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The opening poem should contain all the words (or variations of them) from today's Jumble and/or Wordle and/or Orijinz.
Comments are welcomed! And couching them in Poetry is NOT required.
Do not explicitly reveal any of the actual Jumble or Wordle answer words until after closing time, but embedding them surreptitiously in comment sentences is encouraged.
Comments are welcomed! And couching them in Poetry is NOT required.
Todayโs Jumble haiku:
ReplyDelete(This contestant wasnโt interested in spuds.
She spent her time processing pistachios, so her mantra had to beโฆ)
โSpit a Shellโ!
Assay a little
graft, or try an essay on
it. Win potatoes!*
~ OMK
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*My sweet Patootie!
Iโm not too old
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Something of little value you may โsell for a songโ, but if worthless, you may
ReplyDeleteโSell for a Spitโ
Essay re grafting
Of young little potatoes
Wasnโt marketable.
OMK- our Spooner attempts are slightly different today, but we are both spitting! That G word was hard to incorporate. And if my essay on potatoes is not marketable, Iโm not sure how valued a prize of potatoes will be. Great backstory. I donโt often get pistachios, but I do like them. LOL re โsweet Patootieโ
ReplyDelete"Cute Food"
ReplyDeleteEllen knew just what to day
when asked to write a clever essay.
She laughed at how to spell the word "graft,"
but worked it into her draft.
In her write-up she also did fiddle
with how to work in a little riddle.
So she told how a sweet potato
ended up making friends with a tomato.
In the end a cooking story she did tell
and it worked out surprisingly well.
Her editor even took her out to lunch,
to enjoy potatoes and tomatoes a whole bunch.
Misty- you did an admirable job of working those J words into your poem. I especially smiled at how you included that G word that was such an outlier. And the editorโs lunch menu gave another big smile. Ellen was very resourceful.
ReplyDeleteCanadianEh! ~ A longer backstory would be required to address all the contest rules for a competition for 500 words (or more!) on embezzling from shareholdersโ dividends. From stocks in, say, large farming combines.
ReplyDeleteSuch ill-gotten graft is hard to conceal, but if the winnerโs payout is in potatoes, the authorities motivation to investigate must surely be lessenedโand thereby may provide cover for our authors. Eh?
I think we did pretty well with our Spoonerized titles. I give you greater credit for avoiding the unwanted โShโ phoneme. And for the clearer utility (to farmers, for sure) of your poemโs subject matter, even
if it wasnโt widely appealing.
Misty ~ I wondered at first why anyone would laugh over the spelling of โgraft,โ but then realized your Ellen must have had a background in accountingโor some other branch of mathematicsโand therefore had assumed she was invited to submit an essay in which she would have been expected to have โgraphedโ her results for similarly motivated math readers!
Under such circumstances, she would naturally have found the other spelling most amusing.
As it was, she must have shown real skill in devising a way to create her โpot-amatoโ hybrid. Good for her!
~ OMK
ReplyDeleteThank you, thank you, thank you, CanadianEh!--this is the first Wordle I've gotten in ages, and it was only thanks to your helpful hint! Thank you, than you, again!
Wordle 899 1/6
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Liked your funny, charming haiku today, many thanks, Ol' Man Keith. But looked up the "p" word, and don't think I'll ever be using it, even though it has a second nice meaning.
ReplyDeleteHard to imagine re-grafting young little potatoes, but still made for a very cute haiku, CanadianEh!.
Thank you both for your kind comments on my verse today--much appreciated.
For Misty...
ReplyDeleteWhat "p" word can you mean?
Potatoes? Pistachios?
Or the slang for "Propeller" on the Corner?
Ah, Patootie?! Yes?
An abundance of riches...
~ OMK
Thanks all for your comments.
ReplyDeleteMisty- Iโm glad you got the Wordle!
I just gotta say--
ReplyDeletea day like today reminds me why I moved to SoCal in the first place.
Growing up in San Francisco, I was imbued with an early suspicion of Californians to the south; thinking the sun must bake their brains to a frazzle.
But I overcame that disdain and came here in 1980. Now, all these decades later, I have either come to appreciate the beauty of our warm climate
-or-
my brains have been properly baked!
A December day like today--a high of 80 (26.6 Celsius) with a mild breeze--ought to convince any old naysayers.
Our TV weather folk often refer to our Mediterranean weather. But when I look at Europe's reports these days, I'm sure they wish they had a SoCal climate.
Je parie que j'ai raison!
~ OMK
Glad you got the Wordle, Misty!
ReplyDeleteBut I'm sure you could knock them out without trolling for hints.
They are not all that difficult. (I am on a 35-wordle roll right now. It would be longer except I sometimes forget to do it on a Sunday, then must start all over.)
Anyway, when you go on line to find the daily challenge (I just click on "NYT W)", you will find plenty of sites that offer hints.
But give it a few tries on your own.
You can do it!
~ OMK
Ol' Man Keith>, enjoy your California December, and thank you for your kind Wordle suggestions.
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