OEDILFian celebration: DEFINING OPINION

 

Authors' Note:

hamulus: (Latin) a little hook, plural = hamuli, with biologic implications discussed at OEDILF in a verse by Snowy Owl. Also, the hamate bone of the human wrist, bearing a prominent hook-like extension is a relatively frequent site of human fractures, as in a verse by your blogging team (see link below).

Remus: one of Rome's mythological founding twin infants, most often pronounced in anglo-Latin as REE-mus, but here, invoking more classic Latin, as RAY-mus.

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AMERICAN SATIRE: PROLONGATION #2

This post provides a follow-up to these prior posts:

"AMERICAN SATIRE (A Term of Endirement) #1"

"AMERICAN SATIRE (A Term of Endirement) #2"

"AMERICAN SATIRE (A Term of Endirement) #3"

"AMERICAN SATIRE (A Term of Endirement) #4"

"AMERICAN SATIRE (A Term of Endirement) #5"

and "AMERICAN SATIRE: PROLONGATION #1

Authors' Note: The 'Mitt' in the above verse is  allegorical, unrelated to any real current person or long-serving Republican US senator. 

If you have enjoyed these verses, you can explore even more material on related topics:

- 'Poetry and Pathos: Gun Control Verses' 

- 'The Fun-with-Impeachment Collection'

- 'a brief saga: Mar-a-Lago'

- 'political palindromes A through P' (click HERE to start).

There are also some parody-song lyrics posted in 2019 and 2020, that you might like, including: 

- 'Brennan's Tweet'

- 'Rosenstein'

- 'Kooky Presidential Views' 

- 'Jailhouse Now'

- 'Vlad Putin's Blogger'

- 'Indiana Song'

- 'Get Me Roger Stone', and 

- 'The Ballad of Giuliani', part I and part II.

 

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SYNONYMOUS VERSE

 

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Reprehensible MODERN HISTORY

Authors' Note: The Italo-Turkish War, also known as the Turco-Italian War, 1911–1912, was among the neo-colonial adventures pushed by the European powers (Britain, France, Italy, etc.) who took advantage of the decline of Ottoman Turkey just before the outbreak of the First World War. The territories conquered by the Italians (most of current-day Libya and also the Dodecanese islands in the Aegean Sea) remained under their control through the Second World War, with Mussolini's National Fascist party in power in the Kingdom of Italy for most of this period (1922–1943).

The treaty to end the conflict was named after the resort facility in Lausanne, Switzerland at which it was signed by the belligerents, becoming known as the Treaty of Ouchy (oo-SHEE).

Further enlightenment on this topic can be obtained by viewing a post entitled "Able Ere Elba". Click HERE.

Authors' Note:

nachbarlich (NAKH-bahr-likh): neighborly 

l'après-guerre (la-preh-GAYR): period immediately after the Second World War in France, approximately 1945-1948

Cannes (KAN): French town on the Côte d'Azur, famous for its luxury hotels and villas, and for its international film festival

Worms (VORMZ): German town (sometimes pronounced by anglophones as WUHRMZ) of about the same size as Cannes and Limerick, famed for its production of liebfraumilch 

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National and Multinational Verse

Authors' Note:

neurasthenia: obsolete term from psychiatry, implying general debility attributed to exhaustion of the nervous system, as discussed here

Armenia, the first country in the world to adopt Christianity, has had disputes with its neighbors for most of its existence. The revered Mt. Ararat is now located geopolitically in Turkey, but is still considered a national symbol of Armenia, and dominates the view from the Armenian capital of Yerevan. Armenia's borders to the east and west currently remain closed owing to hostile relations with Azerbaijan and Turkey.

Authors' Note: The plight of Haiti, and some of its earlier history, are described in an OEDILF verse by speedysnail  

OVERLAPPING THEMES:

Authors' Note: More than 150 years after the conclusion of the American Civil War, the role of the Confederacy continues to generate high emotions.

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Not before we need It (again): PLANET-SAVING VERSE #2

 READERS: This collection is a continuation of the post "Not Before We Need It: PLANET-SAVING VERSE #1, that incorporated eight poems on this topic. You can review that earlier work by clicking HERE.

Authors' Note: 

Detergent is a Latin-derived term for a product that 'wipes away' dirt.

You might be interested to review our recent post about the dishwasher as a domestic appliance.

An illustrated verse about a specific project to restore the shoreline can be found HERE. 

Authors' Note:  Scientists have determined that as of 2018, more than 99% of all the species that have been present on our planet have become extinct. Many of the existing varieties of life, plant and animal, are under increasing pressure due to global warming, loss of habitat and in some cases, exploitation and pollution. 

