| || whose, flirt, marlin, goblet, smelling "fowl".
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The opening poem contains all the words (or variations of them) from today's Jumble.
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11 comments:
I think it's a pun!! Kinda makes sense both ways. Although the poor dog looks more shamefaced than successful, doesn't he?
Did the third clue give anybody else trouble?
It was pretty punny for me, Sandy, but I forget which type you sometimes object to as a pun, whether homonym or homophone. Here we have a homophone, so I am presuming it's OK with you.
No, the third word seemed pretty easy. It was certainly more obvious (to me) than the 4th.
~ OMK
Whoops! As I re-read the solution,Sandy, I realize both words are doing double duty.
My note above was dealing only with word #2. The first word is one of those funny ones like "feeling" and "touching"--words that can be either outgoing or receiving, depending on context. As a verb it can be either transitive or intransitive--the sense doesn't completely change, as I suppose it should with a solid homonym, but it comes close.
I dunno. Maybe it's a quasi-nym, or something. I'm sure a full-fledged grammarian would have an answer.
~ OMK
"Failed Romance"
She had to decide whose
shoes she would choose,
and which pretty skirt
would work best for a flirt.
She wanted to be darling,
not scary, like a marlin--
a glass of wine in a goblet
would help get her job set.
But when he came to her dwelling
he was nasty and smelling.
His language was foul
and she began to scowl.
He was not good news,
he was full of booze.
Her anger was swelling
and she began yelling--
telling him he was a lout
and he'd better get out.
What an uncharacteristic, dark poem, Misty!
Were you just following wherever the rhymes would take you?
I thought there was something purposeful from the beginning--in the strangeness of her choosing "whose shoes" she should wear--as if she needed to pick a character to become.
It is pretty clear she made a right decision in the end, to dump this guy. Even so, she took quite an unusual stand, unusual for you, in yelling & making a scene of it.
Obviously, this wasn't one of your happy blendings of "true minds." Possibly opening up to a wider range in the future?
~ OMK
So yes, OMK, the whole phrase makes sense both ways, which I applaud. The cartoon surely leans strongly toward the intransitive, and in this case negative, sense.
This silly cartoon makes me think of my grandson the hunter, who recently lost his favorite, but quite old, hunting dog, and still hasn't altogether gotten over it. His other dog is doing her very best, but can't really fill the void. Dogs who are part of the family aren't ever forgotten.
Loved your long, complex, foray into the entertainment industry, Ol' Man Keith, wonderful poetry, many thanks!
And thank you for your response to my weird poem, too. Yes, this Jumble created a little crisis for me because the first clues were so joyful but the "smelling fowl" ending was simply a downer, and it's tough to combine them in a verse. But hey, I've been wondering if I could ever come up with anything other than my cheery stuff, so maybe this wasn't so bad, and thanks for your encouragement.
Sandy, the third Jumble clue stumped me too, and I was embarrassed to have to look up the word in order to solve the the puzzle this morning. Couldn't believe the pictures of those weird fish with their long spears of snouts.
"Touching Knightly Love"
Watching Knights of the Round Table on TCM,
seeing Ava flirt with Robert Taylor,
while her husband, King Arthur, whose knight Taylor is,
would never suspect him to be a failure.
A failure in loyalty, i.e. But in the early '50s
Mel Ferrer needn't have a care;
they sanitized that romantic sizzle,
so there's scarcely a hint of a real affair.
Too bad! for old "Marlin," played by Felix Aylmer,
(pronouncing his name like a good Southern Brit),
needn't work so hard to quell court gossip,
seeing as how there was f**k-all to it.
Yet there'd be no story if tongues didn't wag,
coupling Guinevere cum Lancelot,
so, innocent as our non-sinners may be,
we’ll pretend there's hot doings in old Camelot.
And (once more) Too bad! for I was hoping to see
some torrid action twixt young Ava G
and Sir Robert T—both in their prime—
but 1953 was scarcely the time
for unfettered hoopla. Still, let's raise a goblet
to ol' MGM—not stingy with their wallet
in paying for pageants and battle scenes.
To see even more, then by all means
just wait for the remakes, which must surely arrive
now movie morals are looser and more closely jibe
with Le Morte d'Arthur, and the sex can cohere
with our hot-to-trot Lance and his Guinevere.
~ OMK
Some might detect a mismatch in age
between Robert and Ava, despite my claim
they were “both in their prime.” It was all the rage
to have a gap in years. Was Lance to blame?
He was a full ten years older than Gwen.
Let’s ask Wilbur, a man who must know
what people thought a year earlier when
Bob played the lead in Ivanhoe.
(Oh, Ivanhoe, ho, ho, ho!)
He was 20 years older than his sister, Liz,
and their fans were saying, “Well, that’s show biz!”
Those were the bad old days!
when geezers had a craze
for dating younger girls.
It was such a nutty world,
but we were raised to respect
what our moms told us to expect--
that girls matured so much faster
than boys, and men could only master
what girls already knew
by being a decade or two
further down the road.
Doesn’t that still hold?
~ OMK
Wow!More amazing and complex Ivanhoe poetry, Ol' Man Keith--you are on an incredible roll today. Woohoo! Great Keithian poetic art!
I couldn't get the riddle-solution and as it turned out, the third word for which I hastily inked ANIMAL. That left me with the wrong letters. Two L's and ING might have saved me.
I had a long day. I am a mortgageOR and the "ee" wanted to payoff but not with RE lawyers and their delays and fees.
I downloaded the form, got it notarized and nervously accepted the Bank Check. Talk about no-nos.
Check is in the account and $$ should be available in six hours. My Sherlock hairs stood when I saw she'd spelled lien "LEAN". Ex Real Estate Seller? Nervous faux pas?
Misty, we hope that was never your experience but I'll bet an experience you're familiar with.
I recall the Taylor Ivanhoe with Liz. In my "Ivanhoe, the Musical" I had an Ivanhoe you never actually saw. In the saga he's such a non-person while Sir Brian is so real.
WC
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