| young, snort, jabber, facial, just "fine". |
| embark, whimsy, outwit, busily, entity, siding, drain on the system.
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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:
Overslept again, so haven't even solved either of today's Jumbles yet, but did want to add to the discussions.
SUBTLETY is the word.
You might have noticed I often mention the <b><a href=http://jumblehints.blogspot.com>Jumble Hints</a></b> blog on CC, (and that HTML code is showing on purpose -- you can type that in just like that on your flip phone as easily as on a desktop, nothing special is needed to post a link!). But never say "come join our blog", it's always "here's something on the JH that connects to such-and-such an item in today's puzzle." It happens once or twice every month that there's a word in the crossword that was a Jumble word or subject of one of my poems within the past week. I don't know if it has worked, but I've never had CC ever scolding me for doing it.
Here's the thing. I'm pretty sure everyone at CC knows about JH. What is needed is for you to put those links on OTHER blogs! CC lists a plethora of other puzzle blogs on the CCorner. Those are where the plugs need to go! And also on poetry blogs. I've mentioned before the irony that I don't enjoy reading poetry outside of a very narrow range, so I don't have any recommendations on where you would find appropriate ones, but you folks are resourceful.
Now, I need to go work today's Jumbles and crossword and write some poetry of my own.
When I was young, as civility was then,
To my elders words I would attend!
Never would I jabber when they would speak!
No, politely I would hold my peace!
If they uttered an absurdity (they never would),
I would not snort. It was understood
That what an elder said sacred true!
A facial eye-roll expression would not do!
I said "yes, sir," or "yes, ma'am" all the time.
It would be impolite to say just "fine"!
And it would really be an ugly rumor
To suggest I would ever mutter, "OK, Boomer"!
When the Floofels did embark to colonize the Earth
They thought a bit of whimsy would show off their worth.
They said "Take us to your liter! We'd enjoy a quaff of ale,
We'll see your leader later, if he's still out of jail!"
The leader who would face them was the U.S. President,
Who thought he ought to try to outwit these E.T. gents!
While they were busily getting sozzled, boozed, and pounded,
He had all their saucers towed, and by D.M.V.s impounded.
As U.F.O.s sat on sidings nationwide -- the bars exploded!
All the Floofel's had gone to piss off what got them loaded!
Metabolisms of entities under a far star generated
Produced ninety-octane gasoline when beer was urinated!
With a boon like that, the President made welcome!
Visa were extended, not to expire until Hell-come!
Greta Thunberg was appalled! The climate was a victim!
But Floofel toilet drains became the new energy system!
Errata:
That what an elder said was sacred true!
The doctor tried to lift his forearm, but EMT Jack yelled with pain.
Nurse Kathy turned back and asked, "What do you think it is, Doctor?"
"I detect a sprain on the wrist. Hmm, it's bad enough to require a splint, and maybe a sling."
"I don't know, doc," said Jack. "I have some PT exercises that I think I'll try. I have a feeling about this. I don't usually go with patients' instincts, but I trust mine, so I'll ask you to leave it alone.
~ OMK
Wonderful poem for the second Jumble, Owen--how do you come up with this--it's simply amazing! And there were the words I needed to get the fun solution--and a treat to have Ol'Man Keith's glosses confirm that!
Amazing cartoon with that long factory floor going back and back with machinery and workers everywhere, and people in caps, and the guy with the mustache wearing a striped tie. Cool cartoon, cool poem, ad cool word play. Thanks, everybody.
Ol'Man Keith, thanks for being willing to tackle putting a Jumble invitation on our crossword blog. Sunday and Monday are probably not good days to post it--I would think Wednesday or Thursday might be better. But it's up to you, and thanks again for offering to tackle this.
Neither jumble was terribly difficult. I had the solution to j4 before unscrambling all the clues. Really enjoyed the j4 poem, and how well integrated all the jumble words were.
I so wanted the j6 solution to be about "waste", but there was no "w"! Once I gave up that idea, the solution ultimately came along; pretty clever.
The j6 poem is so funny, Owen. Although I hate to see climate change treated comically, yet I can certainly see our president making a deal even with et's if it would benefit him.
Yes, Sandy’s right: these jumbles were EZ-PZ.
But Owen’s poems are brilliant.
As to the conclusion of his first, I never have to worry about mocking the age of a “Boomer,” as they are al--to a man and woman--younger than I am.
I believe my peers and I were dubbed the “Silent” generation, sandwiched between the “Greatest” and the “Baby Boomers.”
Born while FDR was president, we grew up with a strong work ethic in polite, conformist years under Truman and Eisenhower.
As soon as we got the vote, we elected JFK.
Misty, I’ll go ahead and post a fresh invitation on the Corner sometime next week.
Owen, I take your point that notices should go up on other sites, but I must leave that to others. I may say something to my Facebook friends, but I don’t visit other sites and don’t want to add any now--as I need to protect my time for my research and writing.
~ OMK
What sad, shocking news--of the deaths of Kobe Bryant & daughter Gigi.
And for this to happen the very morning after his NBA scoring record was passed by his friend adds a strange punch of fatalism.
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