There are several other Jumble blogs, but the ones I checked all started off by listing the answers. In this blog, answers can be either hinted at or masked by burying them in comments. No overt spoilers!
The restaurateur had to make some cuts to stay afloat. To lay off any servers would be to cut his very throat. The highest salaried person on the staff was the chief chef. And just the other day he'd seen a android that was deft.
The human chef was shown the door, the robot was installed. If it worked as advertised, the restaurant's scrape was solved. It had been programmed with the menu, and recipes for same. It could handle verbal orders, and it knew each server's name!
The robo-chef kept inventory of fixings that were vital. Things like garlic, daily used, and seasonal plants like fennel. Curiosity seekers came, to test the restaurant's new provender. Word got around to gourmets that Robo-Chef was a contender!
Other eating places acquired their own Robo-Chefs, Each with a recipe data-base the same as all the rest! Critics started talking of "McPheasant Under Glass" Human chefs got hired again, now bad cooking spoke of class!
I love "McPheasant Under Glass". How about Big Mac Cordon Bleu? The list is probably endless. Robo chefs are perhaps not altogether unlikely, Owen. You may be 'prescient'.
No problem with any clues; it's Monday. And I thought the solution was obvious, but pretty cute.
Owen, the poem as usual was witty and entertaining. I do wonder, though, why no one thought of giving his/her robot chef a different database from the others. Would have made a killing, no?
FLN: Wilbur, I believe it's Bill G who dislikes not having jumble answers up front. I still vote for keeping the blog the way it is. More interesting. And Owen has provided a list of other sites to find the solution.
Ref. psychology. I believe people tend to conflate psychoanalysis and psychological counseling theories with the rigorous study of human behavior. The latter is what I was referring to as NOT the stepchild of "real" science. Guess it's one of my hot butons.
I love your Jumble poems, Owen. It's so much fun to find all he different items as well as the solution.
I struggled for a moment with 4 on this one, and actually went to the solution for help. Once I got the solution, helped by what all those words on the blackboard had in common, I also got 4. I'm not great at herbs, but thank goodness I'm better at _erbs.
An advantage of working online -- the food word was not one I'd have recognized, but online I was rearranging the tiles, and go the ta-da on that one without even realizing it was a word!
The riddle was so obvious that, before I started this blog and began doing them online instead of P&I, I wouldn't have bothered to unscramble the words!
Like but unlike Misty I had trouble with one of the words but #3. The riddle indeed was self apparent so I had teo letters left.
One of them in position 6. Having that , including the other letter, finally got the missing word . I had to work for my reward.
FLN . As I indicated, I'm a neophyte .I did read that Freud Bio . I see you're on a completely different rung of the psychology umbrella.
My TBTimes has links to various articles that might have interest to readers. The author explored the mathematics of coincidence which Owen refers to by the word, prescience.
In this xword world I've joined "prescience" is almost a daily occurrence
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The restaurateur had to make some cuts to stay afloat.
ReplyDeleteTo lay off any servers would be to cut his very throat.
The highest salaried person on the staff was the chief chef.
And just the other day he'd seen a android that was deft.
The human chef was shown the door, the robot was installed.
If it worked as advertised, the restaurant's scrape was solved.
It had been programmed with the menu, and recipes for same.
It could handle verbal orders, and it knew each server's name!
The robo-chef kept inventory of fixings that were vital.
Things like garlic, daily used, and seasonal plants like fennel.
Curiosity seekers came, to test the restaurant's new provender.
Word got around to gourmets that Robo-Chef was a contender!
Other eating places acquired their own Robo-Chefs,
Each with a recipe data-base the same as all the rest!
Critics started talking of "McPheasant Under Glass"
Human chefs got hired again, now bad cooking spoke of class!
I love "McPheasant Under Glass". How about Big Mac Cordon Bleu? The list is probably endless.
DeleteRobo chefs are perhaps not altogether unlikely, Owen.
You may be 'prescient'.
No problem with any clues; it's Monday. And I thought the solution was obvious, but pretty cute.
ReplyDeleteOwen, the poem as usual was witty and entertaining. I do wonder, though, why no one thought of giving his/her robot chef a different database from the others. Would have made a killing, no?
FLN: Wilbur, I believe it's Bill G who dislikes not having jumble answers up front. I still vote for keeping the blog the way it is. More interesting. And Owen has provided a list of other sites to find the solution.
Ref. psychology. I believe people tend to conflate psychoanalysis and psychological counseling theories with the rigorous study of human behavior. The latter is what I was referring to as NOT the stepchild of "real" science. Guess it's one of my hot butons.
Buttons!
DeleteIsn't it ironic to respond with an adverb?
ReplyDelete~ OMK
I love your Jumble poems, Owen. It's so much fun to find all he different items as well as the solution.
ReplyDeleteI struggled for a moment with 4 on this one, and actually went to the solution for help. Once I got the solution, helped by what all those words on the blackboard had in common, I also got 4. I'm not great at herbs, but thank goodness I'm better at _erbs.
Misty ~
ReplyDeleteI'm not particularly good with exotic herbs, but #4 was easy for me - probably because I grow it.
Very creative of you, Ol'Man Keith--or should I say 'ver_ _ _ _y' creative.
ReplyDeleteLol!
DeleteAn advantage of working online -- the food word was not one I'd have recognized, but online I was rearranging the tiles, and go the ta-da on that one without even realizing it was a word!
ReplyDeleteThe riddle was so obvious that, before I started this blog and began doing them online instead of P&I, I wouldn't have bothered to unscramble the words!
Like but unlike Misty I had trouble with one of the words but #3. The riddle indeed was self apparent so I had teo letters left.
ReplyDeleteOne of them in position 6. Having that , including the other letter, finally got the missing word . I had to work for my reward.
FLN . As I indicated, I'm a neophyte .I did read that Freud Bio . I see you're on a completely different rung of the psychology umbrella.
My TBTimes has links to various articles that might have interest to readers. The author explored the mathematics of coincidence which Owen refers to by the word, prescience.
In this xword world I've joined "prescience" is almost a daily occurrence
WC
Links, please. I know LATimes, NYTimes, but what/where is TB?
DeleteSuch as OOP after IM talking about it yesterday
DeleteWC
Owen, pardon . TBTimes is tampT Bay Times .
ReplyDeleteI think the article was on a Saturday. When I'm flummoxed, I'll browse the Editorial page . I'll look for it.
WC
This article seems to be by the guy who disputes "Synchronicity".
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When I Google "science and coincidence" I get a lot of stuff: pro and con.
DeleteIf the methodology of choosing and editing xwords hadn't been explained I would assert that domeons is reading this blog and cluing accordingly.
WC
Words 1, 2, and 3 came easily. I needed hints on the first 2 letters of the 4th word. The sol. came easily.
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