JUN 5, painterly poetry: Picasso's blue period

Check out our entire collection of illustrated verses on "painterly poetry" by clicking HERE. 

 

another artist's blue period

JUN 4, organic brain poetry: hyperthyroid mania

 

Authors' Note: 

TSH: thyroid stimulating hormone, also known as thyrotropin, initialism for a peptide hormone produced by the anterior pituitary gland in a feedback loop that regulates production of thyroid hormones by the thyroid gland

Hyperthyroid states in which the level of TSH is reduced include Graves' disease, subacute thyroiditis (inflammation of the gland), autonomous thyroid nodules and excessive thyroid hormone replacement. Hyperthyroidism in which the blood level of TSH is found to be elevated is extremely uncommon, related to very rare functioning tumours of the pituitary gland.

The operation of the feedback loop in relation to states of thyroid deficiency is discussed here.

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."

JUN 3, Canadiana: joual

Authors' Note: Accent is a word written similarly, but spoken very differently in French and English. Joual (ZHWAHL) is the name for the accent, grammar and even spelling used naturally by many speakers in the Canadian province of Quebec; this dialect had evolved over several centuries separately from the language spoken in France. In schools, businesses and media in Quebec and other francophone areas of Canada, 'québécois' (kay-bay-KWA), more standard French, with a local inflection and local vocabulary, now predominates. In Canadian English and French, residents of the province are known as Quebeckers or Québécois respectively.

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

JUN 2, photo collage: High Park's peacocks strut their stuff

 

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JUN 1, medical testing: true-positive rate (sensitivity)

 

MAY 30, singable satire: Julie Andrews sings "EWE-YEW-YOU" (the English homonym medley)

 PARODY-LYRICS 

ORIGINAL SONG: "Do-Re-Mi", as performed by Julie Andrews and the cast of von Trapp children in the 1965 film version of the musical hit "The Sound of Music". The song was composed by Rogers and Hammerstein for the stage version of the iconic American musical, that premiered in 1959 featuring Mary Martin in the lead role of "Maria". 

  

PARODY COMPOSED: Giorgio Coniglio, September 2014; the medley, in fact, contains two spoofs based on the same original song. The parody-medley was added to Giorgio's predecessor blog "Giorgio's Ukable Parodies" as one of his earliest parody-songs.

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PARODY-SONGLINK: To find ukulele and guitar chord-charts to help you accompany "EWE-YEW-YOU (the English homonym medley)" on your favorite instrument, click HERE.

EWE-YEW-YOU

(to the tune of "Do-Re-Mi") 

Dough -- it's paste I knead for bread

Rey -- the Spanish word for "KING"

Mea culpa -- Latin guilt

Fa't -- it's so embarrassing

So -- an adverb meaning "MUCH"

LA -- Louisiana mail

Tee -- a shirt for golf or such

Dough -- there's what I'll need for bail.

Dough, rey, mea, fa't, so, LA, tee, dough !  

Ewe -- a sheep, a female sheep

Yew -- a hedge that's evergreen

You -- a name to call yourself

U- -- a turn to leave the scene

Hugh -- an entertaining guy

A job that's carving wood -- that's hew

Hue -- a tint to catch the eye

And that brings us back to ewe. 

Ewe, yew, you, U-, Hugh, hew, hue, ewe !  

Editor's Note (added April 2024):

"When you know the notes to sing, you can sing most anything."

(The melody and words of this delightful song remain with us as an "earworm".) With this fact in mind, we have concocted another pair of spoofs dealing with the French version. We have labelled this effort, a French homonym song, as "Jeux-de-Mots". (Click the link to enjoy it, available in mid-April 2024). 

Solfège system of naming musical notes, shown here for key of C

MAY 29, photo-collage: polka dots

 

MAY 28, "pictures at a renovation"

 

LR (still no flooring)

inside the office

later in the day, hardwood flooring started 

MAY 27, photo-collage: around Washington, DC

    

the flamingo house

Union Market

'Friendship Archway',
Chinatown gate, world's largest paifang

Union Station

Columbus Circle

typical DC row houses

statue of Nathanael Greene, 
Revolutionary War general.
Stanton Park, Washington NE.

  

"Knife Edge Mirror Two Piece"
Henry Moore,
National Gallery of Art 

on the steps of SCOTUS

congressional selfie

at the United States Botanic Garden
(what a conservatory!)

spokesperson for the Capitol Hill Squirrel Lobby

MAY 26, painterly poetry: 'decamp' (the birth of impressionism)

 

                                                       

Authors' Note:  The above story, dating from France in the 1860s, and relating to the birth of Impressionism, is apocryphal.

Check out our entire collection of illustrated verses on 'painterly poetry' as exhibited on the encyclopedic blog "Edifying Nonsense" by clicking HERE. 

MAY 25, Submitted Palindromes: Introduction to presenters -- Hal Lelujah

You have reached the "Submitted Palindromes" thread on the blog "Daily Edifying Nonsense", a light literary entity that emanates through the blogosphere daily (almost), i.e. 30 times per month.

  On the 25th of each month you will find a slide-filling group of palindromic phrases submitted to the editors by a panel of 7 palindromists. These folks have all been working on this project since January 2020. Their profiles are indicated in panels published here at the start of things, and then, we have asked them to provide (palindromically, of course) their views on one of the iconic items in the classic literature, starting with "A man, a plan, a canal -- Panama", and continuing with other well-known phrases, such as "Dennis sinned". Otherwise, their contribution will be grouped in random piles (a phrase that you might recognize as an anagram of the word p-a-l-i-n-d-r-o-m-e-s).

You can access all of this delightful entertainment by entering submitted palindromes in one of the two search bars at the top of this post and scrolling downwards through the wordplay posts that you will discover. 

MAY 24, exotic destination: Haifa, Israel (Holyland)

 

Authors' Note: Baha'i, sometimes known as "the youngest of the world's main religions", promotes universal brotherhood and spiritual unity. Members of the faith, like my dental hygienist, make pilgrimages to northern Israel, where there is a complex of sites including the Baha'i Gardens in Haifa, and temples in which the sect's Prophet-Herald, the Bab, and its Prophet-Founder, Baha'i-u'llah, are interred.

Other verses about "Exotic Travel Destinations" can be found on our blog "Edifying Nonsense". Click HERE.

MAY 23, defining opinion: honey

 

Authors' Note:    The authors propose the above verse to define the neologism appiculture.

Our blogpost "Defining Opinion" on the topic-based blog "Edifying Nonsense" shows a selection of similar verses submitted to OEDILF (the online Omnificent English Dictionary in Limerick Form). You can see all of these on one visit by clicking HERE.

MAY 22, ambulatory verse: amble

 

Authors' Note:  Hot to trot is an intriguing established idiom, as reflected by its many tribute-verses, such as this one. 

Not to trot, a variant employed in the above verse's final line, has received considerably less attention.

You can review all our verses on this topic, accumulated for you on our companion blog "Edifying Nonsense", by clicking HERE.