Thursday 30 March 2017

Weekly Wordplay

WORDPLAY post #36
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 LINK to the Anagram Sister Cities Initiative - complete collection









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















Monday 20 March 2017

Weekly Wordplay

WORDPLAY post #32
Weekly postings of palindromes, anagram maps, binomial phrases, limericks, etc.











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
























Wednesday 15 March 2017

International Collaboration on Anagrams: Johnny Cash and Stompin' Tom Have Been Everywhere

WORDPLAY POST #33
CREATIVE CARTOGRAPHY, based on anagrams of the letters of the word P-A-L-I-N-D-R-O-M-E-S
SONG LINK: On our sister-blog "Giorgio's Ukable Parodies" there are 2 versions of a parody patter-song modeled after the Lucky Starr/ Hank Snow / Johnny Cash / Stompin' Tom Connors hit "I've Been Everywhere". See our U.S. version here, and our Canadian version here.
PARODY COMPOSED: Giorgio Coniglio, June 2015, updated March 2017.



Location of towns mentioned in the Johnny Cash epistle.














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The maps shown above display more than 220 such towns identified by their name and state/province postal code in the U.S.A. and Canada.


The image below shows another collection of 40 anagrammatic place-names that are not specified by postal code. 




READERS: Now that you are familiar with all the anagrams, you can satisfy your urge to sing this material by proceeding to the SONG LINKS at the top of the post. ENJOY!



Sunday 5 March 2017

Word of the Month: Summaries and Forecasts by Ed, the Derailed Liar

WORDPLAY post #31
TERSE QUOTABLE QUOTES 
Guest Author: Ed, the Derailed Liar. The current post is a continuation of post #9, which was a lengthier collection of quotable quotes, based on Ed's propensity to communicate bidirectionally in palindromes.
EDITOR: Giorgio Coniglio, March 2017.