SEP 17, palinku (poetic novelty): 45th prez, 2/7

a) Reprise of material posted on September 17 in previous years ...

2020: palinku, baked goods (poetic novelty)  
2021: palinku, Kansas (KS) (poetic novelty) 
2022: palinku, schoolboy humor #1 (poetic novelty)
2023: palinku, reliable transport (poetic novelty)

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b) Today's Offering (Sep 18, 2024): 

 You can readily view all our verses of this type if you proceed with a single click to our more encyclopedic blog "Edifying Nonsense". Click HERE. (Or if you prefer, you can stay on this particular blogsite and look for the offerings for the 17th day of each month -- there are now more than 60 of these.)
 

SEP 16, handbook on micro-nutrients: nutrient deficiency

 a) Reprise of material posted on September 16 in prior years ...

2020: waterfowl, gallinules (illustrated poem)
2021: culinary verse, gefilte fish (illustrated poem) 
2022: hellenophilia, approaching Santorini (illustrated poem)
2023: chemical states, eastern US (wordplay maps)

gallinule,
Montsouris Park, Paris

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b) Today's Offering (Sep 16, 2024): 

 

SEP 15, Submitted Palindromes: RANDOM PILE #25

a) Reprise of material posted on September 15 in previous years ...

2020: reptiles, crocodilian (illustrated poem)
2021: curtained verse, horny rhino (illustrated poem) 
2022: Italian loanwords, vendetta (poem)
2023: exemplification, Donald Duck's malarkey (poem)

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This South Carolina alligator is a crocodilian

rhino-nap, Toronto Zoo

b) Today's Offering (Sep 15, 2024): 

   On the 25th of each month you will find a slide-filling group of palindromic phrases submitted to the editors by a panel of 7 palindromists. These folks have all been working on this project since January 2020. Their profiles are indicated in panels published here at the start of things, and then, we have asked them to provide (palindromically, of course) their views on one of the iconic items in the classic literature, starting with "A man, a plan, a canal -- Panama", and continuing with other well-known phrases, such as "Dennis sinned". Otherwise, their contribution will be grouped in random piles (a phrase that you might recognize as an anagram of the word p-a-l-i-n-d-r-o-m-e-s).

SEP 14, pairings: me and my shadow

 

 a) Reprise of material posted on September 14 in prior years ...

2020: Toronto ravines, Brickworks 1 (photo-collage)
2021: variant Nantucket limerick, Bay-Stater (illustrated poem) 
2022: Ontario nostalgia, native cactus (illustrated poem)
2023: cinematic guide, gainless, M*A*S*H (poem)

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b) Today's Offering (Sep 14, 2024): 

me and my shadow 

SEP 13, ambulatory verse: hasten

 a) Reprise of material posted on September 13 in prior years ...

2020: new world palindromes, 37 (wordplay maps)
2021: reptiles, origin of flight (illustrated poem) 
2022: singular plurals, pluralia tantum, condolences (poem)
2023: pill-poppin' poem, anti-malarials (illustrated poem)

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b) Today's Offering (Sep 13, 2024): 

 You can review all our verses on this topic, accumulated for you on our companion blog "Edifying Nonsense", by clicking HERE.

SEP 12, portraits of couples: black-necked swans

 a) Review of material posted on September 12 in prior years ...

2020: political palindromes, NNN (wordplay)
2021: portraits of couples, Red Slider and family (photo folio) 
2022: numbers, a dozen (illustrated poem)
2023: lexicon of word-pairs, echoic binomials E to H (wordplay)

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b) Today's Offering (Sep 12, 2024): 

 

 You can view these samples from our portfolio of 'Couples' portraits in a wider context on our full-service blog "Edifying Nonsense" HERE. 

SEP 11, doctors and their practices: hem-oncologists

  a) Review of material posted on September 11 in prior years ...

2020: Toronto ravines, Rosedale Valley (photo-collage)
2021: garden intruder, leaf-blowers (illustrated

poem) 
2022: saving the planet, the fishmonger (poem)
2023: dental feelings, amalgam (poem)

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b) Today's Offering (Sep 11, 2024):

Authors' Note: The field of hematology encompasses a wide range of blood maladies, including anemias and clotting disorders. On our more encyclopedic blog "Edifying Nonsense", you can find a related blogpost with numerous verses on the latter topic. Click HERE for "To Clot, or Not to Clot".

 In some academic centres, hematologists have super-specialized in treating the group of cancers involving blood elements, such as leukemia, lymphoma and myeloma; these experts are variably known as hem-oncologists or haematology-oncologists.  

 

 You can view all such verses in a wider context by proceeding to the collection of "ONCOLOGY VERSES" on our full-service blog "Edifying Nonsense". Click HERE!

