| hack writer |
| lotion, inland, rudely, weight, hobble, hyphen, behind (the) eight-"bawl".
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.
7 comments:
The Glackensplotch is the strangest thing.
It has six legs, and it can sing!
They say it came up from the ocean,
Then went sniffling for sun-tan lotion!
It moved inland still a-snuffling,
Purple hide and feathers ruffling.
Nose to nose, it came to a mare,
Licked her face and she was out-a there!
Farmer Jones rudely stood in the way
Of the Glackensplotch's strange foray.
Tied some weights to both fore feet
Meant to hobble the foreign beast.
The Glackensplotch took it in stride.
Flicks of its tongue, and it was untied!
It let out a bawl, danced a figure eight,
Ran on, leaving Farmer Jones in its wake!
Where it went next no one here is sure.
Maybe the High Fen for a calm pasture.
We wonder at how it passed thru our scene,
It's the second strangest thing we've seen!
I should have had an "A" at the start of the j4 answer.
I stuck with the newspaper cartoon on the j6 so you could count the babies.
And I wonder if it was intentional that the last (right-most) infant is a little black child...
~ OMK
I couldn't grok the riddle even with poem. Then Owen dropped the magic 8 ball and tada. I didn't think I had the brain to unravel the six J's but I got them.
I'll have to reread the poem and see how the J's weave in plus the Riddle-Solution must be in there.
WC
Well, the j4 was pretty easy, even without the "A".
But the j6 took me down. The clues were no problem, but I fixated on using a gerund for the first word, and even though I knew what the pun at the end must be, couldn't get past that mistake. I even counted the babies, but got that wrong too, coming up with only seven.
Finally looked up the solution, and d'oh!
Like the poem, Owen; that Glackensplotch sure has a versatile tongue. (BTW, is it any relation to a glockenspiel?)
Wilbur, methinks you are trying to fit the j6 poem to the j4 puzzle. I gave a HEADS-UP last night that the j4 was laid out today with the words and solution from last Sunday instead of today, so I made no effort to poemize that.
Owen, no I found the Riddle-Solution in your poem when I reread it. But the reference to 8 babies is how I initially spotted it (eg the Magic EIGHT BAWL).
I only do the six since I'm a newspaper guy. But I put off solving until I'd finished the CC. But the sixes fell one by one when I took a second look and applied my Wilbur technique*.
WC
An example is PNYHHE for which I jotted down PHEN and then it fell.
Of course when I just looked all I could find was High Fen. Most excellent.
And I liked your B+ today at the CC for the way you used the clue words.
WC
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