| || brash, flood, shrewd, happen, a show of hands.
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The opening poem contains all the words (or variations of them) from today's Jumble.
Comments are welcomed! And couching them in Poetry is definitely NOT required.
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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The Katzenjammer Kids, you know,
Were in the newspaper, the roto'*
Fritz and Hans were young and brash,
The pranks they'd pull off in a flash!
The Captain, their Papa, seemed shrewd.
Thought he'd foresee whatever they stewed.
But their flood of mischief was too much,
He was always outsmarted, in a huff!
The Kids were a trial, there's no denial.
Sometimes he'd catch them at something vile.
Corporal punishment, he'd tan their pants!
Lay hands on Fritz, make a show of Hans!
* Rotogravure section of the newspaper, now known as the Sunday Comics, was the only color section. The rest was all black & white.
BTW, the Katzejammer Kids were started in 1897, and are still going on today!
Owen ~ I used to love the Katzenjammer Kids. I didn't realize till I was older that the name refers to the screeching of feral felines, a bunch of "cats yammering"!
Enjoyed your poetic tribute. Got a kick out of your wordplay on the solution in the last line.
~ OMK
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Ps, I guess most of us know of the rotogravure via Irving Berlin's "Easter Parade."
"Will They Show Their Hand?"
Big Pharma run ads on the Telly
for pains in the head, back, & belly.
Though monitored by FDA/FCC,
they brashly claim efficacy.
Always shrewd to state adverse reactions,
they don't admit cause interactions.
A flood of side effects may faintly be seen
in a tiny font below a swimming teen,
or in pale letters crammed in the sky
above real happy folk--not actors!--skiing by.
A voice-over will tell you that strokes "occurred"
and deaths "have happened," but not a word
linking the product to such awful injuries.
(Links repeatable before judges & juries....)
~ OMK
Wow! Exciting and clever verses this morning, Owen and Ol' Man Keith.
Makes for tough competition.
"Stupid Sammy"
Sammy was very shrewd,
a smart and talented dude.
But sometimes he could be rash
which cost him a lot of cash
when he gambled and let it happen
that into his savings he tapped in.
The result was losing a flood
of cash in his betting mud.
It took him a year to know
that it wasn't smart to show
your hands in a poker game
with great losses--what a shame.
Thank goodness he was married to Sunny
who took over all of his money
and made Sammy look for a job
before he was nailed by the mob.
Now Sammy is quite subdued
and thankful not to be sued.
Lucky Sammy!--to have stepped out of the shade and found his Sunny
just in time to save the rest of his money.
The Bible looked on marriage as the way for lusting men to avoid hellfire, but centuries of "chick lit" added their own classic interventions--one of which was to rescue profligate males from,
as they'd say,
betting the farm.
Good job, Misty, putting Sammy to work, and quelling the poker demon in him.
He was a bad gambler.
Maybe he can put his math skills to work (at this time of year) as a halfway decent CPA!
~ OMK
Many thanks for the kind comments, Ol' Man Keith. Your verse gives us good advice to be careful about trusting all those medical product ads on TV. I'll be sure to keep that in mind!
Great inventiveness per usual from the Masters and excellent contribution from Misty. I was occupied all day not to speak of rarely having a visit from ERATO.
OMK, I thought we might have gotten input from you re. SCRIMS. So many strange words or names today. I remember the 'Kids' from my youth. There were many newspapers so between them all a Bostonian like myself has seen them all .
What was the one with the wife who yielded a rolling pin. Jiggs?
J went fast today. I just had to locate the hands.
WC
OMK, I read this joke; have you heard it?
You know why theater people say "Break a leg" instead of "Good luck"?
Because if you do, you'll be in a cast!
A pun?
Wilbur ~. I hesitated at 4A on the CC because not all "backdrops" are SCRIMS.
The term "drop" is usually used for the various items that can be hung upstage of the action.
In my experience, a SCRIM is a bleed-thru curtain that is most frequently hung in front or downstage of the action.
Sandy ~ I guess it's a pun. Certainly a real groaner.
~ OMK
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