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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Thursday, December 27, 2018
Dec. 27, 2018
|| || vouch, enact, mishap, unwind, news to him.
The opening poem contains all the words (or variations of them) from today's Jumble.
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The witnesses would vouch that it had been an accident. It had happened, yes, but with misplaced ill intent. The momentous historic moment they sought to re-enact. No one had anticipated the most horrendous mad mishap!
The humongous blimp had floated its way across the sea. Its bladders filled with gas, it looked like a manatee. But safer than a century past, this one would not explode. A safer gas than hydrogen was this dirigible's load.
Who had thought the dugongs and Steller's sea cows Had developed missiles, with warheads for ka-pows! When they saw the airship, shaped so like their foe They would launch a rocket from their base below!
In "hind"-sight it could be seen that that giant hovering bird Would act so like its ancestor, the giant "Hindenburg"! Yellow disaster tape unwinds around this new calamity, And on the news, it's heard again, "Oh, the Huge Manatee!"
Owen, the jumbles are getting to you -- that's a killer of a "terrible" pun! And what a mental picture you've created, of that air/sea war. Applause, applause.
On the jumble itself, I had some trouble with the third clue, but knowing what the last two words of the solution must be gave me one of its letters, and then the clue word popped out and that gave me the first solution word.
Relevant topic in the cartoon, but I'm not sure that a humorous treatment of it is altogether appropriate.
The words unscrambled in due time with a little switching of letters until they came into focus. But the final solution was problematic as I wanted something like show time or show him out. Finally, I had to resort to your poem, Owen, and it came on like a news flash. Thank you.
Yesterday I finished the whole J but then forgot to post as I started thinking about dinner preparations. I liked the pun on a-greed.
Well, I think I got all four words, thanks to Owen's poem, but I can't get the solution. Am I right in thinking that we have only three vowels to work with--O, E, and I? So one in each word. But what are the words? Any hints?
Well gosh, Wilbur, you motivated me to look up dugong. Apparently dugongs, manatees and Stellar's sea cows are all related, except that sea cows are extinct.
Several broadcasters have been fired. Are you thinking of anyone in particular?
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| vouch, enact, mishap, unwind, news to him.
The witnesses would vouch that it had been an accident.
ReplyDeleteIt had happened, yes, but with misplaced ill intent.
The momentous historic moment they sought to re-enact.
No one had anticipated the most horrendous mad mishap!
The humongous blimp had floated its way across the sea.
Its bladders filled with gas, it looked like a manatee.
But safer than a century past, this one would not explode.
A safer gas than hydrogen was this dirigible's load.
Who had thought the dugongs and Steller's sea cows
Had developed missiles, with warheads for ka-pows!
When they saw the airship, shaped so like their foe
They would launch a rocket from their base below!
In "hind"-sight it could be seen that that giant hovering bird
Would act so like its ancestor, the giant "Hindenburg"!
Yellow disaster tape unwinds around this new calamity,
And on the news, it's heard again, "Oh, the Huge Manatee!"
Owen, the jumbles are getting to you -- that's a killer of a "terrible" pun! And what a mental picture you've created, of that air/sea war. Applause, applause.
ReplyDeleteOn the jumble itself, I had some trouble with the third clue, but knowing what the last two words of the solution must be gave me one of its letters, and then the clue word popped out and that gave me the first solution word.
Relevant topic in the cartoon, but I'm not sure that a humorous treatment of it is altogether appropriate.
The words unscrambled in due time with a little switching of letters until they came into focus. But the final solution was problematic as I wanted something like show time or show him out. Finally, I had to resort to your poem, Owen, and it came on like a news flash. Thank you.
ReplyDeleteYesterday I finished the whole J but then forgot to post as I started thinking about dinner preparations. I liked the pun on a-greed.
Well, I think I got all four words, thanks to Owen's poem, but I can't get the solution. Am I right in thinking that we have only three vowels to work with--O, E, and I? So one in each word. But what are the words? Any hints?
ReplyDeleteOkay, I got it. Whew! A relief.
ReplyDeleteSee Misty, all you had to do was think out loud (or in this case, on line) . The key word was at the end of the air-sea battle.
ReplyDeleteBoy those dugongs are tough, whatever a dugong is .
Sandy, did a broadcast person get canned for inappropriate behavior recently?
WC
Well gosh, Wilbur, you motivated me to look up dugong. Apparently dugongs, manatees and Stellar's sea cows are all related, except that sea cows are extinct.
DeleteSeveral broadcasters have been fired. Are you thinking of anyone in particular?
Misty ~
ReplyDeleteGlad it's now news to you!
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