| || opera, knack, crunch, dilute, keep on truckin'.
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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.
8 comments:
The following was composed and almost posted:
"I just can't grok the riddle-solution. It seems like the words in the hint are the first two words if the riddle-solution but that leaves me with "
Then I decided to keep on parsin'
I had left off the letter R, I realized. So I put vowels on top and mixed up the consonants and voila.
I'll leave it to Sandy for comments on aptness of riddle-solution
WC
No, please, Wilbur, don't leave it to me. I can't think of anything interesting to say about that phrase.
I do look forward to more story episodes, whenever you feel like it.
"Brave Jack"
Jack really liked the opera,
he considered it a whopper.
He had a knack
and didn't lack
a bit of crunch
to enjoy at lunch.
No humor to dilute,
no quarrels to dispute.
Any problems he'd just suck in
and that kept him right on truckin'.
The first rhyme that occurs to most of us might stretch the site's tolerance limit, so here's an alternate solution...
"Theater Cheater"
He had a knack for sneaking snacks into the playhouse
to evade the prices charged in the lobby.
"Whether drama or opera or vaudeville," he groused,
"They want too damn much for a plain cuppa coffee."
His pockets were filled with caramel corn by the scoop.
He loved Chinese treats--fried rice & won tons.
He could smuggle packets of condensed Campbell soup
and dilute them with drinks sucked from the fountains.
The crunch of a certain type of cracker was troublin';
to make it soggy-quiet, he would just keep on suckin'.
~ OMK
Enjoyed your verse, Ol' Man Keith, especially the rhyming of playhouse and grouse, and scoop and Campbell soup. Lots of fun.
Looking forward to your poem, Wilbur.
Misty ~ We overlapped. Great minds, eh...?
"Brave Jack" - O brave new world /That has such people in't!
I was thinking of naming my speaker Jack as well, but the occasion never arose.
Jack's ability to "suck in" problems reminds me of Muhammed Ali's "Rope-a-dope" strategy.
Looks like we chose similar rhymes in our closing couplets, while my thinking was a tad more literal than yours.
Wilbur ~ I take it you were thinkin' of the solution while solvin' & parsin' --just hintin' & helpin' us all along.
We thank ye kindly, good sir.
~ OMK
Re. Question asked at CC vis a vis prevagen to Misty...
I have observed mon Amie, that your xword solving acumen has increased. Do you agree in that. I also observe that "good" Wed,Thur solvers don't always carry over to Saturday.
Now this week we have two tough ones left. Saturday of course and Friday seems rougher than usual, even for a Friday.
Difficulty is hard to guage. The simplest sports references flummox while arcane tv,movie and song are duck soup.
Tomorrow, the SW has two culinary teasers. Again, duck soup for some. And a Zen perp crossing.
I'm going to combine Thursday and Friday on an Ivanhoe follow up. Beaumanoir has the letter penned by Prior Aymer to Sir Brian. If the Preceptory had a fan. ..
WC
Oh yeah .. Sandy, my ref. on the riddle-solution was a guess that it didn't go over big. After thinking about it I see that "Truck"'n is a play on "Pickup*.
.I thought the first two words might be "pick up"
Wilbur, you're right--Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday puzzles are generally pretty manageable for me, but then Thursday, Friday, and Saturday become tougher each day. I assume that this is precisely how they're meant to be and how they're chosen. Sunday puzzles vary for me--sometimes pretty doable, especially if the theme is familiar, and sometimes pretty tough. I doubt this has anything to do with Prevagen--just my seniority and the design of the puzzles themselves.
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