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Welcome to Joseph Young’s Puzzleria! We have long been rid of winter. We shall very shortly be rid of spring. It must be time
for a “long” riddle and a “Shortz” riddle:
1. How is a season that many of us long for like a
snake that many of us loathe?
2. What is the difference between the inspiration
for the Frisbee and a possible inspiration for the bling given to the triumphant
puzzle solvers of Will Shortz’s National Public Radio Weekend Edition Sunday
puzzle?
Speaking of Dr. Shortz’s NPR puzzle,
this was his offering this week:
Think of an adjective that describes
many shampoos. Add the brand name of a shampoo in its basic form. The result,
reading the letters in order from left to right, will name a famous musician.
Who is it?
We posted a “knock-off” puzzle (also known as a “piggyback” puzzle) to this NPR puzzle in the comments section of last week’s Puzzleria! We reprint it here, and will reveal the answer in a day or two in our comments section unless someone beats us to it:
Think of an adjective that describes
some shampoos. Add the brand name of a shampoo. The result, reading the letters
in order from left to right, is the last name of a not-at-all-very-famous
musician and the name of a not-at-all-very-famous band in which he played bass.
What are the adjective and the shampoo?
Who are the bassist and the band?
Hint: The adjective is also a cash crop. Removing one letter from the shampoo brand results in a deplorable word, a form of which appeared in the title of a Vladimir Nabokov novel.
Speaking of world-class “shampioonship”
puzzle makers, we are treated this week to another bonus morsel baked up
by our Master Gourmet French Puzzle Chef “Monsieur Garcon du Parachutisme,” also
known as “skydiveboy,” and also known as Mark Scott of Seattle, Washington.
Bonus Every
Pair Of Pictures Tells A Story Slice:
Frames of
Preference
Which of these photos do you like best
and why might they remind you of a popular entertainer of the past?
Who is it?
Hint: It is not anyone in the photos,
nor is it anyone connected to a Wild West show.
Merci beaucoup, Monsieur. Another excellent serving of gourmet questionMarksmanship. And now, for a few servings of popular puzzling entertainment of the present, we present this week’s…
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Unidentified Flying Creatures Slice:
Literary “crittercism”
Take the name
of a well-known fictional character, in three syllables.
The first
syllable is a flying critter. The third syllable is a homophone of a flying
critter. The second syllable, if you insert one of the letters of the word “second”
within it, is the plural form of a flying critter.
Who is this
fictional character? What are these critters?
Reversal Of
Forenut Slice:
Re-seeding
the final four
Reversing the
order of the final four letters of certain words results in a different word. Two examples
of five-letter words with this quality are “plate” and “sloop” (which become “petal”
and “spool”).
Can you think
of a six-letter word with this quality? We can think of one.
Can you think of words of more than six letters that
have this quality? We can think of one. It has twelve letters.
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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.)
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All I have so far is your second riddle.
ReplyDeleteFor a third riddle, what is the difference between a snake and an item of clothing for conjoined twins?
David,
DeleteI don’t think this is your riddle answer, but the best I can do begins with, “A snake has no legs, but…”
Am I anywhere near on the right track?
Lego(Riddlee)ScottNoIdeaWhatTheAnswerToDavid’sRiddleIs!
I don't think so.
DeleteHow about a fourth riddle as a clue? Take a fictional TV character (last name). Change a vowel sound to get something that sounds like an item of clothing for conjoined twins (of the opposite sex from the third riddle).
Okay, for a fifth riddle. I mathematical term (plural) could also be a description of the conjoined twins from the fourth riddle, in certain circumstances.
DeleteAll I have so far is Nelson Riddle.
ReplyDeleteWord Woman,
DeleteWho was Dudley Do-Right Jr.?
That is the Nelson Riddle!
LegoMountieBank
Lego:
DeleteDo you mean the Nelson Riddle Orchestra? Or the Orca striation that groovy whales sometimes exhibit?
skydiveboy,
DeleteYes, that…
… or the result when the Hollywood Catering Service underestimates the amount of food to bring to the set of the filming of a major motion picture.
LegoPhilHarmonic...a
Yes, there is a colonel of truth in that. Especially if it is fried chicken.
DeleteI have only the Frisbee answer, too. Which was originally called a Pluto Platter, but got demoted, I guess, and flew off in search of New Horizons.
ReplyDeletejan,
DeleteThanks for the Pluto link.
