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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.
Owen requested that I post the following to help with today’s Jumble:
ReplyDeleteI can't post the cartoon, but here are the puzzles for tomorrow.
NACPI
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RCOGA
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PLTUPI
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NULEGO
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10:40 PM, April 27, 2022 Delete
Blogger OwenKL said...
Talking about what type of job she’d eventually have was becoming her (13)
The dots above are the positions of blank squares, the dashes are circles. The final solution is one word with 13 letters.
ReplyDelete”Indigenist Millenaration”
Cargo cult pulpits
favor lounge etageres and
panic room lecterns.
They’re preoccupied,
of course, with dummy planes to
draw one-thirties down.
Whether clothing or
foodstuffs or furnishings or
toys,
they thank their stars.
~ OMK
ReplyDeleteI solved the Jumble today and used one of the five letter words as the starter.
As you can see below, it wasn't a good start, but I didn't panic.
Wordle 313 5/6*
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
🟦🟦⬜⬜🟦
⬜⬜🟦🟦🟦
⬜🟧🟧🟧🟧
🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧
Another 5 row solve. Sigh.
"New Profession"
ReplyDeletePete felt panic with the preoccupation
he suffered on his vacation.
He had been a preacher, but had quit
because life on a pulpit did just not fit.
But the lack of professional cargo
made him feel he wanted to forego
having to just lounge around--
no, a new profession would have to be found.
So instead of continuing to preach
he decided it was better to teach.
He now loves working in a school
and finds his new occupation cool.
TTP, I had the last four letters, and kept trying every initial letter except the one that, in retrospect, looks obvious. Sometimes my brain goes blank! No solve.
ReplyDeleteI do think that from now on I'll just use a starter wod that helps me, and stay away from the jumble ones.
I had to work a little to get the jumble solution; those single long words don't give one much of a lead. Found the cartoon on the Tribune site, but interestingly only on the color version, not on the black and white version, which still had April 27!
Good job including all the hints in “New Profession.”
ReplyDeleteGlad Pete finds contentment in teaching, Misty. Hopefully at the college level, maybe theology?
In many ways, professing ain’t all that different from preaching.
It would certainly be harder to “love working in a(n ElHi) school,” as I discovered when I directed our ArtsBridge program & for several years granted arts scholarship support to teachers in K-12 classes.
Even in the best schools, I found the teachers are overworked, underpaid, and taken for granted.
(Look: there I go, preaching!)
~ OMK
Looking for the Jumble?
ReplyDeleteTry this page - lower right corner!
Click here ==> Jumble 4/28/22
~ OMK
Hi, OMK.
ReplyDeleteI found the jumble on page 16 of the print edition.
That's right, Sandy. It is often on B4, as today. The first section is usually 12 pages, and this is the 4th page of the second or "B" section.
ReplyDeleteToo bad they don't do it in color.
As for Wordle, I did it in four today, but I can't enjoy my victory because the damn keyboard letters are big and fat and completely block the levels from the middle of 3 downward. In other words, I can't see the fourth level at all. The screen just said "Splendid."
Nor can I copy it to show you guys.
~ OMK
Now I am over on my iPad, which displays the NY Times Wordle in a better configuration than does my desktop Mac.
ReplyDeleteSo here’s today’s result:
Wordle 313 4/6
⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜
⬜🟩⬜🟩🟨
🟨🟩⬜🟩⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
The floating yellow/orange letter didn’t fit on either end, so naturally ended up in the smack dab middle. Of course it is the same letter that some were saying maybe never ends a Wordle word.
BTW TTP, I see that “hard mode” requires “ any revealed hints” to be subsequently used.
But that’s not hard; it just makes good sense.
~ OMK
I'd love to comment on your intriguing verse today, Ol' Man Keith, but I just don't know what to make of it, beginning with the interesting title. If you have any hints or clues to offer about how to pursue this, that would be great.
ReplyDeleteBefore I posted it, Misty, I asked my wife if she knew what a "Cargo cult" is. She did not.
ReplyDeleteShe is younger than I, so I am not entirely surprised. I didn't know about this curious religious phenomenon myself until I saw the wonderful 1962 Italian documentary, Mondo Cane.
It includes a section on these Pacific Islanders, on whose several small islands WWII cargo planes sometimes crashed. These islands were far out of the way of any traffic with the modern world.
The crews either were killed or were rescued and evacuated, leaving whole planes full of strange modern things for the islanders to share. Modern weapons and military equipment of course, but also, food, clothes, furnitures, gadgets of all kinds--things the natives had never seen.
They develop several cults, praying to the sky for more deliveries of goods from the "gods." They preached a materialist gospel to each other.
They actually created replica airplanes out of sticks and grass, many quite convincing, with the idea that these dummies might lure other flying cargo craft to land on these "Holy" air fields.
Just Google "cargo cult," and you'll see.
~ OMK
For some reason, I couldn’t find the April 28 blog this morning, and I posted on yesterday’s blog.
ReplyDeleteHere it is.
In my panic to post today, and my preoccupation with WORDLE, I arrived here to see that OMK must have had trouble sharing the Jumble today. So I will ascend into this pulpit from yesterday to share my results. No time to lounge around as I need to do my grocery shopping and stow my zesty cargo in my pantry.
TTP- we look almost identical re WORDLE today.
Wordle 313 5/6*
⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜
🟨🟨⬜⬜🟨
⬜⬜🟨🟨🟨
⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
I see I did the Friday Wordle
ReplyDeleteI'm back! I'm online on a laptop, so tommrow will be back to normal!Thank you to Keith for holding down the "trof"!
ReplyDeleteWordle in Diamond Lil for 4/26/2022.
Fascinating story about the "cargo cult," OMK. It's too late for me to look it up tonight, but I'll try to remember to check it out tomorrow. Thanks for responding to my question.
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