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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.
Still up, so did the jumble. This one is definitely a pun, a homographic pun. Kinda cute. Kinda.
ReplyDelete“A Wooing,
ReplyDeleteDoubly Productive”
The unwed copper
courted the spinster in the
duplex just next door.
~ OMK
"Complex Proposal"
ReplyDeleteThe couple shared a bed
even though they were still unwed.
They gladly both paid checks
to live in a nice duplex.
She was a happy shopper,
but her father was a copper
who told the guy to be a sport
and marry his daughter in court.
The guy could not refuse
and in order to avoid the noose
he did a proposal produce.
Since it was better not to tarry
they went to church to marry.
In return her father pays their rent
and everyone is now content.
Your guy’s father-in-law, Misty, sure knows how to present the carrot (free rent) and a stick (a noose!).
ReplyDeleteGlad it all worked out, but I have to wonder how long that deal can last—on a cop’s salary.
As for my title, I suppose most weddings are “doubly productive,” in removing two unmarried persons from circulation.
~ OMK
I just got your "doubly productive" (oh, "productive productive") title--very clever, Ol' Man Keith. Interesting that both of our verses turned out to focus on courtship and marriage--but I guess that first "unwed" Jumble word made that pretty inevitable, especially when followed by "court." And doesn't that suggest that our couples will both end up with a pair of twins, if they're so "double productive"?
ReplyDeleteI am not sure of your math, Misty.
ReplyDeleteYou know we artists (and "liberal artists") are pretty awful with STEM basics, but I calculate that if both our sets of wooing & wedding couples have twins, they have got to be "quadruply productive" at least.
~ OMK