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!
Jigsaw Puzzles & The Hobbit
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Monday, December 17, 2018
Dec. 17, 2018
|| || waltz, tabby, idiocy, author, birth "wait".
The opening poem contains all the words (or variations of them) from today's Jumble.
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There are weighty matters in waiting today. The birth rate is rising, control's getting away! Humans, too, but it's tabbies I worry about. They're killing off birds who wait to fly south.
They're welcome to mice and voles, as they wish, Pestiferous vermin which we're happy to ditch. But birds are the authors of such happy sounds Songs that nymphs and fairies waltz around!
To wait till those tweets and twitters are extinct Would display cat and human idiocy, methinks. Neutering felines may help contain kittens. Too bad it won't work for politicians!
'Tis funny which words taunt us. For me, #3 was the toughie, followed by #4. For all the honor & respect we give to Owen for his incredible poetic gifts, I have to add how amazed I am that he can first crack all four or six jumbled words before he can move on to creating an appropriate poem--without the aid of someone else's hints and before the rest of us begin posting. 'Tis a true phenomenon, our Owen! ~ OMK
Well, I too had Jumble trouble with item #4 this morning. Had no problem getting the second word of the solution, but had to wait to read Owen's poem before getting the first word. Then it all fell into place--Yay! So, thank you for all your delightful poems, Owen--I agree that it is amazing that you can do this for us every day.
Not getting the fourth word is a little embarrassing for me, though, since that's been a major part of my career. Felt like I had suffered a bit of item #3 when I didn't get this right away.
Hand up for trouble with unscrambling the fourth word. Those multiple vowels do it every time. With them, though, I was able to solve the final J without a long wait. Ole! Ole! I agree that Owen is a marvel and without recourse to anyone else's hints.
I'm humbled by your praise, but it is seriously over-rated. Yes, I do the dailies without hints, but not easily nor quickly. It usually takes me about 15 min, and occasionally nearly an hour! And today, as often happens, I had to figure out the riddle, then go back and use the extra letters that gave me, to figure out #4 just as you did! I did used to do the Sunday one without hints, but the last couple weeks I've allowed the built-in hint feature of the Chi.Trib. website to help me, so that I didn't waste hours on it while I needed to be composing a poem.
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| waltz, tabby, idiocy, author, birth "wait".
There are weighty matters in waiting today.
ReplyDeleteThe birth rate is rising, control's getting away!
Humans, too, but it's tabbies I worry about.
They're killing off birds who wait to fly south.
They're welcome to mice and voles, as they wish,
Pestiferous vermin which we're happy to ditch.
But birds are the authors of such happy sounds
Songs that nymphs and fairies waltz around!
To wait till those tweets and twitters are extinct
Would display cat and human idiocy, methinks.
Neutering felines may help contain kittens.
Too bad it won't work for politicians!
I had trouble with clue word four, even though the solution came quite easily and gave me its letters. So your poem provided it, Owen, thanks.
ReplyDeleteI love cats -- and some birds. Wouldn't give a cat much chance against an eagle, though, or how about a vulture?
A vulture and a politician, now .....
'Tis funny which words taunt us. For me, #3 was the toughie, followed by #4.
ReplyDeleteFor all the honor & respect we give to Owen for his incredible poetic gifts, I have to add how amazed I am that he can first crack all four or six jumbled words before he can move on to creating an appropriate poem--without the aid of someone else's hints and before the rest of us begin posting.
'Tis a true phenomenon, our Owen!
~ OMK
Well, I too had Jumble trouble with item #4 this morning. Had no problem getting the second word of the solution, but had to wait to read Owen's poem before getting the first word. Then it all fell into place--Yay! So, thank you for all your delightful poems, Owen--I agree that it is amazing that you can do this for us every day.
ReplyDeleteNot getting the fourth word is a little embarrassing for me, though, since that's been a major part of my career. Felt like I had suffered a bit of item #3 when I didn't get this right away.
Hand up for trouble with unscrambling the fourth word. Those multiple vowels do it every time. With them, though, I was able to solve the final J without a long wait. Ole! Ole!
ReplyDeleteI agree that Owen is a marvel and without recourse to anyone else's hints.
I'm humbled by your praise, but it is seriously over-rated. Yes, I do the dailies without hints, but not easily nor quickly. It usually takes me about 15 min, and occasionally nearly an hour! And today, as often happens, I had to figure out the riddle, then go back and use the extra letters that gave me, to figure out #4 just as you did! I did used to do the Sunday one without hints, but the last couple weeks I've allowed the built-in hint feature of the Chi.Trib. website to help me, so that I didn't waste hours on it while I needed to be composing a poem.
ReplyDeleteYou are still a creative wonder. I think writing the poems is amazing, with or without a few hints for the jumble.
ReplyDeleteI was in a hurry as usual about one o'clock but the J didn't take long. I got the second word but I needed the letters to complete the riddle.
ReplyDeleteIf you come back Owen perhaps you can annotate "Gestalt" on your CC l'ick
Unless OMK gets it
WC
gestalt (plural gestalts or gestalten)
DeleteA collection of physical, biological, psychological or symbolic elements that creates a whole, unified concept or pattern which is other than the sum of its parts, due to the relationships between the parts (of a character, personality, entity, or being)
In plainer language, Tweeter T's complete persona is such that it needs to be taken with a grain of salt of the same dimensions.