| || hutch, clout, monkey, fumble, bunch of them.
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The opening poem contains all the words (or variations of them) from today's Jumble.
Comments are welcomed! And couching them in Poetry is definitely NOT required.
Do not explicitly reveal any of the actual answer words until after closing time, but embedding them surreptitiously in comment sentences is encouraged.
14 comments:
Wow, yesterday's jumble gave me a headache! But this solution, by contrast was so easy I couldn't believe it. And fun too, though not really a pun, which is what I always hope for. Just the obvious word used in somewhat different, but similar, contexts, with the same general meaning both times. And, as I said, fun.
Remember Ann B. Davis on the show? I Googled her and found that she died in 2014 at 88, after a life one might not have expected.
Again, another popular TV show I didn't watch. There were a couple of decades when I was producing plays one after another, and didn't have time to watch. We couldn't record things either, not so easily.
Leaves a hole in my pop recognition library...
Still, I got this right away. A title like this one was/is part of the general culture.
~ OMK
"To Earn One Banana..."
Monkey in hutch, clouts
football to see it fumble.
What is this but Cute?
~ OMK
Clyde was a monkey who loved bananas.
He kept them in a hutch of his Nana's.
She had china she'd kept therein,
But Clyde broke them, trying plates to spin!
He failed at that, and fumbled juggling.
At acrobatics, he was torturous at tumbling!
But he had an uncle with clout at the circus,
Who got him a job cleaning the elephant's surface!
It was menial and dirty, but it paid for lunch
Of bananas that he'd buy by the bunch!
He loved them so, that like a Otaku,
He wanted to marry one, or thought he ought to!
A haiku?! Wow, that's daring! And successful!
Thanks.
I dabble, I dabble.
Assigning a title is unorthodox, I know, but I like to use them to point to the solution, without being explicit.
Your poem endowed that monkey with character, a persevering bumbler whose banana fixation may have cushioned him against feelings of inferiority.
He was lucky if he only had to clean the elephant's surface, and not its super-flux.
~ OMK
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Ps. And thanks for introducing us to the Japanese for wonky nerd!
Well, this sure can't compete with Owen's ambitious and clever Clyde, but here goes:
"Sweet Pet"
Melody had a sweet monkey
who was nicer than a donkey.
His home was a comfortable hutch
which he appreciated very much.
As a result there was no doubt
that this pet had a lot of clout.
Of course, he'd often fumble
like the day he tore up the Jumble.
But though his goofs were a bunch,
Melody still fed him lunch--
actually quite a lot of them
since she treasured him as her gem.
Aha, Misty!
I see that "monkey/donkey" near-rhyme again.
If you can find a way to do it a third time, it can become a fixture of the site!
I think Melody's monkey must be very happy, having her for a mistress. What more can he ask?--a "comfortable hutch" and lotsa forgiveness for his many "goofs."
She is even providing him with a better rhyme. As long as she gives him "quite a lot" of those lunches,
he is soon gonna be one...
Chunky Monkey!
~ OMK
Ol' Man Keith, I thought of calling him a "chunky monkey" too, but he doesn't get quite enough bananas to merit that. Loved your haiku, by the way. I'll have to look up the features of a haiku--might come in very handy on busy days when I don't have time for a whole rhyme.
P.S. Just looked it up: 7 syllables with a 575 scheme? Just checked your haiku and it follows it perfectly!
Misty ~ Yes, 5-7-5.
If the muse cooperates and one is lucky to have a good idea for a haiku, it can take very little time.
But if it is forced, it can take hours and still "ghost" you in the end.
If I remember correctly, there was a time when you were interested in syllable count--as distinct from other ways of counting meter. SO this may be a welcoming form for you.
The Japanese point out that haiku is a lot more than counting syllables. But the American form of haiku starts with the count, so it is fair to jump in with that in mind.
Other features are so very Japanese--so very subtle, we may say-- they can't be easily rendered in technical language. Suffice it to say, connoisseurs look for a subtle shift in the content or tone of the message somewhere along the way.
Another point I particularly like is to think of the poem as "unfinished--because the reader should finish it in his or her mind."
(In my attempt above I used the title to evoke today's solution. The ellipsis was to encourage a reader to ask the obvious [to me anyway] question "How does he earn a bunch of them?")
~ OMK
Yes, for once and especially on a Saturday, a riddle-solution that jumped right out.
Chairman Moe is the house haiku guy on CC. Ironically he was one of the J-talkers that got Jumble talk banned on CC and he departed for awhile.
I've wondered why he's never joined us here.
Owen, between CC and J you've been A-OBE today.
OMK, I sorta warned you about the Sat xword.
WC
Wilbur ~
Yes, you did. But I didn't take it too seriously. Once I feel the need to cheat more than 3 times, I figure it's out of my league. It ceases to be interesting when it's a chore.
I should say when it's too much of a chore.
I never got an answer why ESCORT was clued as "Theater company." Any idea?
~ OMK
Is an usher an "escort"? If so, wouldn't he or she be company to guests coming to see a play in the theater--at least while they're walking to their seats?
Well, no. We never use that term for an usher in the theater.
But maybe someone who is not a theater person came up with that clue.
The only uses for ESCORT I know are either as a term for a debutante's partner (or some other formal event),
or slang for a prostitute.
--Or a motorcycle team accompanying a politician's limo.
~ OMK
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