| || omega, irony, jogger, idiocy, "re-joyced".
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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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B B I T R A
B I T R A B
I T R A B B
R A B B I T
Rabbit, rabbit.
I did have to JOT* down the letters but the pun became quickly apparent when I recalled the author. One of the foremost authorities on all things ** is MN.
One of those books might have been titled ** for Dummies. I'm familiar because I bread about the Paris 1920s crowd with Ernest Hemingway (I just ran into him on FB yesterday- I guess he drank a bit.
WC
Ok, I was reading and having a sandwich
I quite see why you said Misty would love this jumble. She will for sure, enjoy it and find it a delight.
Not quite a regular pun, the solution is a very clever play on words.
Wooho! Woohoo! I got it! I got it! When Wilbur and Owen made predictions yesterday that I was going to like today's Jumble, I figured it was because it would have the word MISTY in it.
Woke up at 4am and never got back to sleep and got up tired and grumpy. Had a bit of trouble with the crossword puzzle and decided I was too tired to do Sudoku and so went to the Jumble. Woohoo! Woohoo! A total delight to see my favorite author and the center of my career celebrated in a Jumble. Woohoo! You were right, Wilbur, Owen, and Sandy--I'm a happy Jumble solver this morning. And, Ol'Man Keith, you're bound to put this in a poem--can't wait to see it.
My morning has just become brighter and much fun. Thanks, everybody.
Well, this solution certainly popped up before cracking a single clue.
WooHoo for our Misty!
I imagine you've encountered this homophonic phun before, in this and similar playful versions.
I believe Carol #159 in our Presbyterian hymnal ran, "Good Misty can re-joy-oi-oice! Give us weed instead of hay!"
Something like that...
~ OMK
Actually, my poetic reflection keyed off of the 3rd clue word, which hit--Ow!--close to home.
"From Bad to Verse"
-or-
"The Lame's Voice"
It's a common irony,
& for old ex-joggers no fun,
to be afflicted with neuropathy
and lose the power to run.
From alpha to omega, A to Z,
the idiocy is repeated.
Every runner that you see
in time will be defeated.
~ OMK
Sandy ~
Yes, not the exact same word.
But I believe it is in its own "regular" category-- a "homophonic pun."
~ OMK
Well, OMK, homophonic puns have to make some sense in both versions, and while I appreciate the cleverness of the solution, it doesn't seem to me to be "in the language". I suppose you could say that people who have read one of his books have "Joyced", and then they could read another, to get the solution. But it's a word made up just for the joke, not an actual word, which as I looked into pun definitions, isn't sufficient.
You may call it nitpicking, but I call it looking for accuracy.
I hope that didn't come across as hostile. I was feeling defensive, nothing else.
No, not hostile, Sandy. I thank you for that--sincerely!--as you managed to endow it with more sense than I saw in it.
I dunno. Maybe I'm just more inclined to go with the humor on its own terms.
As I tried to point out last week, there are many definitions for "pun," some looser than others, but none that's universally accepted.
My preferred definition accepts any word that is granted more than one meaning, used for fun in an unexpected context. In today's instance, one of its meanings is a proper name. It doesn't need to make sense in both usages. But in your expanded version--including folk who have read one of his books--you have granted it an additional sense.
I know you didn't mean to, but, for me, you gave it more intelligence than it needed. Win-win.
~ OMK
To quote Cathy". "Aaaacckk!"
Still not an actual, real, word, just a concatenation of letters to sound like a real word.
I could create Qeath, for example, not a pun with Keith. Kith -- a real word -- might sort of work, like "Keith and kin."
Okay I have clearly beaten that horse to death and beyond, so I'll stop now.
I actually thought the riddle-solution would be 're'-'joiced' which would have been a pun on the author. A true pun, eh Sandy, rather than a Cherry Garcia. The letters of course didn't have the I.
Misty, congratulations on seeing your 'favorite author' featured. But the J-writers wanted to make the connection clear as I well understand. Otherwise a ton of readers wouldn't know what they were talking about.
Now they can Google "**" and read all about it or perhaps read that "Dummies" book out there. Actually I think I'll try to get ahold of it. Faulkner is another one that's hard to read.
Then again I think Dostoevsky and TOLSTOY are a delight to read
WC
Enjoyed all your discussions today, Sandyanon, Ol'Man Keith, and Wilbur. I love this Jumble blog.
LOL. And I will stop too. In a moment.
We differ in definitions, so I'll be content to use the looser sense, in which proper names do count as words, even without the added "re-" while Leaving you to your different view. (By the way, some word experts have "Keith" as a direct derivation of "kith." In ME poetry, the word means homeland and/or tribe.)
The value--to me--of loose, but clear, definitions is that I end up with fewer frayed ends and stray orphans, dogies. I can always add qualifying comments if I think necessary.
I suppose the value of strict definitions is the joy of all those nits.
And if you have much joy, you will have joys, a (you can look it up) "near homophonic pun," same category, Wilbur, as Cherry Garcia, though not, to my taste, as funny.
~ OMK
BTW, did anyone besides me enjoy the rhyme in the 2nd title of my jogger poem?
Not to toot my horn, but lotsa stuff gets lost in the shuffle.
~ OMK
Clever rhyme, OMK, though Joyce's writing couldn't be called lame, could it, lol?
Thank you, Sandy.
No, I wouldn't dare label his work with such an insult.
But it seemed a fine Intro for Keith the Lame's Thursday words.
(Today's poem is strictly non-fiction. I used to be THAT runner.
Now I'm barely able to walk.)
Here's another verse:
Nature gave us the power to race,
for hunting--or escaping!--
not to be like rats in a maze
with feet for sidewalk scraping.
As I say, Keith the Lame...
~ OMK
Irony and neuropathy. Ironic that a runner would "catch" it? I did some running in the 80s but then got married and had to husband my time. Ah, there's a pun.
I've actually lost a lot of weight in the last year. Mostly by simply cutting back the volume of food I eat. I was getting exercise in the walking pool but Covid-19 among other things has negated that.
WC
I added today's "Re-Joyce" Jumble cartoon to my refrigerator--where it will stay for decades. I have two or three other Joyce cartoons mounted there from years ago, and they still make me laugh when I see them.
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