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Today’s Jumble haiku:
(He’d lost his boots in fighting his last steer. He staggered to the winners’ podium in regular shoes…)
”Shoe’ed— (after) Fore-Fought”
He was unfit for
rodeo stunts. He’d fought his
last steer by the throat.
~ OMK
Wordle 6 June ‘23
Par=4
Wordle 717 3/6
🟩⬜⬜🟨⬜
🟩⬜🟩⬜🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
____________
W717
Not too hard to figure it out,
you can easily guess what it’s all about;
no need to post an explorer to serve as a sc….
~ OMK
Not for those with triskaidekaphobia,
Club Thirteen was a disco utopia!
The mirror ball
Lit up the hall,
And the bar was a cornucopia!
Wordle 717 5/6
🟨⬜⬜⬜🟩
⬜🟨⬜🟨🟩
🟩⬜🟨⬜🟩
🟩⬜🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
I had to look around to find this one.
Wordle 717 4/6*
⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜
⬜⬜🟩🟩⬜
🟨⬜🟩🟩⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
Here is some food for thought:
After a bullfight is fought,
Or a rodeo rider
Is bucked higher and higher,
Are the bull's mighty efforts for naught?
Does the bull make a fatal mistake
In charging the matador's cape?
If the man isn't gored,
The bull dies by the sword --
Will its steaks be adorned with black crepe?
For the steer in the wild west rodeo,
Its jumping up and down in the show
Clears the man from his back,
It's not unfit, it has the knack,
So it's pampered, and to stud will go!
So now, for which sport would you vote?
Which sport leaves you the most stoked?
One provides meat,
The other's kind of sweet.
Which one brings a lump to your throat?
Viewed and Sought
The rider fought both tooth and nail;
It would be unfit for him to fail.
He certainly would never gloat,
But grabbed that bronco by the throat.
The watching scout soon signed him up;
The rodeo circuit was a rise abrupt.
"Career Choices"
Riding a rodeo made Ron feel unfit
and though he fought the idea
he decided to quit.
Running for office
gave him new food for thought,
but his throat became sore
from a flu he had caught.
So he opened a diner
and began to cook.
His meals couldn't have been finer:
he had finally found his nook.
Woohoo! Woohoo! Thank you, thank you, Ol' Man Keith for your lovely and helpful verse today: it helped me get today's Wordle on a singly try!Woohoo!
Wordle 717 1/6
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
I wish you all a great, productive day as well.
And I had SHOOT before mine, WC.
I hope that rodeo talent scout steered your rider well, CEh!. I imagine that’s a tough league to move up to.
Does the riders’ union provide insurance?
Your guy doesn’t hesitate to jump from one job to the next, Misty.
It looks as though he had an eye out for his safety anyway, not risking all that much in the kitchen.
Owen ~ I admire interspecies compassion of the kind you show today. Several decades ago, when I was in El Paso, I used to attend bullfights in Juarez. I noticed how the crowds would sometimes take the side of the bull.
If the matador was not respectful of his animal, like trying some moves to trick him, the crowd would whistle down the human and applaud the toro.
I never saw one of those fights where they let the bull live, although I have heard of them.
They did, however, always let the matador live.
An unfair call, I sometimes thought…
~ OMK
OMK, your haiku once again amazed me: there they were, all four Jumble words in your 3 line verse and the solution in your title. Amazing, and it even made sense. Bravo!
Owen, you certainly did give us some complex food for thought in your challenging verse today. I gave it some thought, and I'm going for the sweet solution.
Sorry about disappointing your rider, CanadianEh!. Maybe he'll get a chance to opt for the sweeter solution too, at some later time. Liked your rhyming of 'throat' and 'gloat.'
Wilbur, I looked up 'bulkfight' hoping it was a more humane sport but apparently it hasn't been invented yet. You should consider suggesting it, but probably not to Ernest H.
Have a good afternoon, everybody.
I was curious about the origin of “Lord love a duck,” CEh, but it seems to be lost in the mists of time.
It can be used to note surprise and/or to register a pitying affection for the person being addressed, as in “Bless your heart & mildly limited brain.”
The latter only applies if a recipient is clear; when spoken “in general,” it is a shared surprise.
I wonder if the captains of the US & Canadian naval vessels were moved to utter such an expression when they were surprised by the Chinese missile launcher that cut them off over the weekend…?
(The news stories referred to the Canadian ship as HMCS Montreal.
Do the letters stand for “His Majesty’s Canadian Ship”?)
~ OMK
I like your rhyming title, CanadianEh!. I tried for a Spoonerism, but couldn’t quite manage it.
“Thought” easily morphed into “Fought,” but “Food” has no acceptable echo with a “Th” start.
In the end, I had to replace the fricative (“Th”) with the sibilant phoneme (“Sh”), which led me to the weird adjective you see.
And that, in turn, caused my poor cowboy to go bootless.
~ OMK
Owen, Maestro, it may aid casual readers to point out the two very different types of Wordle “hints” that appear on this page.
Some of our clues will disguise the W-words, so they can only be uncovered or decoded by those who already know the answer.
Today, for instance, readers are unlikely to find the 5-letter word bridging the gap within your phrase, “disco utopia,” unless they already know that for which they’re searching.
OTOH, a rhyming triplet like my W717 verse is meant to lead a guesser (like Misty) to the otherwise unknown answer.
Each serves a purpose, but they are very different.
~ OMK
Great Wordle work Misty. OMK left you a great clue.
Owen hid the W so well in the “disco utopia”. How do you think that up?
OMK- once again, the J answer was difficult to make into a title.. And we had our protagonist grabbing that steer/bronco by the throat, not the horns. Ah, the directions those J words send us.
Owen, as always, gives us masterful imagery, and a question to consider about bull fighting or rodeo riding. I vote for the rodeo riding.
Misty uses the throat for her Ron (not a bronco/steer). Actually now I see that Owen used our throats (with a lump in them)! I’m not sure about Ron’s work experience, going from a rodeo, to a run for office, to a diner. But the important thing is that he found his nook.
FLN- WC, thanks for the Chet poems.
Thanks for all your kind comments. I had written the above post earlier but did not get it posted until now.
OMK- somehow in trying to get some sort of Spoonerism yesterday, I took the Orderly Orderly and saw Lord(erly). Then that quaint expression, “Lord live a duck” got stuck in my head and I just had to use it. (I vaguely recall my British grandmother using it.)
Good question re HMCS. You are correct. I found a Wikipedia explanation - His Majesty’s Canadian Ship. (Ian still having trouble saying His!)
Keith, agreed, my purpose is different, purposely so. But then, I consider any W guessed in less than 3 tries either a cheat or a miraculous coincidence. I look at your clues, and i think them way too gimme, especially so since you've started adding the first letter or two. But I don't make the rules, nor do i read anything here before I've solved the W, so this is all strictly my humble opinion.
I do cheat in another way myself. I've discovered that rhymezone.com has some hidden functions. One is wild cards. If I've got, say, ⬜⬜🟩🟩⬜, I can enter ??OU? and it will give me a list of the first 10-15 words that fit that pattern. And with the most common words first!
Or if i put in *SCO, it will give me words ending in sco (with disco near the top of the list), UT* gives words starting with ut: utter, utah, utopia ...
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