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!
All hints are in the comments!
Saturday, December 22, 2018
Dec. 22, 2018
|| || forgo, stall, concur, heckle, got on her case.
The opening poem contains all the words (or variations of them) from today's Jumble.
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Read the comments, and reply to them if you are so moved!
Here early tonight. I had a tough time with the solution, although the clue words came relatively easily after a little thought. My problem with the solution stemmed from my confusion about the gender of the young detective. I kept needing letters that just weren't there! Gender confusion dealt with, the solution popped right out.
Looking forward to seeing the poem when I come back tomorrow morning!
The jumble was easy. Only #4 gave me pause. Rhymes with shekel. Sandy's comment eased the gender possessive in the solution for me, making clear the middle words rhyme with "honor." ~ OMK
I found this easy and solved in under one minute! Sometimes it happens, often it doesn't. But the gender in question was not at first noted. Once I saw it, the answer popped out. OMK: I don't see which word rhymes with honor. At least not to me.
Well, I was hoping to be able to solve #3 with the help of Owen's poem--how worrisome that he's not on here or on the puzzle this morning. I think I've got the first three words of the Jumble solution--thanks to Sandy's gender comment. But I can't get the last word. Any help with #3 or the last solution word would be appreciated. I keep thinking it's 'glove' or 'clue' but neither of those would work.
Physically fine, Otherwise naught. So late, but will try something just to keep up. Lucina: not OMK said "words", plural. Actually, more a homophone than a rhyme. As the old story went about the knight who rescued the damsel: "She offered her honor, he honored her offer, all night long it was honor and offer."
Misty, Owen's poems disguise the words in some way, rather than describing them, but I hope that this will help: I agree that the third clue word is not obvious.
As for the solution, I think of the whole phrase as a pun -- that is, if you have the first three words, there's a common phrase with a whole different meaning that the jumbleers have twisted to fit the cartoon.
Owen ~ If you're not feeling well but check in anyway, please do not feel obliged to post a poem. We want you to put your comfort & health first. You give us so much. Maybe think about giving yourself one or two days off each week. Sometimes, you know, we need to be reminded to retire from retirement. All best wishes... ~ OMK
As for #3, you know I favor rhyming hints. So I would go with the name of the town with the beachhead the British had to evacuate early in WW2, minus the final "k." ~ OMK
Thank you for checking in Owen, and take good care of yourself. Many thanks, Ol'Man Keith and Sandyanon. You helped me get both the final solution word and the #3 Jumble, which looks so obvious to me now. Now I can relax and get on with getting ready for my party tomorrow. Thanks again, everybody.
Owen, I'm so glad to see you are fine, even if not completely well. Thank you for the correction. I like your poem. Do you dream in verse? It seems to spill out of you like a fountain.
A Boston sports wag commented about a lousy Patriots team's disorganization on the sidelines:
Heckle, Jeckle and Steckel*. Owen, did you recall the cartoon?
I see the answers are posted. I got the four J's and CASE . But I had THE Case . The comics page doesn't offer scratch space so I never laid out the 12 letters .
But . I used Misty's suggestion to work the Jumble when stumped in the CC .
The discipline is good for me, helps keep my bipolarity somewhat in check. And the blog needs to be dependable if it will ever grow. Surprisingly, the longer poems here, where I know what seed words I must use, are easier than the CC l'icks where deciding which words to use is often difficult! I suppose I could try just crossword-type clues occasionally, instead of poems.
| forgo, stall, concur, heckle, got on her case.
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Here early tonight. I had a tough time with the solution, although the clue words came relatively easily after a little thought.
My problem with the solution stemmed from my confusion about the gender of the young detective. I kept needing letters that just weren't there! Gender confusion dealt with, the solution popped right out.
Looking forward to seeing the poem when I come back tomorrow morning!
No poem yet showin' -
So hope all's well, Owen!
