| piece, catch, mascot, blazer, poet lariat.|
|gritty, rotate, subdue, toupee, follow, hobnob, top of their lungs.
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The parade is coming down the street! Hurrah! Hooray!
ReplyDeleteThere's festoons of flowers, and bouquets on display
There's a float tossing candy, can you catch a piece?
There's a big brass band with drums keeping the beat!
The high school mascot is a brown dancing bear
In a furry costume, bet it's sweltering in there!
The Knights of Columbus march in matching blazers!
There's the royal court, princesses throwing out favors!
There's a 4-H float, a huge papier-mâché chicken,
"Poultry in Motion" on the truck's banner is written!
The Sheriff's Posse, on their horses they're veterans,
Some twirling lariats, the rest waving their stetsons!
The Shriners are there, in their kiddie-cars weaving,
ReplyDeleteRotating in patterns, their paths interleaving!
Next the Order of the Thistle, with the grit to wear kilts!
Bagpipes they are playing, with loud Scottish lilts!
A convertible cruises, with the mayor and her spouse.
He's somewhat subdued -- his toupee is turned about!
Marching disordered behind is the Pride contingent,
Dressed in rainbow outfits, but each one of them different!
Marchers follow floats, then bands playing anthems,
On the curb, people hobnob with strangers beside them.
Kids on top of dads' shoulders, their lungs cheering loud!
Parades are a wonder at making communities proud!
How appropriate that the original royal office holder of the poetic title was the namesake of the veteran cowboy film actor, Ben Johnson, only lacking the "H" in his surname.
ReplyDeleteGiven the focus of the cartoon, isn't it ironic that Master Jonson was Shakespeare's chief rival? - Yet he said of him, "He was not of an age, but for all time!"
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It's wonderful how you integrated the two jumbles, Owen. Did you do the j4 first and then write the j6 to match?
ReplyDeleteI am out of "hintability" today; tired, I guess.
As for solving, I found the j4 pretty straightforward. But the j6 was more difficult. Not the solution; that leapt to the eye. But words 2 and 4 made me scratch my head. Too many vowels perhaps? Number 2 came after a bit, number 4 not so. When the V8 can moment finally came -- d'oh!
Yep. You can see by the time stamps how much time passed between the two. Wrote the j4 without thinking about the j6, but was disappointed that it didn't have a good close, felt like it needed at least one more stanza. Then looked at the j6, and it all came together so obviously!
DeleteWell, it all worked beautifully. You are a wonder and should be proud!
DeleteOMG, Owen!!!! you outdid yourself....I don’t care how long it took!!! I come from the land of parades and I was right there at yours!!! Thanks!!
ReplyDeleteLoved your second one especially, Owen--many thanks--very clever ending. I had to really work to get #2, #4, and #6 on this Jumble, but, thank goodness, they all came through in the end, and that made the final, long solution easy. I too felt like going to the top of a mountain and cheering or yodeling!
ReplyDeleteI got up at seven and found Saturday and Sunday J's .I hadn't sussed the riddles even though I had the words- except I didn't have ROTATE I had ORATE*R. I knew it was spelled OR.
ReplyDeleteBut on Sunday I had gone to the J to let my mind rest on the big xword . This is the Misty method. Works wonders .
Saturdays kindred spirits leapt right out, not so Top of their lungs. Of course, I was missing the T.
So, members of the panel: do we award Owen the ribbon for "Beasts of Bourbon" or the genius of combinating two Jumbles.
And irony again: I missed a letter on Sunday on both J and Xword .
WC