| || snarl, udder, market, chubby, dumbstruck.
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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.
9 comments:
***NOTICE***
If you work today's puzzle online (at the Uclick or Shockwave sites, I don't know about others), the solution line is messed up royally! It should be 10 characters long, not 9! And the letters for the answer will also be incorrect!
Chicago Tribune worked fine.
I enjoyed the jumble -- easy clues and a very funny (IMO) punny solution.
Jack had rescued the magic goose,
And at market, had bought a new cow.
A chubby one, good milk would produce,
So Jack was assured, anyhow.
But the goose and cow did not get along!
The goose pecked the cow on the legs.
The cow, with a swipe of her tail, like a gong,
Rang the goose right off of her pegs!
Next morning when Jack looked for gold,
The egg he found was white and not yellow!
With a snarl, he gave the goose a scold,
And called it an ungrateful fellow!
Then he went to milk his new dairy cow,
But when he started to pull on her udder
Was dumbstruck when the milk somehow
Had gold filigree in place of butter!
What. A. Goose.
!!
So there was magic in her after all. She surprised our Jack by somehow transferring alchemical powers to the cow's udder!
This, despite the fact that Jack's mum had taken a dim view of the goose as a miserable specimen of the genus Anser as soon as she set eyes on it.
"That's an ugly critter you got there! That sure is some duck you brought home, son!" were her precise words.
~ OMK
Love the poem. Such a fun twist on the golden goose.
Delightful, clever poem, Owen. I enjoyed it so much I forgot to look for my missing word the first time I read it, but then there it was, and helped me with the solution. Wonderful to see all the different colors in the cartoon, with the poor driver's upset face when he saw what he had done. Always fun to see all the different hair-dos on (or not) on everybody, and liked the red light on the car way in the back of the lot. And then, of course, there is always your clever echo of the solution, Ol'Man Keith.
A little trouble with the five letter one. A little more with the Riddle-Solution. But fairly quick.
A new twist on an old fable. Nice rythym to the poem
However. I find fault with the thesis of who's at fault. This was clearly the fault of the other driver, not the one backing up.
He was obviously driving to fast, did not honk the horn to warn the driver backing out. He easily could have prevented the accident.
Speed is the cause of virtually all accidents but cops try to find other excuses.
WC
Misty ~ I'm not sure if that qualifies as a legit Spoonerism, or if the 1st word would need to be "strum." It would certainly sound better, even if, er... nonsensical.
~ OMK
You'll have to remind me what a Spoonerism is again, one of these days, Ol'Man Keith. My senior memory thinks it remembers but isn't sure.
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