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ReplyDeleteToday’s Jumble haiku:
(Sometimes industrial shows will focus on predecessor stages that led to the development of modern technology.
The abacus and other manual calculators that once flourished are considered the ancestors of digital programs and apps.
Thus,…)
“Pre-Birthed”
Abaci star in
arena shows—as “Heyday:
First Facets of APPS.”
~ OMK
Wordle 16 Feb ‘23
ReplyDeletePar=4
Wordle 607 2/6
🟨⬜🟨⬜🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
Hey, Presto!
~ OMK
For this mornings
ReplyDeleteWordle 607 3/6
🟩🟩⬛🟨⬛
🟩🟩⬛🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
No special trick
Just Wilbur _____
WC
Let us consider a mage-type guy.
ReplyDeleteIf there's more than one, they are magi.
The adjective
You can give.
Would crowds of magi be magii?
"Winning"
ReplyDeleteThe basset hound was a facet
in their move in the arena to play,
and he turned out to be an asset
since he won, and they had a heyday!
This unearthed the family's joy and fuss,
and gave them the best day on their abacus.
Abracadabra and I got it
ReplyDeleteWordle 607 5/6*
⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜
⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜
⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜
🟩🟩⬜🟩⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
I can’t help being curious, Misty, about what they were playing in the arena?
ReplyDeleteWas it an AKC Dog Show, or was their basset one of those animals that can shoot baskets or punt?
I’m glad of course that the hound proved a winner, and that all those strange J-words got covered.
Perhaps a backstory might provide a helpful context…?
~ OMK
(Before the political and social rot set in and Rome lost its moorings and became-)
ReplyDeleteUnBerthed
In its heyday
Before Roman civilization became tragic,
From the abacus in the marketplace,
To gladiators in the arena space,
Every facet of life was magic.
OMK and WC- congrats on your Wordle scores. It took me considerably longer to break the spell.
ReplyDeleteOMK- I considered UnBirthed as a title (there was no Spooner possible today). I like your PreBirthed title, and your novel History of the App theme.
Misty- I envision the AKC dog show and your pooch winning the Best of Show ribbon. I’m not sure how much money this win would bring to add up on their abacus? But maybe they can hire the dog out to stud and make a fortune. That would be magic!
And then Owen brings up the conundrum of the English language - mage (from the Latin magus) and its plural magi. What next, a superlative crowd of magii? What about the females - maga and magae? Or were they witches?
Mage? Aye, aye, Capt. Owen!
ReplyDelete~ OMK
Interesting, CEh! --how the J-words led you to a Roman theme.
ReplyDeleteWe each have our own associations, and I see how the combo of the A-words would conjure a coliseum and agora setting.
Don't we think of Imperial Rome as more advanced than the so-called "dark ages"? As if human history just took a downturn with the fall of the empire. But I guess that's why those centuries (5th -15th) are called "dark." Learning and libraries were pretty much confined to monasteries in the west, and political structure was in the grip of warlord kings.
Inquiring minds ran up against authoritarian religious answers. Still, I imagine nothing much changed for uneducated serfs and peasants. More praying, I suppose...
~ OMK
Terrific verses this morning, starting with OMK's neat "pre-birthed title. And congratulations too on the brilliant Wordle. You too did great, Wilbur.
ReplyDeleteOwen, I'd say the plural guys should be magis.
Canadian, always love the way you give your poems such historical scopes, along with lovely rhymes--well done!
Finally, OMK, my basset hound turned up only because he rhymed with 'facet', and was doomed to head to an 'arena' where I could only give him a 'heyday.' But as far as I know, bassets are lousy working an 'abacus.'
Have a great evening, everybody.