There are several other Jumble blogs, but the ones I checked all started off by listing the answers. In this blog, answers can be either hinted at or masked by burying them in comments. No overt spoilers!
All hints are in the comments!
Jigsaw Puzzles & The Hobbit
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Friday, July 27, 2018
July 27, 2018
.||.elder, shame, public, outage, aimed to please.
Oscar was in a closet, he feared to show his face, Although there were others like him seen all over the place. The shaming and the phobia some days he couldn't stand. It was hard to be an Aarp-ster in a youthful-philic land!
Ageism was a pestilence, it really had no reason. Being elderly was not a choice to be in their winter season. Oscar had tried to fit, he'd kept himself in shape. He wore a hairpiece, plucked his ears, and kept a steady pace.
It was hard to face the opprobrium and the public outrage That's why he kept his closet, hoping none would out his age! But tho his aim was to please the young, the out-come was forgone. What no curmudgeon could resist, he shouted "Get off my lawn!"
FLN, Lucina wrote Why is it that when I click on the Jumble only the previous comments appear. I have to click on the current date to find the new comments. Am I the only one or does everyone else have the same situation? I'd like to get to the comments immediately like we do for the Corner.
I'm not sure I know what you're saying. Do you mean the comments from the previous day? Underneath the text area where you type the comments, very tiny and in light gray, there are links labeled Newer Post / Home / Older Post. That should get you to the current day's post without having to go through the long archive list to find the date.
I finally finished but it wasn't easy! Thanks to Owen's poem, I saw outage which I thought might be gateau but that's a French word, so it couldn't be right. I save the J on my favorites and maybe that's why I don't get to the comments. I'll have to change my method of accessing it.
Thank you, thank you, thank you, Wilbur! I got all 4 answers this morning but struggled with the solution and couldn't get it. Then I read your little poem and the light bulb came on--Tada! I am so pleased I got the answer--many thanks. And thanks for the poem, Owen.
Huh? I Google jumble and, at least in the first 5 pages, this blog doesn't come up. Tried jumble hints and this still wasn't in the first 5 pages of links.
Owen, I'm on Android chrome . My! Google tends to please and knows about your Jumble blog and it always pops right up by the time I've typed J U M.
Misty, I was literally blanketed* out at Wesh-ville. Then I remembered your advice, returned to the Jumble, immediately got it, went back and started filling blanks and FIR'ed .
No, not easy this one. Lucina ~ I don't tend to go to other languages when I take a wrong tack, but I will get stuck on other words. For this one, I spent the longest time flirting with SIMPLE and MODEST, good solid English words that looked like winners - but weren't. The four prelim words were easy-peasy, but it was the final that eluded me for much longer than usual.
But all's well that ends OK, as somebody once said ....
I think what was hard about this riddle was that it wasn't really that funny. We're expecting some off-beat pun like "she took a bow for her performance", and then it's a normal phrase that would probably be used in conversation in this situation anyway.
OMK, I suppose you're like me and don't come here until you've solved. In my case I could solve at ten, come back at noon and have no memory of my previous solve . And... Come back again at 545 and start all over again . In this case I hunted through Owen's verses and found the four. He hides them cleverly while telling an amusing story in rhyme .
I dunno, Owen, I don't find many of them funny. I know what you mean, and I would like them to be more humorous. But the final answer is usually a catch phrase or idiom that has a slight double meaning. TOOL AROUND was good a coupla days ago, but mainly because the idiom itself doesn't make much sense, and the cartoon gave it a semblance of rationality. Yesterday's SURE ENOUGH was closer to the rule. A slight double meaning, but not funny. Puns are a path to the comic, even if corny, but some of these are horribly strained, aren't they? I mean, what did you think of "RIDE" IDEA?
Yes to you, Wilbur ~ I wait until I solve. I do it first thing, but I always post late because I'm in SoCal and I sleep late - 'til at least 10 am. (I go to bed around 2 and to sleep at around 4 a.m.)
I just worked the jumble. 1, 2, and 3 jumped out at me. On 4, I entered what I thought would work, and when there was no Ta Da, somehow the correct word showed up. For the Sol. I entered word 2 and verified that it was correct. Then I entered the last two letters of word 1 with verification. The rest of the letters fell into place.
Ol'Man Keith, I wonder if we do the same, or different, Jumbles. I thought we had pretty clever solutions this week. What made today's at least a little clever was what the archer AIMED for. That's a pun or allusion of sorts, isn't it?
OMK and Misty . 1. The riddle answers remind me of C-Moe's Haikus. And speaking of and speaking of "RIde IDEA" let's revisit a Wilbur-ku from that day:
The JIG* is up? Pshaw. Up Creek, without PADDLE*? Nah. Horse left barn? No IDEA*
Same Jumble, Misty. When I wrote of a "slight double meaning," it applies to today - in that the idiomatic sense of "aiming" is "trying," whereas the literal meaning (taking aim at) is what we got in today's final answer. Not exactly funny, but we all sense the slight flip.
Sure. Mildly. I was replying to Owen's post that these answers aren't funny. I was merely trying to point out how there are gradations in the Jumble creators' attempts to amuse. I find some of them tepidly humorous & certainly don't mind if others find them funnier than Owen & I do.
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|.elder, shame, public, outage, aimed to please.
Oscar was in a closet, he feared to show his face,
ReplyDeleteAlthough there were others like him seen all over the place.
The shaming and the phobia some days he couldn't stand.
It was hard to be an Aarp-ster in a youthful-philic land!
Ageism was a pestilence, it really had no reason.
Being elderly was not a choice to be in their winter season.
Oscar had tried to fit, he'd kept himself in shape.
He wore a hairpiece, plucked his ears, and kept a steady pace.
