MAGICAL ADVANCED PALINDROMES: Definition and Derivation

EDITOR: Giorgio Coniglio, December, 2016. 

An unrecognized subtype of "advanced palindrome" has been developed by the authors. A pair of related shorter palindromes is usually required as a starting point. These can be drawn from the classic palindrome repertoire, but related forms developed by the author are included. 

You can view our entire collection of these intriguing wordplay oddities, in a post on our blog "Edifying Nonsense", entitled Magical Palindromes: a compendium".

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JUL 15, 2020: DEFINING OPINIONS, sextet #1 [6]

CURRENT CONTENTS:
Academically

Birdlife

Boring

Crepuscular

Cruddy

Decompose

(for continuation, see the link below)

Authors' Note:  Birdlife is an occasionally used term, analogous to "wildlife", denoting aerial creatures that otherwise would have to be described by the term avifauna. Needless to say, all birdlife currently known is located on the planet Earth.

Authors' Note: Trudy's definition seems to be skewed towards the achievement of cruddiness, downplaying inherent or intrinsic cruddiness. We await further reports.

For more "defining opinions", please proceed to the second sextet by clicking HERE. 

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) JUL 15 (2020) singable satire: 'ICELAND IN THE SUN', as sung by Harry Belafonte

MUSICAL UNDERPINNINGS: "Island In the Sun", a 1957 popular song by Harry Belafonte 1957. The widely known original song has been covered in versions in German and Swedish, but not in Icelandic as far as I can ascertain. 

PARODY COMPOSED: Giorgio Coniglio, December 2015.

PARODY-SONGLINK: To find ukulele chord-charts to help you accompany "ICELAND IN THE SUN" on your favorite instrument, click HERE.

EXPLANATION: This song resulted from a family trip to Iceland in June 2015. Our few days there were packed with wonderful sightseeing excursions. The weather was as good as it gets in Iceland (only minimal rain, not interfering with our travels). The highlight of the trip was the recently opened IceCave excursion; after a palpitating ride by giant truck over a huge ice-field, we walked into a system of tunnels in the glacier itself, led by an excellent informative guide.
The Icelandic language, a venerable tongue which has apparently changed little since the first settlers came to the island in the 9th century, seems challenging to learn. Fortunately for us, the friendly locals we encountered, at least in Reykjavik, all spoke English quite well.

Ísland = Iceland , pronounced eess-lant. 
góðan daginn = good morning, hello, pronounced goh-than die-in.
Eyjafjallajökull (j's pronounced as y)  = Island-Mountain-icecap, the subglacial volcano whose brief eruption caused the Icelandic ash problem in 2010; the volcano has now been considered dormant for 5 years.
    

ÍSLAND (Iceland) IN THE SUN

(to the tune of Belafonte's "Island in The Sun")

This year we flew with Icelandair

Europe-bound and stopped halfway there.

We left TO, our kids from DC,

A meet-up trip for our family. 

Oh, Ísland, land of sun

Nights stay bright for the month of June;

Four full days, awesome sights to praise

Geysers, glaciers, volcanoes

IceCave, Langjökull

And Blue Lagoon.

A neat idea, break our trip

Meet at hotel-suite in Reykjavik.

Restos coped with vegg-necessity

And one kid GF lactose-free.

Didn’t know, but they’re eco-smart

Geo-thermal at system’s heart

Hot water piped everywhere you see

Heat all home and greenhouse for free.

Oh, Ísland, northern light

Eyjafjallajökull
eruption March 2010

Four full days touring awesome sights

Hotel choose, or your sleep you’ll lose

Weekends downtown bars

Never close at night.

Recent attraction, not to skip

Monster truck, glacier Ice-Cave trip

Bundle up, walk though colored ice

View crevasse, bottom-up is nice. 

Oh, Ísland, isle of fun

Nights stay bright for the month of June

Four full days, awesome sights to praise

Glacier overlying
 dormant volcano, 2013

Close with steamy bathing

At Blue Lagoon.

I'll greet old friends - “góðan daginn”, soon

When we go back some year in June

Next time stay longer, get my fill - 

Climb, and say, “Eyjafjallajökull”.

Oh, Ísland, isle of sun

Nights stay bright for the month of June;

More full days, awesome sights to praise

Geysers, glaciers, vol

canoes

And Blue Lagoon.

tourist-party atop the glacier

 'night'-time hike down volcano
 to a steamy bathing spot

 

JUL 10, 2020: EDIFICATION about Word-Pairs -- "The BINOMIALS", A Linguistic Lesson:

EDIFICATION about SINGABLE WORDPLAY

LESSON COMPOSED: Dr. G.H. and Giorgio Coniglio, 2015. This explanation is required for the reader to understand the collections of short poems about binomials that summarize the day-to-day work displayed on our daily blog, and provide material on Word-Pairs that underlies the details in this song cycle of parodies.

