AUG 20 (2020), TOURISTS' PALINDROMIC GUIDE: The Americas #1

SATIRE COMPOSED: Giorgio Coniglio (registered pseudonym) and Dr.G.H., 2018. 
WORDPLAY LINK: The panels showing palindromic phrases derived from geography of the Americas were originally displayed on Wordplay posts on this blog during the interval from January through April 2018. Geographically focused concoctions are among the many palindromic treasures honored and displayed on this site. 

Want more palindromic fun? Click HERE to proceed to collages 13 through 24 .

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BUZZWORDS: 5-or 6-legged verses about INSECTS

WORDPLAY post with Illustrated Verses

SATIRE COMPOSED: Dr.G.H. and Giorgio Coniglio (registered pseudonym), July 2019, updated April 2023. Most of the verses presented here have been published  at OEDILF.com, an online humor dictionary that has accumulated over 120,000 carefully edited limericks. Giorgio can currently point to 600 of his submissions accepted for publication (many of them have been reproduced on this blog for your enjoyment). 

To view more instances of "HOLESOME VERSE: Limericks About CLOTHING MOTHS", click HERE.

Authors' Note: The isabella tiger moth, Pyrrharctia isabella enters the cold season in wintry parts of North America in the form of a banded woolly bear caterpillar. Traditionally, her peer-group would attempt to get through the winter by altering their metabolism to manufacture compounds known as cryoprotectives, allowing them to recover from freezing. Our protagonist seems to have discovered another way around this challenge.

Authors' Note: Fact-sheets dealing with related key information have been posted here by etymologists. These include short poems pertaining to insects that eat woollens, scavenge for food, destroy wood structures, prey on human blood and torment domestic pets.

Readers are advised to exercise care in distinguishing entomologists from etymologists.

Authors' Note: The authors note, with regret, and with continuing scratching of their inflamed ankles, the opening of the 'fire ant season'.      

Even in the winter, they can be activated.
Watch out!

Learn more about the red imported fire ant (RIFA) at Wikipedia.

Authors' Note:   The term 'gnat' can be used to described a variety of small, swarming flies. Owing to their small size, the sort that bite are often known as 'no see 'ums'. There is a companion piece to this verse 'gnat repellent' that extends the details of this topic.    

Authors' Note:  For several decades, there has been a prevalent belief that a particular bath oil product had the ancillary property of repelling attacks by swarms of gnats. However, objective testing by the American organization Consumers Union has debunked a special role for this product. 

Learn more about gnat repellents at Consumers Union's website.

Requests from many entomologists, armchair nature enthusiasts, pest control professionals, buggers, and just ordinary folks have come to fruition; there is now a pair of follow-up post continuing this theme (BUGS!), that you can easily access by clicking HERE! 

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Sentimental Verse: DENTAL FEELINGS

CURRENT CONTENTS:

Cavities

D.D.S.

Deep Dental Cleaning (perio-)

Flossing

Gnashing (bruxism)

Hallowe'en verse (sugary treats)

Implants

Mercury-amalgam fillings 

Prognathism

Root canals

Fluoridation (3 verses: a 'brief saga')

Authors' Note: 

local: jargon for injectable local an(a)esthetic

Authors' Note: 

glossary: a lexicon of the foreign-derived, technical or obscure words of a field of work 

Authors' Note: 

to get one's just deserts: idiom, for getting what one deserves (surprisingly, this expression is unrelated to the ingestion of sugary treats).

The chief reason for needing tooth replacement in late adulthood is dental caries and its consequences. 

Authors' Note:  The use of amalgam as the basis of dental fillings is reviewed here. PLus, your favorite limericists have made some more general comments about mercury poisoning ('erethism') HERE. Although standard dental amalgam is an alloy of mercury and silver, routine removal of these fillings is not routinely recommended. Ask your dentist.

Authors' Note: 

gnathic: referring to the jaw or to the mandibular bone

idiopathic: of unknown cause

(Note that the three verses of this "brief saga" can be found in more readily legible format on the blog "Daily Illustrated Nonsense" by clicking HERE.)

Here's a LIST OF LINKS to collections of intriguing poems (over 160 of these!) on medical/dental topics that can now be found on various posts. 

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Even More Immersible Bird-Verse: WATERFOWL #3 (H to O)

PARODY COMPOSED: Giorgio Coniglio (registered pseudonym) and Dr. GH, July 2019, a continuation of prior blogposts on this topic. 

 The Omnificent English Dictionary In Limerick Form is an online humor dictionary that has accumulated over 100,000 carefully edited poems, including three hundred or so by Giorgio. The present collection of verses, recently submitted to OEDILF and still under review, represents a bird-brained continuation of earlier work on the same subject. 

Readers who enjoy our collections of verses describing the natural world around them with illustrative images and informative text, might also enjoy these blog-offerings...

Verses about Waterfowl, June '19
Verses about Waterfowl (part #2), July '19

Verses about Waterfowl (part #3), Apr '20, as above

Verses about Waterfowl (part #4 - Loons), Aug '20.

Verses about Waterfowl (part #5), Dec '20. 

PHOTOS: Unless otherwise noted (by pale blue acknowledgment plaques), embedded photographs were taken with and transferred from Giorgio's cellphone. Following submission of the poems to OEDILF, the slides collages we present here were formatted using Powerpoint software on a vintage 2000-era PC computer. No photographic subjects were reimbursed for participating in this undertaking, and OEDILF has no involvement in the pictorial portion of this presentation. 

American white ibis, Carolina lowcountry marsh at sunset

CONTENTS:

Hooded mergansers

Juvenile night herons

Laughing gulls

Little blue herons

Loons (see the collection "defining verse")

Mallard ducks

Mute swans

Oystercatchers

Bird-watchers, academic ornithologists, wordplay enthusiasts, wildlife photographers, Giorgio's relatives, and just everyday folks have united in their demand for still more illustrated doggerel on this topic!

So, please follow this link! 

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