) FEB 25 (2023) singable satire: 'REFLUX ROMP'

 

ORIGINAL SONG: "Java Jive", The Ink Spots, 1940. 
PARODY COMPOSED: Giorgio Coniglio, January 2014, originally blog-posted January 10, 2014. Thanks to Steve McNie of Corktown Ukulele Jam / Toronto Ukes for providing chord charts and other help!

PARODY-SONGLINK: To find ukulele (and guitar) chord-charts to help you accompany "Reflux Romp" on your favorite instrument, click HERE.

REFLUX ROMP

(to the tune of "Java Jive")

Cope with Sanka, it's decaf

It cuts the acid burn down by half. ...

If you can't purge that Java-jive urge

Reflux, reflux, reflux, reflux, reflux.

Craving chilies cheery hot ?

Doc's got them jotted in the "ought not" slot!

Lesson you'll note in the back of your throat

Reflux, reflux, reflux, reflux, reflux.

I love wine while dining fine

Wait! a late dinner-date at eight or nine;

When I recline and that wine is supine

Reflux, reflux, reflux, reflux, reflux.

So hoist up the head of the stead of that bed

We'll slide out she said, bet we'll sled 'til we're dead.

A dose of Zantac whacks the acid.  Flaccid!

Function, function, G-E junction *.

Cope with Sanka, it's decaf

It cuts regurgitation down by half
If you can't purge that Java-jive urge
Reflux, reflux, reflux, reflux, reflux.

Coffee urn!   Gas burn!
Acid burn!  Can't learn.

You know I've no control; sell my soul
To spurn prohibitions to caffeine. 

Your tongue may be furred from refractory GERD *

Your breath, in a word can deter a whole herd.

Confer with surgeon - a well-trained one, famed one!

Sphincter sloppy, lap'roscopy!

Cope with Sanka, it's decaf
It cuts the acid burn down by half.
If you can't purge that Java-jive urge
Reflux, reflux, reflux, reflux, reflux !

*  Readers might want to review our lengthy (20-line) poem that explains the GE (gastro-esophageal junction) and GERD (gastro-esophageal reflux disease); click HERE ! 

Wordplay maps: R-E-P-U-B-L-I-C-A-N-S in Canada (anagram maps #9-12)

 

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FEB 15, 2023: HERPETOLOGIC (reptilian) VERSE#1 -- first slither [5]

 

SATIRE COMPOSED: Giorgio Coniglio (registered pseudonym) and Dr. G.H. have prioritized excursions into the world of nature on this blog since its inception in 2016. 
  Today's verses have also been published at OEDILF.com
(Omnificent English Dictionary in Limerick Form), an online humor dictionary website that has accumulated over 120,000 limericks, including over 900 that we have submitted (to date, i.e. December 2024, 820 have been finally published following their customary rigorous editing process). The OEDILFian code number for the completed submission is indicated at the bottom of each of our slides. 

Incidentally, artwork including photos, as well as the poetry are the creation of this blog's author-editors (i.e. Dr.G. and Giorgio) unless otherwise indicated.   

PHOTOS: Unless otherwise noted, embedded photographs were taken with and transferred from Giorgio's cellphone, then formatted using ancient Powerpoint software. No photographic subjects were reimbursed for participating in this undertaking. 

BACKGROUND:  "herpetology" - the branch of zoology dealing with reptiles and amphibians. Readers should note that snakes have been omitted from this poetic idyll owing to the marked aversion by the editor's life-partner. 

And, for those interested here's a list of our whole collection of posts related to Nature ...

Verses about Geysers, Sep '18
Verses about Trees, Apr '19
Verses about Reptiles, Jun '19, as above,

AND, here's the lineup for future posts ... 
Verses about Waterfowl, June '19
Verses about Waterfowl (part #2), July '19
Verses about Trees (part #2), Aug '19

Verses about Insects, Sep '19

Verses about Waterfowl (part #3), Apr '20

Verses about Reptiles, (part #2), May '20

Verses about Waterfowl (part #4 - Loons), Aug '20.

Verses about Waterfowl (part #5), Dec '20. 

