| leaky, tripe, icebox, actual, (a) peck (of) trouble. |
|anyhow, dismal, stress, cobalt, stuffy, orator, boatloads of them.
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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.
8 comments:
"Speck a-Bubble?"
When the icebox went leaky,
the tripe began to smell.
It actually got better,
but it was tripe,
so who could telł?
~ OMK
Can I do it in one sentence?
"Throat-load of Phlegm"
The stuffy old-school orator filled his time anyway & anyhow
he could, with dismal similes & metaphors, hoping to wow
the time-keeper and meet his contractual obligation
of so-many minutes of rhetoric, with a peroration
stressing the virtues of Cobalt Powder, the sponsor
of this detergent-praising radio concert.
~ OMK
Many thanks, Ol'Man Keith--your second poem was a big help to me. I had trouble with the second and fourth words of the Jumble and realized I had to come to the blog for help.
But even before that I got the delightful solution, which pleased me especially because it brought back sweet memories of my early trips to Venice. On my first trip there with my young son I knew nothing about Venice and when I booked a ride I was surprised it would be in a boat. In a boat? Why? And so we drifted down the river and when we came to our stop we were right there in the middle of the city. Our room was a tiny one overlooking an alley, but we could not have gotten a better place to stay and fell in love with Venice instantly. A happy memory.
And your two words helped me finish the Jumble--thanks again, OMK.
Misty ~You are very welcome. I am glad the gondola cartoon brought back happy memories. I too can recall lovely times in Venezia, a favorite vacation city. But see below for my mixed memories of gondola rides!
Sandy ~ The J4 solution is a mild pun, pleasing enough, considering it required no effort at all. The drawing is less polished than the J6's, but makes its point clearly.
I expect the farmer deserves what he's getting. Don't we automatically side with the hens these days?
I really like the J6 cartoon. It reminds me of the two times I rode in gondolas in Venice.
The first time I was very young & enjoying the romance with a girlfriend.
The second time, I was an old, married man. My wife & I made a reservation for a midnight glide along the canals. Turns out we were stuffed into a large bus-sized gondola, with 4 or 5 other couples. Boo!
I guess the first compound word of the solution qualifies (barely) as a pun.
~ OMK
"George's New Adventure"
George recently took a vow
to improve his life, anyhow.
Instead of being just dismal
he decided to be baptismal.
He wanted to confess,
to get rid of all his stress.
So he took a job with Cobalt,
rowing boats in Venice. No fault,
he was now no longer stuffy,
but became mellow and fluffy.
He would never be an orator
and certainly not an inheritor.
But he now obeyed notes and codes
and wrote sweet romantic odes
that he read while steering boatloads.
How commendable in George
to re-shape his life, to forge
a new self, one more mellow
in place of that feckless fellow
who sent his money spinning
while caring not for winning.
I hope his new occupation
offers compensation
enough to send part of his wages
to the wife he left in Vegas.
~ OMK
Hmm.
Looks like another Sunday when it is just the two of us, Misty.
I appreciate you.
If I remember last Sunday rightly, Sandy was visiting but not saying anything.
I hoped to include her with my comments on the J4 and J6 differences, but maybe she isn't here after all.
It used to be I was the one to take Sundays off--from both the Corner and here--but now I don't dare "observe the Sabbath...."
~ OMK
I too hope everybody returns to our blog tomorrow--I too miss them terribly.
But thank you for your delightful poetic response to the slowly evolving drama of George. (I don't even know who he is, but he's sort of weirdly developing in response to Jumble words, and your responses help.)
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