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.
October 12, 2021
OCT 12, portraits of couples: loons
October 11, 2021
OCT 11, garden intruders: gnome adventures
Authors' Note: The propensity of garden gnomes to travel, often against their will, is explained here. The author does not condone the trespassing, theft or kidnapping inherent in the services proposed by the narrator to expunge egregious esthetics from one's neighborhood.
October 10, 2021
OCT 10, a brief saga (exemplary exemplification): ablauts and verb past-tenses
Authors' Note: Ablaut (AHB-lowt) is a linguistic term, derived from German, for a vowel transition resulting in a change in word meaning. Such changes are the basis of the simple past tense and the past participle in a substantial proportion of irregular English verbs, as exemplified in the second and third stanzas.
To review the blogpost displaying our entire collection of verses dealing with "Exemplary Exemplification", click HERE.
October 9, 2021
OCT 9, bottom line of medical humor: borborygmi
October 8, 2021
OCT 8, variant Nantucket limerick: moeurs of Nantucket
October 7, 2021
OCT 7, waterfowl: hooded merganser
October 6, 2021
OCT 6, death and the afterlife: [sic] to death
October 5, 2021
OCT 5, insects: computer 'bugs'
October 4, 2021
OCT 4, numbers: quartets, foursomes (4)
October 3, 2021
OCT 3, oncologic verses: benign tumors, a guidebook
October 2, 2021
OCT 2, wordplay maps: Scramble-towns of eastern Canada, #7 and #8
LINKS to other nonsense in this series:
October 1, 2021
OCT 1, STD-poetry: tabes dorsalis (tertiary syphilis)
September 30, 2021
SEP 30, singable satire, takin' care of reminiscence: "YOGI BERRA'S WISDOM"
(Takin' Care of Reminiscence)
A native of St Louie
Where they don’t put up with hooey,
'Cause Missouri’s motto is “Show me.”
Signed with Yankees in his teens
Power hitter, eighteen seasons
They retired his Number Eight jersey.
Lots of Series as a coach,
So reporters would approach
To find out what this winning maven say
He became our ‘Wisest Fool’ *
But did only eight in school
Known for witticisms quite pithy.
And it’s...
Not over ‘til it’s over (in this game)
If the road forks, take it (just the same)
Asking what the time is - Do you mean now?
You observe a lot just by watching, anyhow.
Work out.
If it were déjà vu again,
We might get him to explain
If the people won’t come out, who’ll stop ‘em.
So don’t make wrong mistakes
Go to other peoples’ wakes,
Otherwise they won’t show when it’s your turn.
Overwhelming underdogs
Take it with a grin of salt
He didn’t really say what he said.
And if you walk or drive
You’ll be lost when you arrive
If you don’t know where you are headed.
And we’ll use ..
Yogi Berra’s wisdom (every day)
Yogi Berra’s wisdom (every way)
That record stands ‘til broken, every time
Future’s not like once was; no nickel’s worth a dime.
They wouldn’t have won if we’d beat ‘em.
We have deep depth. Pair up in threes.
Out here it gets late early
Thanks for making necessary
That night when he’s inducted, Hall of Fame
It’s ninety percent mental,
And the other half’s physical
Don’t know nothing, baseball’s that kind of game.
No one goes there ’cause it's crowded
And though fan mail makes you proud
Don’t respond to anonymous letters
And when your batting slumps
With your average in the dumps
It’s blaming the bat that is better.
And we’ll be
Using Yogi’s wisdom (every day)
Yogi Berra's wisdom (every way)
If the world were perfect, it wouldn’t be.
He said, "It's not the heat, it's the humility."
* based on his speaking style, in 2005 The Economist named Yogi Berra 'Wisest Fool of the Past 50 Years'.
September 29, 2021
SEP 29, domestic hazards: kettles
September 27, 2021
SEP 27, birdlore: American goldfinches
September 26, 2021
SEP 26, humorists' scurrilous talk: 'the C-word'
September 25, 2021
SEP 25, at heart: dipyridamole for stress myocardial imaging
September 24, 2021
SEP 24, Toronto ravines: Etobicoke Creek
Today we had a chance to meet with friends and do a a picnic and a hike through this shale-lined ravine situated at the western boundary of the city. Thanks to the Toronto Region Conservation Authority who created this series of wonderful parks in response to the damage done by Hurricane Hazel in 1954 !
If you are interested in wending your way through an encyclopedic collection of four blogposts stuffed with photo-collages on Toronto ravines, click HERE.
September 23, 2021
SEP 23, binomial phrases: "sin and redemption"
To review the poetic effusion that we have accumulated about binomial phrases, proceed to our blog "Edifying Nonsense", and enjoy the post 'Grandpa Greg's Grammar: Binomial Expressions'. Click HERE !
There is also an entire collection of lyrics to patter songs, somewhat older material, dedicated to various kinds of binomials, that provides more didactic material and an extensive series of examples, and allows you to sing these expressions for your own enjoyment, or for that of others around you. Click HERE !
September 22, 2021
SEP 22, scopes of medicine: ERCP
September 21, 2021
SEP 21, dental feelings (sentimental verse): deep dental cleaning
September 20, 2021
SEP 20, singable satire: Frank Sinatra sings "PROSTATE CANCER"
PARODY-LYRICS
ORIGINAL SONG: "Love and Marriage", 1955, Cahn and van Heusen, performed by Frank Sinatra, also Peggy Lee and Dinah Shore.PARODY COMPOSED: Dr.G.H. and Giorgio Coniglio, January 2016.
PROSTATE CANCER
(to the tune of “Love and Marriage”: indentations at beginnings of lines flag the syncopation.)
Danger lurking down there in your pants, sir?
Age-effect? guys wondered;
So, “Yes”, you’ll have it at one hunderd.
[6] recently, high-tech variants (laparoscopic and robotic surgery) have been developed, but their additional benefit is incompletely proven.
September 19, 2021
SEP 19, American satire: fraudulent
September 18, 2021
SEP 18, wordplay maps: Scramble-towns of eastern Canada, #5 and #6
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