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Welcome to the 55th edition
of Joseph Young’s Puzzleria! It is May 22, the dawn of Memorial Day Weekend.
Let us remember whom we ought to be remembering…
As well as why we ought to be remembering them. Beginning about a year ago, a trove of “history-as-it-happened” clips has been made available on YouTube, many of them documenting the modern-era war that perhaps best epitomizes all wars.
Episodes of “The March of Time,” a newsreel series produced by London-based Pathé News (British Pathé), were shown in movie theaters during the World War II era. Newsreels were short films encapsulating the world news of the previous week. They were shown before the feature film or between double features.
Just type “British Pathe” into your YouTube search engine. If you wish to pay tribute to members of the “Class of ’15,” also type in “The Master of the King’s Musick.”
Easy As Pie Pseudopuzzle Slice:
“Caddyshack” has been hailed my many as one
of the best comedy/sports movies ever made. However, presented below is a
snippet of a scene (obtained exclusively by Puzzleria!) that was wisely outtaken.
There are three anagrams, implanted like
Bermuda grass on the tenth fairway, in the text of this outtake’s transcript.
Two of them consist of three consecutive words. The third consists of two
consecutive words. Each of the three anagrams can be rearranged into into three-word phrases that have been
staples of a nearly nightly habit for many, one that has been much in the news during the past few
days, May 20-22.
Pseudopuzzle hint: An actor in “Caddyshack” has a solid connection with the “nearly nightly event” and its host.
What are the three anagrams implanted in the script below? What do they become after rearranging their letters? Who is the actor with the solid tie to the event and its host?
Setting:
The third green at the Bushwood Country Club. Ty
Webb (Chevy Chase), Al Czervik (Rodney Dangerfield) and Judge Elihu Smails (Ted
Knight) are putting out.
(That’s “putting out” as in “putt,” not “putting out”
as in “put.” The “putting out” as in “put” scene was deleted to avoid getting an
MPAA rating of NC-17. This “putting out as in putt” scene on the green was deleted because
it was just so dad-blamed lame.)
Judge Smails, lining up his 15-foot putt:
“I think this one should break about a foot to the left. If I am wrong you both
have permission to break my left foot.” (Smails blurts out a self-satisfied
chuckle at his “joke.”)
Czervik, peering a decade into the
future:
“Hey, is that Ted Knight talkin’ or Daniel Day-Lewis? ”
Judge Smails:
“Huh?”
Webb:
“I don’t think I’ve ever seen dipstick putters before.”
Judge Smails, indignantly:
“I will have
you know, sir, that this putter is manufactured of double annealed stainless steel.”
Czervik:
“I don’t think Ty was talkin’
about the putting tool, Judge. I think he was talkin’ about the tool who was
putting.”
Spackler, mumbling:
“Always distrust a
chipmunk. Always distrust a chipmunk. Them is rodents who can’t never be trusted.”
Judge Smails:
“Hey, what’s the big idea,
anyway? I’m trying to putt out here!”
Spackler:
“Just tryin’ to keep your precious
putting surface free from chipmunks, Judge. (then, bowing and doffing his cap in the judge’s direction) Like this critter that crossed my path this morning.”
Judge Smails:
“You can’t fool me. As a
lad I won a first place in a taxidermy competition at Williston Northhamptom
School in Easthampton. That pelt, ’tis not a chipmunk. ‘Tis a gopher!”
Spackler, shoving the hose nozzle into
the putting cup and filling it to overflowing:
“A golpher? Judge, I can understand why you might
think I’m a little creepy, but I ain’t no Ed Gein. Heck, I’m even tight with the Lama. And I don’t mean the two-ll llama. I hear he’s a beast!”
Granted, that appetizer was tad
unappetizing. Why not pop a few Alka-Seltzers as we give you a bit more time to
study our main menu items.
