AUG 8, American satire (prolongation): criminal lying

 

Authors' Note: Lines written in August 2023, two-and-a-half years after the sad events of January 6, 2021. What more can I say? 

We hope that you enjoyed this verse. You can find 40 more on this topic in 6 collections on our full-service blog "Edifying Nonsense". Click HERE to start! 

AUG 7, Canadiana: Nanaimo bars

 

AUG 6, amphibians: early morning beach chorus (green tree frogs)

Today, we took an early excursion to the beach at Sullivan's Island; in the  marshy area just inland from the beach, the tree frogs were having a vociferous field day!

 And there's an older poetic post that deals with this cute little amphibian, often seen individually in your garden, as well as in swarms in marshy areas. Click HERE.

AUG 5, Submitted Palindromes: A, targeted at "A MAN, A PLAN... -- PANAMA"

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. 

AUG 4, Carolina lowcountry, day's end in historic Charleston

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AUG 3, lexicon of word-pairs: reduplications, I to N

 HAPPY BIRTHDAY to C.H.!

 Giorgio's Lexicon of Binomials (reduplications I-N)

Quite a few reduplications (words consisting of two near-duplicated elements) have been highlighted in other short verses by the authors:  

Matching the selection on the above slide, these include "Kickin' Chicken".

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

AUG 2, ambulatory verse: hover

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

AUG 1, ballet at Toronto's Harbourfront: still photos

Here are the NBC dancers warming up.

A great venue,
 just lakeside of Toronto's renowned CN Tower! 

The programme, "Sharing the Stage"
included other innovative groups, like this West African-troupe.

Nearby, the Rogers' Dome (home of the BlueJays),
 lit up as evening comes on.

A pas-de-deux from "Evernew" 

 

For "action clips" from these performances, click HERE.

JUL 30, singable satire: Julie Andrew sings "JEUX-DE-MOTS" from the musical "The Sound of Homonyms"

 PARODY-LYRICS, continuing from our prior blog-post of May 30, 2023.  

ORIGINAL SONG: "Do-Re-Mi", as performed by Julie Andrews and the entourage of von Trapp family children in the film version of Rodgers and Hammerstein's hit musical "The Sound of Music".

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

PARODY COMPOSED: Giorgio Coniglio, September 2014; the medley, in fact, started with two spoofs based on English language homonyms, set to the same original song, developed for a never-performed spectacle entitled "The Sound of Homonyms". The parody-medley was added to Giorgio's predecessor-blog "Giorgio's Ukable Parodies" as one of his earliest parody-songs. The French counterpart, shown here, evolved shortly thereafter.

PARODY-SONGLINK: To find ukulele and guitar chord-charts to help you accompany "Jeux-de-Mots (the French homonym medley)" on your favorite instrument, click HERE.

JEUX-de-MOTS

(to the tune of "Do-Re-Mi") 

Mère (mare) -- a Mom whose "NAY" means "NO"
Père (pair) -- for two adopting Dads
Frère (fray-er)-- a nearly worn-out Bro
Soeur (sewer) -- big Sis with mouth that's bad
Chat (shah) -- our middle-Eastern cat
Tante (taunt) -- Ma's sibling who's a tease
Bébé (bay-BAY) -- Brest is where he's at:
Partie (par-TEE)/part of our famille (fa-MEE).

Mère, père, frère, soeur, chat, tante, famille !  

Sol (sole) -- the fifth note in the scale

Sol (sole) -- for soil from land of Oc

Seau (so) -- bright bucket or a pail

Sceau (so) -- means "SEAL", and so does phoque

Saut (so) -- from pan to fire, a leap

Sault (so) -- most Anglos say it "SOO"

Sole (sole) -- lone flatfish in the deep

Weeping willow: it's saule (sole), too !

Sol, sol, seau, sceau, saut, Sault, sole, saule ! 

Solfège system (English version): the 5th French note is named "sol"

Language development in France

Editor's Note (added April 20, 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 yet another spoof dealing with the French version. We have labelled this effort, a French homonym song, as "Jeux-de-Mots, Encore". (Click the link to enjoy it, available in mid-May). 

JUL 29, mammalian wildlife: "selfie with bison"

Authors' Note: It's hard to believe that there was a 'responsible driver' who let this young person out of the car to take this picture (isolated from a published video), but there you are. 

In national parks in both Canada and the United States, there are fines imposed for approaching wildlife too closely, and signage usually makes this abundantly clear.

A verse, and more pictures of the American bison (buffalo), can be found on this post. 

JUL 28, lexicon of word-pairs: reduplications H

Giorgio's Lexicon of Binomials (reduplications H)

Quite a few reduplications (words consisting of two near-duplicated elements) have been highlighted in other short verses by the authors:  

Matching the selection on the above slide, these include "hanky-panky",  "harum-scarum", "heeby-jeebies", "helter-skelter", "hillbilly", "hobo", and "hocus-pocus".  

 Matching the selection on the second slide, these include "hoi polloi" , "holus-bolus", "hotspot" and "hubba-hubba".

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

JUL 27, Carolina lowcountry: sundown at Shem Creek

 

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JUL 26, creative anachronism: heavenly host

 

Along the same lines, readers are invited to review our small but growing collection of "creative anachronisms" on our blog "Edifying Nonsense" by clicking HERE.

JUL 25, Submitted Palindromes: Introduction to presenters -- Pedro, the Goofy 'Dromer

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. 

 

JUL 24, lexicon of word-pairs: reduplications D to G

 Giorgio's Lexicon of Binomials (reduplications F-G)

Quite a few reduplications (words consisting of two near-duplicated elements) have been highlighted in other short verses by the authors:  

Matching the selection on the first slide above, these include "dilly-dally".

Matching the selection on the second slide, these include "fuddle-duddle" and "fuddy-duddy". 

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

JUL 23, Carolina lowcountry: various suburban wildlife

fawn in Mt Pleasant subdivision

realistic guard-alligator (concrete)

well-camouflaged crab on stony path

juvenile black-crown night-heron

young green anole

Anerican green tree frog

 

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JUL 22, patients and their maladies: nervous bladder

 

Authors' Note: Final requests have also been discussed here by speedysnail.

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!

JUL 21, terminal (poetic) exclamation: KA-POW!

Authors' Note: 

Ka-pow! (variant kerpow!): comic-book type interjection for a noise emitted when a blow is landed in a fight (often involving a super-hero)

Line 6: occasionally used sixth line of a limerick, unheard of in the early days of the modality, finding some currency among modern authors. See our poem on  "Addendum-icitis" HERE. 

The limericks written by Edward Lear and his contemporaries a century ago often included repetition of the poem's key word at the end of the final line.

You can review our collection of poems on the topic of "Terminal Exclamation (Limerick Variations)" as it evolves on our more encyclopedic blog "Edifying Nonsense"; click HERE.