| audit, bumpy, carnal, suckle, (with) "plane" talk.string, revolt, mayhem, health, oddest, fleece, hit the mother lode.
The opening poem contains all the words (or variations of them) from today's Jumble.
Comments are welcomed!
Do not explicitly reveal any of the actual answer words until after closing time, but embedding them surreptitiously in comment sentences is encouraged.
I've spent the past 4 hours of bumpy struggling with my old netbook before frustration got me! I have now stolen my wife's laptop, and got this up in 10 minutes -- but still 3 hours late. Now to start5 composing a poem!
ReplyDeleteThank you, Owen, for all you do. Please take your time. We all know what it is to face computer misbehavior, so there's no need to race to meet our expectations. We understand completely.
ReplyDelete~ OMK
The poem today must be about sex,
ReplyDeleteSo hang on, a bumpy ride comes next!
Pay attention, there may be a test
To audit how well you'd do, at best!
Now carnal fulfillment's on a mental plane,
To get there, sweet talk's an essential lane.
The sultry tone sets the mood right
For any cardio activities later that night.
The skin is a sexual organ supreme,
The genitals are just the extreme.
To suckle the neck, altho it leaves marks,
Leads to abandoning inhibition for larks!
28 minutes, a bit faster than my usual speed. But then, it was an enticing subject. I may continue it later -- but I hope not!
ReplyDeleteForgot this is Sunday! Been trying the past 2 hours since I remembered to get the J6 picture. No luck. The interface went kablooie a month ago, and while I've been able to work around it on my own machine, I haven't succeeded here. I did manage to solve it along the way, so I'll try to work up a poem, but you'll have to go elsewhere for the puzzle.
ReplyDeleteNow the thought of your parents having sex
ReplyDeleteYou probably find revolting in any context.
But that's how you got here, ask your mother.
Birthing, she promised mayhem on your father!
For nine months, she lost her health and svelte,
Then in a fleece bundle came a parent's wealth!
A baby (that was you) engendered by copulation
Comes along and hits a golden lode of elation!
So why is sex dirty, or at least hidden away,
Yet it's known to result in a most joyful day?
It's oddest to imagine a string of generations,
Our parents' and grandparents' sexual relations!
Hi Owen. I can sympathize with your troubles, but can't do anything to help, though I wish I could. I have a very minor problem, compared to yours, which is that although I can find the Sunday cartoon on the NOLA site, I can't seem to access a daily j4 cartoon anywhere on Sundays. You post yours, of course, but I always like to compare them and get enjoyment from seeing both.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, I must be too impatient today, or slipping mentally (hope it's the first!), because although the clues for both came easily, I didn't come up with the j6 solution at all, and the J4 only with difficulty and help from your poem. Embarrassed to admit that I went to the jumble answer site for the j6. I had the obvious 6-letter word, but couldn't see the rest.
Your poems are sure interesting today. I'm lumping them together because they seem to be related. Perhaps the first one started your train of thought and it stayed there for the second??? Truly, it was never that strange for me to think of my parents "doing it", but my grandparents? Wow! My skinny little grandpa and my big hefty grandma??!! I'll try to unimagine that.
Enough silliness. I hope you get your computer problems solved soon and have to struggle with technology no more. Take care.
I had finished the j4 poem before I remembered this was the day with the J6. I started to compose the second poem as a continuation of the first, but it developed differently. A good match for Mothers Day, tho.
ReplyDeleteSandy, it's probably tl;dr, but at the right I describe and list sites that carry J4 or J6 on Sunday. Some, the J6 has a different link than the J4.
Thanks,Owen, I've tried all those sites at one time or another, but my tablet doesn't seem to support some of them. No problem; I can live without that cartoon.
ReplyDeleteLoved seeing a Mother's Day Jumble cartoon and just prayed I would have no trouble getting it. I didn't--only the second word and the fifth word needed a little bit of thought, and when I got to the solution I guessed that the long word would have to do with today's holiday. It did--Yay!--and so I got it with just one tiny erasure because I put LOVE for the last word before I realized that didn't work and fixed it. But a delightful cartoon for this day, and so glad you were able to borrow a computer, Owen.
ReplyDeleteHave a lovely day, everybody.
The J6 is on the same page as the CC. I finally got #5(duh) but think I got 3 of the 4 words. I hunted Owen's poem for all four words but he cleverly hid them. If I was in the MOOD I'd try again.
ReplyDeleteWC
Well I found some scratch paper and listed the letters again. I scratched out the six and the ubiquitous article.
ReplyDeleteSeven left. The first smacked me in the mouth leaving four letters to account for where the gold comes from
Ironically on Sirius classics, Johnny Dollar was solving the case of the Midas mine mystery.
I only got as far as Part I. Hard Luck had just met his worst luck of all.
WC
I don't usually do the Sunday Js, but I wanted to check back to see how Owen was faring (Carry on, good sir!), and that lured me in to do the J6 on the NOLA site.
ReplyDeleteI didn't care for the timer or the bells n'whistles, totally a different way of working.
But at least I got 'er done, twice--even in that other mode.
Wishing all mothers a splendid day today!
~ OMK
As in What rhymes with "other mode".
ReplyDeleteI took the bit.
WC