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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.
Drop lines were used to measure water depth,
ReplyDeletewhether on an inland river,
or internationally, when they…
“Met in (the) Ocean”
Native sailors know
river depths of “Mark Twain!” show
full two fathoms down.
~ OMK
Wow, this solution really set my teeth on edge. What an awkward phrase! I can't even fathom where these guys have been, because I love and follow pro tennis, and have never ever heard a serve referred to like that.
ReplyDeleteI know why they did it -- trying to create wordplay -- but just showed what happened when they tried way too hard.
I agree, Sandy: I am not a tennis player, but I recognize “set,” and this doesn’t sound at all like correct phrasing.
ReplyDeleteWould it help at all if the caption were revised—to something that might refer to the serve as the “action that would start the…”?
Even so, it would sound awkward, but it might be grammatically more fluent.
Here’s today’s Wordle.
I don’t get why I luck out so often. I keep meaning to quit, yet this is my second time to solve in two tiers this week.
I feel hooked.
Wordle 319 2/6
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~ OMK
Sailing o'er the wide, deep ocean,
ReplyDeleteSea legs develop to adapt to motion!
As we watch the sun set into the sea,
The life of a sailor is the life for me!
We visit lands familiar and exotic,
Meet natives primitive and gothic!
We're shown many ways that life can be!
The life of a sailor is the life for me!
Marooned on land, I'd not be content,
But maybe follow where a river is bent!
Exchange deep waters for fathoms three,
The life of a sailor is the life for me!
Beautiful, Owen.
ReplyDeleteSimply beautiful.
~ OMK
Love your poems today Owen.
ReplyDeleteLet me get on the Mattea fan train today. I cannot fathom how she has shown herself to have a river of knowledge to set in motion her streak of wins. But Canadian advantage was in play yesterday, as she was sure to know the French version of “O Canada, our home and native land”!
Wordle 319 3/6*
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OMK, you are having great beginner’s luck!
Given Ms. Roach’s age, so is she!
ReplyDelete"Discovery"
ReplyDeleteThe natives decided to deliver
a question to the folks by the river.
They had been shown a bone
discovered under a stone
and wanted to fathom its source
along the river's course.
The result of this inquiring motion
produced an interesting notion:
the bone came from days of yore,
and belonged to a dinosaur.
A solid & persuasive poem, Misty.
ReplyDeleteWouldn’t it be a thrill—to find such a fossil for oneself? Imagine holding a piece of prehistory in your hand…
I hope you were able to regain access to your account yesterday. That must have been an awful feeling, to find yourself locked out from your bank! Did they actually require you to come into the office in person?
~ OMK
Wonderful, beautiful verse today, Owen--thank you for posting it on this site. A lovely way to start our morning.
ReplyDeleteYour haiku today is a delight, as always, Ol' Man Keith. Once again, you worked all the Jumble words and solution into the brief space--good for you!
I agree with your tribute to Mattea, CanadianEh!. She is simply amazing, isn't she?
Wish I could figure out how to get started on a day's Wordle? When I look up sites, I get the solution without having a chance to work my way through the letters one at a time. Any advice or help?
Misty ~ Try NYT Wordle
ReplyDeleteThat is how I access it. Maybe it works because I’m a Sunday subscriber to the NY Times, but it might be openly available.
It’s worth a shot.
~ OMK
Well, pretty pleased with my Wordle results today. Three letters right, then the three in the right places, and then the right word on next try. Tada!
ReplyDeleteI really like Worldle as well, though it usually takes me all, or nearly all, of the six tries to get the right country. But it's a fun learning experience.
https://worldle.teuteuf.fr/
A different kind of puzzle is 7 Little Words, but also fun. 7littlewords.com
Congrats, Sandy!
ReplyDeleteBut why not post your Wordle graph, like the rest of us?
Yay, visual aids!
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Today's J-words instantly evoked "Mark Twain" for me.
When I see "fathom" and "river" in the same place, how could it be otherwise? One of his wonderful books that made an early impression on me was Life on the Mississippi, Sam Clemens' memoir of his days as a riverboat pilot.
He took his pen name from the second mark on the depth line, two fathoms or 12 feet, the clearance necessary for a riverboat.
~ OMK
Well for whatever reason, OMK, the Wordle site won't show my results in a way that looks accurate to me. No biggie.
ReplyDeleteThat seems strange.
ReplyDeleteWhat site do you use? Let me see if it works for me.
~ OMK
OMK, I use
ReplyDeletehttps://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html
I do currently have only a Fire tablet with a rather weird browser called Silk; that may be an explanation. Or not. For quite awhile the Times would not let me access Wordle, (though I am a subscriber to the Times) then suddenly it did. Kinda weird.
Forgot to answer your question about my bank account problem, Ol' Man Keith. I had a very helpful meeting with a person at Bank of America yesterday, and so far everything seems to be well and I am able to enter my account and pay bills again. Will try it again tomorrow, and hope everything will still work again.
ReplyDeleteThat is the same site I use, Sandy.
ReplyDeleteThe Times has had internal trouble keeping subscribers' records up to date. I have had trouble in the past (but not with Wordle).
I don't have any problem with their Wordle or with their reporting of results. (I don't know anything about your "Silk." If it gives you trouble, try another browser.)
When you finish playing Wordle, move your cursor up to the upper right margin of the page. You will see two symbols there--a cog wheel and an outline of 3 columns. Ignore the cog, but click on the columns.
That opens your Wordle score sheet. In the lower right corner, there is a green field with "Share" written on it.
Click there.
That will automatically load your graph onto your browser's clipboard.
When you return to this page, you should be able to "paste" the graph directly into your post.
Hope this helps!
~ OMK
OMK, I have done the process you describe multipe times, always with the same result. Believe me, I am eminently familar with the Wordle site.
ReplyDeleteOMK, I have many personality flaws, and one is that when people explain something to me which I already understand, I tend to ger a lttle bent out of shape. Better not to offer advice unless I ask.
ReplyDeleteNo offense intended.
Sandy ~ Please note that I asked to advise, and you were responding to that. I did not know I was going too far.
ReplyDeleteI tried to help, but we still don’t know where it goes wrong for you.
If you are going through exactly the same steps, what is different about your result? Does it not look like the graphs above?
~ OMK
OMK, you offered to try the site to see if it worked for you, not exactly asking if you could advise me. Nor did I, if you reread, in any way ask for advice. You reported that Wordle gave you no problem. Ok, fine. But you then offered a step-by-step instruction on what I should do, without asking whether or not I had already done it.
ReplyDeleteSee, what bothers me when people do that sort of thing is the assumption of the other person's ignorance. Checking first would be polite, don't you think? Or at the very least prefacing with something like, "You may already have tried this, but in case ...".
As I told you, when people assume my ignorance by explaining something to me without checking first, I tend to get upset. Perhaps oversensitive, perhaps quite reasonable.
Again, my attempt to clarify, not to give offense.
I’m sorry, Sandy. Truly.
ReplyDeleteI did not think of you as ignorant. I only hoped I might help.
I had no idea you would take it like that. I guess I put my foot in it. I apologize.
I’m sorry it still isn’t working for you.
Are you okay?
~ OMK