| grimy, trill, compel, infant, (with a) fingerprint. |
| engulf, discus, barber, allege, whimsy, exodus, days were numbered.
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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.
16 comments:
Hi.
J4 didn't just leap to the eye, but the clues were easy and with all the letters in hand, and looking at the cartoon.the solution became pretty obvious. Kinda clever, I thought.
With J6 on the other hand, the clues weren't totally easy, with two and four taking a bit of time. But I did end up up with all the solution letters, and it didn't take long to arrange them into the solution itself. This was clever too, I guess, but somehow didn't seem to fit quite as logically as I thought the j4 solution did. Maybe because to me, the cartoon and dialogue seemed a little scattered, not focused on the solution's main idea.
YMMV.
Bravo, Owen, for posting both Jumbles for us in a prompt.and complete fashion.
We appreciate the effort, skill, and timing involved.
Thank you, good sir!
J4
"That Touch of Mine"
When a grimy love-forsaken part of my brain
compelled me once to treat you as I did,
I blame the infantilized nature of my hippocampus
for what I took as a trill to his parent's darlin' kid.
~ OMK
J6
"On the Way Out..."
POTUS alleges the storm engulfed a part of the Gulf
it never reached.
An exodus based on whimsy ensued.
His barber maintains his remaining hair is enough
to cover a peach
or form a discus when properly glued.
~ OMK
Sandy ~ I agree with your reading of both solutions.
On the whole, they served well in adapting a familiar word & phrase for Jumbling.
I like to use the solutions when titling my poetic efforts. When the words are as common--and easy to solve--as these are, I feel free to go a little further off in my titles.
Today my titular hints are a bit broader than usual.
Erratum ~ J4, final line, change "his" to "my."
~ OMK
"Poor Gus"
Many problems engulfed poor Gus,
who could hardly toss a discus.
He worked for a barber
but some grudges did harbor,
and would often allege
no loyalty to pledge.
His ambitions were flimsy
with decisions on whimsy.
It was getting quite clear
that his exodus was near.
Yes, his days they were numbered
and his boss him encumbered.
Could he try a new trade,
or continue to fade?
Well, we wish poor Gus well
for a future more swell.
Ah, Misty ~
I detect a dim future for Gus. If the past is prologue...
The clue words for him--as earlier for plucky Chuck--seem to be leading into dark corners.
Is this just the usual vicissitudes of fate asserting their sometime dominance, or ...?
I note a distinct lack of attention to their love lives. What of their marriage prospects?
On a technical note, good job with today's words!
I applaud your freedom in moving certain clue words out of the rhyming zone. "Exodus" in particular might have stumped even Ogden Nash. No need to subject yourself to poetic hellfire...
~ OMK
Many thanks for the kind words, Ol' Man Keith. How Chuck's life proceeds depends entirely on the Jumble words, and I just didn't see anything that made marriage or children verbally manageable. Sorry about that, Chuck. And yes, there was absolutely nothing I could find to rhyme with 'Exodus.'
Lamenting of our exodus,
The hills themselves, they echoed us!
Oh, desolation is ever thus, Yet future poets shall ode us!
Nice to hear from you, Owen. And with a rhyme for exodus. I hope this means you're feeling good.
I got the four J's and six J's but couldn't grok the solutions. As pointed out the riddle hints didn't help. I still can't figure out OMK's spoon hint to the riddle-solution.
I'll look again.
WC
Misty provided the J6 riddle-solution
Misty poor alliterative "Gus"*. The barber gig ain't what it used to be.
Perhaps he drinks a bit. Enjoyed.
Re. #2. POTUS tends to be careless with the truth. Which gulf? And yes, boyish brains; regrets from our youth. I still remember my little biscuit of boyhood days.
WC
* How about His and discus.
I mean Gus
Hey, Wilbur, take a look at what the other detective is examining. In case you haven't solved it yet.
Sorry, gang, about the political slant of my J6 verse. I swear I can't help myself sometimes.
Wilbur ~ Please don't strain too hard to decipher my titles. Here's a hint (to my hints):
(1) The titles are not variations of the same letters,
-nor-
(2) Are they rhymes or Spoonerisms, like I used to do.
(3) They are simply other ways of saying the same thing.
Once you've got the solutions in mind, you can work backwards to see what I mean.
Owen ~ You get the prize (as always!) for the "exodus" rhyme.
Yours is far less tortured than what I came up with.
But I will share it anyway; maybe I can rank as no. 2, heheh.
It is on my iPod, so I will sign off and post it below...
One witch to the other:
"How d'you bundle yer wholesale damnations?
'Specially when angry villagers are onto ya, and ya gotta make a quick 'exodus'?"
"Well, I do 'em ten at a time, or a dozen.
Ya can get yer standard curse at ten a penny.
And for yer hex, a duz!"
~ OMK
Sorry - I didn't take time to do it in verse form, just to puff it out with a wee back story.
I've been busy all day trying to catch up with bill-payments (before feeling free for the holidays) and making some digital Christmas cards.
WHY I WASTED TOO MUCH TIME. (Skip if you don't want to waste your own.)
I had hoped to use PhotoShop to do new cards, but I ended up going back to my old PhotoStudio program. I wanted to get the latest PhotoStudio on my new iMac in the first place, but it seems they stopped releasing new copies.
That's why I am trying to switch to PhotoShop. Before paying for it, I downloaded the trial version of Photoshop for Mac for 2021. But every tutorial I found either emphasizes "What's NEW for 2021"--which does no good for me because I don't know what was old. (A beginner can't start in midstream.)
-OR-
None of the tutorials is really for the '21 edition. They ALL appear to be for other, earlier, versions, with sample screens that don't look like mine.
And THAT's why I went back to my OLD PhotoStudio.
At least I can work it, but it is on my laptop --and therefore must be manipulated by finger-scratching on the pad rather than via a mouse.
Sadly, for my arthritic and Dupuytren-syndrome fingers, this is NO advantage.
Anyway, that's why my day didn't allow extra time for spinning a new ditty. (What a pity, eh, Misty?).
That's my story.
And I'm sticking to it.
~ OMK
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