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Today’s Jumble haiku:
ReplyDelete(When motivating a crowd of extras to ad lib as a background mob for a long scene, it helps to give them something they can relate to in their personal lives.
Complaining is often a good starter. People are usually discouraged from whining at one another, so when given permission—
“Why, I wanna tell YOU….!”)
“(Feeding a) Riveting (Conversation)”
You can build a quaint
“jibber-jabber” dialog
from one solid gripe.
~ OMK
Wordle 31 May ‘23
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Young folk have no trouble chomping on an apple,
for their sturdy teeth are far from fragile.
And wrestling in gym, they’re quick to grapple
opponents’ torsos & limbs; they’re just so a…..!
~ OMK
Susan, for her age, was spry.
ReplyDeleteCould hold her own 'gainst any guy.
But still raised eyebrows
'Mongst fragile highbrows
When she won the parkour prize!
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The frogs were on their lilly pads,
ReplyDeleteSunning on the pond.
Most content, but Eugene was sad,
His favorite bug was gone.
The frogs were jabbering away,
Ignoring Eugene's plight.
Ribbiting in their froggy way,
Letting Eugene gripe.
Frustration building at his loss
Of his buggy friend,
Eugene croaked, and, oh, my gosh!
It seemed he'd never end...
Until he had a quaint insight --
Eugene had eaten it last night!
After forced usage during Covid, many now refuse the limitations of online communication, finding it too -
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In a quaint form,
And Jabberwocky style,
The poet so agile
Would build his gripe -
He didn’t like to Skype,
Even though it was the norm.
"Paltry Approval"
ReplyDeleteGabe didn't want to gripe
although the show wasn't his type.
But he had worked as part of the guild
that did the series build.
And although its humor was dull and faint
many viewers found its jabber quaint.
So although Gabe didn't find it riveting
he still opposed prohibiting it.
CEh! ~ Your poem about the limits of internet contact reminds me of my own peculiarities. I don’t like to use either the phone (for voice or text) or any of the Zoom/Skype/FaceTime complex.
ReplyDeleteI am OK with email or snail mail, as these allow time to ponder one’s reply, or face-to-face meetings, in which one can read total body language.
“One two, one two,
and through & through,
his Vorpal sword went
snicker-snack!
“He left it dead,
and with its head
he went galumphing back.”
I’m guessing, Misty,that your anti-griping Gabe is a member of the Writers Guild.
His cynicism is typical of the attitude many members adopt, combining the freedom to bad-mouth pop TV series they’ve helped get on the air with the luxury of raking in the coin.
At least Gabe is reluctant to express his true feelings freely. This suggests he is halfway to becoming a gentleman.
~ OMK
Owen’s Eugene, OTOH, revels in ribbiting about the one thing he alone is guilty of.
ReplyDeleteWhaddaworld, huh?
~ OMK
Ol' Man Keith, I just realized that you are also a retired UCI faculty member, and I wonder if you have had the same problem not being able to use your computer to send e-mail messages to people that I have had all day long today. I finally had a friend call me and explain to me that this is a UCI problem, and it's going to be difficult to get any help. Hope you've been able to get some help.
ReplyDeleteMisty, try [it] when stuck. And... most of us have a backup Gmail or yahoo mail account. And... I looked you up and Lady Chatterly I'll bet is banned everywhere. Remember "banbed" in Boston, then came free speech and now DeSantis and his ilk
ReplyDeletec. My post at CC re. Tennessee
Nice haiku ONK and all the verse was great today
WC
Sorry no preview and I don't use docs or word to compose and paste, thus typos
DeleteBuild it and they will come the voice in the night said
ReplyDeleteNo, it wasn't some kind of jabber but a call to the dead
Shoeless Joe showed up, he has no gripe about "say it aint"
In fact playing a game in a cornfield "Is mighty quaint".
The most riveting moment was meeting "Moonlight " Graham
One at bat, no hit, no run was his claim to baseball fame
WC
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Shoeless Joe Jackson was "banned" as a Black Sox. A young boy cried "Say it aint so, Joe"
Moonlight Graham had one plate aappearance and that was it.
WC
Misty ~ I haven’t been using my email today. But I know we have been under a warning that they are phasing out our university emails.
ReplyDeleteThey have promised we’ll be notified when this happens —this summer—and that we will receive explanations as to how to make the transition. They will apparently be offering options.
If you’re having trouble today, I would not be surprised if there has been a glitch in their handling of the transition. We may have to be patient. I am sure they will get around to explaining things .
~ OMK
Keith & Margot, I knew you were both emeritus professors, and both currently living in California, but I didn't know that you were both from the same school! What an amazing coincidence! Perhaps that's where we should be prospecting for new recruits?
ReplyDeleteEnjoyed you all again today. And once more, we went in different directions with the same J words. What a creative bunch.
ReplyDeleteMisty ~ I.tried several times to open my UCI email, but failed to do so.
ReplyDeleteI'm sure the problem is related to the intended "transition" I wrote about above.
Take comfort in the knowledge that this is not just a problem for two people, but thousands must be affected, so the university won't be ignoring us.
If you have another email, use it in the interim. You can use it to explain to others who expect contact from you. Try to open your UCI email each day, as that's probably how they will contact us when they have a fix on the problem.
Good luck!
~ Kf
Many thanks for your response and explanation, OMK--makes me feel a little less nervous about what is happening. I have a person (recommended to me) coming tomorrow morning to possibly help me get on my e-mail again. Hopefully it'll work. But thanks again for your comforting message.
ReplyDeleteLet me know if your visiting person has any success. Meanwhile, I’ll just keep trying my passcode in hopes of checking stacked-up messages.
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