| inept, gaily, bicker, mammal, (a) meet ball. |
| theory, hourly, expend, wicker, iodine, manage,on their "marry" way.
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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.
12 comments:
I got a kick out of the J4 solution. It also provides us with a legitimate Spoonerism. Just flip my hint, and you've got it made.
J4
Q. - What's the name on the sign advertising an indoor farmer's market with several stalls and shops specializing in the sale of the common beta vulgaris?
A.- The Beet Mall.
And then there's the cartoon-less J6. No Spooner here...
J6
She thought he was pretty fast, the hirsute mutt without a collar that wandered into her yard last month. She'd been racing dogs of mixed breeds for years but rarely saw one with the lust for speed that this furry critter exhibited. Well, she was going to collar him and get him registered--just in time for the big contest next week. She was ready to bet the farm on her hairy stray!
~ OMK
Too bad we didn't get the picture for the second Sunday Jumble--I would have enjoyed seeing it here, even more if it could have been in color. But this morning's treat came with your funny puppy story, Ol'Man Keith, and the delightfully clever gloss it produced. Have you thought at all of writing poems, to go along with Owen's and Wilbur's? I bet they'd be great!
Well, I loved the sweet newlyweds in the cartoon, and was so happy when I got all six of the words (with a little work on the fourth and the fifth) and then went through one word at a time to come up with the sweet solution. I miss my dear Rowland, but I have pictures of our wedding on the wall of our hallway, and so pass them and look at them with pleasure every day. What a lovely beginning to a wonderfully happy 21 year marriage into our senior years!
Just a note: The j6 cartoon is available on the Chicago Tribune Sunday Jumble site. See the link Owen posted on the right of this page.
I have proved myself inept
At writing poetry today.
My braincells all have left
And went gaily on their way.
They've left me quite bereft
To bicker with my duty
As a higher mammal -- yclept,
A human tutti-frutti!
I have no excuse, and yet
Howe'er the words may fall
I've an obligation to be met
To get back on the rhyming ball!
Quick comment -- just woke up from sleeping 10 hours, but had the J4 for 9 hours before that, and the J6 for 2 hours. Plenty of time to write two poems that should have taken me 45 minutes apiece to write. The J4 above I just knocked off in 15 and groggy. But I think I may need to take a mulligan on iodine in the J6.
Anyway, the ChiTrib won't load on this laptop for some reason. It's a site designed for mobile phones, and I could work it on my Kindle, but don't know how to send the picture from there to my Paint program, so had to settle for a description. The USAToday site will probably have it, maybe even in color, but they still had Saturday's puzzle out last time I looked before I went to sleep.
In theory one should work, to earn an hourly wage.
But poets keep their own time, producing by the page.
We're not like wicker workers, making a basket chair.
No, we sit in that chair to muse, until a poem's there!
But if it doesn't come, we still have to stay and sit.
There's no panacea for writer's block, no iodine for it.
We have to keep on staring at that blank enraging page,
Thalia and Erato are harpy bitches to ever manage!
No, those two Muses that I married to be a poet
Know they hold me as a thrall, and love to show it!
They tease me with their little treats, a turn of phrase,
Then go on their merry way, and leave my out of phase!
Pretty paradoxical, Owen, writing poems to describe your difficulty in writing poetry!!
And witty, funny poems to boot.
I just do the sixes on Sunday. Took a lot of work to decipher #5 .
I may not have time for poetry today. We'll see.
WC
Hmm. 1:30 to 1:50. Twenty minutes. After tearing my hair out for hours not thinking of anything even near what came out. Augh! They even threw in iodine! Bitches!
BTW, my laptop is still dead. I've commandeered Bren's laptop. I commandeered her Kindle a couple months ago. She still has her tablet, smartphone, and at work a desktop, so she's not hurting. Fortunately, all my files were backed up to the cloud. The keyboard is arranged differently, so it still feels a bit foreign. My old zombie is still sitting over there on a shelf. It's finally stopped blinking at me. It was turned off, unplugged, closed. But if I opened it, it was still undead alive, the cursor bright and movable across a blank screen. This on a 'puter that normally takes a full minute or more to turn on. I hope the battery has finally given out. I'm housebound, and Bren can't drive and depends on Lyft, so no idea when I can get that freak to a shop.
Keith, your spooner does beat 'em all! I was thinking of climate change, and the possibility of blizzards in spring -- those weather forecasters and their wary May.
Just got on the USAToday site and clipped the cartoon for today's J6. Not as high rez as the ChiTrib site, and not much color in today's subject, but for what it's worth...
Owen, I love seeing the wedding cartoon in color, even of it isn't very colorful. Many thanks for posting it!
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