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Joseph Young’s Puzzleria!
No
dilly-dallying this week… Except I did hear a so-bad-it-is-not-so-bad joke that I feel obliged, no blessed, to share:
Leon the chameleon
was having difficulty changing his skin color so he went to his doctor for
help. After running some tests the doctor called Leon in to his office and
revealed his diagnosis.
“Leon,” you
have what we in the medical profession call [a three-word ailment beginning
with the letters D, R and D].”
We shall reveal the
malady below, just above this week’s MENU.
In the meantime, chomp on this fresh-outta-our-ovens puzzle slice:
Extra!
Extra! Hot Off Presses Slice:
Old news, current stagnation
The headlines on the three newspaper pages shown here all
contain three words represented by blanks (or uppercase X’s) that you must fill in/replace
with letters.
The two Puzzleria News headlines are from the 18th Century.
The City Examiner headline is from an edition in the 20th Century.
The headlines read:
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ e ( _ _ _ )
“shuttles” off mortal coil; Crisis looms
Inventor _ _ _ _ _ _ _ e
( _ _ _ ) creates textile frame; Heads spin
Singer XXXX XXX XXXX with laryngitis; Concert cancelled
When you fill in or replace the blanks or X’s with the correct
letters and read aloud the trio of words in each of the headlines you will be
pronouncing what sounds like the name of a person recently in the news.
Who is this recently newsworthy person?
Answer to riddle above:
Doctor: “Leon,”
you have what we in the medical profession call ‘de reptile dysfunction.’ ”
We pray, as you
bask under the summer solarity, that your skin tone changes only slightly. No
beet-red or Boehner-orange-colored chameleons allowed!
We wish you
good karma, Chameleon, and no dysfunction in solving the slices on this week’s
menu. (The Comparative Panorama Slice was inspired by skydiveboy’s “Roy or Bison?” picture puzzle. Thanks. Mark. The “Our Second Lady Of Fadima Slice: Serene Magdalene scene” is a
kindred mysteriospirit to July 3rd’s “Red Swingline Slice: Fad food
for tads.”)
MENU
Comparative
Panorama Slice:
Two peactures
not in a pod
The two images
presented here are different in a number of respects. Their shapes differ. Their
subject matters differ: One documents a sporting event, the other is a
landscape. One inspires excitement, the other tranquility.
So, how do these pictures differ?
Our Second
Lady Of Fadima Slice:
Serene
Magdalene scene
Name a fad popular in the 20th Century. Replace its last letter with 1.) something a skirt has that is also a synonym of skirt, 2.) a personal pronoun and 3.) a short form of a U.S. president’s first name. Remove all spaces.
The result is a general term that encompasses a handful of terms for products that end in the suffix “-ene.” What are the fad and the general term?
Hint: The second part of the fad and the prefix of the general term are synonymous.
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Karma Chameleon has me smiling, Lego.
ReplyDeleteYour first puzzle reminds me of a photo submittal service at Brown: SceneByYou@BrownUniversity (approximately).
A sampling
DeleteWord Woman,
DeleteThanks for the nifty “Tripping around the sunlight fantastic” Brown link. Many college campi feature majestic tree-lined canals, but few feature racetracks… although a horse race does indeed qualify as a “trip around the infield,” as does a dinger/tater/circuit clout!
LegoLifetimeCareerStats:4RoundTrippers:2LittleLeague;0BabeRuthLeague;2LafayetteAreaTownBallLeague
Seems my hunch about the first picture was correct.
DeleteI have nothing hypertextual to add at this time.
I did get the OSLOFS. That is one fad that never interested me. I liked the cool fads, like hula hoops and super balls.
ReplyDeleteDavid,
DeleteCongrats on the Fadima get. The knock on folks who bought into this fad is that they were gullible. It was not a cool fad, but it was hot for a while... indeed even to the point of being molten.
LegoCoonskinCappedLambda
Oh, I see! I had one. I gave some. . ."homemade" versions. ;-)
DeleteWhat I'm thinking doesn't work with the wordplay. At least I think it doesn't.
DeletePaul,
DeleteWordplay?! What do you think this blog is, some kind of recreational spa! No, I fear this is "wordwork," my friend.
LegoTheBitterTruthOozesOutOfTheWordwork
Gentlemen, might we compromise with wordwoay or wordplrk perhaps?!
DeleteAll woay and no plrk makes Lego and Paul dull boys... Oh wait, Lego already is a dull boy!
DeleteLegoFindsItInterestingThat"Plrk"IsActuallyPronounceable
I do as well, Lego. And that all the vowels except 'a' and 'o' sound about the same.
Deleteplerk, plirk, plurk, plyrk,
Working on Words Woman
I got the fad one for sure. In fact, I recall when I was growing up my aunt Susan(God rest her soul)had one. Not a very smart fad in concept, if you ask me.
ReplyDeleteLego, one word: GADOLINIUM!
ReplyDeleteThanks, Word Woman. I just hope I see TERBIUM.
