A blogsite offering entertaining oddities since January 2020 at the rate of 30x/month. There are now over sixteen hundred posts in these four years. Images -- poetic, 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.
June 28, 2022
JUN 28, domestic hazards: security system
June 27, 2022
JUN 27, pluralia tantum: 'eruptions' -- medical nomenclature
June 26, 2022
Jun 26, duplication: hanky-panky
June 25, 2022
JUN 25, patients and their maladies: vitreous detachment
June 24, 2022
June 23, 2022
JUN 23, poetic non-sequitur: judge's gavel, plus yesterday's temperature perversion
June 22, 2022
JUN 22, diagnostic imaging: AC (attenuation correction) for PET scanning
You can review all our verses on this intriguing topic by proceeding to a post on 'Edifying Nonsense' entitled 'Selected Topics in Diagnostic Imaging'. Click HERE!
June 21, 2022
JUN 21, planet-saving verse: invasive species
June 20, 2022
JUN 20 (2022), singable satire: Neil Young sings "GET ME ROGER STONE"
Dark Schemes
Rosenstein
Brennan's Tweet
A foppish slickster, a dirty trickster,
June 19, 2022
JUN 19, binomial phrases: "flotsam and jetsam"
To review our poetic effusion about binomial phrases proceed to our blog 'Edifying Nonsense', 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 !
June 18, 2022
JUN 18, organic brain poetry: hypothyroid depression
You can view and review all our verses on the topic of 'Organic Brain Poetry' by following this link to the encyclopedic collection on "Edifying Nonsense."
June 17, 2022
JUN 17, palinku (poetic novelty): evil +b
June 16, 2022
JUN 16, toxic vignette: anthracycline cardiotoxicity (monitoring left ventricular function)
June 15, 2022
JUN 15, doctors and their practices: ophthalmologist sibling xxxxxxxxxxxx Dr. JJ
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at his younger bro's Bar Mitzvah |
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surprise party (40th anniversary) for his folks |
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June 14, 2022
JUN 14, mammalian wildlife: Steller sea lions
Inside-Passager: otarines telling Tales from rocks where sea lions were dwelling: Seems polygamous fellers Bumped up stocks of the Stellers. At your bookstore, this novel's bestselling. It's historical fiction, compelling! otarine: member of the family of eared seals, primarily including sea lions A falling birth-rate (along with ongoing hunting) has been proposed as a major factor in the worrisome decline in the last century of populations of Steller sea lions. Wanton polygamy has always been the modus for this species of magnificent marine mammals, including the novel's author who has written her account under the pseudonym Stella. More recently, with bans on hunting, and ongoing efforts by leaders of the eastern population (that inhabits rocky outcroppings around the Inside Passage), there has been some recovery. The western population (ranging from the Gulf of Alaska, the Aleutian Islands, and across the Pacific to Japan) remains significantly endangered. Temp AN: https://racerocks.ca/marine-mammals-in-british-columbia/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_fiction |
June 13, 2022
JUN 13, English literature survey course: "Jabberwocky", Lewis Carroll's poem
June 12, 2022
JUN 12, reprehensible modern history: submarine warfare #2
Charleston, South Carolina played a major role in the development of submarine warfare. The Cold War Submarine Memorial is located at Patriot's Point in Mt. Pleasant SC, on the eastern side of Charleston harbor.
June 11, 2022
JUN 11, funny bones: Lisfranc fractures
Authors' Note:
crank: an unpleasant person who has difficulty with anger control
ORIF: acronym for surgical intervention for bone fractures — open reduction, internal fixation
plain films: medical jargon for two-dimensional x-ray studies, as opposed to CT, although digital media, not 'film' emulsion, are now generally used to analyze and record the images
With these injuries that involve one or more fractures, metatarsal bones of the lower foot are dissociated from the tarsus, making the mid-foot unstable. They were first observed in cavalry men during the Napoleonic Wars and later described by a French surgeon, Jacques Lisfranc de St-Martin. In English medical jargon they are known as Lisfranc (LIZ-frank or liz-FRANK) fractures. Self-diagnosis of this type of injury by a patient would be an unusual event.
You can view verses on this topic in a wider context by proceeding to the post 'Breaking News: FUNNY BONES' on our full-service blog "Edifying Nonsense". Click HERE!
June 10, 2022
June 9, 2022
JUN 9, reptiles: eviction notice
You can review photos and illustrated herpetologic verses in a wider context by proceeding to 'Verses about Reptiles' (don't worry! no snakes)' on the full-service blog 'Edifying Nonsense'.
view of wildlife at Caw Caw Interpretive Center, Charleston County Parks, April 30, 2022. |
June 8, 2022
JUN 8, exotic destination: discount air to Australia
June 7, 2022
JUN 7, death and the afterlife: end-of-life care
Authors' Note: In some jurisdictions, all deaths in a long-term nursing facility must be reported to the office of the coroner.
You can review more poems about 'Death and the Afterlife' in context ('death and the afterlife') on our full-service blog 'Edifying Nonsense'. Click HERE!
June 6, 2022
JUN 6, trees: horsechestnut trees
June 5, 2022
JUN 5, birdlore: red-tailed hawk
June 4, 2022
JUN 4, poets' corner: bold-faced nonsense
June 3, 2022
JUN 3, pathos and poetry (gun control verses): good-guy shooters
June 2, 2022
JUN 2 , Italian loanwords: oratorio / opera
June 1, 2022
JUN 1, savoir-faire: bilingual labelling -- grenades
An archaic term for the tree and for the fruit, pomegranate derives from the Middle Ages, but seems to have gotten stuck in English as a sort of borrowed anachronism. On the other hand, we have grenadine syrup, a cocktail additive, putatively made from pomegranate juice, but in fact, often concocted from synthetic ingredients.