| fathom, define, abrupt, shaken, outlaw, humble, head for the hills.
Image from the Internet, caption by Owen.
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.
For reasons I haven't figured out yet, Blogger won't let me post both Jumbles on the same page. So J6 is here, and J4 is on the previous page.
ReplyDeleteWhat made the professor do it may be hard to fathom.
ReplyDeleteOne day so respected, the next a pursued phantom!
The community was shaken by this abrupt transformation.
Surely there was some as yet unknown explanation!
How does one define what makes a humble academic?
Could an ivory tower life begin to feel anemic?
But he was now an outlaw, headed for the hills.
Trading a life of mundanity for one of thrills and chills!
Today must be my "have problems with an obvious solution's" day, because this one didn't come to me either. The clues were fine but three of those those four little solution words just wouldn't come. Finally realized what the last one must be and the V8 can hit me.
ReplyDeleteYour poem is intriguing. What did the professor actually do? What crime did he commit? Aha! He was the book-wyrm!!
Woohoo! Woohoo! Thanks to Owen's poem, this professor got today's Jumble too. Had a problem with the third word--just couldn't get it--but there it was in the poem, great relief. And since I more or less guessed the second and third words of the solution, this helped me get the rest. Fun poem--and I won't take academic offense--and also enjoyed the ones in the crossword puzzle commentary section. The cartoon is cute with the little boy checking out facts on his phone computer. Have never been to Mount Rushmore--sorry I missed that opportunity when I might have had it. Have a great day, everybody.
ReplyDeleteI wondered about his crime, too. But it never revealed itself, and I decided it probably made a better story with that mystery anyway!
ReplyDeleteYeah, tearing out the last pages of a bunch of novels would probably do it!
With a world of crimes to choose from, the prof may never be pinned down. If it was purely an academic infraction, it would probably be plagiarism, data doctoring, or stealing undeserved credit. (Misty can weigh in here too.) If his offense was of a non-academic nature... well, the indictments can range far & wide, from sexual harassment to capital murder.
ReplyDeleteAh, but Owen's poem suggests something romantic, perhaps of a misunderstood "Robin Hood" type, at least a few steps above the "Frito Bandito."
~ OMK
Whoops!
ReplyDeleteI had a dicers' yell, combined with a coin flipper's call, neatly supported by the available letters, before coming around to the true solution!
~ OMK
Hmmm, what could the professor have done that got him in trouble with the law? I agree with O'l Man Keith, that the best solution would be something romantic but not harmful to anyone, except maybe harming a bad person? What if he saved a threatened female student from a violent person, a mean husband, or someone, and getting her into a safe place. Would he be prosecuted and have to flee as an outlaw for that? I better think some more about this. I want him to be a good guy because I've known very few bad academics in my long career at several different universities.
ReplyDeleteMisty, read the other site with the J4 poem. I still maintain that the professor was the secret book-wyrm.
ReplyDeleteSandyanon, I don't know how to get to the previous or earlier site--sorry about that. If I get some advice, I'll work on it this week. I want to stay in step with all of my Jumble colleagues and with Owen's poems.
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