| || metal, alias, thirst, junior, just (the) same.
Image from the Internet.
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.
11 comments:
Very contemporary cartoon, right?
Not difficult at all. I thought the solution was cute
FLN Sandy ~ Yep, the Dodgers won. But wasn't it scary?
I mean there they were, 2 up on the Rays, and they have them with 2 out at the bottom of the 9th, and 2 strikes against the batter.
The same situation as the night before. The Rays have 2 men on base!
I really thought LA could blow it again.
I forgot for the moment how unlikely it is for the losing team to pull out such a win!
~ OMK
Locksley(Bend-A-Bow) has settled the ransoms of the prior and Isaac. Now he's about to take leave of the gallant knight (Richard the King)
The knight incognito, all encased in metal, was in awe at Locksley's tact
The latter had guessed at the knight's alias but kept that fact
To himself. "We each have our secrets, just the same" he declared.
"Not all thirst to unveil truth though much may not be as it appears."
Privately, he mused that Prince John the petty, junior Scion
Would sorely miss the members of his cabal when awakening in the morn.
WC
Travel day, today for both teams -- from hotel to dugout and back??
OMK, pitchers often have scary moments, don't they. That's why there are outfielders, yes?
Wilbur, somehow I never before thought of Robin Hood as being tactful. Thanks for the image.
Sandy lol*2. I suspect Locksley is also a decharadado(disinherited one). I couldn't quite get a good start on yesterday's J's. Rebecca had nursed one of the yeoman back to health and Robin (Locksley) is going to help him with Rebecca. But as you'll see, dealing with the Head of the Templars won't be easy.
I have yet to get the details of the 9rh inning. It's one too many for me to stay awake for. I also flip back and forth to the football.
Then I awoke at two am. I reread the first five weeks of my Jumble Ivanhoe. I can email it as a PDF if anyone is interested. But once started I had to finish. Bilbo is twice as long. Also on pdf
WC
OMK, stay safe in Irvine. Watching news about the Silverado fire.
"What a Jerk!"
Harry was just a junior
but he couldn't have been loonier.
His bike he would pedal
without touching the metal.
When he suffered from thirst
he wouldn't drink and just cursed.
He constantly cussed
and was not fair or just.
'Superman' was the alias
on the cape of his baby ass.
His effort to gain fame
ended up really lame,
and he grew up just the same.
Thanks, Sandy ~ Irvine covers a very large area. The fire is well north of us, but it is a real threat to the folk in that region.
"Same as Dillinger?"
My mouth was dry with a metallic taste.
It was a thirst I could not quench.
I stood in the door of First National
and tried to repress the stench
of fear. It was time to approach the teller
and show her the note I'd prepared.
None of this was real of course,
but my young imagination dared
to dream of robbing the savings & loan
where my junior account was booked.
I saw myself as a full-grown
felon, a toughened, larcenous crook,
(alias Art the Artful Artist,
alias Harry the Holdup Hook.)
~ OMK
Okay, I concede that your Harry is much more interesting and funny than my Harry, Ol' Man Keith. And so, absolutely, is your delightful knight with an alias, Wilbur.
What a pleasure a rotten morning Jumble can induce in us all!
Misty ~ I was surprised to see we both had "Harry" on our minds. Must be something wild about him...
I guess "alias" triggered my old fantasy life as a kid. I did daydream about robbing our bank, but (needless today, I hope) I never tried it.
I did share something with your Harry. I tied a towel around my neck and pretended it was a superman cape. I jumped from the neighbor's porch--and actually did "lame" myself briefly.
Wilbur ~ You do a fine job keeping to an old-timey idiom. That can't be easy.
I wonder if the tradition of Richard--the absent king--didn't foster the long-held belief that royalty gains the trust & loyalty of subjects the farther away they keep themselves?
Distance just adds to the mystique, doesn't it?
For centuries in Russia, when anything went wrong, the common folk would say, "If only the Czar knew!"
In this, the Czar's ignorance--his distance from everyday life--was actually an asset.
Up through WWII, the Japanese practiced this to the Nth degree, keeping the emperor aloof from the masses, treating him as divine.
Funnily enough, they were said to be emulating the British in this.
~ OMK
"today" = "to say."
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