| glove, scarf, carpet, misuse, sour grapes. |
| advent, gamble, powder, dressy, unruly, inland, ready and "wading".
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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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What a time we live in, as we do our daily tasks.
It's summer, but we're winterized in scarf or mask.
Some people wearing gloves, preparing for snowballs,
Tho there's no carpeting of snow, not even leaves of fall!
Some people do not like it, to be so regimented.
They will not hide their face; wish masks were not invented!
They whine of sour grapes, misery's aimed just at them.
Wish I could nominate them to this illness to succumb.
Sir Walter Raleigh, when he was a prisoner in the Tower of London, used to create stink bombs in the bed chamber of his man servant and replace the salt in the scullery with sugar. To this day, his antics are known as the infamous "Tower japes."
~ OMK
The Viking arrived earlier than his comrades at the enemy camp.
Pretending to be friendly, he took part in the festivities for the marriage ceremony of the rival chieftain.
But now that the rites were over, he began to slaughter cattle, steal food, and slay his foes.
When writing the history of the day, the scribes would record he was already at the wedding, and raiding.
~ OMK
AND ~ The government inspector was measuring the depth of the dry gulch and assessing its ability to absorb run-off from the nearby dam during the rainy season.
Yes, he was at the wadi and rating.
~ OMK
Owen, how true, how true. You always manage to combine poetry and message so well.
As for the two jumbles, no problems. I thought the j6 solution was pretty clever in juxtaposing the cartoon with the phrase.
Well, after the Sunday toughie of the crossword puzzle it was great to come to this Fisherman's Jumble. All the words fell into place without any trouble, even though they were all a bit complex. And the solution was a pleasure--as were your plays on it, Ol'Man Keith.
"A Winter Tale"
A cold winter in Finland,
And poor Chloe lived INLAND.
The season was ADVENT,
Not a time to be saddened,
So she took a big GAMBLE
And went on a ramble.
On her face she put POWDER,
Played her music much louder.
Her room was soon messy
But her outfit was DRESSY,
If a little UNRULY,
So she put on some jewelry.
She had managed to prevent
A dreary ADVENT.
Now her Christmas in Finland
Was the best IN the LAND.
Our Misty takes the challenge we hardly dare,
of rhyming the clues themselves, a feat to scare
all lesser poets.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kudos, Brava!--What flare!
~ OMK
FLN, Wilbur ~. Ulrica's spirited response to battle is exciting to those of us who only read of personal combat. The honoring of the blade and singing of torches is so different from the fear and trembling that pervades modern literature, probably from Red Badge on.
Her frenzied song is akin to the Greek epics or Samurai tradition.
When I staged a King Lear years ago (for VSF) I needed something like this for Cordelia's French army. We went for torches onstage and soldiers singing (in rough chants, not like John Ford's harmonic cavalries) while they wielded swords and slings (swirling, beautiful weapons on stage).
It took lot to overcome actors' natural leeriness of battle--to get back to the kind of trance we see in Ulrica's lyrics.
~ OMK
What an amazing career you've had, Ol'Man Keith.
My apologies for not giving the J6 puzzle a rhyme. I was having trouble with it, and then realized I was working on a wrong word (island instead of inland), which ruined most of what I had done up to that point, and rather than re-start from scratch, I just went to sleep. But I see Misty filled in for me most admirably!
Owen, your poem was a delight--with or without a rhyme. It's a pleasure to see one first thing every morning--keep it up.
Sunday is get the paper day. After the xword I solved the 6*6 using the riddle-solution to get two of the sixes.
But by then I was "erranding" and out of juice on the phone just before posting on CC.
I got three of the four J's but used Owen to get SUBMIT.
Thanks for pinch-hitting Misty. I'll pick up Ivanhoe tomorrow.
Owen's message is an echo of the experts summation of the US utter failure to control Covid
WC
Ps, poor Misty. Not knowing those rock artists had to make an otherwise easy CC a hard one.
Thank you for the kind sympathy, Wilbur.
For the August 10 solution ~
In the fanciest of French kitchens, you may find two or three sous-chefs who do nothing but stir roux all day.
~ OMK
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