Saturday 15 August 2020

BUZZWORDS: 5-or 6-legged verses about INSECTS


WORDPLAY post with Illustrated Verses

SATIRE COMPOSED: Dr.G.H. and Giorgio Coniglio (registered pseudonym), July 2019, updated April 2023. Most of the verses presented here have been published  at OEDILF.com, an online humor dictionary that has accumulated over 120,000 carefully edited limericks. Giorgio can currently point to 600 of his submissions accepted for publication (many of them have been reproduced on this blog for your enjoyment). 











To view more instances of "HOLESOME VERSE: Limericks About CLOTHING MOTHS", click HERE.



Authors' Note: The isabella tiger moth, Pyrrharctia isabella enters the cold season in wintry parts of North America in the form of a banded woolly bear caterpillar. Traditionally, her peer-group would attempt to get through the winter by altering their metabolism to manufacture compounds known as cryoprotectives, allowing them to recover from freezing. Our protagonist seems to have discovered another way around this challenge.











Authors' Note: Fact-sheets dealing with related key information have been posted here by etymologists. These include short poems pertaining to insects that eat woollens, scavenge for food, destroy wood structures, prey on human blood and torment domestic pets.

Readers are advised to exercise care in distinguishing entomologists from etymologists.



Authors' Note: The authors note, with regret, and with continuing scratching of their inflamed ankles, the opening of the 'fire ant season'.      




Even in the winter, they can be activated.
Watch out!

Learn more about the red imported fire ant (RIFA) at Wikipedia.


Authors' Note  The term 'gnat' can be used to described a variety of small, swarming flies. Owing to their small size, the sort that bite are often known as 'no see 'ums'. There is a companion piece to this verse 'gnat repellent' that extends the details of this topic.    


Authors' Note:  For several decades, there has been a prevalent belief that a particular bath oil product had the ancillary property of repelling attacks by swarms of gnats. However, objective testing by the American organization Consumers Union has debunked a special role for this product. 

Learn more about gnat repellents at Consumers Union's website.


Requests from many entomologists, armchair nature enthusiasts, pest control professionals, buggers, and just ordinary folks have come to fruition; there is now a pair of follow-up post continuing this theme (BUGS!), that you can easily access by clicking HERE


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Monday 10 August 2020

Sentimental Verse: DENTAL FEELINGS

CURRENT CONTENTS:
Cavities
D.D.S.
Deep Dental Cleaning (perio-)
Flossing
Gnashing (bruxism)
Hallowe'en verse (sugary treats)
Implants
Mercury-amalgam fillings 
Prognathism
Root canals
Fluoridation (3 verses: 'a brief saga')









Authors' Note: 
local: jargon for injectable local an(a)esthetic



Authors' Note: 

glossary: a lexicon of the foreign-derived, technical or obscure words of a field of work 











Authors' Note: 

to get one's just deserts: idiom, for getting what one deserves (surprisingly, this expression is unrelated to the ingestion of sugary treats).

The chief reason for needing tooth replacement in late adulthood is dental caries and its consequences. 



Authors' Note:  The use of amalgam as the basis of dental fillings is reviewed here. PLus, your favorite limericists have made some more general comments about mercury poisoning ('erethism') HERE. Although standard dental amalgam is an alloy of mercury and silver, routine removal of these fillings is not routinely recommended. Ask your dentist.



Authors' Note: 

gnathic: referring to the jaw or to the mandibular bone
idiopathic: of unknown cause








You can also review the three-verse poem "Fluoridation" in a more readable format on our daily blog "Daily Illustrated Nonsense" by clicking HERE.


Here's a LIST OF LINKS to collections of intriguing poems (over 160 of these!) on medical/dental topics that can now be found on various posts. 


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Wednesday 5 August 2020

Immersible Bird-Verse: WATERFOWL #4 (P to S)



WORDPLAY POST 

PARODY COMPOSED: Dr. G.H. and Giorgio Coniglio (registered pseudonym), 2019/2020, a continuation of prior blogposts about waterfowl. 


  Readers who enjoy poetry describing the natural world around them with illustrative images and informative text, might also enjoy these previous  blog-offerings, each a collection of eight poems on the wider topic...

Verses about Waterfowl, June '19
Verses about Waterfowl (part #2), July '19
Verses about Waterfowl (part #3), Apr '20


CURRENT CONTENTS:
The pelicatessen
Pescatarians
Roseate spoonbills
Ruddy turnstones
Sea-bird feeders
Snow Geese
Snowy Egrets
Swan spp






Authors' Note:

fress is a loanword verb from either German or Yiddish implying eating heartily or snacking frequently.

delicatessen has been applied to both high-end retail food stores selling unusual and imported prepared foods, and to restaurants preparing German, Jewish or other ethnic cuisine (frequently, the two functions are combined). It may also refer to the products purchased in these outlets.

Sushi is not among the expected foods in such an establishment, so the analogy to a pelicatessen for waterfowl has been unexplored until now. At least in Canadian official documents, for the sake of gender-neutrality, fishermen are referred to as fishers.

After initially using this neologism (word-creation) as a descriptor on the blog "Edifying Nonsense", and misconstruing it as his personal invention, the author became aware, via the internet, that there is a restaurant located at a resort on Bald Head Island, North Carolina with that name. Although that fact is of interest, it is of limited relevance. Seabirds are apparently not served at the establishment, either as customers, or as menu-fare.









































Bird-watchers, academic ornithologists, wordplay enthusiasts, wildlife photographers, Giorgio's relatives, and just everyday folks have united in their demand for still more illustrated doggerel on this topic!
So, please follow this link


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