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 21, 2021
OCT 21, poems of Nuclear Medicine: Shakespeare's 'As We Nuke It'
October 20, 2021
OCT 20 (2021), singable satire: Hoagy Carmichael sings "STAR-NOSED MOLE"
PARODY-LYRICS
Star-nosed mole – I fail to grasp your charms -
October 18, 2021
OCT 18, humorists' scurrilous talk: 'the cock'
October 17, 2021
OCT 17, variant Nantucket limerick: moeurs of Nantucket
October 16, 2021
OCT 16, wordplay maps: Scramble-towns of eastern Canada, #9 and #10
LINKS to other nonsense in this series:
October 15, 2021
OCT 15, neologism (personal): POTUSA (abuelita latina)
October 14, 2021
OCT 14, English literature survey course: "The Raven" (Poe's poem)
October 13, 2021
OCT 13, mammalian wildlife: batty idioms
Authors' Note: BATS, the flying mammals, are found in many idioms, which mostly give them unfavorable press, including:
October 12, 2021
OCT 12, oncologic verses: benign tumors, a guidebook
October 11, 2021
OCT 11, garden intruders: gnome excursions
Authors' Note: The propensity of garden gnomes to travel, often against their will, is explained here. The author does not condone the trespassing, theft or kidnapping inherent in the services proposed by the narrator to expunge egregious esthetics from one's neighborhood.
October 10, 2021
OCT 10, culinary verse: caponata (Sicilian eggplant relish)
October 9, 2021
OCT 9, bottom line of medical humor: borborygmi
October 8, 2021
OCT 8, palinku (poetic novelty): identity
In this post, we 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 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.)
October 7, 2021
OCT 7, a brief saga: Dodecanese islands (Aegean)
October 6, 2021
OCT 6, death and the afterlife: [sic] to death
October 5, 2021
OCT 5, insects: computer 'bugs'
October 4, 2021
OCT 4, numbers: quartets, foursomes (4)
October 3, 2021
OCT 3, portraits of couples: emus, loons
October 2, 2021
OCT 2, wordplay maps: Scramble-towns of eastern Canada, #7 and #8
LINKS to other nonsense in this series:
October 1, 2021
OCT 1, STD-poetry: tabes dorsalis (tertiary syphilis)
September 30, 2021
SEP 30, life in Palindrome Valley: dalliance
September 29, 2021
SEP 29, domestic hazards: kettles
September 28, 2021
SEP 28, portraits of couples: Red Slider and his family
September 27, 2021
SEP 27, birdlore: American goldfinches
September 26, 2021
SEP 26, humorists' scurrilous talk: 'the C-word'
September 25, 2021
SEP 25, at heart: dipyridamole for stress myocardial imaging
September 24, 2021
SEP 24, Toronto ravines: Etobicoke Creek
Today we had a chance to meet with friends and do a a picnic and a hike through this shale-lined ravine situated at the western boundary of the city. Thanks to the Toronto Region Conservation Authority who created this series of wonderful parks in response to the damage done by Hurricane Hazel in 1954 !
If you are interested in wending your way through an encyclopedic collection of four blogposts stuffed with photo-collages on Toronto ravines, click HERE.
September 23, 2021
SEP 23, binomial phrases: "sin and redemption"
To review the poetic effusion that we have accumulated about binomial phrases, proceed to our blog "Edifying Nonsense", and enjoy the post 'Grandpa Greg's Grammar: Binomial Expressions'. Click HERE !
There is also an entire collection of lyrics to patter songs, somewhat older material, dedicated to various kinds of binomials, that provides more didactic material and an extensive series of examples, and allows you to sing these expressions for your own enjoyment, or for that of others around you. Click HERE !