| nutty, going, lichen, fasten, caught "site" of it.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.
Oh dear, no Owen poem, and no comments yet. Hope you're okay, Owen, and that this is just a computer problem. I'm having trouble with the third Jumble clue answer and was hoping to get help. I like the cute cartoon and think I got the first and third and fourth word, but not yet the key one in quotes. Will check in again later, and hope that everyone will have arrived and be in good shape.
ReplyDeletePhysically okay, but psychically in deep depression. Working the J a few minutes ago was a first step out, and the XWord will be the next. On LW's computer again. The Geeks are going to transfer my old machines memory to my new one, but it'll take a couple days. Trying to bring it up to speed was too much -- I didn't have any passwords, particularly to the e-mail address other sites were sending password recoveries to.
ReplyDeleteNo one had problems with the circles being wrong today? The Shockwave site had the final answer as O OOOO "OOOO" OO OO, instead of a six-letter word to start. I was trying to fit "cast his eyes over" somehow. Glad to see Wilbur and Keith subbing for me on the poetry front today!
Misty, you have to go back to the May 16 jumble site to see some comments from today, because the May 17 site wasn't up until recently, so OMK, Wilbur and I posted on the earlier one.
ReplyDeleteOwen, I use the NOLA site and it was fine, with 6, 4, 2, 2.
ReplyDeleteGlad you're more or less ok. Hope the Geeks can get you back to where you want to be.
Owen, question: are they letting you post the newspaper cartoon now??? Or is it just a one-time chance?
ReplyDeleteNo changes on permissions. I just doubt anyone will complain about an occasional re-posting. Actually, no one has ever really complained, just threatened to. But I've come to enjoy trying to outdo the newspaper version!
ReplyDeleteI'll let Owen handle the poetry now. Misty, I tried to hint re. #3. I dared not use the actual word, no way to hide it. Note, the homonyms I added per my conversation with Phil.
ReplyDeleteRe. Said homonyms... What a poem Owen could make out of that pair if he "liked". Granted, OMK has become Mr Homonym. He's hidden the solution in his famous italics.
WC
So good to see the Master back in the saddle! Owen, I am sorry to read the black funk caught you again, but I know we're all relieved to know you are soaring back up from it now.
ReplyDeleteWilbur, yep, you got it! It is not the sideboard version of "buffet." This is the one where you pronounce the "t."
For any who are confused, I quote (below) my hint for today's J:
"The fisherman hoped to reach his solution ...
as soon as he cleared the waves he thought might buffet his boat."
~ OMK
OMK, I'm deeply afraid that I'm going to come across here as somehow mean or nasty or something, but I feel compelled to copy and post something from Owen's guidelines:
ReplyDeletehints are encouraged, and words can be hidden by embedding them in longer comments, especially if tense, number, or part of speech is altered. However, do not draw attention to them by using ALL CAPS, bold, or any other emphasis!
It's up at the top if you'd rather read it there, where the italics are shown.
Oooh, no. Using italics for a homophonic hint seems perfectly okay. caught site of it would be a no-no, but thought might buffet I see no problem with. Even "When he got up, he was a disheveled cot sight! Oh, fit, he told his clothes."
ReplyDeleteOk, well, then, Owen, I misunderstood your guidelines. I thought you intended for people to avoid drawing special attention to any embedded clues.
ReplyDeleteApologies to you and OMK.
ReplyDeleteSorry to have offended you (again!) Sandy, but I feel compelled myself-- to confess that I resorted to italics when the rhymes themselves were apparently not enough.
ReplyDeletePlease, I beg you to think of them merely as my poor attempt to help. Not to hand anyone the answer, but to guide the eye to where the solution might be found. I believe some imagination is still required.
I like to think, as Wilbur so generously pointed out yesterday, that this is just a matter of "different drummers."
~ OMK
Sorry I posted before reading your last, Sandy.
ReplyDeleteApology accepted. Thank you. It is gracious of you.
~ OMK
And I love your alternate version, Owen.
ReplyDelete"Oh, fit," is most fitting, although I might have thought to use a different rhyming expletive.
~ OMK
To be honest, OMK, I think you and I tend to look at some things differently, but I will endeavor to "keep my mouth shut" in future, and refrain from either causing offense to others or causing others to believe that I'm offended.
ReplyDeleteNew culpa.
Well, autocorrect doesn't like mea culpa. I wonder what it "thinks" new culpa means.
ReplyDeleteSandy, autocorrect drives me crazy too. Re. Hints. Notice that even though I was poetizing a la Owen I couldn't bring myself to use #3.
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And... Knowing the solution, I had more trouble figuring out OMK's italics than I've ever had with a J-riddle.
Ok. I think it's late enough. I'm unraveling my Wednesday posts re. "the green stuff".
Phillip first thought I was referring to a LYCAN
No. Nor a LICHE
eg Werewolves and zombies.
Oh the fun you could have Owen
WC
Being an old TSR Dungeons & Dragons dungeon-master, I'm fairly well acquainted with lycanthropes and lichs. I once had one of my players turn into a were-plant whenever he drank enough to get potted! Being a DM was a great way to hone my storytelling skills!
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