| dirty, skimp, extent, hectic, stink eye.The opening poem contains all the words (or variations of them) from today's Jumble.
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Do you ever pause to worry and fret,
Procrastinate whether to do it yet?
Fierce dinosaurs are no longer extant.
They're now extinct, evidence scant.
A few skimpy bones hint to the extent
They once ruled this world's events.
Some dirty fossils are all that is left
Of creatures who once had such heft.
Today in humanities' hectic pace
Do we wonder at our eventual fate?
In a million years what do you think
Will matter if our decisions stink?
They matter to current eyes and ears,
So do it now, not in a million years!
An easy jumble today--words & solution--followed by a poem which may become one of my favorites. Its message is so pressing, yet so commonly ignored, we need to worry our so-called statesmen to worry all the more over it.
~ OMK
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PS. The solution may have been especially easy for me, as the expression is one very often employed by my family. We love to claim we're giving it to each other--in a mock serious way. (It becomes laugh-out-loud funny when we include the dogs...)
I enjoyed this poem; it expresses thoughts I also share, but more eloquently than I. Even when humans say they think 'long term', they seem to mean ten or twenty or even fifty years, but never a thousand or ten thousand, and certainly not more. Personally I think the cockroaches may eventually take over.
Well, this jumble was fairly easy, although I did need to work back from the solution to the fourth clue word. Never used that expression, though I've read it.
My earlier post disappeared! Owen, I have a different definition of DOGGEREL. eg. Anything composed par moi. Yours is the fine steel hilts.
Quick solve except #4. I had to lay out the letters. I could see the second riddle word.
That expression comes and goes. Would make it as the subject of a poem or limerick
WC
Wilbur, I also had to play around with the fourth word for a minute before I got it, but once I did, the solution jumped right out at me. Never heard that expression used, and it cracks me up to hear your story about your family using it, Ol'Man Keith. So, a delightful Jumble experience this morning, and thanks for including all the words in your poem, Owen. I love the details the guys put into the Jumble cartoon, like the coffee pot and the hot coffee while she's reading the morning paper. Very cute and funny.
this one gave me trouble. The fourth word simply eluded me and I had to read Owen's poem to find it. Oh, of course. And I'm not familiar with that phrase which I had to glean from the poem as well. I also love the details in the sketch; they are very amusing.
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