| || hippo, honey, fright, stucco, photo finish.
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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.
5 comments:
Three short poems.
An animal to shun, if you're ever in a fight,
Is the sumo champion, she'll give you a fright!
I am referring to that river-horse humongous,
The African heavyweight the hippopotamus!
The most flirtatious members of the insect clan
Often live in houses built for them by man.
When they come a-courting, timid people flee!
Pollinating flowers is the love of honey-bee!
There are cabins of logs, castles of stones
Thatched grass houses and adobe homes.
A photograph of my most humble abode
Would show a stucco finish, Santa Fe mode.
Excellent verses, fine for their variety & economy of detail matched to expression!
I'm particularly fond of the 2nd, Owen, as it reminds me of the time I spent earning my merit badge in beekeeping. It was at Camp Royaneh, and Uncle Ed was our mentor. He was fearless about stings. We would watch him endure several at a time, showing us the behaviors to avoid.
I was tempted to go for a Spoonerism of today's solution, just switching the letters ("f" & "ph") of the two words. But that would only make the point that it's not the letters but the phonemes that must be changed.
Instead, I'll settle for a semi-political note:
Our POTUS would prefer new arrivals from Norway. I'm pretty sure he'd settle for a boat of Finnish immigrants; they're even closer to his fond Russia.
~ OMK
Nice how you worked all the Jumble words into the poem, Owen. I got them all this morning, with a little work on the fourth one. But the solution popped right up, and I think your play on the two words is a delight, Ol'Man Keith. Fun Jumble all around this morning, and I loved the three photographs in the background of the couple in the cartoon--a nice "gloss" on the solution.
Or perhaps a boat of Innishmen from the Emerald Isle...
But Trump is sure to harbor old prejudices. Is Eire one of his ****hole countries?
~ OMK
Always interesting how things seem so obvious once you know them, and not so obvious before you do. The clues were not difficult today, but for some reason I couldn't come up with the glaringly obvious solution. Had to go away and come back, when it did become glaringly clear!
Enjoyed the three separate poems, Owen, especially the third: it gave me mental pictures. And I'm sure Santa Fe and SoCal look alike in many ways.
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