A blogsite offering entertaining oddities since January 2020 at the rate of 30x/month. There are now over seventeen hundred posts in these four years. Images -- poetic (including song-lyrics), photographic, and computer-simulated -- are drawn from daily life as well as from poems and wordplay grouped by topic on our parent blog "Edifying Nonsense". The poetry displayed is all original (as are the song-lyrics), although portions evolved through rigorous editing on a collaborative website.
May 24, 2020
MAY 24, anagram swarm: A-VERY-STABLE-GENIUS, #7
May 23, 2020
MAY 23, wordplay maps: new world palindrome (#21,#22)
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May 22, 2020
MAY 22, wordplay maps: sister-cities anagrams (16-18)
May 21, 2020
MAY 21, geysers: geyser guru
May 20, 2020
MAY 20, singable satire: show-tune written by George Gershwin, "ICELAND"
PARODY SONG-LYRICS
PARODY COMPOSED: Giorgio Coniglio (registered pseudonym) and Dr. GH, August 2018.
EVOLUTION of the LYRICS: The song-lyrics originated as limerick verses composed by Giorgio Coniglio 2017, and compiled in January 2018. The details of the lyrics were based on GC's family trip to Iceland in June 2015. Most of the verses also appear, mildly modified, in the online limerick dictionary OEDILF.com. They were subsequently adopted as a parody-song collage, and posted on GC's blog, at that time known as "Ukable Parodies".
SONGLINK: Our whole series of songs can be found in a friendly format for ukulele (and guitar)-players on our blog "SILLY SONGS and SATIRE". Click HERE to proceed to this site: it also has a calypso-style song derived from the same visit to Iceland in June 2015 under the title "Nordic Journal: Island in the Sun".
1. Iceland / Ísland
2. Geysir: OEDILF
3. Eyjafjallajökull / E15
5. Stopover in Reykjavik
1. In the far North Atlantic there’s dry land:
Friendly Iceland – it’s my kind of island.
You’ll be welcomed in Ísland *; cool and damp but at-peace land;
Summer-sun-all-day-but-you-won’t-fry land.
2. Tourists learn the Norse thermal god plays here;
The Icelandic locale known as ‘Geysir’.
From hot pools steam erupts - belching after he sups.
Then they head for the sign (that says),“Tour Bus Stays Here.”
3. E15, Iceland stratovolcano,
Spews out fog that can clog up your plane, Oh
If explain it I must - it’s just ashes and dust;
Can’t they flush it away with some Drano?
4. A cheap gift: though Björn thought he’d surprise her,
Björg rejected his second-hand geyser,
“What I’d prize is a freezer. Your poor wife, why displease her?
It just proves you’re a nasty old miser.”
Avoid months with an 'R', like October;
And a Reykjavik warning! Bars open til morning
May 19, 2020
MAY 19, wordplay maps: new world palindromes (#19,#20)
May 18, 2020
MAY 18, mammalian wildlife: raccoons in the swamp
May 17, 2020
May 16, 2020
MAY 16, trees: silver maples
silver maple in Toronto park; large broken-off limb |
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".
May 15, 2020
MAY 15, photo-collage: a quiet day in the Carolina lowcountry
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May 14, 2020
MAY 14, American satire: "It Is what it is"
May 13, 2020
MAY 13, waterfowl: mute swans
You can review these illustrated verses in a wider context by proceeding to 'Immersible Verse: Limericks about Waterfowl' on the full-service blog 'Edifying Nonsense'.
May 12, 2020
MAY 12, patients and maladies: flu-like illness
May 11, 2020
MAY 11, poetic non-sequitur: gifted children
May 10, 2020
MAY 10, a brief saga (dental feelings): fluoridation
Doctors and their Practices (parts #1 and #2)
May 9, 2020
MAY 9, wordplay maps: American Scramble-towns 5,6
May 8, 2020
MAY 8, classic palindrome: 'Emil's lime'
May 7, 2020
MAY 7, wordplay maps: sister-cities anagrams (13-15)
May 6, 2020
MAY 6, magical canal palindromes: 'A man, a plan, ... Suez'
May 5, 2020
MAY 5, American satire: pardoning 'Sheriff Joe'
May 4, 2020
MAY 4, limerick variations: the multi-verse universe
May 3, 2020
MAY 3, wordplay maps: new world palindromes (#17,#18)
You can view the entire collection of these 50 wordplay maps, by accessing the collection 'Tourists Palindromic Guides: The Americas'. Start by clicking HERE!
May 2, 2020
MAY 2, savoir-faire: French loanwords
Authors' Note:
à propos: in regard
outré: inappropriately eccentric in behaviour or appearance, or exceeding the limits of propriety
sans doute (sahn DOOT): certainly, without doubt
paraph (PA-ruhf): confirmatory mark after a signature, derived more remotely from the French term paraphe
nonpareil: a paragon, one who has no equal
Although the word nonpareil has been used in English, often pronounced as non-pah-REHL, since the 16th century, one must adopt the snobbier French pronunciation (non-pah-RAY) for the verse to rhyme.
Despite its status as a longstanding valuable English descriptor, unique retains a Gallic sound, which is frankly ... unique.