| || rumor, tummy, choosy, batten, motor mouth.
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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:
Dorothy Parker, the urbane satirist, was always ready with a grim quip. Journalists followed her around Manhattan in hopes of capturing one of her signature cynical observations. Quote her south, quote her north, east, or on the upper West Side, they could always score something pithy and publishable.
~ OMK
I've heard, altho it may be just a rumor,
That people read my verses for their humor.
They may not evoke a full-fledged belly-laugh,
But a tummy-chuckle is worth at least half.
Poem are meant to spread a harmony of joy
As with rhythm and rhyme words they toy.
Recite them as a motor mouth, they appeal
Both for their thought, and the way they reel!
So I choose my words with subtle care
For meaning, but also for stylish flair!
They must batten the subject, pathos or humor,
But also make the rhetoric a bloomer!
A wonderful self-analysis, Owen, of your versifying art! Anent my first post above, one could do worse than to quote YOU, our brilliant leader!
I think "tummy-chuckle" stands out as a sweet, new way to capture "smiling out loud."
~ OMK
Well, thank you both--Owen, for a delightful poem, and Ol'Man Keith, for a gloss that also helped and confirmed my answer. I got the first three words with no problem, but just wasn't sure about the fourth. But it turned out okay. I might have had trouble with the cartoon solution--very funny--without the great help from both of you.
Neat cartoon--loved the sunglasses on the speed runner.
Looking back at the newspaper I see I didn't jot down any letters. #4 was questionable but from the solution I saw that I needed both T's.
When I read Owen's J-poems I first wonder how he's going to use the J's. But after finding them I need to reread the poem to enjoy it.
We are gifted here because he's not limited to the limerick restriction- the J's instead provide a framework.
OMK has a similar genius for rhyming the solution.
WC
A little late to the party. Today's jumble clues came quickly, and once all the letters were spread out, so did the solution. I thought it was clever.
Really enjoyed the poem. I was wondering how you could possibly work all those words into one coherent product, especially that third clue. But you did it!
OMK - from last night on the Corner -- could it be Florence Chadwick you remember, who swam the Channel in 1958?
Oops! Meant fourth clue.
Sandy ~
THANK you! Very likely: Florence Chadwick must be the one. In fact when I was fishing in my Ol' Walnut for Ederle's first name, I was thinking "Florence"--until I Googled her.
What's still strange (to me) is the year. I was 19 in 1958, and yet I am sure I was reading about this Channel swimmer when I was in either Grammar or Jr High school. I am obviously conflating some events.
Weird, isn't it, the tricks memory plays?
~ OMK
OMK: Oops again! On rereading Wikipedia, I see that it was actually in 1950 that Chadwick first swam the Channnel. So you would have been 11. Sounds more like it??
I must have misread the date. Sorry.
Reading those posts in order Sandy had me wondering too. 1950 was before my cognizant time but events in 1958 like that penultimate Giants - Colts game I was familiar with.
WC
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