MAY 12, patients and their maladies: colonic polyps

 

Authors' Note: The first step is to find a colonoscopist, usually done by enlisting your primary physician to arrange a referral.

You can find a poem about colonoscopists by your favorite blog-authors by clicking HERE.

You can view collections of verses on this topic by proceeding to "Nurse-Verse: PATIENTS and their MALADIES" on our full-service blog "Edifying Nonsense". Click HERE!  

MAY 11, (excursions): meanwhile, back at Toronto's Riverdale Farm ...

 

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MAY 10, Canadiana : Canadian "raising" (linguistics)

 

Authors' Note:  This is a mostly true story.

The Canadian internist in question had moved south to undertake a fellowship at an American medical school.. As an introduction to potential staff mentors, he was asked to prepare a lecture on aspects of gout.

The transcriptionist, a southern woman, was victimized by her unfamiliarity with "Canadian raising", a speech variation altering and shortening the sounds of vowels in words like house, rice and out; this pattern affects the speech of many speakers in the northern US, as well as in Canada.  

You can review poems, pictures and diverse nonsense related to Canada on the post "Canadiana" on our full-service blog  "Edifying Nonsense".

MAY 9, poems about parasites: bedbugs

                                     

                                            

             

Authors' Note:  Details of the allegory: The protagonist needed some vacation following a busy time of downsizing and changing residences. A few days prior to taking off on Snowbird flight 203, it became obvious that a domestic infestation of bedbugs, presumably acquired during the household move, had pre-empted his search for a subtropical respite. 

  Watson, the bedbug sniffer-dog (and his contollers) to the rescue!

Watson, the bedbug sniffer-dog

You can review Giorgio's other verses about parasites, both external (ecto-) and internal (endo-) on our full-service blog "Edifying Nonsense". Click HERE.

MAY 8, lexicon of word-pairs; rhyming binomials A to G

 

Giorgio's Lexicon of Word-Pairs: Rhyming Binomials 

Quite a few rhyming binomials have been hightlighted in other short verses by the authors:  

Matching the selection on the first slide, these include "ants in pants", "bug in a rug", and "Cat in the Hat". 

Matching the selection on the second slide, these include "fair and square". 

You can easily find all of these on our topic-based blog "Edifying Nonsense" by clicking HERE, and following the links. 

MAY 7, "pictures at a renovation": fourth week

PREVIOUS VIEWS:

You can follow the whole arduous undertaking by scrolling back through our earlier posts (you can also click these dates for direct transport back to see the previous "pictures at a renovation"). The earlier posts show the demolition phase, and that may be of particular interest for many viewers.

May 3

April 26

April 18

April 16

April 10

April 6

April 4

March 31

And, check out the project-planning stage, elucidated in photos and verse, on March 19, and March 27.

The current status: 

front hall
(door to closet on R being closed up)

 

hall extension
(proceeding toward LR/DR)

kitchen(1) and breakfast nook

kitchen (2)
(raised ceiling re-plastered, floor tiled)

DR
(walls restored)

"new" laundry/utility room
(tiled, walls under construction)

coat closet
(expanded, 'moved') 

new office
(walls under construction)

master bath
(shower and floor now tiled)

guest bath
(walls being restored)

MAY 6, higher connection: position as part-time monarch

 

MAY 5, excursions: meanwhile, back in the great outdoors ...

a mud-laden painted turtle

 

MAY 4, homophonous verse: (hippo's) hip replacement

  

                                                       

Author's Note: Hip replacement has become a surgical procedure that is frequently performed in humans, and is making inroads into veterinary practice in dogs and cats. Its role in jungle creatures and zoo inhabitants remains to be developed, parenthetically.

You can view our whole collection on this topic -- verses intentionally crafted with contentious repetition of the rhyming syllables --  in a wider context on our full-service blog "Edifying Nonsense". Check the post "Homophonous Verse" by clicking HERE. 

MAY 3, "pictures at a renovation": third week

 PREVIOUS VIEWS:

You can follow the whole arduous undertaking by scrolling back through our earlier posts: (you can also click these dates for direct transport back to see the previous "pictures at a renovation"). The earlier posts show the demolition phase, and that may be of particular interest for many viewers.

April 26

April 18

April 16

April 10

April 6

April 4

etc.

hall towards LR

LR (stack of wallboard)

kitchen

den entrance

new office space

studio (stack of flooring)

(photos from Apr28 - May1)

MAY 2, waterfowl: seabird feeders

 

MAY 1, magical palindromes: examples #21 - #25

 You can view our entire collection of these intriguing wordplay oddities, in a post on our blog "Edifying Nonsense", entitled Magical Palindromes: a compendium".