| || sight, ahead, growth, batten, set the bar high.
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17 comments:
FLN Sandy ~ No need at all for an apology. I appreciate your passion for the books. Very much so.
Thirteenth century England intrigues me. We know so much about England--and Britain generally--after the wars of the Roses, but way too little about what came before.
I will certainly check back in on this with you--if I start into the series and/or the books!
~ OMK
Thaks, OMK. If you do decide to check out the books, take a moment to Google Edith Pargeter. She was a truly interesting woman, aside from the Cadfael series.
As for this jumble, it really is a pun, isn't it!!! Hurrah!
But the cartoon -- I know who George and John are, but who's the guy with the beard? Can't be Ted Danson, can it? Nor Kelsey Grammer?
I thought it might be Kelsey. But I can't recall if he ever sported that facial hair (and bald wig) on the show.
"When the Bar(ometer) is Low"
In New England storms can be fierce.
We batten our windows each Fall,
and, when the first winter gale appears,
get out the muffler, hat, and shawl.
The sight of a red oak bending
warns of a Nor'easter ahead.
Its growth alerts us to impending
rains--or a whiteout blizzard to dread.
Newcomers are warned, "Learn to ski or to drink."
(The former's often scorned as martini glasses clink.)
~ OMK
"Dreaming Big"
On a cold and windy night
Nancy had a bright insight.
She was laying in her bed,
thinking of her life ahead.
What would best advance her growth,
give her joy and knowledge both?
Study science, study Latin?
Or maybe just move to Manhattan?
And so plans she began to batten.
On that night her dreams did fly
as she set her bar sky high.
I love her choice between Latin or Manhattan, Misty ~ as if one excludes the other.
It feels like just the right time--snuggled abed on a windy night--for a young girl to be wondering, planning on whatever lies ahead.
Comfortable rhymes and rhythm. Nice work.
~ OMK
Mike Lindell, that MyPillow guy,
For nuttiness has set the bar high!
His claims on sanity are slight
He claims that fraud's in plain sight!
His pillow's batting, polyurethane foam
May be in millions of American homes.
But the growth of his firm is in doubt.
Banned on Twitter, he can no longer shout!
Like Q-Anon, he's a delusional fad,
Seeing conspiracy where none's to be had.
What he see when he looks on ahead
Is nothing but the foam in his head!
Sorry, Sandy, for bringing current events into our escapist world here. And batten and batting aren't even related words, tho they do sound as if they should be. But since this is one of the more ludicrous aspects of the situation, it's easy to make fun of.
FLN, I read many of the Cadfael books, and obviously enjoyed them highly since I kept reading them. But I didn't get them all in order, and wished I had a chronology to keep the back-stories straight. Didn't know there was a TV series of them.
Misty, I also especially like the Latin/Manhattan lines!
I've never seen an episode of Cheers, but I'd guess the bearded guy is the producer or some such honcho.
Owen, why are you apologizing to me? I love funny political references, and nothing is too critical to say about Mike Lindell; he's a boob!
In the Cadfael books, Ellis Peters usually mentions the month and year of the story early on. There are googleable (!) lists as well.
P,S, I looked up Kelsey Grammar images and he did have such a beard later in life, but certainly not in the first season of Cheers. Maybe the cartoon is illustrating time travel, lol?
I defer to Owen
for always knowin'
'zackly how to do a current event.
That Lindell tool
is a grade-A fool,
a typical crony of our Ex-president.
~ OMK
Batten the hatches there's a storm a brew'n
Troublemakers on Harley's and other punks flown in
DC was a sight to behold there was surely mischief ahead
And violence too; and a Capitol Cop soon was lying dead.
Whatever happened in such a short time, how did anarchy grow?
The standards were high, decorum reigned, who set the the bar so low?
WC
I just saw the two barflies, I had to look again for the beard. Yes, surely Frasier. Shaved it off for his eponymous show.
Are we inspired by the debate raging on the floor? Such a show, the verdict assured much like watching the rerun of Sunday's game.
