JUL 2, portraits of couples: Harris hawks

a) Reprise from material posted on July 2 in previous years ...

2020: political palindromes, FFF (wordplay)
2021: Canadiana, real Eastern towns (wordplay maps) 
2022: American satire, unhinged (illustrated poem)
2023: American satire, Latin States 1 (wordplay)

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b) Today's Offering (Jul 2, 2024):

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JUL 1, Canadiana: 'founding cultures'

a) Reprise from July 1 in previous years

2020: Canadiana, Canadian defined (illustrated poem)
2021: Canadiana, Canadian moose (illustrated poem)
2022: Canadiana, Canadian weather (illustrated poem)
2023: Canadiana, Mounties (poem)

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b) Today's Offering (Jul 1, 2024):

Authors' Note:  In earlier days, national discussion focused on the two founding cultures, as Canada struggled with incorporating the remnants of two different European traditions with different religions, customs and even legal systems, into its institutions. Today's realizations and reality render the buzzword outdated and the situation even more complex.

b) Incidental photo-collage

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JUN 30, singable satire: "AN ALIEN HEADING SOUTH", a pair-ody

a) Reprise of material posted on June 30 in previous years ...

2020: Greek prefixes, an- (poem)
2021: numbers and counting, zero (poem) 
2022: singable satire, Whole Foods (parody lyrics)
2023: singable satire, Under My Own Steam 2 (parody lyrics)

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b) Today's Offering (Jun 30, 2024): 

PARODY-LYRICS, subbed into 2 songs.

ORIGINAL SONG#1:  "Mr. Spaceman" , The Byrds, 
1966 -  verses 1,2, and 10.
ORIGINAL SONG #2. " Englishman in New York", Sting, 1987 - all other parody verses.

PARODY COMPOSED: Giorgio Coniglio, November, 2014.

Lexicon:

Pair-ody = satirical lyrics substituted into a mix of 2 original songs

DHS = Department of Homeland Security

CRA = Canada Revenue Agency

BNL = Barenaked Ladies, a well-known Canadian band

ALIEN HEADING SOUTH

(to the tune of "Mr Spaceman")

 Woke up this morning, an odd taste in my mouth, and 

Then I realized we were due to head south,

 Warm U.S. cottage, with dual-cit. spouse - 
I hope they won’t keep me out.

Hey, DHS-man, I really hate to ask -  I'd 

like to stay the max.

Hey, DHS-man, won’t you please let me in for 6 months.

(to the tune of "Alien in New York")

Hey, Mister Inquisitor, I’m just a snowbird-visitor,

I'm sure that I am not the only one;
I’ve sent “Closer Connection”-form, in IRS’s direction, for

I plan to live and die a native son. 

You’ll find no trace of felony, of villainy or zealotry

I’m not the sort who plans to overstay.

ISIS I repudiate, I file my taxes never late,

In fact I’m on good terms with CRA. 

I don't drink Starbuck's, just Tim Horton's, Sir,

Always a donut on the side,

I take my hockey gear everywhere I walk,

I’m myself, a trailer-park Canuck.    Whoa-.

 –oh, Not some alien: visiting Canadian

A Canadian with his puck. Whoa

–oh, Not some alien: ally, friend, and then some

A Canadian with his puck.  

If music makes the man, and threats you rate,
Then I'm the zero of the day,
I play my Lightfoot, Twain, Dion and Stompin' Tom
BNL, Avril, Biebs or Buble.
  
I'll trade my "loonies" at your banks to shop,

I won’t take anybody’s job, 

I’ll hide my views on climate-change and gun-control,

And no one should take me for a snob.  Whoa


 –oh, Not some alien: passported Canadian

 A Canadian with his puck. Say 

–eh, Not some alien: ally, friend, and then some

 A Canadian with his puck.  

(to the tune of "Mr Spaceman")
Hey, DHS-man, I know the rules can change; I

won’t do anything strange.

Hey, DHS-man, won’t you please let me in for a while.

(to the tune of "Alien in New York")
Say, "eh", Not some alien: visiting Canadian

A Canadian with his puck. Say 

–eh, Not some alien: ally, friend, and then some

A Canadian with his puck.  

