NALKP = PLANK

AKWEA = AWAKE

SHOTOE = SOOTHE

DUTBEG = BUDGET

CARTOON ANSWER:

WHEN THE OX-LIKE ANTELOPE MET UP WITH HIS FRIENDS, HE SAID —

ANWSHUGT = WHAT’S “GNU”

Good morning everyone and happy Wednesday!  SOOTHE was the only word to give me a bit of trouble today.  After staring at it for a minute or so, it finally came into view and I breezed right through to the cartoon.  With one of the words in quotes, I wasn’t going to be baited into trying to solve it without the clue letters.  After writing them out and reading the dialogue and sentence, I figured my safest bet was to find the word that had the apostrophe.  WHAT’S came instantly leaving N-U-G.  After a bit of thinking, GNU came to mind so I wrote it down but it didn’t look right.  A quick google search (and some interesting reading about this species) put my apprehension to rest and another puzzle was solved.  This puzzle was a great challenge for a Wednesday and I hope the pattern continues for the rest of the week.  Have a wonderful day and I’ll see you tomorrow!

AREOP = OPERA

CEFTA = FACET

CUGORH = GROUCH

LIMYTE = TIMELY

CARTOON ANSWER:

THE CHICKENS WERE TIRED OF LIFE ON THE FARM AND WANTED TO —

OPEFCOHTLY = FLY THE COOP

Good Tuesday morning my friends!  Today we had clue word choices that were definitely more challenging than yesterday but they only caused me a few extra seconds of delay.  FACET would be my pick for the most difficult word to decipher followed by OPERA.  Moving along to the cartoon puzzle, I read the sentence and didn’t have a guess as to what the answer was going to be.  Writing out the letters, THE was all I needed to solve for the rest of the solution to fall neatly into place.  My favorite part of the cartoon was the line “I keep losing roommates.”  That sure is one smart chicken!  Speaking of smart chickens, there is a chicken with glasses in the coop that is reading something.  Try as I might to enlarge the image, it was still distorted.  My guess was that it said “Chicken Little” but perhaps we’ll never know.  Have a terrific Tuesday and I’ll see you tomorrow!

GITMH = MIGHT

NIFAT = FAINT

CUBELK = BUCKLE

MURNEB = NUMBER

CARTOON ANSWER:

THEY DROVE AT 60 MPH, AND HIS ANNOYING PASSENGER WAS TALKING A —

MITAIULENME = MILE A MINUTE

Good Monday morning and welcome back to another week of Jumble fun!  All of the clue words came instantly today as they usually do with Monday puzzles.  Moving on to the cartoon, we encounter two men in a vehicle where there is a one-sided conversation taking place.  The passenger seem’s very happy and is blathering on about coffee while the look on the driver’s face as well as the thought bubble above his head indicate that he’s not enthused by the topic of conversation.  The letter layout on this one left the answer very cryptic, however; I already had an idea as to what the solution was going to be by reading the sentence.  I wrote the letters down just to double check myself and sure enough it all worked out.  Looking at the cartoon one last time, I noticed no rear window to the vehicle and wonder if they are driving in a convertible.  Their ties are nice and straight so I guess we’ll have to wait and hear from Mr. Knurek on that one.  Let me know what you think and enjoy your Monday.  I’ll see you tomorrow!

CCINOI = ICONIC

OCYNTO = TYCOON

RUYGEN = GURNEY

HOUTAR = AUTHOR

TOCXIE = EXOTIC

SUNEGI = GENIUS

CARTOON ANSWER:

HE FELL OFF THE TREADMILL BECAUSE HE WASN’T —

IICTONUNEARXICGES = EXERCISING CAUTION

Have a wonderful Sunday and I’ll see you tomorrow!  🙂

CLXEE = EXCEL

MALPC = CLAMP

SOPOPE = OPPOSE

PXTEEM = EXEMPT

CARTOON ANSWER:

