MAGICAL PALINDROMES, part B

 A continuation of last month's post on "Magical Palindromes"

Giorgio's List: Magical Palindromes

#31. Spit tops if I slop pals; slap pols if I spot tips.

#32. No left lemon; no-melt felon.

#33. Six at my gym taxes; sex at my gym? Taxis!

#34. No lemon in 'O, lemon'; no melon in 'O, melon'.

#35. Do nine men interpret nine memos? "Some men interpret." Nine

              men, I nod.

#36. No trace - not one carbon. No brace - not one carton.

#37. Oh! Pa's a Sam. Ma's a sapho.

#38. Won't raft-lovers revolt? Act now! Won't cat-lovers revolt? Fart

               now!

#39. No drape re 'boron'. No robe re 'pardon'.

#40. Flex-aware era waxes. Sex-aware era - wax elf!

#41. Megaton - Ottawa gem. Megawatt - O, not a gem.

#42. Girth trim. Mirth - trig.

#43. Senile fume. Emu, felines.

#44. Part bard. Drab trap.

#45. Cain, a motor erotomanioc. Coin a motor erotomaniac.

#46. Set agenda - red negates. Set a gender - ad negates.

#47. Ms: I pair prefer - satire vs. sarcasm; Ms: a crass veritas -refer

          'priapism'. [veritas L. = truth]

#48. Selim, in Eden I'm Ada; Adam, in Eden I'm Iles.

#49. Spoof rut; turf - oops.

#50. Dog doo; good God!

#51. Elope tale. Elate-pole.

#52. E-file taxes. Sex ate life.

#53. Smug guns. Snug gums.

#54. God sees Oprah. Harpo sees dog.

#55. AL legal fees: see 'flagellate' et al. Legal fees: see 'flagella'. [AL = abbreviation for state of Alabama]

#56. No melon, Mahon. No ham, no lemon.

#57. No-melt fig. Gift lemon.

#58. Net foe. Grab barge often.

#57. A dog, a pal, a panama. A man, a pal, a pagoda.

#58. Erupting, I sign it, "Carter". Retracting, I sign it, "Pure". 

#59 No sin-union. "No", in unison.

#60. No sin - U. London. No 'D'; No 'L' - unison. 

#61. Won't lovers re-tilt now? Won't liters revolt now? 

#62. No sin, even if 'No' in unison. No sin union - fine venison.

#63. Sir, a plan, if final -- Panama. A man, a plan, if final -- Paris.

#64. Trace farts. Strafe cart.

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JUL 15 (2021): DEFINING OPINIONS, sextet #2 [6]

This post represents a continuation of material from our first emanation on this topic, "OEDILFian Celebration: DEFINING OPINIONS", sextet #1 (July 15, 2020). 

previous poetic posts
(sextet#1)
academically, birdlife, boring, crepuscular, cruddy, decompose. 

   

CURRENT CONTENTS: (#2 -- Jul 15, 2021)
Diaphoretic

Envision

Expertise

Fester

Hamuli

Haunch

(for continuation, see the link below)

Authors' Note: "Self-assembly" affordable and transportable furniture is the basis of success for Ikea , a successful Swedish marketer. The stability of their sewing tables is remarkable, assuming you can get all the fasteners placed correctly.

Authors' Note: Norm's take on his employability would at some past point be thought to smack of self-aggrandizement or worse, but appears in our day to have been normalized.

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.

For more "defining opinions", please proceed to the third sextet by clicking HERE. 

                                                                                                                        

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JUL 5 (2021): Scatologic Verse: -- The BOTTOM LINE of MEDICAL HUMOR [9]

CURRENT CONTENTS:

Anorectal disorders

Anal fissure

Beano

Borborygmi

Diarrhea

Flatus

G.I.T. (gastrointestinal tract)

Hemorrhoids

The Word on G.E.R.D. (4 stanzas, a 'brief saga')

Authors' Note: In North America, many proctologists now prefer to be known (professionally) as 'colorectal surgeons'.

Authors' Note: 'Aneous', a puerile neologism, has been used here to close the verse, as the proper medical term 'anus' may not function appropriately in this instance.

Authors' Note: 

cruciferae: vegetables in the cabbage family

Aspergillus: more fully, Aspergillus niger, the species of fungus from which chemists derive alpha-galactosidase, the principal active enzyme ingredient of flatulence-suppressants.  The concept of a supplement to suppress the discomfort and gas associated with eating vegetables such as beans and cabbage was presumably proposed by Benjamin Franklin in the 1780s. In 1981, Alan Kligerman initiated research that resulted in the development of the commercial enzymatic supplement Beano® , and a Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1991. 

