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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.
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The story of King Midas is one you have heard tell,
Of how he got a touch of gold, a trend that went not well.
He had to have a servant drop food into his mouth,
Drank only from a fountain that poured to ease his drouth.
One day a tiny bird came and perched upon his finger.
A golden oriole it was, spent little time, and did not linger.
It told him that the color gold was curse, but also cure.
An alchemical reaction with any shade that was not pure.
He could not touch of any food that had a tinge of green,
Insist on none of blue or red, or any color ever seen!
He had to champ his teeth on just one food, said oriole:
The food of purest black and white. To wit, the Oreo!
Before a certain POTUS took to inflicting them on an almost daily basis, the use of petty insults against one's foes invariably brought detraction grime upon the reputation of the perpetrator.
~ OMK
Delightful poem, an ode to cruciverbalism and a warning against greed.
The epitome of the Midas touch was the late , revered Arnold Palmer. One day, sitting on the veranda of the 19th hole, drinking his favorite beverage, iced tea and lemonade, a savvy marketeer offered a deal:
"Let's market that drink under your name. " The first of many six figure checks were soon to follow.
Take that, kingy*
WC
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My son's characters (imaginary) all ended in Y. He thought being a King sounded perfect.
FLN: I did quickly knock off yesterday's J but got busy and neglected to post.
Sandy had a good point, I thought the same. However... Who among us has never given an appliance nor their TV a swift kick. Sometimes it worked.
Your poems, both in the puzzle page and here, are a real treat every morning--many thanks, Owen. Well, I had a bit of trouble with this Jumble. Put SIT-INS for the last word, and that turned out to be wrong. And I still don't really understand the cartoon, either thematically or visually. So although I got the second word of the solution right, my first one was wrong, not my best Jumble. But your comment made my day, Ol'Man Keith--boy, do I ever agree with your gloss. Nice to see you check in Wilbur, and have a good day, everybody.
I'll agree today's J was about as lame as they get. I think I puzzled on it for half an hour before stumbling on it. I usually only take <5 minutes, sometimes up to 15 min tops. Tried to use the hint button, but either their interface or my 'puter is glitched, so the hint button wouldn't work.
I'm a little hurt that no one has commented on my extracting some extra details from the ChiTrib site. Is that miniature city London, Coney Island, or just made up?
Probably a made-up city. But the Ferris wheel on the pier looks like Santa Monica.
I did appreciate the blow-ups of the hard-to-read portions. Sorry I didn't mention it before.
I was slowed in solving the solution because I got myself stuck for a while on the word ATOMIC, a perfect for for the 6-letter word.
Those corny "action" heroes had me thinking in such terms.
Misty, I think the (rather lame) idea behind the cartoon was to have us thinking in ACTION Hero terms. The characters were dealing with repeat "takes," so that was meant to guide us toward the 2-letter prefix.
Pretty clumsy, I thought.
~ OMK
Ok, if Misty is still unclued...
Duration is mentioned, there's a hint on the second word.
In the movies, there's a series of commands that that the director shouts. The last of which is the clue to the solution.
And for the J's, don't have a bird but I insist that it's not that hard
Wilbur ~
The last command is usually "Cut!"
I think you mean the penultimate order, the one that generates the momentum that is later ended by "Cut!"
~ OMK
I just took a look at the JumbleAnswerBlog:
"My favorite detail had to be the Chicago cityscape. The most notable buildings seem to be the Sears Tower, John Hancock Center and the Centennial Wheel. ... It’s always a treat when we get to see both David and Jeff in the same scene!"
Thanks for the additional help and advice, everybody. I appreciated it, and guess I should have gotten that Jumble solution. Hope I have better luck next time.
Misty ~
I try to keep my rhymes as close to the original as possible. I don't always succeed, but I come close... well, most of the time.
When you're uncertain of your answers, be sure to check how close they come to my humble rhyming.
~ OMK
Good suggestion, Ol'Man Keith--I'll try to do that from now own.
OMK, I just remembered it: Lights, camera, ACTION. Then finally "Cut!"
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