In honor of Memorial Day, there is a super-subtle allusion to “remembering” in one of the puzzle slices on this week’s menu. NPR Puzzlemaster Will Shortz might have an unfair advantage in solving the other puzzle slice.
In honor of Memorial Day, there is a super-subtle allusion to “remembering” in one of the puzzle slices on this week’s menu. NPR Puzzlemaster Will Shortz might have an unfair advantage in solving the other puzzle slice.
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Round And Round And Back And Forth Slice:
Wimbledindindy
500
Name a pair of
two-syllable homophones. One whirs. The other, one wears. Both are similar to
the Indianapolis 500 in that their definitions involve a sense of going
round-and-round, similar to a racecar (That’s a palindrome!) on an oval racetrack.
Take the
homophone naming what one wears, reverse the order of its syllables and replace
the resulting new fifth letter with a different vowel. The result is a word
whose definition involves a sense of going back-and-forth (Like a palindrome does! Or...), like tennis balls do at the Wimbledon championships (or like ping-pong balls are apt to do in the presence of a certain distinguished professor of puzzletry).
What are these
three words?
House of Cards Or God Slice:
If you perform
a “spoonerism” by switching the initial consonant sounds of the two words in
the Saturday evening phrase, saying the result aloud produces the two-word
Sunday morning phrase And vice versa.
Every Friday at
Joseph Young’s Puzzle -ria! we publish a new menu of fresh word puzzles, number
puzzles, logic puzzles, puzzles of all varieties and flavors. We cater to
cravers of scrumptious puzzles!
Our master chef, Grecian gourmet puzzle-creator Lego Lambda, blends and bakes up mysterious (and sometimes questionable) toppings and spices (such as alphabet soup, Mobius bacon strips, diced snake eyes, cubed radishes, “hominym” grits, anagraham crackers, rhyme thyme and sage sprinklings.)
House of Cards Or God Slice:
Wayne’s
world of poker and piety
On Saturday
evenings, Wayne counts cards while playing five-card draw poker with his three
buddies. On Sunday mornings, Wayne counts on his rosary beads in
his church pew at St. Mary Queen of Whatever-Suit-Blue-Pips-Would-Be Parish. He feigns piety, but really is in need of an exorcism.
A two-word phrase describes Wayne, about one-fourth of the time, on Saturday evenings. A different two-word phrase describes Wayne, about one-third of the time, on Sunday mornings.
A two-word phrase describes Wayne, about one-fourth of the time, on Saturday evenings. A different two-word phrase describes Wayne, about one-third of the time, on Sunday mornings.
If you perform
a “spoonerism” by switching the initial consonant sounds of the two words in
the Saturday evening phrase, saying the result aloud produces the two-word
Sunday morning phrase And vice versa.
What are these
two two-word phrases?
(Hint: The four
initial letters of the four words in the two-word phrases are, in alphabetical
order, D, D, K and M.)
Every Friday at
Joseph Young’s Puzzle -ria! we publish a new menu of fresh word puzzles, number
puzzles, logic puzzles, puzzles of all varieties and flavors. We cater to
cravers of scrumptious puzzles!Our master chef, Grecian gourmet puzzle-creator Lego Lambda, blends and bakes up mysterious (and sometimes questionable) toppings and spices (such as alphabet soup, Mobius bacon strips, diced snake eyes, cubed radishes, “hominym” grits, anagraham crackers, rhyme thyme and sage sprinklings.)
Please post
your comments below. Feel free also to post clever and subtle hints that do not
give the puzzle answers away. Please wait until after 3 p.m. Eastern Time on
Tuesdays to post your answers and explain your hints about the puzzles. We
serve up at least one fresh puzzle every Friday.
We invite you to make it a habit to “Meet at Joe’s!” If you enjoy our weekly
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you.
Lego, Catty Shack?
ReplyDeleteWord Woman,
DeleteYes, I understand Tiger Woods spends lots of time hanging around catty shacks,,, oh wait, on second thought maybe it was catty houses.
LegoCuttySark=ShipInABottle
I have a couple of answers for HoCOGS, neither of which I'm particularly proud of, with 3/4 of the initial letters matching the ... I forget, was it a hint or a stipulation?
ReplyDeletePaul,
DeleteShhh! You have just given utterance to one of the herd of crazy elephants lounging around in our Puzzleria! room:
“Our ostensibly helpful ‘hints’ are actually oppressively restrictive stipulations that militate against alternative answers.”
Often, the biggest of domestic elephants are the dirtiest of little secrets!
(Note: We committed a slight glitch in one of the anagrams of the EAPPS, but just fixed it by adding a letter to one of the three anagrams in the text.)
LegoPachydermPatron/GlitchCommitter
Bigger than a lot of numbers ...
ReplyDeleteCertainly FLIP FLOP is a whirring sound as well as something one wears and FLOP FLIP is a "going back & forth."
ReplyDeleteron,
DeleteYou may have something there.
According to the definition link I provided, a homophone is “a word that is pronounced like another word but is different in meaning, origin, or spelling.”
Flip-flop (footwear) and flip-flop (to make a whirring sound) certainly qualify as two-syllable homophones.
This site says “flip-flop” means to “move with a flapping sound or motion.” Merriam Webster says to “whir” is to “move rapidly with a… continuous fluttering or vibrating sound made by something in rapid motion.” I’m thinking hummingbird wings here, a flapping whirring brand of flip-flopping.
Ah, but what about their “sense of going round and round”? Well, in pleasant weather, people wearing flip-flops walk round and round everywhere. And, while hummingbirds often hover in one place, they also must fly round and round as well.
Another definition of “flip-flop” is to “make an abrupt reversal in policy,” as a politician might. A “flop-flip,” would seem to intensify the “sense of reversal,” confirming your assertion that a flop-flip is a "going back & forth."
LegoJosephCottontailDustMopsy&FlipFlopsy
Paul,
ReplyDeleteThanks for the “fifth Beatle” tune and the kittenfest links. Interesting that “Nothing from Nothing” leaves Nothing, but Anything over Nothing leaves Everything (and more!).
The “Three Little Kittens” elicits nostalgia.
When my two siblings and I were still wearing “pajamas with feet,” our mother would read this verse to the three of us, much to our delight, and hers. She was a felinophile (my word for “ailurophile”). Now as an adult, I recognize this verse as a kind of “Amazing Grace for Kids”: Lost, Found; Soiled, Washed. With a heavenly banquet in the offing, with rat as the main course(?) Or, is the rat, rather, ever-present Satan? Nursery rhyme exegesis was never my forte.
Besides being a cat fan, my mother was also a Fan (as a child), and fan of this verse. Alas her own children were more Johns and Nells, not Fans.
LegOurMotherGoosedOurImaginations
Good middle of the night. Have gotten 2/3 or your 'appetizer' along with the actor. As usual, did things backwards. Woof. The last 1/3 I've so far not been able to narrow down from too many choices, in order to know where to hunt for the anagram.
ReplyDeleteAnd I figured out a fascinating pair of words for the first parts of each pair of the House of Cards puzzle, and IF ONLY the guy's name were not Wayne, but rather the same as that of the host in the Appetizer puzzle, I'd have a full answer!
ReplyDeleteViolinTeddy,
DeleteGood Somewhere-in-the-middle of the mornin’ to you (unless you're on EDT),
And good solving also. Your alternative answer to the HoCOGS is excellent. And the “fascinating pair of words” (Hint: adjectives) that you unearthed are really the crux of this challenge.
When I wrote this puzzle, “Wayne” was just the first name that flew into my head. It was just a working moniker, quite random. I stuck with it simply because I could make a “Wayne’s World…” headline out of it. However, had your alternative name been the one I arbitrarily selected, your answer might well have been my intended answer also.
