| || motto, sixth, fibula, camera, bit of a stretch.
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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.
18 comments:
Roger Jolly was an Englishman, a tailor once of note,
Who then became a sailor upon a pirate's boat.
A flag he did design for their pillages at sea,
A skull above a fibula, crossed with a snickersnee!
The captain said he did not like that first design
So fork and knife were crossed upon the next ensign.
The third had a corn husk beneath a minted crown
A bit of a rebus stretch to make a buccaneer frown.
The fourth try had a motto, "Yo Mama, She Walks Funny".
The fifth attempt the skull had a nose that was runny!
The captain told the tailor in camera aside
To come up with something better or he died!
The sixth flag finally made it to the captain's satisfaction
A pair of forearm ulnae crossed in corpse-like fashion
And a grinning death's head, what's left of Davy Jones,
Ever to be known as Jolly Roger's skull and bones!
Owen ~ A brilliant history, your more-or-less true story of the evolution of the Jolly Roger!
I'm particularly fond of the rebus version. The fourth (yo mama) was pretty good too, funny in itself although I may have missed a broader application.
You're the best.
FLN Wilbur ~ Yes, you are right, sir! UC Irvine is the home of Peter.
UCI is a young campus, born in the iconoclastic '60s.
The first class, while still all freshmen, voted for the Anteater as depicted in the Johnny Hart comic strip, "B.C." His cry is "ZOT!"
Today's solution:
My scene partners & I were once handed a terrible script for entertaining guests at a party at a San Francisco night club. We decided to ad lib it. This was before "improv" was a thing. Afterward we were told our hit of a sketch was the favorite piece of the evening. We chose to believe it.
~ OMK
I had devil of a time with #4, I just couldn't picture it. So, the corn husks and "Yo mama" insults weren't sowing fear into merchant Mariners,eh? Talk about enlarging the truth.
WC
Though I have a applauded and continue to applaud, Owen's ability to work topicality into his poems, yet it is a great relief to come here and talk about a cartoon puzzle.
But I'm embarrassed to say that I don't get the rebus.
The jumble solution was funny and so true. Funny because it's true??
Bilbo in the meantime was dealing with drowsy dwarfs
For the gaggle of angry spiders had returned in force
Balin and the young'uns Fili and Kili
Had grabbed rocks and were casting willy-nilly
As for Bilbo he had a motto (actually a few)
"Slice 'em in the fibula before the fang gets you".
It seemed he had a sixth sense for where the danger lie
As if he had a camera in his head like a roving third eye
Rallying the sleepy dwarves with the cry "They'll be no feast today"
He led a charge brandishing Sting and drove the beasts away
Perhaps Bilbo the Magnificent is a bit of a stretch
But in the annals of spider lore he's known as "The Bitter Vetch"
WC
Spiders love crosswords but hate that clue
My goodness, once again, two sets of amazing poetry to start our day--both complicated and delightful and--for me, at least--a huge help in solving the Jumble puzzle. I had trouble with the second Jumble word and put in a wrong answer that Owen's poem quickly corrected. That was a good thing, because I also had trouble with the long cartoon answer, but once I had the right letters, Tada! there it was, funny and charming and amusing (okay, I know I'm repeating, but it's just enthusiasm). And then, as always, Ol'Man Keith confirmed the solution with the cute gloss in his fun story about improvising that terrible script.
So, many thanks, Owen, Wilbur, Ol'Man Keith, and Sandyanon (I had to look up 'rebus' to find out what it is). And Wilbur, spiders don't bother me very much. I don't even kill them when I find them in the house--just pick them up and toss them outside where they can deal with their own predators.
A minted crown would be a coin, one that might easily double as a poker buck, or be equated with a US dollar buck.
A corn husk would hold an ear of corn.
Et voilà , Buck'n'ear, Bucky!
Not only were the Anteaters a fan of BC, but the PGA had a golf tournament named "The BC Open". And...
The Jolly Roger. Owen had it described to a tee. Tampa is big on pirates and has a "Jolly Trolley".
WC
Ohhhh! Now I get it. The ear comes AFTER!
Thanks, Owen.
I thought that rebus very clever, especially as it was an unnecessary but graceful extra touch from our Owen.
As long as we're in a deciphering mode, I wonder, Wilbur, at a couple of references in your latest. Who or what is Sting? I presume Gordon Sumner isn't allowing himself to be wielded by Bilbo. I must have missed an earlier explanation, yes?
And Vetch is a plant, right? Is Bitter Vetch a particular plant? Is it known for being poisonous to spiders?
Sorry to be so dense.
~ OMK
Sting is a snickersnee. A magical dagger Bilbo picked up in the goblin cave, which is long enough to serve as a sword for a child (cabin boy?) or Hobbit. In crossword puzzles, they are often abbreviated to SNEE, While bitter vetch is a crosswordese clue for ERS.
Thanx!
Love the word "snickersnee"!
ERS? Emergency Rescue Squad? Egregious ta-Rantula Squisher?
(Sorry - I've only been doing crosswords this past decade.)
~ OMK
Ok, Tolkien's Hobbit during the first half, before the prelude to the great war had a lot of juvenile humor. Bilbo's strategy was to call them names: eg Attercop, Tomnoddy.
In that vein I threw in a little humor with that "Bitter Vetch" an old crossword staple. Do spiders hate tubers if this ilk? Well it has been used as an appetite suppressant, these hungry, 8 eyed arachnids live to eat.
Now Sting was found in the troll cave along with the elvish swords fe. Glamdring. Although smaller it had elvish magic.
WC
Right, troll cave, not goblin.
Also known as poetic license. Speaking of..
We had Erato the other day with no CSO to Owen. I was sure someone else would do the honors.
How's that limerick contest going. I thought of one
WC
Thanks for the help guys.
I'm afraid I'm still at a loss re. Bitter Vetch. It may be a Xwd staple, but it's one I haven't seen it before.
'sOK. I'm not asking for further explanation, just sad to report I don't share in the humor. Wish I did.
~ OMK
Ok. Point sustained. I've modified the last two lines:
Perhaps Bilbo the Magnificent is a bit of a stretch
But long after this day, the spiders still moan, carp and kvetch.
WC
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