Pluto Platter would have been a pretty good name for the Frisbee, given the Disney canine character. After all, “Frisbee” conjures images of pooches soaring through the air and jaw-snatching disks from mid-air (see images above).
… Although eventually, “Pluto Platter” would have been shortened to “Pluter.”
Pluto Platter
LegoParkePluterBaugh:PlatterCritic
The picture puzzle has me thinking of Nikita Khrushchev, in a roundabout sort of way.
ReplyDeleteI have two answers for ROFS, but each requires a proper noun (place name). I was almost ready to claim a third answer, until I double-checked to see if the second word must be different from the first. Indeed, it must.
Paul:
DeleteI see what you mean. Disneyland has never allowed Nikita Khrushchev or buffalo to enter and enjoy their facility. Not very inclusive are they?
Paul,
Delete“Khrushchev’s due at IdleWild West Show?”
For the ROFS, proper nouns would be perfectly proper answers. But so are improper nouns proper answers. My six-letter and twelve-letter answers happen to be lowercase and improper, but uppercase and proper also works.
LegoWildEasternBlocShowdown
Paul:
DeleteI forgot to mention that Trigger, although not refused entry, never visited Disneyland either. He was just too stuffed to walk in.
Lego:
DeleteI want to hear more about those proper nuns and the improper nuns. Do they ever co-mingle? Or perhaps comb in a gale? You can tell my ignorance on this subject, but I really am interested in knowing. I don't mean knowing the nuns in a biblical way, you understand, I trust.
skydiveboy,
DeleteSure, Disneyland may never have allowed Nikita Khrushchev into their puny little amusement park, but they did let Mickeyta Khrushchev in.
As for your sincere nun inquiry:
Once in a blue moon proper nuns might get prepositioned. When this occurs, some make it a habit to remove all their articles of garb (even including their wimples!). Conjunction enSues (or enKatherines or enElizabeths, depending on the name of the nun). Such adverbse and abjective behavior is not tolerated, of course. The Mother Superior will normally pronouns these now-improper nuns unfit for their habit, and they will be promptly interjected from the convent.
Their avowels of chastity were apparently a sham. These improper nuns were not consonant with the obligations of their sacred calling.
LegoGetTheeOuttaOurNunnery!
That is indeed a frocking shameful story. How were you able to uncover it? You must know cellular life more than I. It is so black and white, with no grey area at all. I confess to not fully picturing it and its naked truth.
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ReplyDeletepatjberry,
DeleteExcellent puzzle. As I have noted before over on Blaine's blog, you have the puzzle knack.
It is 3:30 in the morning Central Time. Very few people have noticed your puzzle as of yet. I believe this is exactly the kind of puzzle Will Shortz salivates over. If I were you I would delete it from this comments section and submit it to NPR.
I really do appreciate that you posted it here on this blog though. This is exactly the spirit I want to foster at Puzzleria! -- a clearinghouse where puzzlers come to exchange ideas, puzzles, alternative answers, opinions, etc.
Thank you.
LegoGrateful
I got it (and like it).
DeleteI've got skydiveboy's picture puzzle, though I almost didn't recognize the cowboy without his pretty woman by his side.
ReplyDeletejan,
DeleteCongrats to you for solving it, and you are right about him not having his woman there with him, but he has his boyfriend there to support him.
skydiveboy and jan,
DeleteIn researching the “Nelson Riddle” (see my response to Word Woman, above), I discovered that Dudley Do-Right’s gal, Nell Fenwick, was enamored more with Dudley’s horse, Horse, than with Dudley! I hope there was no similar romantic/rohorse-ic triangle involving Roy, Dale and Trigger (with Buttercup the odd horse out).
LegoNellDoneHerManWrong,HisHorseRight
Lego,
DeleteMounties were not allowed to be married back then. Perhaps that may explain the close relationships Mounties had with their steeds, and maybe this was a love triangle. You could contact the Canadian consul and put in for a Freedom of Information request, but it probably would come redacted. Monty Python discovered a similar situation with Canadian lumberjacks as I remember.
Half-Nelson
DeleteOther Half-Nelson.
I've written the following somewhere before, but I'm sure this is at least a partial new audience.
DeleteContrary to popular belief, when Trigger died, Roy Rogers did not have Trigger preserved by a taxidermist. Rather, he had Trigger turned into horse jerky, which he passed out to the neighborhood children on Halloween. When the children asked what it was, he said "Trigger Treat".
E-qwhining here, David. That is really bad.