Another reason I like your answer is because the noun in your Sunday spoonerism (which, of course rhymes with “your guy’s” name) has a serendipitous connection to the Saturday evening amusement in which Wayne/“your guy” engages. And, of course, “your guy” is also the crux of the EAPPS appetizer.
As for your two-thirds-of-the-way solution to the EAPPS, you’ve essentially already unraveled that anagrammatic “Gordian Knot” and are now merely “untying down” loose ends. Good work.
This week’s EAPPS is a repeat of sorts of last week’s Ides of May anagram puzzle, except that the four anagrams last week were embedded in a lame quatrain, while the three anagrams this week are embedded in a lame, ramblingly lengthy, movie script.
Whereas this week you must find three needles in a haystack, last week you needed only to find four needles in a pincushion.
One good strategy for solving this kind of nonsense (as, of course, you are well aware, ViolinTeddy) is to sift through the prose and listen for a phrase that sounds especially odd, strained or clunky. That’s likely where the anagram lies.
LegoPlayingTheLameGame
Appreciate much the approval, LegoLamo (that's LAME-o, as opposed to LAMB-o)! I particularly enjoyed your noticing that my 'alternate' noun in the Sunday phrase for "Wayne" has a connection to his Saturday doings, as I had realized that also.
DeleteAnd yeah, what you wrote about sifting through your rambles for clunky phrases is exactly what I do. Plus if I have an idea just WHAT I might be looking for, I then hunt for specific letters, like 'k', that might not occur all that frequently.
Will go back to look for the third "loose end" later sometime, but wanted to mention that I happen to be in the same time zone as SkyDiveBoy. (Wait, does he capitalize?) Sometimes YOU do, but then regular 'legolambda' never is.
Will Shortz’s NPR puzzle for this week:
ReplyDelete“Take the phrase "merchant raider." A merchant raider was a vessel in World War I and World War II that targeted enemy merchant ships. Rearrange the letters of "merchant raider" to get two well-known professions. What are they?”
Puzzleria!’s “Piggyback puzzle”:
Take the phrase "merchant raider." Rearrange the letters of "merchant raider" to get a not-so-well-known two-word profession. Rearrange the letters of "merchant raider" again to get a not-at-all-well-known two-word profession.
Plyers of the first profession can be seen tomorrow at Memorial Day Parades. Plyers of the second profession can be seen tomorrow in Memorial Day furniture sale blowouts!
What are these professions?
LegoLamb don’tCrushThatDwarf,HandMeThePlyers
I have three answers to this piggyback!
DeleteI have two. . .
DeleteThree Little Piggyback answers? Good work, ron.
DeleteLegoPiggybackRider
“We got three little piggies three pigs, three little piggies now three piggies three, do I hear two piggies now two piggies? Hear two now? Hear two? Got two now two two now two piggies two, do I hear one pig now, one piggy now one pig one?…
DeleteLegoGotOneNowOnePigDoIhearNoneNow...
Most of your "piggies" have now been revealed over on Blaine's Blog!
Deleteron,
DeleteYeah, I know. I usually wear socks with my sandals, but today they were all in the wash.
LegoMyPiggiesWillAgainBeEnclosedWhenItAllComesOutInTheWash
OK, there is a solution satisfying 4/4 of the HoCOGS "stipulation".
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jla0tNfM0PI&feature=youtu.be
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kEDU7m2z14
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQAbzLUl9ns
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=19&v=TSRpC-J6fLk
http://www.christianitytoday.com/ch/131christians/poets/crosby.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyS1FsUV__8
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYmn2aS9KWU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gxwutvlTw8
I'm not sure where the glitch crept in.
Deletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfW41eKUkKE#t=115
Paul,
DeleteAre you even capable of posting a bad (or even mediocre) link? These are all gems. Thanks for taking the trouble to share and for letting us enjoy.
