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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.
”A Real Role-Shedder”
ReplyDeleteA curious yokel from Texas
read a tract on sex most infectious.
Unsure of his gender,
he went on a bender,
voyaging abroad in a Lexus.
~ OMK
"Bad Situation"
ReplyDeleteThe yokel was attacked
on a voyage across a tract
for slurs about gender
that made him a real offender.
Will this make him better,
or just a mean foe-jetter?
This was fun, Misty, our two treatments of a yokel.
ReplyDeleteI liked your beat, and playing “gender/offender.”
How do you mean “foe-jetter”?
You had me checking dictionaries this time.
I found two senses of “jetter” as a noun, with four or five sub-variants to choose from.
Maybe by connecting “mean foe” with a lover of “intense black,” you’re suggesting a Super Villain?!
~ OMK
Thank you, as always, for your kind response, Ol' Man Keith. I liked your unsure gender yokel verse even more than mine.
ReplyDeleteMy yokel is pretty mean and will probably take revenge on whoever attacked him. I figured that makes him a foe-jetter or someone who gets rid of foes. Makes sense?
I appreciate your compliment, Misty. I thank you.
ReplyDeleteAs for "foe-jetter," I will take your word for it. I take it you meant us to picture your guy sending his foes off at high speeds, yes?
Something like that?
~ OMK
[Chet is back with Lois having a chat]
ReplyDelete(Chet begins)
"So, what do you think of Eddie's chances? It'll be a long voyage"
(Lois responds)
"You can't expect him to be a real go-getter unless he takes a page
From your tract. But when I first saw you I thought 'Wrong gender'
But then again you weren't some yokel coming off a bender."
WC
Wilbur, why would Lois think "wrong gender"? For what? Not for her, surely.
ReplyDeleteOMK, yep, sending that foe into the air with the speed of an airplane jet.
ReplyDelete, I liked the way you worked all the Jumble words along with the solution into your Chet and Lois conversation. Very cool. I imagine Eddie will have a long voyage.
Wilbur, I don't know how your name got lost, but my second comment was addressed to you.
ReplyDeleteWilbur ~ Great minds, eh, with our "gender/bender" echo!?
ReplyDeleteMaybe Lois' "wrong gender" remark is a sign of her underlying (or incipient) misanthropy. Perhaps she doesn't expect men to have the character strength of women...?
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Another idea that occurred to me, Misty, is that you may have been unconsciously influenced by "jettison."
Foe-jettisoning can be a real thing, and with "jetter" a slang version of "jettisoner," you get to be a real neologue.
~ OMK
Misty, that's what happens if any part of the code surrounding Wilbur's name isn't exactly right.
ReplyDelete~ OMK
I know it's late but I want to explain the "gender" usage. It's general AA dogma that men stick with men and vv. A lot of it comes from the mother hens protecting their newly sober chick's from what is known as 13th stepping.
ReplyDeleteWhen Lois reached out at that seedy bar one factor was that should she , a woman, be "12 stepping" a man.
Fortunately, she didn't let the gender thing deter her
WC