Jumble Spoiler – 03/03/20

Visual Description:  Has it been THAT long???

CEREH  =  CHEER,  TCEFH  =  FETCH,  TOTTAO  =  TATTOO,  NLNEIO  =  ONLINE   —   Giving us:  HERETTTTOLE

Clue/Question:  Her students were learning cursive and following her instructions – – –

Answer:  TO THE LETTER

(A mildly stinky pun.  Ah, the lost art of cursive, or more simply:  handwriting . . . as opposed to printing.  It was a common part of education in elementary school when I was growing up.  It seems that a lot of schools abandoned it for a while.  But, I hear it is making a comeback.

All of today’s clue words are already on the ralis95 clue word database.  However, all four jumbles appear to be new.  I didn’t really struggle with any of them, but it actually took me a couple of looks to see the simple word “cheer”.  Funny.  The answer letter layout was a fine eleven letter jumble.  But, with all those Ts and Es, and the way the answer slots laid out, the final solution was no problem.

Great cartoon, but . . . what the heck?!  It makes it look like they haven’t taught cursive since the days of “Little House on the Prairie”.  Teach looks like a turn-of-the-century school marm, and there’s a feeling of a one-room schoolhouse about it.  Jeff kinda had to make the blackboard more of a whiteboard, but that’s just the limitations of cartooning.  I liked the tri-chalk holder.  Remember those?  Today, you’d be hard pressed to find a blackboard and chalk.  They all use whiteboards and erasable markers.  The only thing that Jeff left out was the eraser!  A little funky, but fun cartoon/Jumble.  Be well and do good, friends.)   —   YUR

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