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Back to the capitol, Travis made his normal way home.
ReplyDeleteOver the next few weeks, the incident shrunk like foam.
Then came the day, when he entered his small office,
Found a note slipped thru the door by someone being cautious.
"Meet at park bench, 3 o'clock this afternoon."
At last it was happening, making contact would be soon!
Curiosity would have driven him to attend this shady meet.
Not to show his foreknowledge would be no small feat!
It went as Slim predicted, at the blackmail threat he quailed.
His morale seeming broken, at the consequence he flailed!
Said the stranger, with an accent, "Money isn't my demand.
Information is what I covet. You can fetch what I command!"
(Much more to come, but I can tell you accent was Russian!)
The following post is an FLN. I noticed that folks probably don't automatically check the previous day . It's an expansion of the theme.
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The above link is to the article about the"Stand and Deliver" movie. What was interesting was the reference to South Park which satirized the movie which included (the latter) had a "cheating" segment.
South Park , for context, referred to Bill Bellicheck who also was accused of cheating(taping signals being passed to the Defense).
Btw, apparently a principle character, Cartman, has the same amoral attitude of the Highway man. And...
The movie title uses the quote"Stand and Deliver" but there's no reference to that.
Owen, apparently you've found on-line searches which don't get bogged down with commercials. All I could get from Google is the movie itself.
Finally. Was the fact that there was a movie of that name obvious to everyone but me? Apparently, so obvious that the Jumble riddle used it .
I had thought only of the double meaning of STAND
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Although I did happen to see that movie (I was a math prodigy in my younger years), the highwayman reference was stronger to me, so I was surprised to find searches were overwhelmingly about the movie! I imagine it was my love of folk songs, like Whisky in the Jar, that influenced me.
DeleteI don't know what that phrase actually referred to in the film. Obviously it's not the highwayman sense, so it must mean something else. I don't remember the film well, and the question has been bugging me. Google's been no help at all.
DeleteI found today's jumble pretty easy. Momentary pause before getting the punny solution.
Travis is really in it now. I hope he keeps his cool.
Okay, who is Travis? I keep seeing the name but don't know the reference, if there is one.
ReplyDeleteInteresting poem, Owen--many thanks. I loved today's Jumble. Each of the four words came to me right away, and the solution popped up so quickly it nearly knocked me off my feet (which aren't small, by the way).
I assumed that Travis was just the name Owen gave his character, but maybe I missed something?
DeleteRight you are Sandy. Once in a while I'll use a name of someone I know, but usually, like Travis, they're just names that occur to me.
DeleteTravis is the guy who Slim untied and was recruited by the agents in yesterday's poem.
DeleteFLN: Doesn't the STAND refer to the Lemonade STAND and DELIVER means to sell it. I don't know of any underlying meaning.
ReplyDeleteToday's J was easy except the first word which gave me fits. Thank you, again, Owen, for your help.
Sure, absolutely it refers to the lemonade stand in the cartoon. But the resonance of the phrase is that it's a famous one used by old-time highwaymen, especially in Great Britain. And also it was used as the title of that movie about Jaime Escalante. My question is why the phrase was thought by the filmmakers to be an appropriate title for a film story that didn't have anything to do with highwaymen. Had the phrase over time broadened its meaning in some way?
DeleteIt's a pretty trivial issue really, and I'm beginning to regret bringing it up.
Deliver because in the cartoon they offered to bring the lemonade to the customer's house. I think Stand and Deliver was also a most uplifting movie about a great teacher who set high standards for underperforming students and helped and encouraged them to improve themselves - to stand and deliver. Was it Esai Morales?
DeleteContinued... to take a stand, intellectually or morally, and deliver a valid, convincing defense of that stand. I guess that's the movie you all were talking about - I often don't remember actors' names or sometimes even movie titles, but this one stood out.
Deleteagain... he was teaching them to think for themselves, and deliver in the sense of being responsible for their conclusions and actions.
DeleteEdward James Olmos was the actor -- and received an Oscar nomination to boot.
DeleteWhere is Ol'Man Keith? We haven't heard from him in the last several days.
ReplyDeleteI had the words but I finally gave up on the riddle . Caught it right away from the poem .
ReplyDeleteStand in the original poem is STOP . I asked my son if he'd heard of the movie and he said "Of course" .
Misty, have you tried directly contacting OMK? I had a friend who I hadn't heard from and lo and behold he's in ICU
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Wilbur, I don't know Keith's last name and I believe he's a retired faculty member from my university, but can't track him if I don't know his last name. Just hope he's just on a trip or vacation or something and will turn up again in a few days.
ReplyDeleteMisty - His last name is Fowler, and he's Prof. Emeritus of Drama at the Claire Trevor School of the Arts at U.C. Irvine. He has a Wilipedia page, quite interesting. There's no email listed on his Crossword Corner blog profile.
DeleteI had help with the "Morale" of the story, but the rest came easily in 3:29 min., with 825 points.
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