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November 5, 2023
November 4, 2023
NOV 4, portraits of couples: mallard and wood ducks
reprise from November 2020
November 3, 2023
NOV 3, American satire: conspiracy theories (DTw)
a) reprise from November 3, 2020
NOV 3, American satire(3): conspiracy theories
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!
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November 2, 2023
NOV 2, magical palindromes: more from Paris (DTv)
a) reprise from November 2020
NOV 2, magical palindromes: more from Paris
You can become an expert fan of our wordplay concoction 'magical palindromes' by reviewing the explanatory material found on our full-service blog "Edifying Nonsense" HERE.
b) Decorative Touches
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November 1, 2023
NOV 1, objectionable adjectives: horrible
Authors' Note: Horrible (like its close cousins terrible and frightful) has become a difficult term to define. Originally meaning full of horror, or capable of engendering horror, it can now be applied in two opposing directions.
SINGING THIS POEM
Some readers will be itching to sing the above verse. Here's our suggestion as to how to do it, using the well-known tune of "Home on the Range", slightly modified to fit the situation. Have fun !!!
Horrible (uke chords: E9 = 1222; A9 = 0102);
verse:
Grisly, [D]gruesome. they're [E9] terribly [A7]gorable.
Critics, [D]reading at [D7]night,
Can't a[G]void taking [Gm]fright --
They'll con[D]demn them as [A9]"Hallowe'en-[D]horrible."
chorus:
Next [D]month dispo[G]sitions are [D]sunny;
With Thanks[E9]giving-fest sweeter than [A7]honey.
With Thanks[E9]giving-fest sweeter than [A7]honey.
Critics [D]won't be an[D7]noyed;
They'll de[G]light, over[Gm]joyed
At my [D]verse they'll term [A7]"horribly [D]funny".
You can review our editorially selected doggerel (eight poems) relating to 'Objectionable Adjectives' by clicking HERE.
October 31, 2023
OCT 31, death and the afterlife: ghostbusting equipment (DTu)
b) Decorative Touches
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October 30, 2023
OCT 30, defining opinion: hors d'oeuvre
Our blogpost "Defining Opinion" on the topic-based blog "Edifying Nonsense" shows a selection of similar verses submitted to OEDILF (the online Omnificent English Dictionary in Limerick Form). You can see all of these on one visit by clicking HERE.
October 29, 2023
OCT 29, (re)duplication: hocus-pocus
Readers willing to go down an internet rabbit-hole HERE can easily get to a collection of more than a dozen other short verses in which we have dealt with specific reduplications, as well as three fairly lengthy patter-songs about this fascinating linguistic phenomenon.
October 28, 2023
OCT 28, palinku (poetic novelty): ethics
(Ed. note:) Verses of this type -- that we have nicknamed palinkus 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.
October 27, 2023
OCT 27, diagnostic imaging: technetium generators
reprise from October 2020
OCT 27, diagnostic imaging: technetium generators
You can review all our verses on this intriguing topic by proceeding to a post on 'Edifying Nonsense' entitled 'Selected Topics in Diagnostic Imaging'. Click HERE!
October 26, 2023
OCT 26, gruesome verse: hidey-hole
Check out the whole collection called "Gruesome Verse" on our blog "Edifying Nonsense" by clicking HERE.
October 25, 2023
OCT 25, gruesome verse: horripilation (goose bumps)
Authors' Note: Goose bumps or goose pimples are a common transient physiological change produced by stimulation of the skin's small and widely distributed arrector pili, tiny muscles at the base of each hair follicle. Their appearance may be provoked by physical conditions (such as a cold environment) or emotional factors, including embarassment, a sexual turn-on, or fear. The latter, accompanied by profound anxiety (the heebie-jeebies), and "hair standing on end" (piloerection or horripilation) is a reaction scaled down from that found in the animal kingdom, e.g. porcupines throwing their quills to put off predators.
Heebie-jeebies is gramatically another of those appealing (re) duplications, like helter-skelter and hocus-pocus, and represents a topic appropriate for discussion on Hallowe'en.
Check out the whole collection called "Gruesome Verse" on our blog "Edifying Nonsense" HERE.
October 24, 2023
OCT 24, gruesome verse: scary upshot (DTt)
reprise from October 2020
OCT 29, gruesome verse: scary upshot
Hallowe'en is approaching!
Check out the whole collection called "Gruesome Verse" on our blog "Edifying Nonsense" HERE.
b) Decorative Touches
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October 23, 2023
OCT 23, gruesome verse: untimely demise (DTs)
a) reprise from October 2020
OCT 25, gruesome verse: untimely demise
Hallowe'en is sneaking up on us!