Verses about Amphibians, Sep '21

CURRENT CONTENTS (first slither):
Amphisbaenians

Autotomy

Beneficial snakes

Broad-headed skinks

Brown anoles

(for continuation, see link below) 

Authors' Note: 

clade: taxonomic term, equivalent to ‘suborder’

   The amphisbaenians are a group of reptiles named for the Greek mythological figure Amphisbaena, a two-headed serpent. Superficially resembling earthworms, but with similar markings about their tails and their small heads, they spend most of their time in a subterranean environment. Although they are  widely found in South America, the Caribbean region and Africa, their current distribution in North America and in Europe is more limited, involving only Florida and Iberia respectively.

    

   The motivation for the alleged fevered search by Slovenian crowds to find these creatures is unclear.

   The suffix -paenia, or -penia, (PEE-nyuh), not infrequently used in medical terms, indicates a lack or deficiency.

Authors' Note: 

‘The Palmetto State’: South Carolina

plenum: from the Latin for ‘full’, a deliberative meeting of a body in which all members are present, contrasted with quorum

plenumous: ad hoc neologism indicating the importance of the issue at hand

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eastern diamondback, timber/canebrake and pygmy rattlesnakes,

copperheads, 

cottonmouths,

coral snakes.

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FEB 10, 2023: True-and-Faux photos: PORTRAITS of COUPLES #3

prior post (1st group)

introduction

domestic turkeys

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armadillos

Aurora and Cephalus

basset hounds

black swans 

black-crowned night herons

black-necked swans 

broad-headed skinks 

bros

prior post (2nd group)

Canada geese 

chickens 

deer

dogpark figures 

domestic geese 1(Paris) 

domestic geese 2(Toronto) 

emus 

family - Canada geese

feral domestic ducks 

frogs 

CURRENT CONTENTS

gemsboks

goats

gorillas

g(i)roomed dogs

gulls (European herring)

Harris hawks 
hippos
horses
house finches

for continuation to the fourth group, follow the link below.

A short time after competing this series on Couples in the animal world, I rediscovered some old song-lyrics I had written for "Pairs", the introductory parody-song for a series about Word-Pairs, (based on the BeeGees' "Words"). It's a bit tangential, but you might like to review it here.

We know that you are itching to review more of this photo-portfolio. So, you can do just that by clicking the 4th group HERE. 

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FEB 5, 2023: TORONTO sites and sights [6]

CURRENT CONTENTS

Commuting by rail

Conservatory (Allan Gardens) 

Toronto ravines

Floating Islands (Brickworks)

Riverdale Farm

Yonge Street

More Toronto ravines. See photo-collages dated September 10, 2020, September 15, 2020, October 5, 2020, October 10, 2020. 

Crother Woods

Glen Stewart Park

Humber Bay Park

Authors' Note: We are fortunate to have moved into an apartment building just across the street from a public conservatory whose warm, humid, glass-roofed galleries offer the visitor views and dreams of escape to tropical floral environments. Visits are especially reinvigorating on dark and depressing winter days, and admission is free!

You might also enjoy reviewing photo-enhanced poetry posts related to poinsettias, koi, red-eared sliders(turtles), Ontario cactuses, and Leda and the Swan at the same destination.

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".

turtles sunning on a floating island
(exceptionally warm day) 

Authors' Note:  The first Lieutenant-Governor of the province Of Upper Canada (Ontario), Sir John Simcoe, sought routes leading northward from his new 

provincial capital at Toronto, away from the U.S. border.

  In 1793, he designed a road, naming it for the British Minister of War, Sir George Yonge, who was also an expert on Roman roads. Yonge Street passes from Lake Ontario north to Lake Simcoe, where it merges into Highway 11, a rural road that extends 1900 km (1200 mi) northwest to the border with the American state of Minnesota.

  Sir George, fifth Baronet of Escot, had served as Lord of the Admiralty and master of the mint, and governor of the Cape Colony, but died penniless and heirless, Yonge Street being his only legacy.

 

  Prior to 1999, the Guinness Book of Records mistakenly conflated Yonge Street with Highway 11, and described it as 'the world's longest street’.  

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