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Sunday, February 9, 2020

Feb. 9, 2020 Sunday

||  acrid, expel, indoor, sleigh, "spreading".  || drench, outfit, cajole, humane, parole, glossy, a great deal to her.
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.

12 comments:

Ol' Man Keith said...

Unlike the rather plump fellow in the cartoon, my friend John has recently been shedding unwanted baggage.
I never used to worry about adding pounds when I was a teenage actor in San Francisco theaters. After many shows, I looked forward to a late meal. Who were my dining companions depended on other hungry actors and which friends or family members were in the audience that night.
~ OMK

OwenKL said...

Where workshops rang with wooden tools,
Acetyl plastic molds now ruled.
Being indoors all the day
Is not a very healthy way!

Acrid odors that plastic expels
Mean workers often break for spells,
And the fumes the toys are shedding
Over the North Pole are spreading!

So it is, each Christmas day
When Santa returns with his sleigh
Reports he brings, each year more gloomy
"Climate crisis brings doom to me!"

OwenKL said...

The dream job of her lifetime was an interview away!
She put on her best outfit, but a storm was on the way.
Sure enough, when she arrived, a drenched drowned rat,
She knew her appearance wouldn't get her splat!

So it was her ability to cajole her interviewer
To be humane and take a chance to review her.
She was assigned a lesser position, on parole,
To see if she could qualify for the one that was her goal.

She passed, and her path from there was glossy!
She climbed up the ladder to positions saucy!
And along the way, she found to her surprise
That that darkened storm had lightened up her skies!

That interview that had made her thrilled
Was for a job that already had been filled!
But her extra effort, which meant a great deal,
Got her a special chance to make her dream come real!

Wilbur Charles said...

Wow, you covered the six J's plus. Great story line, all in rhyme.

I get the 6*6 in the TB Times so that's the one I did. J's are always tricky words.

WC

Misty said...

Owen, I do the second cartoon in the LA Times, and your poem today will be one of my favorites of all times. I just loved the way you worked all the Jumble words and solution into your rhymes, and the delightful story they told. Many thanks for making this Jumble even more special.

I had to work on the words, but each one fell into place pretty quickly once I started to play around with the letters. And the solution was delightful and easy. Would love to have seen the cartoon in color--that's a pretty snazzy car, no wonder that girl was so happy. I'm still driving my 2003 Subaru and even after all these years it still doesn't look too bad.

Sandyanon said...

Two really great story poems.

Ol' Man Keith said...

FLN: Have we given up on trying to find an appropriate name for Owen's Jumble verses?

Today's poems are among the best: One with a sad outcome, the other a positive finish. Both attending to themes of current interest & importance.
I like that the aspiring one was inspiring, and I join Misty in awarding it an "all times" status.
As for Santa Claus' futility, what should we expect? Why should the jolly old elf have any more of a solution than we have? We already feel powerless to make our leaders take any effective action.
~ OMK

OwenKL said...

Strange, I'd intended to apologize for today's poems. I felt both were pedestrian in imagination and only marginally well expressed compared to what I'm usually capable off.

HOWEVER, what I really want feedback on, and should have asked yesterday morning, was about the format on the Sunday J6. If you do it in your newspaper or an interactive site online, it makes no difference, but if anyone prints it out from here, should I format it differently? Make the boxes and circles larger? the letters lowercase or tighter together?

Sandyanon said...

I do the j6 on the Tribune site, though I do look it over here first. It might be easier to to read if the circles (not the boxes) were larger.

I like what your poems generally say, even though I might sometimes quibble with bits of the meter.

Wilbur Charles said...

I'm like Sandy. If I did the 6*6 using your format I'd have no problem because I use a blank sheet to jot down letters.

One thing that you inimitably do, Owen, is besides incorporating disparate J-words you tie them together in a story that then has an ending, sometimes humorous and usually with a message.

Genius .

WC

Ol' Man Keith said...

The circles and squares are large enough for me and very easy to read in your formatting. This is the only place I come to see them--unless they are not posted in time. Then I check the LA Times.
~ OMK

Ol' Man Keith said...

February 10, 2020 ~
Some Oscar nominees were so nervous they might have to give an unscripted thank-you speech, they were all a-tremble as they sat in their seats. (Others, who won, maybe should have been.)
~ OMK