SEP 10, singable satire, original lyrics: "TTC VOICES"

  a) Review of material posted on September 10 in prior years ...

2020: Italian loanwords, Gino's food intolerance (poem - 'brief saga')
2021: waterfowl, cormorant rookery (poem - 'brief saga') 
2022: trace minerals, vitamins, beri-beri and alcohol (poem - 'brief saga')
2023: medical statistics, clinical trial (poem - 'brief saga')

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b) Today's Offering (Sep 10, 2024):  

ORIGINAL SONG (music and lyrics)
MELODY: generic railway song (chorus similar to "New River Train")
LYRICS: Giorgio Coniglio, January 2013. 

GLOSSARY of TORONTO INTERSECTIONS:
AVenue Rd and DAVenport Rd 
CARLeton St and PARLiament St
GERrard St and SHERbourne St
YORK St and Queen's QUAY
KEELE St and STEELES Ave
UNIVERSITY Avenue and COLLEGE St.
KING St and QUEEN St, main streets that run parallel through the downtown, then intersect where they cross the Don River

TTC VOICES  

(Chorus)
We're riding the Red Rocket - TTC
It's the urban transportation mode for me.
When I die, don't make a fuss
Waive the hearse I'll take the bus !
I'm a discount-senior transit devotee.

(Voice #1)
Near my penthouse flat at Av and Dav
Castled hills and toney shops and trats are what you have.
To avoid those traffic fines,
I speed up Spadina Line,
 And save my dime for trips to Waikiki.

(Chorus) 
We're riding the Red Rocket  - TTC
It's the trusted transportation grid for me.
I would only jump on GO
To get west past Mimico
I'm a discount-senior transit devotee.

(Voice #2)
Beside the hillside farm at Carl and Parl 
Where streetcars veer toward the Valley, squeal but seldom snarl
As at other petting zoos
You'll hear bleats neighs, oinks and moos
But look down and see stalled traffic from afar.

(Chorus)        
We're riding the Red Rocket - TTC
It's the urban transportation mode for me.
I would only take a cab
To get laid out on a slab
I'm a discount-senior transit devotee.

(Voice #3)
I camp out in the park near Ger and Sher
Where what we smoke and drink and introduce ain't always pure.
I can't dance that shelter jive,
I'm just trying to survive,
Please spare me change for lunch and TTC.

(Chorus)
We poor folks, we may still need to commute,
Though paying higher mil-rates you taxpayers may not suit -
Homeless, school-kids, unemployed,
Nanny for great-uncle Floyd,
 We're all discount urban transit devotees. 

(Voice #4)
I perch above the Lake at York and Quay (kway? kwhy?) 
Where yachts are docked you see so many towers block the sky,
Angels, Orioles, Jays and owls
Watch for Sky-Dome balls hit foul,
While the Mariners, Rays and Pirates sail the seas (the harbour?)

(Chorus)
We're riding the Red Rocket - TTC
It's the urban transportation mode for me.
I could start up my old tank,
But I'd rather walk the plank,
Or even watch old ballgames on TV.

(Voice #5)
Back home in my large garage near Keele and Steeles
Where life, as it rolls on, is sure dependent on 4 wheels;
SUVs and mowing grass,
I could use relief from gas,
Earth and I would fare much better - TTC.

(Chorus)
You too could ride Red Rocket into town.
It's the eco-friendly way to keep those greenhouse gases down.
You'll reduce your income tax,
Just submit your Metro-Pass
Labelled " new suburban subway devotee"

(Voice #6)
It's our Physics lunch at University-
College-cars accelerate, but seldom approach 'c'.
 We learn "Think, therefore I am",
Munch your sandwich on the tram,
It's where Einstein dreamed up relativity.
   
(Chorus) 
Looking down the track what can we see?
A better system for posterity.
We should work on frequent trains, 
And forget the 'gravy-stains',
Let's perfect our city's gem, the TTC.

(Voice #7)
My Queen-, your King sees how it ought to be,
It's signed and sealed and witnessethed in my last Will-and-T,
When my time is done and gone,
Strew my ashes cross the Don,
Donate my last token to the TTC.

(Chorus)
We're riding the Red Rocket - TTC
It's the urban transportation mode for you and you and me.
When we die, don't make a fuss
Waive the hearse we'll take the bus !
We're all discount-senior transit devotees.

SEP 9, poetic non-sequitur: autophagia

  a) Review of material posted on September 9 in prior years ...

