| || jumbo, douse, pretty, pencil, booted it up.
Image from the Internet.
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.
7 comments:
The jumble was easy but the solution makes no sense to me. He's done with his computer, but the solution describes the opposite of what he's shown doing. Puns don't use a word in completely contradictory meanings, do they?
Sandy ~ I think the idea is to take the familiar computer expression and give it another meaning, and, yes, a contradictory one as he kicks the thing. The two meanings don't both need to exist, side-by-side as it were. It's not a brilliant solution, I grant you, but no worse than some.
My turn:
Jack uses one of those dog collars that inflicts a small shock from a remote switch. He trained his dog to quit barking that way. When the dog started roaring at a squirrel on the fence, Jack reached for his remote and--presto!--muted his pup!
~ OMK
The cheerleader was a stereotypical blonde,
Jumbo-sized bombshells, but the brain of a prawn.
Still she'd made it to college with a savant utensil
Of eschewing calculators, doing math with just pencil!
But now for her classes, computers were musts.
And the poor pretty lady was just going nuts!
The brains in her laptop exceeded those in her head.
She just couldn't follow where the thing's menus led!
She called to tech help, but their chorused refrain
Was just, "douse the power, boot it up again."
So she got on her cheerleader boots, skirt, and boob totes,
Took her 'puter to the field, booted it thru the goal posts!
The poem is clever, especially in incorporating both pun meanings. But, OMK, I still think that puns expand on a word's meaning, but don't normally contradict it.
Well, just me crying in the wilderness.
OK, Sandy, and so this is not (by your definition) a pun.
I don't insist that it is.
But it is something.
It is, as they say, what it is.
~ OMK
Hilarious poem, Owen--I'm always amazed at how your build a whole little story into your verses, along with all the Jumble words. Clever gloss, Ol'Man Keith, but I hate the thought of Jack's mean dog device. The cartoon itself was a delight--got all four words without any work and the solution fell right into place. And I thought it worked perfectly with the illustration where the guy kicks the computer up with his boot. So, all around, a great start to the week with a neat puzzle, Sudoku, Kenken and Jumble, all working easily and perfectly.
Owen's last line is a precise & positive improvement on the more obvious, destructive take of the Jumble solution.
Also, on SB+1, more timely.
~ OMK
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