JUN 29, Olympic sport: boxing

 

a) Reprise of material posted on June 29 in previous years ...

2020: mammalian wildlife, raccoons in city (illustrated poem)
2021: poets' corner, collaboration (poem) 
2022: defining opinion, crepuscular (illustrated poem)
2023: 'nature' outings, High Park Zoo, (photo-collage)

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raccoon (urban)

 

b) Today's Offering (Jun 29, 2024): 

 Olympic sport

boxing

JUN 28, OEDILFian limericks: W-I-P + Olympic sport: parallel bars

a) Reprise of material posted on June 28 in previous years ...

2020: anagram swarm, very-stable-genius (wordplay)
2021: classic palindromes, Sex at noon taxes. (poem) 
2022: domestic hazards, security system (poem)
2023: parasites, endoparasites (poem)

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b) Today's Offering (Jun 28, 2024): 

Olympic sport

gymnastic parallel bars (dismount)

   

JUN 27, American satire (prolongation): honest

  a) Reprise of material posted on June 27, in previous years

2020: bi-lyrical verse, EMS (emergency) (poem)
2021: Greek prefixes, chiro- (poem) 
2022: pluralia tantum (singular plurals), eruptions (poem)
2023: duplication, hodge-podge (poem)

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b) Today's offering (Jun 27, 2024):  

Author's Note: In 2023/2024, the US is looking forward to televized trials of certain national figures. Television cameras are not allowed in trials in the federal system, and one has to rely on the renderings by artists; certain states, e.g. Georgia, do allow the transmission from the courtroom; currently, an important process related to the overturning of state election laws is pending. One hopes that, in that circumstance, each member of the public can easily cut through the veneer of righteousness conveyed by persons whose careers have been built on longstanding deception.

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JUN 26, patients and their maladies: hives (urticaria)

a) Reprise of material posted on June 26 in previous years ...

2020: political palindromes, EEE (wordplay)

2021: mammalian, concupiscent rabbit (illustrated poem) 
2022: duplication, hanky-panky (poem)
2023: Carolina lowcountry, birding map (wordplay, puzzle)

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b) Today's Offering (Jun 26, 2024): 

Authors' Note: Hives, known medically as urticaria, is a symptomatic skin condition attributed to the release of the immune mediator histamine, and manifesting at some point in up to 20% of people. Allergy is a common underlying instigator, with drug reactions being causative in some cases. The onset, with progressive randomly distributed spread of batches of reddish raised lesions, is often acute, but the condition may be repetitive and "chronic", (i.e. on-again, off-again), as is the case with Yves' experience.

Formulation of the above poem required the use of binomial phrases, as indicated by italics.

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JUN 25, Submitted Palindromes: RANDOM PILE #17

 a) Reprise of material posted on June 25 in previous years ...

2020: poets' corner, satirical doggerel (poem)
2021: new world palindromes, #47,48 (wordplay maps) 
2022: patients and maladies, vitreous detachment (poem)
2023: palindrome submitter, Terse Reverse (wordplay introduction)

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b) Today's Offering (Jun 25, 2024): 

 

 

  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. 

JUN 24, Olympic sport: road cycling ('peloton')

 a) Reprise of material posted on June 24 in previous years ...

2020: classic palindromes, flee, remote elf (poem)
2021: unusual sightings, Muskoka wildlife (photo-collage) 
2022: numbers, base 10, (poem)
2023: terminal exclamation, EGAD! (poem)

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b) Today's Offering (Jun 24, 2024): 

 

Olympic sport

road cycling, "peloton" (272 km)

 

JUN 23, gruesome verse: horripilation (goose bumps)

  a) Reprise of material posted on June 23 in previous years ...

2020: trees, red mulberry (illustrated poem)
2021: funny bones, prosthetic hipster (poem) 
2022: non-sequitur, judge's gavel (illustrated poem)
2023: national verse, Haiti (poem)

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b) Today's Offering (Jun 23, 2024): 

 

Authors' Note: Goose bumps or goose pimples are a common transient physiological change produced by stimulation of the skin's small and widely distributed arrector pili, tiny muscles at the base of each hair follicle. Their appearance may be provoked by physical conditions (such as a cold environment) or emotional factors, including embarassment, a sexual turn-on, or fear. The latter, accompanied by profound anxiety (the heebie-jeebies), and "hair standing on end" (piloerection or horripilation) is a reaction scaled down from that found in the animal kingdom, e.g. porcupines throwing their quills to put off predators. 

