| || cocoa, knife, little, defuse, flocked to it.
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The opening poem contains all the words (or variations of them) from today's Jumble.
Comments are welcomed!
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10 comments:
I think I've been making a bad assumption all along.
There's no rule that the solution has to be a pun, right???
Right.
Now this one isn't a pun, just the application of the verb to a different-than-usual plural subject.
~ OMK
"An Intervention "
He tried to hold up the coffee shop,
but his weapon was just a butter knife.
Hardly enough to enough to call a cop.
It was little--like him--and for the life
of me duller than he seemed to be.
I guessed he was hungry and poor,
too poor to buy something to eat.
I stepped up and said, "If you're
the decent chap I think you are,
you'll defuse this nasty business
and share my cocoa and a tasty jar
of marmalade with buttered biscuits."
It worked! The poor guy was used to rebuffs.
I just needed his trust--before slapping on the cuffs.
~ OMK
Erratum
Line 3: Enough with the "enough"s!
~ OMK
Funny (but a little sad) verse this morning, Ol' Man Keith. I was hoping the narrator could reform the pathetic little criminal. But I enjoyed the surprise ending.
No verse from me this morning--credit card problem I need to deal with today. Maybe later, if I have a little extra time.
I would say the solution is a perfect definition of a pun. Or merely a play on words. I'll try to play with some words later.
Poor Bunky. Just when he thinks there's nice people left in the world he gets cuffed. Or, three squares, a warm bed(cot?) and maybe some help. A kindly judge,?
Misty, I've got to check that a credit card has stopped payments. Thanks for reminding me.
WC
I believe a pun requires--at least--more than one meaning to a word, or its homonym. Today's F-word employs the very same meaning for humans and birds.
The use of legs versus wings seems beside the point, although it may be a peculiarity of the English language that some species can share a verb for mass movement.
(How is it in French, Wilbur, or German, Misty?)
Maybe only subsets of mammals and avians can manage this. I can't imagine rats or ants doing it.
~ OMK
Well, sheep can be said to flock somewhere. Of course, people are sometimes compared to sheep; could there be a connection???
Pastors preach to the flock. There's some kind of part of speech to describe the use of a word such as "Flock" that commonly is used for a gathering of , say, geese and use the word as a verb to indicate any gathering.
Some flocks contain more than one species. When Father Tom told his flock that the sitting President was careless with the truth he was later informed that there were crows in with the geese.
WC
Better late than never?
Malvoisin succeeded in defusing the wrath of the Master
But little hope he harbored unless he moved much faster.
Coaxing Sir Brian to give up a painted piece of flesh
Might be in vain. He must thrust the knife and refresh
The Templar's memory of past grandeur and future
Glory versus contempt and reproaches for evermore.
"As we diddle, Sir Brian, the knights of the Temple flock
For trial and condemnation which no power can block."
WC
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