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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.
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Matt was a casual jogger on his route,
Keeping fit with an age-appropriate work out.
But he had a friend, a Mad Professor,
Invented a gizmo, a Running Processor!
I would record all the energy of a run,
And feed it back when you think you're done!
No need for more energy, run twice as far.
Matt would give it a run, Mad Prof in a car.
Matt wouldn't at first, but then relented
To give a try to what his friend invented.
Afterwords, he had doubled his mileage;
Also his sore feet, and aches of his age!
The print of one foot looks bigger than the other. And the photographer needs warmer clothes!
Just my cartoonish impressions.
“Dogging It”
After Jogger Jim gained a definite lead,
the other runners seemed to lay back,
to give up the race & relent. They’d no need,
it seems, to assert their athletic lack.
The film gizmo’s footage showed the pack trying,
then suddenly falling back (at least two of ‘em crying).
~ OMK
"Fun Gift"
Bonnie bought her beau
a crazy sledding gizmo.
She did not at all relent
having spent a pretty cent
on a gadget for her jogger,
who used his talent as a blogger
to post footage soon thereafter
that created a lot of laughter.
Well, both Owen's and Ol' Man Keith's clever poems this morning suggest that jogging is not necessarily a rewarding sport, sadly, even when recorded by a gizmo.
On the other hand, it's hard to know what Bonnie's boyfriend did with the gizmo she bought him. He might be a jogger, but looks like he spent most of his time on his computer. Not a great sports day all around, it seems.
Keith, I surprisingly received two LA times newspaper--Monday and Tuesday--this morning? Did you too? Looks like those avid Superbowl fans tried to make up for their negligence yesterday.
I was going to ask you the same, Misty. Yes, I did receive two papers today--as did everyone on my block.
The LA Times circulation department is obviously aware of a massive number of complaints yesterday--
complaints not just from our two neighborhoods, I'm sure. There must have been a general "strike" by their early-morning deliverers in the wake of the Super Bowl.
I wonder if it hit the entire County of L.A.
The fact that yesterday's edition contained a large and expensive special section of Super Bowl photos and dedicated articles must have had something to do with the decision to make sure they reached our doorsteps.
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I am not entirely clear on how the mad professor's gizmo works in Owen's piece today. I believe the 2nd stanza begins with a typo (I can't be sure), and that might be why its "feedback" is a bit obscure.
I can say for certain that Matt will not want to stick with it, given the resulting aches!
I'm not sure how Misty's "sledding gizmo" works either, but it seems to have led to a happier (funnier) conclusion than the professor's deal.
I am sure it is more fun to watch than the "Monobob" in the current Olympics. (I guess the next Olympics will be featuring the riderless sled, the No-Bob.)
As for my verse today, I am well aware that "Jogger"s do not race. My pack were actually racing in a barefoot 1K, and Jim was running full out.
It is just that his style is so relaxed that his fans have dubbed him "Jogger Jim."
I just needed to make that clear.
~ OMK
Helpful comments all around, OMK, especially on explaining the newspaper delay: makes perfect sense.
Our crazy verses today are probably inspired by the diverse array of Jumble words which have all sorts of possibilities for relating--and not relating--to each other. I save all my Jumble verses in a file, and I know that if I ever look at them again, some time way down the road, they will make no sense to me without the Jumble words there to help indicate the origin of what prompted the verse.
What a delightful and crazy poetic venue we have here--a real treat.
Just as a side note, I have a digital subscription to the LA Times along with a Sunday-only print subscription. But some time ago the delivery people here at Leisure World somehow lost my address or subscription or something and I stopped getting the paper. Never complained, because I read it online anyway and that's actually less paper for me to throw away. I am just doing a minimal print subscription as my little bit toward helping them stay out of bankruptcy. Print media is really suffering, I know.
Good of you, Sandy, to give that support. I do the same with The NY Times Sunday edition.
To be clear, I only subscribed to the Sunday paper—and then found that they throw in the digital daily edition for no extra charge.
It’s a great deal. I read it on line now almost every night after I post my Jumble piece.
~ OMK
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