| || hippo, bliss, peanut, gloomy, "bay-gull" shop.
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The opening poem contains all the words (or variations of them) from today's Jumble.
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Bob sits at home alone to work,
To think, he once saw this a perk!
Eating tubs of chocolate ripple
Daydreaming of life as a hippo!
No shop co-worker fuss is bliss,
Office gossip he does not miss.
But sandwiches -- he has a hunch
Peanut butter's not a Power Lunch.
Still solitude sometimes gets gloomy
The bay inside his head is roomy.
Up above are flocks of seagulls,
And the toaster oven dings hot bagels.
Ferdinand, the young bovine who preferred smelling flowers to facing a matador, is an inspiration to many who like to think he matured into a proud gay bull. "Stop," say his defenders to homophobes, "trying to detract from his public image as an icon of the Rainbow movement."
~ OMK
PS. And yes, that's a 2/3 Spoonerism.
Is it right to assume Bob has been told to "shelter at home" for the duration?
His discontent seems consistent with enforced solitude, but some of his gloom is the result of his own choices.
Ah, the complexity of the single life...
~ OMK
My goodness, Owen, you are so good at working topical subjects in using all the jumble words. Even though I'm retired, I can feel for Bob. Alone is still alone.
I found the clues easy, the solution a little less so -- although I was able to figure it out a word at a time. When the two more obvious words were clear, that left only the three letters to complete another real "groaner" pun. Haha.
Hope everyone is doing well. I still have ample supplies, though it is somewhat nervous-making to depend on grocery deliveries. I am tipping the Instacart shoppers more and more generously as time goes on. Their personal danger and my need seem locked together in the most unfortunate way.
Enough musing. You all take care and stay well.
Thank you, thank you, Owen. I had trouble with the third Jumble word this morning, as well as the solution. I knew it would have to do with San Francisco, but no SAN or FRAN available, so had to come to the blog for help. Your poem gave me the third word (should have gotten it, doh!) and that was enough for the Voila! solution. Very clever and sweet cartoon, and fun gloss from Ol'Man Keith. Ended a great Tuesday morning, where I got puzzle, sudoku, and kenken, and now Jumble. Many thanks!
Saw your post only after I posted mine, Sandyanon. So glad you're managing okay during this lock-down, and how kind to be generous to your delivery person.
I've been dependent on Instacart since they started in Santa Fe a year ago. The shut-down hasn't had any effect on our cash flow, since my income is Social Security and her state job is still paying her full salary for the duration. So I'm going to use that $2400 check to become a very generous tipper.
Bren is technically "working from home" at her librarian job, but all she's able to do is attend teleconference staff meetings and webinar courses and read journals. She is no longer looking forward to retirement, when she wouldn't even have those breaks from boredom. I almost used Bren instead of Bob for this poem. Looking it over, I probably should have, even tho Bren doesn't like chocolate ripple.
I like the name Bren.
Surely there are other ripples than chocolate.
~ OMK
Ferdie inspires me; he triggers my muse. So I'll have one more Go at him.
This one is entitled: "To a Wannabe Torrero."
A happy young bovine named Ferd
Stood out from the rest of the herd.
He loved getting snoots-full
Of roses, this gay bull.
Stop calling him "Nerd," you old turd!
Apologies for the coarseness. Unworthy of Ferd.
~ OMK
Well here I am, in the Jumble ether. My day spent mailing a letter but I had to get a copy and an address at Eye Associates across from the Post Office. Then...
I went to CVS to get my blood pressure read- Oh, did I mention I had a Zoom meeting with my Kidney Dr?. But CVS and Walgreens no longer provide the service.
So I bought a $50 00 wrist monitor. Next:
Betsy found a thangy on OfferUp- would I go fetch? Ok, I'm off again- "Oh, get elderberry wine at that place. And milk".
No elderberry wine, everybody's caught on. It's supposed to have immunology power vs "it". And milk turned out to be $27 bucks, the fried chicken at Publix looked so good. And a few BOGO's on the way. All this while masked
Finally, a long nap , supper (turkey sandwich)* and a big bang/ MoM hour.
And meanwhile Bilbo was waiting patiently so here he is trying to fit hippos and bagels into a trek through Mirkwood forest.
WC
* Did I mention that I broke down and paid full price for Pepperidge Farm Sausalito cookies? I had two with lunch-yum.
Po'po" Bilbo. Shipped off to this dark and gloomy forest.
In his days of bliss by his hobbit hole he never guessed
He'd be in this dark expanse of endless trees
With little light, little sound and nary a breeze.
His thoughts dwelt on that happy hobbit life,
Making peanut brittle or fudge. The only strife
Arrising from his deplorable cousins, the Sackvilles
Fresh from shopping for bagels and other useless frills,
Would drop by - there was no escape, "Come meet our daughter".
And here he was parched and dry surrounded by poisoned water.
WC
Poor Bilbo! Wish we could get him some peanut brittle or fudge to cheer him up!
Certainly no hippos in Mirkwood. Maybe that Sackville girl?
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