MAY 5, 2023: Garden INTRUDERS, marauders #2 [5]

 

This blogpost represents the  continuation of the collection of poems 'GARDEN INTRUDERS') as displayed on this blog May 5, 2022.

previous poetic posts (Note that captions are available for poems displayed on "Daily Illustrated Nonsense" in slide format since January, 2024).

(garden intruders #1) common moles, deer (agricultural fencing), garden gnomes, glossy privet.

CURRENT CONTENTS: (#2 -- May 5, 2023):
Lantana spp.
Leaf-blowers
Papyrus
Squirrels in the garden
Stinkhorn fungus

Authors' Note:  

Lantana camara, native to a few regions in the tropical Americas and Africa, is tolerant of varied growing conditions other than harsh winters. After extensive blooming of multi-colored flowers (yellow, orangy-pink and purple), each plant produces hundreds of berries that are loved by and distributed by birds. Introduced commercially as an ornamental, it spread invasively in 50 other countries, and with foliage toxic to grazing mammals, became an agricultural detriment, particularly in Australia.

In the US, although hybridized with less-obtrusive species native to south Florida, Lantana spp. continues to be an environmental threat, but a favorite in plant nurseries.

Authors' Note:  The authors bemoan the ongoing arbitrary depredations of the human garden by these untutored rodents. Although they have not personally participated in violence against squirrels, they reluctantly admit that they sympathize with other human victims who are drawn in that direction. Where are the hawks when we need them?

urban-dwelling squirrel in a Canadian tree

 

Authors' Note: Clathrus ruber is a startlingly shaped species of saprophytic fungus that resembles an orange plastic toy ball. Its interior surfaces are coated with a foul-smelling slime that attracts flies, which then disperse the fungal spores. The characteristic fetid odor of the fungus resembles that of rotting meat. Other common names include latticed stinkhorn, red cage fungus, and basket stinkhorn. 

) APR 25 (2023) singable satire: 'EWE-YEW-YOU' from "The SOUND OF HOMONYMS"

 ORIGINAL SONG: "Do-Re-Mi", as performed by Julie Andrews and the cast of von Trapp children in the 1965 film version of the musical hit "The Sound of Music". The song was composed by Rogers and Hammerstein for the stage version of the iconic American musical, that premiered in 1959 featuring Mary Martin in the lead role of "Maria". 

  

PARODY COMPOSED: Giorgio Coniglio, September 2014; the medley, in fact, contains two spoofs based on the same original song. The parody-medley was added to Giorgio's predecessor blog "Giorgio's Ukable Parodies" as one of his earliest parody-songs.

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PARODY-SONGLINK: To find ukulele and guitar chord-charts to help you accompany "EWE-YEW-YOU (the English homonym medley)" on your favorite instrument, click HERE.

EWE-YEW-YOU

(to the tune of "Do-Re-Mi") 

Dough -- it's paste I knead for bread

Rey -- the Spanish word for "KING"

Mea culpa -- Latin guilt

Fa't -- it's so embarrassing

So -- an adverb meaning "MUCH"

LA -- Louisiana mail

Tee -- a shirt for golf or such

Dough -- there's what I'll need for bail.

Dough, rey, mea, fa't, so, LA, tee, dough !  

Ewe -- a sheep, a female sheep

Yew -- a hedge that's evergreen

You -- a name to call yourself

U- -- a turn to leave the scene

Hugh -- an entertaining guy

A job that's carving wood -- that's hew

Hue -- a tint to catch the eye

And that brings us back to ewe. 

Ewe, yew, you, U-, Hugh, hew, hue, ewe !  

Editor's Note (added April 2024):

"When you know the notes to sing, you can sing most anything."

(The melody and words of this delightful song remain with us as an "earworm".) With this fact in mind, we have concocted another pair of spoofs dealing with the French version. We have labelled this effort, a French homonym song, as "Jeux-de-Mots". (Click the link to enjoy it, available in mid-April 2024). 

Solfège system of naming musical notes, shown here for key of C

Wordplay Maps: R-E-P-U-B-L-I-C-A-N-S in Canada (anagrams #17-18)

The next post in this series, a further rightward turn, involves the anagrammatic possibilities of R-E-P-U-B-L-I-C-A-N V-O-T-E-R-S in Canada. This eventuality seems nightmarish, but if you can cope with the concept you might enjoy the wordplay. Click HERE.

To return to the original post, i.e. maps #1-4, click HERE.

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APR 15, 2023: HUMORISTS' SCURRILOUS TALK -- smutty wit, second set of remarks [5]

('turd' missing)

    This post is a continuation of our a collection of verses about 'SMUTTY WIT, (humorists' scurrilous talk'), as initially posted on this blog on April 15, 2022 ('smut #1').

previous poetic posts (Note that captions are available for poems displayed on "Daily Illustrated Nonsense" as of 2024).

(smut #1): C-word, cock, comings and goings, dick, fart.

CURRENT CONTENTS: (smut #2 -- April 15, 2023)
F-word
Giving a shit
Shitty
Titty
Turd

APR 10, 2023: PAINTERLY POETRY [6]

CURRENT CONTENTS:
Birth of impressionism

Edouard Manet

Alfred Sisley (en plein air)

Van Gogh at Auvers-sur-Oise

Mary Cassatt

Picasso's 'Blue Period

                                      

Authors' Note:  The above story, dating from France in the 1860s, and relating to the birth of Impressionism, is apocryphal.

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