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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.
7 comments:
Up late again. For me this didn't seem quite as easy as I expect for Mondays. I had to think for awhile on a couple of the clues, and then tried to put the beginning of the second solution word first -- it almost made sense that way. But then I realized that the solution was that dreadful nemesis I hate so much in my daily typing. Aaacck!!
It is an amusing pun, though, IMO.
Well, Sandy, my reaction was both the same and different.
The difference was that I found it easy. I mean real easy--it leapt into my brain. The similarity is that I too am tormented by that damn program. In fact, I credit the torture as the reason it came to me so easily.
I suppose this is a variance in our psyches--the same Aack-inducing trauma producing the different reactions.
FLN: Another coincidence! I had no idea when I posted my dialog between the witches (as the backstory for my "exodus" rhyme) that today's Jumble would be scripted for witches!
Synchronicity abounds! Egad!!
~ OMK
"Data Entry"
I added a new plank to my Excel sheet,
then synched it with Google's Chrome.
At first the data looked super neat,
till Spell Check ran rampant as rhizome.
It intruded its tentacles,
rewriting technical
terms it didn't understand.
Changed "Deposit" & numbers
to "Closet" & cucumbers.
Aacck!
(Talk to the hand.)
~ OMK
"Happy Job"
Hank worked at a local bank
where he had a good seat on their plank.
He checked every single deposit
and never his work did closet.
He did so extremely well
that his team thought he did excel.
He deserved more than a medal of chrome,
so they wrote him an epic poem.
No spell checker was required,
and frank Hank would now never be fired.
Ah, tenure for dear old Hank!
How we in the professoriate appreciate and prize it--
and how few other trades and practices can enjoy it.
It's no wonder we are envied. But a case can surely be made that more long term job holders ought to be able to feel the same security of employment that we--and members of the judiciary-- enjoy.
Except, of course, for politicians. They should never be permitted to relax in place. Nev. Er.
I liked your poem very much. Seems you went for some of the rhymes I did, under the "great minds" principle. But I especially liked "required" and "fired."
And I got a kick out of assuming the bank's board could be referred to as a "plank."
~ OMK
FLN Wilbur ~
Did you dispose of yesterday's solutions? And see the connection with my titular hints?
Just wondering if the other shoe dropped...
~ OMK
Ol' Man Keith, your verse was so clever this morning, I was embarrassed to post Hank's silly tenure track. I even had to look up 'rhizome.'
But thank you so much for the kind bank board plank.
And, my goodness, yes, aren't academics so lucky to have tenure, and I agree with you, more solid, long-time workers deserve it too.
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