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!
All hints are in the comments!
All hints are in the comments!
Monday, October 1, 2018
Oct. 1, 2018
|| hefty, booth, summon, splint, not so hot.
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Read the comments, and reply to them if you are so moved!
It was raining, it was cold, it was England, it was dreary. It was nicer in the pub, tho the atmoshere was beery. A hefty customer came in, shaking water loose. The tables all were taken, so he sat down in a booth.
At least, that's what he tried to do, not without a snag. For the circumfrentially enhanced, a booth is not so wide! Seat and table bolted to the floor, his middle cruely scrunched, He summoned a waiter over, and ordered up some lunch.
The ale was not so cold, but the cakes were nicely hot. The seating was so cramping, any pleasure was for naught. Getting up was harder still. A crack was heard thruout the room! On both table leg and human leg a splint is now abloom!
As an experiment, after you've solved today's puzzle, look at the area below the cartoon and press Ctrl+A. I think it's a bad idea for this particular blog, but it would make my set-up easier.
Owen, I'm currently on a mobile phone, so can"t do the control A. But .. the first time I accessed the site, there was the solution with clue words too. Then it disappeared. As my own experiment, I reaccessed the site and there they were again. Don't know how this is happening, but today's jumble has been solved for me.
Didn't know tablets worked that differently. I'll definitely not do that again. FWIW, the words show up if you highlight/select just where they are. Ctrl+A selects the entire page, which I guess is the default for your tablet when it first accesses a web-page. Or maybe it just doesn't pay attention to color until after the page is fully loaded. The effect is made by setting the text color to the same as the background. White in this case.
Sorry about that, Owen. I am currently almost computerless, so the phone is my go-to device, despite its limitations. I certainly enjoyed your poem, although I feel pehaps too much empathy with the hefty customer!
I loved this morning's Jumble. Got all four items without any problems at all, and had to do no work to summon the solution, which I thought was really hot. Then came to this site to find Owen's fun poem--many thanks for that-- made my morning even better!
I'm w/you, Sandy - the description fits me - or at least the former me; not so much now. I used to think host/esses were having fun at my expense when they asked "table or booth" - so obvious!
Oops - tried it again putting the cursor on that small vertical line, not clicking. This time the whole thing turned blue and the answers appeared, very faintly.
My -ChromeAndroid produced the answers too. I had solved quickly this morning. FLN, I was going to research a MADDER of painters. Somehow it seemed to click*.
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It was raining, it was cold, it was England, it was dreary.
It was nicer in the pub, tho the atmoshere was beery.
A hefty customer came in, shaking water loose.
The tables all were taken, so he sat down in a booth.
At least, that's what he tried to do, not without a snag.
For the circumfrentially enhanced, a booth is not so wide!
Seat and table bolted to the floor, his middle cruely scrunched,
He summoned a waiter over, and ordered up some lunch.
The ale was not so cold, but the cakes were nicely hot.
The seating was so cramping, any pleasure was for naught.
Getting up was harder still. A crack was heard thruout the room!
On both table leg and human leg a splint is now abloom!
As an experiment, after you've solved today's puzzle, look at the area below the cartoon and press Ctrl+A. I think it's a bad idea for this particular blog, but it would make my set-up easier.
Owen, I'm currently on a mobile phone, so can"t do the control A. But .. the first time I accessed the site, there was the solution with clue words too. Then it disappeared. As my own experiment, I reaccessed the site and there they were again. Don't know how this is happening, but today's jumble has been solved for me.
Didn't know tablets worked that differently. I'll definitely not do that again. FWIW, the words show up if you highlight/select just where they are. Ctrl+A selects the entire page, which I guess is the default for your tablet when it first accesses a web-page. Or maybe it just doesn't pay attention to color until after the page is fully loaded. The effect is made by setting the text color to the same as the background. White in this case.
Oops, substitute mobile phone for tablet in the previous comment. If a flip-phone was good enough for Captain Kirk, it's good enough for me!
Sorry about that, Owen. I am currently almost computerless, so the phone is my go-to device, despite its limitations.
I certainly enjoyed your poem, although I feel pehaps too much empathy with the hefty customer!
I loved this morning's Jumble. Got all four items without any problems at all, and had to do no work to summon the solution, which I thought was really hot. Then came to this site to find Owen's fun poem--many thanks for that-- made my morning even better!
Tried it, just scrolled up (MacBook - Safari).
I'm w/you, Sandy - the description fits me - or at least the former me; not so much now. I used to think host/esses were having fun at my expense when they asked "table or booth" - so obvious!
Oops - tried it again putting the cursor on that small vertical line, not clicking. This time the whole thing turned blue and the answers appeared, very faintly.
My -ChromeAndroid produced the answers too. I had solved quickly this morning. FLN, I was going to research a MADDER of painters. Somehow it seemed to click*.
WC
* As in AHA moment, eh Misty?
I needed a hint for the first letter of 3, but the rest came easily
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