  Heebie-jeebies is gramatically another of those appealing (re) duplications, like helter-skelter and hocus-pocus, and represents a topic appropriate for discussion on Hallowe'en.

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JUN 22, Olympic sport: water polo

 a) Reprise of material posted on June 22 in previous years ...

2020: waterfowl, herons, T.O. ravines (photo-collage)
2021: humorists' talk, giving a sh** (poem) 
2022: diagnostic imaging, attenuation correction (poem)
2023: homophonous verse, bypassed glitches (poem)

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b) Today's Offering (Jun 22, 2024): 

 

Olympic sport

water polo

JUN 21, defining opinion: haunch

 a) Reprise of material posted on June 21 in previous years ...

2020: political palindromes, DDD (wordplay)
2021: reptiles, broad-headed skinks (illustrated poem) 
2022: planet-saving verse, invasive species (poem)
2023: waterfowl, Louisiana herons (illustrated poem)

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b) Today's Offering (Jun 21, 2024): 

 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.

JUN 20, singable satire: Oscar Brand sings "SOMETHING TO GROAN ABOUT"

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

2020: singable satire, Beegees sing "Pairs" (parody lyrics)
2021: singable satire, Lost River (parody lyrics) 
2022: singable satire, Get Me Roger Stone (parody lyrics)
2023: singable satire (Inferno), Canto 3 (parody lyrics)

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b) Today's Offering (Jun 20, 2024): 

PARODY COMPOSED: Dr.G.H. and Giorgio Coniglio, April 2018, in preparation for upcoming Canada Day 2018.

PARODY SONGLINK (ukulele and guitar-friendly): All our songs (Giorgio's parody-lyrics and the originals that gave rise to them) can be found, along with suggested chord sequences in a friendly format for ukulele (and guitar)-players on our sister blog "SILLY SONGS and SATIRE". Click HERE to proceed to that site.  

SOMETHING TO GROAN ABOUT

(to the tune of "Something To Sing About")


I have asked Kim Jong Un, if he please would come visit soon,
Climate up here's 'bout the same as Pyongyang.
There'd be Raptors to watch, as he'd ratchet things up a notch;
And it's close to D.C. He replied, and he sang...

KIM's CHORUS#1: "Your mistake was to shelve war, way back after 1812
(Conflicts North-South helped my clan get ahead).
An armed border zone keeps two entities on their own.
When Yanks ask 'DMZee?', you demand 'DMZed'." 

Great Leader, don't send missiles  to our Queen Charlotte Isles,
Misty mystical place natives call 'Haida Gwai'.
We hope you and Don work things out, no need to rant and shout.
Diplomacy's tough, but please give it a try.

 KIM'S CHORUS#2: "From the wheat on your Prairies to the cheese from your dairies,
Metal tariffs in place on U.S. border fence.
You should follow our music score, as played in Singapore.
Hide heavy weapons, cozy up to Trump-Pence."

Kim, don't plant any nuke on, our territory called the Yukon.
The soil there's quite poor --  permafrost, rocks and scree.

It's too cold to grow a cuke on; you'll need to keep your tuque on
When you visit with Dennis. Bring extra kimchee.

KIM's CHORUS#1 (reprise): "Your mistake was to shelve war, way back after 1812
(Conflicts North-South helped my clan get ahead).

An armed border zone keeps two entities on their own.
When Yanks ask for 'DMZee', just demand 'DMZed'."  

 

JUN 19, Olympic sport: basketball

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

2020: geysers, British geysers (poem)
2021: waterfowl, mallard ducks (illustrated poem) 
2022: binomial phrases, flotsam and jetsam (poem)
2023: non-sequitur, ground down (poem)

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mallard drake in flight,
Oakland California

b) Today's Offering (Jun 19, 2024): 

Olympic sport

basketball