parody and original song, as well as helpful performing suggestions. 

To find ukulele chord-charts to help you accompany "R-I-C-E" on your favorite instrument, click HERE.

Complete ACL tear
Surgical intervention required

R-I-C-E            
          

(to the tune of "Y.M.C.A.")

Intro:  Rest - Ice - Compression - Elevation  x2

Old man with a sports injury 

I said old man with sprained neck, twisted knee, ... 

These lyrics have been moved, along with ukulele chord suggestions, to a posting on our song-blog "Silly Songs and Satire".

R.I.C.E. is a mnemonic for 4 elements used to treat soft-tissue and other injuries.

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JUN 9, photo-collage: mammalian talking heads, P to Z

 This tongue-in-cheek collection is a followup to earlier blog-posts "Talking Heads, avian", and "Talking Heads, mammalian". 

Photos were obtained at various locations by Giorgio Coniglio, using his i-phone camera.

prior mammalian participants

(March 19 -- click HERE): armadillo, basset hound, bison, capuchin monkey, chipmunk, cottontail rabbit, cow, giraffe, goat, gray squirrel, grizzly bear. 

(May 29 -- click HERE): hippopotamus, horse, ibex, llama, moose, mule, naturalist, olive baboon, orangutan.

CURRENT PARTICIPANTS: Pan, pet-store bunny, pig, raccoon, red deer, rhinoceros, sheep, squirrel, whale, Welsh corgi, zombie. 

Greek god Pan
(Lady Lever Museum, UK)

pet-store bunny

pig

raccoon

red deer (Japan)

rhinoceros

sheep

squirrel (black variant)

Welsh corgi

 

whale (skeleton)

zombie

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

trumpeter swan, stretching 

If you enjoyed this foolish collection, you might want to go back and review all three posts featuring mammalian talking heads, or even further to our earlier collection of 6 posts dealing with avian talking heads. 

Click here to proceed to talking heads, 'lower' creatures A to F.

Readers who would like further information on the subjects, locales or technique of these photos are asked to leave a query in the Comments section. 

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JUN 8, Japanese monoku

 

TODAY'S POEM (senryu *) 

Japanese haiku,

compressed in a single line -- 

a moment's terse thought.

Giorgio Coniglio

* learn more HERE about "senryu", a term that designates a lesser-known Japanese short poem that shares the physical characteristics of haiku (nominally 17 'on' / syllables in three non-rhyming lines), but deals in a satiric or humorous way with human foibles rather than with Nature. 

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JUN 7, pseudo-classic concoctions (five up-to-date terse verses)

TODAY'S POEMS (senryu *) 

VERSE #1

sadly, seated near stage:

a new chamber-music fan,

her phone unsilenced.

Giorgio Coniglio

 

VERSE  #2

pointless gluttony:

robotic vacuum, laces first,

devours favorite shoe.

 Giorgio Coniglio

VERSE #3

undocumented

fire ants should be deported

to El Salvador.

Giorgio Coniglio

VERSE #4

trans-Pacific flight --

fearing cramped space, I upgrade

my airline ticket.

Giorgio Coniglio

VERSE #5

my pocket device

at the propitious moment

captures golden rays.

Giorgio Coniglio

* learn more HERE about senryu, a term that designates a lesser-known Japanese short poem that shares the physical characteristics of haiku (nominally 17 'on' / syllables in three non-rhyming lines), but deals in a satiric or humorous way with human foibles rather than with Nature. 

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JUN 6, world of music -- "Rocket Man"

 

TODAY'S POEM (senryu  *) 

 

songwriting duo

words --Bernie; music --Elton

earworm: "Rocket Man".

 

Giorgio Coniglio

* learn more HERE about senryu, a term that designates a lesser-known Japanese short poem that shares the physical characteristics of haiku (nominally 17 'on' / syllables in three non-rhyming lines), but deals in a satiric or humorous way with human foibles rather than with Nature. 

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JUN 5, painterly poetry: Picasso's blue period

Check out our entire collection of illustrated verses on "painterly poetry" by clicking HERE. 

 

another artist's blue period

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JUN 4, waterfowl: yellow-crowned night heron

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JUN 3, mythed opportunities: Pandora and her 'box'

 

Authors' Note: The Greek myth of Pandora addresses the question of why there is evil in the world. Zeus had Pandora created as the first human female. She was given a jar (misinterpreted millenia later as a box) that contained all of life's evils, with careful direction to guard them. She opened the jar out of curiosity, releasing most of its regrettable contents, thereby infesting subsequent generations of humanity. But one item — hope — was kept inside.

In various ethnic superstitions, apotropaic (protective) magic is invoked to counter a malevolent spiritual force that takes away human good fortune if it is celebrated too loudly. This influence presumably underlies the popular Yiddish expression keyn ay(i)n horah (corrupted to keneinahora or kinahora, even KH in Anglo-Yiddish) translated directly as "no evil eye"; this expression is often invoked when a praiseworthy person or attribute is mentioned.

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JUN 2, appended adventures of Leslie Moore (suffixes): atoneLESSNESS

 Authors' Note: Readers are reminded of the key role of the word sorry in the Canadian vocabulary.

Readers might enjoy reviewing our complete collection of poems about the adventures of linguist Leslie Moore in the land of suffixes -- click HERE! (or if you prefer prefixes, click HERE).

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JUN 1, exotic destination: Haifa, Israel (Holyland)

 

Authors' Note: Baha'i, sometimes known as "the youngest of the world's main religions", promotes universal brotherhood and spiritual unity. Members of the faith, like my dental hygienist, make pilgrimages to northern Israel, where there is a complex of sites including the Baha'i Gardens in Haifa, and temples in which the sect's Prophet-Herald, the Bab, and its Prophet-Founder, Baha'i-u'llah, are interred.

Other verses about "Exotic Travel Destinations" can be found on our blog "Edifying Nonsense". Click HERE.

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