AUG 6, garden intruders: deer fencing

Authors' Note:

specs: frequently used jargon for specifications

  The specs for deer fencing, also known as deer fence, agricultural fencing or deer exclusion fencing, include a height of eight feet (250 cm), with no sharp protuberances that might injure the deer.

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AUG 5, bi-lyrical limerick: 'go/went'

 

The original limerick:

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AUG 4, excursion: Niagara River hiking expedition

Toronto transit, train and bus required to reach destination 

near-empty zipline park

AUG 3, bottom line of medical humor: anorectal disorders (proctology)

Authors' Note: In North America, many proctologists now prefer to be known (professionally) as 'colorectal surgeons'. 

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AUG 2, numbers: twins (2)

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Related photo:

pas-de-deux,
National Ballet of Canada,
Harbourfront, Toronto,

AUG 1, Canadiana: Kim Jong Un's imaginary visit

Authors' Note:  There is no satisfactory explanation for the similarity of the words encumber and cucumber.

   Kim Jong Un, third successive member of his family's ruling dynasty, became leader of North Korea in 2011. He has since garnered world attention by his blustering role in his country's programs to develop missiles and nuclear weapons; the latter are widely known informally as nukes.

   In the northern Canadian territories (Northwest Territory, Nunavut and the Yukon), the soil is poor in organic components and prone to salinity and permafrost. Cucumbers, known informally as cukes, must be imported into the Yukon from crops grown further south. The reader may well agree that these territories should remain nuke-free as well as cuke-free.

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JUL 30, humorists' scurrilous talk: 'the dick'

EDITORS' WARNING: You must be at least 12 years of age to read this post! 

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JUL 29, waterfowl: wood storks

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JUL 28, doctors and their practices: Pete the orthopod

Authors' Note: 

orthopod: a casual name for the orthopedic surgeon (surgical bone specialist)

For many sites in the upper and lower limbs where trauma has resulted in fracture with angulation or rotation of the fragments, surgical treatment ('ORIF, or open Reduction, Internal Fixation') has become the standard of treatment.

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JUL 27, insects: deer-and horse- flies

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JUL 26, Toronto ravines; Glen Stewart Ravine (poem and photocollages #1-#2)

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JUL 25, funny bones: comminuted fracture

Authors' Note: Modern orthopedic treatment of displaced limb fractures often attains the aims of stability and appropriate alignment through the surgical technique of internal fixation. Injured limbs have then undergone the dual trauma of both the original injury and the surgical correction. But, with all the parts back in place and correctly aligned, the patient can work with a physiotherapist to regain range-of-motion, muscle agility and strength. 

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JUL 24, magical palindromes: 'Leon's as selfless as Eva''

 

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JUL 23, scopes of medicine: fiberoptic laryngoscopy

Authors' Note:  

ENT: medical specialty involving health and disorders of the ear, nose and throat; also referred to as otolaryngology.

   Failure of the body's GE junction can sometimes result in symptoms of inflammation in the throat (hoarseness, cough), rather than the more typical symptom of heartburn related to the esophagus.

   Diagnosis is simple in modern times, as most specialists can perform flexible fiberoptic laryngoscopy as part of the outpatient examination. In more obvious cases, 'free' (unprovoked) reflux of stomach contents can actually be viewed during the examination.

   

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JUL 22, death and the afterlife: cardiac arrest

Authors' Note:   Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest is the major cause of sudden otherwise-unexplained death.  This emergency demands chest compression as well as other resuscitative maneuvers by trained lay standers-by, ambulance workers and emergency room staff. Unfortunately, the ultimate success rate of such resuscitative measures in this setting remains quite low. 

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JUL 21, excursion: Niagara Falls

Just opening up somewhat after the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, (July 21, 2021), this tourist mecca was surprisingly uncrowded. The weather was marvellous, and it was a wonderful day to enjoy falls-view dining!

American Falls, from Canadian side of River

Canadian (Horseshoe) Falls

Another diner

A patio diner at Canadian Falls

Rainbow over Canadian Falls

Maid of the mist

You might also like to check out "Niagara River Hiking Adventure", posted 10 days later. 

