English: Four white geese in a park (Cagliari) Italiano: Quattro Anser domesticus in un parco a Cagliari (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Visual Description: As the goose gaggle giggles.
GETAN = AGENT, NIRKD = DRINK, LAPWOL = WALLOP, COBEUN = BOUNCE — Giving us: AGTDRKAOONE
Clue/Question: She wanted to see the new goose, so she – – –
Answer: TOOK A GANDER
(Now, that’s a good stinky pun! Home again, home again, jiggity jig! Most definitely no new clue words today, people. Maybe I’ll check the last few days, when I get a chance. Only two of the jumbles are new, as we’ve seen both “getan” and ” nirkd” in the past. Fine job with the answer letter layout. Switching “wallop” and “bounce” would have made it a little better though. I suppose if you’re not an Idiom Savant, like me, you might have had some difficulty in getting today’s answer. But, I didn’t need any goosing. Jeff’s animated animal drawings are always a fan favorite, aren’t they! That is one self-assured looking gander! Be well and do good, friends.) — YUR
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OMG! When is the last time you heard that saying! Grand, fun jumbler. It’s early and I’m still caught up. Could be fixin’ to change….I’m heading out of town. Booooo! LL
I had a tiny bit of trouble with WALLOP (every time I see that set of letters, I type PALLOW first!) For the final answer, I am very disappointed with myself first. I immediately guessed GANDER as soon as I saw the word GOOSE in the clue, but for some reason I thought the letters for GANDER were not all there in the layout. So, I kept on thinking of possible choices for the first word. Finally, I stumbled on TOOK. The second word was obviously A. That led me to GANDER, after unscrambling the remaining six letters. Very nice final answer, and a great pun! I hadn’t heard of that phrase before, though.
Double L. (And Vijay) I say: Take a gander at . . . all the time! (But, I’m old.) — YUR
I had trouble with BOUNCE. Probably because I was hung up on the jumble COBEUN. For somebody with ADD, getting distracted by the jumble isn’t a good thing.
The cartoon was kinda easy. Gander is a word that goes way back for me; my Mom used to rhyme Goosey Goosey Gander, where have you wander? whenever we saw geese around.
Unc, I don’t think you are any older than I am!! And, I’ve always figured you were younger. I’m thinking maybe it is a saying in a different part of the states and not one used much where I live. LL
It does seem like a old-timey expression. Online Etymology Dictionary (©2010, Douglas Harper) says “take a long look,” slang, 1886, from gander (n.) on the notion of craning one’s neck like a goose. It’s worth taking a gander at!
I think hal kind of answered you, Double L. It is kind of a rural expression, but I was raised deep in the bosom of suburbia! Like I said, I’m a bit of an Idiom Savant. I was raised with idioms and old sayings, and they have always stuck with me.
— YUR
I learn so much here!!! LL