WC
13th Century. Richard takes an arrow in 1199 after aiding Ivanhoe. John signs Magna Carta in 1215. I'm guessing Edith's Series starts after that. I too need to lookup Cadfael He's familiar but I'm rusty.
WC
Owen methinks Mr Lindell actually set the nuttiness bar low although said bar is awfully low these days.
OMK, I was just talking about the Blizzard of '78. Came in in Monday. I was at the VA in Boston and literally caught the last subway and bus out of town. The next bus ran Friday.
Misty, this Nancy sounds familiar. A young gal planning big for her future. But Manhattan? Why not get away from the City. Buffalo perhaps. Football team's not much though.
WC
OMK, enjoyed your New England storm poem, and was happy it ended in clinking glasses.
Owen, poor, crazy Mike--hope he lets his conspiracy theories go. Is OMK right, that he might be a crony of our ex-president?
Wilbur, I'm guessing those are January 6 debates raging? By the way, I loved going to graduate school in Buffalo (doesn't rhyme well, though).
Yeah, I finally checked--as did Sandy--and saw Kelsey with the beard in a Cheers photo. I guess his character was allowed to grow it in later seasons.
Mystery solved, case closed.
I saw him play the title role in Richard II at the LA Music Center. The production was dull, poorly imagined, but he did quite a decent job.
Wilbur ~ I wasn't near the '78 blizzard, thank ye gods. I was down in the other VA at the time, in Richmond.
The Senate trial was a nail-biter anyway; the house managers' video made things feel closer and more lethal.
It is frustrating to know the outcome, and to watch the GOP lose its soul on a national hookup.
I remember in the early days of his regime, how Trump belittled our view of America as a "Good" nation.
He ALWAYS saw us as a banana republic.
Did he end up turning us into one?
Misty ~ Yes, Mark Lindell was in the news a lot recently, strangely, as a champion of Trump in the last days of that sorely lamented presidency.
I was in Buffalo only once in my life--on a tour of American professional regional theaters I was doing for TCG--and it was during a terrible blizzard.
Sadly it stamped my impression of the city forever.
White, white everywhere. Snow flying sideways.
For me it will always be a place where everybody (and their pets) stays indoors, transportation is limited, and streets are dangerous to walk.
I wish I'd known it as you did.
~ OMK
From the Jumble Answer blog:
"Today we find ourselves on the set of the long running TV favorite, ‘Cheers”. Seated at the bar, while one of the shows creators, James Burrows, fields a phone call, are two main characters, Cliff Clavin, a mailman at left, played by John Ratzenberger, and Norm Peterson, the ever-harried sometimes accountant at right, played to perfection by George Wendt. James has just gotten the news that the show has received an unprecedented 13 Emmy nominations, in this, their first year. Thirteen! Now that’s quite an accomplishment…and it definitely SET THE BAR HIGH! https://tinyurl.com/y3ne2dyu The hints? “Cheers” – a BAR…and James dialogue…”more Emmys than any other comedy…ever”…A HIGH standard to live up to…
Jeff’s Gems? John’s “little known fact” and George’s “I’ll drink to that”, went on to become signature catch phrases for their characters. They’d line ‘em up, so to speak…And I like the little USPS logo of the standing eagle that’s seen on Cliffs’ uniform shirt. But the best shot in today’s cartoon has to be that ‘80s cordless phone. https://tinyurl.com/2qackz9b Now that’s something to talk about!
Thanks, Owen!
But I swear you'd have to work behind the scenes on Cheers to know that was Jim Burrows. The hair is exactly like Kelsey Grammar's in his later photos.
I knew Jim Burrows years earlier, when he was a Yale undergrad who happened to direct my then wife--who was with me in the grad drama school--in a comedy revue that was a hit in New Haven, then played for agents for one night in NYC.
Jim and the cast, and me tagging along, went for drinks etc afterwards. His dad, Abe Burrows, joined us.
I would not recognize Jim nowadays of course--certainly not with that hairy mug.
~ OMK
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