Feb 28, 2026: EDITORIAL NOTICE

 

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 the present.

As of March 1, 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. 

Please verify our math  ...

    30 posts per month X 5 years (2020 - 2024) = 1800 posts 

    15 posts per month X 1 year (2025)              = 180 posts

     10  posts per month X 1 year (from January 2026) =20 posts 

Collections such as this one, are also assembled here on "Edifying Nonsense" in topic-based groups.

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.

STOP THE PRESSES! (breaking news!)

Readers will likely have read the notice that as of July  2025, "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 ("Edifying Nonsense") will also be drawing to a close , with sporadic exceptions. There will be some polishing and rearranging going on in the background (we have 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 almost 200 songs with parody-lyrics, and accompanying chord suggestions for stringed instruments such as ukulele. 

See y'all there! 

JAN 20, CATALOG of DOGGEREL: travels,

daily blog

Here's a list of links to PHOTO-COLLAGES dealing with travels undertaken over 5 weeks starting April 1, 2025, as featured in posts in the archives of "Daily Edifying Nonsense". (Each "composite" displays 5-20 photos)

April 2, Japan Visit: arrival in Tokyo

April 3, Japan Visit: a bit more of Tokyo

April 4, Japan Visit: Kanazawa

April 5, Japan Visit: haiku poems

April 6, Japan Visit: Kyoto 1

April 7, Japan Visit: Kyoto 2

April 8, Japan Visit: Kyoto castle and palace

April 9, Japan Visit: riverboating 1

April 10, Japan Visit: riverboating 2

April 11, Japan Visit: side-trip to Nara

April 12, Japan Visit: Kyoto, still more shrines

April 13, Japan Visit: Koyasan, mountain and monastics

April 14, Japan Visit: Koyasan cemetery

April 15, Japan Visit: Osaka EXPO 2025,1

April 16, Japan Visit: Osaka EXPO, 2

April 17, Japan Visit: near Magome

April 18, Japan Visit: Nakasendo Trail

April 19, Japan Visit: Matsumoto

April 20, Japan Visit: around Matsumoto

April 21, Japan Visit: Takayama

April 22, Japan Visit: Takayama Festival floats

April 23, Japan Visit: Shirakawago

April 24, Japan Visit: Nagoya

April 25, Japan Visit: Toyota Museum

April 26, Japan Visit: Shizuoka's Tea Museum

April 27, Japan Visit: The Emperors' Place

April 28, Japan Visit: Tokyo neighborhoods

April 29: to Vancouver Island

April 30: Island beach walks

May 1: sunset, Nanoose, B.C.

May 2: spring, city of Vancouver

May 3: state visit to Washington, DC

May 4: inscrutable signs of Japan

May 5: editorial retraction

May 6: catching up

May 7: birds at the beach

May 8: Lowcountry miscellany

Apologies in advance: not having my computer along at this stage, my IT skills are hampered. You may have to go to our daily blog at 

daily.edifyingnonsense.com

and pick your way from post to post. 

Including a couple dozen brief videos

(live photos), there are some 300 photos in this collection. So take your time and enjoy!

FEB 15, CATALOG of DOGGEREL: PALINDROMES ("To and Fro")

   

Barred owl,
"Birds of Prey" demonstration

Harris hawk,
Marion Square, Charleston SC

        


 

 

1) Here's a list of links to collections of POEMS that honour palindromes (bidirectional wordplay), as found in posts on this blog. The shorter 'terse verses' of 1 or 2 stanzas are enumerated; the titles of additional longer poems with 3 stanzas or more ('brief sagas') are noted specifically in this tabulation.

For the larger collections, grouped in multiple sets, you can follow further links at the bottom of the primary post to proceed from 'part #1' to the next set on that topic.

Classic palindromes(limericks)#1      8

                                                #2       8

                                                   #3       8

                                                   #4       8

                                                   #5       4 + "Palindrome Workshop"

Life In Palindrome Valley                     9

Panama palindrome spoofs            9

Palinku (pal.-enriched haiku)     2020       6

                                               2021     12

                                               2022      12

                                               2023      11

                                               2024       9

                                     Presidential       9

                    Application in Spelling       7

   

SUMMARY OF POETRY POSTS RELATED TO PALINDROMES: In these 14 collections, we have accumulated more than 120 short poems on this topic, along with explanatory notes and illustrative photos. Mulling over this outpouring of six hundred lines of verse might be a good way to fill a dull winter evening. Join the party!  

2) Here's a list of links to SONG-LYRICS based on palindromes found in posts on our companion blog "Daily Illustrated Nonsense".

 In some cases the original tune used for the song-base of the satire might not be obvious to the reader, so we have listed them all below. 

