More Gals & Gigs: Additional Instances of Nominative Determinism

      Aptronyms both apt and nimble

     Journalist covering new Trump campaign

Grace Hunderphyre

     Qanon follower 

Eileen Tudor-Wright   

     Female Rabbi 

Mavis Bea Amitzva

     Restaurant salad bar purchasing agent 

R. D. Choque-Hartz

     Lesbian rodeo cowgirls

Andie and Elle O'Plaigh

     Pioneer in development of television technology

Kath O'Dreigh 

     Millenium sect leader

D. Essie Raye

 

     Psychotherapist

Penny Foyer-Thawtz 

     Oldest High-School Diploma award recipient  

Faye DeComp-Leigh

     Local politician recently defecting to GOP 

Annie Portina-Storm

     Retired vaudeville song-and-dance sister act 

Shelby Qumm 'n' Rhonda Mauntyn

WoLaLy: EYES, EARS, NOSE

     The word ladder:

EYES > DYES > DOES > DORS > MORS > MARS > 
EARS > BARS > BASS > BOSS > LOSS > LOSE > 
NOSE

     The WoLaLy:

"Blind 'ayes' may have it, mind. But how fare eyes

of wine-dark hues or blues in spun-dried dyes 

which fall on more than orb of Cyclops does...?"

Thus queries blondined Brit Diana Dors.

(Her drift, in Latin...? "Mihi lucrum mors." *)

Yet Di's from Venus, whereas I'm from Mars,

so loathe to lend my muted mutant's ears.

     * To me, death be reward.

     (a work in progress)

     The Colloquy

WoLaLy's orthography is determined in a manner reminiscent of the 

spelling method employed by certain fans of France's OuLiPo when 

referencing that influential literary movement.

     OuLiPo is shorthand for 'Ouvroir de litterature potentielle. WoLaLy 

is shorthand for 'word ladder lyric.'

     A word ladder is a series of words created by altering one letter in 

the spelling of a beginning word to form a second word, then changing 

one letter in that word to form a third word, and so on until a final 

word is spelt, leaving a series of words.

     An example: SOUP > SOUS > NOUS > NOTS > NUTS. 

     (The letter struck through is the letter altered; the letter in bold 

is the letter substituted for the letter in that same position within the 

word previous.)

     A WoLaLy consists of a series of lines, the final word of each line 

being one of the word ladder words taken in order. 

     A WoLaLy can also consist of a series of rhyming distichs, the final 

word of alternating lines being one of the word ladder words taken in 

order and the final word of the other line in the distich being a word 

which rhymes with that particular word ladder word. The word ladder 

word can end either the first or the second line of the distich. 

     When rhyming distichs are being attempted, the final word in each 

odd-numbered line of each distich in order is one of the words of a word 

ladder taken in order.

     In that case the final word of each even-numbered line of each distich 

in order is a word which rhymes with the final word of the line just above. 

Thus rhyming distichs are formed.

     Instead of appearing as the final word in odd-numbered lines of each 

distich, it can appear as the final word in even-numbered lines; in either 

case, the distichs generated are rhyming distichs, though, to repeat, 

rhyming lines are not an essentiol component of the WoLaLy.

     The meter of the lyric varies with each individual poem.

     The total length of the lyric depends, of course, on the total number 

of words in the source word ladder and whether or not distichs are 

a feature of the scheme.

Gals & Their Gigs (aka Rhondas & Their Rackets, Connies & Their Callings or Debbys & Their Dodges)

OCCUPATION:
Journalist podcasting about craft beers, wines and spirits
NAME:
Scheherazade Ogg-d'Ettbitter

OCCUPATION: 
Rights advocate for regional LGBTQ communities
NAME:
Freda B. Ewen-Mee

OCCUPATION:
Climate Activist Treasurer in local Hitler Youth  

NAME:
Hannah Greene-Goebbels

     (more Gals to come: a work in progress)

The Idylls of Ubu: Cantos VIII, IX & X: RBI BIO, RUB 'YAT & URB OUI

(a work in progress)

The Idylls of Ubu, Cantos VI & VII: ROB YOU & BRA ORB

(a work in progress)

Runcibl'd Perispooner

Streaming's such a racket -- it's costin' me a packet. :
Pay-Per-View ::
(Me): Don't y'all smell gas...? (You): Don't be an ass! :
Vapor! Phew!

Wordplaythings IV: The Party Game

Grab your 

scissors, 

cut out your 

favorite 

MAGA-

mendacity 

conversation 

balloon text

and pin it 

nearest to 

whichever

cavity it 

sounds like 

it's issuing 

from.

Wordplaythings III: The Deep (State) Dive Into Donald's Toy Chest

     What's globular, plastic-coated, titian-topp'd  and balder than a cacklefruit...?

It's Drumph's MAGAgic Hate Ball, 

resembling nothing more nor less than one 

alarmingly porcine ball -- whether spit-,

sour-, soft-, odd-, low-, scuzz-, scum-, 

butter-, puff-, moth-, foos-, hair-, golf-,

sleaze-, base-, dirt-, screw-, slime-, goof-, 

curve-, black-, cannon-, knuckle- or 

racquet- racket- is entirely your call.

Just ask your Hate Ball a yes-or-no 

question, then shake it three times and 

turn it upside down to read the answer 

appearing in its bay window, an answer 

always expressed, of course, in only good

words -- indeed, "the very best words."

A small selection of 

MAGAgic Hate Ball Answers:

"GRAB

'EM BY THE

PUSSY."

"JEB LIKES

ILLEGALS BECAUSE 

OF HIS WIFE."

"THEY'RE 

MURDERERS, THEY'RE

RAPISTS."

"I HAVE

DOUBTS HE WAS BORN

IN THIS COUNTRY."

"MIDLER IS AN

EXTREMELY UNATTRACTIVE

WOMAN."

"I HAVE A GREAT

RELATIONSHIP WITH

THE BLACKS."

"BAN ALL 

MUSLIMS ENTERING

THE US..."

"HATE

IS WHAT WE

NEED."

 

"LAZINESS

IS A TRAIT OF 

BLACKS..."

"I

LOVE THE POORLY

EDUCATED."

Wordplaythings II: The Barbie Doll

 

THE KLAUS BARBIE
EINS

THE KLAUS BARBIE
ZWEI

Wordplaythings I: The Smurf

 

SMURFY'S LAW:
If stuff CAN get smurf'd up,
stuff WILL get smurf'd up...
and always in the
smurf'd-upest possible way.

WoLaLy: SOUP to NUTS

These verses concern (if their accents don't droop)

crumbling crackers 'n' rusks into alphabet soup.

Biscuits (Triscuits 'n' Carr's) are the hardtack I choose.

(Scores -- and more! -- y'all can score with a fistful of sous.)

Them Premium Unsalted Tops...? They'll do, too

(as will Late July Classic Saltines, entre nous).

Munch Crunchmasters! They come in hundred-pound lots,

ever term'd "de rigueur" by our planet's "have-nots."

Ergo, biscuits be basics -- no 'if's, 'and's or 'but's.

(Thus my meal, like my song, starts with 'soup,' ends up nuts.)

 

     * Crackers can be called biscuits in the UK.