) MAY 25 (2025) singable satire: 'AT THE DOMINION UKE-JAM', Giorgio's penchant

 

MUSICAL UNDERPINNINGS: "That's Amore", Dean Martin

PARODY COMPOSED: Giorgio Coniglio, February 2015.  You can also view the lyrics and commentary (without images or chords) displayed on a parody-lyrics website where they were first developed at AmIRight.com.

UKULELE and GUITAR-FRIENDLY LINK: Our whole series of songs can be found in a friendly format for ukulele (and guitar)-players on our sister blog "SILLY SONGS and SATIRE" with chord-charts for both the parody and original song, as well as helpful performing suggestions. 

To find ukulele chord-charts to help you accompany

"RATIONALE" on your favorite instrument, click HERE.

EXPLANATORY NOTES:

As in Dino’s original, there are only a few Italian words you need to learn.
forse = maybe, perhaps

dal cuore = from the heart.

THAT'S YOUR FORTE

Dominion Hotel,
painting: David Crichton

(to the tune of "That's Amore")

INTRO (Tremolo)
In old T.O., where Queen meets King,
On Wednesday nights, here's what they sing...

When they asked you to play, you accepted half-way

Thatsa forse.
(Maybe thatsa new word, but it shouldn’t be slurred
Say it ‘for-say’)

You begin, everyone joins in, forty players sing,
Strum their strings - Ukuleles.

Dominion  Hotel,
 photo 1945

Tune they’ve heard, new satiric words, slides display the chords,

They’re observed chortling gaily.

When you strain to play loud to be heard by the crowd

Thatsa forte.

What your uke-friends expect - in old lyrics inject

A new twist.

When the word-play you’ve subbed rings out in that old pub

Dal cuore,

You’ve invented, you see, ‘Strum-Along Parody’,

That’s your forte.

meeting of the Corktown Ukulele Jam

) MAY 20 (2025) singable satire: 'SKITTISH DOLL'

 

MUSICAL UNDERPINNINGS:  "Satin Doll"  is a jazz ballad with music written in 1953 by Billy Strayhorn, lyrics composed years later by Johnny Mercer, recorded subsequently by Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr., etc. The second verse of the original lyrics contain the words ... "Speaks Latin, my Satin Doll."

So, could it hurt if she spoke Yiddish?  

PARODY COMPOSED: Giorgio Coniglio, July, 2017. The song was revised and performed recently (2025) a the Ukes of York ukulele-jam. 

PARODY-SONGLINK: To find ukulele chord-charts to help you accompany "SKITTISH DOLL" on your favorite instrument, click HERE.

Couple dancing, 1958,
at their son's Bar Mitzvah party.

SKITTISH DOLL      

(to the tune of "Satin Doll") 

 Chicken soup served with gold ladles,

Live band, ice sculpture, sweet tables;
Speaks Yiddish, my skittish doll.

Cousin’s Bar Mitzvah, … wire lift dress,
Built kind of zaftig — a ‘princess’,
Speaks Yiddish, my skittish doll.

Uncle Seymour is right:
When I’m near, she’s uptight as can be;
Cause she’s noticed me drool
And she ain’t cool ‘bout fooling with me
(kenahora!).

After the dinner, candle lighting,
Alone in the corner, looks inviting,
Fingers wander, but that is all.
Slaps hand back, my skittish doll.
Can’t mess with … my skittish doll.

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MAY 15, 2025: Poetic NON-SEQUITURS, fourth grouping [6]

 This blogpost is a continuation of 'POETIC NON-SEQUITURS, as posted on this blog May 15, 2022 (first grouping),  May 15, 2023 (second grouping), and May 15, 2024 (third grouping).

previous poetic posts (Note that captions are available for poems displayed on "Daily Illustrated Nonsense" as of 2024).

(first grouping): adolescence, almost Kosher, artistic weightlifting, bush plane, charity auction, close quarters. 

(second grouping): cumulative songs, demolition, dishwasher, doggy bag, epistaxis, ESL. 

(third grouping): far-flung family, gavel (judge's), gifted children, greeting (Spanish), ground down, having the audacity.

CURRENT CONTENTS:  (#4 -- May 15, 2025)

Hoggishly

Horticultural

Host and co-host
Hoyle, Edmond
Latitude (changes in)
Mallards at the swimming-pool

Authors' Note:

arrangement of florists: proposed collective noun for this occupational grouping.

Authors' Note: 

according to Hoyle: an idiom alluding to Edmond Hoyle's books as the ultimate authority on the rules of social games, particularly cardgames such as whist

There are few verifiable details of the early life of Edmond Hoyle (1672–1769). As a tutor in parlour games, he published A Short Treatise on the Game of Whist at the age of 70. Other books of rules followed, primarily involving card games, but also chess and probability theory. Hoyle died at age 97 in London, England, prior to the popularization of today's most common games such as poker and contract bridge. 

Authors' Note: The 1977 album Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes by American singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett contained a song of the same title, as well as his most popular hit "Margaritaville".

With holiday season travel plans, and snowbirds' escapes to more appealing climes disrupted by the severe December weather in the winter of 2022, J.B.'s advice has more relevance. And the authors express gratitude to their female partner who has made arrangements for the appropriate seasonal migration.

These collections are arranged pretty much alphabetically. If you want to proceed to see the fifth grouping of poetic non-sequiturs, click HERE.

GENERAL DIRECTIONS FOR WEB-EXPLORERS: 

To resume your review of the sequence of 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 at the bottom of the page, and check the daily offerings for any month from the start of 2020 through the summer of 2026. 

