| abhor, evoke, pirate, author, their breath. |
| gangly, myself, calico, radius, accept, spotty, from "plays" to "plays".
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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.
19 comments:
FLN:
Sorry!
I realize my reference to Country Joe's song may be hard to trace, because I only gave the shorthand version of its title, which is properly "Not So Sweet Martha Lorraine."
For the curious, you can hear it by clicking on this link:
Sweet Lorraine
Enjoy!
~ OMK
"They'll Make You Hold Your Breath"
A skilled author can evoke a bygone era
when cowboys rode the range
or pirates sailed the main.
They can make you smile, or cringe in terror,
abhor their story's bad guy,
or cheer the rousing gadfly!
They can leave you in tears, or play it for laughs,
in a few thousand words, or as many paragraphs.
~ OMK
Sorry, I couldn't resist.
It has been a while since I found a potential Spoonerism in the solution. Today's corny--awful!--solution inspired me. This one doubles down in the cornball contest:
The old plum tree produced fruit that had the most abrasive skin. The peels were so like sandpaper that when the ripe fruit fell from the branches, woe to anyone who stood below--or was even walking nearby. For the rough texture would bruise any exposed skin and was known to fray the garments of passers-by.
Folks were so aghast at the damage to their clothing, they would often stop one another to compare plum frays to frays.
~ OMK
When it rains, it pours! Until a few minutes ago, I had no cartoon for the J6, now I have two! A very sharp B&W, and a fuzzy colored one. Enjoy!
I have a visitor coming for lunch at 12:30, so no rhymes from me today. I had trouble with a few of the Jumble words but got the solution instantly and found it a hoot. All I needed was to come here to get Ol'Man Keith's hilarious solution. So a good start to a busy morning.
I'll check in later to hopefully see Wilbur's and Owen's contributions, and Sandyanon's always interesting comments. Have a great Sunday, everybody.
Thanks for hunting down the cartoons, Owen! I really like the vivid colors.
How very strange that all the B'Way titles are from over five decades ago!
I used to ride the Greyhound 4 hours each way once a week to see NY shows, often roaming the theater district just like these ladies.
This was in the '60a, and even then, most of these shows were long closed.
Have a great lunch, Misty! Face away, Stay healthy!
~ OMK
Ok, the j4 was easy, even though clue three took me a minute and I had to go d'oh! when I saw it. The solution was a cute little joke, though not a pun. It was funny because it is so true!!
The j6 gave me a bit more trouble, specifically the third clue (what, again?), and I hesitated over the solution. Even though the first and third words were obvious, the key second and fourth words just didn't seem right, so I resisted them. Here's the thing (a sentence I hope will become boringly familiar to us during the next four years!):
The original phrase that the joke refers to uses singular nouns. To make the joke phrase rhyme, the writers had to use plural nouns. But then the joke phrase makes no sense. You would never say it in the plural, so the rhyme is completely artificial.
And please don't say I enjoy "picking nits". This to me was like the screech of chalk on a blackboard; it hurt. I admire the ingenuity of the writers when their puns work. But when they don't, I get bothered as much on their account as mine.
I almost let it slide, but ...
Not to pick nits, but merely to mention that I have in fact used many a similar, if not the same, expression (as J6), especially when relating how I spent weekends seeing Broadway & NY shows back in the day.
Over four-and-a-half decades I often saw multiple plays, usually three or four (but five on occasion), on such weekends. I went directly from one day of multiple shows to another of multiple shows.
This may be unusual because of my professional interest, although I imagine theater tourists have engaged in similar binges.
~ OMK
Similar? In what way?
I hope I can leave it to your imagination. I'm afraid I did not keep a recording to check myself. The fact that I spent many weekends going from plays to plays may be a sufficient starting point.
~ OMK
PS. I know I spent at least one weekend going from operas to operas.
(And yes, I know the singular can also be the plural. I'm talkin' conversational H'english.)
I guess we will have to agree to differ, not only this time, but also, as my admittedly imperfect memory has it, pretty much all the time. Just two very different people with two very different perspectives.
Right. I didn't much like that one anyway.
~ OMK
Misty ~ If you sign on again today or this evening, would you be kind enough to tell us what you served for your lunch?
We get so little change in our shelter-at-home routine--day in, day out--it would maybe be a treat to just think about a different meal menu.
~ OMK
Yes the 4*4 went quick with AUTHOR slowing me down. The solution very quick.
I just couldn't get the relatively easy MYSELF. I knew five letters repeated and PALSY and couldn't decipher PLAYS.
Now, if I could just transpose letters I would have realized that I had F,M,Y to fit in _ _ *** _. So this was a DNF.
And to add to the disaster, the TB-Times had the wrong Sunday xword. I had to travel north to Dunellon so I checked the paper there, no luck.
I'm left to solving online and may do so sometime this week. I did take time to solve the Evan Birnholz Wa-Post from 9)27. I had , after solving, to find five VOICE PARTS. They were *?
TOSTADA was my last fill. I had trouble with the simple ADIEU for French goodbye.
Have I sufficiently bored you.
Re. But. I'm with Sandy. No matter how many PLAYs one goes to in NYC, one still seed one okay at a time hence PLAY to PLAY. Or, more likely musical to musical.
If you've got the money. I would go to NYC in March on Saturday and watch 4-6(8?) NIT Basketball games. Then four more on Sunday. Talk about boring for any but the most diehard college b-ball fan.
WC
* BASS,ALTO, BARITONE,TENOR and SOPRANO.
FLN, re Sweet Lorraine
I knew I recognized it. 1987 movie. Maureen Stapleton and a young Edie Falco.
WC
Sorry, Wilbur ~
You're neglecting to take the weekend into account, Sat. & Sun. forming the natural boundary between 2 plays on one day and 2 or 3 on another (2:00, 8:00, and a midnight show).
Hence, from [a day of] plays to [a subsequent day of] plays.
Really, it is quite a natural expression for those in my field. If you're more accustomed to a single day of two plays, or one play per day, I'll just ask you to understand that there are others who view them differently--and who are entitled to express their viewing with the captioned words.
Including, by the way, tourists who sometimes make real go of it for several days at a time. I suppose the cartoon might suggest just such a pair.
LOL, Obviously, we're referring to different "Sweet Lorraines."
~ OMK
Ol'Man Keith, my former student Sam brought a Thai lunch that he picked up on the way to my home, and I'm not sure what to call all the items. There were two beef things on sticks and two chicken things on sticks, and dumplings, I think, and one other small dough covered thing whose name I don't know, and a very ordinary salad. Pretty simple lunch, but I could not have "made" it. But thanks for asking.
I certainly appreciate Wilbur's comment and agree with it completely. But I won't get into the weeds by continuing any discussion of the issue. K?
I am truly sorry to see these things drag on. I am at a loss to understand how others cannot hear the (to me) obvious naturalness of the expression in question.
I believe I have understood the objection that's been raised. It is clear to me that it is not a familiar usage among those who have a different experience of playgoing. Yet I believe it is fair to ask them to realize and even to concede that theirs is not the only acceptably common expression--or way of attending plays.
I am not trying to persuade anyone else to adopt my way of speaking--just to insist that it is as legitimate as theirs.
All this over a not particularly amusing joke...?
~ OMK
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