AUG 20, singable satire: "TIPTOE PAST RIPE BERRIES"

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

2020: singable satire, Alliterative Binomials 2 (parody-lyrics)
2021: singable satire, Mel and His Hernia (parody-lyrics) 
2022: singable satire, Coach the Nestlings (parody-lyrics)
2023: singable satire, Limbo Rocks, or Not (parody-lyrics)

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b) Today's Offering (Aug 20, 2024):  SINGABLE SATIRE

ORIGINAL PARODY-LYRICS

MUSICAL UNDERPINNINGS:  "Tiptoe Through the Tulips" , Burke and Dubin 1929, for early talkie-film musical The Gold Diggers of Broadway, as recorded by Nick Lucas 1929, Tiny Tim 1968, et al.

PARODY COMPOSED: Giorgio Coniglio, July 2014.

PARODY-SONGLINK: To find ukulele and guitar chord-charts to help you accompany "Tiptoe Past Ripe Berries" on your favorite instrument, click HERE.

innocuous unripe berries

TIPTOE PAST RIPE BERRIES

(to the tune of "Tiptoe Through The Tulips")

              

             Come...........

Tip-toe  round the messes 'neath the Johnsons' fruiting berry  tree;       

Please tiptoe past mulberries - my plea;               

They stain concrete, and the floor-mats, and our carpets; walk responsibly!

Please tip-toe past mulberries - my plea. 

       

Ripe fruit hot pavement does cook;

Bird-poo; Yuch! - Purple; just  look!  So slip your 

Shoes off at the doorstep, when you're sneaking from your girlfriend's digs

Please tiptoe past the berries - my plea, ......... and 

Tip-toe  round the messes 'neath our neighbors' over-bearing tree;

Our front sidewalk's a jam factory

Blue-stained granite and hall tile-slate, and our carpets; walk responsibly!

Please tip-toe past mulberries - my plea. 

No diff if you're slow or quick;

They'll squish; in shoe-treads they'll stick.  So slip your 

Shoes off at the doorstep, when you're sneaking home well after two....or

The rug-cleaning bill sticks with you.

   

 

AUG 19, objectionable adjectives: 'estival' and 'hibernal,

   a) Reprise of material posted on August 19 in previous years ...

2020: bottom line of humor, Beano (illustrated poem)
2021: dental feelings, prognathism (poem)

2022: toxic vignette, digitalis toxicity (poem) 
2023: Carolina lowcountry, beach at Sullivan's Island (photo-collage)

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b) Today's Offering (Aug 19, 2024):

Authors' Note: In English there are fortunately many nouns that we can use as adjectives when the situation demands. In the opinion of this author, summer (adj.) and winter (adj.) are less cumbersome descriptors than estival and hibernal, despite the opinion of some lexicographers. 

You can review our editorially selected doggerel (eight verses) relating to 'Objectionable Adjectives' by clicking HERE.

 

AUG 18, patients and their maladies: beer bugs

  a) Reprise of material posted on August 18 in previous years ...

2020: poets' corner, philosophy of limericks (poem)
2021: old world palindromes, national wrap-up (wordplay) 
2022: Italian loanwords, cicerone (poem)
2023: Toronto's Harbourfront, dance performance 3 (action photos)

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b) Today's Offering (Aug 18, 2024): 

You can review Giorgio's other verses about pesty and occasionally beneficial insects, as  collected in 'Buzzwords: Verses about Insects' on the full-service blog "Edifying Nonsense". Click HERE.

 

AUG 17, palinku (poetic novelty): global warming

 a) Review of material posted on August 17 in previous years ...

2020: palinku, veggies (poetic novelty)  
2021: palinku, sweet treats, 1 (poetic novelty) 
2022: palinku, Canadiana (poetic novelty)
2023: palinku, European capitals (poetic novelty)

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(Editors' Note: Additional information is available for readers in our  poems about the "great auk", (an extinct bird species), and  "global warming").

You can readily view all our palinku verses (short poems of this type) if you proceed with a single click to our more encyclopedic blog "Edifying Nonsense". Click HERE. 

AUG 16, domestic hazards: gutter-cleaning

  

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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)

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

2020: TO ravines, Cedarvale (photo-collage) 

2021: binomial phrases, hale and hearty (poem)
2022: waterfowl, habitat restored (illustrated poem)
2023: at heart, hyperlipidemia (poem)

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b) Today's Offering (Aug 16, 2024): 

 

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

AUG 15, basic medical science: Haversian canals

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

2020: commercial product, cell-phones for lizards (illustrated poem)
2021: reptiles, beneficial snakes (illustrated poem) 
2022: American satire, FBIer (illustrated poem)
2023: Carolina lowcountry, leaving with regrets (photo-collage)

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b) Today's Offering (Aug 15, 2024): 

 

  Readers can enjoy our whole collection of verses devoted to "basic medical science" by clicking HERE. 

AUG 14, American satire: hokum; e tu, loser resolute!

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

2020: sister cities anagrams, 19 (wordplay)
2021: scopes of medicine: mediastinoscopy (illustrated poem)
2022: STD poetry, gon-dom and condom (poem)
2023: condo reno, pictures day 3 (photo-collage)

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b) Today's Offering (Aug 14, 2024): 

Author's Note:

oakum: naval term for a caulking material prepared by impregnating old unravelled ropes with tar

locum (tenens): Latin loanword for a replacement or substitute for a vacationing professional (doctor, dentist or lawyer)

hokum: a term of disparagement for misguided proposals or ideas, akin to gobbledegook and its lexicographic collaborators

Almost three years after the event, in August 2023, it was promised that there would be released "irrefutable" and "overwhelming" evidence of widespread fraud in the 2020 American presidential election. The promise, made amidst a welter of criminal indictments, was quickly withdrawn.

c) Palindrome for the occasion ... 

E tu, loser resolute!

We hope that you enjoyed this submission. You can find 40 or so poems e on this topic in 6 collections on our full-service blog 'Edifying Nonsense'. Click HERE to start! 

AUG 13, trees: camphor laurel

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

2020: anagram swarm, Republicans-In-Canada, r-i-c 3 (wordplay maps)
2021: to clot or not, anti-coagulant drugs (poem) 
2022: birdlore, cattle egrets (illustrated poem)
2023: medical testing, screening for disease (poem)

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b) Today's Offering (Aug 13, 2024): 

 

Authors' Note:  Cinnamomum is a genus of evergreen aromatic trees and shrubs noted for the aromatic oils found in their leaves and bark. 

  C. camphora, a tree important for production of camphoraceous oils in parts of Asia, was introduced into Australia as an ornamental in 1822. The hardy invaders have degraded the environment as they spread, clogging sewers, changing the composition of the soil, and taking over habitat from the eucalyptus on which koalas feed.

You can review these illustrated verses in a wider context by proceeding to 'Uprooted Verse: 'Poems about Trees' on the full-service blog "Edifying Nonsense". 

AUG 12, folio-entry, couples: sheep

 a) Review of material posted on August 12 in prior years ...

2020: poetic non-sequitur, cumulative song (poem)
2021: portraits of couples, trumpeter swans (photo folio) 
2022: portraits of couples, black-crowned night herons (photo folio)
2023: portraits of couples, wild turkeys (photo folio)

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trumpeter swans

b) Today's Offering (Aug 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.

AUG 11, defining opinion: humorless

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

2020: Palindrome Valley, bidirectional pen (illustrated poem)
2021: political palindromes, MMM (wordplay) 
2022: defining opinion, holdout (poem)
2023: exotic destination, air travel (poem)

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b) Today's Offering (Aug 11, 2024): 

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