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| igloo, wreck, crafty, candid, down (to) a trickle.Image from the Internet.
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FLN, BTW, Did anyone besides me wonder what it was in yesterday's cartoon that the guy at the grill was lifting (or flinging) upward at the birds? It looked like a 30-lb dumbbell to me, but that made no sense. Anyone have a better idea?
Also FLN: Wilbur ~ Thanks for the additional lines for Chet. I agree with your very helpful sentiment, also supported by Sandy, advising newly sober persons to be sensitive to others' feelings as they work through their own "steps."
"Down to H2O"
It takes craft to build an igloo
and, speaking candidly, we know
it requires a wise artisan who
knows how to get by w/o snow.
For if ice is in short supply,
and climate change melts w/o check,
his work may trickle and die,
and he'll be sloshing around in a wreck.
~ OMK
"Good Clue"
Constructing puzzles made Frank frown
because his income did trickle down.
He was crafty and did everything check
but his job still left him a tired wreck.
But one day he got a whole new view
when he made a puzzle about an igloo.
It made him laugh to be able to kid
and he candidly wanted no longer to quit.
His readers gave him a great review
for his funny puzzle about an igloo.
Now Frank is no longer in a pickle
and is back to earning every nickel.
OMK, could it have been a footed bowl for the sausages (or hot dogs)?
Looks like Frank managed to parlay his funny igloo PZL into a steady income. I wonder exactly how he did that. None of us seem to have done it.
Maybe he sold a stream of PZLs as a biz on Shark Tank. Maybe he collects a royalty on each one he puts out. Maybe he sold his talents to a military cryptology operation.
Who knows?!
More power to him. Good luck, Frank! (And to Misty!)
~ OMK
One night Eddie showed up, John had sponsored him too.
He looked a wreck, face as white as an igloo
"I thought I was being crafty he said, only gonna have a trickle "
[John's down to earth response]
"You can never be a cucumber again, once you become a pickle."
Eddie was candid about losing his sobriety
"I deserted the halls and hung out with the barroom society."
WC
Fln, yes on #9, [make amends]"Being careful not to injure them or others] eg.
Don't drag the name of women you've romances. If it's money don't lose a job(endangering family)to confess larceny (fe. Pay it back secretly
I think this was the hard earned experience of the founders.
Then there's serendipity. I found a COA in the halls to file back taxes. Meanwhile I was playing the lottery. Bingo, I won $250.00. When I got home there was the completed tax return. I owed $250.00
Yes, very good advice, Wilbur.
Sometimes I have difficulty following what you're talking about. Googled COA and I still don't get the specific reference,though your general idea is ckear. ??
A footed bowl, Sandy?
Yes, I suppose.
But it certainly isn't clear. Coloring it in black only adds to the dumbbell misapprehension.
Re. COA : "Code of Alcoholism"? "Cure [or Curse?] of Addicts"?
Wilbur I love the "Cucumber/pickle" aphorism!
~ OMK
I enjoy and appreciate your always clever comments, Ol' Man Keith. I guess I figured crossword puzzle constructors were supported by newspapers, but I guess that's probably for each individual puzzle only--not a very steady income. Maybe once Frank got his confidence back after the success of his IGLOO puzzle, he was able to start producing quickly and regularly again? Is that possible? How do you think crossword puzzle constructors make a living?
Judging by your neat verse, OMK, I would say your igloo builder has a much tougher time making a living than Frank does.
Wilbur, sorry to hear Eddie is still having a tough time. Hope he can find his way to recovery soon.
But OTOH, Wilbur ~
Is that Cucumber adage really the best advice to mention to an alcoholic?
~ OMK
COA was Google typo. Before I could preview I had to run. I was referring to a CPA Tax preparer from the Halls.
The cucumber analogy is as old as Bill and Bob*. It may even be in the literature. It simply means that alcoholics have passed the point where they can drink again.
There was a guy who had 20 years of sobriety when I left for the Service. Five years later I noticed him in Boston with a group of winos. Hearing it is one thing, seeing it another.
WC
*There's no sensitivity among AAers. We're not a glum lot.
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