Check out the whole collection called "Gruesome Verse" on our blog "Edifying Nonsense" HERE.
b) Decorative Touches
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October 22, 2023
OCT 22, postal places, Canada: Deseronto, ON
Authors' Note: ON is the official abbreviation for the Canadian province of Ontario, in which the village of Deseronto, population 1800, is situated 5 km (3 miles) south of Highway 401, a limited-access four-lane main route that leads from Toronto to Montreal.
Captain John Deseronto, a native Mohawk, fought in the British Military Forces during the American Revolutionary War. Until 1848, "Deseronto", a site along the northern shore of Lake Ontario, served as an indigenous reserve.
Incidentally, although many characters in American western movies said "Let's vamoose!", the Lone Ranger was better known for voicing, "Hi Yo Silver, away."
October 21, 2023
OCT 21, gruesome verse: by halves (autophagia) (DTr)
reprise from October 2020
OCT 31, gruesome verse: by halves (autophagia)
Happy Hallowe'en!
Authors' Note: The term autophagia or autophagy may refer to a rare psychiatric disorder, but is more commonly used to describe an intracellular process in the realm of cell biology, as described by the author HERE.
Check out the whole collection called "Gruesome Verse" on our blog "Edifying Nonsense" HERE.
b) Decorative Touches
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October 20, 2023
OCT 20 (2023), singable satire: Leonard Cohen sings "DANTE VIEWS the PAIN OF LUST" (Canto 5b)
PASTICHE WITH PARODY SONG-LYRICS
ORIGINAL POEM: "Inferno" by Dante Alighieri, the first book in the triad, "The Divine Comedy", written in the early 14th century.
ORIGINAL SONG: "Dance Me To The End Of Love", Leonard Cohen, 1984.
PARODY COMPOSED: Giorgio Coniglio, November 2015.
PARODY-SONGLINK: To find ukulele and guitar chord-charts to help you accompany "Dante Meets the Pain of Lust" on your favorite instrument, click HERE.
Inferno Canto#5b:
DANTE MEETS THE PAIN OF LUST
(to the tune of "Dance Me To The End Of Love")
Intro: (reprise of Canto#5a)Dante to the Second Circle warily descends
Dante with companion Virgil, Minos’ censure fends
A swirling flock of moaning souls who mortally
had letched
had letched
Choir-like, they are heard to kvetch
Choir-like, they are heard to kvetch.
Canto 5 continued:
Intesi che son dannati a così fatto tormento
Peccator che la ragion sommettono al talento
E come li stornei ne portano l’ali
Così quel fiato li spiriti maliQuel fiato li spiriti mali.
Dante views the fate of those whose burning passion sinned
Buffeted like winter starlings by the smiting wind
Buffeted like winter starlings by the smiting wind
Hurricanes that never rest tempestuously thrust,
And lash them with the winds of lust;
Damn them to the winds of lust.
Dante bears the witness, but his eyes he barely trusts,
Classical and literary lovers felled by Lust
Cleopatra, Semiramis, figures he knew well,
Tossing on the winds of Hell
Tossing on the winds of Hell.
Dante feels great pity for a thousand tortured shades
Classical and literary lovers felled by LustCleopatra, Semiramis, figures he knew well,
Tossing on the winds of Hell
Tossing on the winds of Hell.
Dante feels great pity for a thousand tortured shades
Torn by love from mortal life ‘though none of them had AIDS
Paolo and Francesca stop for coffee and a bite
Time-out from their endless flight
Time-out from their endless flight
Time-out to describe their plight.
Paolo and Francesca were a pair to break your heart
Paolo and Francesca topped Ravenna’s scandal charts.
(Shakespeare’s sad Verona couple - not invented yet
So no-one knew of Juliet,
No-one heard of Juliet)
Bro-in-law in castle garden, bad case of the hots;
Romance tales they read of Guinevere and Lancelot.
Bro Giovanni pulled his knife when they betrayed his trustMurdered as revenge for lust
Murdered as revenge for lust.
Essa disse, “Esser basciato da cotanto amante,
Basciò e quel giorno non vi leggemmo avante
Dante, “Io venni men così com’io morisse
E caddi come corpo morto cade.
Caddi com'un morto cade.”
Dante learned how Frankie’d given into earthly bliss
When Paolo got his cue from reading of Sir Lancelot’s kiss
Dante poet, overwhelmed by anguish, felt so crushed
He fainted with this tale of lust.
Dante felt the pain of lust.
Gianciotto, may he dwell in Caina; Caina, Caina, Caina, Caina, Caina Cai...
Gianciotto, may he dwell in Caina; Caina, Caina, Caina, Caina, Caina, Cai..
Gianciotto ( or Giovanni the lame) - disparaging nickname for Giovanni Malatesta
Caina - a pit in the lowest ring of Hell reserved for those who have committed treachery and violence against family members (named after Cain, Abraham's son)
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October 19, 2023
OCT 19, gruesome verse: dispatch (DTq)
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