Giorgio's Weekly WORDPLAY Oct 9 '17

WORDPLAY post #85

Periodic postings of palindromes, Scramble-Town Maps (creative cartography), binomial phrases, limericks, etc. 

SONGLINK: For those readers who like poetry set to music: You can find lots of singable limerick-medleys and other spoofs on our sister blog "SILLY SONGS and SATIRE", such as this recent post. 

HOT LINKS to collections of Classic/Goofy Palindromes #1,#2,#3

HOT LINK: See the entire collection of Magical Palindromes

HOT LINK to the Anagram Sister Cities Initiative - complete collection

#1a. A sane dame made NASA.

     b. A sane man, “Yams may name NASA.”

     c. A sane elf, “Deer freed. Flee NASA.”   Pedro, the Goofy ‘Dromer

#2. A man, a plan, a canon anon, a canal – Panama.  Hal Lelujah

 #3. P.m. or a.m. – God’s time emits dogma-romp.    Hal Lelujah

#4a. Ma is a nun, as I am.                       

     b. Ma is at sensuous nest, as I am.    Don’s Ho

#5. Yawn! Amore, Roman way.              Don’s Ho

#6. A man, a pate. God! Do get a panama.   Sarah  Palindrome

#7. Amen: a pie-man. No, Miss. Simon name – Ipanema.       

                                                                      Sarah Palindrome  

Brilliant Weekly WORDPLAY Oct 2 '17

WORDPLAY post #84

Periodic postings of palindromes, Scramble-Town Maps (creative cartography), binomial phrases, limericks, etc. 

SONGLINK: For those readers who like poetry set to music: You can find lots of singable limerick-medleys and other spoofs on our sister blog "SILLY SONGS and SATIRE", such as this recent post. 

HOT LINKS to collections of Classic/Goofy Palindromes #1,#2,#3

HOT LINK: See the entire collection of Magical Palindromes

HOT LINK to the Anagram Sister Cities Initiative - complete collection

#1. “Even it felt left in “, Eve.   Don’s Ho

#2. Tender red net.               Don’s Ho 

#3. Ev, lovers revolve.         Don’s Ho

#4. Ev, losers resolve.        Ed, the Derailed Liar

#5. Re ‘flip’ – pilfer.           Ed, the Derailed Liar

#6. Not ‘UF’! Not on futon.       Don’s Ho

#7. Retract bed-debt, Carter.  Sarah Palindrome 

More Wordplay and Poetry of NUCLEAR CARDIOLOGY

POST #80            

REVIEW of POETIC PARODY 
This post also continues the memorial theme begun in the previous blogpost.

ORIGINAL POEMS:  Reprinted with modification, with permission of the author. 

PRIOR PARODY PUBLICATION:

 1. Hurwitz GA. SPECTiloquy. (Shakespearean verse with current references). J Nucl Cardiol 2001;8:323-324.; modified from Monologue, Act iii, Shakespeare's "Hamlet".

2. Hurwitz GA. Seventeen Haiku Verses...  J Nucl Cardiol 2003: 10:344. 

SPECTiloquy

(Shakespeare's original lines are given in italics)

To be, or not to be - that is the question. 

MIBI or not MIBI – that is confusion.

Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer 

Whether ’tis sooner in the morn to schedule

The slings and arrows of outrageous Fortune

The slice and planars of four-valenced Fosmin

Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,

Or to tape arms; or switch to sonic bubbles,

And by opposing end them. To die- , to sleep-

And harmonizing spin them. To back-project

No more; and by a sleep to say we end

No more; yet by a scan know hard events,

The heartache, and the thousand natural shocks

The infarcts and the cardiogenic shock

That flesh is heir to. 'Tis a consummation

That FLASH may err to. ’Tis prognostication

Devoutly to be wished. 

Most worthy to be JACCed. 

Continue to read the parody-poem, and view the references in the medical literature here. 

SELECTED HAIKU VERSES

Now a blunted curve - 
Toxic doxorubicin. 
The sword is too sharp.

In sorrow I view
With my platelets restrained, the
Scars of those whose weren't.

I click on 'HALF-LIFE'
And correct for decay my 
Image, not my life.  

Equilibrium. 
Procrustean bed! Beats fit
On some better days.

Grafted allegro
Or final ritardando?
 - Delayed thallium.

Old Nukes staff don't fade
By apoptosis.
Our pace is logarithmic. 

Cardiology
Is by no means nuclear,
Til you reach its Heart. 

Continue to read the collection of haiku verses here.

BUZZWORDS AND PECCADILLOES:


The Anagrams of Nuclear Cardiology 

Memorial to Dr. MICHAEL R. FREEMAN: Limericks of Cardiac Imaging

WORDPLAY post #79
A Collection of Limerick Verses Related to Dr. Michael Freeman's Role in Nuclear Cardiology, Cardiology Practice, and Hospital Administration.
I had the good fortune to work with Mike Freeman (see obituary below), a true friend, devoted clinician and man for all seasons. MF's role in his beloved St. Michael's Hospital featured primary attention to the needs of his patients, academically productive devotion to development and research in his chosen field, a vast fund of knowledge based on personal experience and study of evidence-based literature, and perceptive administrative decisions, all tempered by humility and a sense of humour.  

