APR 20, singable patter-satire: "The UNIQUENESS OF NUCLEAR"

a) Reprise of material posted on April 20 in previous years ...

2020: singable satire, My Blue Sit-on (parody lyrics)
2021: singable satire, Fickle Twist of Verse #1 (parody lyrics) 
2022: singable satire, Brennan's Tweet (parody lyrics)
2023: singable satire, Dante's Song (parody lyrics)

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b) Today's Offering (Apr 20, 2024)

ORIGINAL SONG:  "The Elements", Tom Lehrer, 1959. 

Tom Lehrer, parodist

PARODY COMPOSED: Giorgio Coniglio, October 2013, a follow-up to our childhood enjoyment of Latin classes, as expressed in the earlier song "No Elements". Please note that T.L.'s genius has provided inspiration for a further handful of parody patter-songs. 
An earlier version of this particular song was first web-published in 2013 on the site "AmIRight" under the title "Residents and Presidents". It has now been extensively updated for presentation to you, our favorite readers. 

PARODY-SONGLINK: To find ukulele and guitar chord-charts to help you accompany this song on your favorite instrument, proceed to our lyrics-blog "SILLY SONGS and SATIRE" by clicking HERE (and when you get to the bottom of the SillySongs post, you can find links to our other songs inspired by Lehrer.) 

THE UNIQUENESS of 'NUCLEAR'

(to the tune of Tom Lehrer's "The Elements")

Singable Introduction:

There was a swarm of parodists who pounced straight for the jugular;

They satirized a Prez whose speech was smug yet sometimes struggular;

Disdain for George the Son, less blame for James from Plains in evidence;

They pegged the mis-spoke "NUCULAR" the catchword of the Presidents.

I toiled for several decades in the Section known as "NUCLEAR";

Though now fairly famili-ar, I still find it peculi-ar

That highly educated voices, palatal and uvular

Would schedule tests, requests infested with the mis-spoke "NUCULAR".

Presidents
 Jimmy Carter and George W Bush

test requests
(web-illustration)

 

Patter-Song Lyrics

There's popular and insular and regular, oracular

Cuticular, vehicular, vesicular, vernacular

And tabular and tubular and muscular and modular

And cellular and singular and circular and nodular.

There's fibular, follicular, and pustular and jocular 

Vestibular and valvular, auricular and ocular

And vascular, crepuscular and titular, testicular

Peninsular, peduncular, avuncular, particular.

Triangular, corpuscular, spectacular and annular,

Articular and angular, glomerular and granular,

And glandular and scapular and spicular and globular

Molecular, trabecular, lenticular and lobular. 

And endless adjectival terms in Med'cine and Biology

With current usage driven by their Latin deriv-ology,

Like saccular and secular and ovular, fascicular

Reticular, radicular, furuncular, funicular.

So, clearly there's no stimulus for apparatus cochlear,

That simulates the sound unique of proper-spoken "NUCLEAR".

 

APR 19, postal places, USA: Hoboken, NJ

a) Reprise of material posted on April 19 in previous years ...

2020: curtained verse, business agenda (poem)
2021: etymology, dog (illustrated poem) 
2022: American satire, Deceit, social (poem)
2023: American satire, obstruction of justice (poem)

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b) Today's Offering (Apr 19, 2024): 

 

Authors' Note:  NJ is the official abbreviation for the American state of New Jersey, in which Hoboken, a town with population of about 60,000, is situated, commuting distance from New York City.

THe town was first settled by Europeans in the 17th century as part of the New Netherland colony. Following the Dutch era, it became known as the site of the first recorded game of baseball, and as the birthplace (1915) and hometown of Frank Sinatra. 

At one fell swoop, you can review all our postal poems about intriguing places in the USA and Canada, by proceeding to the encyclopedic blog "Edifying Nonsense". Click HERE !

APR 18, photo-collage: this week's Carolina lowcountry wildlife

a) Reprise of material posted on April 18 in previous years ...