Otto                                     "Bob" (Weird Al Yankovich)

Palindromes of Evil              "Sounds of Silence"

Sin and Redemption                 "He's Got the Whole World In His Hands"

 X66X                                                     "Route 66"                        

3) Here's a list of links to WORDPLAY-DISPLAYS based on palindromes featured in posts in the archives of this blog -- "Edifying Nonsense".

Each of the enumerated posts consist of a collection of slides showing wordplay on a variety of topics; the number of posts and the approximate number of palindromes (pals) is displayed for each topic-based collection.

Political Palindromes:  5 posts; 45 pals

Magical Palindromes:   7 posts; 96 pals

Geographic Pals (Americas): 5 posts; 150 pals

Geographic Pals ("Old World") 5 posts; 122 pals

Miscellany of Topics ("Meaningful Life", "Culinary", "Canalindromes", etc.)

                                        3 posts; 100+pals

SUBMITTED PALINDROMES

Introduction to Participants    1 post; 58 pals 

Targeted Palindromes             4 posts; 110 pals

Random Submissions             59 posts; 630 pals

SUMMARY OF WORDPLAY-POSTS BASED on PALINDROMES: In these collections, we have accumulated over 1000 palindromes (given a few inadvertent duplications), including some from the classic "archive", and a good number concocted by your blog-editors and our generous 7 contributors.  ENJOY !!!

DEC 20, CATALOG of DOGGEREL: WORD-PAIRS, and COUPLES

snowy egret

  1) Here's a list of links to collections of POEMS that honour word-pairs, as found in posts on this blog. The shorter 'terse verses' of 1 or 2 stanzas are enumerated; the titles of additional longer poems with 3 stanzas or more ('brief sagas') are noted specifically in this tabulation.

For the larger collections, grouped in multiple sets, you can follow further links at the bottom of the primary post to proceed from 'part #1' to the next set on that topic.

Binomial expressions #1          8

                                     #2           8

                                    #3          2 + "echoic binomials"     

(Re)duplications  #1                  8

                              #2                  7

SUMMARY OF POETRY POSTS RELATED TO WORD-PAIRS: In these 5 collections, we have accumulated more than 30 short poems on this topic, along with explanatory notes and illustrative photos. Mulling over this outpouring  might be a good way to fill a dull winter evening. Join the party!  

2) Here's a list of links to PARODY SONG-LYRICS based on word-pairs found in posts on our companion blog "Daily Illustrated Nonsense".

 In some cases the original tune used for the song-base of the satire might not be obvious to the reader, so we have listed them all below. 

Pairs                                                "Words"(Beegees)

Alliterative Binomials #1,#2          "The Elements" (Tom Lehrer)

Rhyming Binomials #1,#2              "The Elements"

(Re)duplications Lesson, #1,#2     "The Elements"

Formulaic Pleonastic-Legalistic      "Supercalifragilistic ...)

      Doublets

3) Here's a link to a sequence of WORDPLAY-DISPLAYS about word-pairs,  as  featured on archived blog-posts on "Daily Illustrated Nonsense". Follow the links at the bottom of each post to progress on this journey.

Lexicon of word-pairs                                 23 slides

   (binomial phrases, reduplications, legal doublets)

4) Here's a list of links to photo-collages dealing with pairs (couples), as  featured in our archived blog-posts. (Each "composite" displays 6-11 photos)

Portraits of couples -- standard photos           5 composites 

Couples -- background-subtracted                  5 composites

Meet Our Panel of Contributing Palindromists

Meet The Panel of Submitting Palindromists for the “Anals of Nonsense”

Giorgio Coniglio

2 min read

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Nov 29, 2025

(inner workings of the editorial office)

INTRODUCTION:

Following the birth of the “Anals of Nonsense” (more formally known as “Daily Illustrated Nonsense”), editors were struck by the frequency with which members of the writing public submitted unsolicited lists of palindromic phrases, apparently hoping for publication of this material. The vast majority of this doggerel was submitted by six rather prolific contributors, and we have offered each of them an honorary but reversible position as “Assistant Editor for Palindromes”. We spent some time tabulating their outpourings, and came up with these summaries that we hope will provide some insight into their predilections and their personalities.

inspirational phrases and creative writing proferred by palindrome contributor Don’s Ho

inspirational phrases and creative writing proferred by palindrome contributor Sarah Palindrome

inspirational phrases and creative writing proferred by palindrome contributor Melonia

inspirational phrases and creative writing proferred by palindrome contributor Ed, the Derailed Liar

inspirational phrases and creative writing proferred by palindrome contributor Hal Lelujah

inspirational phrases and creative writing proferred by palindrome contributor Terse Reverse

In a more defined protocol, we have asked each of these contributors, at intervals, to respond to a particular classic palindrome. Medium readers will be among the first to see these astounding results — stay tuned!

 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.