Jumble Answers for 02/14/2025

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  1. Good Morning, Everyone…🐧AN ICE PLACE TO VISIT?🐧

    🎶 Only the LONELY know the way I feel tonight…🎶…”Only The Lonely” – Roy Orbison 1961  https://tinyurl.com/3bud2wt4 *

    🐧They tired of the rat-race…they longed to find some peace,
    The DOMINO effect of chain reaction needs to CEASE…
    (And cease applies to GOALIE here, no way can I ENACT
    It into today’s puzzle…it’s just too way off the track)…
    The theme today is Penguins…and their select location…
    And how they’ve acclimated to living in “ICEOLATION”🐧

    Not sure if I’d get this rhyme to work…but you know me, there was SNOW way I was giving up…

    So…Today, Antarctica **…and a colony of Penguins…And we meet ICE-CUBE and his wife, Anna PAQUIN, ALONE, celebrating Valentine’s Day…with what else? ICE  cubes shaped into a heart…And just as Ice was about to melt Anna’s heart (not an easy task) with his romantic gesture, who should SNOW up? None other than an old friend, AL B TROSS….WANDERING *** around…And although they’re caught off guard, surprised that he found them in the ISOLATED area, they decide to go with the FLOE…and give him a warm welcome…no pun intended….But the intended pun that those quotation marks let us know would be here today? It’s all SMELT, I mean spelt, out for us…Right there in BLACK & WHITE …’Cause between our question giving us “least populated” (= ISOLATED), and our dialogue of…”alone time” and “gotten so crowded” ( = the need for ISOLATION)?…This one was easy to WARM up to…It’s Antarctica, Folks…where there’s definitely “ICE-OLATION”**** …And we’re NOT DENSE at all getting this one…It’s an ICE CAP of the work week…

    Jeff’s💎Gems? Out on the water, a Penguin aFLOE-t, and way off in the distance…a sinking exhibition cruise ship…Let’s face it, WATER you expect? That sailboat we’re used to wouldn’t stand a chance…

    So…There you have it, Folks…Done. Have a good one. Be well, be kind, stay safe…And this puzzle reminds me of my friend who traveled to Antarctica with a construction company….Something about experimental housing. He said no matter what they tried, brick and mortar, concrete, etc…nothing held together. But then he finally hit on the right thing…To hear him tell it…”IGLOO’d it together”…ICE swear…he’s always trying to POLAR fast one on us…🐧🙋🏻‍♀️

    * I thought the “Black & White” was an ICE touch!🐧 😉

    ** ANTARCTICA: https://tinyurl.com/ynb2va4n

    ***WANDERING ALBATROSShttps://tinyurl.com/4hnjs89n
    **** ISOLATIONhttps://tinyurl.com/2a3tpthe

  2. 🥅 He’d been in self-imposed ISOLATION ever since someone decided to ENACT the inane ruling that every GOALIE must CEASE participating in the DOMINO games… 🥅

    🤷🏻‍♂️It’s time for new elections, they’ll ENACT a rule or two,
    Each team assigned a GOALIE…hoping trouble wouldn’t brew…
    Last year the DOMINO effect had caused reason to CEASE,
    They’re hoping new restrictions now would help tension decrease
    The ballots are all drawn up…the members at their stations…
    And to keep it above board…chairmen stay in ISOLATION…🤷🏻‍♂️

  3. 🐧 There once were penguins who held fast,
    To the theory that friendships won’t last…
    If there’s neighbors too near,
    And so they disappeared…
    And ever since they’ve had a blast…🐧

    🧊 Antarctica became their home,
    It’s not crowded and they’re free to roam…
    So they waddle about,
    Each possessing their clout…
    And through icy waters do they comb…🧊

    👍🏻 Yes, the isolation serves them well,
    Not a soul’s living life there pell-mell…
    They’re content and reserved,
    The cold keeps them preserved…
    And it’s head-over-webbed feet they fell…👍🏻

    ❤️ But today it’s a new slant we see,
    It’s a visit from their old buddy…
    And it’s bringing them joy,
    To see the old boy…
    Looks like Valentine’s Day became three…❤️

    🤷🏻‍♂️And they offer him up a carte blanche,
    They’ve extended a huge welcome branch…
    “Stay as long as you need,
    We’ve tons of fish to feed”…
    (Do you think they got lonely…by chance)?🤷🏻‍♂️

  4. …AND IN OTHER WORDS…🔠🙋🏻‍♀️

    ENACT: Last used – 6/29/2024 as CTNAE

    CEASE: Last used – 2/23/2023 as SACEE

    GOALIE: Last used – 5/31/2024 as LAGIEO

    DOMINO: Last used – 3/29/2024 as NIDMOO

    “ICE-OLATION”: Last used – 10/25/2016 as COELTANIOI

    …ANAGRAM HISTORY…🔠🙋🏻‍♀️

    CEANT: Used on – New anagram

    SAEEC: Used on – New anagram

    LEAIGO: Used on – New anagram

    MDOOIN: Used on – 11/16/2022

    NTCEALIOIO: Used on – New anagram

  5. And to think Angela thought she couldn’t find a rhyme for ISOLATION !! How dare one of the finest think otherwise. Nice job, Angela and your musings were top notch this morning. About the Jumble, thought it was going to be SEA-XXXXXXX to no avail. So a TGIF bust today. BTW, I did notice the heart on the ground between the two penguins. Happy V-day to all. Terry

  6. Another fun Jumble today. I had trouble with Goalie and needed some help but then I got the final solution. I can’t believe I missed the sinking ship ! I usually look for a sinking sailboat when there’s water in the cartoon. Jeff POLARed a fast one on me ! Have a great Friday. Thank you, Stan

  7. I’m on my third typing so this is going to be major short ! I got the anagrams and jumble ! It was fun ! Thanks Angela for a very fun and entertaining post with all your musings , like terry said ! And your friend and all his puns ! Great Friday ! Bring on Saturday , one typing only !!!!!

  8. Thought I’d post via an email reply: Paused on the enact jumble thinking of accent at first, but then thought the cartoon answer started with ‘loc’ rather than iso, nevertheless wishing Angela and the Jumble players a “Happy Valentine’s Day”. Chuck.

  9. “Black and White” was a very nice touch. Classic.

    Happy Valentine’s Day, Angela- Dave

  10. Seems today I’ve spent in ice-olation

    Digging out in sheer frustration

    Snow plow left a wall

    Close to six feet tall (well, a slight exaggeration but it was high!)

    Put me in an awkward situation!

    In the middle of the night it arrived

    Yes, the plow blocked the foot of my drive

    A terrifying sight

    Did I deserve such a plight?

    However it seems I’ve survived.

    So like the penguins in the Antarctic region

    Who don’t want their numbers to be legion

    I dug out all by myself

    Through ice wall and shelf

    “Coz snow plow driver was not collegian!

    Apologies for posting late! (Actually, a few neighbours did lend a hand! I’m being a bit dramatic as usual….)

    • 🤞🏻So far we’ve been quite lucky, I guess
      We’ve had snow…but not nearly a mess…
      Yes, the shoveling needed,
      But we surely succeeded…
      So we def weren’t very hard-pressed…🤞🏻

      💨❄️We’re warned though that storms are still due,
      Right now number’s standing at two…
      So we’ve battened the hatches,
      Hoping snow’s not in batches…
      And that we’ll easily see it through…❄️💨

      💦 Fingers crossed that it does turn to rain,
      And that if not the snow won’t remain…
      Rain’s an easier plight,
      There’s no ice one must fight….
      And of course there’s no chance of back sprains…💦

      💤As for time here…there’s never a cause,
      For a poster to have any pause…
      No need to announce,
      ‘Cause we don’t take accounts…
      And there’s never the sound of the saws… 💤 

      🐧 But the penguins we have here today?
      To compare stories…there’s just no way…
      We can hardly complain,
      Since we surely maintain…
      …Seasons when all snow goes away!🐧 

  11. Nice blind solve today if I do say. Of course I know isolation well haha. GOALIE used to stump me but recognize it now. Great Roy Orbison song choice, another would be Van Morrison’ Domino!

    • That’s not how this works…Domino has nothing to do with the puzzle’s solve…🐧🤷🏻‍♀️

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