THE NEW APARTMENT BUILDINGS WERE VERY CONFUSING.  IT WAS A —

EXCLCLMOPPOXEM = COMPLEX COMPLEX

Have a great Saturday!!!  🙂

TYHEM = THYME

TAIRO = RATIO

TRAEAK = KARATE

ARUBUE = BUREAU

CARTOON ANSWER:

AFTER SCUBA DIVING FOR HOURS, THEY WERE READY TO —

THERATKAEBREA = TAKE A BREATHER

Good morning everyone and happy Friday!  KARATE and BUREAU are my choices for the most difficult words today.  KARATE came into view after staring at it for a few seconds, and BUREAU took 3 self-jumbles to figure out.  Moving on to the cartoon, we encounter two divers in a boat who appear tired and exhausted.  After reading the dialogue and sentence, we discover that they’ve been diving for quite a long time today and that they need some rest.  Writing out the clue letters, A was a given as the single letter.  Looking at the last four letters of the anagram allowed me to find BREATH faster than expected causing the rest of the solution to fall neatly into place.  I hope everyone has a relaxing and enjoyable weekend and I’ll see you tomorrow!

MALAL = LLAMA

MOFYA = FOAMY

DUNSED = SUDDEN

KILEYL = LIKELY

CARTOON ANSWER:

THE GARBAGE DUMP OVERFLOWED WHEN THE —

LLFADDNLIE = LAND FILLED

Good morning and happy Thursday my friends!  It’s great to be back from vacation and I’m ready to get back into the Jumble groove.  Today’s puzzle had excellent clue word choices with LLAMA and SUDDEN giving me the most trouble.  Moving along to the cartoon, we are at a garbage transfer facility where a man is attempting to discard his rubbish but is being informed that the site is closed.  Jeff added a couple of interesting items to the back of his truck which appear to be an old water heater as well as a bicycle.  The final solution took a little work in the margin of my newspaper but wasn’t overly difficult.  I decided to cross out FILL first, followed  by LAND.  That left ED for the finish.

If anyone was wondering, our family vacation was a mix of business and pleasure.  My wife’s cousin was getting married so it was off to Istanbul, Turkey for the wedding!  What an unforgettable experience it was with the location being an old Ottoman palace on the edge of the Bosphorus.  There were approximately 500 guests and the evening started with a cocktail reception, the ceremony, and finished off with the most elaborate wedding dinner that I’ve ever seen.  Course after course of delish local foods were served and then it was time for the dancing and partying.  I’ll end the story there as the party lasted well after 2 am.  Everyone had a wonderful time and the bride and groom left for their honeymoon in Bali.

I know that I was supposed to post pictures along the way, but our iPads were left on the plane and we didn’t have them during the entire trip.  Thank goodness almost everyone in Turkey speaks English and we were able to locate them in the lost and found of our airline and they are currently being shipped back to us.  I apologize for not following through with what I hoped was going to be a fun guessing game.  The few pictures that I sent to Angela via email used up just about the last of my international data package which was only 300mb.  Interestingly, the answer to where I was could  be found if you zoomed in on the road sign in the background of the photo that she posted.  Pretty sneaky, right?!

From Istanbul we went to Izmir, Turkey where we stayed at my mother in law’s apartment for a day before renting a car to go to her waterfront summer home in Cesme.  We spent the following week relaxing at the edge of the Aegean Sea.  We purchased my son a fishing spear gun and he had hours and hours of fun snorkeling in the turquoise blue waters in search of dinner.  Although he never was able to spear one, the tales of the big fish that got away were very filling!  We took day trips to Bazaar’s for shopping as well as a boat ride around the area and ate out at all of the different waterfront restaurants every evening.

All wonderful things eventually come to an end and so did our vacation.  The 10 hour plane ride was torture but we survived and knowing that you’re on the way home is always a great feeling.  Thanks to Angela for keeping the fun flowing as there would be no way that I could have kept up with the posts while I was gone.  Thanks for listening and I’ll see you tomorrow!

