Wordplay map with versification: I-M-P-E-A-C-H-M-E-N-T

 

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DEFINING OPINIONS, sextet #4

  This post is a continuation of 'DEFINING OPINIONS', as posted on this blog July 15, 2020 (sextet#1), July 15, 2021 (sextet#2), and July 15, 2022 (sextet#3).

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

(sextet#1): academically, birdlife, boring, crepuscular, cruddy, decompose. 

(sextet#2): diaphoretic, envision, expertise, fester, hamuli, haunch.

(sextet#3): heinous, hoarding, hod, holdout, hole#1, hole#2

CURRENT CONTENTS (#4):
Holler
Hollow
Homogenized (milk)
Hone
Honey
Honorifics

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Authors' Note:  Fawn, an aspiring limericist, had been advised to carefully hone one of her submitted verses.

Authors' Note:    The authors propose the above verse to define the neologism appiculture.

Authors' Note:  As pointed out by our comic interpreter and apocryphal city politician Dr. Al, titles and honorifics are often used in comic routines, such as those of the "Three Stooges" and "Monty Python", and in performers' pseudonyms like Dr. Demento and Dr. John.

For more "defining opinions", please proceed to the fifth octet by clicking HERE. 

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American Satire: PROLONGATION #2

previous posted poems (prolongation #1)

archival

classified (Espionage Act)

crasscracy

criminal lying

deceit, social

defunding the FBI

deserved (schadenfreude)

distortion

CURRENT CONTENTS: 

Electoral Count

FBIer

Felony

Gov by dopes

Grift

Hokum (election denial)
Home schooling

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Author's Note: Astute readers will have noticed that this extended verse, with seven lines, fulfils the criteria for being an "external limerrhoid". Click HERE to enjoy a post that explains and exemplifies this intriguing poetic variant.

Author's Note:

oakum: naval term for a caulking material prepared by impregnating old unravelled ropes with tar

locum (tenens): Latin loanword for a replacement or substitute for a vacationing professional (doctor, dentist or lawyer)

hokum: a term of disparagement for misguided proposals or ideas, akin to gobbledegook and its lexicographic collaborators

Almost three years after the event, in August 2023, it was promised that there would be released "irrefutable" and "overwhelming" evidence of widespread fraud in the 2020 American presidential election. The promise, made amidst a welter of criminal indictments, was quickly withdrawn.

MORE VERSES ON THIS TOPIC

We suspect that many readers have come to enjoy these newsworthy comments on the US political scene. So, at great effort and expense, we have prepared another collection of politically-tinged verses for you to enjoy. Click HERE!

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Exemplary EXEMPLIFICATION

   Some poets at OEDILF (the Omnificent English Dictionary in Limerick Form) sustain the idealistic belief that most English words could be defined by a standard 5-line limerick verse. The authors of this blog, although they are active contributors at OEDILF, hold the more limited view that such verses, with room for only 30 words, can be primarily used for exemplification, bypassing the complexities of inclusive and exclusive definition. 

  (Despite the above contention, some of our protagonists fall in with the march of this 'urban myth' and make claims that they have conclusively defined some words or phrases with a few lines of a limerick. We have recorded dozens of such attempts, and you can review them on the blogpost "Defining Opinions".)   

CURRENT CONTENTS: (exemplification)

Fauna

Hillbilly

Hooligan

House

Malarkey (Donald Duck) 

Synonymous

Possessives (3 verses, a 'brief saga')

Ablaut and Past Tenses (3 verses, a 'brief saga')

Authors' Note: It sure warn't easy to pack the whole bunch of neighbors and pals into a single verse. Sad to say, I had to leave out the following: bumpkins, crackers, chawbacons, clodhoppers, good ol' boys, hayseeds, and yokels. I'll include 'em next time! 

 

   

Authors' Note: The term malarkey for "nonsense"  is likely of Greek origin, but does not appear to related to mallard ducks.

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

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"A VERY STABLE GENIUS": Ancillary Funky Anagrams

This post-hoc post picks up on the theme of February's collection. Therein, 97 anagrams were displayed for the book title "A VERY STABLE GENIUS". (We have referred to this original collection on today's slides as "the main list").

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