2020: Greek prefixes, auto- (illustrated poem)
2021: patients and maladies, diabetes insipidus (poem) 
2022: parasites, cat fleas (poem)
2023: higher connections, haredim, ultra-orthodox (poem)

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b) Today's Offering (Sep 9, 2024): 

Authors' Note:

 -some (SOHM, sometimes ZOHM): Greek suffix for an 

intracellular body, or organelle, e.g. chromosome or lysosome

-phagia, or -phagy: Greek suffix for eating, or consumption

lysis: term of Greek origin for destruction or disintegration

lysosome: cellular organelle adapted to the destruction of extracellular material which has been internalized

autophagosome: membranous organelle that entraps targeted intracellular components, later merging with lysosomes for degradation and recycling of these components; their role in cell defence and in disease causation is under investigation

 And, HERE's a verse about autophagia explaining use of the term to describe a rare and gruesome phenomenon. 

Our collection of 'Non-Sequiturs' on our parent blog "Edifying Nonsense", contains an admittedly bizarre assortment of nonsensical odds-and-ends, that don't quite fit into other topic-based offerings. But should you want to review the entire collection, click HERE.

SEP 8r, OEDILFian limericks: poems about Elizabeth 2 (two year memorial)

 a) Review of material posted on September 8 in prior years ...

2020: classic palindrome, Able ere Elba. (illustrated poem)
2021: waterfowl, ruddy turnstones (illustrated poem) 
2022: OEDILFian limericks, tribute to Elizabeth II (poems, various)
2023: non-sequitur, Edmond Hoyle (illustrated poem)

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b) Today's Offering (Sep 8, 2024): 

 

SEP 7, palinku (poetic novelty): 45th prez, 1/7

 a) Review of material posted on September 7 in prior years ...

2020: Toronto oases, Scarborough Bluffs (photo-collage)
2021: funny bones, Enid's osteopenia (poem) 
2022: patients and maladies, lichen sclerosus (poem)
2023: defining opinion, hourly (poem)

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b) Today's Offering (Sep 7, 2024): 

   In this post, we continue with our novel form of poetic wordplay. 

  Inspired by Japanese haiku poetry, the "palinku" is a terse verse with a total of 17 syllables displayed on three lines. Unlike its earlier English-language forerunners, 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  (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. Readers will note that we have been publishing verses of this type on the 17th of each month.  

   And, just in case you have forgotten what palindromes are about, your blogsite hosts have arranged a serial set of brief lessons on the topic ('Political Palindromes') which you can review by clicking HERE. 

Stay tuned, as we have more example of this startlingly terse wordplay in store for you! (It is in the "to be published" queue, and unless it is leaked first, it will appear in unredacted documents timed for release in July through December 2024.

 You can readily view all our verses of this type if you proceed with a single click to our more encyclopedic blog "Edifying Nonsense". Click HERE. (Or if you prefer, you can stay on this particular blogsite and look for the offerings for the 17th (and in some cases on the 7th as well) of each month -- there are now more than 60 of these.)

SEP 6, chemical states (and provinces): imaginary, U.S.

 a) Review of material posted on September 6 in prior years ...

2020: new world palindromes, 35 (wordplay maps)
2021: bottom-line humor, hemorrhoids (poem) 
2022: mammalian wildlife, goats at play (action photos)
2023: lexicon of word-pairs, echoic binomials A to D (wordplay)

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b) Today's Offering (Sep 6, 2024):  

  You can view the collection of posts on this topic with this link to our full-service blog "Edifying Nonsense" -- click HERE.

SEP 5, Submitted Palindromes: RANDOM PILE #24

You have reached the "Submitted Palindromes" thread on the blog "Daily Edifying Nonsense", a light literary entity that emanates through the blogosphere daily (almost), i.e. 30 times per month.

a) Reprise of material posted on September 5 in previous years ...

2020: Toronto ravines, Lawrence Park (photo-collage)
2021: mammalian wildlife, skunks, evolution (illustrated poem) 
2022: reptiles, gila monsters (illustrated poem)
2023: submitted palindromes, targeted, A Santa at NASA (wordplay)

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b) Today's Offering (Sep 5, 2024):

   On the 25th of each month you will find a slide-filling group of palindromic phrases submitted to the editors by a panel of 7 palindromists. These folks have all been working on this project since January 2020. Their profiles are indicated in panels published here at the start of things, and then, we have asked them to provide (palindromically, of course) their views on one of the iconic items in the classic literature, starting with "A man, a plan, a canal -- Panama", and continuing with other well-known phrases, such as "Dennis sinned". Otherwise, their contribution will be grouped in random piles (a phrase that you might recognize as an anagram of the word p-a-l-i-n-d-r-o-m-e-s).

SEP 4, defining opinion: hoarding (construction)

  a) Review of material posted on September 4 in prior years ...

2020: anagrams, US scramble-towns 9 (wordplay maps)
2021: anagrams, Canadian scramble-towns 3 (wordplay maps) 
2022: painterly poetry, Manet's Lunch on the Grass, (illustrated poem)
2023: Toronto oases, Toronto Islands (photo-collage)

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b) Today's Offering (Sep 4, 2024):  

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.