December 16, 2021

DEC 16, humorists' scurrilous talk: 'shitty'

EDITORS' WARNING: You must be at least 12 years of age to read this post! 




The collection of informative verses dealing with 'HUMORISTS' SCURRILOUS TALK' can be found by proceeding to our full-service blog "Edifying Nonsense". Click HERE!


December 15, 2021

DEC 15, Ontario nostalgia: Toronto's Distillery District




 


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


December 14, 2021

DEC 14, funny bones: alignment




Authors' Note: Modern orthopedic treatment of displaced limb fractures often attains the aims of stability and appropriate alignment through the surgical technique of internal fixation. Injured limbs have then undergone the dual trauma of both the original injury and the surgical correction. But, with all the parts back in place and correctly aligned, the patient can work with a physiotherapist to regain range-of-motion, muscle agility and strength. 


You can view verses on this topic in a wider context by proceeding to the post 'Breaking News: FUNNY BONES' on our full-service blog "Edifying Nonsense". Click HERE! 

December 13, 2021

DEC 13, poetry of healthcare: Canadian healthcare








You can view these informative verses in a wider context by proceeding to the collection 'Poetry of Healthcare' on our full-service blog "Edifying Nonsense". Click HERE!


December 12, 2021

DEC 12, American satire: anniversary reminiscence

 


 Authors' NoteIf you were going to sing a limerick, this modified 6-line verse (a 'limerrhoid'?) would be a particularly good one to sing to the tune of Gershwin's 'Anniversary Song'. Readers are invited to check out the possibilities for singing limerick verses with a variety of tunes on a blogpost on "Edifying Nonsense". Click HERE

  Otherwise, in verse form, we hope that you enjoyed this submission. You can find 30 more on this topic in 5 collections on our full-service blog 'Edifying Nonsense'. Click HERE to start! 

December 11, 2021

DEC 11, neologism (personal): dyscoprotaxis (my favorite one)







Authors' Note:  Dyscoprotaxis is a neologism, indicating the failure to get the stuff of one's life in order, composed of the familiar Greek roots dys- (bad, impaired, failed), copro- (excrement), and -taxis (movement). The word is opposite in meaning to getting it together.

A few personal neologisms share the distinction of being targeted as the subject of verses on this blog. These include POTUSA, electile dysfunction, awarassment, DOGgraphy (diagnostic imaging), and pelicatessen (waterfowl).
Other personal neologisms have played a supportive role including critiquery, high-nasty, and pelfless


(Ed. Note:) To make this effort easier, we have now collected these neologistic verses in a collection on our parent blog "Edifying Nonsense";  click HERE.
 

December 10, 2021

DEC 10, palinku (poetic novelty): X-mas scandal

 

   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 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. 



(Editors' Note): Concepts in this poem were also expressed in limerick format in the post of December 24.

Verses of this ilk have continued to accumulate. You can view them all at one swoop if you  proceed with a single click to our more encyclopedic blog "Edifying Nonsense". Click HERE.



December 9, 2021

DEC 9, spineless verse (invertebrates): California mussels

 















READING MORE WIDELY:

You can find all our illustrated verses about various 'INVERTEBRATES' , as compiled on our full-service blog "Edifying NonsenseHEREBut, in fact, we had hived off verses about INSECTS, and they are gathered in separate blogposts, that you can get into HERESo, follow these links, and enjoy.



December 8, 2021

DEC 8, insects: revenge on clothes moths





Experienced poet-humorists had stated that it wasn't possible to write a limerick about 'caterpillars', but we proved them wrong!

There is an intriguing 'brief saga' about clothes moths on this blog that you can review HEREMoreover, 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.


December 7, 2021

DEC 7, waterfowl: great auks






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).

December 6, 2021

DEC 6, numbers: sextet (6)






 The term 'sextet' also refers to a piece of music composed for 6 players. e.g. Francis Poulenc, was the most prolific member of the group of 20th-century French composers known as Les Six. His piece, Sextuor (Sextet) for flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, French horn and piano was composed in 1932. 

You can review our cumulated nonsense about numbers by clicking


December 5, 2021

DEC 5, culinary verse: gnudi (Tuscan appetizers)







 Find the collection of illustrated poems dealing with these issues on the post 'Culinary Verse' on our full-service blog 'Edifying Nonsense'. Click HERE!



December 4, 2021

DEC 4, mammalian wildlife: buffalo (American bison)








 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 !



December 3, 2021

DEC 3, a brief saga: avian digestion

















The author's poem "Gizzard" explains the origin of the peculiar name for that organ. Author psheil discusses the role of the proventriculus in relation to the gizzard HERE.

