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| _madly, hobby, tedium, candid, buy a combine.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.
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Happy Epiphany Everybody!
(It’s Twelfth Night, for all you secularists.)
Here’s today’s Jumble poem:
“Kenneth Geiger* Reminiscing”
Candid photography is—madly!—my hobby.
It relieves tedium and sharpens the mind.
I was shown at the Fair in Abu Dhabi,
& awarded a Prize—by the Emirates Combine.
~ OMK
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* Second place in the HIPA Photo Contest (Portraiture).
"Tough Sales"
Harry madly pursued a hobby
to sell flashlights in the lobby.
But sales were slow
and he had to be candid
that very few customers did demand it.
To end the tedium
he invented a new medium
and did products combine
that could glow and shine.
Now people do buy
and his spirits are in the sky.
First place—Reliable! No competition!
Holding down your regular rhythm, Misty, steady two- to four beat-lines.
Couplets & couplets delivering all the J-words—thank you!
You can guess why my favorite line is the third!
~ OMK
Had a really tough time with the third clue. And then, when I got the solution, it wasn't very satisfying, because it just threw in a relevant word for the machinery, in a phrase that made no sense as applied to their group. I really like puns -- good puns -- which is why awkward constructions bother me so much.
Ah well, even a great batting average is hitting only about a third of the time.
I thought it was dull, Sandy. But as far as relevance to the group, I thought maybe that brobdingnagian red thing made it relevant.
I can't say for sure because I can't claim to recognize farm machinery. What things are called...
Ah, well.
I always thought sports analysts were too generous in rating batting averages.
In most other jobs, .300 is a terrible figure.
~ OMK
Well, OMK, I suppose the phrase could be relevant to their group if you thought of the phrase as a bribe. But I think that's a far reach.
Literally they did buy one. But more figuratively, as one, they weren't bought. And besides, to nitpick further, the bribing sense switches the phrase grammar completely around.
Wow, I'm getting tiresome, even to myself. Bye!
I think my brain is on a holiday, Sandy, as I don't understand how "bribe" enters into either the cartoon or the solution. The guys just want to buy a share in the equipment, right?
In effect, (and using the secondary meaning of the J-word) they would be the thing they are buying, so they couldn't very well be corrupting themselves.
They'd be buying the right to such status as joint ownership confers--or buying into such rights as they would gain.
You are right in saying it would be "a far reach" to use the phrase in the sense of a "bribe."
On the plus side, that shows the power of your imagination!
You should be the artist--illustrating your version by showing a group of frock-coated top-hatted capitalists winking at the poor starving (thin, emaciated) farmers to suggest they might get to use the idle machinery if the poor guys make it worth the consortium's wily while.
(Heheheh.)
~ OMK
If you "buy" a group of people, in this case a combine, that usually means you are paying them in money or influence or whatever, to do what you want them to. There's nobody in the cartoon to "buy"/bribe the farmers, so, as the end of the sentence, that phrase sounds as though they're buying themselves. Grammatically at least.
They did buy a combine harvester. I just don't see a sensible pun in there anywhere.
OMK, I am boringly beating a very dead horse, so I'll definitely stop now.
Don't you think that trying to express your meaning clearly in writing is more difficult than being able to talk to someone about it?
I try and try, but somehow so often don't succeed. Probably another reason I am reluctant to post on the Corner.
Yep, it is very impressive how much more "body language" and facial expression add to the words we exchange. What is problematic is that we can't express how much more is added, nor the precise nature of the extra content without using words that can be printed.
We rely entirely on print to keep a record of whatever transpires.
Language is not only how we communicate one to another; it is how we objectify inner thought.
Spoken language is sufficient to communicate & to objectify.
But printed language is necessary to have a history.
That's why we trust print, even though it is never as precise.
~ OMK
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