Wordplay maps: AMERICAN SCRAMBLE-TOWNS #13-16

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Anthropomorphic and Human BAR-FAUNA

CURRENT CONTENTS

Ark's bar

Gary the gator

Hamlet's ghostly dream

Lizards' lair

Medical watering hole

Monster-bar

Mule

Authors' Note: "Nessie", the Loch Ness monster and Greek mythological gorgons are described in other verses at OEDILF. Pretty much everyone knows about ogres.

Related Poems:

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DEATH and the AFTERLIFE #1

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Cardiac arrest

Decease in the crease

Dining in Heaven

End-of-life care

Garbage in Heaven

Giving up the ghost

Ghostbusters

Heavenly pie

(for continuation, see the link below)

Authors' Note:   Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest is the major cause of sudden otherwise-unexplained death.  This emergency demands chest compression as well as other resuscitative maneuvers by trained lay standers-by, ambulance workers and emergency room staff. Unfortunately, the ultimate success rate of such resuscitative measures in this setting remains quite low. 

Authors' Note: In hockey, an assist is recognition awarded to a player who passes the puck to the goal-scorer at a key point in play. A sudden death system for resolving the winner in games tied at the end of regulation play has generally been used in organized hockey since its inception. The (goal) crease is an area demarcated by colored ice directly in front of the goal line where the goalie (goalkeeper) is not to be interfered with by attackers.

Although professional hockey has been the undisputed domain of males, more and more women are participating in Canada's national sport as amateurs and international competitors.

 Authors' Note: In this verse, the authors fantasize that a throw-away free tabloid in Heaven, providing a list of scheduled events, would be named for the "heavenly host". To learn more about this grouping of celestial beings, refer to our verse in the collection "Creative Anachronisms" by clicking HERE.

Authors' Note: In some jurisdictions, all deaths in a long-term nursing facility must be reported to the office of the coroner.

Authors' Note: You may have gathered that the editors think that Heaven is a bureaucracy-ridden place. So, of course, as a resident there you may have to fill out a lot of documentation to obtain permission to import Earthworms and related paraphernalia.

 

Authors' Note: My partner's sweet apple pie is 'to die for', and so is the strawberry pie pictured above..

The editors have been besieged with requests for more poems on this topic, so you can proceed, if you like, to "Death and the Afterlife #2" by clicking HERE.

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Reversing Verse: Limericks about CLASSIC PALINDROMES #5

 This post provides a continuation of previous wordplay collections displayed on December 5, 2020, April 5, 2021, August 5, 2021, and December 5, 2021. In those earlier posts, classic palindromes (phrases and sentences whose letters are ordered identically when they are read either forwards or backwards) were described and extolled in verse; the topics of discussion, eight in each post, were as follows: 

1. Dennis sinned            

2. Drawn onward

3. Gnu dung

4. Yreka bakery

5. Lonely Tylenol

6. UFO tofu

7. Too hot to hoot

8. Never odd or even 

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9. Sex at noon taxes

10. No 'X' in Nixon.

11. A Santa at NASA

12. T. Eliot's toilet

13. Madam, I'm Adam

14. Sex of foxes

15. Able ere Elba

16. A Toyota's a Toyota

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17. Mr. Owl ate my metal worm

18. Emil's lime

19. Critique of palindromes, To idiot: 

20. A dim or fond 'No!' from Ida

21. No lemon, no melon (fruitless)

22. 'Contrived' (saw- and see- lines)

23. Flee to me, remote elf

24. No sir, prison (Roger Stone) 

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25. Zeus sees Suez (canals)

26. Step on no pets  

27. Do geese see God?  

28. No 'D'; No 'L' -- London (negation)

29. Dogma? I am God

30. Mix a maxim

31. Egad! no bondage

32. Go hang a salami..... 

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Please note that, continuing the convention adopted in the previous posts, there will be an exclusive correlation between green italicized font and palindromes. But not all of the palindromes displayed within the verses' lines are in the 'classic repertoire'. Some are recent concoctions by the author. 

33. Racecar

34. No left felon 

35. A man, a plan, a canal -- Panama

36. An igloo? Cool, Gina.

37.The Dacha: palindrome-enhanced American satire, (4 verses, a 'brief saga')

38. Leigh Mercer's Palindrome Workshop, (4 verses, a 'brief saga')

Authors' Note: Embedded within the verse are eight palindromic phrases, each in italics and green font, separated from each other by semicolons.

   This perseverating nonsense may be partly explained by the author having driven a 2002 Toyota Camry as his only automobile since 2009. That no car can compete for efficiency, value and longevity is embodied in the classic palindromic phrase A Toyota's a Toyota (see the linked previous post for further discussion.)  

Authors' Note: Apparently a few felons are politicians, and vice versa.

(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.) 

(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.) 

But, there are also more versified classic palindromes to review. Proceed to the next collection and view classic spoofs on the IPP (Iconic Panama Palindrome) HERE ! 

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