Thursday 25 July 2024

Submitted palindromes: RANDOM PILES 40


GREETINGS, WORDPLAY ENTHUSIASTS !!!
  
You have reached the "Submitted Palindromes" thread on the blog "Edifying Nonsense", a light literary entity that emanates through the blogosphere 5 times per month.

  On the 25th of each month you can find a slide-filling group of palindromic phrases submitted to the editors by a panel of 7 palindromists. These folks have all been working on this project since January 2020. Their profiles are indicated in panels published here at the start of things, and periodically (about every eight 'issues'), we ask them to provide, palindromically, of course, their views on one of the iconic items in the classic literature, starting with "A man, a plan, a canal -- Panama", and continuing with other well-known phrases, such as "Dennis sinned". Otherwise, their contribution are grouped in random piles (a phrase that you might recognize as an anagram of the word p-a-l-i-n-d-r-o-m-e-s). Contribution by others, such as you, will likely be published, although we are still awaiting a trickle of requests.

  You can find these back-and-forth enlightenments, as well as a lot of other stuff that appeals to word-nerds, in the contents listed by date in the right-hand column of the blog-page. By the way, the twentieth of each month is devoted to a major article on wordplay (starting with a didactic series in 2020 on "political palindromes"); and the posts on the 5th, 10th and 15th to collections of terse and mirthful verse (limericks and "limerrhoids"), that are often targeted at wordplay.
HAVE FUN! 

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Saturday 20 July 2024

JUL 20: the start of a hiatus

PLEASE NOTE THAT GIORGIO WILL BE TAKING A MUCH-NEEDED VACATION.

REGULAR POSTING ON THIS BLOG (as well as our related blogs "Daily Illustrated Nonsense" and Silly Songs and Satire") WILL LIKELY RESUME AFTER LABOR DAY. 

PLEASE CHECK BACK, THEN, FOR NEW MATERIAL (although the old stuff, as detailed in each post's righthand column, remains available for nostalgic review). 

HAVE A GOOD SUMMER !!!  

(Disappointed readers may be partly cheered by an exception; the submitted palindrome thread here on "Edifying Nonsense"  been honored by our contributors, and prepared new posts will be automatically displayed starting on the 25th of each month for another full year.)  

American wordplay map with versification: D-E-P-L-O-R-A-B-L-E-S





Regrettable terminology related to the run-up to the contentious 2016 US presidential election: 


 

DIRECTION FOR WEB-TRAVELLERS: (updated June 2024)
To resume daily titillations on our related blog "Daily Illustrated Nonsense", click HERE. Once you arrive, you can select your time frame of interest from the calendar-based listings in the righthand margin, and check the daily offerings for any month in the years 2020 to the present. (As of June 2024, there are over 1500 unique entries available on the Daily blog, and most of these are also presented here on "Edifying Nonsense" in topic-based collections.) The "Daily" format has the advantage of including Giorgio's photo-collages, song-lyrics and other material that are not shown here on this topic-based blog.

Wednesday 10 July 2024

DEFINING OPINIONS, fifth octet

 

previous poetic posts (see previous posts for the complete story)
hoot
hopeful
hormones
hors d'oeuvres
hose
hostile
hot
hourly

CURRENT CONTENTS (fifth octet, WIP):
Housewife
more to follow









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other possibilities include homily, hominy, homonym, hot-headed, hot-blooded, holistic

Friday 5 July 2024

AMBULATORY VERSE: Second Outing

previously posted poems (First Outing)
pre-amble
amble 
climb
escape
falter
hasten
hike
hop to it 


CURRENT CONTENTS
Hover
Lurk
Scamper (seduction)
Slink
Strut
Creep, and variant verbs (4 verses, a 'brief saga') 













(Note that the four 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.)


GENERAL DIRECTIONS FOR WEB-EXPLORERS: 
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