EYTSA – YEAST

SIPEO – POISE

GEMAPI – MAGPIE

BRFDIO – FORBID

CARTOON ANSWER:  BIG BEN RINGS ON A REGULAR BASIS WITH THE – – –

EASTPSEMAGFOI – – – PASSAGE OF TIME

Good Morning, Everyone! NOW AND “BEN”…TIME PASSES

🎶”TIME after TIME, I tell myself that I’m, so lucky to be loving you..So lucky to be the one you run to see In the evening, when the day is through…And time after time, you’ll hear me say that I’m, so lucky to be loving you…”🎶

‘Gotta be honest, this wasn’t the first song that popped into my head this morning. But, the first THREE, (Yes, THREE)! all dealt with Love LOST,…and this couple isn’t, in the YEAST. They’re happy, they’re smiling, they’re exHEIGHTed! So…We’ll go with the classic!
TIME to get to work: MAGPIE? Magpie? Did this one peck at you? (Good ONE, Dave)! The rest are SECOND HAND..BEN here before. HOUR cartoon: Two TOWERists in London, visiting BIG BEN…And, does our man know what he’s TOCKing about or what? BEN is the name of the BELL only, the TOWER’s name is Elizabeth! But, look closer…he’s looking it up! What did we do once uPUN a TIME before iPhones? Seems like such a long TIME ago…doesn’t it? Now we deBENd on them for everything! SupPOISE we ever left them at home? God FORBID…we couldn’t FACE the day! So Jeff’s showing us the couple PASSing their TIME at the London landmark. The man’s got the info, the woman CHIMES in with the TIME. And the BELL’s about to RING! The “PASSAGE OF TIME“…And we’re LON..DONE! Today’s eye candy has to be the man’s phone…It actually shows a tiny picture of BIG BEN! What MINUTE detail! RING my BELL! Jeff, You’re SECOND to NOON!

TIME to go, Folks. Once again, great eFOURTH by HOUR Jumble Guys!…
Have a great day, EveryONE, and don’t let time pass you by… ⌛️⏳🙋🏻

RIP 💔 Glen Campbell…🎶”And I’ll want you for all TIME…”🎶

GWUNS – SWUNG

THUMO – MOUTH

SLCOTY – COSTLY

KAWYEL – WEAKLY

CARTOON ANSWER: THEY STUDIED THE ATTRACTIVE PROPERTIES OF CERTAIN METALS AT THE – – –

SNGMOHCOTEAL – – – MAGNET SCHOOL

Good Morning, Everyone! MAGNETIC ATTRACTION…PULLED ME RIGHT IN!

🎶”I take 2 steps forward, I take 2 steps back…We come together…Cuz opposites attract. And you know, it ain’t fiction, just a natural fact, We come together…Cuz opposites attract…”🎶
Opposite ATTRACTION …Exciting, mysterious, alluring. The Ying and Yang…Like a moth to a flame, Opposite Attraction is a POWERful thing. That MAGNETIC force that pulls us in, that…Oh, wait…This really isn’t about THAT is it? It’s about MAGNET SCHOOLS, (she says WEAKLY)… Oh, ok. Let me rethink this, before the wrong thing comes out of my MOUTH. School, hmm. Not really my FIELD. I was so POSITIVE that I’d be going in another DIRECTION…IRONic, isn’t it? I was all ready to talk about men and women, and instead I got boys and girls! Ok then, time FERROUS to get to AU words: Nothing POLARIZING with them today, I GAUSS because we’ve seen them before. Our cartoon shows us a classroom in an ELEMENTary school…The RESONANCE called a MAGNET school is because it “DRAWs” students across natural boundaries and teaches specialized courses. They’re no more COSTLY than average, because they AU public schools. Jeff’s showing us a teacher CONDUCTing a class about the MAGNETIC ATTRACTION of certain METALS, and you can see by the excited looks on the kids faces, that they’re MAGNETIZED by it all…And there’s our solve. Easy, breezy, very well done, Jumble Guys! There’s a lot of controversy regarding MAGNET schools, opinions run POSITIVE and NEGATIVE. But I’m CURIEous…Is this a shout out to the all the ‘Nobel‘ work David Hoyt does with educating children? I’m STEMted to ask…I read an awful lot, so I’ll TALCOTT as such. Eye candy? All the wide eyes on these kids. Learning can be fun!

So, I started off a little MISALIGNED with my subject today. For a minute there, I thought it could have SWUNG both ways…but the kids won out. But I’m going on record saying…My original topic? That old Ying and Yang…? Definitely would have ATTRACTED a lot more attention!
Happy Tuesday…Everyone!

PULL out all the stops today! 📓 🙋🏻

via — Jumble Answers

TUYOH – YOUTH

LUPIT- TULIP

PHOYCP – CHOPPY

RANTDS – STRAND

CARTOON ANSWER: WHEN THE OWLS MADE THEIR PLANS, THEY WERE- –

OHTICOSAN  = IN CAHOOTS

Good Morning, Everyone!     🦉 “OWL BE SEEING YOU”! 🦉

🎶”But still you wonder, WHO’s cheatin’ WHO, And WHO’S bein’ true? WHO don’t even care anymore? It makes you wonder, WHO’S doin’ right by someone tonight, And WHOse car is parked next door…”🎶 First song that popped into my head…Not even close? HOO-WHO..? Hey, I just hear ’em, Folks, I don’t write ’em…

OWL kidding aside, I think you either “know” today’s answer phrase or you don’t. I’m only saying this because a few years back, saying this to one of my nephews, he cracked up with laughter. “In cahoots? What the he– is in cahoots”? And you know, for a second there I wasn’t sure myself! It just came FLYING out of my mouth…”You and your brother are in cahoots with this aren’t you”? So I called him this morning at 6AM, and asked him if he remembered. Three things: 1- He did. 2- He’s used it since then. 3- Most people reacted like he first did. (Well 4 actually, but….! Enough said)! Let’s get to our words…I feel confident in TALON YOUTH that we’ve seen these words before. Easy, breezy, done in one fell SWOOP. On to our cartoon: Two devious OWLS, planning to scare a squirrel. What are they figuring? Yelling “BEAK a BOO? Is this what OWLS do? Sit in TREES and wait for the NEST victim, plotting FOWL play? But aren’t OWLS nocturnal, and squirrels diurnal? Is this normal, or just a one-NIGHT STRAND? Some FLIGHT of fancy on Jeff’s part? And look at the grin on that squirrels face, NUThings fazing him! All bright-eyed and BUSHY TAILED! He’s has no clue…Wait a minute, WAIT -A- MINUTE….Are they going to eat him? BeCLAWS if they are…Oh, this is just NUTS! That poor squirrel. Look, I’m no fan of squirrels, going around CHOPPYing from tree to tree. But I don’t want to see these TU-LIP him apart, LIMB from LIMB! HOO’s idea was this? Jeff? Dave? Are you guys “IN CAHOOTS” with this?…BABOOM! The solve, Folks! OWL rest my case…

Eye candy? That grin. An OWLbsolute HOOT!
Jumble Guys, cute puzzle. I’m not NUTS about it, but OWL live. Can’t FAUNA over it, but I’ll survive…and PREY the squirrel does too…

FINAL THOUGHT, if I may. If you get a chance today, check out LaDainian Tomlinson’s Hall of Fame acceptance speech from Saturday night. Moving, unifying, truly inspirational… 🎶”OWL you need is love…”🎶
Happy Monday, Everyone! OWL see you around… 🦉🙋🏻

                                  HAPPY INTERNATIONAL FRIENDSHIP DAY! 

