| || fluid, usher, divine, burlap, bundled up.
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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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Ambrosia is food of the gods, and nectar is their quaff,
Gaia grows the former, Dionysus brews the draught.
All is right on Earth, when all is well on Olympus
But there was a time when an invader made a fuss.
From the frozen Norseland ushered Loki the Aesir
Intent to do some mischief, the Olympians to stir.
He brought a vineyard blight, caused the grapes to wither,
And stole the casks of nectar that were to last the winter!
Zeus was most alarmed, drinking water would not do!
He sent Hermes to recover the purloined nectar dew.
Up to the land of the Aesir Hermes traveled in a flash
Bundled in burlap, the divine fluid he smuggled back!
An unexpected mingling of mythologies today! But Zeus is on his game; what could be more natural than to counter that thieving Loki with a trick from the rascal Hermes?
Owen, I just wish we knew what ploy Hermes used to regain the vanished vino! Was the burlap a disguise used to fool the northerners into thinking he was some unassuming bum? Did he pretend to beg for a drink, and then--bam!--pull some stunt while they were all in their cups?! More, more!
~ OMK
Before I forget: another easy challenge...
Do I have the solution for today's Jumble? Yup! I sure do!
~ OMK
The clues were easy on this one; the last took an extra minute. The solution popped right up -- okay, but no laugh.
I do like the poem's mix of mythologies. Strikes me that the Greek gods lasted a very long time to be able to encounter a Norse trickster. But then, maybe they're all still around even today!!!
Well, after an early rise and a committee meeting, I was already tired when I came home to work on this Jumble. Needed Owen's delightful poem to get both the second and the fourth word. But when I had those, the solution bubbled (?) right up. Delightful cartoon with fir trees in the background, and hats and scarf and beard and gloves and sweaters. But where's the log chopping tool? Back in the forest, I guess. Owen, your solution puns always crack me up--this one was especially cute.
I am not sure I would call them "puns," Misty. Definitely "plays on words."
I go for rhymes and near-rhymes, assonance at times. My faves are spoonerisms, but those are pretty rare.
~ OMK
Looked up spoonerisms, Ol'Man Keith, just to remind me of what they were (you can tell humor is not my specialty). The examples were "You have hissed mystery lectures" in place of "You have missed history lectures." Pretty funny.
I almost mixed mythologies further by using the better-known Roman Mercury instead of Greek Hermes.
I'm surprised no one called me out for dropping one clue word as a teaser in line 5, and then making you read all the way to the last two lines to get all of the rest of the words!
Misty ~ Very funny!
You may recall my most recent example; it was the near-spooner of fry bar in place of "By far."
~ OMK
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