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Image from the Internet, caption by Owen.
The opening poem contains all the words (or variations of them) from today's Jumble.
Comments are welcomed!
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White Rabbit, Welsh Rarebit! (It's tradition, not superstition.)
Thomas was a baleen whale, the ocean was his home.
He got his nutrition filtering water through his comb.
Now a whale's rumble can be heard a hundred klicks.
The deepest sound on record, made of squeaks and clicks.
But poor Thomas caught a bug, not a major thing.
Excepting for the cough whene'er he tried to sing!
The cacophony spread out all across the ocean floor,
Bothering the denizens as they had never been before!
A older whale advised him of a certain gaseous vent,
That breathing it might mitigate coughing so intense.
Thomas went and breathed, till helium filled his lungs.
Oxygen theft left his cough whispering soprano thrums!
Rabbit Rabbit.
(I'm not superstitious. But it never hurts to be sure.)
~ OMK
Well, I got the four Jumble words without any problems at all, but just couldn't get the solution. Came to your poem, Owen, and found the four words, but not the solution which I finally had to look up online. And sure enough, there right at the beginning, you had given it to us. I should have gotten it, if I had only tried to think of words a barber's work or tools involved. Anyway, a delightful, clever poem, Owen--I can't believe you come up with these every day--brilliant! Many thanks.
What's that object in the fireman's hand that caused the fire? Some sort of barbershop gadget? (I haven't been to a barbershop in decades and decades, so I have no idea).
Ol'Man Keith, where does the expression "Rabbit Rabbit" come from? Is it said on the first day of every month--I don't pay much attention and so can't remember.
Rabbit rabbit has an article on Wikipedia with a lot of details I didn't know before I looked it up just now.
I think what the fireman is holding is a burned hair dryer, probably short-cuircited.
Misty ~
Nobody really knows the origin. Check the Wikipedia article, and you'll see there are several different ways one can say it. Although people aren't sure how it comes down to us, there is general agreement that it brings good luck.
I don't believe it for a second, but then why not? It beats Pascal's Wager for having no downside--and no need to pretend.
Owen ~
I believe this is the first time you have re-written the caption--significantly-- to suit your different illustration.
~ OMK
OMK: I'm sure I've changed the riddles before, but you may be right that this is the first time I've done so significantly!
The newspaper toon seemed to have less relation to the pun than normal, but a good funny joke that wasn't connected. So often they don't really have much of a joke at all.
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