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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.
11 comments:
I cheated. I guessed the solution was a gerund, but beyond that I finally gave up and went to the Internet Anagram Server, to get the info on this concert.
Backstory:
The bandits forced the stagecoach to stop and ordered the people out. They informed them they would be eligible for prizes if they would kindly rate the holdup. They next directed them to lie on the ground & told them this was a ...
"'Kiss-da-Dirt' T'ing"
"The oddest t'ing, I gotta tell ya, is when I clicked
on number eight (of ten in da ratings row).
Dat catapulted me inta da ninth inning where I picked
(from a selection o' fruits) a gourd fulla glow-
ing tickets, each widda prize. So naturally I fished
out da one dat promised me--every last thing I wished!"
~ OMK
"Calm Couple"
The couple watched the last inning
when both of them started grinning
because their team was winning.
Their relationship had endured
since the day a farm they toured
and ended up sharing a gourd.
Of couples they might seem the oddest
because she was hardly a goddess
and he was polite and modest.
When they met, they had both been hurting
because they were both poor at flirting
which was troublesome and disconcerting.
But things slowly began to click
as they watched a ballgame or flick
and their friendship began to stick.
So their romance slowly they waged
and then finally a party they staged
on the day they became engaged.
Thanks, Owen. I feel better now, because "-ing" wad all I had too.
Erratum
In my last line,
"thing" = "t'ing"
~ OMK
I was happy for your couple, Misty, for overcoming their deficiency in flirting.
That can be a real handicap these days.
I sped through your title too quickly, so took them to be a "Clam couple" who really needed to come out of their shells, so to speak. All the more reason to rejoice when they later stuck their friendship!
Baseball & movies can be a winning combination.
Yep, uding accents can be tricky when podting, Dandy!
~ OMK
"Clam Couple" would have been clever, Ol' Man Keith. But, frankly, I think we've had enough CLAMs today with all that stuff in the crossword puzzle.
OMK: Yes indeed! Lol.
Ahem. Based on accent alone...
I t'ink my passenjuh was oily* while en route
f'um Brooklyn to some spot on da Joisey shoah**.
Udderwoise, he'd mebbe got hisself a snoot
a sand, stedda doit***, up his snout--sumt'in' he'd truly ab-hoah****!
~ OMK
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* early
** shore
*** dirt
**** abhor
Owen & Sandy ~
I found the solution less challenging to solve than to work it into my response.
As you can tell (probably?), I couldn't quite make a Spooner out of it--not a pure one, anyway--but what I finally managed to make gave me a chuckle, AND it guided me to my entire backstory, accent & all.
Weird, how we sometimes manage.
~ OMK
Ol' Man Keith--I just saw the kind shout-out you gave me on the blog today. Many thanks for thinking of me. I doubt anyone will actually bother to look us up--but wouldn't it be nice if we could get one or two blog people to check in with us here on Jumble every now and then!
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