DeleteWord Woman,
DeleteThere is no e-qwhining in base-humor-ball! David’s pun was so groanable that it was grinnable.
Like the Great American Pastime’s Jimmy Foxx and Ducky Medwick (not to be confused with Nell Fenwick or Park Fenway) and quarter horse American Pharoah, David’s “Trigger Treat” was a true Triple Crown whinnyer.
LegoTroisEasyRestsTheHeadThatWearsTheTripleCrown
You are often horsing around, jockeymen, fruits of the loam.
DeleteOr, we are often horsing around, jokeymen, fruits of the lame.
DeleteLegoTheyShootHorses,Don’tThey?
Hey, you get to edit, Lego. Well-done, sire.
DeleteJust got the Flying Critters one....but I don't think there'll be much hope for the "Final Four", not to mention any of the others....no time, I'm afraid. But very nice to have dropped in, albeit briefly.
ReplyDeleteAs a lover of awful groan-inducing puns, I have to say I love the "Trigger Treat" joke! Still haven't got the flying critter puzzle though. It was enough just getting the Sunday puzzle. I do have an answer for the second puzzle though. Tell ya Tuesday.
ReplyDeleteI agree, the Trigger joke is a treat. Who can say David doesn't have the right stuff? Lighthearted humor like that kinda makes my saddle soar.
ReplyDeleteWould that be the saddle on General Grant's horse, SDB?
ReplyDeleteI'll LEEve that to your imagination.
DeleteFor ROFS, I have 2 sixes and 1 seven. One of the sixes and the seven share the same reversed letters.
ReplyDeleteI don't have the BEPOPTASS or UFCS but do have a piggyback UFCS:
Take a no longer living person, well known (at least among this crowd), 3 syllables. The first and second syllable sounds like (different) flying creatures, the third syllable sounds like a flying creature without the first and last letter. The removed letters are the initials of a comic strip character.
David,
DeleteI have been working on the "third, fourth and fifth riddles" you posted at the beginning of this week's comments, and on your "flying creature puzzle," above.
Can you (or some other Puzzlerian! who has solved your puzzles) provide a bit of hintage? I know, David, that you created your fourth and fifth puzzles to serve as hints to the third puzzle, but I just cannot crack them.
In you flying creature puzzle, it would help me if you revealed how the the syllables are distributed in the person's name, or if you narrowed down the comic strip character somewhat.
Thank you a ton for posting your great puzzles in our comments section. They are a real challenge... to me at least.
LegoThereAreNOTFewLessCluelessThanI
We can start with a hint or two for the flying creatures. First, the comic strip character is always referred to by his/her initials. Second, the real life person is a one syllable first name / two syllable second name.
ReplyDeleteIf you are saying, oh PuzzleMaster (and David) that the answer to the flying critters puzzle is a cartoon character, than I have a completely DIFFERENT answer.....but I won't be around to type it in tomorrow. Nuts.
ReplyDeleteOh, perhaps I was confused, in that I didn't see above that David had posed a different flying critters puzzle, and it is his that has a cartoon character, not Lego's. Right? (Tearing hair out)
ReplyDeleteRight, and my actual character is non-fictional.
DeleteDavid, I just got your puzzle, but I still can't get Lego's. David should submit his to NPR, if you ask me. I 'll still reveal the answer to mine tomorrow, in case anyone might be having trouble with it after seeing it briefly here.
ReplyDeleteThe answer to Lego's first puzzle just hit me. It's great!
ReplyDeleteYour post, which I just read a moment ago, led me to take a look, and I think I too have the answer, and it is clever. Reminds me of one of the Pink Panther movies.
DeleteDavid,
DeleteYour hints were enough to help me solve your clever flying creatures puzzle. The “no longer living person” lived not much longer than age 31. I agree with patjberry that it is an NPR-worthy puzzle. I am yet making no headway on your conjoined twins riddles, however.
patjberry,
Thanks for your kind word about my “Literary Crittercism” puzzle. If you are planning to send your “deleted-post” puzzle to NPR, however, I would hold off on giving the answer until you are sure NPR is not going to use it.
LegoInSolvingMode
It is about time we reveal the answer to our “piggyback puzzle” to last week’s “herbal Pert = Herp Alpert” puzzle: Our puzzle read:
ReplyDeleteThink of an adjective that describes some shampoos. Add the brand name of a shampoo. The result, reading the letters in order from left to right, is the last name of a not-at-all-very-famous musician and the name of a not-at-all-very-famous band in which he played bass.
