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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Wednesday, January 9, 2019
Jan. 9, 2019
|| || house, draft, spruce, runner, open and shut.
The opening poem contains all the words (or variations of them) from today's Jumble.
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The political climate is getting rife. In the House they are starting to write Resolutions, and drafting bills Designed to cure our nation's ills.
Runners are sent from Congress to Potus, Who sends them back as being bogus! Instead of trying to spruce up the country It is being reduced to tawdry trumpery!
Prosperity that should be open to all Is being sequestered behind a wall. This is neither strike nor shutdown. It's a bully's strong-arm shakedown!
Well, fairy tales and funny stories are more comforting, if that's the right word, but reality must eventually intrude. It's difficult to get political about Potus and party while remaining polite, though, so I will not say further.
The jumble clues were easy for me, but the solution took a little longer, because I fixated at first on a word for the window glass. Once I gave that up, the solution leapt out.
Well, I did the Jumble after my morning meeting and got the four answers immediately without any problems at all. But the solution gave me trouble even though Ol'Man Keith's 'and' comment was helpful. Had to look up the answer in the end and realized I had copied the letters of one of the clue answers wrong which is why the final solution wouldn't come. It's hardly past noon, but after my busy early morning I guess I'm tired already.
Colorful cartoon, and sad but too true poem, Owen--many thanks. Have a good day, everybody.
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| house, draft, spruce, runner, open and shut.
The political climate is getting rife.
ReplyDeleteIn the House they are starting to write
Resolutions, and drafting bills
Designed to cure our nation's ills.
Runners are sent from Congress to Potus,
Who sends them back as being bogus!
Instead of trying to spruce up the country
It is being reduced to tawdry trumpery!
Prosperity that should be open to all
Is being sequestered behind a wall.
This is neither strike nor shutdown.
It's a bully's strong-arm shakedown!
I use an overlay on the cartoon that now has © 2019, but the actual cartoons (at the Shockwave site) are marked © 2007. (Other sites have 2019 or are undated.) Shockwave archives are behind a paywall, so I haven't checked to see what the 1/*/2007 Jumbles actually were. Have the Jumblers taken a covert vacation covered by reruns? Have they been furloughed, being secret agent provocateurs of our Jumbled government?
ReplyDeleteAnagrams and posey aren't the biggest discussion starters, so political is permitted here, so long as it's polite-icle.
Rule o' thumb: go for the 3-hole first.
ReplyDelete"The" gets you nowhere.
"And" makes it a walk-through.
~ OMK
Well, fairy tales and funny stories are more comforting, if that's the right word, but reality must eventually intrude. It's difficult to get political about Potus and party while remaining polite, though, so I will not say further.
ReplyDeleteThe jumble clues were easy for me, but the solution took a little longer, because I fixated at first on a word for the window glass. Once I gave that up, the solution leapt out.
Well, I did the Jumble after my morning meeting and got the four answers immediately without any problems at all. But the solution gave me trouble even though Ol'Man Keith's 'and' comment was helpful. Had to look up the answer in the end and realized I had copied the letters of one of the clue answers wrong which is why the final solution wouldn't come. It's hardly past noon, but after my busy early morning I guess I'm tired already.
ReplyDeleteColorful cartoon, and sad but too true poem, Owen--many thanks. Have a good day, everybody.
I also thought today's solution was going to be a pane to come up with. Was thinking of a poem about keeping the eyes open and the mouth shut.
ReplyDeleteI agree that funny poems are much nicer, but sometimes my challenge is just to keep from falling into a rut.