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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.
Kind of cute idea, not really word play as such.
ReplyDeleteI wasn't really sure just where the Brie region is in France, so I looked it up. Rather smallish, though across several departments, and closer to Paris than I had realized.
I guess the guy is doing "bunny ears" behind the Women. Is that joke international??
The "bride" comment makes me think this is a same-sex honeymoon.
ReplyDeleteSandy ~ I suppose the same gag could be offered for an Edam warehouse in Amsterdam or based in a palazzo in Parma.
ReplyDeleteYou made me look again at the picture. We call those "rabbit ears."
Owen ~ "Bride"?
OIC.
You're misreading "Brie" as a gag, right?
~ OMK
"Pray, Cease!"
ReplyDeleteAtop Ophelia's grave, Hamlet gave Laertes a shove
evincing misguided fury, guilt, and belated love
for the girl. Jealous of his cousin's speech,
the prince rushed from hiding & besieged
him forcefully. He thus earned Laertes' scorn
in the Valley of Elsinore.
~ OMK
No gag to it, I just straight out mis-read it. Oops.
ReplyDelete"Relationship"
ReplyDeleteSally lived in an alley
not from from a nearby valley.
She was kind and she was brave
but with problems occasionally grave.
The biggest involved a cousin
who got tickets by the dozen,
and the cost for all those fees
was not a bit of cheese.
But Sally helped him pay
so that he could get on the way
to having a good life
without all that trouble and strife.
The fact that she didn't shove,
made the cousin feel thanks for her love.
Years later when he was in good health
he gave Sally a part of his wealth.
Sorry: "not far from a nearby valley"
ReplyDeleteOl' Man Keith, your brief Shakespearean verse is just amazing! Wonderful!
Only, where's the Brie?
Misty ~
ReplyDeleteCheck my title.
Maybe the unvoiced "s" made the rhyme too imprecise?
I take it those "tickets" were speeding citations?
On my first reading, I wondered why there was a problem with his scoring expensive concert seats, or maybe admissions to Hamilton.
Your Sally was a generous soul. I never met anyone who helped pay another person's traffic fines. It turned out to be a smart trade-off, earning a "part of his wealth." A fabulous outcome!
~ OMK
Oh, now I get it--Cease, Chease--is that it, Ol' Man Keith?
ReplyDeleteNo, they weren't concert or theater tickets the cousin was getting.
Am having a troublesome red eye problem and got a prescription for treating it, but the pharmacy only gave me a tiny, tiny bottle with hardly enough drops for three days, let alone the ten days I'm supposed to take it. So called the Laguna Clinic back this morning, and got put on hold, told to leave a number and they'll call me, over and over. Not an easy morning so far--so a fun Jumble and puzzle are a bit of a help.
Yep, Misty, that's it--to rhyme with "Say cheese!"
ReplyDeleteI couldn't make a Spoonerism that would fit, so went for the rhyme as the next best thing.
The only true Spooner I could imagine would be what Fidel said to Señor Guevara when the latter was leading a naval unit to impound a richly laden U.S. cargo ship trying to leave Havana's port:
"Che, seize!"
Sorry you had a rough morning. I know how you feel. I hate it when they put me on hold or have me waiting for their callback.
But then I loathe the whole system of voice menus, especially when you have to enter your question or complaint to a robot rather than a person.
~ OMK
I really need to bone up on my Hamlet though I recognize the names. Nice of that cousin to repay with interest Sally's largesse.
ReplyDeleteAnother really easy J. Or am I getting better?
Maître Corbeau, sur un arbre perché,
Tenait en son bec un fromage
Was it Brie?
WC
Ps, I added the penultimate installment to my Ivanhoe saga last night. Sandy, did you miss it?
ReplyDeleteYes, Wilbur, I had missed that installment, thanks for letting me know.
ReplyDeleteIsn't this Richard a better person than the real one? Sure seems like it.
Thanks again.