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 16, 2023
MAY 16, mammalian wildlife: marine mammal madness
May 15, 2023
MAY 15, "pictures at a renovation": fifth week
vestibule (office on L, coat closet on R) |
office |
breakfast nook |
den |
LR |
studio |
May 14, 2023
MAY 14, holidays and celebrations: Mother's' Day xxxxxx
A HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY to all:
And some personal reminiscences ...
When You're Smiling
PlayingNotes: F#7 = 3423; Bm7 = 2222; Bm6 = 1222; D7+5 = 3223; AmM7 = 1000
G D7 G D7 G D7 G F#7
I saw a blind man, he was a kind man, helping a fel-low a-long
Bm F#7 Bm7 Bm6 D D#dim Em7 A7
One could not see, one could not walk, but they both were humming this song
CHORUS:
D7 G GM7 E7 Am
When you’re smiling, when you’re smiling, the whole world smiles with you.
Am AmM7 Am7 D7 D7+5 G
When you’re laughing, when you’re laughing, the sun comes shining through.
G7 C
But when you’re crying, you bring on the rain,
A7 D7
So stop your sighing, be happy again.
D7+5 G E7
Keep on smiling, ‘cause when you’re smiling
Am7 D7 G D7
The whole world smiles with you! (Coda-“The whole world smiles” X3)
I used to worry, I used to hurry each time it started to rain
Bm F#7 Bm7 Bm6 D D#dim Em7 A7
Now I see light, learned wrong from right and you’ll never hear me com – plain
CHORUS (When you’re smiling….)
Somewhere Over the Rainbow
C#m = 4446; C#m6 = 3444; Bm7 = 2222; AM7 = 1100; Bbdim = 0101;
Somewhere over the rainbow, way up high
Somewhere, over the rainbow, skies are blue
D6 Dm6 AM7 F#7 Bm7 E7 AM7 E7sus
AM7 F#m Bm7 E7 Bm7 E7
AM7 F#m G#7
Somewhere over the rainbow blue birds fly,
D6 Dm6 AM7 F#7 Bm7 E7 AM7 E7sus
A F#m Bm7 E7(sus) A
If happy little bluebirds fly above the rainbow, why oh why can't I?
May 13, 2023
MAY 13, duplication: dilly-dally
Another view of wordplay competitions in Palindrome Valley can be found HERE.
HERE is an example that we have published, involving the synonymous expression shilly-shally.
May 12, 2023
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, 2023
MAY 11, (excursions): meanwhile, back at Toronto's Riverdale Farm ...
May 10, 2023
MAY 10, Canadiana : Canadian "raising" (linguistics)
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.
You can review poems, pictures and diverse nonsense related to Canada on the post "Canadiana" on our full-service blog "Edifying Nonsense".
May 9, 2023
MAY 9, poems about parasites: bedbugs
May 8, 2023
MAY 8, lexicon of word-pairs; rhyming binomials A to G
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, 2023
MAY 7, "pictures at a renovation": fourth week
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) |