DEC 5, American satire: national pique

 

poetry lyrics:/ It's proclaimed from the peak of Denali,/ to the great Gulf of Mexico -- Golly!/
 Purge colonial shame:/ "Foreign" place names rename,/ Like New England,
 New York, Boston, Raleigh/ (Could be part of the prevalent Folly). 

Authors' Note: The reasons are not clear, but in Canada, compared to the US, a much smaller proportion of place-names are copies of names used geographically in the 'Old World'. The same also seems to be true for Australia and New Zealand. Just saying.

Folly Beach (name derived from an old English word for dense vegetation) is a seaside resort suburb of Charleston, South Carolina.

In the US, any proposed name-change would have to be reviewed by protocols of the Board of Geographic Names.

Mount Denali, at 6190m (20,310 feet), the loftiest peak in the United States, is discussed by the prodigious limericist SheilaB on the OEDILF website.

And, just in case you wanted to know for comparison, the loftiest peak in Canada is Mount Logan, at 5960m (19,550 feet).       

And for more views by Canadians on current related issues, poems in the series "Stand on Guard" can be viewed HERE.

 _________________________________________________________________________

READY TO SEE MORE ?

To navigate around the 2,000 posts on this blog ("Daily Illustrated Nonsense", or D.I.N.), scroll downwards until you get to a widget with a clickable SUMMARY OF CONTENTS BY DATE displayed with blue fonts -- the most recent are at the top; the oldest at the bottom of the list. Then, just click on any year or month to view the detailed contents.

DEC 3, birdlore: bird droppings

poetry lyrics:/ There's a spurious phrase you'll have heard:/ In this case,

 the word turd is absurd./ There's nothing that's stopping/ You saying

bird dropping --/ It's the term that's (by birders) preferred.

 

Authors' Note: Although its use appears cute, employing the term bird-turd might display your ignorance. The appropriate expression is pronounced as BEHRD drahp-ing in usual discussions.

 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. 

_________________________________________________________________________

READY TO SEE MORE ?

To navigate around the 2,000 posts on this blog ("Daily Illustrated Nonsense", or D.I.N.), scroll downwards until you get to a widget with a clickable SUMMARY OF CONTENTS BY DATE displayed with blue fonts -- the most recent are at the top; the oldest at the bottom of the list. Then, just click on any year or month to view the detailed contents.

DEC 1, what's up? contrails

poetry lyrics 1:/ FLuffy contrails (white streaks) cross our sky,/ Puzzling 'experts',

 perplexed as to why/ (Passing jets condense vapour/ It purports

 in the paper) --/ They're perceived with one's very own eye.

poetry lyrics 2:/ Ghastly chemtrails might cause our demise --/

Nasty toxins get dumped in our skies./ ...... ...

 Truth is known, undisclosed. No surprise.

Author's Note: In previous verses at OEDILF, there has been a discussion of contrails, and of chemtrails, the latter directly related to the collaboration of conspiracy theorists. 

 

Conspiracy theories have also been discussed elewhere on this site  as shown HERE.

Readers can review our growing collection of illustrated verses assembled under the rubric "What's Up?" by clicking HERE.

_________________________________________________________________________

READY TO SEE MORE ?

To navigate around the 2,000 posts on this blog ("Daily Illustrated Nonsense", or D.I.N.), scroll downwards until you get to a widget with a clickable SUMMARY OF CONTENTS BY DATE displayed with blue fonts -- the most recent are at the top; the oldest at the bottom of the list. Then, just click on any year or month to view the detailed contents.

NOV 30, W-I-P

NOV 29, folio-entry, couples: bust of lovers

 

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.

_________________________________________________________________________

READY TO SEE MORE ?

To navigate around the 2,000 posts on this blog ("Daily Illustrated Nonsense", or D.I.N.), scroll downwards until you get to a widget with a clickable SUMMARY OF CONTENTS BY DATE displayed with blue fonts -- the most recent are at the top; the oldest at the bottom of the list. Then, just click on any year or month to view the detailed contents.

NOV 25, submitted palindromes, RANDOM PILES 47

 

You have reached the "Submitted Palindromes" thread on the blog "Daily Edifying Nonsense", a light literary entity that emanated through the blogosphere daily (almost), i.e. 30 times per month. Unfortunately, due to advancing age and other limitations, the frequency of posting on this site has been reduced to 15x times per month as of 2025.

  On the 25th of each month you will still 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. 

NOV 23, defining opinion: diaphoretic

poetry lyrics:/ Sam, though drawn towards issues pedantic,/ Fiercely claims he is anti-semantic,/
"I find 'sweaty' pathetic,/ And get diaphoretic/ When I'm hyper-attentive (not frantic)." 

 

 Our blogpost "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.

  _________________________________________________________________________

READY TO SEE MORE ?

To navigate around the 2,000 posts on this blog ("Daily Illustrated Nonsense", or D.I.N.), scroll downwards until you get to a widget with a clickable SUMMARY OF CONTENTS BY DATE displayed with blue fonts -- the most recent are at the top; the oldest at the bottom of the list. Then, just click on any year or month to view the detailed contents -- illustrated short humorous poems, wordplay, parody song-lyrics, funky photos, etc. 

NOV 21, poetic non-sequitur: adolescence

poetry lyrics:/ Quincy suffered with due acquiescence/ Random pangs of
 expressed adolescence,/ In which rampant pubescence/ Leads to frequent
 tumescence:/ "I'll survive this high-five; my excrescence/ Though buoyed up,
displays prompt defervescence."   

 Authors' Note:

excrescence: a growth or appendage

defervescence: deflation

______________________________________________________________________

READY TO SEE MORE ?

To navigate around the 2,000 posts on this blog ("Daily Illustrated Nonsense", or D.I.N.), scroll downwards until you get to a widget with a clickable SUMMARY OF CONTENTS BY DATE displayed with blue fonts -- the most recent are at the top; the oldest at the bottom of the list. Then, just click on any year or month to view the detailed contents.

NOV 19, selected pics: strutting peacocks

NOV 17, veggies: vegan lunch

 

 

TODAY'S POEM (senryu *) 

 

great sandwich filling: 

mashed chickpeas, onion, lemon, oil -- 

tunas breathe easy.

 

Giorgio Coniglio

 

* learn more HERE about senryu, 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.