OCT 30, singable satire: politically corrected lyrics, "MY TENOR UKE"

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

2020: gruesome verse, autophagia, by halves (poem)
2021: singable satire, Zombie Cockroach (parody lyrics) 
2022: singable satire, Under My Own Steam (parody lyrics)
2023: singable satire, Polyvinyl for Millenia (parody lyrics)

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b) Today's Offering (Oct 30, 2024): 

PARODY-LYRICS 

ORIGINAL SONG: "My Tall Silk Hat", traditional camp-song, based on the popular Neapolitan song "Funiculi, Funicula", 1880.

PARODY COMPOSED: Giorgio Coniglio, September 2013.

In the traditional version, of this schoolboy parody, based on the tune of ‘Funiculi, Funicula’, a “big a-fat-a lady” squashes a hat on a subway seat. The current updated lyrics are, I hope, more politically correct and more appealing to adults. The final line, as in the posting of November "Ukuleli, Ukulela" is a Neapolitan Ta-da!, meaning let's go up there. Pronounce the "j"s as "y" to sound like an Italian tenor. 

MY TENOR UKE

(to the tune of "Funiculi, Funicula")

Introduction:
Inspired by trendy p’litical correctness,

I changed a song, an old camp-song,

Reflecting pre-teen Piggy/Twiggy bias,

That got it wrong, so very wrong.
   

Besides, a flavor more Napolitana,

I craved to chance, appeal enhance;

And so I trimmed my 'Lady' down to sexy,

Not anorexy,

And let her dance, a bella dance !

Revised Camp-Song: 

One day, as I was riding up the tramway,

My tenor uke, my tenor uke

I laid it on the seat a-right beside me,

My tenor uke, my tenor uke. 

The tall and shapely Nina sat upon it,

Was that a fluke? My tenor uke !

And launched a liaison volcanic,

(Not too platonic); my tenor uke, my tenor uke ! 

Pavarotti, what do you think of that ?

Master it, six sharps or seven flats;

‘Cause body-type is so much hype;

It’s only brawn or big-a belly –-

So save a seat in cielo

For our sleek friend A. Bocelli.

Outro:

‘Ncoppa jammo ja’, ukulelí, ukulelá.

Pavarotti (left),  Bocelli (right)

OCT 29, seasonal Halloween scenes: illustrations from South Carolina

 

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

2020: gruesome verse, scary upshot (illustrated poem)
2021: gruesome verse, 3 verses for Hallowe'en (illustrated poems)
2022: classic palindrome, Mix a maxim. (illustrated poem)
2023: gruesome verse, zombie uprising (illustrated poem)

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b) Today's Offering (Oct 29, 2024): 

Halloween approaches

"Gal and Gator"
Photo modified from painting
by David Boatwright, 2024.

south of Broad Street, Hallowe'en

"George Washington",
John Trumbull's second portrait, 1792,
Displayed in the City Council chambers,
Charleston, SC,
(photo by G.C., October, 2024)

master of ceremonies,
at a Mt Pleasant residential show

OCT 28, OEDILFian limericks: "democracy"

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

2020: Toronto ravines, Seton Park (photo-collage)
2021: Carolina lowcountry, wildlife revisited 2 (photo-collage) 
2022: Toronto ravines, floating islands at Brickworks (illustrated poem)
2023: decorative touches, Tulip Fields (fabric art)

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b) Today's Offering (Oct 28, 2024):

 

OCT 27, waterfowl: egrets at the spillway

a) Review of material posted on October 27 in previous years ...

2020: diagnostic imaging, technetium generators (illustrated poem)
2021: domestic hazards, fatbergs (poem)
2022: mythed opportunities, Galatea and Pygmalion (illustrated poem)
2023: decorative touches, Night View -- Cooper River Bridge  (fabric art)

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b) Today's Offering (Oct 27, 2024)

snowy egret,
black bill,
yellow feet,
smaller, more shy

great egret:
yellow-orange bill
black feet
longer neck, more agressive

 

  

OCT 26, poets' corner: subtle bullying, editorial

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

2020: Toronto ravines, Wilket Creek (photo-collage)

2021: anagram swarms, Canadian scramble-towns 11 (wordplay maps)
2022: limerick variations, C-rhyme extensions (poem) 
2023: decorative touches, Shem Creek vista (fabric art)

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b) Today's Offering (Oct 26, 2024):

Authors' Note: Used here in a loose sense, with no implications for ownership, cooperative refers to a group effort by like-minded individuals. Collaborative writing sites, such as the on-line dictionary OEDILF (nursery for many of Giorgio's concoctions), have the potential advantage to contributors of learning from peers, and ultimately higher rates of publication. Contributing editors ('eds'), however, may entertain estimations of their personal relevance and productivity that influence their editorial comments on others' work. Rarely, such notions are translated into malevolent actions by these poet-leaders.

