HOLIDAY POSTING 2019: TURKEY LEFTOVERS

Season Greetings to All from your friends here at NONSENSE CENTRAL..

Giorgio Coniglio (registered pseudonym) and DrGH want to send you and yours all the best for a Happy Chanukah, a Merry Christmas, a prosperous New Year, and freedom from irritating robo-calls (you can pick up to 3 of these choices).

To help you enjoy all the time for socializing and contemplation at this time of year, there is nothing like structured NONSENSE.

And we are delighted to send you some samples and links to the expanding world of nonsense without any obligation on your part. You may have already seen some of this material, but most of it is newly formatted, and may be worth your giving it a second look. (If not, it can be easily sent to TRASH.)

A: SONG-LYRICS NONSENSE

 "TURKEY LEFTOVERS"

Song-lyrics from the 2015 holiday season revisited, based on an article in the journal The Economist entitled "TURKEY'S FLIGHT". 

SUBSTITUTE LYRICS are subbed into TWO original songs, making this a a pair-ody.

ORIGINAL SONG#1: "The Christmas Song" (Chestnuts...), written by Wells and Tormé  in 1944, and recorded by the Nat King Cole Trio 1946.

ORIGINAL SONG#2: "Good King Wenceslas", John Mason Neale 1853, but often now mistakenly referred to as 'traditional'. Neale's piece, (based on accounts of the Bohemian Wenceslas legend, and a 13th century 'spring-carol tune) was highly criticized in the 1920s as "ponderous moral doggerel".

PARODY COMPOSED: Giorgio Coniglio (registered pseudonym) and Dr. GH, January, 2015; updated in 2017.   
SONGLINK: Click here to see the song-lyrics with chord charts formatted for performers on ukulele and guitar (other string instruments can probably benefit as well.)

 For another song-lyrics parody on  "The Christmas Song"  see our earlier posting "The Cynic's Song" here.
But, BE WARNED: The song-lyrics site is now a private blog, so to be allowed access, you will have to leave me a comment here indicating your email address, so I can set up your entrance documentration.

TURKEY LEFTOVERS

part #1(to the tune of The Christmas Song - "Chestnuts Roasting")

Essay featured in Economist,
Turkeys' origins disclosed -
Centerpiece of each year's Yuletide feast,
Subspecies bred in Mexico.

Dolts like me believed that gobblers and that Mid-East land -
Names were mere coincidence.
Ottomans, trading ships, caravans -
I understand, it now makes sense.

You can enjoy the rest of the song by clicking to this link which will lead you to our fascinating blog... (The link is guaranteed to be free of viruses, malware and antibiotic-resistant organisms.)

http://www.edifyingnonsense.com/2019/12/seasonal-reposting-turkey-leftovers.html

or if you prefer to trash this communication, I suspect you know the routine.

B: POETIC NONSENSE REVERSING VERSE: Illustrated Limericks About CLASSIC PALINDROMES WORDPLAY post #196 SATIRE COMPOSED: Giorgio Coniglio (registered pseudonym) and Dr. GH, 2018-2019. Today's verses have also been published or remain under review at OEDILF.com (Omnificent EnglishDictionary in Limerick Form), an online humour dictionary that has accumulated over 100,000 laboriously edited limericks, including over 300 that we have submitted there. The OEDILFian code number for the verse and its status, 'T' = 'transitional', is indicated below each of our slides.  Palindromes have been featured on our blogsite EDIFYING NONSENSE since its inception. The concept of 'goofy' variants on classical palindromes was honored as the topic of three blog-postings that you can link to here.  A to H post#20 ; I to O post#29 ; P to Z post #40. Indeed, the goofy variants are often the key to teasing rhymes from this otherwise inflexible form of wordplay. Incidentally, artwork, including photos, as well as poetry, are the creation of this website's author-editors unless otherwise indicated.  The original 'inventors' of the classic palindromes have generally not been reported, and are best regarded as having been lost in the sands of time. SONGLINK: For those readers who like poetry set to music: You can find lots of singable limerick medleys on our sister blog "SILLY SONGS and SATIRE".                                                                                  CONTENTS Please note that beyond this point in the presentation, there will be an exclusive correlation between green italicized font and palindromes (phrases or sentences whose letters are ordered identically when they are read backwards as well as forwards) 1. A man, a panama 2. Drawn onward 3. Dennis sinned 4. Gnu dung 5. Yreka bakery 6. Lonely Tylenol 7. UFO tofu 8. Too hot to hoot 9. Never odd or even  10. Sex at noon taxes 11. No 'X' in Nixon 12. A Santa at NASA 13. T. Eliot's toilet 14. Madam, I'm Adam 15. Sex of foxes 16. Able ere Elba 17. A Toyota's a Toyota 18. No lemon; no melon (Fruitless) 19. Mr Owl ate my metal worm 20. Emil's lime 21. Ida's denial 22. Selfless 23. See-saw 24. Canals   "A man, a plan, a canal -- Panama" is one of the best known palindromes in the English language. Read about the deliberations leading to the discovery of this iconic phrase in either poetry or song-lyrics.  You can enjoy the rest of these short poems by clicking on this link which will lead you to... http://www.edifyingnonsense.com/2019/11/reversing-verse-limericks-about-classic.html

SUPPLEMENT: The FUN WITH IMPEACHMENT Collection

WORDPLAY POST #186 
A REPRISE of wordplay and head-shaking by Giorgio Coniglio from May, 2018 and subsequently. Plus a couple supplements with important facts and concepts that you might previously have missed. 
 
