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plump, abide, cancel, parade, curb appeal.
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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.
Did her royal highness end her day with a refreshingly new...
ReplyDelete"Chair Re-Feel?"
The Queen wished to cancel her float in the parade.
She claimed the gilded throne was too hard to abide.
But a volunteer courtier came to her aid,
plumping Her Majesty's pillows to ensure a soft ride.
~ OMK
Well, I will chime in to say that the solution for this jumble popped right out when I read the cartoon, but I got totally stuck on clue three for whatever reason. I guess puns are no longer (if ever were) de rigueur, because I can't see any second meaning here at all. Am I missing something?
ReplyDelete"Thin Win"
ReplyDeletePatty was getting too plump,
so to exercise she would jump
and work-out and run and bike-ride,
and to a strict diet abide.
She would cancel desserts and sweets,
and take long walks on the streets.
A reporter saw her dance on a curb
and wrote up an interesting blurb
about how she managed each meal,
which gave her great body appeal.
The story received such a high grade
that she was asked to lead a parade.
Patty is now slim and slender and thin--
her program was clearly a win.
Sandy ~ No, you're not missing a thing. There's no pun here, just a cute phrase, one I believe coined by realtors to add sale value to homes on sight.
ReplyDeleteI guess the only stretch here is that a food truck gives an extra punch to the first word--because it is a parked vehicle.
Sorry you had trouble with word #3. That's why I try to hint--as in the first line of my short poem today. I do try to make my verses as brief as possible, so they are at least tolerable.
Misty ~ Another neat poem, compact and to the point, motivated by the other meaning of the "P" word.
Your young lady showed dietary discipline and obviously earned her way to becoming queen of her own "pretty Patty" parade. Good on her.
I doubt she would give as much trouble regarding the seating arrangement as my moody monarch.
~ OMK
OMK, is your moody monarch Cleopoatra? I recently saw an image of her on her throne on a boat, and it looked like she made have been sitting on fluffed pillows?
ReplyDeleteThe brevity of your verses is amazing and magical in how you include the Jumble words. The only one I couldn't find was "curb."
So I guess the idea is that a house and a truck can both have curb appeal in different ways: one from the curb, the other at the curb.
ReplyDeleteAs it happens, OMK, I try to do jumbles on my own, but if I do reluctantly give up on any part, I go directly to jumble answers. Prefer that to looking for hints. It's just me.
Sandy ~ Although there are very few of us that post here, we take the idea of"hints" in different ways. Sometimes the hints are indirect, requiring a seeker to think them through to the literal answer. B ut sometimes the words are simply embedded, offering the clue words in plain sight.
ReplyDeleteThe latter is how I came to understand hints from Owen's example. He would often (not always, but usually) give me the word itself in plain view, so long as I knew what I was looking for.
That's how I do it, to save a reader the trouble of going over to Jumbleanswers for the word.
So long as you keep the main letters of the clue word in mind, you can pretty much spot the word you want in my offering*. I think of it as my service.
~ OMK
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* And Misty does the same.
Guess I'm obstinate, OMK. If I can't do something alone after trying and trying, I prefer to give up altogether. 🤔 😖
ReplyDeleteI'm referring to games and puzzles and other nonessential but fun things. We all need help in life from time to time, which I realize more and more as time goes by.
ReplyDeletecurb appeal
ReplyDeletethe attractiveness of a property for sale and its surroundings when viewed from the street.
The "pun" here is switching the perspective. The normal meaning is looking FROM the curb, while this one is looking AT the curb. It would probably work better if the real estate phrase was more widely used.
Hey, Owen ~ What I said?
ReplyDeleteAnd, Sandy ~ I get it. I do.
OTOH, I always found it a bit of fun to preserve that last little bit of mystery by searching Owen's poems to get that remnant of an "Aha!" moment that I cherish when letting the word hit me from amid all the rest of the verbiage.
Like spotting a diamond in the Seven Dwarfs' cave wall!
Ya gotta try it to appreciate it.
Hello, Wilbur if you're around--
and hi again, Everybody! ~ TCM is showing Ivanhoe today at 7pm PDT. A chance at a quick brush-up on the H'wood version of Wilbur's poetic version of the Sir WS classic!
I will tape it for later.
~ OMK
Thanks, OMK. I will definitely watch at least part of it.
ReplyDeleteJust googled the movie from 1952. The Wikipedia article was interesting, especially this quote from Miklós Rózsa who wrote the score:
ReplyDeleteThe book was a favourite of my youth, in Hungarian translation, of course. I re-read my Scott and was again delighted. When I read the script I was less delighted. It was a typical Hollywood historical travesty and the picture for the most part was cliche-ridden and conventional. So I turned back to Scott, and Scott it was, rather than Robert or even Elizabeth Taylor, who inspired my music.
Interesting, no?
Oops, I've got to get to TCM. Sandy, cancel was tough for me and used the letters remaining from riddle-solution to figure it out. More after the movie
ReplyDeleteWC. No time to preview
I just watched Gunga Din that was on TCM last week, with Sam Jaffe in full blackface--or blackbody paint?--in the title role of the low-caste Hindu water carrier.
ReplyDeleteHollywood was leery of casting true to ethnicity in the bad old days.
The practice carried over to Ivanhoe in the early '50s.
They wouldn't dream of casting anyone known to be Jewish as Rebecca.
The only "justice" here (or irony?) is that Liz Taylor converted to Judaism seven years after playing the part.
~ OMK
At least, OMK, Taylor was of a relatively appropriate age for an unmarried woman. Hollywood was also prone to casting established actors who were too old for the roles, like Robert Taylor and Joan Fontaine.
ReplyDeleteSorry, but I can't imagine how this got a Best Picture nomination. Music and cinematography, ok, but Best Picture?? I notice no screenplay nomination.
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