JUN 17, palinku (poetic novelty): lust deferred

 a) Reprise from material posted on June 17 in previous years ...

2020: OEDILFian verse, limericks about haiku (selected verse)
2021: palinku, ponderings (poetic novelty)
2022: palinku, evil (poetic novelty)

2023: palinku, meat-eating (poetic novelty)

b) Today's Offering (Jun 17, 2024): 

JUN 16, special events: Stanford graduation

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

2020: canoeing, g-nu trip (illustrated poem)
2021: amphibians, American toad (illustrated poem) 
2022: toxic vignette, anthracycline cardiotoxicity (poem)
2023: culinary verse, goober peas (boiled peanuts) (illustrated poem)

b) Today's Offering (Jun 16, 2024):  Stanford graduation

spectators at the stadium

a typical graduate

hard-core partying (on site)

politically motivated departures

sibling PhDs

more relaxed celebration

doctoral diploma in hand (5 months later)
"taking care of business"

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JUN 15, creative anachronism: Latin authors ... xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxDrJJ

a) Reprise of material posted on June 15 in previous years ...

2020: bi-lyrical limerick, dual rhyme schemes (poem)

2021: patients and maladies, eye discharge (poem) 
2022: doctors and practices, ophthalmologist sibling (poem)
2023: word-pairs, (re)duplications H to Ho- (wordplay lexicon)

b) Today's Offering (Jun 15, 2024): 

poetic lyrics:/ Productively coughing in chorus,/ Poets Virgil, Catullus and Horace,/
 Unvaxxed, all got COVID,/ As did Livy and Ovid,/ Recorded an eon before us/
Who e-mailed the skinny?/ Lucretius and Pliny.

Authors' Note: When writers distort historic timelines intentionally or inadvertently in concocting their plots, they are said to write anachronistically.

Most of the above-mentioned Roman poets have also been discussed individually elsewhere on the OEDILF site. Many of these figures have had their true Latin names altered considerably to fit our Anglo-Latin construct. Apparently, however, none of these authors adopted the limerick format in their poetry.

Along the same lines, readers are invited to review our small but growing collection of "creative anachronisms" on our blog "Edifying Nonsense" by clicking HERE.

NOSTALGIC RECOLLECTION

(inspired by a birthday). Dr. JJ would be enjoying his 81nd today.

at his younger bro's Bar Mitzvah

 

surprise party (40th anniversary) for his folks

an iconic 50th anniversary celebration

 

For several dozen more photos on this theme, please refer to our daily blogposts from February 5th, 2022, to March 6th, 2022. 

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JUN 14, around and about: Stanford campus tour

a) Reprise of material posted on June 14 in previous years ...

2020: political palindromes, CCC (wordplay)
2021: Panama palindrome, Sir, à Paris (illustrated poem) 
2022: mammalian wildlife, Steller sea lions (illustrated poem)
2023: domestic hazards, fatbergs (poem)

b) Today's Offering (Jun 14, 2024): 

mausoleum for the founder's son
Hence, the formal title ...
"Leland Stanford Junior University"

at the Cactus Garden

Rodin's "Burghers of Calais"

Rodin: "The Gates of Hell"

our tour-guide displays
the iconic collection of New Guinea sculpture

JUN 13, photo-collage: San Francisco's Chinatown

a) Reprise of material posted on June 13 in previous years ...

2020: pandemic poetry, cetacean advice (illustrated poem)
2021: doctors and practices, lecturing internist (poem) 
2022: reprehensible history, submarine warfare #2 (tourist guide)

2023: condo reno, final reno posting (photo-collage)

b) Today's Offering (Jun 13, 2024): 

I arrived with a nastily symptomatic virus on board, and it was freakishy cold for July, but I had to get out and look around a little.

 

JUN 12, folio-entry, couples: domestic geese, 2

a) Reprise of material posted on June 12 in previous years ...