2020: scopes of medicine, endoscopic spectrum (poem)
2021: anagrams, US scramble-towns (wordplay maps) 
2022: toxic vignette, antifreeze poisoning (poem)
2023: magic canal palindrome, A man, a plan .. Paris (wordplay)

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b) Today's Offering (Apr 18, 2024): 

Henrietta, the sociable great egret,
at Shem Creek boardwalk

"Blue-tailed skink",
 the origin of that common name is obvious here;
(juvenile five-lined skinks and broad-headed skinks
 have a similar appearance)

jellyfish, recently washed ashore,
Sullivan's Island, SC

a weight-lifting skink

foraging nocturnal opossum
 captured in our porch light 

Henrietta watching kayakers

"Hop to it" (on one leg),
peculiar habit of many shorebirds

African iris
(floral break from all the fauna)

pelican flight

Editor's Note: More photos on this topic can be found on a later posting HERE.

APR 17, palinku (poetic novety): diapers

a) Reprise of material posted on April 17 in previous years ...

2020: haiku,continued, nuclear cardiology (poems)
2021: palinku, canals (poetic novelty) 
2022: palinku, Paris, France and Ontario (poetic novelty)
2023: palinku, London, UK and Ontario (poetic novelty)

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b) Today's Offering (Apr 17, 2024): 

 

APR 16, Greek philosophers: Plato

a) Reprise of material posted on April 16 in previous years ...

2020: classic palindrome, Do geese see God? (poem)
2021: insects, termites (illustrated poem) 
2022: funny bones, pelvic fractures (poem)
2023: condo reno, winding down (photo-collage)

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b) Today's Offering (Apr 16, 2024): 

 further edification 

web-photo
Plato (portrait bust)
sculptor: Silanion 370 B.C.E.

APR 15, Submitted Palindromes: RANDOM PILE #10

a) Reprise of material posted on April 15 in previous years ...

2020: Charleston garden, Japanese yew (illustrated poem)
2021: classic palindrome, no lemon, no melon (wordplay maps) 
2022: Carolina lowcountry, pluff mud (illustrated poem)
2023: lexicon of word-pairs, alliterative binomials U (wordplay)

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b) Today's Offering (Apr 15, 2024): 

 r 

APR 14, ambulatory verse: lurk (ambulation lacking)

a) Reprise of material posted on April 14 in previous years ...

2020: anagram swarm, very stable genius, #5 (wordplay)
2021: Panama palindrome spoof, A man, a potato ...  (wordplay) 
2022: mythed opportunities, prophet Elijah (poem)
2023: Toronto ravines, Brickworks spring awakening (illustrated poem)

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b) Today's Offering (Apr 14, 2024): 

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

APR 13, Olympic sports: skateboarding

a) Reprise of material posted on April 13 in previous years ...

2020: geysers, second-hand geyser (poem)
2021: waterfowl, oystercatchers (illustrated poem) 

2022: braincheck, bitemporal hemianopsia (poem)
2023: patients and maladies, aldosterone excess (illustrated poem)

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b) Today's Offering (Apr 13, 2024): 

Olympic sport

skateboarding

APR 12, portraits of couples: Canada geese, + Olympic sport: steeplechase

 

   a) Review of material posted on April 12 in previous years ...

2020: patients and maladies, common cold (poem)
2021: portraits of couples, gemsboks (photo folio) 

2022: mammalian wildlife, resurgent sea otters (illustrated  poem)
2023: distribution, hoi-polloi (poem)

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b) Today's Offering (Apr 12, 2024): 

 

 You can view these samples from our portfolio of 'Couples' portraits in a wider context on our full-service blog "Edifying Nonsense" HERE. 

Olympic sport 

track, 3000m steeplechase

APR 11, waterfowl, more snowy egrets

a) Reprise of material posted on April 11 in previous years ...

