|| || cheer, fetch, tattoo, online, to the letter.
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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.
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The Morality of Debt
Pat's friend owes money to sharks, and Pat owes her friend.
Now that Pat has come into some cash, she can help her friend redeem her IOUs.
Pat's husband, Mike, wants to hang onto the cash, but I told him it's only fair that Pat pony up what she owes.
"It may be a sacrifice," I said, "a loss you'll rue, but let her pay what's due the debtor."
~ OMK
Another super easy solution, one that popped to mind before starting to solve word #1. At least yesterday's was a legitimate play on words. The literalness of today's is staggering. Even trying to wring it for a double meaning...
leaves me...
wordless.
~ OMK
Agreed. Didn't even need the easy clues, and the solution is quite literal.
Hey, I too got all four words without any problems and the solution popped right up. But I'm not going to complain about a doable, fun Tuesday Jumble, for sure. Thought it was delightful, if easy, and loved the various colors and all the different hairdos in the cartoon. Sweet.
And then there's Ol'Man Keith's clever gloss--also a pleasure, many thanks. Hope Owen checks in with us. Have a good Tuesday, everybody.
Well, I suppose there is a certain quaintness in seeing an expression that is often used figuratively reduced to its narrowest real-world sense.
Let's give 'em that.
~ OMK
Apologies for being AWOL today. Absolutely no decent excuse, which makes me feel even worse about it.
I hated today's cartoon, by the way. The caption plainly and definitively says CURSIVE, and the letters on the board are NOT cursive, at least not that I ever learned!
True, not cursive. I doubt true cursive is taught anywhere. Coming from parochial school it's all I knew. I had to teach myself what the pubs were doing.
I was left handed and I saw a girl who turned the paper upside-down to write cursive sans blotch. I tried it and could do it but gave it up. And cursive too
Then I learned scribble my fav. Except it causes problems on the xword. And the J too.
Hmm, I wonder what Bilbo is up to.
WC
I can't post. I had a nice little Bilbo piece
WC
Try something different
Bilbo emerged from the cave to the cheers of his friends.
"What'd you filch, oh brilliant burglar? What gem?"
The value of what I carry surely depends
Perhaps you'll praise me, perhaps condemn.
"Remember when dealing with dragon's one's life is on the line
Bantering words and telling riddles is all very fine
But Smaug the cunning, Smaug the sly
Was ready to tattoo me and hang me to dry
Yes oh noble Thorin I did not obey you to the letter
But what I did return with may prove even better"
WC
So, Wilbur, did Bilbo filch or fetch?
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