| eagle, drone, wallop, afloat, follow (the) leader. |
| shrewd, widget, swanky, infamy, squall, viable, having a field day.
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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.
8 comments:
Eagles are being trained to take out quad-copter drones.
The mechanical contraptions violate privacy of our homes!
They've closed down vital airport hubs for hours.
So raptors are recruited to wallop them from towers!
They seem to have potential, afloat up in the air.
Keeping watch of traffic, or tracking grizzly bear.
But they interfere with pilots, keep aircraft on the ground.
Fire-fighting airships can't make fires drown.
The leaders in technology will work to make the safer.
Regulators will follow regs and get laws down on paper.
Are they boon or bane? No one has quite decided yet.
All I know is with my heart, one's what I want to get!
Now Toffler thought that it was shrewd
To design a widget to detect one's mood.
To let one know when mistakes are liable,
As opposed to when decisions are viable.
It would let you know when a day in the field
Would help you having your greatest yield,
Or when stormy moods would cause a squall
That would lead to your worst infamy of all!
So Toffler tinkered, and niggled, and fiddled.
Some pieces sizzled, and some pieces fizzled.
At last he came up with something not too skanky,
A mood ring with a magic eight-ball was swanky!
I couldn't find the Jumble in the LA Times this morning. If you saw it, Ol'Man Keith, let me know the section and the page.
Owen, great to see you and your poems back to day. Hope your earache has gone away.
Sorry, Misty, I don't usually do the Sunday jumbles. I take the NY Times & LA Times on Sundays, and they are way too much for me to handle all their parts. I automatically toss all the Sunday LA Times sections except the front news plus "California," "Calendar," and "Arts & Books." I did not see the jumble in those parts.
Hey, Owen! Really good to see you back in the saddle! I hope you are feeling better. The poetry is lively as ever.
~ OMK
No notable problems with either jumble. Both solutions were fun but didn't blow me away.
Enjoyed both poems, but I thought that the j4 poem made some good points very cleverly. And with the great little twist at the end!
No problem, Ol'Man Keith--I can survive a day without a Jumble. I just looked forward to commenting on Owen's poem, but I'll do that tomorrow.
Misty, I must be missing something, because I don't understand, if you can access Owen's jumble blog to post, why you can't do the jumble from the blog as well. Are systems that different?
I wondered too, Sandy. I did the sixes on paper and finished unusually quick. The riddle was also easy except I can never write all the letters and then eliminate. But having L,D and F was enough.
Great having Owen doing his masterly poesy. Erato for Wilbur seems to have left on that last train for the coast
WC
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