Authors' Note: Although meat-eating is a practice that we personally have avoided for almost 20 years, we do accept that most people around us continue to indulge in this ancient tradition, appropriate to when the planet and our species were younger. We would not make you happy if we continued on a rant (kvetch = complaint) about this issue; we prefer to remain silent, and live and let live. Inhabiting a downtown neighborhood with very small urban lots has its limitations, and the smells and smoke of dinner being barbecued by our neighbors almost every summer evening is one of them. 

By the way, we and our partner continue to eat seafood and fish on occasion to ensure adequate protein intake, but one person in our immediate family is a true vegetarian (but not vegan). As you know, the terms to describe these eating patterns are complex and even misleading, but all non-meat-eaters would prefer that others keep their steak-smoke to themselves.

Authors' Note:

Sir; a plan, if final — Paris.

  In December 2015, the United States, under President Barack Obama, became a part of the Paris Accord, an international convention to mitigate the effects of climate change by curtailing production of greenhouse gases.

  In June 2017, President Donald Trump, whose personal business depended in large part on the construction and operation of golf-resorts, proceeded to withdraw from the treaty.

  Immediately after his inauguration in January 2021, President Joe Biden took measures to rejoin the accord.

Authors' Note: The authors, Ontario anapestrians, have not eaten meat in two decades. The restaurant scene in Ontario, as in some other world-wide destinations, has gradually become more hospitable to vegan and vegetarian preferences, such as Theresa's and the authors'. This development can be attributed in part to our influx of newcomers from south and east Asia. Meat-eaters can still be readily accommodated, however.

 Authors' Note:   As stocks around the planet have suffered from overfishing, the price of fresh wild fish has mounted incessantly. As of 2016, aquaculture has apparently resulted in over 50% of the global supply of this foodstuff, both marine and freshwater varieties. 

  Carp, catfish, Atlantic salmon and tilapia are the leading four types of fish currently involved, with recent improvements in the quality and reliability of farmed flatfish (turbot, flounder, halibut, etc.).

You can enjoy the poetic adventure of this 'brief saga' with larger fonts and pictures by clicking HERE. 

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Lyrics for Singable Satire: HATS OFF to BORGE

 PARODY-LYRICS (a reprise from 2017)

ORIGINAL SONG: "Take Me Out To The Ballgame" 1908, Norworth and von Tilzer, as performed by Frank Sinatra and Gene Kelly, spoofed by Victor Borge.

PARODY COMPOSED: Dr.G.H. and Giorgio Coniglio, September 2013. 

The second verse invokes the sort of patron with whom you sometimes have to share the cheap-seats-section of your local ballpark. This variation on the baseball-park anthem is modified by the 'traditional' earlier start of lyrics versus music (“Borge-positive version”); the less well-known opposite distortion (“Borge-negative version”) is also shown.  

SONGLINK: On our song-blog you can find the lyrics and chords for ukulele or guitar for our satire-song.  Click HERE.

TAKE OUR HATS OFF TO BORGE

(to the tune of "Take Me Out To The Ballgame")

Victor's "Clown Prince of Denmark” -

Unique musical gags;

He detached lyrics and melody - 

Spiffier spoof than an old parody.

For if you can handle the offset

The cadence will hit the mark,

Seventh In-ning home-run you’ll score

At the old ballpark.

Tickets cheap for the ballgame,

Seats right up in the clouds;

We won’t buy overpriced drinks and snacks -

Friends snuck in with a couple six-packs.

Let me hoot and jeer at the home-team;

My date’s dismayed that she came,

For it’s one, two, three beers you’re out

At the old ballgame.

(BORGE Version - Lyrics advanced):

………..   (Tickets)

Cheap for the ballgame; seats right

Up in the clouds we won’t

Buy overpriced drinks and snacks  - Friends snuck

In with a couple six-packs. Let me

Hoot and jeer at the home-team;  my date’s

Dismayed that she came, for it’s

Big crowd at Rogers Dome,
Toronto

One, two, three beers you’re out at the

Old ball-game.   xxx-xxx.

(Funky Version - Lyrics Delayed):

xxx-xxx. Tickets cheap for the

Ballgame, seats right up in
The clouds, we won’t buy drinks overpriced

And snacks - Friends snuck in with a couple

Six-packs; let me hoot and jeer at the

Home-team, my date’s dismayed that

She came, for  it’s  one, two, three beers

You’re out at the old.

……….. (ballgame).

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