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Wednesday, August 10, 2022

10 Aug. 2022


Please go to 𝕮𝖍𝖎𝖈𝖆𝖌𝖔 𝕿𝖗𝖎𝖇𝖚𝖓𝖊 for today's Jumble, Printable or Interactive. Then return here to discuss it! That site wa available from 6:00 pm (Mountain Time) yesterday.

You may also find a printable version at the A𝖗k𝖆𝖓𝖘𝖆𝖘 𝕯𝖊𝖒𝖔𝖈𝖗𝖆𝖙-𝕲𝖆𝖟𝖊𝖙𝖙𝖊 , from about ~11 pm (MT) yesterday.
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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.
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15 comments:

OwenKL said...

Sir Reele embarked again on an knight errant's errand,
To slay (or tame) a fire dragon, nostrils flarin',
Who'd often set on fire both haystacks and hayricks;
Ate three cows since St Swithin's, and other nasty tricks.

Local maidens, with pompoms, cheered him on his way!
He was on his honor this dragon to tame, or to slay.
He would shoot for a bloodless conclusion to his quest,
But he swore by the Moon his sword was equal to this test!

He found the dragon ailing by another flaming field.
Moaning and groaning, the dragon said he'd yield.
Begged the knight for a cure for heartburn and indigestion.
The white calcium cliffs of Dover was Sir Reele's suggestion!

Now the dragon holds a steady beat as lamplighter,
And on cold, stormy nights, he's a hearth-fire igniter!

Wilbur Charles said...

Reposting my

Wordle 417 4/6

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For the solution I thought of a word for ostentatious jewelry but stuck with the solution

Fln Misty, you missed the 'Econ' majors studying Joyce, eh? Teaching non-lit majors must have been interesting.

I wonder if OMK got a kick out of it

WC

Wilbur Charles said...

Again I'm combining Tuesday with Wednesday
Reposting FLN
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"Lois, dear, I'll put on the kettle for tea , it isn't often that we get to talk
I remember your school days with the pompoms, you were quite a gal
Then later you had a stormy time, it all came as a quite a shock
Until suddenly back in my life, and even better, completely rational"

"I've locked up the past into the vault , I'm through making a stir
Today I enjoy seeing Chet snort when I say
'We must meet with the pastor'
He quickly calmed down and said 'It'll be a great honor'"
Chet then remarked, with one of his typical puns,
"I wouldn't put it past her"

I was moonstruck when I first laid eyes on this brown eyed pixie
Shoot , she solved my problems and I'm not just whistling Dixie".

Ol' Man Keith said...


Wordle 417 Hint: One syllable, one vowel, begins and ends with a consonant; a verb or a noun; to hold onto something firmly, or have an emotional dependency on someone
Par = 4
Wordle 417 1/6

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—§—
Here’s one of the features of life in a team’s shout squad:

”Root in Platoon!”

To honor her pom-
pom, this wan, wee girl often
yells huge & stormy!
~ OMK

Ol' Man Keith said...

Owen ~ I feel a kinship with your dragon. Yesterday, my gut held a constant fire. Even the blandest food seemed to stoke it.
Heartburn grows more & more miserable with each aging year. I chewed chalk all day. Do you suppose the Cliffs of Dover hold the mother lode of Gaviscon? At least the inspiration…

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Wilbur ~ I did, I did! Get a kick outta your visit to Misty’s survey of JJ!
I felt I was almost there. Well done, good sir!
And I enjoyed the latest C&L verses. I had no idea Lois had a rootin’-tootin’ pompom past! That opens up a new dimension of her!
~ OMK

Misty said...

"June Moon Tune"

We brought pom-poms to honor the crew
before on to the moon they flew.
The weather was often stormy
before they took off on their journey.
But we gathered around to root
as off to the sky they did shoot.

Misty said...

Woohoo! Woohoo! For the second day in the row I got the Wordle on my first try, thanks to Ol' Man Keith's wonderfully helpful hint. Thank you so much, again, for this great help.
Here it is:

Wordle 417 1/6

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Ol' Man Keith said...

And right on time—it’s Misty-Gal!
With a nicely concise J-Word-compact trip to the moon…
A most efficient job: good work!
~ OMK

CanadianEh! said...

Well, I really had to work for this one! I just got it in the nick of time.
Wordle 417 6/6*

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⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Ol' Man Keith said...

But you may console yourself, CEh!
It makes a nice diagram.
~ OMK

Misty said...

Owen, I love the way you rhyme you fun verses: indigestion/suggestion was my favorite this morning.

Looks like Chet and Lois, dear, still have a bit of a rocky relationship, Wilbur, and with Chet snorting, I bet that visit to the pastor won't be a great success right away. But I'll keep my fingers crossed.

Is that wan, wee girl really in a platoon, Ol' Man Keith? I bet they'll make her honor more than a pom-pom.

Nice Wordle, CanadianEh!, and I look forward to your always delightful verse too.

Ol' Man Keith said...

One of our high school’s girls’ cheer squads was called a platoon. They were probably not the only ones, as many cheerleaders emulated military organizations.
~ OMK

Wilbur Charles said...

Misty, Chet no sooner told Lois "Shoot for the moon" and she brings up seeing the pastor. Chet Recovered nicely.

We were already marrried in civil court when we talked to the pastor in NH

He wanted to set the "wedding" for a year out with "classes"

We found a priest on the Cape

CanadianEh! said...

Why do we so often cling to the past?
Whether our days be full of honour or stormy blasts
Raise those cheerleader’s pompoms,
And shoot for the moon!

CanadianEh! said...

Another great day of contributions.
Owen- that poor dragon! I loved it.
WC- Chet and Lois have a great saga going. And Misty’s JJ class poem FLN was a fitting honour to her.
OMK- yes, my Wordle does have an interesting symmetry. I loved your “wan, wee girl” haiku.

Sorry, I can’t bring myself to use the Jumble spelling for honour. LOL.