| || ozone, alibi, divert, hubcap, board (the) plane.
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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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Jorge had always been a fool, and then the Starmen came.
They brought wondrous stuff, but things still stayed the same.
A saucer took its station at the edge of Jorge's village,
Jorge and his buddies thought for mischief sake to pillage.
It stood upon four landing struts, much like an aeroplane.
Jorge and Luis snuck up to it, unseen at three A. M.
Luis headed to the front, to divert guards if they were seen.
While Jorge went to one wheel, its ozone smell was keen.
Who would have thought a spaceship tire would have a hubcap?
With a board he pried it loose, then they went home to nap
Their alibi, they'd been asleep, they didn't need to cop.
On the hubcap rim, in tiny print, read "Area 51 Machine Shop"!
A hubcap indeed!
Who would've thunk it? Only our Owen, with his own delightful quirks.
And the Area 51 mechanics' pride gave them away, eh?--a very human touch. (Did we get it from the ETs, or they from us?)
FLN: I thought the B.Bush connection was a natural, but maybe that's just in my neck o' the woods. I can't pin it down to a single source, but I have often heard the Yam gag used on those stentorian words.
Today's solution? Hmm. Sink me, but I'm not sure of the order intended by the Jumblers. Could go either way, I believe. Poured the Blame, or t'other way around...
~ OMK
It took a lot of ingenuity to incorporate all of those words in one poem, and I applaud it. Not sure why it had to be Jorge vs George or Luis vs Louis.
The jumble clues gave me some problems, especially the fourth one. The solution, however, wasn't difficult, given what one of the words must be. I am definitely getting even crankier and more nitpicky in my advancing old age, though, because it didn't seem like clever wordplay to me, just labored.
No, not a nitpick on that laborious pun, Sandy. I worked through the sixes by rearranging letters.
HH was a favorite subject of Hef's in the 60s. I liked Playboy articles.
I can just imagine how the natives felt when Amelia landed.
WC
Agreed the pun was labored (tho not as much as the "intensive" one earlier in the week :). I wonder how many even got the second meaning -- since it was built of wood, it was a "board" plane.
My original thought was to have the Starmen travel an astral "plane", and so need locals to build impressive saucers for them. Maybe, but leaving that out left other possibilities open.
I think Erato might have had a reason for Jorge instead of George. All I'm sure of is that it wasn't because of Trumpian politics.
As I tried to indicate in my first posting, it makes equal sense for the solution to be "Plane the Board," esp. because of the emphasis on "wood" in the caption. To me, this is what gives this jumble at least a hint of pizazz.
~ OMK
If anyone needs a further reason for choosing "Plane the Board," consider that one of the Spruce Goose's necessary pre-conditions for flight must have been streamlining, and how else could this have been achieved without a good deal of---you guessed it!
~ OMK
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