You can review all our verses on this intriguing topic by proceeding to a post on 'Edifying Nonsense' entitled 'Selected Topics in Diagnostic Imaging'. Click HERE!
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.
October 27, 2020
OCT 27, diagnostic imaging: technetium generators
October 26, 2020
OCT 26, Toronto ravines: Wilket Creek / Edwards Gardens
If you are interested in wending your way through an encyclopedic collection of four blogposts stuffed with photo-collages on Toronto ravines, click HERE.
October 25, 2020
OCT 25, Toronto ravines: Nordheimer Ravine
If you are interested in wending your way through an encyclopedic collection of four blogposts stuffed with photo-collages on Toronto ravines, click HERE.
October 24, 2020
OCT 24, Toronto ravines: Mimico Creek
If you are interested in wending your way through an encyclopedic collection of four blogposts stuffed with photo-collages on Toronto ravines, click HERE.
October 23, 2020
OCT 23, gruesome verse: untimely demise
Hallowe'en is approaching!
Check out the whole collection called "Gruesome Verse" on our blog "Edifying Nonsense" HERE.
October 22, 2020
OCT 22, old world palindromes #1
October 21, 2020
OCT 21, Toronto ravines: Moore Park (Mud Creek) Ravine, photocollages #1-#2
If you are interested in wending your way through an encyclopedic collection of four blogposts stuffed with photo-collages on Toronto ravines, click HERE.
October 20, 2020
OCT 20, singable satire: Tom Lehrer sings "RHYMING BINOMIALS, M to Z"
PARODY SONG-LYRICS
ORIGINAL SONG: "The Elements", Tom Lehrer, 1959.
PARODY COMPOSED: Dr. G.H. and Giorgio Coniglio, 2015. This song is the fifth of nine in the series on Word-Pairs. You can find the links to the lyrics of the previous songs at the bottom of the post. Also, our prior exploration of this theme resulted in a lexicon of rhyming binomials on this site as displayed here.
The inherent music of language is an important element in the toolkit of parodists. When all of this began, I used Tom Lehrer’s format to sing a nonsense-song about irreversible binomials. The current offering highlights pairs in which the 2 elements rhyme, e.g. ‘make or break'. Specific cases may border on cliché, but delight us with their musical quality. Sneak a peek!
UKULELE and GUITAR-FRIENDLY LINK: Our whole series of songs can be found in a friendly format for ukulele (and guitar)-players on our sister blog "SILLY SONGS and SATIRE", with chord-charts and helpful performing suggestions. Click HERE to proceed to this site.
There’s make or break, and move and groove, neither or either, mash- and mish-
And meet and greet, and meter-feed, and moans and groans, and meat or fish.
It’s my way or the highway, metes and limits, also leer and peer
Obama and Osama, and the news and views, both near and dear.
An ocean of devotion, moon in June -it’s grouped with- odds and sods
An Okie from Muskogee, onward upward, also nod and prod
And pedal to the metal, a man with a plan, no pain - no gain
And slump or hump, and scrimp or primp, there’s pump and dump, and planes and trains.
There’s red or dead, and rough and tough, and rude and crude, and rain in Spain
And Seven and Eleven, stash and dash, and stain you can’t explain
And slice and dice, and shake and bake, and surf and turf, and scowl and frown
And shop ‘til drop, and slim and trim, saggy and baggy, town and gown.
Son of a gun, and thrills and chills, and sine and cosine, twine and line
And twirl and swirl, and use or lose it, weed and feed, and wine and dine.
Whale of a tale, wham bam and thank you, wary chary, wheel and deal
And wear and tear, and yeas and nays, and zoot suit, and religious zeal.
There’s likely umpteen others, but so far I can’t imagine them
They’d spread across the alphabet from a-ardvark to zymogen!
October 19, 2020
OCT 19, Toronto oases: Toronto Islands (photocollages #2,3)
October 18, 2020
OCT 18, a brief saga: Cyclades (Greek islands)
For the purpose of this blog, a 'brief saga' is defined as a poem, usually narrative, but occasionally expository, that tell its story in at least 15 lines. Most commonly, the format involves three stanzas in limerick form. Your blogging team has been presenting these concoctions at the rate of one per month, mixed in with the shorter poems, wordplay and other stuff that we offer.
To access the next 'brief saga' on this blog (November 2020), proceed to 'the Acropolis'.
To access the most recent previous 'brief saga' (September 2020), back up to 'food intolerance'.
