| || munch, fable, outlaw, arcade, fathomable.
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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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Munching on the detested cram Bilbo had time to dwell
On his long voyage from Hobbiton to the Elven dell,
Past goblin peril, Gollum's riddles, eagle flight
And Beorn's homely house to Mirkwood's night.
An outlaw amongst Thranduil's elves and a wild ride
On barrels to the Town on the Lake and a short abide,
And finally the fabled Smaug of unfathomable might
And an escape from a dragon arcade game into prescious daylight .
WC
I remarked on prescience FLN. Re. The AT(t)ired/TIRADE confluence . And of course GODOT.
Wilbur's friend Stu loved to add every fix'n available to his scrambled eggs: along with several Rich cheeses he added ham, sausage, bacon; Spam if he had it; plus the usual mushroom,green pepper, onion etc.
"Just once I'd like to see 'an unfat omelet' on the 'table'"
I can't get italics to transfer here using my Android.
WC for OMK
Deep in the African continent, in an ancient region of rivers & gorges, the elders tell tales of an early humanoid creature who pre-dates the first known Man.
This animate being was not himself deserving of the title conferred on the first homo sapiens, but he had the potential for fostering him.
He was, in brief, Adam-able.
~ OMK
A true spoon, OMK. My fav omelet has spinach instead of onions. The bacon had to be precooked not cooked on the stove Inside the omelet. Ugh.
WC
My goodness, the punning and glossing just go on and on, cleverly and delightfully, and fun.
I had trouble with the fourth Jumble word and read through Wilbur's poem carefully to see if I could find and fathom it. Yes, there it was, and that, of course, helped me get the solution. So, as always, many thanks, everybody.
Had a terrible time with one, relatively speaking. The fourth clue and the solution gave me significant pause, but did become clear in the end.I
I thought the pun was ingenious, but didn't laugh, try as I might. I did definitely enjoy your Bilbo poem, Wilbur, and found it ingenious as well. You're admirably sneaky about getting all the jumble words in.
Thanks, W.C.!
Just to clear, though, the "true Spoon" was yesterday's "insane plight" for "in plain site." Sometimes I get confused as to which day you're referencing.
Fun, wasn't it?--to see ATTIRED showing up in today's Corner Xwd!
(What were the odds? [SLIM, I bet]).
~ OMK
Is today's solution a pun?
It is being used in precisely its first dictionary sense. What humor it contains--if any--is not because we sense a double meaning but that its etymology literally means sounding a depth.
It is similar to "plumbable" or "plumbing" in that regard. But "to plumb" would be a legit pun if it were used in a way that involved harvesting fruit from that tree in my east garden.
Do we want to be clear in the words we use, or do we expect them to fall in line?
Sorry to be so pedantic, but in the spirit of Lewis Carroll * I'd rather be an inquisitive little girl than a cocky old egg.
("Fathomable" means both "capable of being understood" AND "measurable." But my example of "to plumb" is NOT "to plum." Plumbing does NOT include the fruit at all, but refers to the lead used to weight a measuring line.)
Just wondering...
~ OMK
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* "When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean--neither more nor less."
"The question is," said Alice, "whether you can make words mean so many different things."
"The question is," said Humpty Dumpty, "which is to be master--that's all."
OMK, and TIRADE you. Strange confluence. Yes, "insane plight" was a masterpiece.
WC
Well I call it a pun if a word or phrase is used in a sense other than that in which it was first used or implied. This qualified, as it was first implied as a measure of depth, but then used as a synonym for understandable. Of course, a pun is usually a joke, and I didn't think this one had any real jokey quality.
Still not feeling very competent, but I did work Saturday's Jumble, had to cheat, but the anagram site gave two possible solutions for the 4th words, so let me warn you it's an anagram of "chints".
And yet the word retains both meanings. And one isn't far from the other. Which is applicable in the cartoon?
It isn't different words that are homophones (like the "plumbing" example).
Or the same word that has two or more completely different meanings (like "Take a left at the corner, and see if you've left behind whatever's left").
OK, I concede the point is debatable.
But we do agree on one thing:
It just ain't funny.
~ OMK
I'm doing this from memory but the Sat xword has a clue "Two word reply in which the second word backwards equals the first"
7 letters. Have fun, the impossible (per usual) became one or two iffy boxes. Warning, Eric Agard is one of the constructors.
. WC
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