Authors' Note: Borborygmi (plural of the Latin borborygmus) , a normal phenomenon, are rumbling noises in the abdomen related to movement of fluid and gas through gastrointestinal viscera (hollow organs).

Authors' Note:  

  A euphemism allows one to skirt around the messy details. 

  Diarrhea, a term coined by Hippocrates, derives from the Greek for a flow going through; the details are linked by longstanding usage to the specific intestinal inconvenience, sometimes characterized as "the trots".

  The authors regret that there are no appropriate images to accompany this verse.

Authors' Note: The concept of a formal truce was approached by both parties following the authors' misguided indulgence in the preparation for an endoscopic procedure.

Authors' Note:  The long-term effectiveness of surgical and other treatments for hemorrhoids is disappointingly low. 

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JUN 20, Magical Palindromes -- early examples

 

The magical palindrome, an astounding entity developed from palindromic wordplay, was described earlier in a post HERE.

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JUN 15 (2021): Rumination, reminiscence and ruination: STD-POETRY [7]

CURRENT CONTENTS:
STDs (sexually transmitted diseases)
Weighing anchor
Latent syphilis 
Tabes dorsalis (tertiary syphilis)
GPI (general paresis of the insane)
Gon-dom / condoms
Monkeypox

Authors' Note: 

weigh anchor: opposite of 'drop anchor', a naval expression for the last step taken in preparation before the ship leaves port 

The symptoms of primary syphilis most often involve genital skin lesions, or chancres, that appear an average of three weeks after contracting the disease, caused by Gram-negative bacteria in the spiroch(a)ete family. Some patients, however, will remain without symptoms until the later stages of the disease develop insidiously. 

Authors' Note:  VDRL (initialism for venereal disease research laboratory): a screening blood test for syphilis developed in 1906 and updated in 1946

   Syphilis is sometimes referred to medically as lues, accounting for the choice of name for our protagonist.

   This verse, dealing with the asymptomatic latent stage, follows the author’s verse ‘chancre’, a manifestation of the early (‘primary’) stage. Treatment with penicillin at either of these stages is dramatically effective at preventing the dire consequences of progression to symptomatic late (‘tertiary’) disease.

Authors' Note: 

CNS: central nervous system, i.e. the brain and spinal cord; a commonly used medical initialism

spirochete(n.): a generalization for a bacterium of the type that causes syphilis (Treponema pallidum), based on its microscopic appearance

spirochete(v.): novel use confined to this verse, implying damage by syphilitic spirochetes

  The above verse, dealing with the late or ('tertiary') manifestations of syphilis (a.k.a. lues), emphasizes the common disorders of the CNS, including tabes dorsalis, a disease of the spinal cord producing sensory limitations in the legs, compensated by a characteristic (tabetic) stomping gait. Accompanying brain disorders may include general paresis (weakness), mania, delirium and dementia; and manifestations in other organ systems are not uncommon.

Authors' Note:  General paresis of the insane, known by the initialism GPI, was recognized as a distinct disease in 1822, and considered by the Victorians to be a form of madness in persons, primarily men, of dissolute character. It took another century until it was confirmed that it was caused by spirochetes, causative organism for syphilis, damaging the brain in the late (tertiary) stage, and that its progression could be halted by antibiotics such as anti-malarial arsenicals and, after 1940, penicillin. Once a relatively common problem on a global scale, GPI now seems to be confined to developing countries.

   This verse also relates to a series on organic causes of neuropsychiatric symptoms, such as hypothyroid depression, and frontal meningioma.

Authors' Note: These lyrics are intended to be sung in rap format.

Life-threatening medical aspects of the often-discounted STD (sexually transmitted disease) gonorrhea are well described in the Author's Note to SheilaB’s verse ‘Chaldaea’. 

  Gonorrheal infection of the external genitalia, caused by the bacterium Neisseria gonorrhoeae, may also result in pelvic inflammatory disease in females, epididymitis in males, and chronic infertility. Transmission of the disease is prevented by condoms.

Authors' Note:   In June 2022, the World Health Organization announced that

it would find a new name for 'monkeypox', to de-emphasize its overstated enzootic connection.   

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