| fondue, campus, thrive, stereo, cashew, income, "peachfront" home.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.
"Cheer her Career"
ReplyDeleteBetsy arrived by bus
on her visit to the campus.
Tuition would cost her a sum
and depend on her summer income.
So she began work on the beachfront
teaching kids how lizards to hunt.
In a restaurant she learned to cook stew
and make a delicious fondue
and a cake with a crust of cashew,
and her reputation as a chef soon grew.
Her career now began to thrive
and her recipes were featured live
on stereo on the radio
where she hosted a cooking show.
Now the newspapers in her home town
are featuring her renown.
Misty, you again show your knack
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end words back to back.
Good for Betsy, whose story
is one of culinary glory!
Here we all watch in awe as she parlays a simple summer job into a major career hosting a cooking show. Never mind the single "mill" along the way, this is a gal who can create pies with cashew crusts! I salivate to think of it!
~ OMK
My goodness,
ReplyDeleteEven when they're brief
your rhymes are a great relief.
So thank you, Ol' Man Keith,
You are our Jumble chief!
I did wonder about that "hunt."
ReplyDeleteBut then I figured Chef Betsy
would say to the kids, "Hey, let's see!
Now what can we make?
(No! not a cake)
We've got us a lizard,
so let's cook its gizzard!"
Et voila!
She became the Lizard Gizzard Wizard!
~ OMK
The Lizard Gizzard Wizard! You crack me up, OMK!
ReplyDeleteA Sunday isn't a fun day . . . without also hearing from our cohort, Sandy, Owen, and Wilbur.
ReplyDeleteCome-on friends, we'd love to hear from you!
Hi gang. Been busy, c CC.
ReplyDeleteI found several of the J's tough to parse. (Fondue, Cashew, even the simple Income.)
Haven't even thought of a poem. But maybe later.
WC
This one stumped me -- or I gave up, which amounts to the same thing. Not enough "o's" for rooftop, and I kept thinking the long word must somehow end in "ment". Figured "peach" must be in there somehow, but how?
ReplyDeleteSo finally loked it up -- of course!!
Sandy ~ Can't say I cared much for this one. Hard to say what my objection is.
ReplyDeleteI think it maybe has something to do with the ratio between "difficulty" (Df) and"surprise" (S), with "delight" (Dl) being a factor of "S."
-or-
Df/(S x Dl) = P (takeaway "pleasure").
~ OMK
Chet and Lois made a fun duo hanging out front of the AA Campus
ReplyDeleteMunching cashews, listening to the stereo - they both loved Rush.
Privately Lois wondered about Chet's income, could he support
A home for two or maybe more and not fall short?
But he was a peach of a guy who'd come a long way from that dive
And taking it a day at a time and God willing, they would thrive
WC
Great, Wilbur, great--you got all but one of the Jumble words into your delightful Chet and Lois verse. Hope they continue to go forward in their relationship although they clearly have to sort out a variety of issues. But wonderful to hear from you and them.
ReplyDeleteGreat to hear from you too, Sandy.
OMK, reading your formuela, my first thought might have been more like
ReplyDelete(S x Dl)/Df = P.
But I guess either way works.
P.S. Wilbur, I see that Chet and Lois' relationship has really progressed. Lois is very practical-minded, isn't she?
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