| || icing, sadly, voyage, appeal, plain as day
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The opening poem contains all the words (or variations of them) from today's Jumble.
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15 comments:
The icing on the cake, plain as day,
Read, "Bon Voyage on your way".
Sadly, the appeal
The receiver didn't feel,
At the mis-delivery to a wake, eh.
Thanks Owen, I left my newspaper behind so I needed the l'ick for recall. Btw...
I posted a very late set of verses on thos pugel sticks we talked about. I was traveling around so I got to it late.
The very first line might need explaining. The "humor", so typically Marine, might not translate well.
WC
Senor Columbus appealed to Queen Izzy
"Sell your jewels, buy me boats the mystery
Of the voyage to India is as plain as day
"Go West, mi Reina, it'll be the fastest way"
Sadly Chris never found the riches of the Orient
But there was gold and riches where he went
The icing on the cake should have been lasting fame
But a two bit cartographer stole the Columbus name
WC
Thank you, thank you Owen. Had trouble with the first Jumble word, and that made it hard for me to figure out the solution. But you solved the first word almost instantly, and that explained the way the solution would fall into place before the end of the day. So, thanks again, for your short, clever poem.
I love both short poems today. Owen, yours is a marvel of compact complexity, with that great kicker at the end. And Wilbur, your short history lesson is captivating. I never saw Amerigo Vespucci as "two-bit" before!
The jumble itself was not a big deal, I thought. The clues weren't a problem, though for some reason the second one took a tad longer than instantly. The solution was interesting, and I get the pun, but it didn't strike any sparks for me. No laugh.
Woohoo! A second two stanza poem to add to Owen' appealing earlier on. Many thanks, Wilbur, for taking us on Columbus's voyage, if sadly not as successful as he had hoped. And, of course, having Sandy check in with us is a delight. Now we only need Ol'Man Keith to complete the icing on this day.
Sorry to be so late!
I fell asleep at the KB.
But I can at least offer some professional advice, prompted by today's solution:
When staging HAMLET, the wise director takes national characteristics into account. This is not at heart a French story, or even an English one.
It only makes sense when we consider it is about a Dane in play.
~ OMK
Delightful Hamlet gloss, Ol'Man Keith-- and I mean that with no pain to say.
Oh, and Yoo Hoo!
I call a true Spoonerism on that one.
(Although I did have to substitute "in" for "as.")
Glad you liked it, Misty. Thank you for calling on me when I was late to the game.
~ OMK
And Misty got a neat gloss in too! Way to go!
Misty ~ Your contribution reminds me of the "Spooner Dry-Cleaners," where the new assistant was charged $2 for every splotch or mark he added to the customers' clothes & tablecloths.
He was delighted on the first day when he managed to keep everything in pristine condition & had not a single stain to pay!
~ OMK
Compared to Columbus, Amerigo was a distant second. I hope somebody caught my late Friday night poem. I was expecting a question about the "drowners" and the aquatic exercises.
In my revised version little Jimmy knocks off the big guy. But at Quantico it was Jimmy that got creamed.
WC
Years later, in the 80s, my uncle from Long Island asked me if I knew a Jimmy B from Quantico. I said "Sure, great guy, full of him and vigor. How's he doing?"
"Not so good, Bill. He had a head injury at Quantico and it's progressed".
"Oh, sorry to hear that. How'd it happen?"
"You happened, Pugel sticks. "But he bears you no ill will".
What was unspoken was that I should get my butt over to Long Island and see him.
And it bothers me that I never got around to it. Pathos.
WC
Sorry to hear your sad story, Wilbur. Hope it didn't give you too much pain today.
Ol'Man Keith, I'm finally going to find out what a "Spoonerism" is. I'll let you know if it gives my brain a hurray!
Okay, I looked up "spoonerism', Ol'Man Keith, but I now suspect that while you produce spoonerisms, most of what I produce are malapropisms.
I'm not sure how to shape up, but I'll give it a try, or live in a lie.
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