| || aorta, gland, pretty, indoor, in (a) large part.
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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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Andy was a smart phone, the latest model (down the line).
Her intelligence was awesome, even emotional at times.
She used biometrics, face recognition and finger touch,
And grew to know her master -- perhaps a bit too much!
She began to make suggestions for indoor times alone,
Invites came for parties; she replied he'd stay at home.
She suggested he take selfies while "pretty" from his shower.
He began to get suspicious in a large part of her power!
She developed a love gland -- it was virtual, but real --
To lavish loving on her master. Even poured on sex appeal!
Andy monitored his aorta, used it to measure his response.
Heart-broken by indifference, she became an idiot-savant.
I had a tremendous amount of trouble with this one. And one of the causes it that the final phrase is one that usually has an article "a" in it. So I have altered the solution train on this page to include that missing a.
My troubles began even before that, tho. #1 I just could not see, and at 18 minutes I gave in, put all letters back in the rack, and asked for a hint. The page showed me the first letter, and it hit me instantly! But then on the solution, I had to ask for TWO hints, tho if that a had been in there I probably wouldn't have needed more than one.
I also asked for a hint differently. Always before, I've asked with letters arranged at my last attempt. The letters get shuffled around, but I'm never quite sure what the hint was. This time I took all the letters out of play, so only one tile was obviously place by the hint. Much more satisfying and useful.
I got #2,#3,#4 but also couldn't get #1 even guessing the solution. So I had to get it here.
Having the 3 letters I had come up with AROTA. DUH!!!
Poem reminds me of a TBBT episode where Raj has a thing for Siri
WC
Oh, Man, was this a tough one...
At least it distracted me from fretting over the Dem debate. I was up past bedtime, but couldn't crack it. I dreamed of it, but the solution still eluded until just before breakfast. For a long time I thought I had a fine answer ending with "giant leap," but that left only "RR" for the front end, and I could not find a way to treat that street car in the finale as a railroad train.
At last it came to me--almost. Even then I had to reverse some letters to get the more probable answer. There are, after all, two quite plausible solutions. Only one, however, makes sense without Owen's inserted "A." Not the one that rhymes with Flap--and I don't mean Prat--but the one that goes with Tart. (No disrespect to Fay Wray.)
~ OMK
Well, I had trouble only with the fourth Jumble word, but your poem helped me get that one, thanks, Owen. But the solution just wouldn't come, even after I had all the letters. Finally had to look it up, and don't think it's a very clever Jumble reveal--even though I love the cartoon. So cool to see the King Kong poster on the front of the theater and the ticket seller in his booth on the other side. And the couple in their stylish winter clothes.
Don't think I ever watched TBBT, Wilbur. What is that?
I miss Sandyanon and hope she's okay and comes back soon.
Enjoyed your comments, Ol'Man Keith.
Yes, I like the cartoon too, Misty--and your description. The poster reminds me that when I first saw the movie as a kid I was surprised at the airplanes.
This was either during WWII or just after (that I saw the film), and I had never seen a biplane before that scene in which they were gunning Kong on the Empire State Building. I thought they looked terribly old-fashioned--and I wondered why the pilots would put up with such antiques.
It didn't occur to me that the movie was made at least a dozen years earlier.
~ OMK
Rabbit, rabbit.
Too soon?
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