NOV 20 (2020), TOURISTS' PALINDROMIC GUIDE: The Americas #4

WORDPLAY post #192
Preview of this fall's offerings. Target date: November 10.
This post is a continuation of...
 Tourists' Palindromic Guide: The Americas #1
 Tourists' Palindromic Guide: The Americas #2
 Tourists' Palindromic Guide: The Americas #3

SATIRE COMPOSED: Giorgio Coniglio (registered pseudonym) and Dr. GH, 2018. 

WORDPLAY LINK: Panels showing palindromic phrases derived from geography of the Americas were originally displayed on Wordplay posts on this blog during the interval from 2018 to February 2019; the current examples have been developed since that time. Geographically focused concoctions are among the many palindromic treasures honored and displayed on this site. Check out the list of entries for "The Palindrome Suite". 

SONGLINK:  Some readers will be delighted (others will continue to groan) at our collection of songs based on palindromic phrases -- click the link to the initial blogpost in this series to make these links available as well.

Still want more palindromic fun? Click HERE for 'concluding remarks' about New-World and Old-World palindromes.

For hotlinks, check out the blogpost "Hotlinks: More than One Thousand Palindromes", or see below...

Magical Advanced Palindromes (post #9)   

Palindromic Political Blurts by Ed the Derailed Liar (post #11) 

Satan and His Devilish Palindromes (post #12)

Prudery and Denial (post #13)

Romance, Lust and Prurience (post #14)

Canalindromes: A Bidirectional Trip through the Panama Canal (post #15)

A Review: Composing Your Own Palindromes (post #19)

Beyond Classic Repertoire: GOOFY VARIANTS post#20; post#29; post#40

Using Palindromes for Spelling: True, false and Uncertain (post #42)   

Geographic Palindromes from the New World (post #65) 

Geographic Palindromes from the Old World (post #68) 

The Meaning of Life as Revealed In Palindromes: Definitions and Examples (post #109)

The Culinary World Explored with Palindromes (post #114)

DIRECTION FOR WEB-TRAVELLERS: 

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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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TORONTO OASES

Line-dance classes are now proceeding at this venue.

Poor salmon! Most of the time, they don't make it past this first jump!

Suggested as an alternative to dental flossing!

Free-range ducks (male mallard above, male wood duck below) tour a pond

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To learn more about Toronto Ravines, see the exciting three previous posts entitled "Hikes, Bikes and Likes: TORONTO RAVINES" #1, #2, and #3.

If your crank is turned (to turn a phrase) by the photographic and poetic material you have been viewing here, you might risk proceeding to a related post entitled "Ontario Nostalgia".

Should you be interested in looking there, Giorgio Coniglio's images can also now be found in Photo Albums on Facebook.

If you want to resume daily titillations on our blog 'Daily Illustrated Nonsense', click HERE. Once you arrive, you can select your time-frame of interest from the calendar-based listings in the righthand margin, and check the daily offerings for any week in the years 2020 and 2021. (There are now over 600 daily entries on the Daily blog, and most of these are also presented here on 'Edifying Nonsense' in topic-based collections.)

Verse for HOLIDAYS and CELEBRATIONS

Authors' Note:  Poinsettia is now the common name by which this seasonal plant is known around the world.

  Joel Poinsett, South Carolinian physician and amateur botanist, served as the first US ambassador (a position designated as minister) to Mexico. In the 1820s, he sent home to his greenhouses samples of Euphorbia pulcherrima (member of the spurge family), locally known as flor de nochebuena (Christmas Eve), linked to the Hispanic nativity celebration. 

  Distribution of the poinsettia in the US was enhanced by development of cultivars with a more lush profusion of the colored bracts, and recently, by variants in other appealing colors. Today, a single nursery in Texas accounts for 70% of American sales, and half of all global sales of this decorative seasonal specialty.

  Incidentally, although the plant is assumed by many to be toxic, that possibility appears based on an incorrect original report, unsupported by other evidence.

 

(Note that the five verses of this "brief saga" can be found in more readily legible format on the blog "Daily Illustrated Nonsense"; click HERE.) 

DIRECTION FOR WEB-TRAVELLERS: (updated June 2024)

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