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.
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October 1, 2022
OCT 17, defining opinion: holler
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.
September 30, 2022
SEP 30, limerick variations: epitomy
You can review our entire collection of poems on the topic of "Limerick Variations" as compiled on our more encyclopedic blog "Edifying Nonsense" by clicking HERE.
September 29, 2022
SEP 29, STD-poetry: monkeypox
September 28, 2022
SEP-28, spineless verse (invertebrates): chelipods
READING MORE WIDELY:
You can find all our illustrated verses about various 'INVERTEBRATES' , as compiled on our full-service blog "Edifying Nonsense" HERE. But, in fact, we had hived off verses about INSECTS, and they are gathered in separate blogposts, that you can get into HERE. So, follow these links, and enjoy.
September 27, 2022
SEP 27, defining opinion: diaphoretic
September 26, 2022
SEP 26, organic brain poetry: CTE (chronic traumatic encephalopathy)
This is consecutive daily post #1000 on this blog!!!
ROSH HASHANAH: To Jewish friends, L' shanah tovah!
Authors' Note: Although military recruits and physically abused spouses also number among the victims of this disease of insidious onset, (characteristically diagnosed with certainty only at post-mortem examination), it is the scourge of those who earlier in life indulged in contact sports, particularly those with a risk of repetitive minor brain trauma.
September 25, 2022
SEP 25, classic palindrome: 'step on no pets'
September 24, 2022
SEP 24, toxic vignette: antifreeze (ethylene glycol) poisoning
September 23, 2022
SEP 23, news-post: Fore! (Letitia's civil lawsuit)
FORE! (Letitia's Civil Lawsuit)
Strode the fairway to even the score.
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online photo |
Author's Note: The golfing terms fore!, and fairway are explained in other OEDILF verses.
In September 2022, Letitia James, Attorney General of the state of New York initiated a civil lawsuit against the Trump Corporation and its executives (the former 45th American president and three of his children) for longstanding business malfeasance including bank, insurance and tax fraud.
September 22, 2022
SEP 22, braincheck: hippocampus
September 21, 2022
SEP 21, higher connections: views from Queen Elizabeth's funeral
September 20, 2022
SEP 20 (2022), singable satire: Tennessee Ernie Ford sings "The BALLAD of GIULIANI", part #1
![Rudy Giuliani](https://amp.businessinsider.com/images/5b48aeeaaf2e41ad168b475c-750-375.jpg)
Tennessee Ernie Ford
BACKGROUND INFO: Max Boot's opinion-editorial appeared in our local newspaper on May 8, 2018, under the heading "The long, disappointing fall of Rudy Giuliani". Here is the link to the particular newspaper column.
Other takes on Giuliani's statements about the Presidents' legal and personal imbroglios are given by Jennifer Rubin HERE, and Amy Sorkin HERE. However, this first part of the song deals with the more positive earlier portion of this flamboyant leaders' life-story.
The BALLAD of GIULIANI, part#1
Born in East Flatbush, down in NYC,
Dad done time in Sing Sing for robbery,
An' Rudy volunteered for Robert Kennedy.
Rudy Giuliani,
Voice of those wild Trump Years!
At Manhattan College, took philosophy.
Enter the priesthood? "No, that's not for me!"
Studied Law at New York University,
To graduate cum laude with J.D. degree.
Rudy Giuliani,
Startin' up his career.
To prosecute felons gave him a thrill.
Though tactics like the 'perp walk' were 'overkill'
As U.S. Attorney he showed great skill.
His record of convictions is unequalled still.
Rudy Giuliani,
Outshone his legal peers.
He fought single-handed through the Mafia Wars.
Racketeering mobsters he did abhor.
Put their capos behind bars, and settled the score,
And RICOed* inside traders, and convicted more.
Fearless Rudy launchin'
His politickin' career.
Two terms as Mayor start in '93.
First Repub. in office there since John Lindsay.
Libs felt queezy with the GOP, but he
Cleaned the streets, cut crime, and folks said "That's for me!"
Rudy Giuliani,
The Big Apple's brigadier.
