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.
December 4, 2021
DEC 4, mammalian wildlife: buffalo (American bison)
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!
December 2, 2021
DEC 2, hellenophilia: Heraklia
December 1, 2021
DEC 1, domestic hazards: gutter-cleaning
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'.
November 28, 2021
NOV 28, American satire: Arizona (AZ) 'fraudit'
November 27, 2021
NOV 27, curtained verse: complimentarily
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)
At a downtown department-store
(Holiday season window display)
November 25, 2021
NOV 25, a brief saga: the domestic turkey
HAPPY AMERICAN THANKSGIVING!
November 24, 2021
NOV 24, birdlore: desnooding turkeys (role of the mohel)
November 23, 2021
NOV 23, waterfowl: trumpeter swans
November 22, 2021
NOV 22, life in Palindrome Valley: palindrome bees
November 21, 2021
NOV 21, oncologic verses: beware, boomers! (cancer)
This verse can be considered a companion to the verse benign tumors.
November 20, 2021
NOV 20 (2021), singable satire: The Irish Rovers sing "VANCOUVER'S ISLE"
Rainbow over Ladysmith Harbour brief break from several days of intense rain. |
PARODY COMPOSED: Dr.G.H. and Giorgio Coniglio, January, 2018.
PARODY-SONGLINK: To find ukulele and guitar chord-charts to help you accompany "Vancouver's Isle" on your favorite instrument, click HERE.
PARODY SONG-LYRICS
VANCOUVER'S ISLE
From that oversized town called Toronto
I'd go straight on to Vancouver Island,
But bad misfortune overcame me,
It can rain on the plains and the prairies.
Spent ten days hunkered down in Nanaimo,
In a bar not too far from Chemainus
"When you fly here with Westjet (not Porter),
I've retired now to South Carolina --
It can rain on the plains and the prairies;
* A.C. = Air Canada. Westjet is a competitor on flights across the country. Porter provides more local service from Toronto Island Airport to destinations in Eastern Canada and the East Coast of the U.S.
NOV 20, wordplay maps: Scramble-towns of eastern Canada, #15 and #16
November 19, 2021
NOV 19, bar-fauna: the 'mule', a mixed drink
If you liked this submission, you might want to refer to our entire collection of verses about human and animal denizens of bars, pubs and other watering-holes. Click HERE.