VEGGIES

CURRENT CONTENTS: 

Corn on the cob

Organic veggie-stand

Zucchini

Authors' Note: 'Sweet corn', eaten directly off the cob, is considered a vegetable. Originating in Mexico thousands of years ago, the plant was widely distributed to the rest of the world in the sixteenth century. As a grain, it is known in most countries and contexts by its original name "maize", and is now globally the world's most widely grown cereal crop.

The author is a skinny guy, but delights, as does Rob, in consuming corn on the cob when it's available in the late summer. An ear of corn (unbuttered) provides 50 to 100 calories, so normal consumption is not a major contributor to obesity.

GENERAL DIRECTIONS FOR WEB-EXPLORERS: 

To resume 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 December 2024. 

As of December 2024, there are 1800 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 their key elements 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.

Readers will likely have read the notice that as of December 2024, "Daily Illustrated Nonsense" will be converted to archive-mode, i.e. some polishing of presented posts will go on in the background, but there will generally be no brand-new material presented.  

Regrettably, for the same reasons, further regular posting of new material on the current topic-based blog will also be drawing to a close at the end of this calendar year, with sporadic exceptions. There will be some polishing and rearranging going on in the background (we have quite a few 'postholes' to fill in). Hence, it may still be worth your while to return and explore, to satisfy your yearning for funky humor and erudition. Thanks for your indulgence!

As time goes on, our creative impulses will be directed primarily at the song-lyric blog "Silly Songs and Satire". It already offers about 100 songs with parody-lyrics, and accompanying chord suggestions for stringed instruments such as ukulele. 

See y'all there!