EDITOR: Giorgio Coniglio, September 2017.

PRIOR POETIC PUBLICATION: A number of these verses have been previously web-posted at www.OEDILF.com, website for the Omnificent English Dictionary in Limerick Form, where submissions are subject to rigorous scrutiny and intense editing.  Numbers shown at the bottom of the slide indicate the accession number for the individual approved limericks. The dictionary has been essentially completed for "Defined Words" from the portion of the alphabet A - Go, with further submissions pending (over the next 4 decades).
SONGLINK: Set to music, some of these verses have been published  on our lyrics blog "SILLY SONGS and SATIRE" as a singable limerick medley. 

 

FRCP(C), FACC MICHAEL R. FREEMAN M.D.

Obituary Guest Book View Sign FREEMAN, MD, FRCP(C), FACC, MICHAEL R. December 29, 1948 - September 3, 2017 Passed away suddenly in Algonquin Park while camping with family and friends. Beloved husband of 45 years of Sharon. Loving father of Janis, Jonathan and his wife Becky, and Katherine. Proud grandfather of Samuel, Charlie and Lucas. Dear son of Robert and the late Violet and brother of Roger and his wife Mary Jo. He was born in Windsor, Ontario and spent most of his life in Toronto. Cardiologist at St. Michael's Hospital since 1980, currently serving as Medical Director of the Heart and Vascular Program, Director of Medical Informatics, and Director of Nuclear Cardiology. He was an Associate Professor of Medicine in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto. He earned his medical degree from Queens University in 1974 after completing a Bachelor of Science degree at the University of Windsor. Dr. Freeman completed his Fellowship in Cardiology at the University of Toronto in 1978 and then spent two years as a research fellow in Nuclear Cardiology at Cedars-Sinai MedicalCenter in Los Angeles. He established one of the first Nuclear Cardiology labs in Canada and expanded the knowledge of this technique to the clinical and research community across the country. He published more than fifty peer-reviewed papers and spoke nationally and internationally concerning the application of nuclear cardiology techniques in clinical practice. Michael was a founding member of the Canadian as well as the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology. He was passionate in all his work and was devoted to his patients who will miss him dearly. He had a life-long love of sports, a passion for the Raptors, Blue Jays, and the Detroit Lions which he passed on to his family. Michael and Sharon were devoted to each other in their work and the raising of their family. Together they enjoyed extensive travel to Europe and the Caribbean. He had a strong faith in Christ which began at age nine at the Salvation Army and continued throughout his life. He served in many leadership positions including Chairman of the Elders at Bayview Glen Church. His children have also embraced faith in Christ and carry it forward in their lives.

Steps in Publishing a Research Paper

WORDPLAY post #76

A DISCUSSION IN FREE VERSE AND PROSE: re-published. 
ORIGINAL PAPER: Hurwitz GA "Perspectives: Steps in Publishing a Research Paper"  The Pharos of Alpha Omega Alpha 65:3, 2002.  
EDITORIAL COMMENT: (Giorgio Coniglio, August 2017.)
This paper is republished in minimally revised form with the permission of the author. The original document is no longer available online; the original author occasionally is. 
                   
         


Steps in Publishing a Research Paper

VISION
Perspiration, compilation, statistication
Interpretation, equivocation
Submission (expectation, hypoventilation).

DERISION!
Indecision - ignition? deglutition? contrition?
-- Sub-plot excision 
-- Methods: precision
-- Conclusion: concision. 

REVISION
Approbation!
Promised promulgation, garbled galleys
Extra expectation
Acclamation, gratification, ostentation
Destitution (monumental reprint charges).

The reader is advised before undertaking this sequence to recall that Beatrix Potter submitted Peter Rabbit to every publishing house in England before privately publishing the work (1). The author (i.e. Hurwitz, ed.) bases the above formulation on his paltry pile of publications, and a rich record of rejections (2). 

References:

1. Taylor J et al. Beatrix Potter 1866 - 1943: The Author and Her World. London: F. Warne and Co. and The National Trust; 1987. 

2. Hurwitz GA et al. Various Unpolished Gems. J Med Irrelev 1978-2000. 

Chemical States of America: Proposal for a New Type of State Symbol

WORDPLAY post #69
EDITOR:  Giorgio Coniglio, July 2017. A tip of the hat is given to Dave Rutt for invaluable inspiration.

SONG LINK: On our sister-blog "Giorgio's Ukable Parodies", you can find the song "No Elements" This patter-song list of Latin nouns ending in -um has been subbed into the lyrics of Tom Lehr's "The Elements", with accompanying ukulele chords. 

BACKGROUND: Every state in the United States picks a broad spectrum of state symbols to represent its particularities. These include state flags, state mottos (usually in Latin), state flowers, state birds, state songs, state foods, etc. Imagine if each state was called upon to designate a state chemical element .... 



PROPOSED 'STATE ELEMENTS' for each state of 
the United States of America                            

Some states will find themselves in the difficult position of not having a logical target element to 'adopt', based on the limited supply of available 1- or 2- letter symbols at the present time. In these cases, imaginary elements could be designated, with the hope that the progress of science will eventually fill in the gaps. Some proposed 'imaginary elements' are shown in the following slide: