We hope that you enjoyed this verse. You can find 40 more on this topic in 6 collections on our full-service blog 'Edifying Nonsense'. Click HERE to start!
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.
November 21, 2022
NOV 21, American satire (prolongation): legal precedence
November 20, 2022
NOV 20 (2022), singable satire: Johnny Cash sings "VLAD PUTIN'S BLOGGER"
PARODY SONG-LYRICS
"Among the 34 people, many of them were bloggers from Moscow or people who had nothing to do with me, had nothing to do with what they were talking about or there were people who got caught telling stories or lying … I think it's a terrible thing (that has) happened to this country, because this investigation is a witch hunt."
VLAD PUTIN'S BLOGGER
(to the tune of "The Frozen Logger")
When time is right to dominate, we’ll start our world-wide coups.
November 19, 2022
NOV 19, Italian loanwords: ghetto
gondola (plural - gondole): the stereotypic Venetian small boat, poled down the Venetian canals; gondole-ly is a personal, incorrectly-stressed Anglo-Italian neologism
imperfetto: Italian for 'imperfect' or 'flawed'
November 18, 2022
NOV 18, classic palindromes: 'Ida's denial'
You can review these illustrated verses in a wider context by proceeding to 'Reversing Verse: Limericks About Classic Palindromes' on the full-service blog 'Edifying Nonsense'.
November 17, 2022
NOV 17, Canadiana: Canadian weather
The author contends that the summary he received overemphasized the adverse climatic conditions faced by Canadians, the majority of whom live in the more temperate southern portions of the country.
mid-November in Toronto |
November 16, 2022
NOV 16, scopes of modern medicine: bronc(h)oscopy
The unrelated term honcho ("group leader", or "boss") is of Japanese derivation.
November 15, 2022
NOV 15, signs of confusion: first collection
half-way between the Battery and the beach |
This post is the first in a series of 5. You can attempt to get all of this straight by reviewing the collections in these subsequent posts ...
signs of confusion #3signs of confusion #4
November 14, 2022
NOV 14, higher connections: gnostic
November 13, 2022
NOV 13, patients and their maladies: amblyopia
Amblyopia includes a number of conditions in which the single affected eye provides less useful information to the brain, resulting in suppression of that information in comparison to that from the more normal eye. Double vision or strabismus (crossed-eyes) from weakened eye muscles on the one side is a common cause. When strabismus is relatively minor, the persistence of two discordant images under certain conditions with resulting double vision, may be disconcerting to the adult patient. Reduced lighting, head position and fatigue may enhance the problem, but corrective prismatic lenses may help in reachieving integrated binocular vision.
November 12, 2022
NOV 12, objectionable adjectives: efficacious
November 11, 2022
NOV 11, death and the afterlife: memorial service
November 10, 2022
NOV 10, a brief saga: Leigh Mercer's palindrome workshop
This early workshop conducted by Mercer, during which the iconic canal palindrome is almost invented, is fictitious, but with the exception of the first, all the italicized phrases in the 'workshop' session are legitimate palindromes.
November 9, 2022
NOV 9, patients and their maladies: the hemorrhoid
Authors' Note:
pro tem: frequently used short form for the Latin 'pro tempore' -- for the time being, in the short term.
Readers might also enjoy a verse on the same topic presented in September 2021 in the collection "The Bottom Line of Medical Humor". Click HERE.
You can view these verses in a wider context by proceeding to 'Nurse-Verse: Patients and their Maladies' on our full-service blog "Edifying Nonsense". Click HERE!
November 8, 2022
NOV 8, urban concerns: school districts (glowingly)
Authors' Note: Real estate agents are masters at the psychology of selling of homes. They employ 'stylists' to 'stage' houses, first by decluttering, and then by adding grace notes to indicate the putatively carefree and desirable lifestyle of the owners. In this case, a Victorian-era home with an appallingly small outdoor space was staged to appear more attractive to families.
November 7, 2022
NOV 7, ecto-parasites: hog lice
Authors' Note: This agricultural pest, Haematopinus suis, commonly known as the hog louse, lives its life only on porcine hosts, with the larvae (nymphs) concentrating on the head region. Apparently, infestations of swine herds can be treated easily with avermectins, a class of veterinary antibiotics.
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 (and keep following along 'til you get to the section on ecto-parasites).
November 6, 2022
NOV 6, bar-fauna: Hamlet at the pub
If you liked this offering, 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.
November 5, 2022
NOV 5, defining opinion: hostility
November 4, 2022
NOV 4, mythed opportunities: Eos (Dawn's endless night)
November 3, 2022
NOV 3, American satire (prolongation): Espionage Act
This post is CLASSIFIED! (proper security clearance is required)
We hope that you enjoyed this verse. You can find 40 more on this topic in 6 collections on our full-service blog 'Edifying Nonsense'. Click HERE to start!
November 2, 2022
NOV 2, binomial phrases: "first and last"
Authors' Note: Binomial expressions combine two paired elements in a fixed order. Lists of these phrases show that when the two genders are in question, males almost always come first. This bias is shown in dozens of idioms such as boys and girls, lords and ladies, men and women, brother and sister, kings and queens, Jack and Jill, etc.
The few notable exceptions highlight a gender-constrained role for women, including belles and beaus, bride and groom, and moms and dads.
Gender-bias in language is also discussed in another verse by the authors. Click HERE.
To review our total collection of poetic effusion about binomial phrases proceed to our blog 'Edifying Nonsense', 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 1, 2022
NOV 1, palinku (poetic novelty): conformity and timidity
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.
October 31, 2022
OCT 30, Toronto oases: Rouge national park
OCT 31, dental feelings: Hallowe'en Verse for a dentist friend (sugary treats)
You can review the entire collection of our illustrated verses on this topic by proceeding to the post 'Dental Feelings' on our full-service blog 'Edifying Nonsense'.
October 29, 2022
OCT 29, classic palindrome: 'mix a maxim'
Authors' Note: It is unclear why Max finds the maxim more worthy of indulgence than the tenet; the latter, it is noted is a palindrome. And so are Egad! an adage, and Mix a maxim, delightful phrases that may be found in lists of classic palindromes.
You can review a collection of such illustrated verses in a wider context by proceeding to 'Reversing Verse: Limericks About Classic Palindromes' on the full-service blog 'Edifying Nonsense'.
October 28, 2022
OCT 28, Toronto ravines: floating islands at the Brickworks WIP
October 27, 2022
OCT 27, objectionable adjectives: 'estival' and 'hibernal'
October 26, 2022
OCT 26, limerick variations: O'Malley's concept (C-rhyme extension)
October 25, 2022
OCT 25, mythed opportunities: Galatea (and Pygmalion)
The illustration is taken from a drawing by Gerome done in preparation for his iconic painting "Pygmalion and Galatea".
You can take advantage of the whole spectrum of illustrated poems dealing with 'Mythed Opportunities' that we have collected on our full-service blog 'Edifying Nonsense'. Click HERE!