| || yucky, admit, toddle, banana, day in and day out.
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The opening poem contains all the words (or variations of them) from today's Jumble.
Comments are welcomed!
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11 comments:
Owen, the Chicago Tribune site has the solution correctly laid out as
OOO OO OOO OOO OOO
The one on this site is missing the second bubble.
***ALERT***
If you work the Jumble at Shockwave or Uclick, it's messed up again. The solution is
OOO OO OOO OOO OOO, not
O_O OO OOO OOO OOO.
There is no way to enter it that will get you a ta-da.
Sandy, thank you for noticing the error on this page. I have now corrected it. I knew I was supposed to fix it, but forgot to do so before posting.
Toddlers are blessings or buggers,
Often both at the one and same time.
They'll charm you as pudgy huggers
As they coat you with banana slime!
You admit pride first time they toddle,
Praise when they piddle in the potty.
But they toddle to mischief full throttle,
And their dumps are yucky and grotty!
An infant they come in, in one day,
An adolescent they go out, the next.
In between, they're forever in the way,
But each moment, we love them to heck!
Ah, yes, the ups & downs, fun & folly, of herding toddlers! These verses remind me of those long-ago days of early parenthood. It's been quite a while, but I can retrieve so many sweet sounds & pictures from those years. There are times when I wish I could share them with my adult sons, but only I can see them--as they once were.
Thanks, Owen, for the trip into the past.
The jumble cartoon is another reminder. My Cornish grandfather was a miner. That part of the family is almost lost to the past in England, as they died when I was very young. I have only a few memories, and they may be partly fabricated.
In the light of today's J-solution, I recall an English saying, advice to a young card player who wants to ante up in a poker game to join some older serious, tight-lipped players: "Pay in & say nowt."
~ OMK
So that I don't upstage Keith, I'll go first today
a ducky Yit with bottle antenna complained that the voting was just noise and confusion: "aye din and aye doubt!"
Oops, sorry. I didn't refresh before that last posting to that you had already posted, Keith!
Sweet poem, Owen, that fits the Jumble words so nicely. I got all four words without any hesitation but didn't get the solution perfectly on my first try. Nice to see the hard-working miners in their different shirts and carrying their lunch boxes. Glad they're going home before the sun sets.
Whew. Quite a word chase, this one, Owen.
I didn't recognize "Yit," so I looked it up. There are a good many possible definitions. The closest I found that makes sense (almost) is that it is a slang word used in Killarney to indicate approval of something.
Anyway, that seemed to fit with "ducky" as well as with "Aye."
But the affirmative meaning of "Aye" has the wrong pronunciation for our purposes, so I suppose you mean it in the sense of "forever." That's less common, but it gives us the right sound.
~ OMK
I got four J's but was held up even though three of the words were obvious. The two letter one threw me.
But jotting down all the letters cleared it up.
Age 0-3 is so hard. What is labeled "hyperactive" is essentially healthy, energetic, active and inquisitive. eg my son Phil.
At age 5 or 6 he'd been taught an addition trick. So, I'd say " 469+932+847+562+159=?. And in an instant he'd say 2969. Baffled my friends wife who was trying to keep up with him on a pad or adding machine
WC
Chiming in late to say that I really enjoyed the poem today. It made me think of my own daughters and my grandchildren when they were small. My great-grandson is just two, so I should be encountering the negatives as well, now, except that he lives hundreds of miles away, so I don't get to see him.😞😞😥😥
Let me guess. He memorized 2969 and you memorized a sequence that would add up to that.
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