What are the adjective and the shampoo? Who are the bassist and the band?
Hint: The adjective is also a cash crop. Removing one letter from the shampoo brand results in a deplorable word, a form of which appeared in the title of a Vladimir Nabokov novel.
Answer:
Adjective = wheat;
Shampoo = Bed Head;
Bassist = Kris Wheat
Band = Bedhead
Hints: Wheat is a cash crop, worldwide.
Bed Head – d = behead
LegoLatherRinseSpitSpinLatherRinseSpinSpitLather…
ATTENTION PUZZLERIANS!
ReplyDeletePLEASE do NOT reveal today your answers to skydiveboy’s dual picture puzzle, Bonus Every Pair Of Pictures Tells A Story Slice: Frames of Preference.
We want to give solvers a bit more time to solve it. We will let you know when it is okay to post your solution.
Thank you.
Lego…
I thought jan had already revealed the answer (if I hadn't), but, all right, if that's the way you want it ...
ReplyDeleteMoriah / mohair
Angola / analog
Does the name Jiro Hemmi mean anything to anyone?
I don't think this gives much away ... and it's a great clip:
Deletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNCzfPhdd2M
I have been out of town for the last week with no access to a computer. I saw the slices just now for the first time. I do have some comments about ROFS:
ReplyDeleteWords with palindromic final four letters: INDEED, GROTTO, OUTTOOT, OVERSEES, SUPERKOOK.
Words with non-palindromic final four letters: REWARD/REDRAW, PISTOL/PILOTS, OUTSPOT (in a card game)/OUTTOPS, OVERSTEP/OVERPETS, SUPERSTAR/SUPERRATS!
just preliminary thoughts...
ron,
DeleteWelcome back from your vacation. Please tell us how Edward Snowden is doing over there.
Now it does.
DeleteExcellent pair of 6-letter solutions for “Re-seeding the final four,” Paul. Not my intended but, of course, that is why they are excellent!
A biblical reference like Moriah is always solid. Its re-seeded partner, mohair, is fabric or yarn made from the hair of an ANGORA goat. Angora re-seeded would be ANAROG, as in anarog computers or digit displays… Oh, wait, that should be anaLog computers or digit displays, which re-seeds to Angola.
ron,
A quite impressive array of re-seedings, given your compressed solving time frame. You have still more time before “This week’s answers, for the record,” and I believe skydiveboy is postponing the reveal of his picture-puzzle answer.
LegoARe-seedingMohairLineIsMt.Baldy,Moriah…But a BowlHaircutIsAMoeHairCut
lego,
DeleteGlad you enjoyed my slipstick comedy.
David,
DeleteSlipstick… slapstock, slapdash, slap-happy, shrink-wrapped, snoop-dogg-rapped, spellbound, homespun, pun-packed, fun-facted, slam-dunked, punch-drunk, spiked-punched, spleen-vented, fiddy-cented, spit-shined, belt-notched, punch-line-botched, spot-on, off-color, on-topic, off-kilter, unfiltered, slam-bang, slam-bam, thank you ma’am, knee-slap, slipshod, shakedown, shears-sharp, shock-jock, shotgun, showdown, slow-down, downbeat, up-tempo, shorthand, show-off, slap-down, poetry-slam, shopworn, slack-jawed, sleep-inducing, yuk-producing…
Any humor, Paul, that you contribute to this blog is as welcome as the flowers in May.
LeGoCrazyUpsyDaisy
It seems I may have missed something. I don't mind.
DeletePaul,
DeleteYou missed something?! Doesn't seem to me you miss much. Does seem to me I do, though.
LegoCouldWinTheMissUniversePageantWereItNotForTheSwimsuitCompetition
... and I do mind!
DeleteLegoI'mSureMyParentsWishedIWouldHaveMindedThemMore
ron,
DeleteWill you please solve skydiveboy's puzzle, already, so we can put a wrap on this?
I had REWARD/REDRAW also, which I paired with OUTWARD/OUTDRAW. CASTER/CARETS. Also, sort of RESORT/RETROS.
ReplyDeleteASSORT/ASTROS
ReplyDeleteDavid,
DeleteNice re-seedings. Reward/redraw is my six-letter answer. Your “outdraw/outward” is perfect. I couldn’t come up with any seven-letter solutions. Your four other six-letter solutions are all very solid also, including “retros,” IMO (“Retros” is also shorthand for “retrorockets.”)