We still have a long way to go on this educational journey before reaching SheilaB's poem 'Cloaca'. Stay tuned!

  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, constituting a single submission to the online humor site 'Omnificent English Dictionary iLimerick Form'. On the OEDILF site, rigorous standards for content and format are involved in a collaborative editing process that may take several weeks to over a year. 

  Generally, OEDILF has not been enormously welcoming of multi-verse submissions, but Giorgio Coniglio has persisted, and the OEDILF number for each accepted multiverse poem is shown here on the slide with its first verse. 


To access the next 'brief saga' on this blog, proceed to 'drug development
To access the most recent previous 'brief saga', back up to 'the domestic turkey'.



December 2, 2021

DEC 2, hellenophilia: Heraklia






 Other verses discussing our appreciation of Greece and things Greek can be found on our blog 'Edifying Nonsense'. Click HERE.


December 1, 2021

DEC 1, domestic hazards: gutter-cleaning







 
 You can view an extensive collection of illustrated poems on this topic by proceeding to the post 'DOMESTIC HAZARDS' on our full-service blog "Edifying Nonsense". Click HERE.


November 30, 2021

NOV 30: binomial phrases: fixed order






 To review the poetic effusion that we have accumulated about binomial phrases, proceed to our blog "Edifying Nonsense", and look over 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 !


November 29, 2021

NOV 29, poetic Panama palindrome parody: 'Pan's panama hat'







You can review the whole collection of our illustrated verses on this topic  by proceeding to 'Reversing Verse: Panama palindrome parodies' on the full-service blog 'Edifying Nonsense'.


And, if you are interested in seeing innumerable examples of spoofy palindrome variants on wordplay maps, you could embark on a journey through a collection of  blogposts entitled 'Tourists' Palindromic Guides: The Americas, #1 -#4'. All that's needed is to click on the link.



November 28, 2021

NOV 28, American satire: Arizona (AZ) 'fraudit'





Authors' Note

frumpery: dowdy or old-fashioned appearance or behaviour

trumpery: attractive articles of little value or worth

This verse was written in early January, 2021, after revelation of a recorded telephone conversation involving the chief election official of the American state of Georgia, as well as lawyers on both sides, in which suggestions were made to illegally revise the previously reported state's results in the recent presidential election of November 2020. The president, in the waning few weeks of his term, had seemed consumed by concern about poorly specified fraud that might have contributed to his loss of Electoral College votes in closely contested states.








 We hope that you enjoyed this verse. You can find 30 more on this topic in 5 collections on our full-service blog 'Edifying Nonsense'. Click HERE to start! 



November 27, 2021

NOV 27, curtained verse: complimentarily

EDITORS' WARNING: You must be at least 12 years of age to read this post! 




 You can review other mildly scurrilous illustrated verses in a wider context by proceeding to 'Curtained verse: Faintly Obscene (Selected) Limericks' on the full-service blog 'Edifying Nonsense'.

November 26, 2021

NOV 26, death and the afterlife: heavenly pie



Authors' Note: Our partners' scrumptious apple pie is to die for, and so is the incredible strawberry pie pictured above.


You can review more poems about 'Death and the Afterlife' in context on our full-service blog 'Edifying Nonsense'. Click HERE!



Incidental Photo:



At  a downtown department-store
(Holiday season  window display)


November 25, 2021

NOV 25, a brief saga: the domestic turkey

HAPPY AMERICAN THANKSGIVING!
















  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, constituting a single submission to the online humor site 'Omnificent English Dictionary iLimerick Form'. On the OEDILF site, rigorous standards for content and format are involved in a collaborative editing process that may take several weeks to over a year. 

  Generally, OEDILF has not been enormously welcoming of multi-verse submissions, but Giorgio Coniglio has persisted, and the OEDILF number for each accepted multiverse poem is shown here on the slide with its first verse. 

To access the next 'brief saga' on this blog, proceed to... 'avian digestion'. 
To access the most recent previous 'brief saga', back up to 'Dodecanese Islands'.
If you were intrigued by the dual rhyming scheme exhibited in the first stanza of the above poem, you might want to look at our entire collection (a dozen or so other verses) of such 'bi-lyrical verse' by clicking HERE



November 24, 2021

NOV 24, birdlore: desnooding turkeys (role of the mohel)



Authors' Note: 

 mohel (mo-HAYL, a more Hebraic pronunciation), or
 moyel (MOY-uhl, more Yiddish-influenced)   
 The current verse can be read employing either pronunciation.



You can view an encyclopedic collection of illustrated poems on this topic by proceeding to the post 'Poems about BIRDLIFE' on our full-service blog "Edifying Nonsense". Click HERE.




November 23, 2021

NOV 23, waterfowl: trumpeter swans













 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).