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Today’s Jumble haiku:
(This contestant wasn’t interested in spuds.
She spent her time processing pistachios, so her mantra had to be…)
“Spit a Shell”!
Assay a little
graft, or try an essay on
it. Win potatoes!*
~ OMK
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*My sweet Patootie!
I’m not too old
Wordle 899 3/6*
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Something of little value you may “sell for a song”, but if worthless, you may
“Sell for a Spit”
Essay re grafting
Of young little potatoes
Wasn’t marketable.
OMK- our Spooner attempts are slightly different today, but we are both spitting! That G word was hard to incorporate. And if my essay on potatoes is not marketable, I’m not sure how valued a prize of potatoes will be. Great backstory. I don’t often get pistachios, but I do like them. LOL re “sweet Patootie”
"Cute Food"
Ellen knew just what to day
when asked to write a clever essay.
She laughed at how to spell the word "graft,"
but worked it into her draft.
In her write-up she also did fiddle
with how to work in a little riddle.
So she told how a sweet potato
ended up making friends with a tomato.
In the end a cooking story she did tell
and it worked out surprisingly well.
Her editor even took her out to lunch,
to enjoy potatoes and tomatoes a whole bunch.
Misty- you did an admirable job of working those J words into your poem. I especially smiled at how you included that G word that was such an outlier. And the editor’s lunch menu gave another big smile. Ellen was very resourceful.
CanadianEh! ~ A longer backstory would be required to address all the contest rules for a competition for 500 words (or more!) on embezzling from shareholders’ dividends. From stocks in, say, large farming combines.
Such ill-gotten graft is hard to conceal, but if the winner’s payout is in potatoes, the authorities motivation to investigate must surely be lessened—and thereby may provide cover for our authors. Eh?
I think we did pretty well with our Spoonerized titles. I give you greater credit for avoiding the unwanted “Sh” phoneme. And for the clearer utility (to farmers, for sure) of your poem’s subject matter, even
if it wasn’t widely appealing.
Misty ~ I wondered at first why anyone would laugh over the spelling of “graft,” but then realized your Ellen must have had a background in accounting—or some other branch of mathematics—and therefore had assumed she was invited to submit an essay in which she would have been expected to have “graphed” her results for similarly motivated math readers!
Under such circumstances, she would naturally have found the other spelling most amusing.
As it was, she must have shown real skill in devising a way to create her “pot-amato” hybrid. Good for her!
~ OMK
Thank you, thank you, thank you, CanadianEh!--this is the first Wordle I've gotten in ages, and it was only thanks to your helpful hint! Thank you, than you, again!
Wordle 899 1/6
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Liked your funny, charming haiku today, many thanks, Ol' Man Keith. But looked up the "p" word, and don't think I'll ever be using it, even though it has a second nice meaning.
Hard to imagine re-grafting young little potatoes, but still made for a very cute haiku, CanadianEh!.
Thank you both for your kind comments on my verse today--much appreciated.
For Misty...
What "p" word can you mean?
Potatoes? Pistachios?
Or the slang for "Propeller" on the Corner?
Ah, Patootie?! Yes?
An abundance of riches...
~ OMK
Thanks all for your comments.
Misty- I’m glad you got the Wordle!
I just gotta say--
a day like today reminds me why I moved to SoCal in the first place.
Growing up in San Francisco, I was imbued with an early suspicion of Californians to the south; thinking the sun must bake their brains to a frazzle.
But I overcame that disdain and came here in 1980. Now, all these decades later, I have either come to appreciate the beauty of our warm climate
-or-
my brains have been properly baked!
A December day like today--a high of 80 (26.6 Celsius) with a mild breeze--ought to convince any old naysayers.
Our TV weather folk often refer to our Mediterranean weather. But when I look at Europe's reports these days, I'm sure they wish they had a SoCal climate.
Je parie que j'ai raison!
~ OMK
Glad you got the Wordle, Misty!
But I'm sure you could knock them out without trolling for hints.
They are not all that difficult. (I am on a 35-wordle roll right now. It would be longer except I sometimes forget to do it on a Sunday, then must start all over.)
Anyway, when you go on line to find the daily challenge (I just click on "NYT W)", you will find plenty of sites that offer hints.
But give it a few tries on your own.
You can do it!
~ OMK
Ol' Man Keith>, enjoy your California December, and thank you for your kind Wordle suggestions.
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