LegoLikesMemoriableMusic
RARABAFS:
ReplyDeleteA TURBINE is something that whirs as it goes around and its homophone, a TURBAN is a type of headwear based on cloth winding. Reversing the syllables of “turban” and changing the U to an E yields BANTER which is, inevitably, a “to-and-fro” or a “back-and-forth” form of “give-and-take.”
HoCOGS:
I know nothing about Wayne's world and I leave this one to Paul, who, I am sure, has the solution.
I am reminded, however, of Kris Kristofferson's TRULY GREAT SONG: Sunday Morning Coming Down (1970). Be sure to listen to it.
The piggyback challenges.
My answers were:
1.TRAINED MARCHER (for parades).
2.TRAINED CHARMER (as a furniture salesman)
3. ERRATIC HERDMAN (as a sometime rancher/cowboy)
Also the ABC person, a RATER, and the Blaine's blog poster a MAN CHIDER or is it a CHIDER MAN?
ron,
DeleteYou "whirred" through the RARABAFS like a hot rotary knife (just a matter of time before it gets invented) through soft butter! I was bit concerned that no one would solve it.
LegoLambanterda
This week’s answers, for the record:
ReplyDeleteEasy As Pie Pseudopuzzle Slice:
GolpherPrairie
“Caddyshack” has been hailed my many as one of the best comedy/sports movies ever made. However, presented below is a snippet of a that was wisely outtaken.
There are three anagrams implanted in the text of this outtake’s transcript. Two of them consist of three consecutive words. The third consists of two consecutive words. Each of the three anagrams can be rearranged into into three-word phrases that have been staples of a nearly nightly habit for many, one that has been much in the news during the past few days, May 20-22.
Pseudopuzzle hint: An actor in “Caddyshack” has a solid connection with the “nearly nightly event” and its host.
What are the three anagrams implanted in the script below? What do they become after rearranging their letters? Who is the actor with the solid tie to the event and its host?
Answer:
Webb:
“I don’t think I’ve ever seen dipstick putters before.”
DIPSTICK PUTTERS >> STUPID PET TRICKS
Spackler, mumbling:
“Always distrust a chipmunk. Always distrust a chipmunk…”
DISTRUST A CHIPMUNK >> STUPID HUMAN TRICKS
Judge Smails:
“You can’t fool me. As a lad I won a first place in a taxidermy competition at Williston Northhamptom School in Easthampton. That pelt, ’tis not a chipmunk. ‘Tis a gopher!”
…PELT, ‘TIS NOT… >> TOP TEN LIST
All were staples (regular comic routines) of the late, “Late Night with David Letterman” (NBC) and “Late Show with David Letterman” (CBS).
Round And Round And Back And Forth Slice:
Wimbledindindy 500
Name a pair of two-syllable homophones. One whirs. The other, one wears. Both are similar to the Indianapolis 500 in that their definitions involve a sense of going round-and-round, similar to a racecar (That’s a palindrome!) on an oval racetrack.
Take the homophone naming what one wears, reverse the order of its syllables and replace the resulting new fifth letter with a different vowel. The result is a word whose definition involves a sense of going back-and-forth (Like a palindrome does! Or...), like tennis balls do at the Wimbledon championships (or like ping-pong balls are apt to do in the presence of a certain distinguished professorof puzzletry).
What are these three words?
Answer: A turbine whirs; One wears a turban;
Turban >> Bantur >> Banter
House of Cards Or God Slice:
Wayne’s world of poker and piety
On Saturday evenings, Wayne counts cards while playing five-card draw poker with his three buddies. On Sunday mornings, Wayne counts on his rosary beads in his church pew at St. Mary Queen of Whatever-Suit-Blue-Pips-Would-Be Parish. He feigns piety, but really is in need of an exorcism.
A two-word phrase describes Wayne, about one-fourth of the time, on Saturday evenings. A different two-word phrase describes Wayne, about one-third of the time, on Sunday mornings.
