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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.
(Read to the pace of Jimmy Dean's "Big Bad John".)
ReplyDeleteHe was tall and gangly, and he carried a piece,
He was the eldest son of an Anglican priest.
He wasn't Big John, tho he knew that name,
Nor Little John, of Sherwood Forest fame.
In Between John.
His body burned with internal pressure,
A fervor for a way to make the world better!
He could have been a green, PETA, famine relief.
But his passion was language, joined the Grammar Police.
Apostrophy John.
Now the years have vanished as they've flown by,
Now his head is bald to the open sky.
He's got a red sports car, and Viagra perscription,
So he now fits his personal description:
Mid-life Crisis John.
OwenKL- love your John offering!
ReplyDeleteWordle sums up the state of the world today.
Back later I hope.
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I used a word from yesterday to start my
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Today's jigsaw puzzles:
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and
Bifurcated #2, 110 pieces
I do think today's Jumble verse is one my best ever!
Hint: Starts with W; an adjective befitting a crazy cartoon; yesterday CEh! included 3 of these letters in her penultimate guess.
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“Their Fears are Honed!”
The eldest & youngest, similar in fervors,
are quick to vanish when Docs come their way.
Their “ops” alike—from different servers—
are apiece unique, fix one, the other spay.
Both are gangly & cuddly, and apt to show chagrin
by curling their tails under when called to the Vets within.
~ OMK
A splendid poem, Owen ~ and it works beautifully with the tune! First rate!
ReplyDeleteCanadianEh! ~ If only the world were as gangly & cuddly as the Wordle word implies!
I can’t find it so warm & woozy as that…
I hope we haven’t seen the last of C&L, Wilbur ~ Don’t we deserve an invitation to the wedding, plus a few major announcements after that?
~ OMK
I did today’s #1 in 37 minutes, Owen! Making progress—incrementally…
ReplyDeleteA beautiful design; must be great for my stigmatism.
Are abstract designs or landscapes easier to do? Does it make no difference?
~ OMK
"Family"
ReplyDeleteThe eldest of the kids was the best,
tall and gangly, and always well dressed.
His fervor earned him good fees
which he shared with his siblings apiece.
Over the years, the kids were all grown
and vanished as off they had flown.
But the family kept a bond within,
for the eldest still lives with his twin.
Thanks Owen. I did #1 in 25:59
ReplyDeleteMisty- love your family poem.
Yes OMK, the world can be OUTRE,
WC- you did well with Wordle
ReplyDeleteThank you, CanadianEh! for your kind comment about my poem. Can I ask: how do I transfer my Wordle to this site? I do one every morning, but can't seem to transfer it here.
Ol' Man Keith, very cute and funny pet verse this morning. So is it a kitty or a puppy that's a bit nervous around the Vet? Oh wait, puppy, of course--cats don't curl their tails, if I remember.
Oho! There you are, Misty!
ReplyDeleteFor a while I thought you were copying my old habit of skipping out on Sundays.
(I may return to that--when I get over my fear that Owen might be permanently closing the site. As things stand, I am still owed two extra holidays, or three when we add today!)
Anyway, enjoyed your poem--nicely done for rhyme and for meter, with a friendly family theme.
I appreciated the humorous turn at the end.
It is always special to find a bit of a punch there.
And I get a kick out of the practice (so I understand it) of twins, as the elder always knows by just how many minutes he or she can calculate seniority!
Yes, dogs! Please, I had my fill of cats growing up.
My birth family always kept cats.
We had a Siamese called "Cat." And a stray we called "Mud." And a black cat named--(duh)--"Blackie."
One we called "Libby Cat" because it looked like our baby sitter, Libby.
And a bunch of no-names-to-remember.
Felines are just too easy to care for; their so-called "independence" obviates the interconnection that binds people with pups.
But some people like that. They are beyond caretaker guilt.
~ OMK
You do well on Owen's jigsaws, CEh!
ReplyDeleteI am new to the form. Maybe it is too addictive, 'cuz I tell myself I'll just see if I can match 2 or 3 pieces--for the heck of it.
Then I am stuck, working through the whole thing.
I have no system. Do you have any secrets to share? Like separating all the end pieces first? Or...?
~ OMK
Owen, sorry to be late to thank you for your brilliant verse this morning. Got our Sunday off to a great start--many thanks for that.
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed hearing your family's cat names, OMK. I have to admit that I was actually a cat person, but after my third or fourth cat ran out on the street and was hit by a car, I decided to get a dog because, unlike a cat, they could be kept in a fenced yard.
ReplyDeleteWell, that brilliant idea became undone when I moved into the home in Laguna Beach. We had a fence around the back yard so the dogs couldn't get out. But one of the fences was on an uphill slope and in the end our two last sweet dachshunds, Dusty and Sandy, were taken out of our yard by coyotes. That was sadly the end of pets for me. Well, except for Rowland's now probably 70 year old turtle of the species Gopherus Agassissi, named "Gophie." Rowland got her when he was 22 years old and took her with him to graduate schools and university jobs and wherever he moved during the next decades. When I moved in with him almost three decades ago, we renovated the house and garden and had a triangular home built for her, where she can sleep in the corner and come out into the sunlight on nice days. She must be in seventies or more by now, and I just fed her at 11 am this morning, her usual meal time. Coyotes, thank goodness, are not interest in tortoises, so we put her in our will since she will probably outlive us.
Misty- when you succeed at Wordle, a Statistics screen comes up. At the bottom right, there is a green Share logo. If you click on it, the words “copied to clipboard” come up. Then you can go to your Jumble post, tap to get Select, Select All, Paste to show, and click Paste. Your Wordle will appear where your cursor was located.
ReplyDeleteThis applies to my iPad. I’m not sure if the process is exactly the same on a computer. Anybody else?
OMK-yes, I have a system. I sort out the edge pieces to their proper side, bottom, top. I need to pile up the inner pieces sometimes to make room to see the outside matches. Once the outside edges are done, I start with the matches that I see on the next inside layer etc. Sometimes I just take the “low-hanging fruit”.
The one advantage over “real physical” puzzles is that the shapes are already place horizontally. I find that much easier.
Thank you very much, CEh!
ReplyDeleteYes, the horizontal setup must make it lots easier.
I tried something like your system on Bifurcated #2 today. I think it helped. Certainly, I got the framing pieces lined up pretty quickly, which gave me a good idea of how much space was left to be filled.
But then things slowed down. For a while I organized the rest of the pieces by colors & then by tab protrusions--all the lefties over here, and the righties over there, &c.
Just MAYBE that helped, although it consumed many minutes, with only occasional fills.
Another good thing about this setup is that the pieces click into place when they are correct--which is very important with abstract designs.
One of the bad things is that you can't pause it. Like for instance you can with the NY Times crossword, which also runs a timer on you.
Today, I had to pause to help my wife with the groceries, so I subtracted 20 minutes from my time.
I managed this jigsaw in 56 minutes, AFTER subtracting my time out.
Not too bad, I think for 110 pieces.
But, hey Owen--I got the SAME poem when I finished it!
~ OMK
Yes, Misty, that's how it works on my desktop iMac and on my iPad too.
ReplyDeleteWhen I advised you yesterday to click the icon in the upper right corner, that was only if you had not already done what CEh! says.
Her directions show as an automatic option on either of my platforms. But if I ignore the automatic "Share" screen, I can always go back by clicking the icon that looks like 3 book backs lined up.
~ OMK
I just finished cc xword. And attacked
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