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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, Wilbur ~ I don’t know if you are familiar with the TV vampire comedy, What We Do in the Shadows. But the recent wedding of Nandor and Mawa reminded me of C&L—in a very favorable way.
ReplyDeleteNandor’s fretting & fussiness made me think of Chet, especially in his concern for planning detail and how to express his needs. Too bad Chet doesn’t have a djinn to carry out all his wishes.
CEh! ~ I enjoyed your forward-looking piece: leave the past to the past. The moon is STILL in our future.
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Wordle 418 Hint: Two different vowels, one syllable; a verb; to gather, to collect gradually, to understand
Par = 3
Wordle 418 1/6
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The survival rate of birds that show signs of gas or indigestion is quite slim or, as we may say,…
“Thin-Chancy”
Over and again,
canaries with colic will
tweet fowl finales.
~ OMK
A Tweety-Bird is not a real canary.
ReplyDeleteIn fact, as a 'toon, it is imaginary!
But the 'toon captured Granny's fancy,
It was her child, from eggy infancy!
A birdy isn't much like a human child.
Its instinct is to fly away and live wild!
But a Tweety-Bird can still get the colic,
And for its cage, can get meloncolic!
Then there was a pussy-cat, also fascinated.
Sylvester thought of Tweety, and he salivated!
But a Tweety-Bird is smarter than a "puddy-tat".
Again and again, it proves that that's a fact!
For those drowsy times, that seem Tweet's finale,
There's still the broomstick, wielded by Granny!
Keith, might I suggest you post your Wordle comments in a separate post from your Jumble ones? I've never deleted a post yet, but if I ever did see a need, I wouldn't want to delete your good half along with the offensive one.
ReplyDeleteIt took me a few guesses to weed out some of the consonants. I started with my vowel-rich word.
ReplyDeleteWordle 418 5/6*
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Canary in the Coal Mine
ReplyDeleteFrom what I can glean,
Infancy is often accompanied by colic.
Does this mean that in adulthood
It again is understood
One can vent one’s spleen,
With impunity?
Or is the grand finale GERD?
I loved your offerings this morning OMK and Owen. They brought a smile! Thanks.
ReplyDeleteFowl finales and the broom-wielding Grandma were great!
Let's go back a few years for canary. Fruit,Usher,Overdo, Canary; Trans-furred
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The fruits of his reckless riddleing would usher in
Fire and brimstone on the Laketown men.
He'd just had to overdo it. He'd got away
So Smaug transferred his rage to they
Who'd helped the Hobbit. What would betoke
Bard and his kin and the kindly townfolk.
He thought of young Tommy and sister Mary
His teddy bear and her beloved pet canary.
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Hefty,Shiny, Finite,League; Fee-lines
The shine of Smaug's armor glistened as he neared
Alarm bells rang , it was what Bard had always feared
He'd have a hefty chore defending the beleaguered town
Those not incinerated would most likely drown.
An infinite shower of arrows proved to no avail
Those that hit their target merely bounced off the serpent's mail
Dragon strength and feline cunning had come to comprise
The futility of struggle and Laketown's certain demise.
Bard was down to the black arrow he mustn't rush
When a voice was heard, could it be that thrush
"Aim under the left breast, Bard and send it flying through"
Strange advice, strange source but somehow sounding true
And there was Smaug in all his glory and his pride
And there was the target and the noble Bowman let it ride
Yes the humble Hobbit had devined the fatal flaw
The bolt flew straight and thus it was the dragon's last hurrah
"Recovery"
ReplyDeleteFred's family wondered when
he'd return to his infancy again,
for in his teens his discomfort and colic
almost made him an alcoholic.
So they got him a job in a dairy
and bought him a canary
which to work each day he'd carry.
This charmed one of his co-workers,
and now they plan to marry,
and Fred's family will schedule a rally
to celebrate this grand finale.
Woohoo! Thanks to your helpful hints, I got today's Wordle in one try, once again, Ol' Man Keith:
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Thank you so much. Your Wordle clues always make my day.
OK, Owen, I’m truly sorry for offending you. I am quite prepared to separate Wordle, or drop it all together, as I never thought it belonged on your Jumble site. But my posts have been my attempt—or hope—to contribute.
ReplyDeleteMay I first know the nature of the offense—why the W posts ought to be separate? They would likely be side-by-side in any case. I believe you don’t do Wordle. Am I wrong?
There are only three others who do Wordle here. While Wilbur & CanadianEh! don’t use the hints (we sometimes enjoy reviewing penultimate levels), Misty regularly expresses gratitude for them.
I remind you that these hints are not original with me, but are found on several legit sites. I re-post the ones that helped me.
I never spoil the answer. That would be offensive.
But don’t misunderstand: I believe you have the right to censor anything you do not want on this site.
~ OMK
Misty ~ Glad again to have been of service! Good for you, getting it on the first go!
ReplyDeleteAlthough I have qualms about Wordle, I have tried to find my own way to fit in. I am pleased that we can connect like this.
