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Not very tough today. But if you're looking for hints, please try these.
The 4 prelims sound like:
Scaliest, Crooner, Chin chat, & Glasnost.
Not exact rhymes, but they may set you on the right track.
~ OMK
Dear Friends,
Today is a sad anniversary. We all remember where we were 17 years ago and how shocking it was to see our vulnerability exploited by 19 religious fanatics.
Even while we enjoy our word games, we know there is a sense in which “sacred” language has been used to guide the gullible to terrible deeds. As we recall the horrible assault against ALL of us, let’s try to unite in keeping our nation the opposite of the terror-mongers.
Let’s stand together for democracy, civility, and humanistic values.
Today's final answer may ring in tune with "Sense Abdication."
As novice temporal traveler, there are thing that you should know.
You must realize that there are times to which you cannot go!
It's your duty to not interfere, to alter events past.
Strive with your utmost efforts to keep history intact.
The upkeep of your time machine is your responsibility.
Keep your flux capacitor's hum tuned to a key of G.
When going to historic times, your garb must be authentic,
And whatever alias you use should be culturally mimetic.
Be aware of tense where anachronisms can cause qualms.
Watch your nomenclature: are they teepees or wigwams?
If you travel oft thru time, you'll see some paradoxes.
Take in stride those situations, they'll seldom be obnoxious.
On my first pass thru, I got all 4 wrong! I entered them in as aliases anyway, hoping the reshuffling would help me see the correct answers: asail (a-sail), nuter (nutter or neuter), tainct (taint or tinct), mottus (mottoes). That usually helps but it didn't today. But the gift of working it online struck TWICE today! While shifting the letter tiles around, on both #2 and #3, the game bleeped its congrats at me for a transitory combination that I hadn't realized formed a word!
FLN, both the subtitle and sidebar specifically state that words embedded or "masked by burying them in comments" are encouraged. And the more people do that, the plainer that intent becomes! The game is not just to find the words in my poem, but also to try your utmost to sneak them in to your own comments! Changing tense or gender or whatever is preferred, but leaving them intact isn't verboten.
A useful set of guidelines for beginning spacetime sojourners - pretty neatly expressed in what seem to be heptameter lines. Not easy to bring off! Bravo!
I'm with Owen. I skipped#1 . Then #2 . I got #3 . 1 and2 slowly came . #4 stumped me though I tried my hardest. Then I quickly entered CLOSE ENCOUNTER for the riddle . Oops .No C.
At this point off to CC land where the NW slowed me down . Success and back here.
I now had the riddle and 4 of the 6 letters. Big help . Here's the list I made:
UTSTOM,SMUTTE,STOMUT,TOMUST, MUSETT AND TUMTOS.
A couple were close .
Re. Time . If one believes in divine power then why limit It timewise. ie . If good works and decisions are rewarded then perhaps we've had our reward and the act has yet to be performed .
Thus the enigma of free will which has perplexed great minds for EONS.
WC a not so great mind
Well, I'm afraid I was totally stumped by this Jumble--getting only #1 on my first try. Thank goodness for Owen's poems--they slowly helped me get the other three, and once I had those I was able to get myself out of my taut state and into a much better . . . place.
Also, thank you for clarifying the rules, Owen. And thank you for asking C.C. to post an announcement, Ol'Man Keith. It would be great to get more members to join us here.
And thank you for the 9/11 commentary, OMK. I was on a trip with my husband in Paris at the time and he was watching the news while I was taking a shower. He was totally stunned and we didn't know whether we should go on to Crete, as planned, or go home--though we feared flights were probably cancelled. The day left a devastating impression on us.
Trying my utmost today, I succeeded with all but the first word where I had asail and knew it couldn't be right but not until reading Owen's poem did I realize what the word really is. Nevertheless, my tuner was intact and I believe I have the final solution.
Yes, though my memory is failing in many instances, I remember clearly and sharply those moments when the planes fell and it still produces goose bumps thinking about it. R.I.P. all those who died and especially the heroic passengers of flight 93. May their memory live on.
Misty expresses how the impact of 9/11 was felt instantly around the world.
I was getting ready to go to rehearsal the morning of 9/11 when the phone rang. It was my stage manager asking whether we should cancel the day's calls. I asked why, and he told me to turn on the TV.
We canceled the rehearsal calls. I met with my cast the next day. They had a choice - whether to continue with our play or cancel production entirely. This was a new play, a drama about a dystopian future following an unnamed catastrophe. Its impact was to alert our audience to hard times ahead and a call for strength to meet whatever the future should hold.
The cast voted unanimously to continue.
~ OMK
My clearest memory: On Sept. 11 I was getting ready for work and had turned on the tv to CNN. Aaron Brown was reporting and I've always since remembered him and how we both watched as the plane flew into the tower, and then later looked on in stunned shock as the second tower fell. There was nothing to say; it was unbelievable.
Of course it proved to be all too believable, didn't it.
Re jumble hints, here's my situation: I'm completely in tune with the idea of scattering words -- either in their original, intact forms or slightly modified -- throughout poems and other comments. This can be helpful and is always entertaining.
But though I do try my utmost to see the viewpoints of others, I have to admit that I get a little tense when seeing a bunch of clue words or their aliases or their rhymes all lined up in a group and actually identified as such. That takes all the fun away. It's like going on a scavenger hunt and finding everything you're searching for all lined up together in the first place you look.
Well, just my proverbial two cents. Maybe worth less than two.
P.S. Owen, I love the recent sci-fi slant of the poems. Right up my wormhole!
WC ~
I am quite taken by your notion that we may already have rec'd our reward and need yet to perform the deed that earned such deserving.
(Can't say I'm equally fond of a "divine power" overturning time. Einstein's arguments for spacetime seem a much richer field to mine.)
~ My not-so-great mind ...
~ OMK
Words 1, and 2 came easily. I needed a hint on the first letter of 3, and 4 to get them. I had the first word of the sol. misspelled. When I corrected it, the second word was obvious.
I don't have time for time travel. Do you have the current time? What is time anyway?
Great poems, Owen!!
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