PARTUB – ABRUPT

XREEIP – EXPIRE

THIGCL – GLITCH

TONGET – GOTTEN

GELUNF – ENGULF

DOHSAW – SHADOW

CARTOON ANSWER:  THE ARCHAEOLOGISTS ONCE DATED AND COULDN’T HELP- –

PTEPIGIHGTNGUSAD – – – DIGGING UP THE PAST

Good Morning, Everyone! Archaeologists!  “YOU’VE RUINED EVERYTHING”!

🎶”Love on the Rocks, Ain’t no surprise, Just pour me a drink and I’ll tell you some lies..Got nothin’ to lose..so you just sing the blues..All the time….Gave you my heart, Gave you my soul, You left me alone here with nothing to hold..Yesterday’s gone…Now all I want is a smile…”🎶 Love gone bad. Been there, done that. It happens all the time. But the worst has to be those office romances, am I right? Where do you RUNE, where do you hide? Whether you’re the doer, or the done to….BA-BOOM! Very next morning…”Oh, yea, Uh, Hi, how YOU doin”?…Not so much, right? Uncomfortable, bad for business…And could RUIN your career…And here we have our puzzle today! “Love Among The Ruins“….

Our words: I must say, today we have a great COLLECTION. Were you ABRUPTly stopped by ENGULF? GOTTEN stuck in the SHADOWs with GLITCH? Expired by EXPIRE? Not all everyday words, but we do hear them interMIDDENtly. Our cartoon: We have a couple of Archaeologists PICKING at one another. Former lovers, we FIND that a lot of bitterness REMAINS between them. TEMPERs are flaring! Of CORPSE! EXTINCTively they’re bringing up the PAST! “Don’t BREAK my CHEOPS“…”You wanted yARCHAIC and eat it too”! “You were a FLAKE“! “I never got a TYPOLOGY from you…”! ..OK, Ok, maybe I’m taking it out of CONTEXT a BIT, but these ARTIFACTS! They’re “DIGGING UP THE PAST“! Can you imagine working with these two? Be like the TROJAN War..HEL–EN EARTH! Not the ideal IN SITU-ation! And definitely not PHAR…AOH, it just won’t work!  Great puzzle, Jumble Guys, and HUMERUS! We SHERD you loud and clear! So, now the eye candy. We have a broken piece of POTTERY, labeled Jumble! We have what looks like a ROCK Stars face on the CERAMIC on the GROUND. We have a woman’s head on the table. We have shovels, and trowels and brushes…We got a STRATA stuff! But I’m totally FOSSILnated  by the woman. Clad head to toe in purple, she’s immaculate! No dirt on her FEATURES, not a hair out of place…and earrings INTACT! She’s a SITE, no BONES about it! So, I’m STRAITIFIED to go with her!

So, Archaeologists…Maybe not the worst partners in life…Think about it. The older you get, the more interested they’ll be. Hmm, I can DIG that..
🎶”Easy like Sunday morning…”🎶 Enjoy! And go FIND something good to do…🏺⛏ 🙋🏻

VOLNE – NOVEL

EOGGU – GOUGE

WHOGTR – GROWTH

RIDHOA – HAIRDO

CARTOON ANSWER:  SHE WANTED TO GET A NEW, MORE MODERN SCALE. THEY’D HAD THEIRS – – –

NOLOGEGWTHIO – – – “WEIGH” TOO LONG

Good morning, Everyone!   WEIGHT…FOR IT..! 

🎶”Boy, you gotta carry that WEIGHT, Carry that WEIGHT a long time, Boy, you gonna carry that WEIGHT, Carry that WEIGHT a long time…”🎶

Say on a SCALE of 1 to 10, 10 being: “Yes, I’m good with this” to 1 being: “I’d like to GOUGE my eyes out”, how do most of us feel looking at our SCALES? Tough one, right? To some, the scale is our friend..to others..With friends like this, who needs enemies? It does have its UPS and DOWNS…Today’s subject: The SCALE. Let’s WEIGH in…NoTHINg new with our words today, we’ve seen them time and aGAIN. But HAIRDO? Haven’t we COMB by that recently? And I thought GROWTH kind of fit the theme…I laughed it OFF! All in all, easy enough. Our cartoon: A MIDDLE aged couple, discussing their SCALE. SPARSEly drawn, not much to GO ON, really. Dialogue: “Had it for 20 years”..Long time. “Put a lot of POUNDS on”. They want a new one. Something Digital? Or maybe they’re LEANing towards one of those new NOVELty ones, that talk to you…? “Oh, I love you just the WEIGH you are”! Or..”WEIGHT a minute, WEIGHT a minute..!” You’ve seen them aROUND. AnyWEIGH, put it together…the question states that they’ve had it…”WEIGH” Too Long! Cute, and clever Guys, but SLIM chance of us not guessing this one…you gave us WEIGH too many hints! Eye candy? TOWEL I come up with something, when there’s really not much to WHET my APPETITE here? I guess it’ll have to be the TOWELS, though. Two reasons. One, I’ve never seen a head one tied quite that WEIGH before,  and two, I’d never WEIGH myself with my hair WET..and those TOWELS on!…Let’s be honest, Folks, they’re bathroom SCALES, not the SCALES of Justice! THINk about it!
🎶”Saturday, Saturday…”🎶 So worth the WEIGHT! Have a great day! ⚖ 🙋🏻

WTISF – SWIFT

STFIH – SHIFT

VATDEN – ADVENT

ZARNBE – BRAZEN

CARTOON ANSWER: HE LOST AFTER GOING “ALL IN” AND HAD TO GIVE HIS WIFE THE – – –

SWISHFDNTRAEN – – – FIRST-HAND NEWS

Good morning, Everyone! POKER!…”Game of Thrones“?
🎶”You’ve got to know when to hold ’em, know when to fold ’em, know when to walk away and know when to run. You never count your money when you’re sittin’ at the table, there’ll be time enough for countin’ when the dealin’s done…”🎶

Jeff at the Auction, Jeff at the Casino…Jeff…The gIFT that keeps on GIVING! We’ll get back to Jeff, FIRST our words: “IFT”? 🎶”IFT I didn’t care, more than words can say, IFT I didn’t care, would I feel this way…”?🎶 ( Sorry, I just couldn’t resIFT)!  Now this is a GIFT! IF’T this has ever happened before, I sure don’t remember! Two words ending in “IFT”? Did you also stop for second and think…”Huh, really? Am I spelling this right”? Well, BET your bottom DOLLAR, you are! SWIFT and SHIFT! Like Jeff..He SWIFTly SHIFTed his money right across that POKER table! How BRAZEN! (Oh, right, not now…ADVENTually we’ll get to him). I’ve a HUNCH that Brazen may be a FIRST, but I won’t BET on it. The other three words? CHECK ✔️, we’ve SEEn them before. Our cartoon: We find ourselves at the JUMBLE Casino (Aside to Earl…”Wink, wink”)! We see 3 slot machines against the wall, a POKER table SET for 6, and 1 man already out. (To the curious out there, “No, I just like numbers…”, To the courageous out there, “Hey, you never know”! To the GAMBLERS out there, “Hmm, it’s WORTH a shot…”)…But keep in mind, I may be BLUFFING!…HA! The ACTION’s at the POKER table. A DEALER sits farthest left, FACING us. The two men in the foreground, having those distinctive looks that Jeff gives to “real” people, seem pleased. One, is wearing a JUMBLE cap and the other HOLDS that WINNING PAIR of ACES. I’ll AGGRO out on a limb here, and say looking at that serious STACK of CHIPS in front of him, somebody, “SOMEBODY” lost some serious money! Show of HANDS, (no pun intended)!…who thinks IFT’s Jeff? Yep, me TWO! The dialogue: Jeff’s breaking the NEWS to his wife that he took that PAIR of KINGS, went ALL-IN, and lost. I guess he VIGured the KINGS would be enough, but It’s OVERs for him. The WINNER says it “was quick”. This GAME just OPENED, it was the “FIRST HAND”, and there’s our solve! How JUICEy was this dialogue? And the cartoon,  just DRAWn to PURSEfection? Guys, I RAISE my 🍷 glass to you! Ok, LAST TO ACT, the eye candy? I’m going to CALL it for the WINNERs shades. They’re so FLASHy!
So, that’s a WRAP, Folks. I really enjoyed this. I like POKER, and I can HOLD my own. I am stubborn, though…I mean, I hate to even FOLD my laundry! And then there’s always..”OMAHArd earned money”!
Have a great day, Everyone! It’s Friday, time to GET AWAY! 🃏 🙋🏻

