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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.
What's "Molan"? I figure it must have some significance. Some kind of special liquid? Or not?
ReplyDeleteMolan Springs was a fictional brand involved in a Seinfeld episode, according to Google. I never watched the show, so I know nothing more about it.
ReplyDeleteChet continues]
ReplyDeleteWhen my peers were at the zenith of their professional lives
I was at the nadir. Living day to day in dismal, dark, dirty dives
No pretty doilies under these glasses,
No pretty dollies, no lithesome lasses
It was a liquid diet for me, I hadn't dated in years
I'd had my quota of merriment I was on the brink of tears
I silently prayed "If you're out there Lord please don't fail.
I looked up and there sat an angel, drinking ginger ale."
WC
Here's what I found re. MOLAN SPRINGS.(From Wikipedia
ReplyDelete"Mr. Pitt becomes so obsessed with the painting and his inability to see the 3-D image that he sends Elaine to a merger meeting between the Morgan Springs and Poland Creek bottled water companies in his stead. When the companies tell her that their proposed new name is "Moland Springs", she scoffs at the name. Her comments launch a dispute and put the merger in jeopardy"
There is a Poland Springs Water in the NE. Interestingly the critique of the episode uses the term "intertextually"(Twice). Apparently a favorite of academe.
Why a show like Seinfeld is critiqued at all is a mystery. It is haha but has no social value. It does parallele events its audience is familiar with
WC
ReplyDelete"Chicken-Elated!"
The "Dismal Science" is purported to be Econ.
Other fields have nicknames too.
I like "Critter Fixer" for a Vet,
maybe tending to animals in a zoo...
Each day seeing a quota of tigers,
or just an allotment of roosters and game...
Ah, but the zenith would be coming home to my pet--
my big Collie, "Miss Doily"! (The kids chose her name.)
~ OMK
"Small Blessings"
ReplyDeleteOur friends the yard sale hated
and wanted it liquidated.
They found the setting dismal
and all the objects abysmal.
But our finances had a firm quota
with less to spend than an iota.
So my find was a ragged doily
that I liked even though it was oily.
And Jack found a rusty bike
that would give him a break from his hike.
We came home with these bits of junk,
had a beer, and got a bit drunk.
Not bad for a Saturday
without much money to pay.
How'd y'all make out at the CC? Looks like clever clueing and a bunch of P&Ps is proving to be a test.
ReplyDeleteI had a late post where I said 3 had to catch some Zzzzs. I was afraid it was too much of a hint but nobody noticed.
Wilbur ~
ReplyDeleteLOVED the "Angel/ginger ale" payoff!
You prepped us for it earlier, so it's a perfect whammy. Neat-o!
When I saw NHITZE among the clues, I knew somebody would have to use "nadir." Doh! Chet was the natural candidate.
Enjoyed your alliteration too, and your play on doilies/dollies. A very good day for you.
As for Seinfeld, I never watched it--much. I think the reason it was taken to heart by many is not so much the marveling that "it wasn't about anything," as that it was about common NYC daily events. Jerry and his writers' room were stuffed top-to-bottom w/New Yorkers. Critics were suckers for all the in-gags & non-Hollywood bias.
~ OMK
Chet's offering was simply wonderful this morning, Wilbur. You always work in all the Jumble words so unobtrusively, and giving us the solution as a "liquid diet" was brilliant. Many thanks for that delightful verse.
ReplyDeleteAnd, Ol' Man Keith, your rhyme just cracked me up. Yes, you too worked all the Jumble items into your poem, and I kept wondering how "doily" was going to work its way in there. Laughed out loud when it turned out to be "Miss Doily"!
Did you know Michael Groden, by any chance, OMK? He was a wonderful Joyce scholar who married a woman named "Molly"--an amazing coincidence since James Joyce's terrific female in "Ulysses" is called "Molly." In Groden's book he pays a tribute to both Joyce's Molly and his wife with the line "Good golly, Miss Molly."
I think we're at the turning point for Chet, yes, Wilbur? Good news from now on, I hope.
ReplyDeleteMisty ~
ReplyDeleteYour yard sale was a true success (although apparently, by some friends, hated).
A ragged, oily doily, a rusty bike, and maybe other bits of junk are precisely the kinds of goods (bads?) to be traded at a classic yard or garage sale. Glad the haters were ignored.
No, I didn't know the gentleman, Mr. Groden. But I love that story.
Your music reference ("Good golly, Miss Molly") brings to mind a favorite pop singer of mine.
Way back in the '70s, in response to a party game, I once declared my "culture heroes" to be (remember, it was the '70s!):
"Chas. Darwin, Norman Mailer, and Little Richard."
~ OMK
Good culture hero choices, OMK.
ReplyDeleteI have a Mailer book, Harlot's Ghost next to the bed. It got misplaced and replaced by Anna Karenina. I remember Little Richard and that fella creeping back in the alley cut his girlfriend was looking for him. Lizzie?
ReplyDeleteThanks for the encouraging comments. Yes, we're back at the start when he meets Lois on 5/7.
WC