One of the words in my 12-letter solution is related to food. I would be delighted if one of you would come up with my answer. But, after all, Puzzlerians! have had only four-or-so days to come up with solutions. I started working on this puzzle more than a year ago!
…assort/Astros
Colt Forty-five/Colt Forty-evif (a pistol/Pilots… Seattle variety)
LegoResortingToRetrospection
I'm suddenly curious about the etymology of the phrase 'heavenly days'.
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DeletePaul,
DeleteI am still trying to plumb the depth of meaning of Happy Days, and then Eve Plumb the depth of meaning of, well, you know…
LegoUnhappilyHellyNights
Haven't heard back from NPR about using any of my submissions. Might as well tell you the answer to my last piggyback puzzle is BEHEMOTH, using BEE and MOTH. I might be doing something wrong submitting mine. Last time I checked the inbox it said something about security breaches. I deleted what I needed to, though. I also think I misunderstood the second puzzle. I was trying to think of a six-letter word whose last FIVE letters could be reversed to make a new word. The best I could come up with was REVILE and RELIVE. As for the 12-letter word, if it's only the "final four", it just came to me as I've been writing this. Hope I'm right!
ReplyDeleteAny friend of a behemoth is a friend of mine. I may have suggested, once upon a time, that a behemoth could never have evolved; I'm not sure.
DeleteThe Behemoth Radio Hour must be even bigger than NPR's The Moth Radio Hour. Here is the link: themoth.org/radio As for me, I'm still upset over the removal of all the elephants from the Seattle Woodland Park Zoo due to a lack of trunk space.
DeletePaul, behemoths evolved with beshemoths, I believe.
DeleteThis week’s answers, for the record:
ReplyDelete(The answer to our piggyback puzzle to Will Shortz’s NPR “Shampoo/Musician” puzzle in in our June 23 at 1:33 AM comment, above.)
TWO RIDDLES:
1. How is a season that many of us long for like a snake that many of us loathe?
Answer: One is the summer (one who sums), the other is the adder (one who adds).
2. What is the difference between the inspiration for the Frisbee and a possible inspiration for the bling given to the triumphant puzzle solvers of Will Shortz’s National Public Radio Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle?
Answer:
One is a pie tin, the other is a tiepin.
The inspiration for the Frisbee was most likely a PIE TIN. And a possible inspiration for the treasured NPR lapel pin, the bling given to the triumphant puzzle solvers of Will Shortz’s National Public Radio Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, is the tiepin , which is more functional than a lapel pin. (Indeed, let’s face it, the only reason Will and the NPR call it a “lapel pin” is because women seldom wear ties, yet women often solve Will’s puzzles!)
Unidentified Flying Creatures Slice:
Literary “crittercism”
Take the name of a well-known fictional character, in three syllables.
The first syllable is a flying critter. The third syllable is a homophone of a flying critter. The second syllable, if you insert one of the letters of the word “second” within it, is the plural form of a flying critter.
Who is this fictional character? What are these critters?
Answer:
Jay Gatsby (of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby”)
Critters:
First syllable: “jay”
Second syllable: gats + n = “gnats”
Third syllable: The “by” in “Gatsby” is pronounced as a homophone of “bee.”
Reversal Of Forenut Slice:
Re-seeding the final four
Reversing the order of the final four letters of certain words results in a different word. Two examples of five-letter words with this quality are “plate” and “sloop” (which become “petal” and “spool”).
Can you think of a six-letter word with this quality? We can think of one.
Can you think of words of more than six letters that have this quality? We can think of one. It has twelve letters.
Answer:
Six-letter word: reward (redraw)
Twelve-letter word: delicatessen (delicateness)
Lego…
Should I tell you a clue for my conjoined twin series? Oh wait, I just did.
ReplyDeleteDavid,
DeleteAs a Minnesotan, home of the Twin Cities, I know this should be easy for me, but so far it is not. Does you clue have anything with baseball? Or Ernie Banks?
LegoInTheHoleOhAndTwo
No, it is has to do with the television character in what I called the fourth riddle.
DeleteDavid,
DeleteSorry to be so dense. I know if I can “tip” just one of your riddles, the others should fall like dominoes.
I have been looking for a character in a series with twins. I tried “Full House.” No luck with the vowel-sound shift leading to clothing. The “Patty Duke Show” wasn’t really a “twin series.” I’m not up to snuff on more modern TV series.
I need another nudge, either from you or a Puzzlerian! who has solved your triple-riddle!
LegoBaffled
Have my clues been Greek to you? Or even just British English?
