| shift, photo, cactus, eyeful, cut to the chase.The opening poem contains all the words (or variations of them) from today's Jumble.
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Our cat is really something to behold!
At times no other beast could be so bold!
But other times she starts at every sound,
If there's visitors, she's nowhere to be found.
She's beautiful in photos, a real eyeful.
But in life, she's just short of homicidal!
She scratches everything to fit her taste.
Added cuts to the couch and lounging chaise!
But the other day she finally met her match.
We shifted plants around our garden patch.
She saw one to be used for scratching practice.
It was her first (and last?) time with a cactus!
A neat comical poem, Owen, reminding me of some of the RL cats I grew up with. They always seemed so smart--until they weren't.
The Jumble solution made me think of another reason I don't like so many of the plots of contemporary movies, especially action films.
(This continues my lament from yesterday's Xwd Corner.)
The moment a fairly interesting storyline devolves into fast cars speeding after each other, boredom rears its so-blah head. I don't care how many guns they fire or what spectacular crashes they have to show me, nothing will ever be as good as Bullitt (1968), so why bother? Putting the hero & villain into cars at the last minute betrays a paucity of imagination.
No matter how they cut it.
~ OMK
Grest poem for me; I love cats, and this poem epitomizes what I love about them. They go their own way, sometimes getting a comeuppance, but not letting it change them. And I laughed aloud when I came to the ingenious way you worked in the Jumble solution.
Don't know if you read my last response FLN, Owen, but you create such interesting situations and characters that I enjoy fantasizing what might happen after the end of the poem. Now I'm seeing in my mind's eye how that cat is veeeerrry carefully navigating around the garden, as far as possible from the cactus.
Well, the jumble was not all that easy today, though it did succumb after some thought. If a clue doesn't come to me immediately, I write out the letters with vowels first alphabetically and then consonants the same. That seems to free me up from being influenced by the way the letters are presented. It generally works. Now in this case the solution didn't just leap out at me either. But I had a good idea of what the second and third words must be and that left letters for a pretty obvious choice on the last word. The three letters remaining arranged themselves. Boy, that phrase does truly describe newscasts -- go for the obvious good picture.
OMK, just a note to you. I don't watch car chases either, but in addition I ignore pretty much all fight scenes. The seem to me to be just a lot of repetitious choreography without even interesting music. Boring!
Delightful poem, Owen, many thanks! I too began as a cat person, but after my beloved first cat got hit by a car and was able to return home with a broken leg only after two whole days away, I decided to switch to dogs the next time I got a pet. (In those days, cats were never kept inside all the time. My son is still a cat person). But I still love cats (sorry, Dusty, I now love dachshunds too).
Anyway, enough about animals. I found this Jumble a lot of fun and had trouble only with the third word. But I was able to get the solution without it, and that helped me get that prickly word I had so much trouble with. So it all ended well! Have a good day, everybody.
I just lost a post . To wit, what Misty said .
WC
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