RAMBEK = EMBARK
MYHISW = WHIMSY
TUTWOI = OUTWIT
SLUYIB = BUSILY
TEYNIT = ENTITY
INDSGI = SIDING
CARTOON ANSWER:
SPENDING SO MUCH MONEY REPLACING SEWAGE PIPES WAS A – – –
EAR HMS OTT IY EN SDN = DRAIN ON THE SYSTEM
Good Morning, Everyone! š PIPE DREAMS? š
š¶ The sweetest things in life don’t stay around for very long…They come and go and don’t come back again. While they’re here, you feel so smug, that’s when fate pulls out the plug…And the sweetest things in life go down the DRAIN…Down the drain…Right down the DRAIN…Down the DRAIN…Gone down the DRAIN…š¶ “Down the Drain” – Allan Sherman 1967
š With any new construction, thereās so much that is involved,
The city will EMBARK on it once plans have all been solved
With nothing left to WHIMSY, crews are BUSILY at work,
Behind the scenes the contractors make sure there is no shirk…
But often thereās a feeling that someone might be OUTWIT,
Like what weāre seeing here today, with these guys in the pit…
New sewers being installed for a brand new ENTITY,
The āJumble Poriumā calls for infrastructure A to Z
But there may be a problem…and now whoās SIDING with who
Will work slow down…or taxpayers be stuck with what is due?
These escalating costs arose…and things are looking grim…
Thereāll be some deeper digging for this DRAIN ON THE SYSTEM...š
So, word on the street is…that the new sewer pipes being laid in anticipation of the Jumble Poriumās grand opening may end up taxing a few nerves…It seams as if the job is more than what these city planners bargained for…You know how it is…when it rains…it pours? Only who dropped the ball? The city contractors, the Jumbleās contractors, the buildingās architects and designers? I tell you, Folks…itās a real puzzle…But wade…Iām getting ahead of myself…So before we get in too deeply here…let me redrain, I mean refrain from pointing any fingers…and insteadĀ dig into todayās words…
Just as last Sunday, none of our six entries are new. And weāve seen each of the six words sprinkled throughout last year. But we do have two true repeats, with the anagram of RAMBEK having appeared back in 2014, and TEYNIT having appeared just last May. And I should point out that it was somewhat of a split decision this morning, with WHIMSY, ENTITY and SIDING causing the Early Birds to dig a little deeper...They got it all laid out of course, but it just didnāt flow all that easily…Ok…Letās not drain all of our energy here…we still have our cartoon to dig into…
Seine...I mean Scene…A city street, most likely in Chicago, under construction. A new emporium, the āJumble Poriumā is on tap to open in the near future. The date? I canāt spell it out for you, because I had no idea the site was even being looked at. I tell you, you miss the paper one day? You end up scrambling for details…Anyway, we have seven characters running throughĀ our cartoon today…itās overflowing with them! Five are part of the installation crew, while the two at front, a woman and a man are drawing us in by what separates them from the others. Both in casual business attire, we can see that theyāre part of the planning committee, and from what we overhear, we can also see that a decision needs to be made…and it looks like poor planning faucet upon them…We see Flo, looking very flushtered lamenting the fact that the wellās run dry, while her cohort, (water you know, Iāve forgotten his name)…doesnāt seam as galvanized as she is. I mean she seams ready to commit sewercide, while heās like…āHey…water you gonna do? Pipe down…Thatās life…Itās all water under the bridge. Weāll just raise taxesā! Sure, no sweat…Lay it on the pour taxpayers…Anyway, the bottom line is, this new project is really turning out to be a drain on the cityās coffers…Letās face it Folks, with the way things are today, the system just canāt handle the expense…And somebodyās gonna be scrambling to come up with the money…ācause this job is a real DRAIN ON THE SYSTEM! Nicely done, David…you lead us right to this one!
Ok…Eye Candy. There’s a guy at back, farthest left manning the back hoeĀ for trenching,Ā while off to the right, another is working the crane, a pipe in place. (Both vehicles are yellow, of course. That’s CATegorically understood). The sole female member is assisting in the haul. And the two remaining members of the crew are standing by, arms outstretched, ready to grab the pipe. (But they both have looks of apprehension on their faces….Hmm…Water you think thatās about? Do you think they donāt trust the womanās judgement? I hope not…that could definitely get them in some hot water…Who knows…but maybeĀ thatās why sheās sporting somewhat of a grin)! All seven of them areĀ wearing orange hard hats, and we can see into the trench dug into the ground, and the length of pipe that’s already been lain. Nothing out of the waterinary …it’s all pretty much cut and dry...But the main attraction this morning? It has to be the signage on the building’s window. “Jumble Porium”, with two little familiar Jumble “J”s in the corners…Who knew? Systematically scooping up Real Estate now too? …Hmm…I’m a little septical! So, There you have it Folks, Done. Have a grate day, Everyone…And here’s hoping we all stay out of hot water! ššš»āāļø
š¤·š»āāļø With a bit of WHIMSY, and the intention of being the one to OUTWIT all the others, (as they BUSILY tried to best him), he decided to EMBARK on a quest to define the new ENTITY, which was proving to be a DRAIN ON THE SYSTEM, and wondered whoād be SIDING with him…š¤·š»āāļø šš»āāļø
š” They needed all new SIDING, and decided to EMBARK,
On fixing up the house…and it was definitely no lark…
A contractor had done his best to OUTWIT them, they knew…
So now theyāre doing it alone, with WHIMSY theyāll imbue
So BUSILY theyāre planning…itās an ENTITY all itās own,
Determined as they are to make a showplace of their home
Letās only hope they get along…the her against the him…
āCause otherwise itās all in vain…a DRAIN ON THE SYSTEM! š” šš»āāļø
Good morning. Almost a perfect start of a new day Everything was easy breezy for me except Entity. I gave up and got the answer. Another good cartoon answer. It took very little time to drain the words from the 16 letters. I have one of albums Angela. The one where heās at camp. God,I havenāt heard him in at least 40 years. That was the first time I heard that song. Until tomorrow stay well.
