AUG (2021), submitted palindromes #20

 

MAGICAL CANAL PALINDROMES

Swan guiding barge,
lower end of St-Martin Canal

The current offering represents a followup to a slew of recent map-art blogposts by Giorgio Coniglio and Dr. GH. With all this mental energy focusing backwards and forwards on palindromes, it is hard to avoid the subject of canals. And to help wordplay-buffs focus on palindromes about canals, here is an ancient blogpost on the subject: CANALINDROMES


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Also, check out these collections of wordplay-maps by Dr. G.H. and Giorgio Coniglio (registered pseudonym)
 - Tourists' Palindromic Guide: The Old World #1
 - Tourists' Palindromic Guide: The Old World #2
 - Tourists' Palindromic Guide: The Old World #3
 - Tourists' Palindromic Guide: The Old World #4
and...
 - Tourists' Palindromic Guide: The Americas #1
 - Tourists' Palindromic Guide: The Americas #2
 - Tourists' Palindromic Guide: The Americas #3
 - Tourists' Palindromic Guide: The Americas #4
 - INTRODUCTORY CONCLUSION: The Tourists' Palindromic Guides

 

To read more about the origin, creation and listing of magical palindromes, click or cluck here to get to Giorgio's original blogpost on the topic.

You might want to check out Wikipedia's article on the Panama (Ecuadorian) hat.

And, a last minute reprieve... For those who find that they are delighted by magical canal palindromes, and can't live without more of them, we have just concocted a follow-up post, entitled "Unplanned Canals". 

Or, if you just want to consider the romance of canals (without the wordplay), you might like to calmly review our collection of posts entitled "The love of canals". Click HERE. 

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Scatologic Verse: The BOTTOM LINE of MEDICAL HUMOR

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. 

(Note that the four stanzas of this "brief saga" can be found in more readily legible format on the blog "Daily Illustrated Nonsense"; click HERE.) 

Here's a LIST OF LINKS to collections of intriguing poems (over 200 of these!) on medical/dental topics, updated to December 2024. 

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Pathos and Poetry: GUN CONTROL

CURRENT CONTENTS:
Semi-automatic weapons

Concealed weapon

Second Amendment rights

Mother Emanuel church

Anger and guns

"Good-guy" shooters

Hitman

Bipolar illness (4 stanzas, a 'brief saga')

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Reversing Verse: Limericks About CLASSIC PALINDROMES, part #3

 This post provides a continuation of previous wordplay collections displayed starting in December 5, 2020. In those earlier posts, the following classic palindromes (phrases or sentences whose letters are ordered identically when they are read backwards as well as forwards) were described and extolled in verse; contents were as follows: 

1. Dennis sinned            

2. Drawn onward

3. Gnu dung

4. Yreka bakery

5. Lonely Tylenol

6. UFO tofu

7. Too hot to hoot

8. Never odd or even 

(part #2)

9. Sex at noon taxes

10. No 'X' in Nixon.

11. A Santa at NASA

12. T. Eliot's toilet

13. Madam, I'm Adam

14. Sex of foxes

15. Able ere Elba

16. A Toyota's a Toyota

CURRENT CONTENTS, part #3

Please note that, continuing the convention adopted in the previous post , there will be an exclusive correlation between green italicized font and palindromes. But not all of the palindromes displayed within the verses' lines are in the 'classic repertoire'. Some are recent concoctions by the author.

 

17. Mr. Owl ate my metal worm

18. Emil's lime

19. Critique of palindromes; 'To idiot:' 

20. A dim or fond 'No!' from Ida

21. No lemon, no melon (fruitless)

22. 'Contrived' (saw- and see- lines)

23. Flee to me, remote elf

24. No sir, prison (Roger Stone)

Stay tuned for further posts that will bring you poetic discussion of more classic palindromes:

Scheduled for part #4 ...

25. Zeus sees Suez (canals)

26. Step on no pets  

27. Do geese see God?  

28. No 'D'; No 'L' -- London (negation)

29. Dogma? I am God

30. Mix a maxim

31. Egad! no bondage

32. Go hang a salami..... 

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