Good Morning, Everyone. š° POINTING HER IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION š°
š¶ My GRANDFATHERāS CLOCK was too large for the shelfā¦So it stood ninety years on the floorā¦And it kept in itās place, not a frown upon itās faceā¦And itās HANDS never hung by its sideā¦But it stopped shortā¦never to go againā¦When the old man diedā¦š¶ ā My Grandfatherās Clockā – Johnny Cash 1959 https://tinyurl.com/5e4c7s6h
š° A beautiful Grandfather clock takes center stage today,
Some real old ones had scroll workā¦very ornate on displayā¦
Perhaps youād see PAPAYA, somewhere deeply in the etch,
(And yes, to get the word inā¦I agreeā¦itās quite a stretch)!
The little girl is learning that when both hands āpointā up straight,
The time will chime for 12 oāclock, on this clock so ornateā¦
How BITTER-sweet the image here, perhaps itās DIMLY lit
And since sheās with her Grandpa, how much sweeter does it sit?
(But here again with OZONEā¦thereās no way it fits this rhyme)ā¦
The bottom lineā¦we āseeā the chimesā¦at the APPOINTED TIME! š°
š„ THE PAPAYA stand opened most days at the APPOINTED TIME, but this past week, with the proprietorās DIMLY-hidden breathing issues, he was BITTER, and opened later than usual, constantly complaining about the OZONEā¦š„
š¤·š»āāļø In Science class they studied ābout the OZONE Layerās effects,
The teacher used PAPAYAā¦but the class couldn’t detectā¦
The DIMLY thought-out referenceā¦and a BITTER tone was spoken,
She heard things like āYou could have used a different kind of tokenāā¦
I guess attempts not thought out wellā¦the reason and the rhyme?
Just didnāt work, but hopefully willā¦the next APPOINTED TIMEā¦š¤·š»āāļø
Anagrams were not too difficult.
My day was spent in Beverly Hills hosting out of town guests. We ate, drank and were merry!
The puzzle solution was hard for me but I finally got it. David seems to be taken with long words this last week!
Blind solve, but took a minute. Time was obvious, then noticing the double pās gave the rest.
Johnny Cash!
Johnny Cash! ššš»āāļø
To me APPOINTED TIME doesn’t seem like a good answer, as there is nothing about point in the cartoon. So to me APPOINTED ITEM is just as good a solution, and also just as bad. This type of Jumble invites shadow solutions, such as APPOINTED ITEM. And there are others. Perhaps the father (or child) was an IMPATIENT DOPE. Or maybe this clock is in the Vatican, and the auspicious time of 12 o’clock INTIMATED POPE.
Jimā¦Au contraire. Thereās definitely a reference to āpointā Two in factā¦ The Grandfather is āpointingā out that āboth hands on the clock are āpointingā straight upā, designating 12 oāclockā¦itās the whole idea of the cartoon. Timeā¦apPOINTed Time! Itās a brilliant solution! š°šš»āāļø
Agree on the hands ‘pointing’ to the 12,at the top of the clock!
Thank youā¦POINT well taken! Enjoy your day, Prof. ā¬ļøšš»āāļø
I might be off in the Ozone, but I Dimly remember eating a Papaya and it seemed Bitter. I finished the Jumble today long before the Appointed Time and now to work.
Good morning. Another easy one today. The only word that wasnāt an automatic read was Papaya which took at the most fifteen seconds to get. The cartoon answer again should have been an instant read but I gave in to looking at the letters. I thought the last word was hour until I saw the letters. The hint was the father pointing to the clock. Enjoyed your song choice Angela. Yet another one I never heard before. Until tomorrow stay well and stay safe.
Good Morning, Paul. Tk you. Always glad to hear you enjoy the music. And šš»šš»ā¦You got the whole POINT ā¬ļøā¬ļø of the puzzle/cartoon! Wishing you stay well and safe too, Paul. Have a good oneā¦š°šš»āāļø
When it’s time to tell the time
Here’s a handy little rhyme
Be it midnight or noon.
It’s never too soon
To know which is meant by the number twelve chime!
Hi Helenā¦I think this first one follows suit closest to your leadā¦But I wrote the second one looking to keep closest to the puzzles themeā¦
š° When the chimes of the clock used to peel,
People knew just what time was revealedā¦
But today kids just know,
What the digits will showā¦
Weāve lost much of that old time genteelā¦š°
š¤·š»āāļøJust like Hickory-Dickory Dock,
Today we deal with this old clockā¦
And a young girl is taught,
About 12ā¦double naughtā¦
But the āhandā thing might come as a shock! š¤·š»āāļø
On a digital clock it it is true
They just read the numbers straight through
So it’s just 1, 2 and 3
As easy as can be
But the real meaning? – they haven’t a clue!
That’s it for limericks today!
Hi again, Helenā¦I think this one follows yours wellā¦
Until tomorrow! ā¦Enjoy your day! š°šš»āāļø
š¤·š»āāļøBack when āreadingā a clock was the norm,
Weād do so by the way the hands formedā¦
But today kids just know,
What the digits will showā¦
Itās entirely a new platform! š¤·š»āāļø
Good afternoon. Thanks Helen and Angela for the smiles you put on my face every day. Enjoy the rhymes. Also that show Betty was talking about with the grandfather clock Iāve seen it twice this year so far. He is such a good actor. You canāt help but love the guy. Take care.
Tks, Paul. Limericks are always funā¦The Twilight Zoneā¦Where are you seeing the episodes?šš»āāļø
Hi, itās on cable TV. Optimum channel 33 On either The twilight zone or Alfred Hitchcock thatās 12:30 am to 2:00am. I think it was about a month or two ago and before that maybe less than a year ago. Take care
A nice Wednesday mid week puzzle,neither too hard,nor too easy.Dimly looked like mildly to me at first,but lacking the second L.After sorting that out,the rest of the anagrams were a snap,even papaya.As far as the cartoon solution,time was an obvious solution for the 4 letter word,but the multitude of letters,caused a pause before appointed popped into my head.Have a good midweek ‘hump’ day.
Like others, knew the last word was time….but had to speedily pursue the anagrams to find the appointed word. Twas just a little cryptic for me today. Good song choice, but never heard it sung (I don’t think). Happy Hump Day
Tks, Terry. š°šš»āāļø
Cute puzzle this morning. No problem with the anagrams and I agree that the Grandfather pointing to the clockās hands was a logical clue to the cartoon answer. I have a Grandfather clock which I dearly love. There was a great Twilight Zone episode with Ed Wynn called āNinety Years Without Slumberingā. How was a retired watchmaker who fears that when his grandfatherās clock stops ticking his own life will end. Hereās hoping you all have a good time today.
Hi Betty. Itās so funny you say that, because the episodeās title comes from the songā¦I tried finding it, but thereās nothing out there to view, without buying the episode. Not even a clip. But how I envy you your clock. One of my Uncles had one, and when he passed away, almost every one of us nieces and nephews wanted it. So we did the only fair thingā¦the old names in a hatā¦but sadly, I lost out! š¤·š»āāļøā¦And yes, taking the cartoon by FACE value? HANDS down a dead giveaway! Hereās hoping you have a good ātimeā today too, Betty! Enjoy! š°šš»āāļø
Other than having Mildly first for an anagram, all went well.
I vaguely remember that episode from long ago, Betty, but can’t recall how it ended. I’ll try finding it.
Not long ago I mentioned that Rod Serling’s movie Patterns is on youtube.
OZONE took the longest of the jumbles, but wasn’t that hard. For the answer, I first saw tone, but then saw TIME, which quickly led to APPOINTED. It wasn’t one of the cleverist answers, but fit the cartoon.
Hot here lately in Southern California.
I had a similar journey, Dennis, but stumbled on to the solution. IM in Socal also with triple digits..
Jumble Answers 
Good Morning, Everyone. š° POINTING HER IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION š°
š¶ My GRANDFATHERāS CLOCK was too large for the shelfā¦So it stood ninety years on the floorā¦And it kept in itās place, not a frown upon itās faceā¦And itās HANDS never hung by its sideā¦But it stopped shortā¦never to go againā¦When the old man diedā¦š¶ ā My Grandfatherās Clockā – Johnny Cash 1959 https://tinyurl.com/5e4c7s6h
š° A beautiful Grandfather clock takes center stage today,
Some real old ones had scroll workā¦very ornate on displayā¦
Perhaps youād see PAPAYA, somewhere deeply in the etch,
(And yes, to get the word inā¦I agreeā¦itās quite a stretch)!
The little girl is learning that when both hands āpointā up straight,
The time will chime for 12 oāclock, on this clock so ornateā¦
How BITTER-sweet the image here, perhaps itās DIMLY lit
And since sheās with her Grandpa, how much sweeter does it sit?
(But here again with OZONEā¦thereās no way it fits this rhyme)ā¦
The bottom lineā¦we āseeā the chimesā¦at the APPOINTED TIME! š°
š„ THE PAPAYA stand opened most days at the APPOINTED TIME, but this past week, with the proprietorās DIMLY-hidden breathing issues, he was BITTER, and opened later than usual, constantly complaining about the OZONEā¦š„
š¤·š»āāļø In Science class they studied ābout the OZONE Layerās effects,
The teacher used PAPAYAā¦but the class couldn’t detectā¦
The DIMLY thought-out referenceā¦and a BITTER tone was spoken,
She heard things like āYou could have used a different kind of tokenāā¦
I guess attempts not thought out wellā¦the reason and the rhyme?
Just didnāt work, but hopefully willā¦the next APPOINTED TIMEā¦š¤·š»āāļø
Anagrams were not too difficult.
My day was spent in Beverly Hills hosting out of town guests. We ate, drank and were merry!
The puzzle solution was hard for me but I finally got it. David seems to be taken with long words this last week!
Blind solve, but took a minute. Time was obvious, then noticing the double pās gave the rest.
Johnny Cash!
Johnny Cash! ššš»āāļø
To me APPOINTED TIME doesn’t seem like a good answer, as there is nothing about point in the cartoon. So to me APPOINTED ITEM is just as good a solution, and also just as bad. This type of Jumble invites shadow solutions, such as APPOINTED ITEM. And there are others. Perhaps the father (or child) was an IMPATIENT DOPE. Or maybe this clock is in the Vatican, and the auspicious time of 12 o’clock INTIMATED POPE.
Jimā¦Au contraire. Thereās definitely a reference to āpointā Two in factā¦ The Grandfather is āpointingā out that āboth hands on the clock are āpointingā straight upā, designating 12 oāclockā¦itās the whole idea of the cartoon. Timeā¦apPOINTed Time! Itās a brilliant solution! š°šš»āāļø
Agree on the hands ‘pointing’ to the 12,at the top of the clock!
Thank youā¦POINT well taken! Enjoy your day, Prof. ā¬ļøšš»āāļø
I might be off in the Ozone, but I Dimly remember eating a Papaya and it seemed Bitter. I finished the Jumble today long before the Appointed Time and now to work.
Good morning. Another easy one today. The only word that wasnāt an automatic read was Papaya which took at the most fifteen seconds to get. The cartoon answer again should have been an instant read but I gave in to looking at the letters. I thought the last word was hour until I saw the letters. The hint was the father pointing to the clock. Enjoyed your song choice Angela. Yet another one I never heard before. Until tomorrow stay well and stay safe.
Good Morning, Paul. Tk you. Always glad to hear you enjoy the music. And šš»šš»ā¦You got the whole POINT ā¬ļøā¬ļø of the puzzle/cartoon! Wishing you stay well and safe too, Paul. Have a good oneā¦š°šš»āāļø
When it’s time to tell the time
Here’s a handy little rhyme
Be it midnight or noon.
It’s never too soon
To know which is meant by the number twelve chime!
Hi Helenā¦I think this first one follows suit closest to your leadā¦But I wrote the second one looking to keep closest to the puzzles themeā¦
š° When the chimes of the clock used to peel,
People knew just what time was revealedā¦
But today kids just know,
What the digits will showā¦
Weāve lost much of that old time genteelā¦š°
š¤·š»āāļøJust like Hickory-Dickory Dock,
Today we deal with this old clockā¦
And a young girl is taught,
About 12ā¦double naughtā¦
But the āhandā thing might come as a shock! š¤·š»āāļø
On a digital clock it it is true
They just read the numbers straight through
So it’s just 1, 2 and 3
As easy as can be
But the real meaning? – they haven’t a clue!
That’s it for limericks today!
Hi again, Helenā¦I think this one follows yours wellā¦
Until tomorrow! ā¦Enjoy your day! š°šš»āāļø
š¤·š»āāļøBack when āreadingā a clock was the norm,
Weād do so by the way the hands formedā¦
But today kids just know,
What the digits will showā¦
Itās entirely a new platform! š¤·š»āāļø
Good afternoon. Thanks Helen and Angela for the smiles you put on my face every day. Enjoy the rhymes. Also that show Betty was talking about with the grandfather clock Iāve seen it twice this year so far. He is such a good actor. You canāt help but love the guy. Take care.
Tks, Paul. Limericks are always funā¦The Twilight Zoneā¦Where are you seeing the episodes?šš»āāļø
Hi, itās on cable TV. Optimum channel 33 On either The twilight zone or Alfred Hitchcock thatās 12:30 am to 2:00am. I think it was about a month or two ago and before that maybe less than a year ago. Take care
A nice Wednesday mid week puzzle,neither too hard,nor too easy.Dimly looked like mildly to me at first,but lacking the second L.After sorting that out,the rest of the anagrams were a snap,even papaya.As far as the cartoon solution,time was an obvious solution for the 4 letter word,but the multitude of letters,caused a pause before appointed popped into my head.Have a good midweek ‘hump’ day.
Like others, knew the last word was time….but had to speedily pursue the anagrams to find the appointed word. Twas just a little cryptic for me today. Good song choice, but never heard it sung (I don’t think). Happy Hump Day
Tks, Terry. š°šš»āāļø
Cute puzzle this morning. No problem with the anagrams and I agree that the Grandfather pointing to the clockās hands was a logical clue to the cartoon answer. I have a Grandfather clock which I dearly love. There was a great Twilight Zone episode with Ed Wynn called āNinety Years Without Slumberingā. How was a retired watchmaker who fears that when his grandfatherās clock stops ticking his own life will end. Hereās hoping you all have a good time today.
Hi Betty. Itās so funny you say that, because the episodeās title comes from the songā¦I tried finding it, but thereās nothing out there to view, without buying the episode. Not even a clip. But how I envy you your clock. One of my Uncles had one, and when he passed away, almost every one of us nieces and nephews wanted it. So we did the only fair thingā¦the old names in a hatā¦but sadly, I lost out! š¤·š»āāļøā¦And yes, taking the cartoon by FACE value? HANDS down a dead giveaway! Hereās hoping you have a good ātimeā today too, Betty! Enjoy! š°šš»āāļø
https://tinyurl.com/jj82z958
Other than having Mildly first for an anagram, all went well.
I vaguely remember that episode from long ago, Betty, but can’t recall how it ended. I’ll try finding it.
Not long ago I mentioned that Rod Serling’s movie Patterns is on youtube.
OZONE took the longest of the jumbles, but wasn’t that hard. For the answer, I first saw tone, but then saw TIME, which quickly led to APPOINTED. It wasn’t one of the cleverist answers, but fit the cartoon.
Hot here lately in Southern California.
I had a similar journey, Dennis, but stumbled on to the solution. IM in Socal also with triple digits..