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, 2021
OCT 27, domestic hazards: fatbergs
October 26, 2021
OCT 26, wordplay maps: Scramble-towns of eastern Canada, #11 and #12
Who would ever have guessed? It turns out that an unparalleled word in generating anagrams, i.e. 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.
October 25, 2021
OCT 25, Toronto ravines: Todmorden Mills
October 24, 2021
OCT 24, binomial phrases: "a hug and a kiss"
October 23, 2021
OCT 23, gruesome verses: two horrific quandaries for Hallowe'en
Hallowe'en is creeping up on us!
Check out the whole collection called "Gruesome Verse" on our blog "Edifying Nonsense" HERE.
October 22, 2021
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: