| || piano, trill, accent, atonal, call (the) police.
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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.
The birds held a congress to consider a problem
ReplyDeleteUntil it was solved, their reputation was at bottom.
Bird calls are known to have lilt and have trill
But the squawk of the Raven just gave folks a chill!
His accents atonal held bird melodies to scorn.
All ties to a pretense of harmony were shorn.
The sound that he uttered was simply a shriek,
Worse than the siren of a squad car of police!
Solutions were discussed and discarded, till the Jay
Said, "Feathered friends, I have thought of a way!
We'll take a well tuned piano up to a high limb.
And when the Raven walks by -- we'll drop it on him!"
Well, that's one way to solve the Raven problem. I sometimes wish we could take such direct action against our neighborhood Crows. But I imagine it would be illegal--not to mention how the piano trick defies the Law of Gravity.
ReplyDeleteSigh. I guess we're stuck with a certain raucousness of Nature.
~ OMK
I don't see how it defies gravity. True, you'd need a whole flock of storks to lift it.
ReplyDeleteAs long as it was a baby grand.
My college roomie grew bored of the tiresome terms of our shared rental agreement. "Surely the dreary pages pall, the co-lease!" he cried.
ReplyDelete~ OMK
Okay, a jumble where the pun is in the cartoon caption and not the solution. Something different! The jumble itself was pretty easy, with just a momentary hiccup at the fourth clue.
ReplyDeleteI don't think piano lifting defies gravity, though it would take an incredibly sturdy tree to hold it. What bothers me in your very inventive poem, Owen, is the idea that a jay's sound is any more tuneful than a raven's. Not being a birdsong expert, I can't say for sure, but I always thought both were pretty screechy. Maybe they need two pianos.
...and any tree would need a strong & hardy stock of forks to hook & support even a tiny Yamaha. None of our local cypresses or carrot-woods would qualify, I fear.
ReplyDelete~ OMK
Loved your fun poem, Owen, and all your clever remarks, Ol'Man Keith. Got all four Jumble words with only a bit of hesitation on the fourth, like Sandyanon. The solution came instantly and cracked me up--only afterwards it seemed a bit mean and cranky on the part of the husband (but still funny). So an enjoyable Jumble morning. I'll miss you all next week when I'll be out of town for Thanksgiving. Have a great celebration.
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