As of March, 2026, there are 2,000 unique entries available on the daily blog, displaying individual poems (often illustrated) and wordplay, but also with some photo-collages and parody song-lyrics. 

Most of these key elements of our work are assembled here on "Edifying Nonsense" in topic-based collections.

The "Daily" format, a formidable mix of genres has the advantage of including song-lyrics, videos and other material that are not shown here on this topic-based blog.

MAY 10, 2025: URBAN CONCERNS, part #2 [4]

CURRENT CONTENTS: (#2 -- October 15, 2024) 
In the distance
Old conservatory
Pre-stressed concrete
School districts and real estate

                                     

Authors' Note: We are fortunate to have moved into an apartment building just across the street from a public conservatory whose warm, humid, glass-roofed galleries offer the visitor views and dreams of escape to tropical floral environments. Visits are especially reinvigorating on dark and depressing winter days, and admission is free! Renovations are proceeding in the central palm-court, but the lateral greenhouse galleries remain open. 

You might also enjoy reviewing photo-enhanced poetry posts related to poinsettias, koi, red-eared sliders(turtles), Ontario cactuses, and Leda and the Swan at the same destination.

 

Authors' Note: Surveillance of tension cables in pre-stressed concrete is an arduous process, but is essential in older buildings, particularly in parking garages, although apartment towers may also be at risk. Sampling by drilling into the slabs only allows assessment of whether cables have failed, i.e. are broken, and are no longer under tension. Since the 1980s, the development of occlusive plastic fittings at attachment points has apparently reduced the possibility of corrosion due to moisture, a major cause of failure.

The author concedes a lack of professional knowledge concerning this problem. Please consult a structural engineer.

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MAY 5, 2025: FUNNY BONES, fragment #2 [5]

This blogpost represents continuation of earlier posts, entitled (not surprisingly) 'FUNNY BONES, fragment #1', (displayed on May 5, 2024)., and  'FUNNY BONES, fragment #2', (displayed on May 5, 2025). 

previous poetic posts: (note that captions are available for poems displayed on "Daily Illustrated Nonsense" in slide format as of January, 2024).

(fragment #1)): background reading "Orthopedic Surgeon", comminuted frature, physiotherapy street, contortionists, Enid's ostopenia, heterotopic ossification. 

CURRENT CONTENTS: (fragment #2)

Fractured wrist (distal radius)

Scaphoid fracture

Anatomic snuffbox

Hook of the hamate

Olecranon ('funny bone')

(for continuation, see the link below)

Authors' Note: Injuries to the metacarpal bones, such as knuckle fractures, are most common in injuries occurring with the closed fist, e.g. a punch thrown in a fistfight. In fact, an isolated fracture of the head of the fifth ('pinky'-side) metacarpal is known as a boxer's fracture. 

  On the other hand, fractures of the wrist (including the distal ends of the radial and ulnar bones of the forearm and eight intrinsic small carpal bones) are most commonly caused by a fall on the outstretched hand. Of all of these, fractures of the distal radius, sustained when attempting to break a fall, are by far the most common.

Authors' Note:

AVN: medical initialism for avascular necrosis, lethal damage to bone tissue resulting from traumatic interruption of its blood supply; the scaphoid bone of the wrist is particularly susceptible. The human skeleton has two boat-shaped small bones, one each in the ankle (tarsal) and wrist (carpal) areas. The Latin-derived term navicular ('boat-like'), is applied to either bone, whereas its Greek-derived analogue scaphoid, particularly favored in recent decades, is applied only to the wrist bone. How did Eric know that it was his scaphoid that he had fractured? See the verse anatomical snuffbox.

Authors' Note: The hamate bone, one of eight small bones of the human wrist, has a prominent hook, or hamulus, that provides some protection to the ulnar nerve as it proceeds down the arm to supply the fourth and fifth fingers. A 'hairline fracture' of this bony process (outcropping), not an uncommon injury in golfers, baseball players and hockey slap-shooters, may result in continuing pain. Frequently, the injury is not detected on initial x-rays, but may show up on computed tomography (CT), a bone scan, or on follow-up wrist X-rays.

                                                                   

Authors' Note:

funner: a neologism for 'fun-seeker', as used here; also, a disputed equivalent to the comparative expression 'more fun’

  The olecranon is the boney process (extension) of the forearm's ulna that extends into the elbow joint. Fractures of the olecranon are moderately common, due to direct trauma (fall on the elbow), but even more so due to indirect trauma (transmission of intense force with a fall on the outstretched hand). Owing to the proximity of the ulnar nerve, a broken funny bone may be associated with numbness and tingling extending into the fingers.

  Such injuries have bedevilled joggers and elite athletes, but recently have become more common with the popularity of personal electric transport devices. Surgical treatment is generally required for these fractures that often have displaced bone fragments. 

                   

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

GENERAL DIRECTIONS FOR WEB-EXPLORERS: 

To resume your review of the sequence of 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 at the bottom of the page, and check the daily offerings for any month from the start of 2020 until July 2025. 

As of July 20, 2025, there are 2,000 unique entries available on the daily blog, displaying individual poems (often illustrated) and wordplay, but also with some photo-collages and parody song-lyrics. 

Most of the key elements, such as this one, are also assembled here on "Edifying Nonsense" in topic-based collections.

The "Daily" format, a formidable mix of genres, also has the advantage of including song-lyrics, videos and other material that are not shown here on this topic-based blog.