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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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S L U P H
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W D R O C
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L U Y F A T
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O I M N E C
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Once one office worker started wearing business attire to work, others —
OOOOOOOO OOOO
Ben knew his life was faulty,
Things did not go his way.
He worked as hard as others,
But seemed to get less pay.
It seemed as tho the crowd
Lived a plusher life than him,
And his vision of more income
Was looking awfully dim.
Then came the day he met
With Wilber, all hirsute.
Dressed head to toe in
A pure white bunny suit!
So Ben followed Wilber
Down a rabbit hole nearby,
Beneath a traffic light.
He'd not seen, and wondered why.
The world down below
Was wonderous in all ways!
Nothing stayed the same,
Everything was out of phase.
As he moved about,
Taking in this dream-like scene,
To his dismay he realized --
It was he who was the dream!
A brilliant poem, with a jolly spirit! Mingling themes worthy of Carroll and Calderon!
Thank you, Owen: we are all the more grateful for it, accompanied as it is by your efforts to give us some temporary pages. I hope this means your pains are abating, or that at least your poetic energies are distracting you from the worst of them.
As for today's jumble, I have to say that even without the cartoon, it was awfully easy to solve. It hardly required magic--or a puff on a funny cig or a gnaw on the hallowed root--to solve this solution. It was another that leapt from the screen before I even started on the clue words.
~ OMK
Yes, this jumble was quite easy. I really recommend the Chicago Tribune site, as listed by Owen on this blog, if you want to see the cartoon. But as OMK said, it's a really easy solve even without the picture.
Thanks for the lovely, surreal poem, Owen, and with a shout-out to Wilbur too.
The Jumble can be seen and solved here
Sample solving site
WC
Yes it can, Wilbur. But I prefer the Chicago Tribune site, because it doesn't make you watch an ad first.
Owen has listed several websites where you can do the jumble. They don't all work for me on my tablet, though.
What a delight to have this site back with today's date, and starting with your wonderful poem, Owen. I loved it, and I too hope it means you're feeling better again. And thank you again for your poetry gift today. Like others, I too found this a fun, easy Jumble, with the solution jumping right out at me before I even had to play with the letters. Had a little problem with the fourth word, but the solution took care of that. Nice the way the cartoonist gave all the workers, including the lady in the background, different suits and ties. Fun Jumble experience all around.
I like the ChiTrib site because it lets me fill in the final solution before all the other words are filled out.
BTW, Wilbur, I left you plausible deniability of a SO, if you want it. 😉
"U" before "E", except after "B"?
So you see me as a white rabbit as in now you see me now you don't. I think Sandy would make a great Alice
And...
I bet Keith could recite "The Walrus and the Carpenter" from memory
...
Of shoes and ships and ---- ---
And --- and ---
And why...
And whether pigs have wings
WC
I wonder if my golf poem is floating around in the ether
It started thus
The sun was shining mightily, shining with all its might
Wilbur was frowning sulkily because it's wasn't right...
And...
The Walrus and Tom Watson were playing in the sand
Wilbur thought "Oh wouldn't it be grand,
To tee it up at ?? Or ??
I can't remember the courses
plush, crowd, faulty, income
followed suit
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