| || dirty, motto, sneeze, pillar, "mini-soda".
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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.
17 comments:
Ha ha ha.
(I'm laughing at this hilarious pun. Not!)
Well, I actually didn't know anything about the Gophers, so looked them up after I solved. Had I known, the solution would have taken no solving, right?
Johnson was the owner of the local pharmacy,
He was known as the "pill-er" of the community!
The store didn't have a snack bar as was common,
Just a Coke machine he called his mini soda-fountain.
He carried all the nostrums, if you please,
To treat each and any colic, cough, or sneeze.
He had a spinner rack of comic books for kids.
(A few dirty magazines were 'neath the counter hid.)
He knew all his customers, and their private ails.
Used mortar and pestle, and his balance scales.
What Doc Simmons ordered, he could concoct pronto.
"I've got the cure for what ails ya" was his motto.
"Mini-Terror"
[In a Yorkshire accent.]
Our lil' Yorkie likes to fly i' the breeze.
In a patch a dirt 'e specially loves to play
wit' dust wot can make 'im sneeze to 'iz knees.
Th' wee chappie needs meds, a pill 'r two a day.
His motto seems to be, "'Tis m' breed's duty
t' do whate'er big dogs c'n do--but do 'em all cutie."
~ OMK
Sandy, I had trouble with the fourth Jumble word, and couldn't come up with the state name either. Would never have figured out the 'gopher' without your help. Not my best Jumble morning--or my best poem morning, as you'll see in a minute.
Owen, your poems just become more brilliant every day. Wonderful work this morning with all the Jumble words, including the solution without having to deface it. Very impressive.
And your Yorkshire verse is a hoot, Ol' Man Keith, brief and hilarious with that cute accent.
Can't complete, really, since mine will be my worst poem ever, as you'll see.
"Ninny Ginny"
Ginny was both nerdy and flirty,
and her jokes were quite a bit dirty.
She loved to tease with a sneeze
which her friends did not at all please.
They decided it would not do
just to bribe her with their motto:
"Your jokes are no pillar,
your humor's not a killer.
Come on, friend Ginny,
stop being such a ninny.
We'll buy you a mini-soda
if you come up with a coda."
Ginny sighed and said, "You win.
Now pour me some gin."
Wishing you all a
Merry Twelfth Night!
~ Celebrating the arrival of the Magi and, in Georgia, the senatorial freshmen!
~ OMK
Misty ~
Loved your well-named Ginny--
& her delightful coda!
~ OMK
I guess my timidity about posting on the Corner was justified. Two posts deleted that mentioned the tragic events at the Capitol today, the first simply applauding your remarks on the subject, the second only asking why my first post was deleted.
I seem to have said things in a way that TTP thought warranted deletion; wish I knew why.
Misty: Well, I wouldn't give up your day job - - - But it was definitely good enough for us connoisseurs of the form here, so keep it up!
Keith: A good and entertaining effort! Thank you!
I'm baffled, Sandy, I don't know why your post was censored on the Corner while my comments were left standing.
I took pains to avoid partisanship, but I thought your post was also fair.
Beats me.
I only saw your first; I was too late for the 2nd.
~ OMK
I knew the riddle-solution would be a groaner although fully knowing the "Gophers" of UMinn(i) I got the solution.
I didn't have trouble with the words as someone(OMK?) mentioned, if two consonants are in the J then they probably are together in the word. And vv.
OMK, as I was reading along I wondered about your post vis a vis "politics". Incredibly in this climate it is political. Right there in that nice group of CC'ers are a half dozen Trump forever types.
As my friend Robert (Picard) will attest the Right can get away with stuff the Left can't.
I just told a friend, I saw it coming but then talked myself out of it. Mr T was pretty clear that he wasn't giving up without a FIGHT.
At least only one death. That's a miracle. So far.
WC
OMK, if you go to TTP's blog that he mentioned in his post about political comments on the Corner, you will see why he deleted my post and not yours. I believe he misread my intent completely. And I don't even see how his reaction described my post as political. Well, no more posting on the Corner for me.
I really suggest you read TTP's response on his blog, OMK. He mentions do you as well.
I can't access that blog, Sandy. I tried TTP's link (to the "[Almost] Unrestricted Comment Blog"), but it only reaches the message you posted there, asking why some earlier post(s) had been erased.
What's going on? Huh?
~ OMK
Not sure you'd really want to hear. Could we communicate privately.
OMK: try shagueATcsulb.edu
Owen ~ Thank YOU, sir, for the kind words. They mean much, coming from the master of verse and of subtle embeds!
~ OMK
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