If you perform a “spoonerism” by switching the initial consonant sounds of the two words in the Saturday evening phrase, saying the result aloud produces the two-word Sunday morning phrase And vice versa.
What are these two two-word phrases?
(Hint: The four initial letters of the four words in the two-word phrases are, in alphabetical order, D, D, K and M.)
Answer:
Saturday: Mnemonic Dealer
Sunday: Demonic Kneeler
Lego…
How about:
DeleteMonday: Pneumatic Rhumb
Tuesday: Rheumatic Numb(ness)
ron,
DeleteNice!
The Rhumb of the Ancient Mariner:
(Updated Narrative)
After cheating at poker on Saturday and faking piety on Sunday, on Monday, Wayne Gilligan and a mixed-gender crew of six take his yacht, Wonnim, out for a spin(naker) off the Nantucket coast. But a Nor’easter (Alexa) gathers and, blowing mightily, renders Wayne’s mariner’s compass feckless (pneumatic rhumb), thereby blowing the Wonnim off course.
Wayne hangs a white lifesaver around his neck. His crewmembers pop white LifeSavers into their pieholes, hoping to ensure minty fresh breath during the unscheduled but now-anticipated clamback to be celebrated on the island upon which they will inevitably yachtwreck.
True to form, despite heroic and physically draining efforts to save the yacht from crashing into the isle, the Wonnim yachtwrecks, the crew regroups, clambake debauchery ensues, and what began as a three-hour tour has turned into an indeterminable-day maroonment.
The next morning (Tuesday), after sleeping off the effects of rum and limes salvaged from the hull and coming to grips with the failed wind-buffeted rhumb lines that foundered their now-unseaworthy “Rednuolf,” Wayne and his crew rub their weary bones and muscles, trying to ease their Rheumatic numb(ness).
LegoSamuelTaylorLambda
Ah, well I had 'Stupid Human Tricks' on my list of possibilities for sketches from The Late Show, but when I had looked for the anagram for it, hadn't found it immediately [darn], so went on to try other possible sketches (Will it Float? Is This Anything? Grinder Girl , and so forth.) Never really had time, though, to come back and keep searching.
ReplyDeleteOf course, the "alternate" answer to the Wayne puzzle, that we were discussing above, was Mnemonic DAVE and Demonic KNAVE, in case anyone was wondering [that is, if Wayne's designated name had been Dave instead.]
ViolinTeddy,
DeleteI thought your Demonic Knave/Mnemonic Dave answer was brilliant. The crux of this HoCOGS puzzle involved the silent M and K in KNeeler and MNemonic (or MNemonic and KNave, in your clever solution.)
Just a piece of advice from an older and wiser (well, okay, just older) veteran puzzle solver: If solving a puzzle ever becomes tedious, and you begin realizing "Hey, this might be a waste of my precious leisure time!" cast it aside and do something else that is more fun and/or productive.
A great puzzle:
a. ought to teach the solver something,
b. ought to have some kind of clever twist, and
c. ought to, whether the solver solves it or not, cause her/him to say afterward, "It was worth my while to spend one two-millionth, or so, of my allotted time here on Earth working to solve this puzzle."
I am still working on all three of those oughts.
LegoMembersOfTheClassesOfAughtOne-Through-NineOughtToStartThinkingAboutHowTheySpendTheirLeisureTimeLambda
Oughts ... naughts ... whatev ...
DeleteNaughty dealer / Dotty kneeler
Nerdy dealer / Dirty kneeler
I like both, Paul, equally. At first I was partial to “nerdy dealer/dirty kneeler.” Generally, card counters (Ben Affleck aside, probably) are nerdy. A guy in need of exorcism is certainly “dirty,” at least of soul.
