Submitted palindromes: RANDOM PILES 34

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American wordplay map with versification: C-O-N-S-T-I-T-U-T-I-O-N-A-L

 

Author's Note: As sometimes happens, until corrected by some callers-in, I inadvertently left out a few relevant locales. So, apologies to the residents of Tunisian Loot and Alto Unionist CT, Stout Coaltin and U.S. Cottontail IN, Antisnout Cot IL, and Locust Tot Inn IA.

"WHENCE" VERSE: More limericks about ETYMOLOGY

WORDPLAY post #119
SATIRE COMPOSED: Giorgio Coniglio,  2018. Many of today's verses have also been published (or remain under review) at OEDILF.com, an online humour dictionary that has accumulated over 100,000 carefully edited limericks. 
See previous verses about the derivation of words in Giorgio's blog-collection at post #112.

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". 

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 righthand margin.

For still more verses about the origin of words, see post #124, "Still More Verses about Word Origin".

(Re)DUPLICATIONS, part #2

This post represents a continuation of our previous missive from January 5, 2023:
Grandpa Greg's Advanced Grammar: (re)DUPLICATIONS, part #1

previous posted poems (part #1) 

cootchie-cootchie-coo

clap-trap

dilly-dally

fuddle-duddle

fuddy-duddy

hanky-panky

harum-scarum

helter-skelter

CURRENT CONTENTS

Higgledy-piggledy

Hobo

Hocus-pocus

Hodge-podge 

Hoi-polloi

Holus-bolus

Hubba-hubba

 

 

Authors' Note: Higgledy-piggledy is yet another (re)duplication relating to disorder and impetuousness whose meaning overlaps with helter-skelter, and harum-scarum.

Authors' Note: The (re)duplication hoi polloi derives from the ancient Greek term for 'the many'. This expression, like its close cousin riff-raff (also a reduplication), has been used in class-conscious England for severlal centuries; similar expressions, tinged with disparagement include plebeian, and the great unwashed.  In a recent inexplicable twist, as described by speedysnail, hoi polloi has come to be used, in some circumstances, to mean the exact opposite.

Authors' Note:

bubba: stereotyped male inhabitant of the southern US with an upbeat, but macho attitude

Bubba: frequent nickname for a specific male, as used by his buddies

rubba: rubber (American slang for condom), with typical non-rhotic pronunciation

chick: southern girl

hubba-hubba: intriguing (re)duplication, presumably originating in the US a century ago; an expression of approval voiced by males when viewing a sexually attractive chick

Web-search: https://www.grammarphobia.com/blog/2012/06/hubba-hubba.html

Overlapping Themes

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poems about canoeing: RE-VERSE STROKES

WORDPLAY post #136

SATIRE COMPOSED: Giorgio Coniglio, August 2018.

 Today's verses, along with their accompanying notes, have been published at OEDILF.com, the online humour dictionary. At the bottom of each slide, the identification number is given for each published dictionary entry.
SONGLINKS: The underlying concepts for some of these verses had been adapted as parody-lyrics and set to the music of an ABBA tune in 2013. See the blogpost "Canoe, Canoe, Canoe, Canoe, Canoe" on our lyrics blog "SILLY SONGS and SATIRE". The lines set out in the verses below evolved into a second nostalgic song about canoeing, which can be viewed here.

PHOTOS: Unless otherwise noted (by pale blue acknowledgment plaques), embedded photographs were taken with and transferred from Giorgio's cellphone. Following submission of the poems to OEDILF, the slides collages we present here were formatted using Powerpoint software on a vintage 2000-era PC computer. OEDILF has no involvement in the pictorial portion of this presentation. 

photo kindly provided by JJH

If you are 12 or over, you can check out this verse on the later blogpost "Faintly Obscene Limericks". 

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From the Archives: An Illustrated E-Mail about Urban Portaging, 2017

GxxHxxxxx <gxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>@gmail.com>	Nov 13, 2016, 7:50 PM
to Mike, Josh, Paul, Dr, Alec, Art, Marna, Eric

I encountered this on my late afternoon cycle-ride through trendy Rosedale on a rainy autumn afternoon. In its second year, this festival, I found out, brings together people portaging canoes across a 17 km ancient aboriginal trail between the Humber and Don watersheds. At this point, the portagers had just crossed the Mt Pleasant Expressway.

  

Submitted palindromes: RANDOM PILES 33

 

American wordplay map with versification: I-N-C-I-T-E-D A R-I-O-T

 

Cardiologic Tracings: AT HEART, part #1

CURRENT CONTENTS:
Arteriopath
Atrial fibrillation
Bypass grafts
Dipyridamole (stress)
Dobutamine (stress)

Ejection Fraction (left ventricular)
Heart block
Holter monitor
(for continuation, see the link below)

Authors' Note: Atrial fib, also abbreviated to a-fib or AF, is medical jargon for atrial fibrillation. Causes for AF include various heart and lung conditions, particularly valvular heart disease, but half of cases occur spontaneously.

AF may be symptomatic or not, and may be intermittent rather than sustained, particularly in its earlier phase. In any case, it is associated with the formation of clots in the atria of the heart, leading to an increased risk of brain stroke, caused by emboli.

To reduce the risk of stroke, patients with AF may be asked to take blood thinners for life. 

Learn more about atrial fibrillation and its treatment at Wikipedia.

Authors' Note: 

 (dye-puh-RIH-duh-mawl)

(Puhr-SANT-in)

Tests of myocardial flow in the Nuclear laboratory, e.g. gated SPECT, require a stimulus so that the specific radiotracer can be injected at peak blood flow to image the state of heart muscle. Ideally, exercise stress, as with a submaximal treadmill procedure, provides this stimulus, with a high attained heart rate reflecting success. As a backup in those unable to exercise sufficiently, (musculoskeletal or breathing problems, reduced fitness), pharmacologic stress may be used. Dipyridamole, tradename Persantine, is a commonly used agent for this purpose, increasing blood flow optimally, but with little change in heart rate or blood pressure. 

Authors' Note:   The verse above is a companion verse to ”dipyridamole”. 

When doctors want to check whether all areas of heart muscle can increase their blood flow appropriately, they may use certain drugs as helpers; this is particularly true when the patient is unable to perform a submaximal exercise test, often called a Bruce treadmill test, after its inventor. Dobutamine (doh-BYOO-ta-meen), relative of adrenaline, raises heart rate and blood pressure. It's the only drug available for tests which use echocardiography to picture the heart while it is 'under stress', but is a second-choice drug for the nuclear imaging test called gated SPECT. The preferred drug for those tests is one whose primary effect is to dilate arterial blood vessels, increasing the flow to normal heart muscle. Such drugs include dipyridamole and adenosine.

Authors' Note:  In disease states, including those producing congestive heart failure, the ejection fraction of the left ventricle, a measure indicating the strength of contraction, provides important information concerning prognosis (potential outcome) and the need for treatment. 

   The ejection fraction can be measured by echocardiography, magnetic resonance imaging, or several different nuclear (radio-isotope) techniques. These techniques measure the volume of the ventricle at the end of diastolic (relaxation) and systolic (contraction) phases of the cardiac cycle. Despite the name, the change during systole is generally given in medical jargon as the percent relative change, rather than as a true fraction; e.g. 60% is good, 30% is bad.

If you have had fun with these verses and are not concerned re their pro-arrhythmogenic effect, you could venture to review the second collection of this type; click HERE for part #2. 

Here's a LIST OF LINKS to collections of intriguing poems (over 150 of these!) on medical/dental topics that can now be found on various posts. 

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