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Today’s Jumble haiku:
(In 1993 Mattel bought out a rival company, expanding its line of children’s playthings. Toys & dolls made by that corporation in decades before that date have the contemporary realism of their time.
Such items can be authenticated by a special archaeologist, one inundated in period arcana, perhaps an…)
“Immersion-Bloke…”
A 50-year old
Fisher-Price dial phone’s a
skimpy toy fossil.
~ OMK
Wordle 10 April ‘23
Par=4
Wordle 660 3/6
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The other Bot
starter. Never
atop but…
~ OMK
Ever notice an inverse relationship,
As things get smaller, prices shift.
A skimpy swimsuit, a bikini,
Cost goes up, as it gets teeny!
But other things stay in proportion
A fossil console once was a fortune.
Today a TV, a wall-sized set,
Will run only a modest debt.
Cell phones also run that way,
Getting smaller, day by day.
Folding screens are now the rage,
Giving users a larger page.
A spokesman predicted, in an app,
We'll soon refold them like a map!
The storm came in from foreign shore,
It shakes the air with thunderous roar!
The lightning streams
From grey cloud seams,
And rivers, no longer sky-bound, pour!
"Debtor"
Joan spent an hour on the phone
trying to get a sizeable loan.
She had been playing dice
and now had to pay the price.
But the bank was very skimpy,
leaving Joan crying and wimpy.
All her options she did jostle
and finally sold her valuable fossil.
Now Joan is no longer broke,
but when of her experience she spoke
she made it clear that it was no joke.
I take it, Misty, that Joan’s fossil is a rare and valuable relic for which she knew museums or specialized galleries would shell out a pretty penny.
Damn banks! They never want to give money to folks down on their luck. They always try to make a profit to reassure their wealthier clients.
I’ll just bet they have Joan’s old fossil on display in the lobby of their main branch!
~ OMK
Well observed, Owen.
Did you see how they had to fold up the enormous Webb Telescope, to pack it tightly for its trip to space?
I think we are unconsciously preparing to send our essential goods (plus a few playthings) ahead of us for our species “relo” to Mars.
As to your shorter piece, we note they are now identifying California’s latest rainstorms as “atmospheric rivers.”
~ OMK
OMK, took a bit of effort, but once again, I found all four Jumble words plus solution in your title plus haiku--although I had to work to see the rhyme. Very, very clever! And your kind comments about my verse today made me very happy--many thanks!
Owen, I really enjoyed your longer verse, not only for the Jumble words and solution, which were all there without any problem, but also for your commentary about the changing costs of technological items. Very interesting! Thanks for that too.
Hope CanadianEh! and Wilbur will also check in before too long. I miss them.
Took me four tries to get the Wordle, but finally got it. OMK, can you tell me again what a 'bot' is? Anyway, here it is:
Wordle 660 4/6
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🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
I never posted last night's Wordle 660 4/6
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We seem to rate by # of guesses but perhaps a speed rating is apt
This took me 45 seconds to solve. Yesterday's foul up was 8 hours(slept on it)
WC
Misty your NewYork locket poem was excellent. Read very smoothly.
Misty ~ Try my way.
I found out by Googling—i.e., asking on line—“What is a ‘bot’?”
The particular Wordle version is a Bot that researched and revealed the most successful starter words, CRANE & SLATE.
(I forget which came first and which second.)
The four J-words are NOT coded within my haiku. Although embedded, they are quite naked, so should have been EZ to find.
I had to research Fisher-Price history. Although Mattel took them over 30 years ago, rotary dial phones had already been passé for 20 years. That led to a pretty complicated backstory.
The only rhyme, of course, is in my backwards title.
~ OMK
Wilbur ~ You & Misty both got the W in four—in par—but 45 seconds seems pretty swift to me.
I am sure my three levels took longer. I wasn’t timing, but I believe I needed a minute or two.
And, Misty, yes, your Locket poem yesterday read “smoothly,” indeed. I particularly enjoyed your rhymes.
~ OMK
Sorry all. Things are deepening here. AWOL for a few days
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