| || hefty, seedy, glitch, collar, "shear" delight.
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The opening poem contains all the words (or variations of them) from today's Jumble.
Comments are welcomed!
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6 comments:
Got half the solution at a glance.
The second half seemed a choice of options. It required all 4 words to supply the letters so I could adhere to the right.
The Fourth is over. Hope everyone had a pleasant time!
Night night...
~ OMK
An interstellar station you'd think would be delight.
Meeting different alien races every other night.
But when you've got to earn all your board and air,
Worry of a glitch can engender sheer despair!
I became a barber on a world of human men,
Became very good at the techniques in my ken.
So good I was recruited to this place in space,
Where sometimes it's a guess which end's my client's face!
If a seedy plant-man comes with wild cornrows in need,
I mustn't cut his tassels while cutting out the weeds.
Some races are all furry, I just clip around their collars.
Bug-eyed monsters want their eye-stalks stretching taller!
When a hydra's in the chair, seven manes I see.
It may take a while, but they pay a hefty fee!
Some races have fine cilia that function as their toes.
To them I give a pedicure -- they like them painted rose.
Must admit I gave up on this one. My excuse is that I'm tired this morning, and after getting all the clues, when the solution didn't immediately come to mind, I just said 'oh the heck with it', and read the poem. Also, I was looking for a solution that described the mother's reaction, which didn't help.
Really enjoyed said poem, imaginative and ingenious, as well as rhythmically satisfying.
I looked at the cartoon -- empty closet and empty hanger, piece at lower right obviously the top of a shirt -- and spent my time looking for cloth or fabric or related words, which was a wild goose chase.
Clever and interesting poem, Owen--many thanks! I knew I was in trouble when I couldn't find the fourth Jumble word in your poem--turns out I had it wrong. Also, couldn't get the solution and finally had to just look it up. Not my best Jumble morning. Cute mother and daughter in the cartoon, but I don't get that big flower and bee on the wall, or the empty closet. Like I said--not my best Jumble morning, but hey, it's Friday--tomorrow will be even tougher. But after Sunday, there's a blessed Monday around the corner.
Honestly surprised that colleagues found this difficult. I know we will have varied responses to jumbles, but this one seemed so clearly based on the double meaning of the shears in the girl's hands I wonder that it escaped others.
I'm not rubbing it in, gang--just so amazed that I need to share my perplexity!
~ OMK
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