| || joker, crimp, poetry, tattle, pet project.
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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.
19 comments:
One of the clue words is certainly appropriate.
See you tomorrow.
Wayne was one who wanted weary words
To come to him and weave their tales absurd.
He wanted from his fingers to flow humor,
For Thalia to share her truths and rumor!
But the Muses are more fickle than ary women
And do not come as simply as they are bidden.
No, their acolyte must cringe and crimp and crawl
Before they'll deign to grant a simple scrawl!
Ere they'll tattle inspiration to a would-be joker
He must appease her, and tease her, and poke her.
And if she thinks his pet project too hoity-toity,
She'll insist her sis Erato throw it to poetry!
Well, for reasons that will become obvious, I cannot attempt a Spoonerism with this one.
But I can aim for a uniform substitution as I offer this anthropological observation:
In the southwest several Native American tribes separate genders in their religious ceremonies.
I hear that over many years the women have developed their own purification rites and built exclusive sweat "squaw-sect" lodges.
~ OMK
Owen ~ I feel for your guy!
Wayne's sorry situation
Has been wailed in Greek & Thracian.
The muses Erato & Thalia
Have often led writers to failure.
The conflict 'tween laughter & poetry
Can often lead to misery.
Is this a good time as any
To call on Μελπομένη?
~ OMK
Yep, Sandy called it and here it is
The fires were out, elves, food, drink - all had disappeared
It was pitch black. Then Bilbo saw the advancing eyes and fear
Gripped the heart of this homespun, Hobbiton man
As spiders began to surround him. He needed a new game plan.
Out came the elvish blade as the evil arachnid advanced
But Bilbo was hobbit quick and deked and ducked and danced
And soon put a crimp into that spider's plans for dinner
And the joker in the deck was the magic ring and that would be the winner.
"Take that my pet" Bilbo said as he projected his knife
Into the spider's heart, ending the rapacious enemy's life.
He darted and dove he was poetry to behold
He was no longer Bilbo the country burgher, he was Bilbo the bold.
But where were his companions? He'd lost them in the fight.
"I'll never find them", Bilbo feared in this pitch dark night
But a moan from up in the trees tattled on spidery dinner plans
Out from one of the webbed bundles he saw a familiar hand.
WC
If you recall a late post, FLN, prescience has struck again re. Marylou.
But, the CC needs to be opened for comments. CC?, TTP? Lemonade? Gary????
WC
I used to do the Jumble every day when I got home delivery of a newspaper. The mess and ability to get everything in the paper without the cost finally won out. I then stopped doing the jumble. COVID-19 has led to my getting the online delivery of our local paper, and to my first jumble solve in a very long time. I have forgotten if they are supposed to get harder as the week progresses, but this was a quick solve.
Thank you all for your work and creativity.
Lemon -- I've corresponded with David Hoyt on FB, and theoretically the puzzles are supposed to get harder thru the week, but frankly I've never noticed it to be so. The exception is that some papers & websites run a 6x6 Jumble on Sundays instead of the 5566 daily standard. SFAIK, this is the only place on the Web that covers both Sunday Jumbles.
And it's good to see you here! Hope you'll keep coming back!
Oh, and Keith, a response in Greek! Wow, we're getting erudite! I love it! And I'm sure Ερατώ and Θάλεια do, as well!
Melpomene, for those who haven't looked it up yet, is the Muse of Chorus singing and of Tragedy.
I love Google translate.
So... Telling tales in rhyme, creating outrageous Spoons, limericks etc are not enough of a challenge? Now we need not only to learn Greek but figure out how to type it.
Je crois qu'il y a un necessite pour plusiers languages pour involvement.
Je crois que mon francais ain't what it used to be
Great to see lemonade over here. Get ahold of Chairman Moe someone. He was an old jumbleer.
WC
A fictional tale of sibling rivalry:
As a child I read a lot.
Poetry was nice, but had no plot.
I read a comic about the Joker
And crimped the corner of the page.
My sister stole it, then I choked her.
She tattled to Mom in teenage rage.
But I was Mommy's baby pet
And rejection lost my sister's bet.
Actually never had a sister, just two big brothers.
There's no way I can compete
With Sandy's lovely treat.
I can only stay in tune
To say I loved this dog cartoon.
Swapping Siblings, Sandy?
Ah, but we understand.
"Joker" and "choked her" is precious. The exigencies of poetry make their demands.
Your plot is brief, couldn't be neater.
And I dig your respect for meter.
~ OMK
If I understand what you mean, OMK, the answer is no. My big brother had me pretty thoroughly intimidated.
I only meant that I thought I understood why you switched the genders: I supposed you wanted to protect that delicious rhyme.
Now, maybe if there were a cartoon figure named "Joachim"... ?
~ OMK
♪♬ Don't know much about the Greek I took...♬
(Or the French for that matter, Wilbur.)
I took one year of Greek in college. I was at a disadvantage because I hadn't had Latin (German was my real study), and all the grammatical examples in the Greek text were in Latin.
But I liked the lingo, and I remember the alphabet and enough phrases to read modern signs and stumble through menus in Greek restaurants.
Plus many words dealing with the classic Greek theater. Melpomene & Thalia are the flip sides of every Thespian.
~ OMK
I studied French and Russian at uni, and when in Greece quite a few years ago (!), noticed that I could figure out Greek signage from knowing the Cyrillic alphabet. Interesting.
I think any number of regulars on this blog might be interested in the following:
https://www.ocregister.com/2020/04/18/coronavirus-has-us-climbing-the-walls-so-take-your-mind-off-it-by-entering-our-poetry-contest/
How do I make it clickable???
Well you can go to the oc register site and search for poetry contest. It's limericks.
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