| || exert, force, campus, invoke, piece of cake.
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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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12 comments:
***ALERT***
As of now, about 9 hours past the normal posting time, the Shockwave and Uclick sites are still showing Sunday's puzzle, and the USA Today site has one of the circles in the first word in the wrong position, so the final answer is unsolvable. I've made the correction on the cartoon above.
Now, several hours late, let me get started on a poem!
On the Disney campus, Alice of England
Met Leia Organa, galactic citizen.
The two hit it off, became fast friends,
Each with a story that never ends!
Leia would exert her control of The Force
To speed thru lines as a matter of course.
While Alice in Wonderland learned to bake
A magical small-and-tall piece of cake!
They toured the Small World, after all --
Small indeed when you're fifty feet tall!
And Leia would invoke her Jedi might
To whisk them up to the palace's height!
FLN, I'm not home so no TBTimes* but I'm with Sandy: DONE. The band is "done" but no need for the folks to go all RECKLESS.
Someone might get hurt
WC
* I've got the subscription going again but they've changed all the entertainment. Comics that I like keep disappearing, XWs in different places . I'm not too angry about week old NYT being replaced by current washpost Evan Birnholz but I can't find it. It's there, hope I didn't lose it.
Loved,loved, loved Owen's Fab Pygmalion poem
Really enjoyed the fun poem today. Leia and Alice make a fine pair.
The jumble was as easy as pie, which is my choice for dessert.
Owen, you never mention the Chicago Tribune site, which I find to have no problems. True, they don't change puzzles til midnight, but that's better than 9 hours!
I got this Jumble solution instantly, even though I had trouble with the third and fourth word and had not yet gotten those. But the solution was easy. Then had to go to Owen's delightful poem for the two missing words, and am embarrassed that I didn't get the third one on my own. For heaven's sake, I walked and worked on one of those for forty years. Oh well, that's seniority kicking in. Anyway, thank you, Owen, and have a great day, everybody.
An unexpected pairing of two plucky dames--fun to contemplate and well played by our poet!
Owen & Sandy have offered clever responses to today's solution. I haven't got much. But here goes:
In olden days, before the Richter scale, our colonial ancestors had few metrics for categorizing seismic events. A small shake, say between 2 and 3.5 by modern standards, would simply be designated Ye soft quake, with accent on the "Yeeee!"
~ OMK
Funny. Word #3 was the hardest for me to get today. I immediately thought of you, Misty.
~ OMK
Sandy: The ChiTrib site doesn't like my computer (or vice versa), so except for Sunday it's a last resort. It's really designed for a mobile app, which is okay for working, but not for copying the graphics for this website. Well, no, the USA Today site is usually even laster. But once I got something from there, I didn't bother to continue looking.
Well, maybe that explains something. I only have a tablet currently, and I can't access the UClick or Shockwave sites. The Trib is the only one that really works for me. Different strokes, I guess...
I too had problems with #3,4. Putting the letters in different order finally got #3 and #4 followed.
Once I got the letters jotted down and saw the K I had the solution. Somehow I thought Dennis's nose and what he was smelling would complicate the solution.
I was out of town and didn't have any way to get my TBTimes so all the solving had to wait. I could have "bought" a USA Today but not for $2.00
I love Alice talk whether in Owen's poems, Saturday xwords or the golf course.
WC
I wondered if CC might have had another USA Today Xword
And. Owen, I liked your response to Mr Pissy-anon better(re. Sunday CC)
I thought after replying that ignoring trolls has been the best policy. But....
WC
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