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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.
FLN, WC ~ I see that Chet has been thrown for a loop by Charles’ generous intervention in his & Lois’ wedding plans. That seems perfectly plausible, for the amplified scale that Charles proposes seems completely alien to our modest couple’s wishes.
ReplyDeleteHow will this be resolved?!
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Hint: Starts with T; adjective meaning “banal.”
Par = 2
Wordle 396 1/6
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WooHoo! A birdie!
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Jumble background: “Don’t hold out for your fancy Beemer Bike, La-dee-Dah!—your K-100!—when you can plant your butt on my Harley!”
“Meet That in Kind!”
Cancel helmets, ditch
the sidecar, don’t be picky:
Just straddle my Hog!
~ OMK
I wondered if we would see the same Jumble as for the past two days (the big bad wolf!), so was happy to see today’s fresh cartoon.
ReplyDeleteWe have a theatrical scene now, a director working with two tabulambulists, as they stage a beat from the “Scottish Play.”
~ OMK
Aha, so that's Macbeth they're staging. Brings back memories, eh OMK?
ReplyDeleteHere's my Wordle 396 3/6
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Used a J to start. I avoid the letter E on #1. And...
I'll repost my late C&L. Some of my J usage was a stretch, I wonder if Misty will find all 8 J's
WC
[Charles is offering to pay for a huge wedding]
ReplyDeleteCharles' words came as a shock to Chet: "Ditch our wedding plans?"
Canceling that bargain honeymoon; publishing wedding bans?
A large outing with many guests and a five piece band?
Marching with Lois down the aisle to the altar hand in hand?
Yes, Charles and Nora were generous but Chet feared to pander
And now drawing up the expanded wedding list- scary in all candor.
Some of Charles friends had hyphens in their names for heaven's sake
Who to pick , who to drop ? Arranging limos, tuxes not to speak of the cake!
"Hell", thought Chet, "Some of those folk I've never even met!"
And what of Lois? I must keep that in mind. I need a tete a tete.
WC
Note: I used the Jumble from my newspaper for the Tuesday Js. The illustration is a repeat of Monday.
DeleteI notice that PANDA etc was used yesterday.
I started with Jayce’s word from yesterday’s CW.
ReplyDeleteWordle 396 4/6*
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"New Job"
ReplyDeleteDick's hard work digging in a ditch
would clearly never make him rich.
He was tired of wearing a helmet
and wanted to stop having to fret.
Should he cancel his job and try to keep
his expenses from becoming too steep?
Finding new work was likely to be tricky
because he was determined to be picky.
In the end a new job he did find
and it just delighted his mind.
He now takes care of a kennel for a vet
and now has many dogs to pet.
Oh, Wilbur, I sure hope Chet and Lois's wedding will turn out all right after all. They've been waiting for some time now and I hope they'll have a wonderful day.
ReplyDeleteLoved the way you worked all the Jumble words into your delightful verse this morning, Ol' Man Keith. Now off to see what I can do with the Wordle.
Woohoo! Woohoo! I did it, thanks to your helpful clue this morning, OMK--I got today's Wordle:
ReplyDeleteWordle 396 1/6
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Congrats on your Wordle, Misty—
ReplyDeletebut you must’ve been using a Time Machine!
Because I see you solved the problem of sharing the result in your last posting on July 18,
although you were still unable to post it on the 19th!
Anyway, what was the secret?
For our future reference, what did you do or see differently that allowed you to resume posting?
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“New Job” is a happy poem, with a conclusion to please dog lovers.
We can all sympathize with Dick’s yearning to get out of the ditch, especially as the weather is heating up—and most of us have fantasized about working with animals in some capacity.
Lucky Duck, Dick!
~ OMK
Not so Trite
ReplyDeleteThe soldier was picky,
And wanted to ditch his dorky helmet.
But that would cancel his safety,
And he had to keep that in mind.
Misty- congrats on Wordle . . . and you got your results to print here.
ReplyDeleteWhat a great job, working for a vet.
WC- thanks for the update on Chet and Lois. Such a dilemma!
OMK- I had to look up that line to recognize Lady MacBeth’s words, but I knew you would know it!
I could not figure out the Jumble answer today; I thought the last word was (in) TIME and couldn’t make two sensible words out of the other letters. I came here and looked at your post, saw your title and went “Aha”. But then realized you had not used the P and had an extra T. I cheated some more and went to jumbleanswer.com. See my last line!
Yep, you got it, CEh!
ReplyDeleteMy title today is only a semi-Spooner. But I figure that's OK, as sometimes the best I can do is to merely rhyme with the solution.
I enjoyed your poem, which comes close to a punny ending.
I see that all of today's poems (except Wilbur's, which is a re-play from last night) express our wishes to ditch the helmets.
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Yes, you and WC are right: that play does bring back memories. I staged it two times, the first for a community theater in El Paso, then for my own Equity company in Richmond VA.
I cast EG Marshall in the title role for that one, for a smart naturalistic performance.
I also played Macduff for the Pittsburgh Playhouse, opposite Tom Atkins. Our fight scenes were terrific but rough, with each of us having to get ER X-rays in mid-run.
Jean Smart was Lady M. in that one, a brilliant dramatic actor before making her mark as a comic star on TV.
~ OMK
Misty, were you able to find two days worth of J's. Did you find HELMET.
ReplyDeleteHow'd you like what I did with PANDER. Ironically, Bostonians pronounce PANDA like the word I used and vice-versa
I just got the latest on C&L. Spoiler alert: Chet needs everything he learned in AA to survive one surprise after another.
Any predictions?
WC
Wilbur, I did get HELMET and had Dick wear one while working in the ditch in my Jumble verse this morning. But your HELL, . . . MET line of verse was much more clever. Also rhyming PANDER with CANDOR was cool.
ReplyDeleteCanadianEh!, sorry to be so late to respond, but I'm glad your PICKY soldier didn't DITCH his HELMET
Ooh! I got it, Wilbur,
ReplyDeleteOoh, ooh,
I found HELMET!
Very sly…
~ OMK