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| petty, oddly, garlic, hyphen, pigheaded.Image from the Internet.
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.
18 comments:
For a wonder I liked this solution. Cute and apropos, don't you think???
(I think he should have said, "I don't need no stinking bath!")
Some folk are stubborn and deserve the heading "Pig,"
but I mean to include the self-righteous snooty types, the...
"Prigheaded"
Some say the British abhor tasty meals,
a petty way of saying they eat kidneys and eels,
but nothing with spices, everything bland,
no jalapeño, no garlic, all flavored like sand.
This warrants the oddly hyphenated cuisine
of "Anglican-Boil," food to foster a mien
of dignified taste, nothing to force a smile,
nor cause one's digestion to resort to (gad!) bile.
~ OMK
Sandy ~ I tend to agree with you.
But we may be on shaky ground here. To repeat the bad grammar of the original may fall under the heading of "cultural appropriation" these days.
~ OMK
"Pig Jig"
When Betty was still going steady,
she had a request that was petty:
she wanted a pig, quite oddly,
because she found pigs cute and cuddly.
But for Pete this idea was like garlic
and led to a lot of quarreling.
Their romance now had a hyphen
while their conflict they tried to siphon.
But although he found Betty pig-headed
he still wanted to be wedded.
So his plans he began to shift
and bought her "Porky" as a gift.
Now the two are happily married,
with their home full of pets, quite varied.
(Okay, Ol' Man Keith, satisfied that I worked a "conflict" into my verse?)
Yes, indeed!
But the real question is how you like it.
What do you think?!
You've used conflict before, so it's nothing new. Here you have the two characters reaching a resolution that gives them (and readers) a fresh and "quite varied" ending. Brava!
~ OMK
I always like and appreciate your suggestions, Ol' Man Keith--they make doing Jumble verses more interesting for me. And the sophistication of your verses always floors and delights me.
OMK, you're right, the quote would be seen as putting down Mexicans. If you look at any film from earlier years, you're likely to find the assumption of white culture as better than any other -- whether a conscious or unconscious assumption. Many recent years too, actually. I try to be aware of my assumptions, but if they're unconscious, that's difficult, isn't it? LOL!
I'm not sure I ever did see Treasure of the Sierra Madre; definitely too young to have seen it in a theater, and don't remember if I saw it on tv. Did you?
Yes, I have seen it several times. All in all (allowing for the cultural missteps in the opening and final scenes) it is a wonderful film--with a "message" worth heeding--the dangers and futility of a materialist mindset. Excellent performances by Bogart and Walter Huston.
I'm just finishing a chapter on the growing need for diversity in theater, film, etc. I track the growing awareness of our understanding and appreciation of so-called "minority" cultures along with the changing demographics of our country, especially our cities. In part it is a pitch for understanding the mistakes of our past, even "blackface" casting.
I point out that every majority culture treats its minorities in a similar fashion--as we have in our history. After all, in the once popular Yiddish Theater in New York, all of Shakespeare's English kings were portrayed by Jewish actors--and nobody complained. In Beijing to this day, they use a form of "white face" to portray European characters.
In my lifetime I have seen the majority Euro-American population drop from 90% to 70%. What is most significant in that figure is not the decline of white America but the rise of minorities, especially in cities where my field--professional live theater--finds its audience.
~ OMK
Just put the film on my watch list for Amazon Prime Video.
This article gave me furiously to think, OMK. Would love to know your opinion.
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/apr/20/the-invention-of-whiteness-long-history-dangerous-idea?utm_term=6ab4fa802d5ac7404da3d7218f1d1f2a&utm_campaign=GuardianTodayUS&utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&CMP=GTUS_email
Your description of your work on diversity in theater and film sounds fascinating, OMK--I bet you will get terrific reviews and responses.
Yes,OMK, one reason I posted about the article from the Guardian was that it seems to have a lot of relevance for your writing. Don't know what you'll think of it, but interested to know.
Thanks for the article, Sandy. It is a good piece.
I learned that my assumption that the initial justification for exploiting Blacks was wrong. I thought it was the hypocrisy of bringing religion to the heathen, but here he points out that it was easier enslaving heathens and became a problem once they were converted to be "fellow" Christians.
I don't think he gives enough emphasis to the rationale many whites see as "justifying" superiority; i.e., the history of the Enlightenment, the industrial revolution, etc. that created a more complex and beneficial standard of living throughout the so-called First World. That's a real point, BUT it needs to be made as a marker of progress for humanity not just for one race. (The average member of ANY race today can be taught the same things as any other. Yes, a white man invented the cotton gin, but it wasn't ME. I inherit such technology just as a Black or Asian does.).
The point that most startled me was the 1694 sea captain who wrote in his log that he could see no real advantage in his "intrinsic value" over the Blacks he had enslaved. I was surprised that anyone could see THROUGH the social/environmental factors back then.
~ OMK
Yes, the article gave me a lot to think about. I have seen a link between Christianity and white oppression, but this writer made conbection(s) explicit that I hadn't thought of.
Thanks for your comments.
Misty ~
Thanks for the response and for the words of encouragement.
LOL, I have to smile though, when I think of the years I have been putting into this never-ending tome.
Yes, it would be nice to think of publishing it, but given its rate of progress, I expect it may well outlive me...
~ OMK
Whew! What a relief that verdict was. Of course it doesn't solve anything, but isn't the saying that the longest journey begins with but a single step?
It will be very interesting to see what the sentence will be.
If I heard the judge correctly, that won't come down for eight weeks. The justice system is a very slow-grinding mill, isn't it?
~ OMK
Like a snail!!
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