| || stomp, brine, stormy, glance, silent partners.
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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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Ahab stomped across the deck in his frustration.
They had been a week sitting at this station.
The oceanographer had lived up to his nickname.
He was the best kraken hunter in the game.
The beasts had come up from the deep abyss
Playing havoc with tankers and cruise ships.
They fed on shipwrecked tourists, and oil spills.
Ahab's exploding spears had scored a dozen kills.
Fair or stormy weather on the surface of the brine
Made no difference under ocean, the kraken's clime.
In scuba gear with spear gun, Ahab sought his quarry.
Sonar had indicated one nearby, who'd soon be sorry.
Tentacles reached for him, his spear the body missed.
Three tentacles were severed, but the beast persists!
Then three great white sharks join in a feeding frenzy,
Tearing at the tentacles, for the kraken is their enemy!
Ahab swims back to his boat, glancing at his allies.
Another kraken down, into his silent partners' bellies!
I really enjoyed the sea hunt images and your tale of Ahab's hunting of the kraken, Owen, and I was happily surprised by the arrival of the rescuing sharks. What a treat to read you in this compact adventurous mode!
When I was living in England, everyone in my neighborhood knew of a specializing clinic located about a mile down the road, where a trained staff could handle the often bloody wounds received by inebriated projectile-throwers in our local pubs. If you should be so injured, you just had to get yourself out to the Mile End Dart Nurse. Everybody knew that.
~ OMK
I too liked your Ahab poem, Owen, and was happy that it gave me the fourth Jumble word, which I had trouble getting. But I didn't get the solution because I was so sure the first word would be STREET--wrong! I should have waited until I got the fourth word, then I might have gotten it and enjoyed even more Ol'Man Keith's delightful and funny story leading up to the hilarious word play on the solution. Cute cartoon, and I would have loved seeing it in color.
Liked the twist on Ahab's story, Owen. Interesting juxtaposition of old and new.
The jumble wasn't a big problem. It took me a minute to get clue three, but the solution jumped out at me right away - quickly and quietly.
FLN, Misty ~
Owen deserves the credit, not I, for clarifying re. the camera & flashing light. I can see how it was easy to mid-read that cartoon.
Today: Sandy ~
I liked your well-chosen "Q" adverbs.
~ OMK
I did the xword quickly but could only get two J's this morning before I had other things to do.
I'm watching a Johnny Carson from 1980 but I decided to take another crack at it. It went quick from Owens site.
I first tried to put TOGETHER in the solution, duh. But thinking about mimes and the pair produced the VOILA*.
Great poem but I miss Ishmael. Does anybody recall the advertisement with the golf announcers and the attack of the Kraken? The announcers kept their "golf" voices throughout the havoc.
I can't recall the product.
WC
Oh. OMK, great spoon.
* What day was that? Or was it the Evan Birnholz (Sunday Post)?
Thanks, Wilbur.
It's not really a spoonerism, but I think "spoon" might be a convenient way to label my rhyme attempts, at least among ourselves.
Let's re-define it for our own purposes.
How about:
Spoonerism--a transposition in which the initial phonemes of the key words within a phrase are switched about and the affected words usually (but not always) rhyme with the originals.
Spoon--A broader category, which may contain a Spoonerism, but requiring only that the key words rhyme.
~ OMK
I'll try to remember that, OMK, but you may have to remind me every now and then.
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