| || guilt, plaza, choppy, tropic, political party.
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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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The party set out with high expectations
For their archeological excavations!
The tropical jungle had swallowed the site,
Machetes were chopping with all their might!
Satellite maps had guided them aright.
They reached the plaza at fall of night.
They set up their camp, and settled down,
Preparing themselves for exploring the town.
They began with the pyramid, where likely
Those guilty of political or religious heresy
Were executed on the altar way up on the top --
Inscribed: "1920 MexiStudios prop"!
You give us a bit of a twist, wry & chuckle-worthy, Owen just when we might have expected a Mayan relic. But wait! I may be missing the true meaning of that "find." I'm not sufficiently up on Mexican history to know if 1920 holds particular significance within the country's movie industry--or in the land's broader political life.
Was there a purge or some other bloody reckoning equivalent to the ancient religious sacrifices? Am I just reading too much into the "prop" altar?
I understand that Stan Laurel's comic partner, because of his trademark obesity & rotundity, was sometimes known as Elliptical Hardy. Has anyone else heard that?
~ OMK
The inspiration for this story. 1920 just because 1923 had too many syllables.
Either I'm becoming an expert or the jumbles are getting a lot easier, because today's was no problem. The second word of the solution was a gimme, which made the first one a gimme too. About the cartoon: if only that rosy picture were true!
I greatly enjoyed the poem's rhythm, as well as its narrative with the twist at the end; I have a vague memory of the story Owen cites. I remember thinking that it seemed like the conspicuously bizarre sort of thing that DeMille would have done.
Yep. I focused on no. 2 and that led quickly to POLITICAL. Duh.
Nice job by Owen working in the fake Sphinx. I suspect there's still something to be found in the Mayan ruins.
Their astronomy was mind boggling. Unexplainable.
WC
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