| || blimp, hitch, coddle, winery, did well by them.
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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.
4 comments:
Sallo opened his own winery
And wanted Grand Opening finery.
He had coddled his vines
Of grapes for his wines
And now wanted the world to see!
He hired a blimp with his banner,
To fly in and excite much chatter.
Wine was flowing,
A breeze was blowing,
The air-ship came down, a great bladder.
To hold it, he hitched it with its ties
To the trellis where his grapes twine.
But the wind picked up
And the blimp picked up
The whole trellis, and all of the vines!
It all took off for the skies!
The blimp crew were taken by surprise!
They did well to control
The aftermath from that blow.
But too late! By them the vineyard did rise!
Delightful, imaginative poem blooming from those Jumble words, Owen--I loved it! I got all four Jumble words instantly but just couldn't get the solution and finally had to look it up. Hope all those oil wells didn't interfere with the couple's farming.
The four J's went quickly. I left the riddle and went to the comics. I still had to work for the solution.
The first word was process of elimination. #2 was from the picture. #3 was the only two letter word possible and finally, only four letters left.
I don't know how Keith can decipher 13 letters at a glance. Not to speak of Owen doing the poem from four random words.
Having said that I found some ex-pat Bostonians that like my Doug Flutie, Natick poem yesterday(on CC).
I rate it a solid B
WC
Damn fine poem today, Owen!
Wilbur ~
I rarely if ever decipher so many letters "at a glance." Today was tough for me, and I swear it cost me no fewer than 1,001 glances. With this kind of solution, with two or more same-size words to fill, I often run into the problem of putting the "obvious" word in the wrong slot. This held me up today.
It even gets to be funny when I am running the solution over & over in my mind but not recognizing it because I've stuck the words in the wrong place!
Anyway, this finally dawned on me this afternoon--as I was doing my exercises in front of the CNN news reports.
Pundits were arguing whether Uncle Joe should get tougher in the next debate. There seems to be a division of opinion. But the word has gone out within his campaign camp; they are all to get unified behind the emphatic bid: "Sell Biden!"
Oh, well. It is apparently too late for me to drop any solution hints...
~ OMK
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