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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JUL 21: the start of a hiatus

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

REGULAR NEW POSTINGS ON THIS BLOG (as well as our related blogs "Daily Illustrated Nonsense" and "Silly Songs and Satire") WILL LIKELY RESUME SOMETIME IN THE LATE FALL OR EARLYIN THE NEW YEAR  (Anything that appears in the meantime has been generated by automated software).

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 two exceptions:

 --the submitted palindrome thread on "Daily Edifying Nonsense" has been honored by our contributors, and prepared new posts will be automatically displayed on the 25th of each month (and sometimes on the 5th as well) until the end of the current calendar year.

--  on "Daily Illustrated Nonsense", there will be a new palinku verse posted on the 17th of each month, also until the end of the 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: 

 

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Limerick-based Handbook of TRACE MINERALS and VITAMINS

 

CURRENT CONTENTS 

Nutrient deficiency (intro) 

Avitaminosis A

Vitamin B12 and erythropoiesis

Zinc and anosmia

Beri-beri (B1 deficiency), (3 verses -- a 'brief saga')

More to follow

Authors' Note:  

N.B.: abbreviation for the Latin nota bene; as a verb—'take careful note', as a derived adjectival phrase — 'important'

Readers interested in nutritional health might be enthused that the author is undertaking a project entitled "The Limerick-based Handbook of Trace Minerals and Vitamins" as a follow-up to his "Limerick-based Handbook of Medical Testing".

Although treatment of disorders produced by the relevant deficiencies is often delightfully simple, the underlying biochemistry, pharmacology, epidemiology and health delivery issues may be extremely complex, and warrant further understanding. 

Authors' Note: Deficiency of vitamin A

Avitaminosis, an absence of vitamins, causes deficiency diseases.  Some of these deficiency states affect all cells in the body, and are manifest as diffuse or multi-system disorders. But many seem targeted at the weakest metabolic link or at a unique buochemical mechanism, and produce a characteristic disease pattern

Avitaminosis A, the absence of vitamin A, is the most common cause of childhood blindness in parts of Africa and South Asia, resulting in specific eye damage, including corneal ulceration and retinal damage. Early symptoms include xerophthalmia (severely 'dry eyes') and loss of night vision; however, in appropriately nourished populations (developed countries), these symptoms are most often due to other causes.    

Authors' Note: The myelin sheath is an envelope of lipid-rich material that wraps around peripheral nerve fibers, acting as a form of insulation; its development and maintenance is dependent on vitamin B12. 

Authors' Note:  Patients who have suffered a loss of sense of smell (anosmia) are known as anosmics. Rarely, this sensory disorder along with manifestations in other body functions can be attributed to a marked deficiency of dietary zinc. Whether zinc supplements can help with recovery in well-fed anosmics remains unresolved. The metallic element osmium, which has no known biologic role, is named for the stench emitted by its poisonous tetroxide derivative.

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

Readers with an interest in medical/health issues might also enjoy our "Limerick-Based Handbook on Medical Testing". Click HERE.

GENERAL DIRECTIONS FOR WEB-EXPLORERS: 

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 July 2024, there are about 1500 unique entries available on the Daily blog, and most of these are also presented here on "Edifying Nonsense" in topic-based collections, such as this one.) The 'Daily' format also has the advantage of including some song-lyrics, videos and other material that are not shown here on this topic-based blog.

AMBULATORY VERSE: Second Outing

previously posted poems (First Outing)

pre-amble

amble 

climb

escape

falter

hasten

hike

hop to it

CURRENT CONTENTS

Hover

Lurk

Reverse

Scamper (seduction)

Slink

Strut

Creep, and variant verbs (4 verses, a 'brief saga') 

Authors' Note: 

do a 180: a colloquialism for reversing direction deriving from half the number of degrees in a complete circle; here, as elsewhere, voiced as one-eighty

The author, an old palindromist, finds it appropriate to mention in the context of 'doing a 180', a few palindromic phrases using the verb reverse. These include:

Codes reverse, Doc; Noses reverse, son; Dikes reverse, kid; 

Drawer: sides reversed is ... reward; and the very dark 

Nooses reverse soon. 

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

SONGLINK:

We had, a decade ago, composed two parody-songs dealing with these many descriptive words for styles of ambulation. You can join us in song by clicking HERE to start; but watch out for earworms!  

GENERAL DIRECTIONS FOR WEB-EXPLORERS: 

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