| sixty, force, minnow, toward, "waist" of time.The opening poem contains all the words (or variations of them) from today's Jumble.
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Gilligan's Island had great episodes, rollicking comedies!
ReplyDeleteIt aired for three years time back in the middle sixties.
It told the story of a doomed tourist ship, the Minnow,
Wracked by the tropic force of a stormy ocean billow.
Holed below the waist, the ship would sail no more,
But the winds had pity, and blew them toward a shore.
The show claimed no reality, the premise was redic'.
Yet viewers laughed their tails off at this T.V. pic'!
This was entertainment, escape from quotidian dread.
A chance to let our reason sleep, and be a child instead!
I've changed the punch-lines in the cartoons I've clipped a couple times to better fit the Jumble question. Those of you who compare will note that for the first time I not only changed the illustration, but also the wording of the question. For the better, IMHO, but you'll need to be the judge of that. The solution is and always will be identical.
ReplyDeleteI would love to know where you find the alternate cartoons you've been using. Are there bunches of people out there drawing jumble cartoons, or is it just one person?I
ReplyDeleteAnyway, I found this Monday jumble to be quite easy. Again, I didn't quite get the logic connecting the cartoon quip with the solution, but then I'm a quite literal-minded person, and it seemed to me that she had used her time effectively.
I enjoyed the poem and its conclusion about lightweight tv shows.
I got all four Jumble answers without a moment's hesitation, but had to work a little to get the solution. Yet what a fun Monday Jumble! I of course thought of Gilligan's Island as soon as the Minnow popped up, and now the theme song will buzz in my brain all day. That was such a delightful show! Many thanks for the poem, Owen--it completed the enjoyable experience. And I loved seeing the couple's wedding picture on the wall behind them in the cartoon.
ReplyDeleteAren't we lucky to get these Jumbles every day!
I think people coming to this blog for the first time must be confused sometimes when they don't realize that people are talking about two totally different cartoons. Kind of funny.
ReplyDeleteOh, yeah. The newspaper cartoon does have their picture on the wall. The husband's futility makes more sense of the solution.
ReplyDeleteAs for me, I enjoy an occasional gin n'tonic, with that delicious taste of lime.
~ OMK
Well, it was a bit of a shock to see a different cartoon here! Thank you for the explanation, Owen. But for laughs, it's the one in the newspaper. Yours is a bit more scintillating.
ReplyDeleteThe words and final solve were all Monday easy.
I don't have a steady enough hand to be a visual artist of any sort except abstract, otherwise I'd try drawing my own cartoons. But I'm a master at re-purposing clip art. I look for cartoons close to the newspaper ones, and if I can't find one (like today and a couple others so far) I write my own joke and just use some other photo or cartoon's drawing without the original captions. The more I change it, the less likely I'm going to get sued for copyright infringement.
ReplyDeleteOh, ok, I understand. You're using found cartoons that you transform into jumble cartoons. Very creative.
ReplyDeleteI would still kind of like to know what the troll did. But it's no biggie.