It’s August. Time for some puzzles with gusto!
Or rather: C’est
Aout. Il est temps pour quelques enigmes avec gout (…avec brio? …au
gusto?).
Whatever. Welcome
back to Joseph Young’s Puzzle -ria! Think Good, It’s Friday…, or rather, Pensez
Bien, C’est Vendredi.
Monsieur Garcon du
Parachutisme’s guest gourmet puzzle provides us an excellent excuse to again post this distinctively French Degas? Renoir? Cezanne? Chagall? Matisse? Manet? Monet?… okay, okay, Rockwell illustration (right) of a boating angler wearing a hat. And puffing an upside-down pipe! Perhaps it’s a
Rene Magritte Belgian non-pipe? (below left)
Guest French
Chef Slice:
What one thing
should a person be concerned with when purchasing a hat or going out boating?
A man went to a psychiatrist and said, “Doc, I’ve been having these weird
dreams. Sometimes I dream I’m a tepee and sometimes I dream I’m a wigwam. What
does it mean?” The psychiatrist replied, “It means that you’re too tense.”
Which reminded another poster of the following riddle:
Why did the Indian
put a tepee on his head?
To keep his wig warm, of course.
To keep his wig warm, of course.
Which reminded the first poster of the Indian who drank 1,000 cups of tea. The next day, they found
him drowned in his tepee.
Which reminded me
of a limerick I wrote many years ago about two adult identical twins. It has a
kind of O’Henry-esque, “Gift of the Magi” vibe:
Ron was bald, Rod
had hair in a wad.
With a “piece,”
Ron again looked like Rod.
Then Ron pawned his toupee
For Rod’s head-shave to pay…
Now they’re more
like two peas in a pod.
If you have
somehow weathered the above onslaught of French “cooking” and “pun”ishingly
wigged-out “groanablygook,” you can surely gather your wits together to solve
these puzzle slices:
Menu
Easy As Pie Slice:
EuroDixie
Name a multipurpose and sports facility in
the southern United States. Remove two consecutive letters. Insert a few spaces
in the result to form a European-language phrase that often follows a homophone
of a letter from a different European-language alphabet. What are the facility
and the phrase?
Specialty Of The House Slice:
Tasteful Tunesmiths
Give a possible response to “Name two
manufacturers of a certain category of food products.” (You must ascertain the
“certain category.”) Replace the last letter in your response with a different
letter. The result is the name of a popular musical group from the past. What
are these manufacturers and the musical group?
Parts Of Speech Slice:
Pretentious Pronouns-ciation
Name something most Americans have, in
two words. (Sometimes it is spelled as one word.) Move the space between the words two places to the right. (For example, “name something” would become “nameso mething.”) Now take
the first part and place it after the second part, leaving a space between
them. The result, when pronounced aloud, sounds like a two-syllable pronoun
that might seem a little stilted or pretentious to some ears. What are the pronoun
and the “something” most Americans have?
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ReplyDeleteFor the GFCS, is it also something people would be concerned with before eating a wedge salad with fromage bleu?
ReplyDeleteFor the POSS, is the something related to something that most American’s would do if they decided to live off the grid?
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ReplyDeletePuzzlerians!
ReplyDeleteAlthough much less pithy than Word Woman’s “O” and David’s “M” hints, above, here are a few hints to our four puzzles:
0. Guest French Chef Slice: The upside-down pipe is a clue.
1. Easy As Pie Slice: The two consecutive letters to be removed from the multipurpose and sports facility spell out the title of a Moody Blues song.
2. Specialty Of The House Slice: The “certain category of food products” is closely related to the product pictured, the Stratocaster-plucking cookie.
3. Parts Of Speech Slice: (I just added a note in this puzzle indicating that the “something most Americans have, in two words” is sometimes spelled as one word.) It didn’t exist before the 1970s.
David,
In your 3:33 PM comment, you asked: “For the GFCS, is it also something people would be concerned with before eating a wedge salad with fromage bleu?”
I don’t believe so, unless I am missing something (which is very possible).
“For the POSS, is the something related to something that most American’s would do if they decided to live off the grid?”
It depends on whether “the grid” includes certain tall structures, many of which I understand, are disguised/camouflaged.
Word Woman’s “O” and David’s “M” combine to form a good clue for the EAPS.
LegoHelloEasierSolving
I have POSS & EAPS, but I am not going to offer any "unintended answers" this week. The upside-down pipe reminds me of Popeye, but I dead-end there,
ReplyDeleteGood, work, ron. Kind of a tricky POSS until one ascertains “what most Americans have,” then it tumbles rather easily. And a relatively difficult EAPS this week, too.
DeleteI think, though, that our esteemed guest chef’s slice-of-puzzling-life might prove to be an easy-as-pie “can of corn,” as Ol’ Diz of the Redbirds (and Ken “Hawk” Harrelson in his wake) would say. Speaking of cans o’ vegetables, I watched my share of spinach-poppin’ Popeye cartoons as a kid, and I vaguely recall his corncob pipe becoming down-turned on occasion. (Too sleepy right now to YouTube it, but was this the case, ron?)
