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.
November 21, 2021
NOV 25, garden intruders: papyrus
NOV 21, oncologic verses: beware, boomers! (cancer)
This verse can be considered a companion to the verse benign tumors.
November 20, 2021
NOV 20, singable satire: The Irish Rovers sing "VANCOUVER'S ISLE"
Rainbow over Ladysmith Harbour brief break from several days of intense rain. |
PARODY COMPOSED: Dr.G.H. and Giorgio Coniglio, January, 2018.
PARODY-SONGLINK: To find ukulele and guitar chord-charts to help you accompany "Vancouver's Isle" on your favorite instrument, click HERE.
PARODY SONG-LYRICS
VANCOUVER'S ISLE
From that oversized town called Toronto
I'd go straight on to Vancouver Island,
But bad misfortune overcame me,
It can rain on the plains and the prairies.
Spent ten days hunkered down in Nanaimo,
In a bar not too far from Chemainus
"When you fly here with Westjet (not Porter),
I've retired now to South Carolina --
It can rain on the plains and the prairies;
* A.C. = Air Canada. Westjet is a competitor on flights across the country. Porter provides more local service from Toronto Island Airport to destinations in Eastern Canada and the East Coast of the U.S.
November 19, 2021
NOV 19, binomial phrases: fixed order (hunger and thirst)
To review the poetic effusion that we have accumulated about binomial phrases, proceed to our blog "Edifying Nonsense", and look over the post 'Grandpa Greg's Grammar: Binomial Expressions'. Click HERE !
There is also an entire collection of lyrics to patter songs, somewhat older material, dedicated to various kinds of binomials, that provides more didactic material and an extensive series of examples, and allows you to sing these expressions for your own enjoyment, or for that of others around you. Click HERE !
November 18, 2021
NOV 18, wordplay maps: Scramble-towns of eastern Canada, #15 and #16
November 17, 2021
NOV 17, palinku (poetic novelty): potatoes
You can view all our "palinku" verses if you proceed with a single click to our more encyclopedic blog "Edifying Nonsense". Click HERE. (Or if you prefer, you can stay on this particular blogsite and look for the offerings for the 17th day of each month -- there are now more than 60 of these.)
November 16, 2021
NOV 16, mammalian wildlife: Western lowland gorillas
November 15, 2021
NOV 15, humorists' scurrilous talk: 'comings and goings'
November 14, 2021
NOV 14, bi-lyrical limerick: fiefdom
November 13, 2021
NOV 13, wordplay maps: Scramble-towns of eastern Canada, #13 and #14
LINKS to other nonsense in this series:
November 12, 2021
NOV 12, etymology: 'mystery'
For fans of etymology, we have three blogposts with collections of verses about word-origins such as the one above on our more encyclopedic blog "Edifying Nonsense". You can start to review some of this intriguing material by clicking HERE, and then following the links!
November 11, 2021
NOV 11, insects: woolly bear caterpillars
November 10, 2021
NOV 10, a brief saga (birdlore): the domestic turkey
HAPPY UPCOMING AMERICAN THANKSGIVING!
November 9, 2021
NOV 9, magical palindromes: 'Pa's as selfless as I am'
November 8, 2021
NOV 8, domestic hazards: ionization-based smoke detectors
November 7, 2021
NOV 7, reptiles: autotomy
November 6, 2021
NOV 6, exotic destination: Congolese hippodromes
Other verses about 'Exotic Travel Destinations' can be found on our blog 'Edifying Nonsense'. Click HERE.
November 5, 2021
November 4, 2021
NOV 4, excursions: portraits at Riverdale Farm
You might also like to check a couple of other posts that portray the inhabitants of this Toronto attraction.
Click HERE for 'GOATS AT PLAY (videos)', HERE for 'Toronto Ravines -- Riverdale Farm' (poem)', and HERE for 'Riverdale Farm -- photocollages'.