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.
August 5, 2021
AUG 5, bi-lyrical limerick: 'go/went'
August 4, 2021
AUG 4, excursion: Niagara River hiking expedition
August 3, 2021
AUG 3, bottom line of medical humor: anorectal disorders (proctology)
August 2, 2021
AUG 2, numbers: twins (2)
August 1, 2021
AUG 1, Canadiana: Kim Jong Un's imaginary visit
July 31, 2021
JUL 31, magical palindromes: 'Leon's as selfless as Eva''
July 30, 2021
JUL 30, humorists' scurrilous talk: 'the dick'
July 29, 2021
JUL 29, waterfowl: wood storks
July 28, 2021
JUL 28, doctors and their practices: Pete the orthopod
July 27, 2021
JUL 27, portraits of couples: feral ducks, armadillos
July 26, 2021
JUL 26, Toronto ravines; Glen Stewart Ravine (poem and photocollages #1-#2)
July 25, 2021
JUL 25, funny bones: comminuted fracture
July 24, 2021
JUL 24, pathos and poetry (gun control verse): hitman
July 23, 2021
JUL 23, scopes of medicine: fiberoptic laryngoscopy
Authors' Note:
July 22, 2021
JUL 22, palinku (poetic novelty): fruits #1 and #2
In this post, we will continue with a novel form of poetic wordplay. Inspired by Japanese haiku poetry, this new form is used for a terse verse with a total of 17 syllables displayed on three lines. Unlike its classic Japanese analogue, this concoction does not mandate the precise distribution of the syllables among the three lines, but does stipulate that each word in the poem be included in a palindromic phrase or sentence in English (i.e. one that can be read either forwards or backwards).
To help the reader discern the origin of the lyrics, each palindrome (generally occupying one of the three lines of the poem) has been color-coded.
(Ed. note:) Verses of this type have continued to accumulate, and there are now more than 50 of them. You can easily view them all if you proceed to our more encyclopedic blog "Edifying Nonsense". Click HERE.
(Or, if your prefer, you can view all this material on Facebook in Giorgio's photo-albums.)
July 21, 2021
JUL 21, excursion: Niagara Falls
American Falls, from Canadian side of River |
Canadian (Horseshoe) Falls |
Rainbow over Canadian Falls |
July 20, 2021
JUL 20 (2021), singable satire: Victor Borge tribute, "TAKE OUR HATS OFF TO BORGE"
PARODY-LYRICS (a reprise from 2017)
The second verse invokes the sort of patron with whom you sometimes have to share the cheap-seats-section of your local ballpark. This variation on the baseball-park anthem is modified by the 'traditional' earlier start of lyrics versus music (“Borge-positive version”); the less well-known opposite distortion (“Borge-negative version”) is also shown.
The clouds, we won’t buy drinks overpriced
……….. (ballgame).
JUL 20, a brief saga: radiation exposure
Doctors and their Practices (part #1 and #2)