APR (2021), submitted palindromes #16

 

TOURISTS' PALINDROMIC GUIDES; (introductory) CONCLUSION

WORDPLAY POST #197

The current offering represents a followup to a slew of recent map-art blogposts by Dr. G.H. and Giorgio Coniglio (registered pseudonym) and Dr. GH. 
 - Tourists' Palindromic Guide: The Old World #1
 - Tourists' Palindromic Guide: The Old World #2
 - Tourists' Palindromic Guide: The Old World #3
 - Tourists' Palindromic Guide: The Old World #4
and...
 - Tourists' Palindromic Guide: The Americas #1
 - Tourists' Palindromic Guide: The Americas #2
 - Tourists' Palindromic Guide: The Americas #3
 - Tourists' Palindromic Guide: The Americas #4

"A man, a plan, a canal - Panama"
Readers who are particularly interested in wordplay might also enjoy a fantastical discussion, set to music, on the development of this famous palindrome by Leigh Mercer, on our lyrics blog (SILLY SONGS and SATIRE)  ...
"Leigh Mercer's Palindrome Workshop" 

rêve: French for dream.

Tulsa, Oklahoma: a stop on U.S. 'Route 66', as mentioned in the eponymic jazz ballad. Click on Route 66 .

Amana: a religious community, the Pietists, founded this settlement in the state of Iowa in 1856. Click on Amana Colonies.

panama (Ecuadorian hat): a traditional brimmed straw hat of Ecuadorian origin, becoming popular worldwide at the beginning of the 20th century. Click on panama.

Act: The British North America Act paved the way for the  Confederation of Canada in 1867. Click on BNA Act.

And, if you still need a fix of more palindromic fun, go on to "Magical Canal Verses and Palindromes".

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CULINARY VERSE

CURRENT CONTENTS: 

Barbecue (southern)

Boiled peanuts (goober peas)

Caponata 
Cretan salad

Gefilte fish

Gnudi

Gyozas

Peel 'm 'n' eat 'm shrimp

Scouse

related: Italian treats  (three verses- a 'brief saga')

 

Author's Note: The regional term for this traditional hearty stew rhynes wuth "house". In the UK, "blouse" is generally pronounced with a terminal "z" sound, but in the US, either the "z" or "s" may be heard.

RELATED VERSE:

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FURTHER UPROOTED VERSE: More Poems About TREES

SATIRE COMPOSED: Giorgio Coniglio (registered pseudonym) and Dr. GH, May 2019. Most of the verses presented here have  been published  at OEDILF.com, an online humour dictionary that has accumulated over 100,000 carefully edited limericks. 

WORDPLAY LINK: An earlier collection of illustrated poems on this theme was published as a wordplay post, "UPROOTED VERSE: LIMERICKS ABOUT TREES" HERE. 

Leif's daily debris

silver maple in Toronto park;
large broken-off limb

Fabric artwork kindly provided by Rebecca Hurwitz. Hotlink: beckyhurwitz.net;
And for more poetry and photos about fabric art, see Giorgio's prior post.  

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

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Reversing Verse: Limericks About CLASSIC PALINDROMES, part #2

This post provides a continuation of the wordplay display started in December 5, 2020. In that initial post, the following classic palindromes (phrases or sentences whose letters are ordered identically when they are read backwards as well as forwards) were described and extolled in verse; contents 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 

CURRENT CONTENTS (part #2)

Please note that, continuing the convention adopted in the previous post , 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.

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

for continuation, see the link below

Some readers might be relieved to note that there is an alternate version of the original palindromic news headline that proclaims, with a more optimistic tone in keeping with the holidays ...

      A Santa deified at NASA.

Stay tuned for further posts that will bring you poetic discussion of more classic palindromes:

Scheduled for part #3 ...

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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