| || uncle, lasso, permit, flurry, "sculpt-sure".
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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:
Thaddeus was a real rodeo cowboy.
He could lasso a doggie with the best.
Riding a bucking bronc was his joy,
But bull riding was his biggest test
When Thad was just a tad, with his uncle
He went and saw his first wild rodeo.
Saw the winner get a trophy belt buckle.
And that sculpted for sure his life's goal!
Riding a ton of angry beef isn't easy.
It's an eight second flurry of peril!
Before each ride, Thad's gut was queasy,
But that didn't permit him to quail!
A neat switch of theme & venue today, Owen...
I like the ring of "When Thad was just a tad..."
The first rodeo I ever saw, when I was a kid, was at Kezar Stadium in San Francisco. I have only vague memories of bronco busting & dogie roping. What I remember most vividly was the horseback entry of Red Ryder carrying a large American flag. He was accompanied of course by his lil' Indian pal, Little Beaver!
His local radio show was sponsored by Langendorf Bread, and I think my dad got discounted admission because we brought bread wrappers to the ticket booth.
Misty ~ FLN, check my last posting for a note on a Malspooner.
~ OMK
I enjoyed this jumble. The clues came easily, except for the the third, which caused a little head scratching. Shades of Tuesday's clue no. four!!
But the solution was not really a problem, though it took me a couple of minutes to see how to deal with the second, four-letter, part. Then when light dawned it was d'oh time. I think the hyphen confused me, because it's really two separate words. Anyway, it is a cleverly funny idea.
The poem is interesting; it's amazing how you could work the solution into that rodeo theme, Owen. The poems always demonstrate your ingenuity as much as your poetic abilities, I think.
The doctor told little Timmy not to sip his indigestion medicine but to chug it down. He called it a "Gulp-Cure."
I think the reason for the hyphen in today's solution was so we'd be encouraged to read or hear it as a single word, and so get the pun.
I almost wanted to see a question mark between the words, as I could hear Michelangelo posing and then answering it.
~ OMK
Two easy and fun Jumbles in a row--makes this a great middle of the week. Got all four words with just a little thinking, and with the letters ready, the solution was a sure thing. So it was neat to see your delightful poem, Owen, and to find both the words and solution all playing clever roles. The little figure in back did a great job giving that cartoon sculpture an enormous size. But I'm flummoxed by those things on the brick wall in back. They're not windows, are they? Can't figure them out. And what is that strange cap the fellow in front is wearing?
Ol'Man Keith, I did look up your discussion of malspoonerism--many thanks! I hope I can remember it in the future.
Well, it's almost 1pm Pacific time, 4pm Eastern, so I can post that I connected with what you said, OMK. I saw the solution blanks and instantly thought,
"Sculpt? Sure!"
Well, not instantly. First I had to get "sculpt-ures" out of my head, because it was clearly not a remark. THEN I saw the solution, with ?, not - .
#3 I explicably caused me to jot every possible word. I went to the solution and found the letters if not the order.
Then it popped. The V8 can analogy is very aot for the Jumble
I better check late Thurs posts.
WC
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