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!
The opening poem contains all the words (or variations of them) from today's Jumble.
Comments are the lifeblood of a blog!
Read the comments, and reply to them if you are so moved!
Horace Horsely was a misfit, he just did not belong. He took things too literal, even when they were so wrong! Because he was a bit rotund, he said that he was global, Forced by a gland to spherical, albeit slightly oval!
He loved to check the World Wide Web with its fancy jargon, Hence thought initial acronyms were a nifty bargain! He sat so long, ROFLMAO* was one that he did mind. Because his butt cheeks numbed, and were falling off behind!
Rofl'mao = Rolling On the Floor, Laughing My Ass Off.
Trying another experiment. You may notice the cartoon is larger today, so the characters' comments are a bit more legible. I can pick the larger size easily from the Chi.Trib. site, but that's just black&white. Grabbing a colored pic like this from the shockwave site is a bit trickier, but Misty raves about the color, so I'll see if I can simplify the process somewhat.
The bigger cartoon is appreciated. I've been zooming it larger just to read the captions. I'm with Misty too in enjoying the color, so I hope it won't cause you any problems to keep both. Enjoyed the poem. Felt a little sorry for Mr. Horsely. A cheeky sort, but losing status.
In my skydiving days (at the Zephyr Hills DZ in FLA) the pilots and ground crew were always on time & first rate. It was a thing with them to avoid pretension of any kind, so we never called the plane by its manufacturer or type; it was always the "bus" or "crate." The pilot was just the "driver." When it was time to jump, somebody would call, "Hit the brakes; pull over, it's my stop!" ~ OMK
The cartoon is lovely. I never had a problem zooming in, but it's up to you how much trouble you want to go to, Owen. Appreciate anything/everything you do.
The jumble clues were not difficult, but even though I pretty much knew at least the general form of the first word in the solution, the second word just didn't come to me. So your poem was my saving grace, as well as being very funny. Lol, though not rotf. Thank you, sir!
Contrary to OMK, I never did any skydiving. I did try parachute jumping once, and really enjoyed the first couple of thousand feet down. But my abysmal landing put me in a hospital for 11 days and in a back brace for a whole summer. So I never graduated to skydiving, alas.
I was not an expert jumper, having spent just one summer at it. But I did graduate from static line to free diving. I'm sorry to read of Sandy's painful experience. That was a serious Ouch! The worst time I ever had was just the fright I took following a terrific long dive. We always pack our own main chutes, but we rely on a licensed packer for our reserves. The reserve is worn on the front and is supposed to deploy automatically, triggered by a pressure device, unless you deactivate it after the success of the main. This one day I was so thrilled by the dive I forgot to switch it off--and it didn't go off! This was fortunate in that I'd avoided the danger of tangling two chutes--but disillusioning and very frightening to learn that the officially packed reserve was so unreliable. I sheepishly reported it to the jump master. ~ OMK
Owen, as soon as I saw the vividly colored cartoon I was going to comment on it. Then saw your post and remembered with gratitude that I had already done that in the past. Thank you so much!
I got all four items with a little work this morning, but had trouble with the solution because the first word I put in was LANDING. So your poem was a big help in giving me the actual finish of the cartoon solution. Fun Jumble this morning. Have a great weekend coming up, everybody!
Because of the new Tbtimes set up I do the J right off and got the four right off. But... I couldn't seem to account for six remaining letters after getting the obvious seven.
Finally the B popped up.
Owen, many thanks for the expanded window .Now, I can do the J online . Plus, there wasn't room on the newspaper for scratch pad so I'll use an actual pad or my cell phone
And...
I came here before CC because I couldn't wait to see how you used the four J's. Shades of "Fatty" Arbuckle*
WC
* I'm always curious to see if Google recognizes a name like Arbuckle . And SHE** did
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| gland, hence, global, misfit, falling behind.
Horace Horsely was a misfit, he just did not belong.
ReplyDeleteHe took things too literal, even when they were so wrong!
Because he was a bit rotund, he said that he was global,
Forced by a gland to spherical, albeit slightly oval!
He loved to check the World Wide Web with its fancy jargon,
Hence thought initial acronyms were a nifty bargain!
He sat so long, ROFLMAO* was one that he did mind.
Because his butt cheeks numbed, and were falling off behind!
Rofl'mao = Rolling On the Floor, Laughing My Ass Off.
Trying another experiment. You may notice the cartoon is larger today, so the characters' comments are a bit more legible. I can pick the larger size easily from the Chi.Trib. site, but that's just black&white. Grabbing a colored pic like this from the shockwave site is a bit trickier, but Misty raves about the color, so I'll see if I can simplify the process somewhat.
ReplyDeleteThe bigger cartoon is appreciated. I've been zooming it larger just to read the captions. I'm with Misty too in enjoying the color, so I hope it won't cause you any problems to keep both.
ReplyDeleteEnjoyed the poem. Felt a little sorry for Mr. Horsely. A cheeky sort, but losing status.
In my skydiving days (at the Zephyr Hills DZ in FLA) the pilots and ground crew were always on time & first rate. It was a thing with them to avoid pretension of any kind, so we never called the plane by its manufacturer or type; it was always the "bus" or "crate." The pilot was just the "driver." When it was time to jump, somebody would call, "Hit the brakes; pull over, it's my stop!"
~ OMK
The cartoon is lovely. I never had a problem zooming in, but it's up to you how much trouble you want to go to, Owen. Appreciate anything/everything you do.
ReplyDeleteThe jumble clues were not difficult, but even though I pretty much knew at least the general form of the first word in the solution, the second word just didn't come to me. So your poem was my saving grace, as well as being very funny. Lol, though not rotf. Thank you, sir!
Contrary to OMK, I never did any skydiving. I did try parachute jumping once, and really enjoyed the first couple of thousand feet down. But my abysmal landing put me in a hospital for 11 days and in a back brace for a whole summer. So I never graduated to skydiving, alas.
I was not an expert jumper, having spent just one summer at it. But I did graduate from static line to free diving. I'm sorry to read of Sandy's painful experience. That was a serious Ouch!
ReplyDeleteThe worst time I ever had was just the fright I took following a terrific long dive. We always pack our own main chutes, but we rely on a licensed packer for our reserves. The reserve is worn on the front and is supposed to deploy automatically, triggered by a pressure device, unless you deactivate it after the success of the main. This one day I was so thrilled by the dive I forgot to switch it off--and it didn't go off!
This was fortunate in that I'd avoided the danger of tangling two chutes--but disillusioning and very frightening to learn that the officially packed reserve was so unreliable.
I sheepishly reported it to the jump master.
~ OMK
Owen, as soon as I saw the vividly colored cartoon I was going to comment on it. Then saw your post and remembered with gratitude that I had already done that in the past. Thank you so much!
ReplyDeleteI got all four items with a little work this morning, but had trouble with the solution because the first word I put in was LANDING. So your poem was a big help in giving me the actual finish of the cartoon solution. Fun Jumble this morning. Have a great weekend coming up, everybody!
Because of the new Tbtimes set up I do the J right off and got the four right off. But...
ReplyDeleteI couldn't seem to account for six remaining letters after getting the obvious seven.
Finally the B popped up.
Owen, many thanks for the expanded window .Now, I can do the J online . Plus, there wasn't room on the newspaper for scratch pad so I'll use an actual pad or my cell phone
And...
I came here before CC because I couldn't wait to see how you used the four J's. Shades of "Fatty" Arbuckle*
WC
* I'm always curious to see if Google recognizes a name like Arbuckle . And SHE** did
**Like today's nautical SHE in the CC