In your poem today, Fred’s parents seem to be on the right track. I mean, Who else would think of solving their son’s developmental problems by providing him with a job and a canary.
I believe this is an unusual twist on the canary in the coal mine. The canary in the dairy faces a much happier future!
Your version, CEh! takes us down a more familiar path. But at least your canary doesn’t end in death by gas—though I can testify that sometimes GERD can feel bad enough!
Thank you for your kind comment. Glad to have brought you a smile…
Hmm. Might your 4th Wordle try have been CLEAR?
~ OMK
Thank you, Wilbur, for taking us back to "the dragon's last hurrah."
ReplyDeleteIt is good to be reminded of where we have been, where you have taken us all--especially to recall the dragon in "his glory and his pride."
Old Smaug was indeed a formidable critter.
~ OMK
OMK- you are close, but 4th word started with a B. Had already eliminated C at #3.
ReplyDeleteMisty- I love your novel canary in the dairy. I wonder what it can sniff out first there?
WC- all I can say is WOW re Smaug.
I just cannot believe the fantastic group of complicated, interesting, delightful poems we received this morning. Thank you all for this Thursday gift.
ReplyDeleteI'll comment on them, in order, beginning with 's cool title and then that miracle, of all four Jumble words packed into a three line haiku. Every day I think "They can't all be there, they won't be there" and, then, there they are! Hurray!
This was followed by Owen's delightful verse about that sweet Tweety-bird and his protective Granny. So glad that she was able to save him from that salivating Sylvester!
Then on to CanadianEh!'s clever poetic offering about Infancy, with it's fun rhyming of 'glean' and 'spleen.' After looking up the word, I have to say that I hope that poor baby doesn't come down with any GERD.
And, finally, we come to Wilbur's complex narrative, not about Chet and Lois, but about the Bard, Smaug, and the Hobbit and the Dragon. What an incredible scene with glistening armors and showers of arrows and hidden voices offering life-saving advice which helped them all (well, not the Dragon) survive.
Sorry, OMK, but somehow your name got erased from my first mention of your neat verse. My apology--I don't know how that happened.
ReplyDeleteThat's OK, Misty. I knew what occurred, of course, and saw your pleasant message anyway. Thank you!
ReplyDeleteThe same thing has happened to me in the past. If we don't manage to place the brackets just-so, whatever is contained will be dropped out, lost.
~ OMK
I often put a hint in my intro to wordle. Today I used a synonym: grok'ed
ReplyDeleteI had 'able' the opposite of unfit the other day.
Generally folk don't talk about wordle just post the result.
I think I started with NORTH last night.
I remembered Mary's pet canary from a few years ago
WC
I saw your hint, WC. Fun!
ReplyDeleteOn the great majority of sites that post anything on Wordle, they give hints of ever-increasing specificity AND then post the answer.
Many folk want only to share the diagram showing their success level. But a good many others apparently like to match wits with hints.
Check out Forbes, digitaltrends, fanbyte, &c.
The problem I find with these is that it is all too easy to stumble past their hints and hit upon the answers. Their "spoiler alerts" are not always clear.
I don't give an alert because l don't post the answer.
~ OMK
, don't misunderstand, I want you to keep posting, I just want to increase our comment count. And I would give the same advice to everyone here. You're just the most blatant about it.
ReplyDeleteSorry, Owen. I do misunderstand. Still.
ReplyDeleteWhat am I being "blatant" about? I'm afraid I'm feeling quite dense.
Didn't you find my Wordle comments "offensive." Isn't that what you wrote?
~ OMK
No, I said "if I ever did". Over on CC we've seen occasional long posts deleted because of a single sentence. It's happened to me once, and probably often to Big Easy and a couple others. Our rules are more lax here, but it could happen.
ReplyDeleteDear Owen, I really don't wish to drag this out but, please, I remain puzzled.
ReplyDeleteI appeal to you to help me understand. What sort of post of mine might you wish to censor?
If it is not the Wordle hints, what is it?
Is it the combining of postings in one long message that is troubling? Maybe you wish to increase the number of "pageviews" at the bottom?
I only combine my comments to save time, just as our colleagues often do. I will try to separate mine if that will be helpful.
But that does not seem to be the reason you described part of my post as "offensive." You seem to be backpedaling regarding that initial message to me. Please re-read your post. In it, your "if" clause speaks of a possible need to delete, and is separate from your description of my "good half along with the offensive one."
In a few words, what exactly is--or would be--"offensive"?
~ OMK
First my lucky guess on Wordle 419 4/6
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One has to keep up with wordle trends
WC
My two cents. If blogger in its AI idiocy randomly erases a comment, especially wordle, it won't delete your Jumble input.
ReplyDeleteI think something I posted at CC was deleted but I have no idea why.
As you know I like to do wordle before coming here.
I would not attempt a hint on today's wordle.
BTW, I'm mired on the latimes Fri xword
Much like last Friday
WC