HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!!!
A blogsite offering entertaining oddities since January 2020 at the rate of 30x/month. There are now over sixteen hundred posts in these four years. Images -- poetic, 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.
February 14, 2023
FEB 14, poetic non-sequitur: decolletage (+ Val's Day)
February 13, 2023
Feb 13, homophonous verse: identity rhymes
February 12, 2023
FEB 12, poets' corner: subtle bullying, editorial
February 11, 2023
FEB 11, cinematic guide: beaver tales ("Gone with the Wind")
February 10, 2023
FEB 10, a brief saga (Canadiana): Newfoundland potato famine of 1846 - 8
Back in Ireland, landlords took advantage, and bought tickets to encourage resourceless tenants to emigrate; their arrival in Canada was anticipated charitably by the public and by local governments. In fact, many refugees were sick ("ship's fever" often equated to dysentery or typhus) on arrival or shortly afterward. In the summer of 1847, an estimated 20,000 died in typhus epidemics that ravaged Montreal, Quebec, and even Toronto.
historic plaque, dedicated to a TOronto community leader who perished in the potato-famine related typhus epidemic |
Great Famine (Ireland) - Wikipedia
Newfoundland Potato Famine - Wikipedia
History of Irish immigration to Canada - Irish PostFebruary 9, 2023
FEB 9, culinary verse: caponata (Sicilian eggplant relish)
February 8, 2023
FEB 8, inspired by Ogden Nash: anapestic rehash of "the purist"
February 7, 2023
FEB 7, at heart: hypertension
February 6, 2023
FEB 6, objectionable adjectives: histonomical
The role of histonomy, if any, as well as that of its adjectival derivatives, is considerably less certain.
You can review our editorially selected doggerel (eight verses) relating to 'Objectionable Adjectives' by clicking HERE.
February 5, 2023
FEB 5, higher connections: wannabe autocrat
February 4, 2023
FEB 4, duplication: hubba-hubba
rubba: rubber (American slang for condom), with typical non-rhotic pronunciation
February 3, 2023
FEB 3, Carolina lowcountry: unusual wildlife
reprise from February (leap year) 2020:
FEB 29, Carolina lowcountry: unusual wildlife
February 2, 2023
FEB 2, defining opinion: hot
February 1, 2023
FEB 1, poems about parasites: geohelminths
January 30, 2023
JAN 30, cynic's singable satire: "GLOBAL ROASTING CAN BE SET ASIDE"
PARODY-LYRICS
PARODY-SONGLINK: To access ukulele chord-charts to help you accompany "GLOBAL ROASTING CAN BE SET ASIDE" on your favorite instrument, click HERE.
("Global Roasting Can Be Set Aside")
(to the tune of "The Christmas Song")
Al Gore former U.S. Vice-President |
Planet’s roasting can be set aside.
...Armchair experts doubt, outliers like some melting floes
Help predict our global fate.
Tiny dots graphing century lows-
Warm some years, but it’s not too late.
January 29, 2023
JAN 29, poetic non-sequitur: professor and madman
January 28, 2023
JAN 28, lexicon of word-pairs: alliterative binomials A to D
Matching the selection on the first slide, these include "ants in pants", "birds and bees" and "betwixt and between".
Matching the selection on the above slide, these include "cool and calm", and "down and dirty".
You can easily find all of these on our topic-based blog "Edifying Nonsense" by clicking HERE, and following the links.
January 26, 2023
JAN 26, poems about parasites: the parasitologist (host)
January 25, 2023
JAN 25, Submitted Palindromes: Introduction to presenters -- Don's Ho
This post initiates a new thread on this blog consistent with its mission as a creative dog's-breakfast ... Presumably inspired by some of our earlier writings involving palindromic phrases, (see examples below), , a number of persons communicated with the editors and volunteered to periodically send us some of their best work.
JAN 25, national and multinational verse: Iceland
You can review our collection of verses about various individual nations, and about the groupings to which they belong, on our topic-based blog "Edifying Nonsense". Click HERE.
January 24, 2023
JAN 24, bi-lyrical limerick: 'aphonic'
January 23, 2023
JAN 23, braincheck: homonomous hemianop(s)ia
January 22, 2023
JAN 22, poets' corner: noun-verb contractions
Authors' Note: In the above limerick verse, seven noun-verb contractions, each characteristically joining its two elements (a pronoun or noun, and a verb) with an apostrophe, are italicized in blue. But, don't be misled: other types of contractions also use the apostrophe, and these are flagged in red font. Aren't is of course a negative contraction, and one's is a possessive form.
You can find lots of other verses on this blog under the listing "Poets' Corner". Click HERE.
January 21, 2023
JAN 21, creative anachronism: the dawning of history
January 20, 2023
JAN 20, singable satire: The Four Lads sing "THUNDER BAY" (Ontario)
PARODY LYRICS
BACKGROUND INFORMATION:
(Intro theme, mid-Eastern, on kazoo)
Now it's Thunder Bay, not Willi-am and Arthur
It's a [E7]wondrous town with name that's far superior --
Like [Am]Turkish delight, [Dm]on a [E7]stormy [Am]night.
Every [Am]dame today, 'round Lakehead way,
Stays in Thunder Bay, not with William or with Arthur
You've a [E7]rainy date in Fort William or Port Arthur?
She'll be [Am]waiting in [E7]Thunder [Am]Bay.
Even [Am]old Newfoundland hooked up with Labrador.
So, [Am]take me back: Fort William and Port Arthur
No, you can't go back in time, it's so much farther;
Been a [E7]long while past, since Willi-am and Arthur.
[E7] It's no one's business but Ca-[Am]nucks.