| || clout, daddy, effect, cheese, succeeded.
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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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Presidents are Big Daddies, the Big Cheeses.
The vision of our nation, what he sees is!
He has the clout for any task that he seizes.
But slavery split our nation in two pieces.
Sour grapes of rebellion had been seeded.
Lincoln to the presidency succeeded,
In response, the Southern states seceded.
Imagine the effect had they succeeded!
Rabbit, rabbit...
Although I wonder if there's a way to post-date the lapine, lapine superstition--to match the May Day Day? Is it just the date that's in error, or is this a full replay of the 5/1 cartoon? I can't trust my memory to know whether I did this same jumble a month ago...
Thanks for the compact poem,Owen, neatly playing on today's double sense solution.
~ OMK
Well I know it is the July 1 cartoon, because I checked other sites.
Clever idea, which -- and I am not trying to bring politics into this, only it's just too coincidental to ignore -- there is a bit of a backlash on the Internet today about Ivanka Trump inserting herself into G20 discussions and how her father seems to think she's qualified for any and all diplomatic activities and even the Presidency. You can check it out.
Owen, your poem almost seems to reflect that, too. Yes?
After a few very tough days, I've had some gifts this morning with a doable and pleasant Brock crossword, a manageable Sudoku and Kenken, and now a delightful Jumble. I sailed through all four words on this one and the solution just popped right up. And, of course, it's nice that the young woman was handed her father's business. Glad I was able to go in a different direction--I would not have enjoyed working for RCA for forty years, like my Dad did. But thank you, Dad--you supported us!
Hope this will be a good week for all of us.
Sandy, I didn't know about the latest Trumpus until you mentioned it, but yes, I did sorta have our current disPresident in the back of my mind when I wrote the poem. Mostly tho I was focused on the wordplay.
I had the four J's but couldn't spell out the obvious solution. My brain was trying to fit Owen's soundalike in .
Misty, glad to see you sparkling again. Weekend CW's appeared to be crunchy for a lot of solvers. Especially with a lot of the proper nouns and faux French.
I may have to play the stock market and predict what the "Big Cheese" is going to do next. A bunch of stocks came back to life today.
WC
Wilbur, what's faux French? Do you have an example?
Maybe he means expressions Americans use that aren't heard in France--like "Voulez-vous coucher avec moi" which the French hear as vulgar and not at all seductive, or “Le freak c’est chic!”
Or...
"Mise en scène." = "Mice in the river!"
"Jeanne d'Arc." = "No light in the bathroom!"
Wilbur?
~ OMK
Yes, OMK, I think that at the very least a French person would say, "Veux-tu te coucher avec moi?"
Sorry I was away. I was referring to the controversial Natick from Sunday on the cross of NEVE and NRA. NEVE was clued as
Snow in le Alpi
It was commonly thought to be, including CC, as the French ("le") Alps. Some later posts revealed it to be Italian for which NEVE indeed was snow. In French NEIGE would be snow.
Thus the "faux French".*
And NRA was National Restaurant Association. There's a big corporation that services the Food Industry, do you recall it?
It had the same name as an IT Company.
Much like the NRA (Lobby Group)
I'll try to LIU.
WC
* And to complete the circle, NEVE in French refers to Snow that has turned to ice.like Glacial snow or patches of ski trails.
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