| || dress, swung, mildew, catchy, grand time.
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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.
13 comments:
FLN: Wilbur ~
Glad you were able to crack the code of my long-winded Spoonerism. I admit it stretched the imagination to a somewhat hyperextended degree.
I shall gladly wait for another episode in the unfolding epic of Ivanhoe, when the clue words may be more favorably aligned.
~ OMK
As the Templar Preceptory prepared for the trial
Malvoisin had a tete a tete with Sir Brian. All the while
The peasantry, attracted by the sound of the bell chime,
Heard the good news. " It's a witch trial! It'll be a grand old time!"
The mild mannered jewess knew not what to do
Her hopes were for deliverance, that her duress was through.
In her dress with occult symbols she was led to the trial
"Last time the heretic swung". Was heard as folk filed
In. "He caught a break. The witch will surely burn!.
Fair trial? Uh-Uh. As the jewess will quickly learn"
WC
Thank you, Wilbur ~ A nice job of setting the scene for the trial. The poor girl is up against it for sure--in an age before people have even heard of "bigotry."
I see the first and second words included, but maybe we're in for another verse to get the rest?
Oh, wait! There's a possible third word, you sly dog...
Allow me to offer the following:
What do we call a Beach Bum's build-up of dirty air, sun block, and sweat?
= "TAN GRIME"
~ OMK
Er, 4th word but not the 3rd--right?
~ OMK
"Diva Fever"
The diva loved to dress
gorgeously, for the press.
Her jewels hung and swung
as on the stage she sung.
Her style was without mildew
thanks to her loyal drill crew.
Her music was sweet and catchy,
with melodies never patchy.
Her performances were just grand
as supported by her band.
A star she was, for all time,
And that's why she deserves this rhyme.
Nice to track your Ivanhoe poems, Wilbur.
A number of articles in the LA Times this morning on the loss of Alex Trebek. I have watched him on 'Jeopardy' for so many years, I will miss him terribly. I also can't believe that he hosted his last performance just ten days before he passed away from pancreatic cancer. He showed no signs of failing, and how heroic of him to continue for so long.
Wow, Wilbur, I hope the next installment is better for Rebecca! It will be, right?
Your diva certainly seems worthy of her rhyme, Misty, and a very fine rhyme it is!
I wondered how to include that odd 3rd word, and you solved it by denying it, inserting the simple negator, "without." Of course!
Doh!
We are fans of Alex Trebek too--and very sad & sorry to see him lose his fight against that terrible cancer. He won the battle actually, when you think of the usual length of time experienced by advanced cases. I lost a dear friend, a theater partner, a few years back to the same diagnosis, and Alex was absolutely heroic in his struggle.
I can see, Wilbur, that the same word (that Misty tamed) poses a problem for a medieval setting, although they surely had their own share of that damp fungal affliction!
Just imagine the awful smells and the physical sensation experienced by knights who had to re-dress themselves every 2nd or 3rd day of a battle in sweaty undergarments beneath their cold armor suits!
Yeesch!
~ OMK
"The MILD mannered jewess knew not what to DO"
And, then I went to caught from CATCHy.
Sandy, a lovely, innocent damsel set afire in the name of progress. That's England not Massachusetts! Sir Brian responds when informed of the trial: "Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!”
Tune in to your favorite blog channel for more news of the lying, the witch and her wardrobe of occult symbolism
WC
Shades of C.S. Lewis, Wilbur! You are an adept at wordplay.👍👍
NAR
I'm waiting to see how OMK liked MILD+DO for MILDEW. Owen would like my disguising clues. I should get started on tomorrow's J and CC.
WC
It was clever, Wilbur--truly.
But, as the Brits like to say, "too clever by 'arf."
No disrespect, but I think the idea isn't to see how deeply we can hide the clue words, but to manage to slip useful hints to honest seekers.
I could be wrong & Owen may disagree, no question, but ask yourself if you would have been able to locate the anagrammed letters in your version of "Mild" separated from "Do."
I am greatly impressed by the amount of grief--in print and on TV--for the passing of Alex Trebek. Millions followed him on that brief (30-minute) daily show. The man seems to have been as much a family man and gentleman off camera as he projected over the air. When asked how many of the Jeopardy posers he could have answered without help, he estimated "65% to 70%," a high rating indeed!
~ OMK
I suppose that cell Rebecca was kept deep in the bowels of the Preceptory might have become mildewed with neglect. But the missing word search with the letters M I L D might have been helpful.
Then the solver would have to come up with dEW on his own.
. I certainly have stretched things in previous poems like that "pet canary" in the river town menaced by Smaug
WC
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