| || hunch, dinky, gather, simile, in hindsight.
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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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In retrospect, the builders of the famous "Hollywoodland" sign realized they had sufficient acreage East-to-West to erect a title that could run to almost any width.
The one factor they needed to determine that the letters could be seen all the way across the Los Angeles Basin was, they came to recognize, sign height.
Knowing that, they had the solution.
~ OMK
I just realized I never got the riddle-solution. OMK, keep trying.
I got one line of Ivanhoe done. Then I started reading the novel itself. Very complicated plots and sub plots.
WC
Got so hung up on the solution. The clues were no problem, but I was so sure there'd
Be an "ing" in the solution, I couldn't shake the idea. Finally looked it up. Oh! Not the "ing", but the "ight". Well, you lose some and you lose some.
Wilbur, I responded to you late yesterday. Did you see it?
"Poetic Failure"
For this poem I needed a bunch
Of words, but I lacked a hunch
How to find one not too dinky
And so far, they're all just stinky.
List of words I try to gather,
But this puts me in a lather.
I had hoped I'd come up swimmingly
But how on earth does one rhyme "simile"?
I give up, I have no fine sight
Or even any hindsight.
So when I say I'm not a poet,
Look at this, and now you know it.
Guys, the solution, she is simple. Really.
Wilbur ~ My hint today is not merely a rhyme, but a true Spoonerism.
Yep! Looking back on it, it was fun.
Just switch the initial phonemes on my two words to get the starting letters of the two syllables of their one word, and you'll be home free.
In the rear view, it was EZ-PZ...
Misty ~ You lost your barrette in the Gym, Silly!
~ OMK
Okay, Keith, I get why I deserve to be called a gym silly, but what's that barrette that I lost? Gimme a clue.
That was to make up something you might have lost back in your school P.E. days--just to provide enough fiction to end the phrase with a rhyme for "simile." No deeper meaning.
~ OMK
Sandy, I missed it. Thanks again for the encouragement. Later tonight if the insomnia kicks in I'll try to catch up.
Misty, you did swimmingly in your rhyming. Between Sandy's hint and OMK's pure spoon I must be able to figure out the riddle-solution.
Yep. I just got it.
WC
Misty, in 1960-62 you must have had a barette in your hair. They were kinda cute. Of course, after showering in the gym they were easy to forget. Much like that coffee cup I left at the beach Sunday.
Sandy, that was to say I went back and read it. New information that I missed on my research.
Wilbur, I just thought that -- once they were invented -- films would have as much influence on people's conception of Robin Hood as books.
I just saw the "lugubrious" Russell Crowe version a couple of weeks ago. It revised earlier films to a considerable extent. This Maid Marian was no maid. But she was, as they say, "empowered."
I kinda liked it. Imagine Mr. Hood less as a rapier (a la Flynn) and more as a club or bludgeon.
He could give Friar Tuck a run to the mess hall...
NOW why is it that I could not post this comment on my new destop? All of a sudden Safari is feeding me a message that no "RSS reader" is installed." And so it could not open the Jumblehints commentary feed.
It was working perfectly well this morning. But now I am forced to open my old laptop to post the note above.
~ OMK
Testing testing
I copied the URL from the laptop back to the desktop--to see if it will post this way.
Yay
~ OMK
Misty ~
I found another one! I think this precedes Chaplin.
Yep! In 1933's Dinner at Eight, Marie Dressler calls "Woohoo" to Billie Burke when she arrives at her town house.
I wasn't sure when I first heard it; it might have been "Yoo Hoo." But I rewound it and put the closed captions on.
Sure enough, it was printed on the screen as "Woohoo!"
~ OMK
Well, thank you, Ol'Man Keith, for letting me know that I have some brilliant predecessors who were also excited enough to "Woohoo!"
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