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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.
The focus of our youth today
ReplyDeleteIs video games, not healthy play!
Not riding bikes, or shooting hoops,
Not learning skateboard loop-de-loops!
They don't play cowboys and Indians more,
(A game the P.C. police deplore).
Cops and robbers are passé
Playing with guns is not okay!
But in their vids, it's not forbidden.
Will this bunch be angst-ridden?
Of course not! The sludge of shooting
Will fade away, at their children's fruiting!
Each generation takes a hit
At the one preceding it!
You'll notice a significant change in format, as my retirement takes hold at the Jumble Hints and Wordle Brags blog.
ReplyDeleteThe first site listed, I wasn't able to get any closer to the actual game, so as Keith noticed yesterday it takes going thru some intro screens to get to.
I'm concentrating on redoing the intro to simplify it.
I'll not be posting solutions daily any more. It may be nice if one of you would take it on yourself to post them in a comment any time after 3 pm (MY), but we'll survive without it.
WC- it was a hard one again today. I just squeaked by.
ReplyDeleteWordle 409 6/6*
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FLN- OMK- I always do Wordle first because it is usually the quickest to complete. I don’t always get to the Jumble (actually DH usually does it and I steal his answers!). On a busy day, I don’t always get back here with any kind of a poem. Hope you don’t mind when I can’t contribute to that original purpose of the site.
No time to be Coy
ReplyDeleteThe dentist peered in the mouth.
“God forbid that I should hit off course.”
The focal point of his attention -
Scale and sludge of the gift horse.
Hint: An adverb, containing one vowel; behaving in an outwardly shy or modest way intended to be alluring.
ReplyDeletePar = 3
Wordle 409 1/6
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During WW2, a main anti-fascist organization in Germany was this resistance underground, with several chapters among student groups.
These were…
”Die ‘Weiße Rosen’, of course…”
A focal point of
youth groups, forbid by Nazis,
was Wahrheit, call’d “sludge.”
~ OMK
Well, for the first time in years that I just wasn't able to come up with a viable verse this morning. So it's a relief to come to the blog and see Owen's brilliant poem right at the start, with all the Jumble words making neat points. Many thanks for that great opening!
ReplyDeleteThen additional interesting verses, giving us CanadianEh!s clever dentist, and Ol' Man Keith's display of a haiku with German W words. Thank you both too.
Then on to the Wordle. A relief that after failing on producing a poem, I got this one in just two tries:
Wordle 409 2/6
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Yay!
Have a good day, everybody.
Good for you, Misty.
ReplyDeleteAs I wrote in my last post last night (Aug 1), I reckoned this would be a hard one.
You can see that our hintless friends made my point. It just happens to be a word I use with some frequency in my essays on acting, so it was a piece of cake for me.
And maybe my hint was good for you.
This may have demonstrated the virtue of taking at least ONE hint. Just knowing, for instance, that this is an adverb might have led CEh! & WC to a typical "LY"ending--the former before her 4th level, and the latter, well... at all!
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It comes as a bit of a shock that you weren't able to post a verse today. It has been years, with only the rarest exception, for which you have reliably published a poem each morning.
I take it as perhaps one more sign that we are in a period of major transition. With the addition of Wordle, and with Owen's need to turn over the reins to someone else and/or to revise how the page must operate, we are each inclined to find a new way to negotiate through our once-familiar site.
I am finding it consumes more of my evening and bed time: Wordle AND Jumble AND poems AND hints! Add to these my self-imposed attempts to give each person the courtesy of a response to THEIR postings...
This is partly my own fault, of course, as whenever I allow a project to become routine, I end up feeling it as a necessity, even when it most certainly is not.
Change is in the air.
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I am in pain now. Minor pain, but nagging.
I had surgery on my nose this morning, to excise another one of those skin cancers I earned in my beach bum days. A lot of it I blame on YOUR part of SoCal, Misty. I probably gained most of these minor malignancies down there on Main Beach in Laguna.
I caught my ultra violet overload either there or on Balboa Peninsula just below our campus.
So, now it is Ow, Ow, Ow as I pay the price.
And I go back next week to have the stitches out--and another one removed.
That won't be the end, I'm sure.
~ OMK
OMK- hope you feel better soon!
ReplyDeleteOh dear, Ol' Man Keith, how very, very sad to get your news of your difficult day today, with your surgery and the stitches and the pain you are experiencing. I worried this morning, when you did not give us an early posting, and now I understand why, and am so sorry to hear it.
ReplyDeleteAnd, of course, it's also sad that it may have been happy days in your younger days, spending time on the beach in Laguna and Balboa, that might have contributed to the cancer that is now causing you such pain and such discomfort. I only wish we could give you more than just a big verbal hug to let you know that we care, and that our hearts are with you at this difficult time.
Please just take care of yourself, and don't worry about the blog at this time, or about Jumble or Wordle or anything else. Just take care of yourself, and give yourself everything you need to feel as comfortable as you can be. You'll be in our thoughts and prayers, and we'll hope and pray that you feel better tomorrow.
Misty, as usual, has said it perfectly. I was going to dermatology but when I changed Plan B I lost that $40 visit.
ReplyDeleteMy first treatment was the "Purple Death where they bombard you with electrons forv15 minutes getting all the carcinoma in one fell swoop.
Then for additional nits they freeze them off.
C-eh, was DOILY one of your guesses? Did I mention my last guess was COLBY (after COPAY)
The Y as an I sound never occurred to me
WC
Thank you, Misty; your kindness reached me at a perfect time. I was beginning to feel too sorry for myself, but somehow your compassion was both heartwarming and a fresh jolt--a reminder that I need not take everything so seriously.
ReplyDeleteI will barrel on tomorrow, with a new poem and probably a stab at another Wordle hint. But if they don't come easily, I won't force them.
As long as we find these things to be enjoyable, they are worth doing. But we must remember we're doing it for the fun.
And we can skip it whenever it ceases to amuse--or if something else takes priority.
As for the dermatology pain, I have had worse. We ALL have had much worse. I had a great time in the sun year after year, and this is an easy price to pay.
It is just another reminder that we live longer these days than our bodies were built to handle!
~ OMK
OMK- yes, Misty said it perfectly. Glad the pain is bearable.
ReplyDeleteWC- here is my terrible Wordle poem that I didn’t post last night. I can never remember the time that it is ok to give away the answer. Then I will do today’s.
Let’s ROAST the lamb
On the MOUND.
HE was too POKEY and WOOLY
By GOLLY,
We said COYLY.