This review of past postings was incited by today's news (September 24, 2019), relating that we are squarely in the midst of another unfolding impeachment drama. 

But we all need to have a bit of fun, so here's the material to review. Click on the links, and cluck to your heart's content... 

FUN WITH IMPEACHMENT  (post #116), May 15, 2018

MORE FUN WITH IMPEACHMENT (post #118), May 25, 2018

STILL MORE FUN WITH IMPEACHMENT (post #122), June 10, 2018



HAVE FUN!




INTERACTIVE SUPPLEMENT

Q: In what American towns, anagramatically, can we find H.C.'s 'deplorables'?
A: There are a number of states in which they are found in smaller towns and cities. Some of these are shown in the following map: 

  If you have enjoyed these verses on the theme of American political satire, you might like to proceed to view other items in our collection including:

-  'Poetry and Pathos: Gun Control Verses' 

- 'The Fun with Impeachment Collection'

- 'a brief saga: Mar-a-Lago'

- 'political palindromes A through P' (click HERE to start).

There are also some parody-song lyrics posted in 2019 and 2020, that you might like, including: 

- 'Brennan's Tweet'

- 'Rosenstein'

- 'Kooky Presidential Views' 

- 'Jailhouse Now'

- 'Vlad Putin's Blogger'

- 'Indiana Song'

- 'Get Me Roger Stone', and 

- 'The Ballad of Giuliani', part I and part II.

Unthrottled WORDPLAY Apr '19 #2

WORDPLAY post #164
Weekly postings of palindromes, Scramble-Town Maps (creative cartography), binomial phrases, limericks, etc. 


SONGLINK: For those readers who like poetry set to music: You can find lots of singable limerick-medleys and other spoofs on our sister blog "SILLY SONGS and SATIRE", such as this recent post. 

HOT LINKS to collections of Classic/Goofy Palindromes #1,#2,#3

Review the entire collection of anagram-town names (based on 

P-A-L-I-N-D-R-O-M-E-S) here.

Enthralling WORDPLAY Apr '19 #1

WORDPLAY post #163
Periodic postings of palindromes, Scramble-Town Maps (creative cartography), binomial phrases, limericks, etc. 


SONGLINK: For those readers who like poetry set to music: You can find lots of singable limerick-medleys and other spoofs on our sister blog "SILLY SONGS and SATIRE", such as this recent post. 

HOT LINKS to collections of Classic/Goofy Palindromes #1,#2,#3

Review the entire collection of anagram-town names (based on 

P-A-L-I-N-D-R-O-M-E-S) here.

Unthrottled WORDPLAY Mar '19 #2

WORDPLAY post #159 

Periodic postings of palindromes, Scramble-Town Maps (creative cartography), binomial phrases, occasional verse, etc. 

SONGLINK: For those readers who like poetry set to music: You can find lots of singable limerick-medleys and other spoofs on our sister blog "SILLY SONGS and SATIRE", such as this recent post. 

Review the entire collection of anagram-town names (based on 

P-A-L-I-N-D-R-O-M-E-S) here.

HOT LINKS to collections of Classic/Goofy Palindromes #1,#2,#3

HOT LINK to NEW WORLD PALINDROMES - complete series

Enthralling WORDPLAY Mar '19 #1

WORDPLAY post #158
Periodic postings of palindromes, Scramble-Town Maps (creative cartography), binomial phrases, occasional verse, etc. 

SONGLINK: For those readers who like poetry set to music: You can find lots of singable limerick-medleys and other spoofs on our sister blog "SILLY SONGS and SATIRE", such as this recent post. 
And, be sure to check out our most recent parody-song "Kooky Presidential Views" (to the tune of "Good King Wenceslas")

HOT LINK to NEW WORLD PALINDROMES - complete series

HOT LINKS to collections of Classic/Goofy Palindromes #1,#2,#3

Review the entire collection of anagram-town names (based on 

P-A-L-I-N-D-R-O-M-E-S) here.

MORE VERSE for EXCURSIONS: CRETE and ATHENS

WORDPLAY post #155 

PARODY COMPOSED: Giorgio Coniglio (registered pseudonym) and Dr. GH, November 2018. Today's verses have also been published at OEDILF.com. The Omnificent English Dictionary In Limerick Form is an online humor dictionary that has accumulated over 100,000 carefully edited poems (Giorgio is proud to have contributed over 250 of these). 
These verses represent a continuation of the travel-related thoughts and images in a previous blogpost on excursions to the Greek Isles.

SONGLINK: For those readers who like poetry set to music: You can find lots of singable limerick-medleys and other spoofs on our sister blog "SILLY SONGS and SATIRE", such as this recent post. 

If you want to sing these and other verses about travels in Greece, click on this link to our sister blog "SILLY SONGS and SATIRE" and check out this song!

By the way, to find more limericks, or any other search target on either of these 2 blogs, use the SEARCH-FUNCTION found at the top of the right-hand margin.

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