It was hard to face the opprobrium and the public outrage
That's why he kept his closet, hoping none would out his age!
But tho his aim was to please the young, the out-come was forgone.
What no curmudgeon could resist, he shouted "Get off my lawn!"
FLN, Lucina wrote
ReplyDeleteWhy is it that when I click on the Jumble only the previous comments appear. I have to click on the current date to find the new comments. Am I the only one or does everyone else have the same situation? I'd like to get to the comments immediately like we do for the Corner.
I'm not sure I know what you're saying. Do you mean the comments from the previous day? Underneath the text area where you type the comments, very tiny and in light gray, there are links labeled Newer Post / Home / Older Post. That should get you to the current day's post without having to go through the long archive list to find the date.
I was set to throw in the towel
ReplyDeleteBecause of those dastardly vowels
When out of the Mist(y)* it came
It's not the sight, it's your aim
WC
* Misty once gave us invaluable advice; when stuck on the xword go do the Jumble
And I was stuck and it worked
Ironically SIGHT is a CC keyword
ReplyDeleteWC
Btw.. I Google Jumble, hit Comments which takes me to Home, home takes me to the current day
I finally finished but it wasn't easy! Thanks to Owen's poem, I saw outage which I thought might be gateau but that's a French word, so it couldn't be right.
ReplyDeleteI save the J on my favorites and maybe that's why I don't get to the comments. I'll have to change my method of accessing it.
Thank you, thank you, thank you, Wilbur! I got all 4 answers this morning but struggled with the solution and couldn't get it. Then I read your little poem and the light bulb came on--Tada! I am so pleased I got the answer--many thanks. And thanks for the poem, Owen.
ReplyDeleteHuh? I Google jumble and, at least in the first 5 pages, this blog doesn't come up. Tried jumble hints and this still wasn't in the first 5 pages of links.
ReplyDeleteOwen, I'm on Android chrome . My! Google tends to please and knows about your Jumble blog and it always pops right up by the time I've typed J U M.
ReplyDeleteMisty, I was literally blanketed* out at Wesh-ville. Then I remembered your advice, returned to the Jumble, immediately got it, went back and started filling blanks and FIR'ed .
WC
* A blanket of snow in the North
No, not easy this one.
ReplyDeleteLucina ~ I don't tend to go to other languages when I take a wrong tack, but I will get stuck on other words. For this one, I spent the longest time flirting with SIMPLE and MODEST, good solid English words that looked like winners - but weren't.
The four prelim words were easy-peasy, but it was the final that eluded me for much longer than usual.
But all's well that ends OK,
as somebody once said ....
~ OMK
I think what was hard about this riddle was that it wasn't really that funny. We're expecting some off-beat pun like "she took a bow for her performance", and then it's a normal phrase that would probably be used in conversation in this situation anyway.
ReplyDeleteOMK, I suppose you're like me and don't come here until you've solved. In my case I could solve at ten, come back at noon and have no memory of my previous solve . And...
ReplyDeleteCome back again at 545 and start all over again . In this case I hunted through Owen's verses and found the four. He hides them cleverly while telling an amusing story in rhyme .
WC
I dunno, Owen, I don't find many of them funny. I know what you mean, and I would like them to be more humorous. But the final answer is usually a catch phrase or idiom that has a slight double meaning.
ReplyDeleteTOOL AROUND was good a coupla days ago, but mainly because the idiom itself doesn't make much sense, and the cartoon gave it a semblance of rationality.
Yesterday's SURE ENOUGH was closer to the rule. A slight double meaning, but not funny.
Puns are a path to the comic, even if corny, but some of these are horribly strained, aren't they? I mean, what did you think of "RIDE" IDEA?
~ OMK
Yes to you, Wilbur ~ I wait until I solve. I do it first thing, but I always post late because I'm in SoCal and I sleep late - 'til at least 10 am.
ReplyDelete(I go to bed around 2 and to sleep at around 4 a.m.)
~ OMK
I’m lurking but LOVED the poems, Owen!
ReplyDeleteI just worked the jumble. 1, 2, and 3 jumped out at me. On 4, I entered what I thought would work, and when there was no Ta Da, somehow the correct word showed up. For the Sol. I entered word 2 and verified that it was correct. Then I entered the last two letters of word 1 with verification. The rest of the letters fell into place.
ReplyDeleteOl'Man Keith, I wonder if we do the same, or different, Jumbles. I thought we had pretty clever solutions this week. What made today's at least a little clever was what the archer AIMED for. That's a pun or allusion of sorts, isn't it?
ReplyDeleteOMK and Misty . 1. The riddle answers remind me of C-Moe's Haikus. And speaking of and speaking of "RIde IDEA" let's revisit a Wilbur-ku from that day:
ReplyDeleteThe JIG* is up? Pshaw.
Up Creek, without PADDLE*? Nah.
Horse left barn? No IDEA*
WC
* Two jumbled words and riddle answer
That's the 7/11 Jumble. This one
ReplyDeleteSame Jumble, Misty.
ReplyDeleteWhen I wrote of a "slight double meaning," it applies to today - in that the idiomatic sense of "aiming" is "trying," whereas the literal meaning (taking aim at) is what we got in today's final answer.
Not exactly funny, but we all sense the slight flip.
~ OMK
I like the play on words even if the "slight double meaning" is weak. To me it's a amusing.
ReplyDeleteThis comment has been removed by the author.
ReplyDeleteSure. Mildly.
ReplyDeleteI was replying to Owen's post that these answers aren't funny.
I was merely trying to point out how there are gradations in the Jumble creators' attempts to amuse.
I find some of them tepidly humorous & certainly don't mind if others find them funnier than Owen & I do.
~ OMK