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| _unfit, hound, hoagie, zealot, into the fold.Image(s) 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.
ReplyDelete“Didn’t Do As Told”
“I’m no zealot, son, but I’m from Westchester.”
The food hound was refusing to call it a “hoagie.”
Although visiting Philly, he felt it unfit to make the gesture.
“At home, that’s a ‘wedge.’ …And can I get a Pirogi?”
~ OMK
"Young Writer"
ReplyDeleteThe junior writer was deemed unfit
for producing a book of children's lit,
so the editor wanted him to quit.
But the boy was a bright zealot
willing to struggle quite a lot.
So he wrote a book about a hound
that once was rescued from a pound
and, at home, was fed a hoagie
because he was such a sweet doggie.
The book was a hit and many copies sold
and the editor realized the kid was worth gold,
so re-hired him and brought him back into the fold.
Was anyone else confused by the caption? I was looking for a pun about the "it" in the caption, but it turned out to be just the phrase ending the sentence -- which I thought was actually not a great pun anyway. Literal meaning fine, punnish take on it a rather awkward stretch, IMO.
ReplyDeleteActually, Sandy, I found it mildly amusing--and rather neat grammatically (the way it completed the sentence so smoothly). Its pun value was enhanced as the meanings were so slyly opposite.
ReplyDeleteMisty ~ FLN, did you see my answer to your question? Any thoughts to my request?
I thought your writer today might have been in trouble for trying to slip inappropriate or salacious material by his editor--or that's how it seemed in the first stanza. But in context he redeemed himself. Writing a dog story for kids is a natural for children's lit (& warms my heart too).
Nice rhyming throughout. I especially liked how you framed the central couplets with two neat triplets.
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In composing today's poem, I came across a number of regional terms for a hoagie or sub sandwich. I hadn't realized how many variations there are.
Sorry I couldn't find a better way to pin down the solution in my title. This one sorta rhymes, but it's all I could come up with.
~ OMK
Ol' Man Keith, loved your rhyming of 'hoagie' with 'pirogi' (had to look it up and it looks like a filled pasta triangle).
ReplyDeleteI think I did see your answer to my question yesterday, but am afraid I still didn't understand it and didn't want to have to ask again. Sorry to be so dense in my late seventies. I sure was a lot swifter just a few years ago.
And many thanks for your kind comments on my verse today.
So sorry to see I wasn't clear enough, Misty.
ReplyDeleteThe trouble with becoming too explicit is that it drains all the humor (assuming there was any remaining) from a punch line. That's why I offered the Russian original which could be Googled.
But here goes:
My conclusion to yesterday's poem was a play on Reagan's interpretation of that Russian proverb, which in English is "Trust--but verify!"
My variation was, "Frost!--then Terrify!."
(A near Spoonerism, trading a voiced fricative "V" for an unvoiced "F.")
~ OMK
Delightful and funny, Ol' Man Keith--thanks so much for explaining. Your spoonerisms are a clever pleasure.
ReplyDeleteSandy, I agree the riddle-solution seemed weak. The pun on FOLD is there but....
ReplyDeleteOMK, maybe that "Trust" saying is in your head still but I too didn't catch on. I'm even older than Misty* so ex-actor rhetoric doesn't have a lot of pizzazz.
But those were three good poems coping with the word IGLOO.
I wonder if the natives of Northern Siberia have them thus the Prince might have mentioned it.
I was traveling and today sleeping, CC posting and slogging through Saturdays xword.
Friday was hard but it had the CK trick. Saturday mixed pop-cul, Latin, an NBAer that I barely knew as well as same same for several other names.
And some deep clues. One of which I still can't fathom.
Otherwise not so difficult.
WC
* I'm October she's December. Btw, when's the day Misty?
RR was no fave of mine, Wilbur, but I would rank that saying somewhere between "Ask not what your country can do for you...." and "I have a dream..."
ReplyDeleteAnyway, please try Googling "TRUST but VERIFY,” in English or the Russian I offered—to assure yourself it’s a stand-alone phrase in a LOT of HEADS
(2,140,000,000 to be precise), from Wikipedia on down...
~ OMK