The SOTHS is not easy, but solvable… for Puzzlerians!, that is. Before fleeing his grocery store shelf and hooking up with a band of rock ‘n’ rollers, that Strastocaster-plucking cookie in the picture was likely surrounded by scores of kindred brand-name neighbors, either across the aisle from him or a shelf or two up or down. Brands owned by the two manufacturers in our puzzle almost certainly dwelt on shelves neighboring our Mr. Cookie.
LegoCookieMonstersOfRock
mani padme
ReplyDeletei.e. I'm paying attention, sort of. OK, I'm lurking ... WTF
Don't mani padme and WTF sort of cancel each other out?
DeleteOMy Gosh, Word Woman, I believe you’re correct! Mani padme does kind of cancel out “We Thrash Fakirs.”
DeleteRiddle: What three-letter mantra is chanted by Tibetan monks who offer peaceful “resistance” to the construction of extremely low frequency transmitter facilities?
legOlaMbda
EAPS: ALAMODOME. Remove the OM between the D & E and add a Greek letter to obtain “π à la mode” (or “Π A LA MODE”).
ReplyDeletePOSS: Something most Americans have: CELL PHONE (or cellphone) >>>cellph one>>>one cellph or phonetically, ONE'S SELF, (also ONESELF).
My M was in response to Word Woman's O for the EAPS, the two letters removed from Alamodome (although I have no idea if that was her intent).
ReplyDeleteFor the POSS, if you want to live off the grid, you would sell phone.
For the GFCS, for buying hats, going boating, or eating wedge salad, you would want a clean head. (The fromage bleu was for the French part of the puzzle.)
David,
DeleteNice.
It is not the intended GFCS answer but it works. Who knows, even guest gourmet French chef Monsieur Garcon du Parachutisme might be impressed!
Lego...
Good work, ron.
ReplyDeleteThe musical group in the Specialty Of The House Slice is a folk singing trio.
Answers anon.
Lego...
Answers:
ReplyDeleteGuest French Chef Slice:
What one thing should a person be concerned with when purchasing a hat or going out boating?
Answer: Capsizing
Easy As Pie Slice:
EuroDixie
Name a multipurpose and sports facility in the southern United States. Remove two consecutive letters. Insert a few spaces in the result to form a European-language phrase that often follows a homophone of a letter from a different European-language alphabet. What are the facility and the phrase?
Answer:
San Antonio’s Alamodome. Removing the OM in Alamodome = Alamode = the French phrase “a la mode” which is often preceded by “pie,” a homophone of the Greek letter “pi.”
Specialty Of The House Slice:
Tasteful Tunesmiths
Give a possible response to “Name two manufacturers of a certain category of food products.” (You must ascertain the “certain category.”) Replace the last letter in your response with a different letter. The result is the name of a popular musical group from the past. What are these manufacturers and the musical group?
Answer:
The two manufacturers of certain food products are “Peter Paul and Mars,” candy producers. Replace the S in MarS with a Y to name the musical group “Peter, Paul and Mary.”
Parts Of Speech Slice:
Pretentious Pronouns-ciation
Name something most Americans have, in two words. (Sometimes it is spelled as one word.) Move the space between the words two places to the right. (For example, “name something” would become “nameso mething.”) Now take the first part and place it after the second part, leaving a space between them. The result, when pronounced aloud, sounds like a two-syllable pronoun that might seem a little stilted or pretentious to some ears. What are the pronoun and the “something” most Americans have?
Answer:
Most Americans have a “cell phone.” Moving the space two places to the right results in “cellph one.” Placing the first part after the second part results in “one cellph,” which, when pronounced aloud sounds like “oneself,” a pronoun that might seem a little stilted or pretentious to some ears.
Lego…
I've got to stop thinking a French puzzle has something to do with FRENCH. . .
ReplyDeleteThe 'O' referred to the 'eau" sound in batEAU (boat) and chapEAU (hat). I thought surely that must have something to do with the answer.
Alas, just putting on my summer headgear for a series of CAP SIGHS. . .
Femme des Mots
Or, Ei ffel for the French thing encore! ;-)
DeleteWe are actually talking about the FRENCH origins of the word sabotage over at Partial Ellipsis of the Sun. We are stepping lightly though. . . and discussing Semantics and Semiotics.
DeleteVenez vous joindre à nous!
My riddle posted August 3 at 11:04 PM:
ReplyDeleteRiddle: What three-letter mantra is chanted by Tibetan monks who offer peaceful “resistance” to the construction of extremely low frequency transmitter facilities?
Answer: Ohm!
Lego...
^^^^^^ This is not Magritte's pipe (above):
ReplyDeletehttp://visual-memory.co.uk/daniel/Documents/S4B/semiotic.html
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BTW, the usual excellent blending of astounding graphics and the wonder of words can be found over at PEOTS this week.
ReplyDeleteLego...