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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.
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The school day was ending, Rusty was bored.
How many more facts could his brain absorb?
He was loaded down with so much homework to do,
Homework he couldn't get his dog to chew.
Sixth grade wasn't easy, none had been from the start,
And he wasn't wedded to the idea that he was smart.
There was one facet of school to which he took.
He loved to get lost in the pages of a book!
He'd read the liner notes, and the author's bio,
Then he'd dive in, to give the story a trial!
Sometimes as he read he would doodle in the margin
Was that a sign of a writer or artist emerging?
Yes, I'd say Rusty shows a creative spirit. A love of books is still the sign of curiosity and the path to independent thinking--whether novels or non-fiction, hard bound, paperback, Kindle, comic book (er, graphic novel), whatevs...
I just watched the original The Time Machine again. I loved the mansion where the rich geezers gather at the start, with its wood panels & crown molding. You'll recall it ends with Rod Taylor grabbing 3 books from his home library to bring with him into the future. The mystery is... What were these books?
My wife & I agree that two of them must have been the Bible and a complete Shakespeare. As to the third, she opts for a medical anatomy text, and I choose Bartlett's quotations.
Anyone else care to weigh in?
~ OMK
Delightful poem, Owen. I got all four Jumble words plus the solution without any problem this morning, and it was a pleasure to find them all in your poem. Cute cartoon--I like the husband's glasses and beard, makes him look like a smart hippie (well, hippies didn't have computers, did they?).
Never saw the 'Time Machine.' One of these days I have to figure out how to see movies on my TV again. Loved your comments about the books, Ol'Man Keith.
Ahem. Should have said crown moulded ceilings...
I didn't know they'd produced a new Time Machine. I remember reading it as a teen. I read a lot, starting with the Mel Martin baseball books.
Fairly easy today but I left the Riddle-Solution to do the xword. When I unloaded my brain it went down quickly.
Let's see, the protagonist was in the early 1900s. Perhaps Sherlock Holmes was one. Or, Decline and Fall .
WC
Misty, next time your grandchildren visit, ask them to set you up with Netflix.
Netflix to the PC, PC to the TV. You have the WiFi already. There's others like Amazon prime, Hulu, etc
There's also a device called a Roku that connects to the TV and the menu lists all the apps
WC
W.C. ~
I was referring to the 1960 version of The Time Machine, directed by George Pal. This was advertised as "the first."
There have been others since then--and Alan Young seems to be in them all.
~ OMK
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