| inept, cabin, thorax, hoagie, gain traction. |
| impact, detach, flaunt, woodsy, ornery, weasel, waited on hand & foot.The opening poem contains all the words (or variations of them) from today's Jumble.
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On Chickweed Lane, Thorax is at it again.
Giving out advice in a sardonic vein.
Painfully honest or painfully inept,
No one has quite decided as yet.
Is this sandwich a sub or a hoagie?
It doesn't matter if you smoke it like a stogie.
Should I live off the grid in a cabin?
Crosswords aren't so hard. Keep at 'em.
How do you make love on your planet?
With a committee of eight to plan it.
How can I gain traction with my boss?
A layer of tar. And it also adds gloss!
What a silly, funny poem. I especially love the last verse, with tar but no feathers.
The jumble clues came easily; even the fourth one wasn't much trouble. The solution took a little bit of staring at the extracted letters, but once I rejected that gerund (again), it became clear. Sort of cute.
I get the cartoon strip, but I'm not sure why you included it. Another personal meme?? You are definitely not contemporaneous with Lillian Gish, though.
When it comes to Gish,
We could only wish.
~ OMK
Well, I got all four Jumble answers, but had trouble with the solution. It's always fun to have to look for it in Owen's poem, and it took me a second reading before I got it--yay! I kept thinking the long word would be AIRBORNE or something but there was no B in any of the clue items, so that wasn't going to work. Many thanks, Owen--it's always fun to be able to come here and read your poem and then either verify or get help with the answers. Have a great day, everybody!
Yes, what fun! Sadly, I haven't had much time to work the Jumble lately but hope to now that life has settled down. I can hope.
The unusual words were fun to unscramble and recalled my first year in college zoology when I had to draw the thorax of a grasshopper for an assignment. Either biology, botany or zoology were required freshman classes and the first two were already filled.
Thank you for the funny poem, Owen. I also wondered about the comic strip.
Nothing special about the particular strip, but not everyone gets the same mix of comic strips, so this was just one to show who Thorax is. He's the one writing the Aunt Edna advice column, who claims to have come here via the wormhole in the corner of the barn.
Oho. I was wondering why you picked that name for your poem.
Not sure I get that strip, since I don't usually read them. I do always read the cartoons next to the jumble in my LA Times.
I had 1,2,3 but couldn't get#4. I finally grok'ed the riddle and was left with other G,I and A . Even after inking HOAG_ _ I didn't get it.
And I forgot to try again and there it was. I think the sandwich was always a sub although South Boston had an indginous name.
TBTimes has changed everything on the comics pages. Bridge and J are separate. Then, two pages of comics other a lot of my favs taken out.
Now I find the week old NYTimes Sunday Xword has been pulled.
Aarrrggggghhh!!!
But... The replacement is easier but cleverly clued
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