JUL 20, singable satire: Victor Borge tribute, "TAKE OUR HATS OFF TO BORGE"

PARODY-LYRICS (a reprise from 2017)

ORIGINAL SONG: "Take Me Out To The Ballgame" 1908, Norworth and von Tilzer, as performed by Frank Sinatra and Gene Kelly, spoofed by Victor Borge.

PARODY COMPOSED: Dr.G.H. and Giorgio Coniglio, September 2013. 

The second verse invokes the sort of patron with whom you sometimes have to share the cheap-seats-section of your local ballpark. This variation on the baseball-park anthem is modified by the 'traditional' earlier start of lyrics versus music (“Borge-positive version”); the less well-known opposite distortion (“Borge-negative version”) is also shown.  

PARODY-SONGLINK: To access ukulele chord-charts to help you accompany "Take Our Hats Off to Borge" on your favorite instrument, click HERE.

TAKE OUR HATS OFF TO BORGE

(to the tune of "Take Me Out To The Ballgame")

Victor's "Clown Prince of Denmark” -

Unique musical gags;

He detached lyrics and melody - 

Spiffier spoof than an old parody.

For if you can handle the offset

The cadence will hit the mark,

Seventh In-ning home-run you’ll score

At the old ballpark.

Tickets cheap for the ballgame,

Seats right up in the clouds;

We won’t buy overpriced drinks and snacks -

Friends snuck in with a couple six-packs.

Let me hoot and jeer at the home-team;

My date’s dismayed that she came,

For it’s one, two, three beers you’re out

At the old ballgame.

(BORGE Version - Lyrics advanced):

………..   (Tickets)

Cheap for the ballgame; seats right

Up in the clouds we won’t

Buy overpriced drinks and snacks  - Friends snuck

In with a couple six-packs. Let me

Hoot and jeer at the home-team;  my date’s

Dismayed that she came, for it’s

Big crowd at Rogers Dome,
Toronto

One, two, three beers you’re out at the

Old ball-game.   xxx-xxx.

(Funky Version - Lyrics Delayed):

xxx-xxx. Tickets cheap for the

Ballgame, seats right up in
The clouds, we won’t buy drinks overpriced

And snacks - Friends snuck in with a couple

Six-packs; let me hoot and jeer at the

Home-team, my date’s dismayed that

She came, for  it’s  one, two, three beers

You’re out at the old.

……….. (ballgame). 

JUL 19, at heart: dobutamine for myocardial perfusion imaging

Authors' Note:    The verse above is a companion verse to ”dipyridamole”. 

When doctors want to check whether all areas of heart muscle can increase their blood flow appropriately, they may use certain drugs as helpers; this is particularly true when the patient is unable to perform a submaximal exercise test, often called a Bruce treadmill test, after its inventor. Dobutamine (doh-BYOO-ta-meen), relative of adrenaline, raises heart rate and blood pressure. It's the only drug available for tests which use echocardiography to picture the heart while it is 'under stress', but is a second-choice drug for the nuclear imaging test called gated SPECT. The preferred drug for those tests is one whose primary effect is to dilate arterial blood vessels, increasing the flow to normal heart muscle. Such drugs include dipyridamole and adenosine.

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JUL 18, amphibians: bufotoxin

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JUL 17, palinku (poetic novelty): fruits #2

 In this post, we will continue with our novel form of poetic wordplay. Inspired by Japanese haiku poetry, this new form is used for a terse verse with a total of 17 syllables displayed on three lines. Unlike its classic Japanese analogue, this concoction does not mandate the precise distribution of the syllables among the three lines, but does stipulate that each word in the poem be included in a palindromic phrase or sentence in English (i.e. one that can be read either forwards or backwards). 

  To help the reader discern the origin of the lyrics, each palindrome (generally occupying one of the three lines of the poem) has been color-coded. 

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JUL 16, reptiles: eastern glass lizards

 

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