| || liner, waltz, madder, sermon, did mean well.
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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 Reverend Hallelujah Jones
Would preach a sermon all his own!
Hellfire from his nose would steam
And brimstone from his eyes would beam!
He'd preach of sin, get mad as Hell.
Preach of the Devil, get madder! Well!
He'd waltz 'cross the stage, end to end,
Frighten the choir, then back again!
He had his mean Bible he did tote,
Complete with his own liner notes,
For his preaching he'd rehearse,
But he knew it well, chapter and verse!
Blonde Betty wasn't sure she approved of all the overly specific categories for cheerleading competition. She thought it silly that they should award prizes for the "Tallest" or the "Best 2nd Semester Sophomores."
But she knew at sixteen she was the perfect age to be a cheerleader. Their high school was famed far & wide as the city's "Best All-Blondes Wearing Braces Mid-Teen Yell Squad"!
~ OMK
Owen ~ I hope your poem means you're feeling better, that your ear has healed enough for you to focus your skill.
What a neat portrait of an old-time bible-thumping preacher.
You conjure up a lively picture of the kind of come-to-Jesus ministers I remember from tent meetings in Alabama & Virginia.
~ OMK
Somewhere in my xword travels I've just come across "A leopard never changes his spots" which was a favorite Jeremiah quote. In fact Owen's preacher is sometimes referred to as a "Jeremiah".
The retirement community I moved to didn't take well to the occasional rent-a-priest who resorted to mean. They liked nice.
Although I've noticed "MEAN" has become the style of doctors lately. Corporate Medicine.
WC
Either that or they all want to he "House"
I got the first three Jumble words without any problem, but had trouble with the fourth. Hoped Owen would do a poem today, and Yay! here it was. And, sure enough, it gave me the fourth word and confirmed the Jumble solution, which I found very clever and funny. And then came the additional treat of Ol'Man Keith's crazy-funny Blonde Betty story with is delightful gloss on the solution.
Nice to have you check in, Wilbur, and am looking forward to your poem. And look forward to you too, Sandy.
Misty, I posted a late one last night
Love the the poem, Owen. I can really visualize him marching back and forth on that stage!
The jumble was was not too difficult, though I had to think on the fourth clue for awhile. I can see how the solution is meant to connect via pun with the cartoon, but I just can't imagine that the solution phrase could actually be used to apply to the doctor as described. He is certainly effective, but that's not what that phrase is commonly used to mean, is it?
I guess my mind seeks clear logic at any cost.
Wi!bur, I did read your late-night poem and enjoyed it.
Well, maybe "enjoyed" is not the right term, because poor Isaac! I do feel a lot of empathy for him.
Interesting how "mean" means both "mean" and "mean."
Sandy ~ I think many jokes based on puns will stretch the way we commonly speak--just to reach the comic point.
With that in mind, today's solution was one of the more effective gags we've seen. It made me re-think the usual sense of "he was well-intentioned" and to take it equally as "he was a master of nastiness."
Sure, we wouldn't usually put the second sense that way, but we use similar phrasing to compliment someone on their formal thinking, say, ("he did the logic beautifully") or their prowess in a game.
To borrow those words for a back-handed "compliment" is just comic license.
~ OMK
Okay, guess I missed that "mean" meaning!
Mea culpa.
The tournament (jousting) has begun and it's not going John's way
Nobody at the Lists at Ashby de la Zouch did mean
As well as the recalcitrant Plantagenet, King John
And nothing made him madder than when things went wrong
And this desheredado Knight was starting to cause a scene
Sure it was fine for Prior Aymor to speak sermons in the morning
And for his poor imprisoned brother John could pretend mourning
But this tournament, was meant to be a waltz in the park.
But his peerless Norman knights seemed to have met their mark
But perhaps there was a silver lining after all
Certainly the knight wasn't Richard, he was not so tall
And so the Lady he suggested for Queen of Ball
Was rejected in place of Rowena , daughter of his Saxon thrall
WC
desheredado is Spanish for "disinherited".
That was what Ivanhoe had emblazoned on his shield
Very interesting historical/mythical poem, Wilbur. I don't know my mythical/history well enough to really follow it, but you did a great job incorporating the Jumble solution and all four Jumble words. Yay!
Many thanks for this afternoon treat!
Wilbur ~
Pretty neat rhyming! I had a ball.
Fine verse & rhythm; good job, y'all!
Sandy ~
No culpa necessary. We're all in this together!
~ OMK
Yes, Wilbur, John was a real SOB, wasn't he? Of course, it's my understanding that Richard was no prize himself, but I don't know how Scott treats him in the novel. I guess you'll let us know!
I went through June so I could have all that poetry in one place. And ..
I came across a comment I had missed from Sandy vis a vis #MeToo. My remarks looking back were harsh and they were prompted by one of my son's internet, gaming friends experience
Apparently, six years earlier after a nights drinking he had sex. Six years later she decided it was nonconsensual.
The details are indeterminate. But, he lost his job.
Anyway, that's what prompted my "J'Accuse" commentary. We tend to categorize politically by Left and Right.
Between Harvey Weinstein and BLM the Left has had some good innings. Deservedly so. But perhaps the Left has gone too far.
Ironically as I post my son has put a Marxist on the TV- talk about left
Anyway, I grieve for any woman who has been coerced into sex especially by violence or drugs/alcohol.
WC
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