The jumble was easy. Only #4 gave me pause. Rhymes with shekel. Sandy's comment eased the gender possessive in the solution for me, making clear the middle words rhyme with "honor."
~ OMK
Owen doesn't have anything on the Corner, either. I hope he didn't have a bad night.
Fingers crossed for him.
I found this easy and solved in under one minute! Sometimes it happens, often it doesn't. But the gender in question was not at first noted. Once I saw it, the answer popped out.
OMK:
I don't see which word rhymes with honor. At least not to me.
Well, I was hoping to be able to solve #3 with the help of Owen's poem--how worrisome that he's not on here or on the puzzle this morning. I think I've got the first three words of the Jumble solution--thanks to Sandy's gender comment. But I can't get the last word. Any help with #3 or the last solution word would be appreciated. I keep thinking it's 'glove' or 'clue' but neither of those would work.
Both words rhyme with it. Say it slowly.
Rhymes with race, pace, or her [startled] face... Good luck!
Physically fine, Otherwise naught. So late, but will try something just to keep up.
Lucina: not OMK said "words", plural. Actually, more a homophone than a rhyme. As the old story went about the knight who rescued the damsel: "She offered her honor, he honored her offer, all night long it was honor and offer."
Misty, Owen's poems disguise the words in some way, rather than describing them, but I hope that this will help: I agree that the third clue word is not obvious.
As for the solution, I think of the whole phrase as a pun -- that is, if you have the first three words, there's a common phrase with a whole different meaning that the jumbleers have twisted to fit the cartoon.
Owen ~
If you're not feeling well but check in anyway, please do not feel obliged to post a poem. We want you to put your comfort & health first. You give us so much. Maybe think about giving yourself one or two days off each week.
Sometimes, you know, we need to be reminded to retire from retirement.
All best wishes...
~ OMK
Lol and groan.
Also, glad you're physically fine, at least.
As for #3, you know I favor rhyming hints. So I would go with the name of the town with the beachhead the British had to evacuate early in WW2, minus the final "k."
~ OMK
Thank you for checking in Owen, and take good care of yourself.
Many thanks, Ol'Man Keith and Sandyanon. You helped me get both the final solution word and the #3 Jumble, which looks so obvious to me now. Now I can relax and get on with getting ready for my party tomorrow. Thanks again, everybody.
I'm afraid today I must forgo
Chances to flaunt what I know.
Altho you may not demur,
I sorrowfully do not concur.
Oh, you may heckle my decision,
Yet must I buck your derision.
My writ today, altho 'tis late
May not forestall my fated fate!
My words, once wine, are vinegar,
Spoiled by a delay sinister.
As a vintner who got on her box,
To declare the case her vilest slops!
Late but great. Definitely wine.
Owen, I'm so glad to see you are fine, even if not completely well. Thank you for the correction. I like your poem. Do you dream in verse? It seems to spill out of you like a fountain.
OMK:
Wow! That was really a stretch! Thank you.
Delightful, if once again sad, poem, Owen. So glad you felt up to writing and sending it.
A Boston sports wag commented about a lousy Patriots team's disorganization on the sidelines:
Heckle, Jeckle and Steckel*. Owen, did you recall the cartoon?
I see the answers are posted. I got the four J's and CASE . But I had THE Case . The comics page doesn't offer scratch space so I never laid out the 12 letters .
But . I used Misty's suggestion to work the Jumble when stumped in the CC .
Pretty good poem Owen .
WC
* The Offensive coodinator
Thank you, Owen, for a fine envoi. But remember my advice; it still holds.
Give yourself at least one day off. Retirement can wear us out.
~ OMK
Yes, pick a day of the week and just say to yourself, "no poems today". We will survive.
The discipline is good for me, helps keep my bipolarity somewhat in check. And the blog needs to be dependable if it will ever grow. Surprisingly, the longer poems here, where I know what seed words I must use, are easier than the CC l'icks where deciding which words to use is often difficult! I suppose I could try just crossword-type clues occasionally, instead of poems.
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