| adage, chaos, proper, babble, "boar-a boar-a".
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.
"That class was a bore, a bore I say!
ReplyDeleteI could have slept thru that all day!"
An adage says, "Fear what you wish --
You might get it served on a golden dish!"
Next day the anthropology class convened,
A new side of the proper Prof was seen!
Instead of his briefcase, he carried a beaker;
Took a quaff, and morphed into a Berserker!
Hair-shirt and helm, with stereotypical horns,
And a labrys battle axe he swung with good form!
The room was a babble of scramble and shriek!
Above the chaos, Prof: "That's all for this week."
The jumble was easy and the solution was really clever. I loved it.
ReplyDeleteNow the poem was super. Incorporated all the words very elegantly and solved the Sunday mystery -- I hope. "That's all for this week, and maybe for this year; I'm headin for them thar hills!"
(He was aN-orse cowboy.)
ReplyDeleteI know the Society Islands are a tourist destination, but I don't know anyone (aside from feral pigs) who has actually been.
ReplyDelete~ OMK
Sandy: Oddly enough, I had no idea while I was writing this that it could have any connection to Sunday's poem. But you are 100% correct, it certainly does sound like the two go together! Subconscious? Erato? Coincidence? The Prof himself from another dimension?
ReplyDeleteOddly that second 4 gave me trouble. Do Dutch South Africans vacation at that island?
ReplyDeleteOwen, perhaps someone will take your poem and create a new horror film. Although a new movie on Tolkien is out
WC
I loved this morning's Jumble! Zipped through all four answers without a second thought, and once I saw that collection of letters I got the punny solution instantly. A total delight! I love the different colors and hair-dos on those piggies, with one of them holding a book and the other a glass with some interesting-looking garnishes. And what a cool background with a mountain and clouds and palm trees along the beach. Haven't been to our beach here in Laguna Beach in ages--this makes me want to go down for a visit sometime.
ReplyDeleteDelightful and crazy poem, Owen, and nice to see all the words right there. And I enjoyed all of your other comments this morning.
FLN, OMK. I'm thinking the "software" would be a database of papers submitted with a Google type search engine.
ReplyDeleteAnd of course actually published work.
TBBT had a show about plagiarism in college.
WC