| || humid, picky, caught, relent, up in the air.
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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.
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Monday easy jumble, both clues and solution. I liked the punny solution, which made at least some sense both ways.
The first fish to swim out of the sea,
Ultimate ancestor to you and to me,
Crawled up into the air to breathe,
The humidity gave her gills some ease.
The fish today, our distant cousins,
We catch and grill them in our ovens.
They're not too picky, so our lures
Tempt them while the hook obscures.
At first they fight, give us thrills,
Then they tire, with panting gills.
At last they relent, we reel them in,
Like our ancestor, out to air they swim.
Owen, it's good to see you fully back.
Woohoo! Wonderful to have you back, Owen with a terrific poem! A lovely Monday gift--thank you so much.
"Tricky Mickey"
Mickey was tricky and picky,
his strategy always sticky.
His bets were quite humid,
with great sums to bid.
Then cheating he was caught
and his way out was bought
when his mother made him relent.
So he slowly became more decent
and became more fair with care.
Having learned to be kind and share,
he's no longer up in the air.
Sandy, nice to have you back too.
But where is Ol' Man Keith? Hope he's okay.
"Give Us Some Air!"
My wife and I are like the Spratts,
Jack & his Missus for sure.
But our divide is neither over fats
nor leans, but temperature.
On nice, humid days, she mustn't be caught
with the A/C on, not ever.
I, on the other hand, love it hot.
In the winter I try to be clever
picking times to run the thermostat
a mite above 63. (jeez!)
She doesn't like that,
though relents sometimes in a January freeze.
~ OMK
Woohoo! Great to have you back with a delightful marital poem, Ol' Man Keith. However, I'm glad I don't live in your house. We keep the temperature at 73 all year around--works perfectly.
73?
Well, I'd certainly appreciate that in winter time, Misty! Here I am typing with cold stiffened fingers, alternately clutching a hand warmer in my pocket.
Among my requested Xmas gifts were two more space heaters--to be placed at my personal coldest spots around the house.
(I already blew one circuit, so am experimenting to find back-up spots off different circuits.)
Thanks for the kind words abt my poem. Your Mickey offers some neat rhymes. Good thing he was still young enough to be guided by his mom to a "fairer" future!
Owen! Always good to see you & your verses back with us, sir! I feel sorry for our present-day cousins. We hardly give them a chance to try their noses.
FLN: Sandy ~ Yes, you are right. Visitors to this site probably think poetry is required. I take your point that you would rather talk about our experiences of the Jumble. Maybe rather than offer hints...?
In planting our hints to the clue words and solution in verses, three or four of us make it seem this may only be done in rhyme.
The only way, of course, for your interest in (prose) discussion to catch on is for us to actually do it.
The problem (it seems to me) is that there isn't a lot to talk about. We already register, as do you, when we find the clues hard or easy, clever or dull. (Today's solution was a gimme. Kinda clever, but certainly easy to suss at a glance.)
Most Jumbles fall somewhere in the middle, and I guess that's not too interesting to dissect. But Please, when you find any additional talking points, please do bring them up! I'm sure you'll get multiple responses.
In the meantime, the poetry gives a few of us some structure for responding with hints to the clues. (I tried Spoonerisms and solution rhymes to offer hints, but I accept those didn't catch on.)
~ OMK
OMK, you present interesting points, but I can't tell what conclusion(s) you reached. Or did you reach any??
Maybe Owen would be willing to post an addendum to his guidelines that says something like "Poetry is definitely NOT required." so as not to scare people off. ???
No, no conclusion--other than the obvious: write more about the Jumble and your process. If you--or we-- can find interesting points, I am sure they'll be picked up, generating more discussion.
The problem, again, is how to find points of interest.
Maybe such a post by Owen would be helpful.
~ O
MK
"Poetry is definitely NOT required." has been added to the template. You'll see it starting tomorrow.
Oh, Owen, thank you so much!
Yes, Owen! Thank you!
~ OMK
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