LEVTA – VALET

LOIOG – IGLOO

ASEWES – SEESAW

CEYPAH – PEACHY

CARTOON ANSWER: WHEN NOT ONE PERSON BID IN THE CHARITY AUCTION, THE HOST THOUGHT – – –

VTIGSWEAH – – – WHAT GIVES?

Good morning, Everyone! 🖌 An Auction… PICTURE THIS! 🖌

🎶”Well the AUCTIONEER was going about a mile a minute, He was takin’ bids and callin’ them out loud….And I guess I was really gettin’ in it, Cause I just shouted out above the crowd.. And I said..”Hey pretty lady why don’t you give me a sign! I’d give anything to make you mine o’ mine, I’ll do your biddin’ and be at your beck and call …I’ve never seen anyone lookin’ so fine, Man I got to have her she’s a one of a kind …I’m going once, I’m goin’ twice, I’m sold…”🎶

Ok, where do I begin? I’m no ART expert, and I know AUCTIONS speak louder than words…but I have no idea what to do here this morning! Is this NAKED DAVE? Is Jeff giving us ART IMITATING ART? I mean, CANVAS be real? Look, don’t get me wrong. There’s definitely something SKINtillating about a bald man. No BONES about it…And Mr. Hoyt is definitely an attractive man, BUTT, if this IS him? …PAL,ETTE’s not a good look! What were you THINKERing ? At least RODIN had the good sense to have him sit!…This is just TOLE much…I supPOSE I should just get to our words…IGLOO think we’ve seen them before, you’re right. I’m SEESAWing on the scrambles, VALET may be DEPICTed new. In our cartoon, Jeff’s DRAWn an AUCTION site, probably the one place where you can truly get something for NODDING. The bidders, (one of whom I believe to be Jeff himself), look a BID shocked. The AUCTIONeers are clHAMMERing for their attention. In my ESTIMATEtion, it’s obvious why no one’s GIVING it up to buy this PAINTING. Yes, it may be for a “WORDy cause”as the woman is PAINTiently saying, but…c’mon! Where would one HANG this? FRAMEous as Dave may be in the word world, why would one want this? (That’s a LOT of W’s, right)? “WHAT GIVES“?…And, OIL I can say is…that AUCTIONEER needs to WIPE that angry look off his face… His disFLESHure with the crowd is unCALLed for! He’s coming aCROSS kind of PEACHY, no? Ok, the eye candy? It has to be the GAVEL. Without it, I fear this would be the BIDDER end!

Great WORK today, Jumble Boys, albeit a tad SKETCHy! I’m really hoping I haven’t PAINTED myself into a corner here! … And Dave, you may be a MODEL of perfection, BUTT again, if this IS you…Don’t quit the day job, 😉 PICASSO much can go wrong here!

Have a great day, Everyone! Spread the joy, TEXTURE loved ones! 🎨 🙋🏻