| || burro, nudge, willow, jingle, job well done.
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The opening poem contains all the words (or variations of them) from today's Jumble.
Comments are welcomed!
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The crowd had been read the official Riot Act and told they would be fired upon if they did not leave the city square by the third ringing of the steeple bell.
Had the mob knell rung too softly? That was a key question in the follow-up inquest.
Owen?
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~ OMK
Finally, the barrels came to rest just nudgeing the dock-side.
It was a secluded area overhung by willows and nigh
Onto dusk Bilbo uncaps a barrel where Thorin abides
The King is wet and hungry but his complaints were met with a sigh:
"We have a jingle back in the shire, fun or no fun,
The only question is 'Was the job well done?'"
That settled it. For despite having no food nor ponies nor burro
The dwarves were safe from the elves and ready for tomorrow.
WC
Ask not of Mr Dooley for whom
The mob knell rung
He ain't 'round here no mo'
He done got himself hung
I did the J and riddle-solution sans papier ce matin. In fact lying in bed.
So I was able to continue the saga of Bilbo all on my handy cell.
I had a late post FLN, actually early TVM* FYI.
WC
*This very morning
Yes, Wilbur, re your late post FLN, I would put it that those folks tend to state their opinions as facts, which makes them even more political.
I did the jumble with not much difficulty, and found the solution to be fairly chuckle-worthy.
Wilbur, Mr. Dooley? Where did that come from?
"Hang down your head, Tom Dooley.
Hang down your head and cry.
Hang down your head, Tom Dooley.
Poor boy, you're bound to die."
~ mega-hit by the Kingston Trio, recorded 1958.
Man, I was a huge fan of the trio. Thanks for reminding us, Wilbur. They were a sort of Beach Boys version of the folk-rock genre. I saw them live in San Francisco on the same bill--get this!--as Miss Peggy Lee.
~ OMK
Thank you both. I remember the Kingston Trio well.
The one that pops immediately into my mind is M.T.A.
Did he ever return? No, he never returned. And his fate is still unlearn'd.
Ah, yes.
"He will ride forever...
'Neath the streets of Boston."
Wow! Ol'Man Keith, you sure know how to make a grim little story about that poor steeple bell not ringing loudly enough--guess it didn't do its job very well.
And then poor Mr. Dooley did even worse in Wilbur's little poem. You guys sure know how to get a week off to a rotten start.
Then on top of everything else, Ol'Man Keith invested me with a depressing ear-worm that's going to be singing in my head all day.
And to that, Sandyanon even added another one.
Thanks, guys--she says sarcastically.
But hey, what a funny, colorful Jumble we had this morning--though also not totally joyful. Guess not everyone thinks that a steak should be a job well done--though it's pretty rare for people to overcook them.
Come back, Owen--we need your cheerful voice!
" Charlie's wife goes down to the Scollay Square station
Every day at quarter past two
And through the open window she hands Charlie a sandwich
As the train comes rumbling through!"
I lived in Boston until age ten and we'll remember the trains "rumbling through". As a kid, age 7-10 , we roamed the MTA on our nickels getting transfers and trolleying to Fenway Park or accompanying my mother to the famous Filenes basement where the mighty rubbed elbows with the said Charlies of Boston.
The visual image of my MTA excerpt is vivid in my mind. Sculley Sq gave way to the Govt Ctr circa 1960.
Well the Bilbo saga is coming full circle. I began with Bilbo sneaking in Smaug's backdoor and ended with Bard the Bowman unleashing the black arrow to the beast's unarmored breast.
If you think there's been violence, horror and gore wait until the Battle of the Five Armies.
WC
Wilbur, BTW, thanks for the link to the book. I'm enjoying it; there are some typos in this online version, but nothing that really interferes with reading.
You know, I feel pretty provincial, reading about you all. I've lived in SoCal all my life. Have traveled some, but never lived anywhere else.
Speaking of the Kingston Trio -- for quite a change of pace, what do you think of "Scotch and Soda"?
"Oh what a spell you've got me in"
There was a (Cole Porter?) song that casually lumped booze and cocaine. I'll bet OMK knows it off the top of his head.
I'll link it. Yep, this is Dinah's version"> *
WC
* I don't like Frank Sinatra. Just call it a wilburism
And in the interests of equal billing heres
Scotch and Soda
Mr. Porter had a way with both words & music.
I was never much of a singer, but I got roped into a few musicals in my time.
As for this little number, I added a couple of lines from it as "filler" when I was playing a man-about-town in some forgettable farce and was busy cleaning my flat before my girl friend was to arrive for a "weekend."
I swept the floor and plumed pillows while intoning:
"Mere alcohol doesn't thrill me at all
So tell me why should it be true
That I get a [pause to wink at her photo]
--kick!--
out of you."
~ OMK
plumped, damn it!
You got us in the musical spirit, all right, Ol'Man Keith.
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