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A vertical or a horizontal
Makes a line that you'll want to
Fill with drink
So all will think
Your straight line is really a punch line!
I escaped disaster on Wordle 518 5/6
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Having the letters, knowing where they ain't but stymied until I switched #2 to #5
If that makes sense
WC
Fln: I was gone most of tge day then it was Saturday xword time and I'm still trying to grok the NW
Misty, we're familiar with hieroglyphics from EGYPT. Michael Connelly wrote about HIERonymous Bosch
Perhaps my clue will get you the V instead of the L
WC
Wordle 18 Nov. ‘22
Par = 4
Wordle 518 3/6
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Turn, turn, turn…
~ OMK
FLN, Owen ~ Regarding your note 2 nights ago (11/17) that your cri du coeur on the 10th was probably caused by an hallucination, I certainly understand that.
When I was last in a hospital, back in 2012, they gave me Ambien. I learned the hard way that I must always list Ambien on medical forms that ask to what I am allergic.
It made me snooze briefly—but then I woke up in terror that the hospital was under attack! I was convinced there were bodies strewn in the hallway outside my room. And that machine guns had our ward under a constant spray.
If only I could crawl to the nurses’ station, I might contact someone in the outside world for HELP!
So, yeah, I get that you may have experienced something similar.
I am very glad to know it was not a serious emergency that we failed to act on.
~ OMK
Today’s Jumble haiku:
(I wonder if Royal sons get a tuition break when they lend their prestige to the schools they attend?
I imagine the hefty fees charged to other students easily also cover their expenses.
I would count it as another….)
“Royal Gain; (Don’t…)”
Daily pupils pay
enough for all enrolled to
keep Eton afloat?
~ OMK
"Jollier Job"
Dad wanted his son to be a pupil
to learn how to fly a plane.
But Paul hated the daily drill
which felt like a royal pain.
Instead Paul decided to enroll
in a program to steer a boat,
and he loved both the work and the goal
of staying on the sea afloat.
Ah! Perhaps this explains, Misty, why the British princes have for generations favored service in the Royal Navy. Maybe ‘twas because one of them, a century or two ago, wanted “to steer a boat.”
I guess today’s solution put the royals’ education & service on my mind (see above).
Prince George, Duke of Kent, seems to have been the first to serve in the RAF. This was in the 1930s, fairly late in the family’s history. But both William & Harry “learned how to fly a plane.”
I wonder how happy that made dad, Chas. III, who had himself learned to fly a “Chipmunk.”
~ OMK
Enjoyed your last two pieces, Owen, in modified limerick form.
Dug your “punch line” gag today.
Even for a non-comic purpose, the meter is pretty catchy.
Speaking of poetic form, I am thinking of trying a Petrarchan sonnet to mark my place for tomorrow’s day off.
We’ll see how that goes.
~ OMK
Owen, loved your verse this morning. Laughed out loud when I got to the last line--it cracked me up!
"Wilbur, am looking forward to seeing Chet and Lois this weekend. By the way, I did look up Michael Connelly yesterday and read that he apparently introduced detective Harry Bosch in one of his fictions in 1992.
OMK, I wish my Paul had spent his father's money and his time to go to Eton rather than hanging out in the air or in the water all the time.
Took four tries, but I got today's Wordle--that's what counts:
Wordle 518 4/6
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Loved your Royal family stories and especially tales about the princes and their aviation experiences, Ol' Man Keith. Had to look up "Chipmunk" to learn that it was a two-seat, single-engine Canadian airplane--who knew?
Wordle 518 2/6*
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My usual starting word was great today.
A Loyal Reign
The pupil daily study made,
to stay afloat,
avert a failing grade.
Many essays too he wrote,
Enrolled in History,
(The British monarchy).
OwenKL- thanks for the smile with your “punc( line” today.
WC- I had not seen your Wordle hint, but went for the V first.
OMK- I see you went for the L.
Great title and back story for your haiku. The benefits of royalty!
I had forgotten about King (it seems odd to call him that) Charles flying a Canadian de Havilland Chipmunk. Thanks for the reminder.
Misty- I’m glad that Paul’s dad allowed his son to follow his own career path on the sea, instead of forcing him to remain in flying.
