| || gouge, drank, hectic, squish, raise the dough.
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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.
5 comments:
The souse would go out and get smashed.
He drank champagne, to moonshine from mash.
His workday, like his drinking, was hectic,
So his release into booze was cathartic.
In daytime, he was always stone cold sober,
He had remedies for feeling hungover.
His habit gouged a hole in his wallet,
But a broker, he had more in his pocket.
Then his wife came down with religion.
Vowed to reform his squishy condition.
She made him stop his week-night boozing.
Raising the glass became doughnut choosing.
Had to think a minute on clue three, but then it came to me. Otherwise the clues were easy. The solution was as well, since two of the words were obvious, I thought, so the third one was simple to figure out. Appreciate the pun; seems clever.
I do like the poem, though it's an unpleasant topic, isn't it? I really love the sneaky way you worked in the solution phrase, Owen.
I had trouble with the third Jumble word and so relied on your poem to help me out--and there it was, Owen, many thanks. But still had trouble with the solution until I read Sandyanon's comment and went back to your poem one more time--and there was the delightful solution. So, my thanks to both of you, for giving me a fun Jumble Monday!
In preparing herself for the final showdown of the Great Riddle Contest, she was ready to do more than merely face up to her rival finalist.
It was time, she realized, to outsmart, out-riddle, and out-faze the foe!
~ OMK
Very funny, Ol'Man Keith--I got your rhyme for once!
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