He craved a Senate seat; to lose was gall.
'Specially to Hillary, he'd hate to fall.
But marital scandal, and a doctor's call,
And bad race relations triggered his withdrawal.
Rudy Giuliani,
Back in the Mayor's chair.
Rudy was the guy in charge when Towers fell.
At Ground Zero visited and stayed a spell.
Folks felt he handled the disaster well,
And was honored by the Queen as I've heard tell.
Rudy Giuliani!
Time's Person-of-the-Year.
Rudy Giuliani!
Time's Person-of-the-Year.
* RICO - The Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act.
September 19, 2022
SEP 19, death and the afterlife: garbage disposal in Heaven
Authors' Note: You may have gathered that the editors think that Heaven is a bureaucracy-ridden place. So, of course, as a resident there you may have to fill out a lot of documentation to obtain permission to import Earthworms and related paraphernalia.
You can review more poems about 'Death and the Afterlife' in context ('death and the afterlife') on our full-service blog 'Edifying Nonsense'. Click HERE!
September 18, 2022
SEP 18, curtained verse: braless
You can review other mildly scurrilous illustrated verses in a wider context by proceeding to 'Curtained verse: Faintly Obscene (Selected) Limericks' on the full-service blog 'Edifying Nonsense'.
September 17, 2022
SEP 17, palinku (poetic novelty): schoolboy humor #1
September 16, 2022
SEP 16, hellenophilia: approaching Santorini
Other verses discussing our appreciation of Greece and things Greek can be found on our blog 'Edifying Nonsense'. Click HERE.
September 15, 2022
SEP 15, Italian loanwords: vendetta
You can review our entire poetic outpouring about Italian loanwords by proceeding to a post on our full-service blog 'Edifying Nonsense'; click HERE. If you prefer, you could view most of this topically arranged material on Facebook, in Giorgio's photo-albums. (About 20% of those offerings consist of political satire or adult limericks, and you will have to be a 'friend' of Giorgio's to view that stuff.)
September 14, 2022
SEP 14, Ontario nostalgia: native cactus
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hidden cactus corner: Allan Gardens Conservatory, Toronto |
Authors' Note: Species of plants belonging to the cactus family are native only to America. Although they are generally heat-loving, a few species of the genus Opuntia are sufficiently cold-tolerant to live in parts of Canada. One of these, the eastern prickly pear, Opuntia humifusa, thrives in the US in dry areas such as along beaches on the Atlantic coastline, and some inland areas. At the northern limit of its range, in areas along the Great Lakes in Ontario (located centrally in Canada), this species has been susceptible to territory loss by severe winter storms and is now considered locally endangered. Three other species of low-growing cacti are still flourishing in the prairie provinces of western Canada.
There's a different story in other parts of the globe, where these and related species were relocated by human activities during and after the sixteenth century. Owing to their edible summer fruit, prickly pears are tolerated as invasives in parts of South Africa, southern Europe, Polynesia, South America, etc. However, the cochineal insect that feeds on the cactus in Mexico can be ground to produce a valuable brilliant red dye kmown as carmine or cochineal. British colonists established a cactus plantation in New South Wales in the early 1800s to supply a nascent dye industry. With hospitable conditions, sandy warm soil, there and in Queensland, these an other host cactuses spread quickly and vigorously, taking over a huge chunk of grazing and horticultural terrain, and are now prohibited throughout the island continent.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opuntia_humifusa
https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/cactus
September 13, 2022
SEP 13, pluralia tantum: 'condolences'
Authors' Note: The above verse provides several further examples of the grammatical phenomenon pluralia tantum. An idiom associated with providing condolences for the family and friends of a single deceased person is to 'pay one's final respects'.
Grandpa Greg asked us to pass on this message: "You can view the entire collection of verses about 'pluralia tantum' by clicking HERE."
September 12, 2022
SEP 12, numbers: a dozen (12)
September 11, 2022
SEP 11, planet-saving verse: the fishmonger
You can help save the planet by viewing all our verses in this series at "Edifying Nonsense". Click HERE!