Good Afternoon, Brooklyn….As you can see, my morningās definitely gone down the DRAIN…Just one of those days…And ENTITY isnāt exactly an every day word…But yes, the solution wasnāt far off the mark, once you took DRAIN out of the equation…As for Sherman…how funny was this guy? He definitely had a wicked sense of humor! And the song youāre speaking of is…š¶Hello Muddah, Hello Faddahš¶ https://tinyurl.com/v3fcg2v the one heās most remembered for. Hope youāre enjoying your day, Paul. Have a good one! ššš»āāļø
All the words fell into place easily this morning. At first I thought the cartoon answer might have something to do with waste of money or waste of resources but lacking the proper letters, I did come up with āDrain on the Systemā. By the way, Angela, a few weeks back we were commenting about that wonderful old program āBrooklyn Bridgeā. I went on You Tube and searched for Brooklyn Bridge TV Show and voila up came a few episodes including the one that we both loved so much called āWar of the Worldsā. I watched it last night an enjoyed it as much as I did so many years ago. Hope all of you have a good Sunday.
Hi Betty, Happy Sunday! I just saw that Clay had the same train of thought as you…using the word WASTE. But as you said, no āWā in the mix. But Waste is a good guess. And I forgot to tell you, that I found a few old VHS tapes of Brooklyn Bridge, but it seems I donāt have them all…even though I was so sure that I did. AND I meant to DIG DEEPER, but you know how it is, life got in the way. I do intend to look again tho. Thanks so much for the heads up, Iām going to check it out that episode today. Hoping your dayās going well, Betty…Enjoy! ššš»āāļø
Hi all – Three of these words would have taken a lot longer if I just hadnāt seen them so often – WHIMSY, OUTWIT, and BUSILY. I got SIDING from the ING. Thought KAMBER, but the K didnāt look right and then saw EMBARK, and I mistook ENTITY for NINETY at first. Had to cross ādrain on theā out of the letters to see the last word of the answer.
The cartoon looks way too familiar – our local water company, appropriately named EBMUD, has been doing exactly this since October on the street at the end of mine. Instead of the big pipes in the cartoon, it looks like theyāre lining the existing ones with smaller plastic ones.
Have a great Sunday, everyone! Angela, it was the use of āgalvanizeā that gave me a good laugh today.
āWhen it was time to EMBARK on starting his vinyl SIDING business, it wasnāt WHIMSY but a desire to OUTWIT the taxman that caused him to BUSILY begin the paperwork to register as an offshore ENTITYā.
Hey Steve,,,You know I thought the same thing about the 3 words youāre mentioning, but each of them was only used once during last year…OUTWIT, on 09/15, https://tinyurl.com/vmx6sov BUSILY on 04/26, https://tinyurl.com/u872rnd, and WHIMSY https://tinyurl.com/wb82ou3 on 12/15. (Maybe WHIMSY struck a chord because I use it so often referring to Jeff in my posts)! š I didnāt put up any links this morning because I started having a problem attaching them, and I didnāt want to take a chance screwing up my whole piece…And Iāve had the same situation here…new pipes being installed in the street, in fact, right outside my home. It can be seen a lot across the Island. When it comes to infrastructure, Staten Island is definitely in need. Thereās parts of the Island that flood terribly every time thereās a big rain. Itās sad….Anyway, Tks for the galvanize Shout Out…I gave myself a chuckle with that one too…And your sentence šš»šš» gave me a LOL! Have a great day, Steve! Hope itās going WELL! š šš»āāļø
Maybe this was already said somewhere, but it could have been “waste of money!”
Hi Clay. So good to see you…Whereāve you been hiding? We havenāt had a comment from you in way too long a time…You can see that Betty was thinking along the same LINE as you with the solve…but while WASTE does come to mind with the puzzle, (relating to both money and…well…waste)! š the answer needed to be four words….so WASTE OF MONEY, as is wouldnāt get off the GROUND…š But it does have a bit of WHIMSY to it…someone definitely didnāt MAP OUT this job correctly, thatās for sure! Thanks for commenting, Clay..and as I mentioned, itās nice to see you here again, and I hope weāll get to see more of you. Have a great day! ššš»āāļø
For the final anagram I came up with “STAND ON THE MISERY”. Figuring that might not quite be the intended answer, was surprised to find all 16 letters could make another 4 word answer =)
Hi Mark…You know I had to go back and look at this puzzle again, because you sort of came out of left field…I was trying to figure out where your solution fit todayās puzzle! š This one has been a while… but I must say, thatās quite a creative solve you came up with. I guess they would be faced with a miserable situation, wouldnāt they? And yes, it is surprising that the letters jived…Thanks for commenting, Mark…and hereās to a great day! ššš»āāļø