| || fable, offer, vacuum, shrunk, "reek" havoc.
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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:
I enjoyed this jumble a lot. Clues no problem, but it took a minute to get over wanting "over" in the solution, and then the first word came and I laughed out loud; clever AND funny!!
I thought it amusing too.
It reminded me of Mark Antony's speech when the conspirators leave him alone with Caesar's corpse. It's a role I once played for Oregon Shax, and that soliloquy is still vivid in my memory. The verb in that speech is "Cry."
It's only too bad that in making a pun of this verb, it gets switched from transitive to intransitive, so the 2nd word ought to be an adverb.
But, as we say, you can't have everything.
~ OMK
"Mabel, the Writer"
Mabel was calm and stable
when she started to write a fable.
She soon hit a funk
and her ambitions shrunk.
Her brain was a vacuum,
then ideas did take bloom.
She feared a reader might scoff her
but instead she got an offer.
Her tale did not wreak havoc,
but made her geek fans rock.
Nicely done, Misty!
I started to create a fresh fable by Aesop, a new & tidy tale of the Vacuum and the Broom.
But I got stuck on the moral, something about how
the Vac shifted their equipoise
despite making all that noise...
Ah, well. You are keeping the team's flag high.
As for my questioning the solution, one may indeed
wreak havoc,
but must either
reek like havoc, or
reek havoc-ly!
N'est-ce pas?
~ OMK
Ah, Ol' Man Keith, you keep our team's flag much higher! (As do Wilbur and Owen, also).
Count me as one of your "geek fans"!
Meanwhile, though, Aesop checked in. Ask Mabel what she thinks of this one:
Aesop's fable of the Vacuum, we know,
offers a moral both pithy and quaint.
Lady Broom may be neither entitled to crow
of her prowess in cleaning nor lodge a complaint.
Along with his bluster and pet-rousing noise,
Vic Vacuum has tilted the home's equipoise.
He's now entitled to be called cleanup champ
(and Broom has shrunk off with the bug-zapper Lamp.)
Broom's only excuse, not one that stands,
was, "I was clutched closely in Mistress' sweet hands."
She'd mistaken hot, sweaty contact for love,
while Mistress gave Vacuum a kick and a shove.
~ OMK
"Wreak havoc" regardless of grammar is a well worn phrase. Like Sandy, I too tried to fit OVER in there. But I must thank you again, OMK, for a suggestion of YORE to put vowels on top, consonants below. The riddle-solutions poo quickly that way.
Misty, you do very well with your terse rhymers. We all have singular styles. I've had trouble finding time to poeticize. And Erato has been COY.
Yes, I cought "wreak"/REEK Havoc in J and CC. Owen used to call it prescience. I hope he's okay.
WC
Ps, not the caps on CC clues/ answers
Mabel and her groom
liked your Vacuum
and your Broom.
O'Man Keith,
you deserve a wreath.
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