| || brand, mogul, noggin, turnip, running along.
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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.
10 comments:
He got it into his noggin that the way to make his fortune
Was to corner the market on a product that was scorchin'!
But what could it be for a rube boy from the sticks?
After some soul-searching he came up with Turnip Flicks!
Add some C.G.I. to his cast of anthropomorphic turnip folks
Make a few cartoons where they turn-ip in crazy cloaks,
And once he is a mogul of his strange anime creations,
Start spinning off the products as a craze across the nations!
As his Turn-ip People brand begins at raking in the dollars,
They turn-ip everywhere from haute fashion to cat collars!
As his fortune runs along to make him a wealthy guy,
He gives credit to his modest roots for growing high!
Owen, as bizarre as your poem's Turn-ip conceit is, it all seemed to make sense by the time I reached the 3rd stanza. Why not? I mean H'wood has turned all sorts of critters and even inanimate objects into walking/talking characters... So what's a few turnips?
Your mention of "crazy cloaks" put me in mind of the sometimes outrageous costumes the Boys wore in the Hope-Crosby Road pictures. There was one constant outfit that caused the Boys to come up with a nickname for their co-star, Dorothy Lamour, whom they dubbed Fun in Sarong!
I wonder if that was behind her back.
~ OMK?
Wow, as outrageously creative as Owen's turnip take is, OMK's SARONG spoon rivaled it. I never got to yesterday's posts because I just wouldn't give up on the riddle-solution.
I had OUT but just couldn't guess RAN. Would I still have grok'ed "e'steem?"
This one was easy. I'm trying something new: jot first letters in the middle and add 2,3,4 around it.
WC
Loved your imaginative, inventive, fun poem, Owen--how do you come up with these amazing ideas (a TURNIP cartoon!). I had to work a little on the third and fourth word, but got them, and although I first thought the second Jumble solution word would be ALONE, I got it right after that. Sweet cartoon with the coffee cup with a bit of writing on it, and the barefoot guy in shorts and the little boy in pajamas holding his blanket. And of course your punning is always a treat, Ol'Man Keith.
Re, FLN, FLN-1 and FLN-2... I needed help in getting a descriptive account that leads up to the soon. And...
Somewhere back there, Sat? or earlier? I composed a little ditty. Ok, I'll find it
There it is, way back on Friday, after Misty came back on OMK'S two liner:
Btw, the sign on the store read backwards was
When I shopped for books and baubles
My fav was Barnes and Nobles
Alas on-line became the buying venue.
To survive they offered the Starbucks menu
Folk would meander with books to no purpose
Then log into Amazon to purchase
What to do with these flits and old fogeys
Eureka, we'll start selling HOAGIES
And lo and behold to our surprise
B&N became the Starbucks of bibliophiles
Wilbur ~
Bravo! You should post your couplets more often!
Bravissimo! Let's see more of your verses.
Not only do they set my ol' foot a-tappin',
but they make good sense, and also happen
to tell the truth of modern commerce
(a theme not easily voiced in verse)
when shopping's gone
from bad
to worse.
~ OMK
Owen, Wilbur, Ol'Man Keith,
Poets with amazing teeth!
Love your verses
Love your tunes
Wish I could send you . . .
a bunch of balloons!
Oh, this is way better than balloons, Misty!
Owen's example will have us all posting in verse. Maybe not all the time, but it is a charming way to keep the faith in our public discourse.
Through my share of amazing teeth (well, actually by way of my gnarly fingers), I THANK you!
~ OMK
Yes, Misty has a distinct touch versification-wise.
WC
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