2020: canoeing, J-stroke (illustrated poem)
2021: portraits of couples, black swans (photo folio) 
2022: portraits of couples, ring-billed gulls (photo folio)
2023: portraits of couples, llamas (photo folio)

black swan

 

b) Today's Offering (Jun 12, 2024): 

You can view all of our folio-photos from the collection of 'Couples' portraits in a wider context on our full-service blog "Edifying Nonsense". Click HERE.

  

JUN 11, Captain R's impossible mission: intrusive Rs (epenthesis)

a) Reprise of material posted on June 11 in previous years ...

2020: birdlore, toucans (illustrated poem)
2021: death and afterlife, leaving the planet (illustrated poem) 
2022: funny bones, Lisfranc fractures (poem)
2023: word-pairs, reduplications F-G (wordplay lexicon)

toucans

b) Today's Offering (Jun 11, 2024): 

poetry lyrics: Said the prison-guard (British: the warder),/ With epenthesis,
 "Crossing our border,/ They're intrusive, these felleRs,/ Who pawn
 stolen celleRs./ Hav'teR keep sellers out -- LawR 'n' order."

Authors' Note: 

celler (CHEH-ler): a large stringed instrument, imaginatively pronounced with an intrusive R; often accompanied by the pianeR, and, in the orchestreR, by the violeR, oboeR, tubeR, and piccoleR

Readers may have to stretch their credulity to accept that a ring of thieves would bring large musical instruments like cellos, stolen elsewhere, to be dumped on the UK market.

British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was satirized in the press as "Laura Norder" as she often reiterated the mantra "Law and Order", voiced with an intrusive R, as law-R an' order. This element of speech, frequently used by non-rhotic speakers of British and of southern hemisphere English, is likely the most common form of epenthesis, the adding of unrelated letters to ease pronunciation. Americans are not immune to this linguistic peculiarity, as witnessed by the 1950s books and movie about the Texan boy-and-his-dog "Old Yeller".

You can find our other verses dealing with non-rhotic accents under the listing "Captain R's Impossible Mission".  Click HERE.  

JUN 10, photo-collage, Toront-oases: neighborhood, spring back!

a) Reprise of material posted on June 10 in previous years ...

2020: waterfowl, common loons (illustrated poem - 'brief saga')
2021: insects, clothes moths (illustrated poem - 'brief saga') 
2022: Canadiana, Canada (poem - 'brief saga')
2023: American satire, anagram swarm (illustrated poem - 'brief saga', wordplay maps)

b) Today's Offering (Jun 10, 2024): 

the red-winged blackbirds are back, too !

 

Cabbagetown: horsechestnut in bloom

pond at Riverdale Farm

strolling sheep at Riverdale Farm

deer in the nearby Don River valley

bunny !!!

JUN 9, photo-collage: guided beach-tour, Gulf Coast of Vancouver Island

a) Reprise of material posted on June 9 in previous years ...

2020: Ontario nostalgia, Algonquin Park (illustrated poem)
2021: literature survey, Pepys diary (illustrated poem) 
2022: reptiles, eviction notice (illustrated poem)
2023: birdlore, American godfinches (illustrated poem)

b) Today's Offering (Jun 9, 2024): 

 Catch the start of this adventure on the blog-post "Photo-collage: Travels to Vancouver Island". 

a green crab making its way along the beach

JUN 8, poetic non-sequitur: horticultural

a) Reprise of material posted on June 8 in previous years ...

2020: garden intruders, glossy privet (illustrated poem)
2021: excursion, Toronto's Brickworks, wildlife (photo-collage) 
2022: exotic destinations, discount air to Australia (poem)
2023: word-pairs, rhyming binomial D-E (wordplay lexicon)

poetry lyrics:/ With their songs, horticultural chorists/ Exhorted arrangements
 of florists,/ "Source decor, such as ferns,/ When this concert adjourns,/
 At green farms, not pilfered from forests." 

Author's Note: 

arrangement of florists: proposed collective noun for this occupational grouping

Our collection of "Non-Sequiturs" on our parent blog "Edifying Nonsense", contains an admittedly bizarre assortment of nonsensical odds-and-ends, that don't quite fit into other topic-based offerings. But should you want to review the entire collection, click HERE.