| || derby, fizzy, finale, button, "benz" in (the) road.
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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.
6 comments:
(continued from yesterday.)
These river algae were not normal stuff at all.
Their chemistry was off in a way that wasn't small.
Oil drilling near the river had led to some pollution.
The algae feasted on it, so held benzene in solution!
Their guide took off his derby hat to scratch his head.
"I haven't heard a hippo bellow, I hope that they all fled."
They continued on around the bends in the river road,
Until they heard the sounds that made their blood run cold!
The hippos were ahead, gorging on the yellow algae!
Far from causing their finale, the sauce seemed to agree!
But at each hippo's hind end, the water was so fizzy.
The ensigns buttoned up their noses, feeling dizzy.
The bellows of the hippos, loudest in these jungle parts,
Were drowned out by the sound of -- gas-powered hippo farts!
Ut-oh!
This would be hilarious--if we all weren't so aware that the happy hippos are now contributing all that additional methane to our atmosphere.
Yikes!
Just as we're maybe on the verge of switching to Impossible Burgers & other meatless entrees in order to reduce our dependence on cattle and other burp-and-fart herds, these super algae-munching hippos are going to compound our woes!
Well, chill, Keith! It's just a lovely fiction--for which Owen deserves our laughter & thanks!
It's an ending (multiple endings?) we didn't see coming.
~ OMK
Yes, I agree. Not only the hippo farts, but also the oil drilling, make this a funny but also depressing poem. What actually depresses me most about the situation is that I'll escape the worst, but my grandchildren and great grandchildren will not.
Owen, your poems invariably bring serious issues to mind -- my mind.
Well, about the jumble. The clues were super easy, and as soon as I accepted the fact that this was going to be a truly groanworthy pun, so was the solution. I laughed through my groans, LOL.
Loved this Monday Jumble. I breezed through all four words without any problems, and was delighted to see them all in Owen's poem. The solution took me a minute, but I laughed out loud when I got it. There was the Z that had been puzzling me, and I'm glad I know cars better than I thought I did. Given the curves and heights of the road in the cartoon, I don't blame the passenger for being a little nervous. I liked the colors in the cartoon, which made the snow on top of the mountains come into clearer focus. Again, a delight.
As to the jumble, my former college roomie is still prone to monstrous binges & hangovers. He's always in search of someone to lick him back into shape, to make him presentable the world, or--as he puts it--somebody who tends to my soul and lends me a comb.....
~ OMK
Only #3 caused me to work. But I had the solution do I knew where (approximately) the last two letters should be.
And that put an end to my task.
Hippos are the least of the climate problem.
WC
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