| || jiffy, mouth, mirror, spruce, forum for 'em.
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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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Twas the night before Christmas and mouths were agape
Santa was detained
At the border of Maine
The delay was caused by mounds of red tape
Shock was mirrored on the faces of children
For the Christmas rule of thumb
Is "plenty of toys for them"
But now the question: "Just when?"
Billy and Mary sat by the spruce - or was it fir?
Christmas presents were looking iffy
But wait, hoofs on the roof and all in a jiffy
There was Billy's bike and chatty Cathy for her
Yes boys and girls the sleigh that caused the remorse
Was piloted by Wall-E. Yes it was merely a Trojan horse
WC
"Decorum for Him"
He wants to be proper! Though in a jiffy,
he takes his time to be lookin' spiffy.
A quick spruce-up in the hallway mirror,
and he sniffs his mouth--sure his breath smells clearer
than an hour before when severe halitosis
betrayed a possible incipient cirrhosis.
Sniff, sniff, ah...Good! Each minty whiff
should assure the gals that, to 'em, he's God's gift!
~ OMK
Another jumble with a solution that popped up before I did the clues.
A neat enough solution, I thought. I smiled aloud.
The apostrophe told us it would include a contraction & I'm fond of rhymes that depend on conversational usage.
The clue words led very easily into my poem. No need for any verbal contortions.
~ OMK
Guests are coming! What have I done?
I invited them over just in fun!
I didn't expect they'd really stop by!
Now I've got to clean up! Oh, my!
I'll spruce up the place in a jiffy,
Tho I'm afraid it will still look very iffy!
Hide all the clutter, vacuum the floor,
Windex the windows, the mirror by the door!
Why, oh why did I open my mouth?
Just being polite, and the words tumbled out!
I'll be talked about in the neighborhood forum,
Unless I'm spiffy, and all ready for 'em!
My goodness, a plethora of poetry! I see that some others can't sleep either.
I like them all, and marvel at your sleep-deprived creativity.
As for the jumble, yes, I chuckled a little at the solution. This time it was a rhyme with no rhyme in the cartoon, vs. the opposite last Tuesday.
As is my wont, I can't help myself so I solved everything, xwords and jumbles by Tuesday.
Problem is they're all out in the car. But these four were easy and I did recall just what that building was. The colosseum. Et tu, Sandy?
Wall-E is a robot for kids. I LIU
WC
Ps, speaking of.... Misty, I thought you were using RhymeZone all along.
Wilbur -- huh?
Ohh. Maybe I misinterpreted. I took "et tu, Sandy" to be kind of accusative, as in "et tu, Brute?". Maybe you were just writing in French? ? I learned it as "es tu", though, hence my confusion.
Actually I'm still unsure of what you were referring to.
"Spruce Bruce"
Our handsome friend Bruce
sure knew how to spruce.
He'd dress in a jiffy
and still look real spiffy,
and stare at the mirror
to become his own cheerer.
But it all went south
when he bragged with his mouth.
Made his once friendly forum
now find him a boredom.
Not the colosseum --which is, how shall I put it?...er, round.
The forum & colosseum are two distinct locations in old Rome.
Well yes, and the Forum was really a place, not a structure per se.
Okay, nit-pickers, if you look up enough definitions of forum, you also find:
forum--a public discussion
forum--a meeting house or any conversation that is available publicly
True, Misty, but the ANCIENT Roman Forum was a plaza, not a building. I don't think of that as a nit. But then, I can get quite nitty!
And I made a mistake on "et tu"! That's perfectly correct for "and you". I was thinking of "are you". Big oopsie.
Yes, Sandy, I knew you'd agree that the colosseum was not a forum. Et tu is literally in French, "And you". And a bit of a pun on the xword staple ETTU which Caesar* meant (And) you too Brutus.
Four poems today each in individual styles. I was running errands and thought of good one re. My Xmas theme.
There's a J word coming which will epitomize this cozy, poetizing corner we have here.
C-Moe should join us
WC
* Actually Shakespeare. Speaking of thespian arts I think it's tomorrow's CC which OMK should like. I had everything solved by Tuesday so they all mix together.
And I can't speak for Limerick Larry
Misty & Sandy ~ Just taking our cues from the Jumble cartoon and the reference to a "public square," we see that they didn't mean a particular building. I recall a day or two spent wandering around the grounds that all the tourist maps define as the "Roman Forum."
It looks like Misty's "Bruce" and my unnamed hero are one-and-the same guy. Whether or not he actually has cirrhosis, only time can tell.
But I wouldn't be surprised.
I don't usually go for those weird breakups and inversions of grammar that too many poets (and songwriters) use in order to make rhymes come out right.
But--forgive me! I couldn't resist playing that crazy game to draw attention to the stupid idiom in the final line of my poem today.
~ OMK
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