| || ratio, fudge, socket, lunacy, "fasten-ated".
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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.
15 comments:
"Toughie"
This morning's Jumble
made me humble.
I could easily judge
how to rhyme 'fudge.'
Okay, the word 'socket'
was still in my pocket.
But trying to rhyme 'ratio'
I had nowhere to go.
And 'lunacy'? Give me a break.
Nope, this Jumble was no piece of cake.
I wasn't fascinated
I just procrastinated.
Even 'fastened'
Had me chastened.
So, I'll hope in my sorrow,
for an easier tomorrow.
Ah, Misty ~
'Tis the first time I can recall your verse not achieving the proverbial "happy ending." It saddens me.
I wonder if today's word list is another test,
on a different level
but akin to the one I write of
below...?
"A Fascinating Stat"
While just a lad I devised the "lunacy shock exam"
to test my kid brother's guts,
or prove him nuts:
"Wouldst finger-in-a-socket jam?"
Well, OK, I put him up to it, just to see if he would do it.
He yowled in pain, blew a fuse, and blacked out half our unit.
The ratio of sane to insane Americans hovers 'bout six to one.
The figures may be fudged; definitions can be spun,
but in the end, you'll prob'ly find
15% of the U.S. of A. is marching straight outta their mind.
~ OMK
(And they can vote.)
Ol Man Keith, I'm just going to trust that you didn't really do that to your kid brother. If you did, don't tell me--I don't want to lose regard for you.
However, that doesn't mean that your poem wasn't funny and a pleasure to read. Many thanks. Now let's see what we can do to cheer everyone up at this tough (election and other stuff) time.
Boy did I have trouble with #3. NUANCY ?, Nope only one N. I actually got to LAUNCY. Finally, while walking it hit me. Then with the word FAST and the rest of the letters the riddle-solution was grok'ed.
I remember Sandy saying she never checks the hints until she solves. Speaking of checking. I reread the part in Ivanhoe where Locksley and the two opposite God people are bargaining ransoms.
I'll try to come up with something. Locksley aka Bend-A-Bow comes out looking like Solomon. Latin and Latin gibberish spouted by Tuck and Aymer(Isaac of York is the other "God" person.
And archaic language.
WC
Btw, re. CC...
I found tomorrow's Agard CW a bear.
When all hope is lost, don't despair.
A sea of white, no hope of a solution.
Walk away, take a nap. It'll come to fruition.
Let me know tomorrow how it goes. Misty: You get one LIU source for NW and SE. And... So Keith was a rascallion in his youth. His kid brother became a wiser boy and by the time the parents had tanned his hide, likewise OMK
WC
Reminds me of A Christmas Story and the lick on the icey tree.
Re. The debate last night. A certain anonymous bystander, initials, PP was ask for his honest opinion. He responded: Quid est veritas?
And smiling & washing up as he asked it.*
High school debaters are held to stricter standards.
My wife was surprised last night when I "mansplained" to her that politicians are allowed to lie on national TV.
She said it should be illegal. I share her sentiment, but pointed out that they are not under oath, and so are free to state falsehoods either through mistake--or intent.
Wilbur ~ I agree. One of the best tactics for solving is to "walk away" and wait for the fruit to ripen.
On another topic, I don't know how much wiser my brother became, but I sure found myself in deeper do-do than I'd expected.
Misty ~ OK, I won't confirm or deny. But I will point out that if such an event ever occurred, it would have necessitated the assistance of a bobby pin.
~ OMK
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* At least in my "jesting" version. I had the honor of playing PP in the N-Town Mystery on video.
That's Pontius Pilate just to be clear. Politifact must have dozens of researchers on that debate.
The Hunter Biden hard drive. We have one of those every four years it seems.
Hi, all. I'm afraid that these past few weeks I've often been just skim reading the blogs, and often only after a day or two.
I have noticed some slippage. Notice our title includes No Spoilers. As our sidebar says, "Hints are encouraged, and words can be hidden by embedding them in longer comments, especially if tense, number, or part of speech is altered. However, do not draw attention to them by using ALL CAPS, bold, or any other emphasis! " That includes putting them in "quotes", or using phrasing like
You could easily judge
How I'll rhyme the word fudge.
Perhaps this long poem is more to the theme. I have Friday and Saturday combined.
Locksley now prepared to fix the ransoms of the pair.
Aymer the Abbott, bejeweled and costly attired
Isaac of York, with his vaults of gold acquired
From usury. Loans begged but at payment time: "It's not fair!"
The yeoman leader deemed the ratio as fifty-fifty
"This is lunacy", cried Aymer. "He'll sock it to me", said the Jew.
"My gold I've gained by being thrifty"
"Steal from the Church?, Damnation to you."
Both tried their best to fudge about their wealth.
"Fascinating", thought Locksley. "Gold's more valuable than their health".
Isaac's heart was churning at the news of his daughter's abduction
"Hang back", the outlaw leader said, under the birch,
Away from the prying eyes of the prelate of the church."
[Said Isaac]"You've jogged my memory, you are Bend-A-Bow. [Said Locksley]"I'll grant remission."
"You helped me once. I'll up the share of the proud, Abbott Aymer,
Whose napkins in his Vestry are worth a peon's wages for a year".
My apology, Owen. I lost track of the fact that if we want to allude to Jumble answers we can't put them in quotations or italics or whatever, and I sadly violated this morning. I guess I'm just so sure that everyone already knows the entire Jumble that I didn't think this mattered any more. But I will do my best to be careful and not violate the rules in the future.
Great, Wilbur!
But forgive my denseness -- what chapter is this?
Wilbur ~ A beautiful job of including the Friday words. And especially engaging for injecting them into your Scottian (is that the word?) preoccupation as well.
But I can't say anything about the Saturday words. You have an access that we don't share.
Maybe you'll re-post this tomorrow so we can check & enjoy the words on the same page?
~ OMK
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