BINOMIALS: We are dealing here with a linguistic device discussed by Wikipedia as “Siamese twins” or ‘Irreversible Binomials”. These 

phrases include some of the most colorful expressions in English. There are probably a thousand binomial expressions in the English language. To enhance interest for those who review both humorous poetry and song-lyrics, we have skewed our creations dealing with  binomial pairs here, to emphasize those that have some more appealling aspects. These include alliterative binomials (e.g. kith and kin), rhyming binomials (e.g. shake and bake), reduplications (e.g. helter skelter) and legal jargon (e.g. last will and testament).

Some of you may already have favorite expressions (e.g. yours and mine) that are not covered by these categories; we apologize that the potential volume of material does not allow us to be all-inclusive. 

POETIC LYRICS: Our verses about various binomial expressions have, for the most part, been submitted to the online site OEDILF (the Omnificent English Dictionary in Limerick Form), where rigorous collaborative editing proceeds in a process that may take as long as a year (approval by 5 writer-contributors is required as a part of the protocol).

These verses are then editorially considered here at this unrelated website by Giorgio Coniglio, registered pseudonym, who recommends illustrative pictorial material and other addenda for prompt release to the audience of "Daily Illustrated Nonsense". On further review, this material, and similar poems not part of the original process, may be collated here for topic-based collections, as you will now find on these pages.  

UKULELE and GUITAR-FRIENDLY SONG-LINKS: As of 2024, our whole series of song-lyrics (9 songs to date) is displayed under the rubric "singable satire" on our main blog "Daily Illustrated Nonsense".

The links for each of these blogposts is diaplayed at the bottom of this post.

We have also provided chord-charts and playing suggestions for acompanying musicians to make these outpourings singable.The keys are targeted principally at ukulele-players, but easy transposition is possible if you play guitar, banjo, mandolin, or other stringed instrument. Follow the links that accompany each post to get to "Silly Songs and Satire" !

 can be found in a friendly format for ukulele- and guitar-players on our sister blog "SILLY SONGS and SATIRE, along with performing suggestions. 

loonie and toonie: rhyming coins

#1

#2

#3

 

#4

#5

#6

#7

HOT LINKS to the WORD-PAIR parody lyrics 

(these are the links that take you to "Daily Illustrated Nonsense". Follow further links, once there, to find the chord charts and other suggestions for playing the songs on ukulele (or other stringed instruments). 

Pairs
Alliterative Binomials, part #1
Alliterative Binomials, part #2
Reduplications - Lesson
Reduplications - Lexicon A to K
Reduplications - Lexicon M to Z
Rhyming Binomials, A to M
Rhyming Binomials, M to Z
Legal Doublets

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JUL 5, 2020: CURTAINED VERSE, faintly obscene selected verses, part #1 [6]

INTRODUCTION:

This collection of verses have also been web-published at OEDILF.com, an online humor dictionary that has accumulated 120,000 carefully edited limericks. 
As limerick-writers are often tempted to dive into the baser spheres of human life, the dictionary has a "curtained room", accessible only to online members, presumably flagging that the designated verses may not be suitable for children. On his own recognizance, Giorgio has selected the following verses from OEDILF's Curtained Room, based on their  requiring only "light curtaining", and taken the risk of offending some readers by publishing them on this otherwise sedate, and arguably family-oriented blog.

WARNING: The following verses may not be suitable for all ages. Those under 12 or over 82 are advised to read the following content only with the permission and supervision of an adult family member.  

CONTENTS:

Adultery

Braless

Business Agenda

Buoy and Gull

The Clench

Come and Go

for continuation, see the link below

 

Authors' Note: 

oy gevalt (oy-guh-VULT): phrase borrowed from Yiddish; an exclamation expressing shock, surprise or disapproval

schadenfreude (SHA-den-froi-duh, or as here, sha-den-FROI-duh): loanword from German; taking delight in others' misfortune

Authors' Note: The authors hope and trust that Fran did actually check the age of her agents.

Authors' Note:  In the above verse, italics and blue font are used to indicate idioms that fall under the grammatical label of "binomial expressions". Read more verses explaining and exemplifying musical clichés of this type HERE.  

Authors' Note: 

STD: initialism for 'sexually transmitted disease', a problem for which one might consult an STD-clinic or an STD-doc

Although it's principal meanings revolve around the Latin term for flowery or flourishing, florid has come to imply, in the medical context, "referring to a disease or to a symptom in its fully developed form", or perhaps "fragrantly, flagrantly florid".

FOLLOW-UP INFO:  Lots of ordinary folks (not just prurient porn-buffs) have united in their demand for more verses on related topics, even if they require lightweight "curtaining" !

So, please follow this link! for 'curtained verse, part#2' 

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