| || fungi, soupy, agenda, melody, on (the) same page.
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!
Do not explicitly reveal any of the actual answer words until after closing time, but embedding them surreptitiously in comment sentences is encouraged.
12 comments:
Aaron Copeland's distinctive style
Has a story that may make you smile.
His first composition, a Southwest theme
Was played by his small ensemble team.
It was performed in Mexican border town,
As the group's agenda, a cantina was found.
Dinner before was a specialty soup,
With unique local fungi in the goop.
The concert was a rousing success,
Tho why, no one but Aaron could guess.
Each musician's melody a different note,
None on the same page. No one noticed!
Both your poem, Owen, and the cartoon serve as fine illustrations of the consequences awaiting any team that fails to work in harmony.
The kitchen scene explains why my wife and I are never so foolish as to share the cooking!
In your verses Copland's players seem to get away with it, although you state clearly that they failed to play the same notes. I wonder if their "rousing success" was due to the composition's round-like structure or to an audience that was ahead-of-its-time in accepting atonality--or both.
~ OMK
I think it was a success because the audience was as stoned as the musicians!
It's actually less fun for me when the jumble is too easy. In this case I looked at the cartoon and the solution popped right out at me. Idiom again rather than real pun. Didn't really need the clues.
As with yesterday's poem, this one motivated me to read more about Aaron Copland. Certainly an interesting life.
LOL, Owen.
No, I take it back. You know it's never funny WYHTEI!
~ OMK
I had to play around only with the first and the fourth Jumble word in order to get them. But I got them, and I agree with Sandyanon, that the solution popped right up. I still liked the cartoon with the oven in the background and the cookbook and knife and condiments on the table. Also liked the wife's apron and the husband's whisk. Very enjoyable. Thanks Owen, and Jumble pals. (So what is WYHTEI?)
I raced over from the CC to look for Des Moines, was that yesterday?
#4 was difficult, I had to jot down letters. Once I realized the first word wasn't IN, the solution popped.
WC
I should have followed Owen's Link. I thought it would be about Iowa corn futures.
You know it's never funny WYHTEI! = ...When You Have To Explain It, re my saying the audience was as stoned as the musicians.
Not as elegantly written as I think it could have been if I'd stretched it out to 4 stanzas, but one of the better stories!
Hey, Owen, I enjoy all your poems -- some for the fantasy you create, some for their humor, all for their cleverness, and especially the ones based on real characters because they always send me off on a research expedition, which I love.
I'll happily concede to the brilliance of your poetry, Owen, any time, anywhere.
And while the explanation may cause the blush to be off the rose--or the edge filed a bit from the humor--I am sure a fair amount of comedy remains.
The very presence of the goopy fungi, aka "funny 'shrooms," assures that much of a tickle!
~ OMK
I thought we might get another version of fun guy vs fungi.
I was connected to McDonald's which is barred in the Blogspot world so I had to disconnect and go straight cellular.
So, I couldn't see "Wimpy" but I know he'll gladly pay me Thursday for a hamburger today.
WC
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