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Todayโs Jumble haiku:
E(Imagine a new well-made German language film of Johann David Wyssโ novel, Swiss Family Robinson.
Its producers are eager to follow the original-language success of All Quiet on the Western Front.
Until recently they could not find the funding*.
But now the directorโs friends in Hollywood have managed to make a deal with a major company to provide the necessary capital.
An encrypted WhatsApp has been sent to the producers โฆ)
โTies That Bindโ
โStudio money
will pay to import that brave
Swiss family film!โ
~ OMK
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* For English subtitling and dubbing/lip-synching, as well as for the costs of promotion and distribution.
FLN, Misty & CEh! ~ Hereโs a partial excerpt of my last post to you both:
For today's hint to Misty, it is important, I guess, not to get too stuck on the idea of the "right dose" filling a cup with Chanel parfum!
My hints always depend on what has been left out.
CEh narrows it down by pointing to the part of the designer's name that's missing.
~ OMK
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Ps. Misty, please let me know if you โget itโ!
The world would be a better place
If Nationalities removed their face
From ethnic pride,
To look inside
At how violations would disgrace!
To make "Blazing Saddles" today
One would have to be brave! And to play
A leading role in the flick
Would take skin a foot thick,
And a great deal of money for pay!
You couldn't make it in the U. S. of A.!
A foreign studio would have to have say.
They could film it o'erseas
To Americans tease,
And import it as "The Armenian Way!"
Would theaters in the United States buy it?
Some would be reluctant to try it.
But irreverent fame
Is the name of the game.
Tho the Times would likely decry it!
No hints, I played by the rules on today's Wordle 690 4/6
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BTW, Misty, if you solve in one guess Wordle awards you as GENIUS
WC
I was almost in hot water until I got my act together.
Wordle 690 5/6*
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Tie Sublime
Bravo for studies (though few)
About the importance (not new)
Of family time (not squandered by electronics).
No amount of money (with impacts so tectonic)
Or work ethic (that desire to please)
Can outdo love (the greatest of these).
OMK- what a long but perfect backstory for your succinct haiku. Our titles mirror each other.
(We may have been too late in our W hints to Misty FLN.)
Owen gives us a variation on the W, to comment on how national and ethnic pride can lead to a violation of the W. Many current news items in Africa and Asia (and even indigenous issues here at home) could be narrowed down to this cause.
And Owen picks a different movie than OMK for his J poem. (I took a variation on the S word and avoided the movie theme. (Maybe Misty will go with the NY size apartment meaning.)
No word from Ms. Misty so far today. She may have tasks to do at homeโor may still be working out Wordle 689.
Your poem, CanadianEh, is a carefully modulated paean to Love (subtly based on 1 Cor. 13:13).
I like (or appreciate) how you find the โSublimeโ in the balance (or imbalance) between opposing (or complementary) positions.
Woo (hmm) Hoo!
~ OMK
Sorry I'm late to the blog today. I attended a Zoom UCIEA meeting this morning, and had a series of things to do afterwards. So it's been a bit of an exhausting day so far. Please forgive my being a bit out of it and not able to respond to all of your interesting comments and items.
As to your delightful haiku yesterday, Ol' Man Keith, sorry I didn't get it.
I know you must think I'm loco,
but I just needed a cuppa cocoa.
My today's verse
will be even worse.
"Mime Rhyme"
When Mona got paid all that money,
her day became happy and sunny.
Her job dealing with import
felt like a vital sport
and she was careful and brave
and did all that cash save.
She rented a studio when it became time
for her to retire in her prime
and she decided to learn how to rhyme
and write verses that were simply sublime.
(Were they a success
or were they a mess?
You decide,
and she'll abide).
WC ~ Great job, in par while working w/o hints and wasting your whole starter!
CEh! ~ Brava, wrestling 690 in 5, in disciplined steps.
This oneโs for you (two) โฆ
You may live by a singularโs yield
but may study in plural the entire field.
Or you can say, the โsโ is a mugโs game,
and in the end theyโre both just the same.
However you decide, be sure your verb is plural,
unless, of course, the singular avoids a quarrel.
~ OMK
But you got it now, Misty, and thatโs what counts.
Too bad itโs too late for us to announce
you as a vamp in one line
and the champ of 689!
Welcome back! Youโre having a busy day,
but weโre happy to see you, anyway.
Your Mona seems to be
another in your steady repertory
of solid young ladies who have a work ethic
we should all emulate. Nobodyโs a critic
of your fine heroine
whose standards are authoritarian*.
~ OMK
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* In the good sense.
Thank you, thank you, for all your delightful productions today, Ol' Man Keith: clever haiku, kind responses to everyone, then even more fun verse responses, just delights everywhere. You're a Wednesday hero in every way, and especially mine on my difficult day. And I'm just awed and amazed that you managed to rhyme 'heroine' with 'authoritarian'.
Owen your Western movie verse is so interesting and complicated--obliging us to imagine what Westerns would be like if they were produced in other countries but then aired in the United States. Liked your rhyme of 'overseas' and 'tease'.
CanadianEh!, you seem to have invented a whole new poetic model with your "Sublime" rhyme, with each line beginning with a brief statement followed by a quiet, brief comment on the statement. I'm not sure I've ever seen a verse like that--very original and delightful. I really liked it.
Okay, Wilbur, I'll try a Wordle today but there's absolutely no way I could possibly get it on a first try without a hint. Let's see how it goes.
My goodness, I worried that I might not get this Wordle at all because I felt I was running out of choices. But woohoo! it worked on my third try:
Wordle 690 3/6
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My apology for all those empty spaces after each of my messages. Hope it doesn't happen on this one.
Congrats on your Wordle success Misty.
Thanks to you and OMK for the kind words on my Tie Sublime poem. I must admit that my novel poetic model was based on โnecessity being the mother of inventionโ. I had the poem with all the J words and the W included or hidden, but nothing rhymed. Thus I added all the parts in brackets making them rhyme. And yes OMK, that last line did pop into my head from I Corinthians 13. โTheseโ alludes to faith and hope . . . and of course it rhymed! LOL.
Misty- yes, you fulfilled my guess and took the NY size apartment! Your Mona followed my advice from yesterday and saved her money, allowing her to retire and branch out into writing. I think her poems were a success.
OMK- I am still working on deciphering your poem for WC and me re the W. Excellent thoughts re the singular and plural meanings of it. Iโm still working on the last two lines - the W is singular, but the W with S is plural.
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