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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.
I’ll open today and return later
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"Silly Pets, Silly Names, Silly Poem"
ReplyDeleteGary saw no excuse
not to buy a goose and a moose.
He wasn't at all fickle
and the idea of these pets did him tickle.
Taking care of them was no bother,
he got help from his brother and father.
He tried a couple of times
to come up with names that were rhymes,
and in the end named one of them "Soupy"
and the other one he called "Snoopy."
Background: Some dictators employ food tasters, trusting them to be assiduous in their service. My haiku takes note of one who might skip some less appealing dishes, with neither shame nor wish to atone.
ReplyDeleteThere are times, he believes, when a worker has to pass on the piece work at hand and move to the next; he must…
”Juggle, Sometimes”
The mousse was soupy.
The fickle taster passed it
on. / Could. Not. Bother.
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~ OMK
Woohoo! Ol' Man Keith, you worked those tough Jumble words this morning into a delightful haiku! Nice way to start our Tuesday morning.
ReplyDeleteAnd you also got the Wordle. So did I, but mine took four tries.
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I am impressed, Canada (may I call you that?), by your regular ability to knock out the “W” in 3.
ReplyDeleteI take advantage of a first letter hint—to preserve the dimension which has become most precious—but you apparently do not.
Today, I was a bit surprised to see what appears to be repetition in the second tier. But I guess that means you simply moved the same three letters around. Could all three have been vowels?
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Misty ~ Enjoyed no-excuse Gary & his weird wee ménage.
He came up with some distinctive names for his critters, while in the process reminding me of the scheme we used some months (or years?) ago.
Remember back then, whenever we were stuck with an outlier J-word, we would use it to name a pet?!
It got so Owen had to step in. I think he objected that the practice would be too much of a give-away to hint-seeking readers.
But I’m sure it’s OK to slip one in on the rare occasion.
~ OMK
I find it interesting to guess at the early attempts on Wordle, to try to figure out what the mistaken tiers must hold based solely on the diagrams posted.
ReplyDeleteI can rarely guess whole words--unless they are as obvious as my own 2nd tier today, when only one letter is missing from the final answer. Am I alone, thinking that's a no-brainer?
Today, I can only guess that CE's first two tiers showed the same three yellow-coded letters, but in different positions.
As for Misty's 3rd tier, I think the middle letters may be "ean."
How close am I?
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Sometimes, in my attempt to "embed" a J-word, I will resort to a homonym. And sometimes they just slip by...
So far, nobody has remarked on my choice today of substituting a frothed gelatin for a feral ungulate.
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Enjoyed your feting today, OMK and Misty. Yes I noted the animal to dessert shift.
ReplyDeleteRe my Wordle, yes I had the same two vowels and a common consonant in line one and two. I am using Wordle in hard mode (indicated by the dot by my result). Hard mode requires you to use any revealed hints in subsequent guesses. That does prevent wasting a guess when you didn’t notice you forgot to use an already revealed letter, but it also prevents you from using a totally different word with 5 different letters to eliminate more letters at one time. I have Wordle saved as one of my favourite urls; I go there automatically and never see any clues or the first letter. I often spend a long time between guess two and three manipulating the revealed letters and doing alphabet runs with the remaining uneliminated letters. I love the challenge.
(I don’t mind being called Canada, CE, or CEh on the blogs)
The moose slogged through the soupy bog.
ReplyDeleteStormy skies were no bother
To one raised in the north.
But even when the sun shone,
It could not atone
For the fickle weather.
Well, I just sent you both a message on my other computer, and discovered that it wouldn't let me send the message without putting in all sorts of new information, so the message got deleted.
ReplyDeleteI'll try to remember what I said. , you're right that "ean" was the middle part of my Wordle today. But I wish I could remember the time when we used tough Jumble words as names for a pet! A cute and clever idea, though.
Loved your ultimately sunny verse, CanadianEh!. Just hope your moose did enjoy finally getting some sun.
Sorry, Ol' Man Keith, your name somehow got deleted in my sentence--"I'll try to remember what I said, OMK, you're right that "ean" was" etc. Let's hope it doesn't get deleted again this time.
ReplyDeleteNot my best Jumble day, I'm afraid, and I have such busy days coming up this week that I have to apologize in advance if I don't check in, or don't have verses, or don't respond to things. I'll do my best but just wanted you to know that things may be a bit off at my end.
I have a hunch, Canada, just a hunch, mind you, that moose do not mind “bad” weather.
ReplyDeleteAs you say, the harsh northern climate is no bother to a beast raised in it.
I think it amusing to imagine how the sun would “atone.” What could it do, beyond offering a number of pleasant days?—something it already does. Maybe it could dry our clothes a little faster when we hang wet duds on the line?
Or dry adobe bricks quicker for those whose homes depend on them?
A moose might like to have a land bridge across a familiar lake hardened earlier next season. That would be something.
Just had a thought: I bet a moose would love to lick a mousse!
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Thanks, Misty, for re-doing your message to us.
Score a point for me in divining your “ean” letter block!
If you really don’t recall when we were using J-words for pet names, maybe it’s time to renew the practice.
~ OMK
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An off the wall word today