| feint, gnarl, bleach, nearby, altar-able. 
|| choose, infuse, cuddle, sugary, oddest, unsure, dressed for success.
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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:
Rabbit, rabbit.
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The old knight-master liked to rest in the shade
Of his oak tree, with a stone, to whet his blade.
His bench, some roots even more gnarled than he.
He'd daydream how battles and feints used to be.
Two squires, knights-in-training, would spar nearby.
Swords were only of wood, but hits raised a cry.
Their day would come, to face fields of steeled foe,
Bathe in blood no bleach could ever turn to snow.
The old man sighed, thankful his race was near done.
Would men ever see an end to the wars they'd begun?
Would they ever, on an altar table of love of peace
Cease to sacrifice lives, enable youths to see relief?
Sandy, this one is for you!
When called upon to babysit, you should choose a style.
One most befitting you, not kowtow to the chil'!
Do you want to infuse them with love and cuddle-bunnies?
Feed them sugary nonsense, trading laughs and funnies?
Or are you more the sargent type, ordering close drill?
Help them learn that discipline can be quite a thrill!
Hup! Hup! Hup! Get P.J.s on! Once for bed they're dressed,
Storytelling boot-camp tales can train them for success!
The oddest you can choose, just to keep kids on their toes,
Is to switch between them -- which you are, no one knows!
If they are unsure, they will in confusion keep in line.
Are you kindly Doctor Jeckyl, or the beast of Frankenstein?
Marvelous!!! Thanks!
Owen, I know this is from The Jumble, but it’s just beautiful. Thanks for feeding our souls!
J4: both easy and difficult. Hung up for awhile on the second clue, and then the light dawned. But stared at the letters for the first part of the solution until suddenly I realized and felt silly for not seeing it right awzy. Owen, your poem is sad, because the answer so far is No. The old knight master would sigh even more deeply could he see today's world.
J6: the clues came quite easily, but all those ss'es! Took me awhile, but finally I succeeded.
Thank you for that poem. Unfortunately I live too far away to babysit and have to keep in touch electronically. But you made me think of my daughter, who lives minutes away from that family. She is crazy about her first grandson, now more than two years old, and is thrilled that she's already been able to hold the new little one. She's so looking forward to more babysitting, and I know already that she's the first style, for sure!I
Thank you again.
BIT
RAB
BIT
RAB BIT RAB BIT
ARE MAR CHH ARE
(Happy March, all! Taking the day off.)
~ OMK
Mine is always the second Jumble and this one was a bit of a toughie for me. I got three of the words but had trouble with the other three. And even after looking them up, I still couldn't get the solution. But once I saw it, I thought it was very clever, and I should have gotten the other three words too. Rainy morning beginning our new spring month--maybe that had something to do with my being a bit slow on this Caesar Salad Jumble. But I have to admit it was clever, and nicely illustrated, with a fun solution.
And your poem was a treat, Owen.
I got four of the 6's then stalled and went to the xword. Came back and oddly, what I was unsure about popped right in.
What to do with all those S's? We'll? What does a salad need from a satirically splendid host?
I just posted at CC. I saw the inspiration from Sagan's linked essay FLN. I noted that someone considered it political? Whew. "Gee it's sad that we still have wars and carnage". "Shaddap ya dang liberal, commie Dem".
Alas.
WC
Ps, what would I've done with #3 today, play kiss the dragon?
Wilbur, I bet you meant sartorially splendid, yes??
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