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ReplyDeleteToday’s Jumble haiku:
(Our nonprofit theater sought commitments of around $500 from “Honorary Producers,” patrons agreeing to sponsor our next production.
I thought to sign wealthy neighbors by having each support a different cast member in the coming play—for example, for actor
John Doe in…)
”The Dumb Show”
(One for each actor)
I aimed to cadge a
number of pledges, about
ten, roughly five grand.
~ OMK
FLN, CanadianEh! ~
ReplyDeleteYou have a sharp eye. But I must confess I did not embed GIANT in "UCI Anteater."
Truth to tell, the anteater is actually the mascot of the UC Irvine campus (from which I'm retired)--AND I wrote that stanza 3 days ago, well before Wordle's GIANT (#603).
~ OMK
Living rough is no picnik,
ReplyDeletetho we sit on the ground.
A sleeping bag our mattress,
cardboard box our bedroom suite.
Ride our thumb around the country,
to wherever we are bound.
The generosity of strangers
is how our needs we meet.
Our garb is not bespoke,
we'd be in rags like Gunga Din,
But church charities provide us
warm coats and shoes.
Pols pledge to cut our numbers,
allowing vagrants is a sin.
They say we're druggies,
and hos, and bad news.
How can we turn this hardship about?
How can we house the homeless?
Maybe some day we'll figure it out,
But until then we feel so helpless.
An Osage sage is all the rage.
ReplyDeleteHe'll give you sage advice on age
He claims to be
One hundred and three.
And has the real George Santos in a cage!
No clues- just a good first guess.
ReplyDeleteWordle 604 2/6*
🟨🟩⬜🟨⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
Just try conjugating the title verbs!
ReplyDeleteHung and Go
By a rough guess
The number of irregular verbs
In the English language
Is about two hundred.
A sharp ledge for ESL speakers!
Owen gives us a lesson in using all the variations of the Wordle in his second offering.
ReplyDeleteHis first includes all the J words and answer into a moving poem about homelessness. Well done.
OMK- although it took a long backstory, I loved your haiku (how much is based on true personal experience?). We went in very different directions today.
Re FLN: what a coincidence. I wouldn’t have stretched your UIC Anteater to Giant if I had not seen Owen’s.
Your sharp ledge, CEh! and Misty's parole pledge certainly led us in two very different directions--i.e. different from either mine or Owen's.
ReplyDeleteThis may have been the most versatile lot of J-words, especially when it comes to seeing the P-word as a promise.
Yes, I did have experience soliciting pledges for my second theater company in Virginia, a startup that needed such commitments to get "off the ground." It worked, but it was like pulling teeth to get some people to honor their pledges, as such commitments have no legal standing, and cannot be enforced in court.
Your count of irregular verbs made me realize that this is a distinctive feature of English. I wonder if we have the most irregulars of any modern language. It must be torture for non-native speakers, although relatively easy for those of us who acquire them in childhood.
And quite the opposite of a made-up language like Esperanto. I was studying it a couple of years ago and impressed by its sheer logic. EVERYTHING is guided by rules.
If you know the root verb, you know exactly how to conjugate it. A great convenience.
Misty ~ Your ex-con's joy at finding the right job--in plumbing--gave me pause.
You made a point of saying he turned his customers into "a happy mob."
You wouldn't be hinting (would you?!) that for his "new path," he now has an organization like.. er--a "family," or cosa nostra...?
~ OMK
I got it in three, btw
DeleteMisty- what a good result for your ex-con who turned his life around by working hard as a plumber. Some of the technical professions are now taking their rightful place as good jobs to encourage our young folk to enter. And the money can be great.
ReplyDeleteOMK- thanks for relating your experiences re collecting on promised funds. Not a job I would enjoy.
I don’t know much about Esperanto, but perhaps it should become the universal language if it is easy and logical to learn. (I Googled for that number of irregular verbs in English, and was amazed.)