Other problems with cooperative groups are discussed HERE.

You can find lots of other verses on this blog under the listing "Poets' Corner".  Click HERE.

OCT 25, Submitted Palindromes: RANDOM PILE #29

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

2020: Toronto ravines, Nordheimer (photo-collage)
2021: Toronto ravines, Todmorden Mills (photo-collage)
2022: mythed opportunities, Galatea and Pygmalion (illustrated poem)
2023: submitted palindromes, targeted, No 'X' in Nixon. (wordplay)

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puzzling palindrome,
 used in Weird Al Yankovic's song "Bob"

b) Today's Offering (Oct 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).

OCT 24, pill-poppin' verse: simethicone for abdominal bloating

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

2020: Toronto ravines, Mimico Creek (photo-collage)

2021: binomial phrases, hug and kiss (poem)

2022: patients and maladies, post-traumatic symptoms (poem)

2023: decorative touches, Lowcountry Scene (fabric art)

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b) Today's Offering (Oct 24, 2024):

Authors' Note: Simethicone (simeticone), a silicon-based product, is the active ingredient in most current over-the-counter remedies to relieve abdominal distension and gaseous bloating. With coalescence of the offending small bubbles, the gas is dispersed by flatulence and belching.

You can review these illustrated verses in a wider context by proceeding to 'Pharmaceutical (pill-poppin') Poems' on the full-service blog "Edifying Nonsense". Click HERE.

 

OCT 23, background-subtracted couples, 2

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

2020: gruesome verse, untimely demise (illustrated poem)  
2021: gruesome verse, two horrific quandaries (illustrated poems)

2022: Toronto oases, Rouge National Park (photo-collage) 
2023: doctors and practices, neighborhood analyst (illustrated poem)

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b) Today's Offering (Oct 23, 2024):

See the earlier post of October 2 for an introduction to this topic. Note that all the original photos, as well as the processed versions, were obtained with the camera of Giorgio's i-phone 13. 

equine figures

turtles

pigs

kitchen-fish

trumpeter swans

frogs

Halloween personalities

mounted police

OCT 22, defining opinion: hors d'oeuvres

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

2020: old world palindromes, #1 (wordplay maps)  
2021: Toronto oases, city halls (photo-collage)

2022: saving the planet, phosphate detergents (illustrated poem) 
2023: postal places, Deseronto, ON (illustrated poem)

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b) Today's Offering (Oct 22, 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.

OCT 21, philosophical ponderings, "me and my shadow"

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

2020: insects, beer bugs (illustrated poem)  
2021: Toronto ravines, Moore Park (photo-collage)

2022: hellenophilia, Cretan gorges (illustrated poem) 
2023: decorative touches, diptych, abstract (fabric art)

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b) Today's Offering (Oct 21, 2024):

me and my shadow 

OCT 20, singable satire: "CARNIVAL OF CHARLESTON"

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

2020: singable satire, Rhyming Binomials M to Z (parody lyrics)
2021: singable satire, Star-Nosed Mole (parody lyrics) 
2022: singable satire, Ballad of Giuliani 2 (parody lyrics)
2023: singable satire (Inferno), The Pain of Lust (parody lyrics)

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b) Today's Offering (Oct 20, 2024): 

PARODY LYRICS 

ORIGINAL SONG: "Carnival of Venice", traditional song

PARODY COMPOSED: Giorgio Coniglio, January 2014.
PHOTOS of the concert "Carnival of Venice", Charleston SC, by Uncommon Solutions

Coverage of the inciting event by the Charleston "Post and Courier" can be found online.

THE CARNIVAL OF CHARLESTON

 (to the tune of "the Carnival of Venice")


Your rickshaw ride in Charleston
Can't explore that magic town;
The driver's only licensed
A: pick-up;  B: set you down.

Official guides in Charleston
Have to pass exams and train; 
Rapt carriage-tour riders and foot-group
Can't block ante-bellum lanes.

Charleston's famous "Rainbow Row"

A pedicab lurks at your lodgings,
Marks you for a heinous crime;

A sleazy eager historian
Who is keen to sell his time. 

To stamp out these nasty infractions,
Wired police devised a sting
Attired for entrapment as tourists
Massive fines recordings bring.

a rickshaw driver cruises for customers

Few hours in scenic Charleston ?
Cruise-lined there by Carnival,
Snubbed by snobby South-of-Broad big-shots?
Don't treat 'Rick Shaw' as a pal.

If cruising past Fort Sumter
And re-boarding is a must,
Steer clear of Rick's tempting discussions - 
It might be a tourist bust.

a colleague of Rick Shaw, at work

Fort Sumter, Charleston Harbor,
as proposed in an early painting

Concert of Venetian music; 
a Charleston visitor admires the sets