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Turns out (as Owen must know) there’s already a link to this site on the Crossword Corner – and a reciprocating link here to the CC site. We can be forgiven for not knowing this, as we were not forewarned, and they are both buried (like final answers?) in sidebars.
The link here is embedded in the verbiage to our right, and the link over there is listed under “Crossword Links.”
The latter can be winkled out if you are motivated and know where to look among the long list of 60 to 70 links. At least they are in alphabetical order, so you will find it under the title, “Jumble (Owen).”
C.C. took the trouble to point this out to us yesterday. So as much as any of us have tried to help Owen drum up business, we’ve been chasing non-domestic Anatidae so far. I’m sure he would agree that new ideas are more than welcome.
~ OMK
The race is on! Who will win it? We don't know!
ReplyDeleteAll we know is that it's up to space we will go!
NASA has an agenda for is exploratory missions,
And the tourist trades will be lucrative propositions!
Will it be Virgin Galactic led by Richard Branson?
Allowing people into space clearly is his passion!
A crimp may be Blue Origin, brainchild of Jeff Bezos.
Joining in to harvest those heavenly profit pesos!
We must not overlook SpaceX and Elon Musk!
He put a sportscar into orbit, that took a lot of thrust!
Their goal simply stated, to corner future markets,
Launched from planes in flight, or atop of giant rockets!
I love this! Not precisely sci-fi, but space oriented and topical to boot.
DeleteOMK -- It wasn't listed there until yesterday, in response to your request! (I double-checked to see it's now included in the list even back in May, before anyone had mentioned the Jumbles, so it's in the permanent layout.) (And I ego-scan the blog for mentions of Owen, so I'm certain it wasn't there yesterday morning!) So congratulations on a job well done! BTW, David Hoyt is active on Facebook. Jeff Knuerk is there, too, but pretty much inactive. Anyway, I suppose you could comment of Rex Parker's blog or something.
ReplyDeleteThank you for the congratulations, Owen.
ReplyDeleteYes, I checked too to be sure the link wasn't just added yesterday. But you're saying she - or someone - took the trouble to go all the way back several months to cover their tracks!
That seems like an extraordinary effort to avoid looking like it's a late addition. Why? Just to avoid having it seem a response to our recent effort?!
Anyway, I don't think it solves the problem of attracting others to this site. The CC link is so deeply buried, it still depends on people seeking it out after they're already motivated to come here. The big question is how to get them interested in the first place.
~ OMK
The sidebars are part of the layout, not anything set up that day. Make a change, and the next time a page is called up, it will be generated with the new layout, no matter what the date is. No effort to deceive involved. And despite being in a long list, CC made our entry in bold, so it does stand out!
DeleteOK, that makes sense.
DeleteBut how to get them to want to look?
Today's Solution reminds me of a Broadway play I saw as a kid, set in Lancaster PA & titled Plain and Fancy.
ReplyDeleteThis wasn't that.
Ok, this three-person cartoon simply confused the heck out of me! We need to allow for creativity, and I never want to crimp the cartoonists' style, but what kind of agenda could these guys have had when they magicked up a third Wright brother??? Google to the rescue, and then the answer was as plain as the mustache not on Charlie Taylor's face. Two brothers, one long-time assistant. Whew!
ReplyDeleteBut he really did have one. It was Wilbur who went bare-faced, as the old photos show. I LIU.
DeleteThe cartoon is very accurate. From left to right: Orville (with the widow's peak), Charlie Taylor, and balding, clean shaven Wilbur.
DeletePlus it's Charlie, who made the prop engines, who's proposing to add more of them...
DeleteYes, I looked them up, and was very interested to find out about Charlie Taylor's major contributions.
DeleteWhen you think about it, he was the one who made flight possible. Centuries earlier Leonardo had worked out the aerodynamic principles. He would have flown back then - if only he had the engine power.
DeleteFun Jumble this morning. I had to work a little to get #2 and #4, but got them and the solution was as plain as day after that.
ReplyDeleteFun poem, Owen, many thanks.
Ol'Man Keith, thanks for all the hard work. Now I'll have to see if I can find that link on the Crossword page. I've been having to copy the Jumble address from my e-mail for weeks now, and a simpler solution would be helpful.
Be sure to look on the opening page, not the Comments page.
DeleteI put JUMBLE on my favorites then just go right to it from there. Excellent poem, Owen. You really captured the essence of the topic.
ReplyDeleteToday's words were easy but it took me too long for the solution though it was plainly simple.
I didn't see the solution right away. But I went back to basics & solved the 3-letter word first.
DeleteOnce its DNA was eliminated, the remaining words leapt out.
I found the link, Ol'Man Keith--this will make coming to Jumble much more plain and simple.
ReplyDeleteForgot to ask you, Ol'Man Keith--was 'Plain and Fancy' really set in Lancaster, PA? That's where I spent my teens and where my Dad and brother still live. I'll be going there in November to spend Thanksgiving with them there.
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