| || brisk, graph, jurist, method, sour grapes.
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The opening poem contains all the words (or variations of them) from today's Jumble.
Comments are welcomed!
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5 comments:
When a metaphor becomes so firmly established, it can't be a pun, can it?--or be said to have a double meaning?
Maybe today's solution could be taken to have two meanings if the caption had been worded more generally, something like, "The reason he gave for his wine's failure was..."
~ OMK
I'm too sick to compose today, so I'm stealing a poem from another page.
This is from Angela at Jumble Answer, who gives two solutions, one prose and the other poetic!
° Shocked that it went so far as to be brought before a jurist, he painstakingly devised a method that would harvest the fruit in an efficient, brisk manner, thereby avoiding any sour grapes… and he detailed it all in a graph.
🍷 With a method to his madness, he thought he’d draw a graph,
But the other jurist shook his head, in fact he even laughed.
But not so easily daunted, despite reception brisk,
He stood his ground and truly felt that it was worth the risk,
And in the end his work paid off, no irony escaped,
He drew the line quite literally … despite their sour grapes 🍷
So very sorry that you're not well. I think it's wonderful that you keep up with the blogs anyway. Angela's poem is ok, but lacks your clever touch.
The jumble was not difficult, and the solution was pretty obvious. I agree that a common idiom is not really the same as a pun. And it doesn't really make me laugh.
I like being able to see the cartoon's colors here, The LA Times only prints them in black and white.
~ OMK
Today was indeed one of my fastest solves. Btw, OMK when the spirit moves you the doggerel isn't bad at all.
Since Owen is not feeling it lets let what Wilburforce can do...
Nope. I would need caffeine mixed with French Vanilla.
WC
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