| || suite, valve, muscle, abound, "vacant-see".
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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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"Patient-ly Apartment-Hunting "
A leaky valve made his heart muscle weak.
He couldn't take the stairs up to the suite.
The rent was in his range, but those steps made him freak,
And lifts didn't abound along this street.
~ OMK
"A True Test?"
Whether a person is a woman or a man,
Their worth is rarely caught or canned
In a test. Don't you find it grating
When they play for the camera and a TV rating?
~ OMK
Well, after struggling with a tough Friday crossword, it was a total pleasure to come to a delightful Jumble where I got all four words with only a tiny bit of work, and the fun solution popped right up.
Couldn't wait to see Ol'Man Keith's play with the words, and that first verse was a total pleasure. Loved the way he took the joyful cartoon and turned it into a total disaster for that poor guy.
But the second verse still has me puzzled. Will have to wait and see what others make of it. But thanks for a great beginning, OMK.
"When the See of St Withold was vacant, it was rightly mine"
Said the Friar. "Through chicanery it was lost and another assigned.
The forest abounded wirh deer and I found this humble suite
When the leader of the free yeoman needs muscle to compete
He need only call the curtal friar and with buckler, bow and quiver,
Quarter staff for dissenting pates and straight arrows I'll deliver."
Then called the aforesaid Locksley did along with Wamba and Gurth
"A long drought from St Albans fountain and I'll show my worth
Never since the days of my leaky wine-butt have I partaken
Of such drink. But come noble knight, for Cedric must not be forsaken".
WC
Fine work, Wilbur. Not an easy slog, getting all that detail in.
I see you are settling into that seven-beat line, appropriate for a medieval setting--esp. with French influence.
I note too that the olde spelling of "curtle' has been curtailed.
Misty ~ Quote of the Day: "If you get it in order you get extra points. They said Nobody gets it in order... but for me it was easy!"
Now who said that--and why?
~ OMK
Enjoyed the jumble clues, not so much the solution; just respelling, not really a meaningful pun, IMO.
Love the poem, Wilbur. Friar Tuck is always interesting.
Yes, OMK, our fearful leader said that in promoting his putative intelligence.
Thank you, Sandy!
And so do I get "extra points" too? Heheheh.
5 in a row. Amazing!
~ OMK
Wilbur, loved seeing the Jumble words in your clever poem. Terrific!
But Ol'Man Keith, even with my Prevagen, I'm still not sure what's going on in your second neat verse or your quote of the day (our fearless leader said that?). Hey, it's going on 9 o'clock at night, I cooked a salmon dinner, and am exhausted, and I'm 75 years old--give me a break!
Sorry, Misty, I thought more people were aware of the cognitive test that our potty POTUS claims he "aced."
It is apparently the test used by psychologists to rule out Alzheimer's and other types of dementia, the test that includes a memory component in which the subject must remember five objects.
To honor the Dear Leader, I built the 2nd poem around those five objects, and I did it in order because, well, "Nobody gets it in order...."
(Except him & me.)
~ OMK
Well, thank you, Keith, you're a very kind man.
But of tricky puzzles I'm not a fan.
It's not a matter of my hating,
More a problem with debating.
And so, tonight I apologize
To Sandy, and to all you guys.
For being unwilling to cross the border
To track down that crazy Potus order.
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