| || movie, limit, tandem, walnut, all in "dew" time.
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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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Danny wanted to go on a date,
so he rented a tandem bike.
His girl agreed, tho a pedaling date
was not what she'd most like.
The walnut trees lined down the block
As they wended their breezy way.
The movie was a brand-new thriller --
King Kong, which starred Fay Wray!
Danny wanted the night to stretch
From twilight to dawn's dewy wine.
But the rental was for limited hours,
To be returned by its due time!
I hit preview and lost my post. Thanks Owen, glad you are feeling better
Hey, Owen! Good to see you again.
Thanks for responsible Danny.
All in True Rhyme
The director asked the writers for some meet-cute scenes
for his RomCom movie about wacky winsome teens.
"Why not an old-fashioned tandem bike?
The guy goes for a rental; it's either that or a trike,
so he opts for two-seats at the same time as she."
"Gee, boss, that's great. Maybe she won't agree:
'That's the limit,' she yells, but then they lock eyes,
and she hops aboard when she sees he's a prize!"
The bike scene got tested with wannabe "stars,"
but it balked when they vaulted the handlebars.
"What the heck happened?" asked the director.
"Hey--we got a disaster; that makes it better!"
An ambulance took the unlucky kids away
while the writers surveyed the scene of the play.
One spotted a walnut that tripped up the bike.
(It lay innocently off to the side of the pike.)
"Hire that nut, boys; we've got us a winner!"
yelled the director, and they all broke for dinner.
~ OMK
Good to see you back, Owen. And I enjoyed OMK's story a lot as well.
Did the jumble last night; only had a little bit of trouble with the third clue (which turned out to be central to both poems!), but the solution flowed easily due to knowing what that second three-letter word must be.
Willy was wanting to ask Wanda for a date
Ideally the denouement would be becoming her mate
He used the ol' walnut for great brains think alike
They'd go to the movies on a tandem bike.
At intermission he whispered words sweet and sublime
"Wanda my dearest my love for you is complete"
[Wanda responded], "You're the limit. Willy, hang onto your seat
For good things will come 'All in good time'"
WC
Sorry for the repeat on the drive-in motif, Owen
I too had a little trouble with the third Jumble word, but all the delightful poems helped me get it, and also helped me with the solution. A lovely Saturday morning treat, and I'm very happy that Mother Nature is giving us much drier and sunnier weather here this morning.
Have a great weekend, everybody.
In appreciation of my colleagues, I think the most interesting choices today were in the treatment of the WALNUT.
~ OMK
"Variety"
Mother Nature likes to trim it,
and often gives beauty a limit,
setting good times and bad times in tandem,
vetting joy and sorrow at random.
But in time we've learned to fall not
from the tree of life like a walnut.
No, we'll make our days joyful and groovy,
and entertaining, like a movie.
So we'll never compose a blue rhyme,
and instead give life its dew time.
For Ms. Misty ~
Your Nature offers a mean that’s golden
with inspirational imagery, holdin’
models of our “Goldilocks” example.
She shows on which side to gamble
for the future of our species to be happy—
lest the climate turns everything crappy.
~ OMK
There's a story behind today's doggerel. I left a meeting in Ocala and down the street there's a Diner.
Ol' Wilbur never saw a diner he didn't like except when the fries came from a fryolator not from the pan.
Everything was splendid but to ensure one thing: I asked "Are you sure it's decaf?" Yes sir", she said . I asked because at the first swallow I felt Erato stir.
And sure enough I heard the fateful words across the room: We serve half-caf here. The die was cast and I started typing and in ten minutes out popped Willy and Wanda .
On the way out I had a great conversation about Durgin Park in Boston and the fella countered with Gatlinburg talk. Seems like insulting waitresses* is one thing but at "The Last Resort" they write a message on a hat and the customer must wear it.
Despite the guffaws and titters from the other customers.
My kinda place.
At Durgin Park it's customary for the waitresses to insult the customers. The more important (like the Mayor) the better. They serve cafeteria style so pols,crooks and plumbers all eat together.
Many thanks for your clever response to my poetic effort (such as it was), Ol'Man Keith. I think you appreciate that the Jumble words sometimes make it tough to stay with a poetic theme.
Misty, I too, greatly appreciated your rhyming virtuosity. The J's in themselves test our virtuosity. Perhaps some of you "Calis" had a little real with your DeCaf and are still up.
I suppose Letterman has just finished his monologue or does he come on early vis a vis EDT.
And....
I too recall you having posted the day that you mentioned missing a prior post. In fact, I think that has happened to me and not being as sane as you chalked it up to onset dementia.
Or perhaps Chief Wahoo the KC mascot thought "woohoo" was an infringement of his copyright and threatened to sue.
Much like the ghost of Sir Walter Scott_ I'm feeling guilty for leaving Wilfred wounded, Athelstane on a Bier ready to be buried (alive!) and poor Rebecca on the back of that love-starved Templar's horse heading to the Templar receptory
WC
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