| lunch, newly, deface, impair, ill-mannered.The opening poem contains all the words (or variations of them) from today's Jumble.
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The estate was in a state of poor repair.
ReplyDeleteProblems which would occupation impair.
The roof leaked so, rain was worse inside!
Squirrels used a dangling gutter as a slide!
The wiring was tangled in such a bunch,
The electrician must have been out to lunch!
The garden plot had gone entirely to seed.
Where once were flowers, there now was weed.
Spray paint did the walls newly deface,
There was obscene graffiti every place!
In a manner of speaking, it was bantered
That the mansion was extremely "ill-manored"!
What? No comments yet? I can't believe it. As usual, Owen, your poem helped me grok the final solution as I was going in a different direction thinking the first part might be "man" something. So thank you for that. I was ill-devised. Unscrambling was easy and I accomplished it very quickly.
ReplyDeleteToday is more or less a leisure day for me so it gave me time to dwell on this J which is something I've not had much time to do lately.
This was a fun Friday Jumble, and I got all four words without any problems. But that second long word in the solution daunted me a little. I finally sorted through it carefully to find a three-letter word in there, and Voila! I found it. That made the second long word pretty obvious and I was happy to have worked it all out before coming to the blog.
ReplyDeleteSo I was curious how your poem would work, Owen, and found it delightful. The theme fit the words perfectly, and your play with the solution words was brilliant. Many thanks, and have a great day.
Funny poem, Owen. I hope it's not related to any personal experience.
ReplyDeleteThe jumble was pretty easy. The solution was funny, and yet I hope it's not very often true. Since doctors and nurses can be any gender today, one hopes that patient was very old to be so behind the times.
I did this with my son, Phillip but he didn't get much of a chance as I raced through the four J's.
ReplyDeleteHe started writing down letters and I spotted MAB and bingo . Or since we just had it, BINGO .
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That patient would just have found something else to carp about
WC
FLN, for once I skip a day and there's Owen and Arthur teaming up to present to Misty what I thought of but couldn't get out
ReplyDeleteMisty has often mentioned "Dear Rowland" and you've captured it .
I always liked "The Bow" and Doyle's "The White Company" . Overall, perhaps superior to "Ivanhoe" .
WC
Thank you for remembering my "dear Rowland," Wilbur. I think about him and miss him every single day. That's love, here in my heart and my home.
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