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Saturday, August 13, 2022

13 Aug. 2022


Please go to 𝕮𝖍𝖎𝖈𝖆𝖌𝖔 𝕿𝖗𝖎𝖇𝖚𝖓𝖊 for today's Jumble, Printable or Interactive. Then return here to discuss it! That site wa available from 6:00 pm (Mountain Time) yesterday.

You may also find a printable version at the A𝖗k𝖆𝖓𝖘𝖆𝖘 𝕯𝖊𝖒𝖔𝖈𝖗𝖆𝖙-𝕲𝖆𝖟𝖊𝖙𝖙𝖊 , from about ~11 pm (MT) yesterday.
A color interactive version is available from 3 am (MT) today at the 𝕮𝖍𝖎𝖈𝖆𝖌𝖔 𝕿𝖗𝖎𝖇𝖚𝖓𝖊

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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.

15 comments:

Ol' Man Keith said...

Wordle 420 Hint:
Two syllables, one vowel, no repeated letters; an adjective; describes a muscular man
Par = 4
Wordle 420 1/6

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Congrats to WC for making par, even hint free!
~ OMK

Ol' Man Keith said...


Today’s Jumble haiku:
I have witnessed alcoholic withdrawal, & I have heard delirium tremens described in various ways…

Buzzin’ the Place

Cobalt piglets need
to be watched—oozing a sense
of exotica.
~ OMK

Misty said...

"Silly Gift"

Walter gave her a cobalt watch,
along with a bottle of Scotch.
To make their engagement commence,
these gifts seemed to make good sense.

In return, his love gave him a piglet,
a present he would never forget.
He laughed at this silly gift case,
which got their engagement off at a fun pace.

Ol' Man Keith said...

LOL, Misty, I suppose the emphasis in your 4th line must be on the equivocater, “seemed.”
Wouldn’t a cobalt watch be a carcinogen?
“The time? It’s half past a rash, almost 20 to a pimple!”

But a piglet would be wonderful. Walter lucked out in that exchange!
Have you been to the piglet races at the OC County Fair? They run their little feet off!
Leaping, rolling—they define “Frolic”!
This year I couldn’t go, but my wife and her mom did. They brought home a lovely photo of the two of them posing with the winning pig.
I asked if there was any trouble getting him to look straight in the camera, to pose.
“No, he was very professional.”
~ OMK

Misty said...

OMK, all I learned about cobalt was that it was blue, so I'm sorry to hear it may cause rashes and pimples.

Loved your story about that piglet at the Orange County Fair, and, especially, your wife's professional answer.

Well, I posted a terrible Wordle this morning, five or six tries, but it didn't register. Sounds like maybe the same problem CE was having yesterday.

I'm going to an outdoor supper with three friends as the Sapphire eatery downtown here in Laguna this evening. Am looking forward to it, but it makes for a busy day. Hope you have a good one, OMK.

Ol' Man Keith said...

Your supper plans should be very pleasant. But I understand how an evening event can crowd your day.
I believe you deserve an additional hint for this Wordle, as it is (IMHO) a bit of a awkward usage.
If I have ever used a version of this word (I am not sure I have), I would have spoken it as a noun, dropping the “Y” on the end. That’s what turns it into an adjective.
I think the word was suitable for the young Schwarzenegger.

Have a lovely evening!
~ OMK

Ol' Man Keith said...

Oh, I think I mis-read your note about Wordle, Misty!

I took you to mean you weren’t able yet to finish.
But you meant you weren’t able to post your result—that you were censored—didn’t you?
Sorry that happened.
It hasn’t hit me yet. I don’t know what’s going on, but it is strange following so quickly Owen’s warning to me.
~ OMK

CanadianEh! said...

Yes Misty, I posted my Wordle result this morning. It was the third comment.
Gone now!??
Something is afoot!

CanadianEh! said...

Wordle 420 4/6*

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Ol' Man Keith said...

I am sorry, CEh!, that you are having a hard time posting your Wordles.
And now Misty is also coming under fire. It is a mystery, one that seems calculated to induce paranoia in lesser persons.
I expect I will be next. I don't know why I have been spared this long.

BTW, congratulations on today's Wordle!-- both for solving it in 4 (a tricky, mostly unused word) & for finally getting it posted past whatever censoring device has you in its sights.
~ OMK

Misty said...

OMK and CanadianEh!, we were now able to post our two morning Wordles. Maybe there was just some silly problem with the Jumble operation this morning? But then it cleared up later in the day? Very confusing--wish we could figure out what's going on. But, still good news that it finally worked. Let's see how it goes tomorrow.

Misty said...

Okay, my Wordle posted on my second try just now. Let's see if it stays there when I send this message.

Misty said...

Nope, got erased again. Here's my third try:

Wordle 420 5/6

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Misty said...

Okay, my third Wordle try just posted. Let's see if it stays after I post this message.

Ol' Man Keith said...

So weit, so gut!
Your diagram stayed in place, Misty. You may be right, that there was a gremlin in the works for a particular period of time.
If we all just keep clean minds and good hearts, maybe the snags will go away...

Good job with your W! I know it took five tries, but it really was a tricky word.
And it is just a "bogey"--one over par.
~ OMK