DeleteThen I further pondered “naughty dealer/dotty kneeler.” Card counting may be considered “naughty,” at least by casino operators. Dotty (“mentally unbalanced, obsessed or infatuated”… and obsessed is very close to “possessed”) works perfectly for an exorcism candidate. “Dotty” also means “composed of or marked by dots.” Card pips are dots (or Gladys Knight backup singers). So the “dottiness” may just be a natural carryover from the Saturday night card-counting!
LegoBarefootBoyWithSoulOfDirt
I have much to learn from you, Ananias.
DeleteActs 22:12: St. Paul's describes Ananias, a resident of Damascus, as "a devout man according to the law…”
DeleteWhen I told my friend M. that Paul (not the apostle, the clever blog poster) had referred to me as “Ananias,” she broke out into paroxysms of uncontrollable laughter. My only means of snapping her out of it was to suggest, “Perhaps Paul means the guy who was married to Sapphira”…
Acts 5: 1-5: Now a man named Ananias … sold a piece of property. 2 With his wife’s full knowledge he kept back part of the money for himself, but brought the rest and put it at the apostles’ feet. 3 Then Peter said, “Ananias, how is it that Satan has so filled your heart that you have lied to the Holy Spirit and have kept for yourself some of the money you received for the land?... What made you think of doing such a thing? You have not lied just to human beings but to God.” 5 When Ananias heard this, he fell down and died.
After mulling this passage a bit, M. said soberly, “Yeah, that’s probably the Ananias Paul meant.”
LegoLambdamascus
Tell M. she's dead wrong.
DeleteScripps Spelling Bee is on ESPN right now. Best television show ever!
ReplyDeleteLegoLanguageOfOriginUseItInASentenceAlternativePronunciation...AlternativeSpelling?
Usually in competitions in which one competitor emerges from a field of many, it is possible to “pull against” a competitor or two you may perceive as “jerks.”
DeleteFor example, PGA fans might cheer when Tiger Woods shanks one into the rough, or high-five when Phil Mickelson muffs a two-foot putt. NASCAR fans may whoop it up when Tony Stewart spins out on Turn 3, or toast their buds with their Buds when Kyle Busch blows a gasket and Kurt Busch runs out of gas as they approach the checkered flag.
In the Scripps Spelling Bee, however, no one toasts, whoops, high-fives or cheers when they hear the ding of the misspelling-indicator bell. What great kids!
LegoHateToHearDatDing
Oh, phooey, last weekend I had seen that the Spelling Bee was imminent [have managed to find it in various past years, but it often slips by me] , but by the time I saw your post on it just now to jog the ole brain, it was way too late. Heaven forfend, was today the finals? Do they, at least, RERUN the finals?
DeleteViolinTeddy,
DeleteNot to fear. The final finals (ten spellers remaining) are on ESPN tonight at 8 PM Eastern time.
EllEGeeOhEllAEmBeeDeeA
Know of any way around ESPN, Lego? What fun for those spellers!
DeleteWord Woman,
DeleteI believe there is a live stream link on this site.
LegOrthographCantenaryCurves
Having heard an ad saying that the finals would be on 'tomorrow at 10 a.m. eastern time", I made a note to myself to get up early to watch them (Not being on Eastern time). I even checked Google which talked about how Thursday had been the semi-finals. So the fact that the finals ended up being Thurs. evening [and naturally, I hadn't seen your post re that time] while I wasn't even home came as a huge disappointment. I really blew it this year! Oh well. It's just not the same watching it AFTER the fact. Thanks anyway.
DeleteThanks, Lego. It looks like the live stream is only for ESPN subscribers. Take copious notes!
ReplyDeleteAnd thanks for the shameless PEOTS catenary plug!
Word Woman and other Orthographiles,
DeleteWhenever the Scripps Bee clips get posted on YouTube or wherever, you gotta watch sentimental favorite Dev Jaiswal, who bowed out after spelling iridocyclitis as iridociclitis. The mother-sister-Dev hugging/kissing sequence is priceless.
LegoDevFan(AndDr.JacquesBaillyFan)
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