APR 5, 2020: REVERSING VERSE: classic wordplay, palindromes#1 [6]

 

This post is the initial offering related to 'CLASSIC BIDIRECTIONAL WORDPLAY'. You can work through 40-or-so brief poems dealing with the classic palindromes, by following the links at the end of each of the seven posts. 

CURRENT CONTENTS (#1):
A dim 'No!' from Ida.
A man, a plan ...
A Santa at NASA.
A Toyota's a Toyota.
Able ere Elba.
An igloo! Cool, Gina!

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)

For more "classic palindromes", please proceed to the second bidirectional journey by clicking  HERE.

) MAR 25 (2020) singable satire: 'TAKE OUR HATS OFF TO VICTOR'

 

ORIGINAL SONG: "Take Me Out To The Ballgame" 1908, Norworth and von Tilzer, as performed by Frank Sinatra and Gene Kelly, spoofed by Victor Borge.

PARODY COMPOSED: Dr.G.H. and Giorgio Coniglio, September 2013. 

PARODY-SONGLINK: To access ukulele chord-charts to help you accompany "TAKE OUR HATS OFF TO VICTOR" on your favorite instrument, click HERE.

The second verse invokes the sort of patron with whom you sometimes have to share the cheap-seats-section of your local ballpark. This variation on the baseball-park anthem is modified by the 'traditional' earlier start of lyrics versus music (“Borge-positive version”); the less well-known opposite distortion (“Borge-negative version”) is also shown.  

TAKE OUR HATS OFF TO BORGE

(to the tune of "Take Me Out To The Ballgame")

Victor's "Clown Prince of Denmark” -

Unique musical gags;

He detached lyrics and melody - 

Spiffier spoof than an old parody.

For if you can handle the offset

The cadence will hit the mark,

Seventh In-ning home-run you’ll score

At the old ballpark.

Tickets cheap for the ballgame,

Seats right up in the clouds;

We won’t buy overpriced drinks and snacks -

Friends snuck in with a couple six-packs.

Let me hoot and jeer at the home-team;

My date’s dismayed that she came,

For it’s one, two, three beers you’re out

At the old ballgame.

(BORGE Version - Lyrics advanced):

………..   (Tickets)

Cheap for the ballgame; seats right

Up in the clouds we won’t

Buy overpriced drinks and snacks  - Friends snuck

In with a couple six-packs. Let me

Hoot and jeer at the home-team;  my date’s

Dismayed that she came, for it’s

Big crowd at Rogers Dome,
Toronto

One, two, three beers you’re out at the

Old ball-game.   xxx-xxx.

(Funky Version - Lyrics Delayed):

xxx-xxx. Tickets cheap for the

Ballgame, seats right up in
The clouds, we won’t buy drinks overpriced

And snacks - Friends snuck in with a couple

Six-packs; let me hoot and jeer at the

Home-team, my date’s dismayed that

She came, for  it’s  one, two, three beers

You’re out at the old.

……….. (ballgame). 

Political palindromes, H - J

 

From this point, you can proceed either forwards or backwards.

For FORWARD, proceed to the next set (K to M), of 'POLITICAL PALINDROMES'. 
For BACKWARD, return to the previous set (E to G), 

OR return to the original post on this topic.

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.

MAR 15 (2020): BLANK

MAR 10, 2020: Praising the CHARLESTON GARDEN [7]

SATIRE COMPOSED: Giorgio Coniglio (registered pseudonym) and Dr. GH, 2018. Today's offering has been inspired by Mother Nature's wonderful displays, aided by ingenious garden designers who took advantage of the favorable climate in coastal South Carolina. The author has had the good fortune to be able to serve as a docent for the March 'Glorious Garden' Tours organized by the Historic Charleston Society.
Today's verses have all been through the extensive editing process at the cooperative poetry and humor site OEDILF.com (the Omnificent English Dictionary in Limerick Form). The illustrating photographs, unless otherwise indicated, were obtained on GC's iphone 7, and processed using Powerpoint software.

CURRENT CONTENTS

Charleston garden

Garden-tour docents

Indica azaleas

Tractor-seat plant

Creeping fig

Japanese yew

Gazebo 

The above verses conjure up visions of tranquility, beauty, wonderment and pride as a part of gardening. The reader is warned however that more negative emotions such as dismay, victimization, and revenge may derive from forces, random, natural, man-made and sometimes self-inflicted, that detract from our attempts to surround ourselves with 'natural beauty'. That said, you can read about these more negative aspects on the post 'Naughtiness in the landscape: Garden Intruders'. 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 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.