| craft, paper, bureau, deluge, (a) great deal. | 
| buckle, stitch, exceed, kitten, useful, hazard, like father, like "sun".
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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.
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When Noah built the Ark, did he have to get a permit?
Was there a dealer with a great deal on craft kit?
Did he have to go thru bureaucrats and forms,
Thru a deluge of paperwork, before the real storms?
How did he get his sons to be like unto their father,
Get them to build with him, or to gather fodder?
Did he have his wife stitch canvas for some sails,
So they could steer to Ararat when the water bails?
Did he buckle down to exceed the saftey checks,
Anticipating hazards on all zoologic decks?
Did he find it useful, sorting kittens from giraffes,
To sometimes just bask in the sun, with a wine carafe?
I've been feeling very un-poetic the past few days, thus the limericks on a couple of them. Today isn't much better, as I stuffed both Jumbles into just one poem, the J4 in the first stanza, and the J6 in the last two.
Well I think it's a great accomplishment to get all those words and ideas into a single smoothly flowing narrative. And not just one jumble, but two. I say congratulations.
You may be feeling "un-poetic," Owen y Mowren, but it doesn't appear to interfere with your fine craftsmanship.
I really enjoy how you can take a great biblical theme and bring it closer to us by treating it with the details of contemporary life. All while using it as a hint-dropping tool!
FLN, Wilbur ~ I just assumed that your reference to marines watching "drowners" was another way to underscore young male fascination with violent entertainment--especially in group.
Your poem gave me reason to rethink how dangerous Pugel sticks are, as the videos seem relatively tame, given the guards on helmets and all the sponge rubber padding.
I guess from your added explanation, Pugels are nothing to sneeze at!
I've sometimes wondered how Columbus got aced out of the continental names. I guess Vespucci scored with his books and by getting the map makers' attention.
Shows you what good press can do.
~ OMK
HAPPY 1st (FULL) DAY OF SUMMER, ALL!
J4
The animals have begun their own dating apps. Like humans they are finding partners over the web.
Sadly, some prejudices have emerged.
In the sub-division for aquatic critters, for instance, some orcas are reluctant to go out with larger sharks, and there are walruses who swear they will never, ever date seal.
J6
Bicycles require regular maintenance and safety checks.
There is a saying among two-wheel aficionados, a reminder that real enjoyment depends on serious attention to the machine.
The mantra goes, "Bike bother, bike fun!"
~ OMK
Loved your poems, Owen, and lots of fun to find all the Jumble words and solution all built into that neat Noah's ark story. Many thanks for that treat!
I got all six Jumble words with almost no work, but got stuck with the solution. Then came here and had all the words verified in Owen's poem, and then, Tada! got the solution, thanks to Ol'Man Keith's delightful spoonerism. Now that I know what a spoonerism is, I appreciate your art even more, OMK! So, many thanks for this great Sunday morning help.
Hi, Sandy. Thanks for checking in.
And now, to look forward to a Wilbur offering.
Ah, but I fear I am getting more credit than I deserve. Neither of my rhyming hints today is a real Spoonerism.
I usually try to achieve a Spoonerism by transposing the initial letters (or, better, the phonetic sounds) of the key words, but that only rarely leads to the desired result.
Today, for instance, I got the word "date" by this process. But then I couldn't get anywhere with "geal" or "greal." So that's when I went for a simple funny rhyme.
(I know, I know; it's never funny when...)
For the J6, I got as far as "Fake lather" before bailing.
By custom on our Jumble blog, I've agreed to refer to my rhymes as "Spoons" or "Spooners" because it seems to make it easier for everyone.
But I hold the full (& awkward) word "Spoonerism" back--in reserve--for the real thing.
~ OMK
Oh, and at risk of being accused of playing to self-interest, let me wish everyone a
HAPPY FATHER'S DAY,
a day dedicated to dads throughout the land
(and by natural extension to everyone who is in any way related to a dad).
How neat that it coincides with the longest day of the year!
~ OMK
I go to this blog to solve the J4 and #3 held me up much like the solution to the J6. The problem was my spelling. I had EXCEDE. Looked perfectly good.
But I didn't need a D and needed an E. So I went off and solved the CC* and made stupid errors there.
Getting 10Js and Two riddle-solutions into three stanzas. Genius!
Now. Aquatic exercises/ Drowners. The Marines are tossed into a deep pool with heavy gear and have to extricate themselves.
They are given a set of simple instructions. If one is used to the water eg. Can SWIM. No problem. But...
Some aren't. Thus the "Fun".
Speaking of... I happened to come across a marvelous account of a Vietnam mission known as "Apocalypse Now". I never saw that movie start to finish but now I want to.
What I can see is that Coppola captured the same dark insanity that Conrad did in Heart of Darkness. I completely identified though I wasn't out in the bush. Thanks Margot Norris for the excellent piece.
WC
* The CCxw was a CC
Apocalypse Now is among my favorite films.
It marked a time for me when American naïveté was turning a corner into national cynicism or disingenuousness. (Choose your team, one or the other.)
I included it in a piece I wrote on the German playwright, Heiner Mueller, in how we were producing him in the US to mark the end of our own idealism.
In pointing to the film I said, "This is when we became French."
~ OMK
'Apocalypse Now' is a fabulous film, I agree, Ol'Man Keith.
Wilbur, thank you for your kind comment. What is "the piece" of mine to which you refer?
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