| omega, wiper, conned, tidier, pin down a time.The opening poem contains all the words (or variations of them) from today's Jumble.
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The time machine was finished, Hobbs was ready for a ride.
This was just the prototype, so it was rather cramped inside.
He set it for the future, just a thousand years or so.
Turn the crank, pull the pin down, and toot-toot off we go!
The trader who had sold him the flux-time mechanism
Had conned him with some junk lacking chrono-magnetism!
He careered up the chrono-line towards the omega point
Where time itself was ended, and things were out of joint!
At last the ride was ended, no more he jounced around.
The silence was eerie, windshield wipers the only sound.
The view outside was tidy, all surfaces were smooth --
Nothing else was out there -- except a time-flux kluge!
This is a beaut! I love how the use of "kluge"--perhaps for the first time ever in a poem--finesses the ending.
And how the eerie silence is emphasized by windshield wipers of all things!
Good going, Owen.
~ OMK
Delightful poem, Owen. I got all 4 Jumble items, after a little work on #4, and figured out the last two words of the solution but had trouble with the first two. I knew one of them was bound to be a bowling term, but just couldn't get it and had to look it up. Felt silly when I saw what it was. I mean I was actually on a bowling team with colleagues at my first job at the University of Tulsa. Oh well, seniority has its moments of stupidity, doesn't it.
Had some problems with this one. For whatever reason, clue four just wouldn't come. With the rest of the letters there, I was able to get most of the solution, but had to go away and come back before the V8 can hit me in the head. But all's well that ends well, as some obscure writer once said...
Really liked the poem. I was impressed with the combination of The Time Machine and Back To The Future. But will he get back?
I have to remember to trust the sleeping giant in the brain.
Today's solution gave a perfect example. The last two words were practically a given, but then I stared blankly at the remaining letters for about a minute.
Like Misty, nothing would come. But even as I started to set it down, literally glancing away from the screen, Bang! the letters seemed to realign themselves right in front of my inner eye.
I guess a single minute is just about the outer limit I should allow for concentrated thought.
That's sufficient time for the quiet Giant to take over, or as Sandy says, time to "go away & come back" and let the V8 take a swat.
~ OMK
It took a while to pin this one down but finally saw the light as it related to bowling. Channeling Boomer! The third word wouldn't emerge even after several tries so after the solve I had to see which letters were still needed. Believe me, my paper has looked tidier. Owen, I love the imagery!
I had lots of trouble with this one .#1 with those vowels, #4 with the "ier" ending . CONNED shouldn't have been that hard .
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Then I looked at the riddle, guessed the first word and voila
KOI from yesterday really came in handy, eh?
Misty, so you're a bowler. As Lucina said you should rap with our two keglers, Boomer and TTP. And...
Here's my bowling story .
My boss was a bowler, he sold me his ball and got me into his league .
I was off to a great start until Betsy had to drop off baby Phillip
Somehow his wailing ne rapporte pas avec l'ambience* of the alley.
I took Phil home and that was the end of my bowling .
WC
*Misty you comprend le francais, n'est-ce pas? I drift into it sometimes
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