DeleteYes. Yes.
DeleteTwin series: Royals?
LegoFeelsStu-pidWhenStum-ped
Last clue for me to TELL Youse. It will SAVe A Lot A youSe time and effort.
DeleteGive the man a lollipop. . .or two.
DeleteOkay,
DeleteI have your third and fourth riddle, after your merciful putting-me-outta-my-misery [Brit-TV-is-his-first-name, Stupid!] clue. That third domino (fifth riddle) is not falling though, unless "tripod" is a mathematical term.
Great riddles, David.
LegoSheepishLambda
Think Triggernometry.
DeleteTrigger had the Right Stuff.
DeleteOkay, David. Finally. The fifth riddle... "under certain circumstances" ... like sunbathing on Hapuna Beach in Hawaii.
DeleteHint for your third riddle: four-wheeled Shelby
Hint for your fourth: [miler Sebastian][French James]
Lego'sKudosDavid'sWay
For the record:
DeleteFor a third riddle, what is the difference between a snake and an item of clothing for conjoined twins?
One is a cobra, the other a co-bra.
How about a fourth riddle as a clue? Take a fictional TV character (last name). Change a vowel sound to get something that sounds like an item of clothing for conjoined twins (of the opposite sex from the third riddle).
One is Kojak (played by Telly Savalas, the root of many of the above clues), the other is co-jock.
Okay, for a fifth riddle. I mathematical term (plural) could also be a description of the conjoined twins from the fourth riddle, in certain circumstances.
One is cotangents, the other is co-tan-gents.
Thank you, David.
DeleteYour third riddle reminded me of a mnemonic device I created in high school math class to keep "triggernometric" (nice coinage, David) functions straight. I will discuss it more in tomorrow's Puzzleria!
LegoMathemeticiansHaveJustAnnouncedThatTheyHaveJustPulledTheTriggerOnAChangeInTerminologyAndThatTheTangentFunctionWillHereafterBeKnownAsTheBoehnerFunction
You didn't use Chief SOH CAH TOA, Lego, like the rest of us?
DeleteWord Woman,
DeleteThat would have been a helpful mnemonic to know all right, but our triggernometry teacher was a Native American woman who deemed Chief Soh Cah Toa the moral equivalent of uttering aloud the nickname of the Washington D.C. National Football League franchise.
She also referred to “trigonometry” as “ whitefellahnometry.”
LegoMnemononometry
Of course, you would call blind conjoined twins co-see-cants.
DeleteHuh?
DeleteGood stuff, you two.
DeleteGeorge Hamilton dies and is greeted by St. Peter at the Pearly-White-Teeth Gates.
"Well," St. Pete says, "You perpetrated a slew of on-screen dreck during your career, perpetuating living hell for your viewers. Normally this would be grounds for sending you hellward..."
"Oh, for Pete's sake!" George exclaims.
"But we did find one redeeming scene," the Pearly Gatekeeper continues. "Actually it is a scene that nearly caused us to send Pete Falk to hell. But here in heaven everything is relative. So, welcome to eternal paradise. You can pick up your beard, wings, harp and halo from props, over behind that cloud just beyond wardrobe. That's where you can pick up your robe and sandals."
"Thanks, St. Peter." says George. "Does that mean I am an archangel?"
"No," Peter explains, "just an an arctangent."
LegittleBigo
Huh?
DeleteHuh?
DeleteOkay, internet god, I suppose I deserved that.
DeleteYes, Paul, I think we can all agree that you deserve every bit of grief the internet god can dole out! But what about Word Woman? What has she done to deserve the cyber-deity's wrath?
DeleteLegoTheGodsAreFickle
Lego, ready for a career change? I will be visiting there next week; I can put in a good word for you. (I'll probably fail the touring test, though.)
ReplyDeletejan,
ReplyDeleteYes, Please put in a good word for me... although they will probably sue me for copyright infringement or something.
I would love to make sport of these chaps, but cannot. After all, learning through having fun with puzzles in one of Puzzleria's! watchwords.
LegoProfessorOfLegoImpostory
That's it. Deal with it.
ReplyDeleteThe answer to my picture puzzle is obtained by answering, or just asking yourself, the first part/question in the presentation, which is asking which photo you like best, Roy (or) Bison. This provides you with the answer: ROY ORBISON. I asked Lego to run it a little longer in hopes that ron, who always posts here would have a chance to weigh in. Thanks for your patience.
ReplyDeleteMark (SDB)