October 17, 2020
OCT 17, Toronto ravines: Taylor Creek
If you are interested in wending your way through an encyclopedic collection of four blogposts stuffed with photo-collages on Toronto ravines, click HERE.
October 16, 2020
OCT 16, wordplay maps: American Scramble-towns 11,12
(Same old introductory message ...)
Who would ever have guessed? It turns out that an unparalleled word in generating anagrams (letter scrambles) is P-A-L-I-N-D-R-O-M-E-S. We have taken advantage of that property to create this unique series of wordplay maps of imaginary American (and Canadian) locales, each one completed by its official two-letter state (or provincial) abbreviation.
LINKS:
Forward to U.S.A. map #13
Back to U.S.A. map #9
Let's skip all this stuff and get on to the Canadian version, eh?
October 15, 2020
OCT 15, pandemic poetry: preventive cocktails
Keep more to yourself for a while, wash your hands frequently, remember to laugh on occasion, and stay well!
You can review these illustrated verses in a wider context by proceeding to 'Pandemic Poetry' on the full-service blog "Edifying Nonsense".
October 14, 2020
OCT 14, Toronto ravines: Humber River Valley (photocollages #1-#3)
If you are interested in wending your way through an encyclopedic collection of four blogposts stuffed with photo-collages on Toronto ravines, click HERE.
October 13, 2020
OCT 13, mammalian wildlife: beavers (Rod the rodent)
You can review the whole collection of illustrated verses about mammals (both domestic and exotic) by checking out the more extensive post on our full-service blog "Edifying Nonsense". Click HERE !
October 12, 2020
OCT 12, Toronto ravines: salmon run on the Humber
If you are interested in wending your way through an encyclopedic collection of four blogposts stuffed with photo-collages on Toronto ravines, click HERE.
October 11, 2020
OCT 11, Canadiana: Canadian Thanksgiving
Get ready for tomorrow's festivities (by Zoom and other online modalities).
Authors' Note:
Acadia (uh-KAY-dee-yuh, as here, or uh-KAY-dyuh) or l'Acadie: (French), name given in colonial times to the region corresponding to today's Atlantic Canada (the Maritime provinces)
tofurkey: a vegetarian substitute for turkey made from tofu
Action de grâce (ak-syon-duh-GRAS): literally action of grace; name derived from continental France for a harvest festival
habitants: French colonial settlers, a term honored in the title of Montreal's professional hockey team
Thanksgiving Day, or Action de grâce, is a statutory holiday in the majority of Canadian provinces and territories, observed on the second Monday of October.
You can review poems, pictures and diverse nonsense related to Canada on the post "Canadiana" on our full-service blog "Edifying Nonsense".
October 10, 2020
OCT 10, waterfowl: Caribbean brown pelicans
You can review these illustrated verses in a wider context by proceeding to 'Immersible Verse: Limericks about Waterfowl' on the full-service blog 'Edifying Nonsense'. (Or, if you prefer, you can view them on Facebook in Giorgio's photo-albums).
October 9, 2020
October 8, 2020
OCT 8, Ontario nostalgia: stormy Ashbridges Bay (DTl)
You can review the entire series of illustrated poems about the good old days in Ontario by checking the post 'Ontario Nostalgia' on our full-service blog "Edifying Nonsense". Click HERE.
b) Decorative Touches L
October 7, 2020
OCT 7, Toronto oases, Leslie St. Spit photocollages #1 to #4
You can review the entire series of illustrated poems about the good old days in Ontario by checking the post 'Ontario Nostalgia' on our full-service blog "Edifying Nonsense". Click HERE.
October 6, 2020
OCT 6, political palindromes, O
From this point, you can proceed either forwards or backwards.
For FORWARD, proceed to the next and final set of 'POLITICAL PALINDROMES' on Nov 23.
For BACKWARD, return to the previous set on Sep 12.
OR, return to the ORIGINAL POST on this topic on May 17.
OR (if you have befriended us), check out this whole series of 40 presidential palindromes in our photo-album on Giorgio's Facebook profile.
October 5, 2020
OCT 5, portraits of couples: goose family
Enjoy an illustrated poem about Canada geese by clicking HERE.
You can view all of our folio-photos from the collection of 'Couples' portraits in a wider context on our full-service blog "Edifying Nonsense". Click HERE.
October 4, 2020
OCT 4, classic palindrome: 'contrived' (saw- and see- lines)
Keep more to yourself for a while, wear your mask when in crowds, remember to laugh on occasion, and stay well!
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'.
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