| || manly, habit, splice, hairdo, "dis-mall".
Image from the Internet.The opening poem contains all the words (or variations of them) from today's Jumble.
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I kind of thought you'd get the jumble up kind of early, Owen. It's not difficult and pretty clever. I scratched my head for a minute over the fourth clue, but not for long, and that short solution was pretty obvious.I
Hope you feel up to poems, you-all.
Off to bed. Goodnight.
Big Joe-Bob was a big bad barber,
For a razor he used a machete.
He was a manly Mohawk carver,
Who'd make a handsome man of a Yeti!
The mall rat with a dismal look
He could splice into a new mien,
With a hair-do re-do from a schnook
To a man with an imposing bean!
He'd take a man of milk-toast habit,
Have him look as fierce as a tiger!
Take some bay rum balm and dab it,
To make him feel the fire in his fiber!
I've added a detail of the upper level stores. The lower level, two say Store Closing and one says Available. The shuttered anchor store is J&D, for creators Jeff & David I'm sure.
66 Forever is a Nike shoe store in Taunggyi, Myanmar.
The Leftorium was a store for left-handed people in The Simpsons.
Hot Sam Pretzels was a chain of soft pretzel franchises until 2005. Hot Sam was recreated in 2018 for an appearance in the mall food court of the Netflix series Stranger Things, which is set in the mid-1980s.
Ah, more from the hair-cutting front! Thank you for the poem, Owen, and the detail of the cartoon--& the explanation of the various stores.
I wish I had a big bad barber like Joe-Bob. I had a few virtuosos in my time, but when I had my thick dark hair I really didn't need them. Now that I'm grey and thinned out I could use such talent.
But I have even given up on my latest "hair dresser," a very nice young lady--now that my wife has stepped up. Janice has become skilled enough--certainly good enough to save 60 bucks a go...
Today's simple solution offers opportunity for a true Spoon:
Mattel insists that the latest iteration of their Barbie franchise is not to be addressed as "Miss" or "Mrs." She will only be sold to those who dignify her as "Ms. Doll."
~ OMK
Pretty quick solve with a slight delay as Sandy mentioned on #4. I actually used the riddle letters to get #4.
And, along with an entertaining poem we get inside dope on the closed mall. And finally a spoon/gloss that aids and reminds us that we're in a highly PC world.
I woke up early but I'm going back to bed. I solved the Wa-Post Birnholz xword. 23*23; last across is #151. So, it takes awhile. Theme: Dante's Inferno with the deadly sins circled.
More in Bilbo later. They're about to enter the troll's cave.
WC
Ps, Betsy "DW", has a cosmetology license in three states. In her last job she cut a teenagers hair much to the delight of the teen but equally to the chagrin of the mother. End of that gig.
Talk about PC's kin, OCD control issues.
Delightful poem, Owen, and there they were, all the words and the Jumble reveal--many thanks. I too had to work on the fourth word for a bit, and decided to see if I could get the solution without it. I did--woohoo! Since the cartoon called it an "indoor shopping center" I knew that its other 4 letter name would have to be in the solution, and there it was! And that helped me get the fourth word. Fun Barbie gloss, Ol'Man Keith.
Have a good week, everybody.
Inside the cave were the bones of once manly men
Strewn about the cavern like a troll playpen
The hair of daughters and wives spliced from the ceiling.
From which Balin hung bright lamps revealing
Finely jeweled scabbards and hilts of elvish blades
Pots of gold the lucre of violent escapades.
It was the habit of mountain trolls to descend
To the valley and make a dismal end of the denizens
Of towns , farms and castles. Good riddance
And good fortune that they'd met their demise by chance.
WC
Wilbur, you and Tolkien are clearly soulbrothers.
Thx, soul sister
Neat poem, Wilbur--many thanks for that too.
Next, fun with elves, the nice ones, not Thranduil's bunch. But of course before we get to Mirkwood there's another pesky creature to deal with: Gollum.
And, oh yeah. While revisiting some past Bilbo verse I came upon your(Owen) late comment. One was correctly pointing out my incorrect use of "pucker up". I coulda sworn I'd seen it use like "buckle up".
But I also wanted to thank you for the kudos and encouragement.
fe. I thought today's was awful but upon re-reading I guess it's not bad. I almost forgot to include the riddle-solution.
WC
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