| || yacht, sheen, mayhem, pacify, yes, i "yam".
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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.
That is a real groaner of a pun!
ReplyDeleteThe sunset cast an orange sheen upon the ocean.
ReplyDeleteThe calm sea rocked the yacht with little motion.
But for those aboard the situation wasn't calm,
Not while nefarious deeds were going on!
The trip had been set up to discuss a truce
Between two cartels, their mayhem to reduce.
But instead, a gun was pulled by El Señor
When The Rebel sailed far enough from shore!
On a larger ship El Señor might have prevailed,
But on this speeder, the boatman's engine wailed!
A rapid veer to port, the deck gave a heave.
Gun and gunman overboard were forced to leave!
The sodden, disarmed, and pacified El Señor
Was thrown a rope, but towed back to the shore.
The Rebel bragged, "Yes, I am a sailor man!
I can dance a hornpipe, and I yam what I yam!"
Only two connections sprang to mind upon solving today's Jumble solution--the Burning Bush and Popeye the Sailor Man. Sure enough, the poem went with the latter.
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Happy Thanksgiving to all!
~ OMK
Owen's poem reminds me of This Tampa based novel
ReplyDeleteIn the plot summary it's "he [Coughlin ] escaped". He was kidnapped aboard a motorboat by Mafia hoods who didn't anticipate the plane.
The "groaner" was pretty obvious, the Popeye allusion should have been too.
Happy turkey day to Sandy, Keith and Owen. And of course, Misty when she returns from her trip.
WC
Like the piem, Owen, but I hoped the Rebel was a good guy. Ah well, a cartel is a cartel is a cartel, I guess.
ReplyDeleteYES, HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!
poem, not piem
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ReplyDeleteCONGRATULATIONS, OWEN!
Congrats to you, Owen, on being a great granddaddy!--and to ALL your family as you welcome a Thanksgiving newcomer!
ReplyDelete~ OMK
Keith: Popeye was obvious (hornpipe because "like Popeye" would have been rubbing the reader's nose in it) but the Burning Bush? "I am that I am" maybe, but that seems a stretch. Is there a tie I'm missing, like a Monty Python routine or something?
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