A blogsite offering entertaining daily oddities since January 2020. There are now over fifteen hundred posts in these four years. Images -- photographic, computer-simulated and poetic -- 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.
September 2, 2020
SEP 2, anagram swarm: A-VERY-STABLE-GENIUS, #19
SEP 2, Toronto ravines: Sherwood
September 1, 2020
SEP 1, scopes of medicine: EGD (esophago-gastro-duodenoscopy)
August 31, 2020
AUG 31, wordplay maps: new world palindromes (#35,#36)
August 30, 2020
AUG 30, patients and maladies: BPH (benign prostatic hypertrophy)
August 29, 2020
AUG 29, magical palindromes: 'A man, a plan (racy, carnal) -- Paris'
You can become an expert fan of our wordplay concoction 'magical palindromes' by reviewing the explanatory material found in ancient days on our full-service blog "Edifying Nonsense" HERE; then, you could check how we applied this technique to 'canal palindromes' by viewing this more recent post.
August 28, 2020
AUG 28, wordplay maps: new world palindromes (#33,#34)
August 27, 2020
AUG 27, classic palindromes: 'Zeus sees Suez', plus various canal-pals
You can review these illustrated verses in a wider context by proceeding to 'Reversing Verse: Limericks About Classic Palindromes' on the full-service blog 'Edifying Nonsense'.
August 26, 2020
AUG 26, insects: gnat repellents
You can review Giorgio's other verses about pesty and occasionally beneficial insects, as collected in 'Buzzwords: Verses about Insects' on the full-service blog "Edifying Nonsense". Click HERE.
August 25, 2020
AUG 25, waterfowl: laughing gulls
AUG 24, American satire: miscellany of verses
August 23, 2020
AUG 23, limerick variations: verses with embedded illustrations
August 22, 2020
AUG 22, Toronto ravines: lower Don, photocollages #1-3
August 21, 2020
AUG 21, sleek Greek prefixes: APO-
August 20, 2020
AUG 20, singable satire: Tom Lehrer sings "ALLITERATIVE BINOMIALS, #2"
PARODY SONG-LYRICS
There's prince and pauper, prim and proper, pots and pans, and put-upon
And drunken and disorderly, warp woof, wrack ruin, and AlAnon.
The order of paired elements - important? yes, no, may-aybe;
Yet, slip and slide, not hair nor hide, the definition gets defied,
Like 'Prejudice' before the 'Pride', so 'side by side' is classified
With home sweet home, rose is a rose, eye for an eye, and nose to nose -
These phrases pose the gap to close that spaces poetry from prose.
There's Jack and Jill, from dusk 'til dawn, bumper to bumper, inch by inch,
And first and foremost, hand in hand, with spice and sugar, just a pinch.
"What's right is right, what's fair is fair", said more and more by Mo-other,
From sea to shining sea, if it's not one thing, it's ano-other.
August 19, 2020
AUG 19, bottom line of medical humor: Beano
August 18, 2020
AUG 18, poets' corner: the philosophy of limericks
August 17, 2020
AUG 17, trees: appletree (fabric art)
"Apple tree" (fabric art contributed by RCH) |
You can find other examples of awesome illustrative fabric art on this blog in posts for the dates January 25, and March 19, 2020, and January 2, 2021.