| || amuse, grind, thorny, freeze, end fast enough.
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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.
8 comments:
It's hard to be a speaker, to stand before a crowd,
To be the cynosure for things you'll say aloud.
To take a thorny topic, try to say what might amuse,
And instead grind the tempers of those in foul moods.
And even when they are with you, following your point,
You have a fear of failing, you're sure you'll disappoint.
You'll omit something important, overlook a phrase,
Or worst of all just freeze, scared in your hearers' gaze!
You go so slothy slow, your message drags the ground,
You loose everyone's attention, you let the audience down!
Or else you go so fast, that your words you start to muff!
Either way, one thing you're sure of, it can't end fast enough!
Some surveys show that fear of speaking in public is the leading phobia among the general population. Your poem expresses it well, Owen.. I appreciated it very much, as it gives me a detailed sense of how it must feel. As a young aspiring actor, I surprised myself when I stood before classmates & others without such fears. I think maybe this is one of the earliest signs that encourages some of us to try for a career in the "public eye," the simple fact that we don't have the common dread of it.
Today's solution?
"Invest in vaping? Hah! It's just a fad. Some folk gag & quit before they finish their first inhalation. Before I put up any money, I need to see the *#@! trend last a puff!
~ OMK
The jumble wasn't very difficult, though I had a momentary hiccup at clue one. But having all the letters then enabled me to figure out what the words of the solution must include and voila, there it was. Interesting pun, because I realized that usually they include nouns.
Your poem does bring to life that common fear, Owen, though I remember personally that my initial nervousness was great, but once launched into what I'd prepared, I began rather to enjoy the experience. Everybody is different, right?
OMK's comment reminded me of my high school senior play. I had a small part, but the lead was a boy who seemed to be confident enough on stage during rehearsal, but once in front of the audience on our performance night, he almost literally blossomed, with new business and larger acting. I don't know if he was technically good,or not, but there was definitely no fear. Always wondered what happened with him.
Computer wouldn't work for a couple of hours this morning until it finally came on on its own. Huge relief. Loved your poem, Owen, but it still couldn't help me get the Jumble solution--although I got the four words without any problem. Cute pun. Have a good day (and I hope I have a better one than my anxious morning).
This is one of those poems that report what I've learned from others. As a Toastmaster, Storyteller, and Thespian, (and probably all-round egomaniac) stage fright has never been a serious problem for me.
I used to speak a lot at my meetings. I thought I must be pretty good as the group I was with seemed to draw well.
Then I realized that we had "John'The Indian'- famous in the fellowship world.
I could not get the solution but it stood out in the poem. How'd you miss it Misty?
The pun works but even guessing the first word I couldn't get the ( in hindsight) obvious second. I was trying to squeeze HUNGER but no R was available
WC
A friend if mine Vapes. He's tried everything to get off cifs and booze
*** ALERT ***
For Friday's puzzle:
For the third time Shockwave has tried to squeeze (the) into the answer circles! There is no way to make the correct solution register. You can enter it in fine, but it will not give you a proper ta-da!
Cigarettes
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