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Todayโs Jumble haiku:
(Every fall, our undergrad colleges sponsor a contest to see which freshman class fields the best dubbing group.
This year, the champs will win with a tune about a lulu of a drunken weekday, as theyโฆ)
โLip (Synch) a Songโ
All-Campus Input
has it that โDoozy Tuesdayโโs
gladly the winner!
~ OMK
Once there was a girl named Suzy.
Going to school made her woozy.
But on tests she would get choosey
And her answer was oft a doozy!
Her favorite hymn, she wrote with care,
Was "Gladly, the cross-eyed bear."
When her test pencil began to wear,
She said, "It's pointless to input there."
Asked her zip code, she answered "naught."
Zip was zero, so she thought.
When told a pet along should be brought
She brought a long, a snake she caught.
The campus smiled along with Suzy
Whose answers showed she was no floozy!
"Cheerful Job"
The teacher on campus worked so gladly
until she lost her job and had to leave, sadly.
To find new work she tried not to be choosy
and so was delighted when she found a doozy.
Her new client in a wheelchair gave her much input
on how to exercise him, and massage his foot.
This made her so happy she felt like singing a song
when on their long walks, they zipped along.
An excellent poem, Misty!
Your teacher is apparently a professor of physical therapy, to be so quick & able to switch from academia to personal services. I can see her now, โzippingโ along with her new employer, with a song in their heartsโฆ
If they should encounter Owenโs Suzy, maybe the entire group could burst into a favorite hymn!
My lippy freshmen songsters might gain courage from themโand exchange their skilled fakery for some true tunes!
~ OMK
I took a lot of guesses to get to the drink.
Wordle 696 5/6*
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Well, Ol' Man Keith, it sounds as though we might have a choir getting organized here. If your person stops the lip-syncing and begins to actually sing a tune--maybe along with Owen's Suzy, who loves hymns-- then my teacher could get a lovely musical group organized. Now all we have to do is find a stage on which they could perform, someone to tape their performance, get it put on TV one night, and then cheer when we read the newspaper reports the next morning. Wow! I think we have a great career ahead--even in our retirement!
No, actually, I just realized with need CanadianEh! and Wilbur's talents too before that could all happen.
Too Long Sipping
That first year on campus
Can be a doozy,
For late nights that make you woozy.
If you donโt remember just ask us
The common solution is increased input
Of caffeine in any form.
Latte may be the norm
But the bill may be hard to foot.
Nespresso or Keurig machine gladly received,
The budget strain to be relieved.
Owen- what an ingenious way you have if hiding the W, but yet giving a clue. (You give us โlateโ and โadd a teaโ.) Plus a description of the drink. Clever.
WC- yes, I tried that dull, non-shiny word also (plus a couple before that, that I thought were too French to be accepted).
OMK- great title and back story. And Doozy Tuesday beats Ruby Tuesday. Good work.
Owen gives us Suzy (and all her rhyming friends). I laughed to be reminded again of that childrenโs misinterpretation of the hymn line. (I recall โSad, Sad the bitter whaleโ also).
Mistyโs teacher must not have had tenure. But she picked herself up after losing her job, and moved into a different form of work, which she seemed to excel at. Plus she (and her client Iโm sure) were rewarded with happiness.
LOL, OMK and Misty re the musical shifts and performance possibilities. Perhaps my poor students can provide refreshments, as I did not have them singing. But who knows, maybe they have some untapped musical talent too.
CanadianEh! ~ You remind me of the additional pints (gallons?) of coffee I imbibed in my first years as an undergrad.
Even that turned out not to be enough for all-night cram sessions before exams and term paper deadlines.
My Mom came to the rescue (!) with her โdiet pills,โ that turned out to be Dexedrine.
Back then, we were blithely unaware of the addictive powers of amphetamines. We ingested them โas neededโ at the ends of semesters, and they helped us sail through.
Regarding American university teachers, the majority do not enjoy tenure. Most of those teaching classes who are not on โtenure trackโ (but have not yet achieved tenure) are either advanced students or part-time lecturers.
Their status is changing for the better now that the University of California has recognized their unionization! This is a very recent development at UC, giving them major salary increases and other benefits.
Just to be clear, Misty, my lip-sync group was not a single โperson,โ but a skilled quartet. It isnโt hard for one person to mouth the words, but to train as a trio, quartet, or even quintet to synchronize together with real precision is a real challenge.
For sheer numbers alone, we would not need help from anyone else to form a respectable singing โgroup.โ
~ OMK
Sorry, OMK, I'd best leave discussions of singing groups to you.
Just as well, since CanadianEh!'s students are hard at work, trying to stay awake with coffee. Neat verse about a tough time for young people, I liked it very much.
Did you need some coffee too, Wilbur? Nice to see you check in.
OMK, I just noticed that you put "Doozy Tuesday" in quotes, as though it might be the title of a book or a movie or something? Would the Jumble folks have had that in mind when they put "doozy" in a Tuesday Jumble?
I read your poem again, Owen, and it cracked me up. That's a portrait of a very interesting and complicated young Suzy--very funny!
I had asthma medication that I never took but before my Economics final I took it and stayed up all night. I remember listening to The Fleetwoods
WC
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