Good work on the Wordle. You went for the L too.
Good for you, CEh!
My regular starter word kept me under par. I thought that was pretty decent.
But you! On only your 2nd glance, you went right for the unusual--for the "V"! Excellent!
Misty ~ Not bad. You made par! Like me, you chose the more common word along the way.
Still hoping you'll drop a hint one of these times. Not every time, mind you, but at least on occasion.
It is part of the victory dance, you know.
~ OMK
CanadianEh! ~
A neat lil' verse!
Parenthetically,
'splaining History
as the monarchy.
Great Britain's, that is.
I wonder if the Glitz
& GlamoUr
of UK Royalty
doesn't win an inflated role
in History at large?
But I gotta admit
when I compare the musty
olde protocols
& the flashy uniforms
horse guards and such
plus cathedrals with choirs
to any other Euro royals,
the Brits surely win, hands down.
~ OMK
So glad to have you back, CanadianEh!, and to get your delightful verse. Yes, it's hard not to think of the British monarchy in this year, when every time you open a paper or a magazine there is an article about one or another member, as OMK emphasizes in his cool follow-up to yours. I wonder how the royals are all coping with all this publicity? But I'm betting that the king in our Jumble cartoon this morning wasn't British but came from another planet.
OMK, looks like you're working on a non- or less- rhyming verse in your recent offering. What are they called if they don't rhyme? I've gotten so attached to your abab abab cc schemes, that I'm just not going to be able to give it up yet. But I'd love to learn more about the process of this new experiment.
Just saw that you were planning to offer a Petrarchan sonnet this morning, OMK. I looked it up and learned it is a sonnet form popularized by Petrarch, consisting of an octave with the rhyme scheme abbaabba and of a sestet with one of several rhyme schemes. Would still love to have you describe your strategy this morning.
No strategy, Misty and not "this morning."
If I finish it (the sonnet), you will see it tomorrow morning.
My recent practice is to signal my Sunday day off by leaving a non J-word poem-- just to remind folk.
I wouldn't call my experiments in form a "strategy." Just a way of testing which forms do what.
When I post non-rhyming offerings, they are simply called "free verse." Some people dispute whether they are "verse" at all.
I just break my thoughts into phrases. Sometimes I will slip in an occasional rhyme, or maybe an offbeat rhythm, but there is no plan or pattern to free verse.
A Petrarchan sonnet, on the other hand, is, as you note, a formal poem. Yes, it is an octave (two quatrains) and a sestet. In English we use Iambic pentameter, and there are a few rhyme schemes possible. I will probably go with ABBACDDC EFGEFG.
Probably.
~ OMK
I think the fourth stanza works better like this:
Oh sure,
I know why they work,
but they're unsure.
Words may be insufficient
to save their skin.
One misstep now
and the "anti"s win.
Thanks OMK and Misty.
And OMK got the U in Glamour!
I have often said that Americans excel at patriotism, but nobody can beat the Brits at Pomp and Ceremony.
Canada is a constitutional monarchy, and His Majesty King Charles III is King of Canada and Canada's Head of State. He is the personal embodiment of the Crown in Canada, and represented in Canada by the Governor-General (currently Mary Simon).
Under the 1982 Constitution Act, in order to sever ties with the monarchy, Canada would need approval from the House of Commons and the Senate, as well as the unanimous consent of all 10 provinces.
I can’t imagine that ever happening.
Thank you, thank you for your explanation of your free verse, OMK-- very helpful and makes all kinds of sense. And have a relaxing Sunday tomorrow.
And thank you too, CanadianEh!, for your helpful discussion of Canada's status as a constitutional monarchy--quite new to me and very interesting.
I always use one of the jumble clues as my starter, and only lost once since I started doing them less than a month ago.
I hope everyone recognizes that my recent l'icks here have all been Wordle based. I'm disappointing my self that no one has ever asked for the connection.
Now that you mention it, Owen, I can see W-words embedded in your posts.
I suppose they weren't looking for them because we are used to seeing the Wordle diagrams from those participating.
~ OMK
OwenKL- as OMK said, I was not looking for the Wordle in your poem. I see it now cleverly hidden at the beginning! I will make a note to watch for it.
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