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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.
10 comments:
Well, I went to the daily jumble site of the Chicago Tribune, only possible because I'm up after midnight, which is when they roll over to the next day.
Not a really tough jumble.
But now I am seriously worried about Owen. He must not be feeling well at all to post an incomplete jumble.
Owen, please, if you can, please post something, anything, to let us know how you are.
Rabbit, rabbit, rabbit...
Happy June, everybody! May this be the best month of the year--so far.
I agree, Sandy. He's probably okay, but it would be good to see a word or two from him.
Owen, please give us a holler.
I got the Jumble words from the digital LA Times, on page B4 in the California section.
Today's hint:
Folk these days are paying attention to the walls behind their FaceTime images, hoping to control the impression these "backdrops" give to doctors & other professionals who are doing appointments via teleconferences.
I've been cropping, framing, and mounting photos of old shows & Shakespearean actors for my vanity wall.
(Next, I'd better scoot the pile of dirty socks & underwear out of the way.)
~ OMK
Please check in with us today, Owen. We miss you.
Well, I only got the first two Jumble words with no idea about the solution. So came to the blog for help, and there was the solution, right there in Ol'Man Keith's neat comment about redecorating his wall for computer photo shoots. Only a brilliant actor could have photographs like these to mount.
So now I got the solution, which helped me get the third word, but I'm still puzzled by the fourth one. Hope Wilbur checks in soon with a fun Bilbo poem that has all the Jumble words. I'll wait for that and not cheat.
Misty, think of a subtle overtone.
Or an implication, or a less-than-heavy-handed hint...
Yep, the opposite of tact-less. Or if you have three, my hold up was #3, you can guess where, fe, the C might go and the letter following it. I knew that G,N were the missing letters in #3.
Bilbo has retired to his Hobbit hole in the Shire. He has a habit of disappearing when unwelcome visitors come by but lives to entertain and regale Gandalf or his old Dwarf friends.
The J would have been relatively kind today but creating my finale (FLN) took me from 4 am to six.
Ironically, what Owen did, a different theme or structure each day with a witty rejoinder was beyond my ken. I have managed a limerick or two or something similar but that's Owen's forte .
Speaking of, he had a Facebook post last night.
WC
Thanks, Wilbur. I read Owen's Facebook post, and he seems fine. It's a puzzlement.
And I went back to last night and read your poem. Seems very peaceful for Bilbo now. A serene and happy retirement.
(It does occur to me to wonder: how do Hobbits earn a living? And did Bilbo have a pension plan? lol)
Misty ~ I got your post regarding Godot & your attention to Wilbur's quest.
Here's an update:
On the second note, our Wilbur hasn't bitten.
Instead, he says he'd rather hear your voice,
Not Godot's. Two times now, or three, he's written,
He'll take Sam Beckett neat through Jameson Joyce.
~ OMK
Misty and OMK, I did read the blurb of a Joyce study authored by a certain Margo 'Smith'?. Very detailed and richly informative on the author who inspired Sam Beck of literary and lager fame.
Sandy, Bilbo and Gandalf stopped by the burial place of the Troll's treasure trove on the way to the Shire.
Bilbo's 'doing very well'. Hobbiton is like a pre-Industial era town in England. In fact, Tolkien made no bones about rueing the IR and preferred nothing more modern than a blacksmith's bellows.
WC
Thank you, everybody. I had trouble posting a comment all day, and finally got on. You did help me figure out the fourth word, at last, thanks to your neat and helpful hints. So all is well. Just wish I had time to comment on all your kind notes to each other and me, but it's supper time and need to get back to the stove. And so glad Owen is okay and that Bilbo is also doing well--a great relief!
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