2020: waterfowl, snowy egrets (illustrated poem)
2021: Palindrome Valley, duplicitous signpost (illustrated poem) 
2022: exotic destination, Fort Ord Nat'l Monument (illustrated poem)
2023: condo reno, pictures day #6 (photo-collage)

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b) Today's Offering (Apr 11, 2024): 

 recent birdie-pics

You can review these illustrated verses in a wider context by proceeding to 'Immersible Verse: Limericks about Waterfowl' on the full-service blog 'Edifying Nonsense'

APR 10, singable-satire: palindromic parody " X66X "

a) Reprise of material posted on April 10 in previous years ...

2020: wordplay, Claire's celerity (illustrated poem  - 'brief saga'))
2021: gun control, bipolar illness (illustrated poem - 'brief saga') 
2022: classic languages, Anglo-Latin and -Greek (poem - 'brief saga')
2023: hellenophilia, Dodecanese Islands, (illustrated poem - 'brief saga')

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b) Today's Offering (Apr 10, 2024): 

PARODY-LYRICS consisting of PALINDROMES

ORIGINAL SONG: "Route 66", written by Bobby Troup, 1946, performed by Nat King Cole, covered by Perry Como, Chuck Berry, Bing Crosby, Rolling Stones, The Manhattan Transfer, John Mayer etc.

PARODY COMPOSED: Giorgio Coniglio, March 2014.

Palindromes are highlighted here in green font and italicized (Warning! Some of these contain adult material). A tip of the hat to Weird Al Yankovic who invented the concept of singable palindromes with his spoof "Bob". See also my previously posted palindrome-song "Gnats Stang; Gnus Sung" , and various other posts highlighting palindromes.  

John Mayer's rollicking version of the original song is found on YouTube HERE.

X66X  

(to the tune of "Route 66")

If you're the type not vexed by 'Joy of Lex',

Get your fix by fax or telex or Express.

The best letter is rated 'XX'.

It's boxed in the slot before 'Y',

Sly x-axis, it seldom rides high,

Best letter is rated 'XX'.   

Now there's, No 'x' in Nixon

No 'xx' - Exxon

No 'x' Al, knit on; toot no tin klaxon

"Laid Fixes" - sex, if dial

Max. esteem meets exam

Sex-aware era waxes

Six axons, no x-axis.

Mix a maxim. No 'x' - a Saxon.

The Bible of word-play

Just flex to the nexus of this text,

Your next exit past Texas and New Mex,

Best letter is rated 'XX'.

The best jest is  "Xerox, O Rex."

Best letter is rated 'XX'.

        

Not 'UF', not on futon!

No 'yarn' in rayon

Un nu?  No! it's a bare-era bastion

Lapse - porno on ropes, pal

Llama - nix in a mall

Sex at my gym taxes

Six at my gym? Taxis!

Sod-lid dildos. Sex-elf flexes.

   

Get relaxed with the moxie of this text,

More exotic than Texas or New Mex,

The letter that ends "Joy of Lex".

That letter is rated 'XX'.

The best letter is rated 'XX'.

Puzzling palindrome, used in Weird Al's song "Bob"

APR 9, Olympic sport: hurdles, track and field

a) Reprise of material posted on April 9 in previous years ...

2020: new world palindromes, #13 (wordplay)
2021: defining opinion, housewife (poem)
2022: excursions, windy SF peninsula (photo-collage)
2023: special event, Easter parade (photo-collage)

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b) Today's Offering (Apr 9, 2024): 

Olympic sport

track, hurdles (400 m)

APR 8, OEDILFIAN limericks: W-I-P + Olympic sport: volleyball

a) Reprise of material posted on April 8 in previous years ...

2020: limerick variations, the sixth line (poem)
2021: American satire, tweetstorm (poem) 
2022: numbers and counting, octane (poem)
2023: poets' corner, rhotic-poet school (poem)

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b) Today's Offering (Apr 8, 2024): 

Olympic sport

  

volleyball