AUG 29, 2026, amphibians: Kermit the Frog (reincarnation)

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AUG 27, 2026, photo-collage: egrets (mixed) vying at the spillway

Today's Offering (August 27, 2026):

snowy egret:
black bill, yellow feet;
smaller, more shy

great egret:
yellow-orange bill, black feet;
longer neck, more aggressive

 

disputation at the spillway;
the more aggressive great egret (above)
chases off the snowy egret

snowy egret in flight; great egret inattentive

AUG 25, 2026: submitted palindromes -- RANDOM PILES 56

 

 You have reached the "Submitted Palindromes" thread on the blog "Daily Illustrated Nonsense", a light literary entity. Owing to advancing age and other considerations, the frequency of outpouring, 30 posts per month for the first 60 months, has been reduced stepwise after December 2024 and now numbers 10 per month. But each month you can still find a collection of palindromic phrases proferred by our seven palindromic assistant editors.

You can access this delightful entertainment right here by entering submitted palindromes in a search bar at the top of this post and scrolling downwards through the wordplay posts that you will discover.

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.  

 

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AUG 23, 2026, planet-saving verse: beach foam

Today's Offering (August 23, 2026): 

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. 

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AUG 21, 2026, flying 'back east'

 Today's Offering (Aug 21, 2026): 

 Above the Canadian portion of the planet (photos by Giorgio Coniglio) ...

(dated Aug 25)

safety information in French and English, coast to coast

taking off from Nanaimo, British Columbia;
 very short flight to YVR (Vancouver)

rolling into Vancouver

starting out from YVR
across the Fraser River

icefields of the Rocky Mountains

flying over the foothills/prairies,
just east of the Rocky peaks

descending to the airport in Calgary, Alberta

next morning's descent;
 the final flight terminates in Toronto

AUG 19, 2026, postal places, USA: Champaign, IL

b) Today's Offering (August 19, 2026):

poetry lyrics:/ The Chicagoan's scorn for the twain:/ "I have
 only ill-will for Champaign./  And as for Urbana,/ it's hardly nirvana -- /
 Towns we mourn/ (fields of corn). Such disdain!

Authors' Note: 

Chicagoan: resident of Chicago, IL

urbane: sophisticated, elegant, worldly

No banana!: slang for 'not prize-winning'

No pain, no gain: slang phrase indicating hard work as a requirement for advancement.

IL is the official abbreviation for the American state of Illinois, in which two neighboring towns, Champaign, population 88,000 and Urbana, population 38,000, make up the metropolitan area of Champaign-Urbana, located 135 miles (215 km) south of the megalopolis of Chicago. The names of both towns, dating from the nineteenth century, relate to earlier settlements in the nearby state of Ohio. Ultimately, the name, derived from archaic French, relates to a place 'in the countryside'.

Champaign-Urbana, IL is home to the flagship campus of the University of Illinois, and offers an appropriate spectrum of cultural opportunities. Surrounded by an extensive, flat, mid-west farming district, it is on occasion, as here, disparaged by residents of Chicago for its lack of "urbanity".

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AUG 17, 2026, photo-story: injured bee

 Today's Offering (August 17, 2026): 

incidental current photo

A sad but determined bee, having lost its left wings, likely in an altercation with some physical object (building?), makes its way on foot across a stone patio.  

An airborne colleague

AUG 15, 2026, photo-collage: Carolina lowcountry miscellany 2

 Today's Offering (August 15, 2026): 

processing the morning's catch

the "pelicatessen" reopens for lunch

See our previous posts about the "pelicatessen", and brown pelicans.

Henrietta poses for a formal portrait

another five-lined skink

tractor-seat plant

snowy egret, afternoon fishing

sediment balls, intertidal zone,
sign of crabs' feeding activity.

fiddler crab, carrying food,
sandy edge of brackish marsh at low tide

glossy privet hedge in bloom

great blue heron, in crepuscular light 

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sunset view from the boardwalk

AUG 13, 2026, Canadiana: stand on guard (Canada): "fifty-first state"

 a) Review of material posted on December 16 in previous years ...

2020: holiday verse, Advent #3, OEDILFian limericks)  
2021: new world palindromes, #48 (wordplay map)

2022: patients and maladies, Graves' disease (poem) 
2023: braincheck, homunculi (poem)

b) Today's Offering (Dec 16, 2024):

   

Authors' Note:  The Canadian author regrets the unapologetic tone of this diatribe. See the verse speech borrowings. 

This particular verse is also a member of a 'trio of imperialistic nonsense'.  To see the other verses, click HERE for "Panama Canal Zone", and HERE for "Greenland".

Collected poems in the series "Stand on Guard" can be viewed HERE.

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AUG 11, 2026, iagnostic imaging: DOGgraphy

2023: decorative touches, Tulip Fields (fabric art)  

b) Today's Offering (August 11, 2026): 

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.

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