| alias, hobby, snappy, person, snippy. |
| awaken, rotate, medley, adrift, whimsy, oppose, a stone's throw away.
Image from the Internet.
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:
FLN:
Thanks very much, Misty! Glad you enjoyed it, despite its tortured birth. I came to appreciate it more myself--after I decided to read it out loud to my wife and felt some pride as it elicited a full & proper groan.
Owen ~ No toes troubled... I got a kick out of your Spooneresque offering.
My only critique is to fall back on another of the rules I set for myself, which is to shun proper names. I shouldn't be too severe, however, because I'm sure there is a place for them if (A) all else fails and (B) the resulting effect is a real doozy.
~ OMK
Ultraman's hobby was robbing banks.
For heroic deeds he got little thanks.
He was taken for granted, folks got snippy.
He was expected to show up, and be snappy!
So each week he'd fly to a different city.
Dress like a hood or maybe a hippy.
Establish an alias for this person. And then --
Go to a bank and steal every pen!
People would awaken to the radio every day.
The station would rotate the medley they'd play.
Sometimes they'd be adrift in the whimsy of Debussy.
Other times Tchaikovsky would be strident and fussy.
Then came the talk shows, the daily rubbish bin,
With all opposing sides arguing to raise a din.
Each party casting stones at the stands of the other,
As they throw away the notion every man is a brother.
I enjoyed the j4 poem, especially the surprise kicker at the end. I guess Ultraman was independently wealthy, all those flights and no profit.
The jumble was really easy -- too easy to be much fun.
The j6 poem is great; I'm in awe of the way you could use almost all the clues in so few coherent lines. But although fussy is a great sight rhyme for Debussy, I never think of Tchaikovsky that way, and hope that you don't either, Owen.
One thing: Both your j6 solution bubbles and the Tribune's appear to be missing an apostrophe. Shouldn't it be there?
Owen, many thanks for your Sunday Jumble poems--lots of work and we really appreciate them. I only get the second Jumble in my LA Times, so it was fun to see all the words in your second poem. But I had real trouble with the solution, because I just couldn't remember the name of the rock group (the Beatles kept blocking it, I think). Too bad the cartoons had no color today--it would be fun to see how that complicated set of cartoon images (is that a tongue on the drum?) would look in color. Anyway, a fun Jumble morning, and have a good Sunday, everybody.
(And, you're welcome, Ol'Man Keith).
FLN, we lucked out on Owen's second SPOON*.
This was my fastest Sunday J. I had six with only one needing jots.
Beatles Misty? More like the "Boulders!".
WC
* Did any body catch the CSO to the Jumble blog on Robin's XW?
WC
Let me know if you stop back to read this.
For the J6, I now make up the image before I do the puzzle myself, so I just copied the ChiTrib's layout before discovering the error I warned about in last night's ALERT posting, and then neglected to correct my own image. An apostrophe has now been belatedly added.
The ChiTrib is always black & white, but very sharp, and what I normally use. The USA Today site doesn't have the new day's puzzle up until much later (I'm not sure when, but hours certainly). They have the cartoon in color, but not as crisp, so the dialogs are blurry. I've now switched the illo to the color version, since I was updating anyway.
Yes, that is a tongue on the drum. It's the Rolling Stone's logo.
Got it!
Owen ~ Thanks! The apostrophe makes all the difference.
I caught on a little earlier, thanks to Sandy's comment @10:02, a v. helpful hint.
W/o that punctuation, this combination of letters can be quite misleading--as they offer many other relevant words, incl. WASTE, TRASH, TOSS, &c.
~ OMK
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