DeleteYour post reminded me on oldie-but-goodie puzzle that perhaps some Puzzlerians! may not have heard before:
Rearrange the letters of NEW DOOR to form one word.
LegoAlsoHopingToHaveAGoldenCelebrationIn2030
Fifty years ago today.
ReplyDeleteLegoPerhapsTooLloudForHalfTheFolkiesPresent(Newport/Oldport)
Lego, I hope I'm wrong, given what I think the answer might be, but without a final and definite declaration, I have the CPS. Please tell me I am wrong.
ReplyDeleteDavid,
DeleteI find it hard to believe that you are ever wrong.
LegoSorryToDashDavid'sHopes
When in doubt, David, consult your friendly neighborhood mouse.
DeleteThere. I've said something hypertextual. I figured it was about time.
Glossy
DeleteHmmmm, Paul, can you say something hypertextual with out providing an actual hyperlink? Or, David, is that what the "Glossy" is all about? Hmmmm.
DeleteCursors, foiled again.
DeleteSo funny, Paul. I laughed and expectorated a bit of iced tea reading your comment over lunch.
DeleteEEHOPS - grow up! CPS reminds me of my father - he loved that kind of word play. NEW DOOR - yep another word play that may make one grown (or groan). OSLoFS - I'm still working on that one. --Margaret G.
ReplyDeleteMargaret G.,
DeleteMy father did too. And my brother Mike. He is worse than I am.
When we were kids, my dad would occasionally gas up the '49 or '51 Hudson, '53 Chrysler, '56 Ford Ranchero station wagon with cattle brand-design seats, or the '5? Little red Fiat and take a trek westward from west-central Wisconsin to the T win Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, perhaps to see a Twins game or do some school shopping at Dayton's or Donaldson's.
Thanks to Ike, we cruised along Interstate 94. One of the cities along our route was Hammond, Wisconsin. Every single time we passed a “Hammond Exit” or “Hammond: 7 miles ahead” sign, My dad would say something like:
“One of these times, we should stop off at Hammond and take a tour of their famous poultry factory.”
Someone, usually my mom, was then expected to play straight man and say something like:
“I didn’t know there was a poultry factory in Hammond, Bob. Are you sure?”
To which my dad would reply:
“Haven’t you ever heard of Hammond eggs?”
Incidentally, Margaret G., congrats on picking the correct range for last week’s NPR puzzle over on the AESAP blog!
LeggoLhammonda
Thanks for clueing me in to the AESAP blog win, Leggo! That's my second!
ReplyDeleteI think I have the OSLoFS now, but I'm a little unsure if you mean the *first* word of the fad to be a part of the general term? If so, I'm going to have to clean out the lint from my dryer and try again. Or ask my daughter, who has a lot more experience with the -ene topic. --Margaret G.
Margaret G.,
DeleteWe are tied. I have picked the correct range twice at AESAP also.
Yes, the first word of the two-word fad is a part of the one-word general term. To clarify somewhat, I just added "Remove all spaces" at the end of the puzzle's first paragraph.
LegoMargaretG.'sNextQuest:ThatElusiveLapelPin
Got the Fad Slice, as well...in fact, the fad in question was the very first one which had popped into my head!
ReplyDeleteThen I rather had fun counting how many same-first-name presidents we've had...six Jameses, four Williams, four Johns, three Georges and two Andrews...but I think I missed one duplicate, because I counted only 23 individual names. However, I didn't have the patience to re-count!
On to some of the others, for whatever success of lack thereof they might provide....
ViolinTeddy,
DeleteI wish that "popping into my head" thing would happen for me when I am trying to solve puzzles!
Your analysis of U.S presidents' first names is quite timely. This Friday, July 31, we will be running a puzzle by French Puzzle Chef Monsieur Garcon du Parachutisme (aka "skydiveboy") dealing with presidential wanna-be's and coulda-beens.
43 men have served as president to date. (I am not sure if lifelong bachelor James Buchanan, our 15th president, was prone to date.) Grover Cleveland served non-consecutive terms; thus Barrack Obama is our 44th president.
I get similar numbers to yours when I tally same-first-name presidents: six Jameses, four Williams, four Johns, three Georges, two Andrews and two Franklins. So 21 presidents shared a first name with at least one other president.
The remaining 22 unique presidential first names include monikers both common and odd. They are, in chrionological order:
Thomas, Martin, Zachary, Millard, Abraham, Ulysses, Rutherford, Chester, Grover, Benjamin, Theodore, Woodrow, Warren, Calvin, Herbert, Harry, Dwight, Lyndon, Richard, Gerald, Ronald and Barack...
No Joseph!
But, a Teddy.
LegoCouldTedCruzBeTeddy#2?
Considering, LegoJoe, that creating the puzzles somehow continues to pop into your head, I certainly would not be worrying if similar popping doesn't occur (though I doubt it, actually) when you are solving them.
DeleteOoooh, I missed there being TWO presidential Franklins! Shame on me!
But the "Teddy" in question IS THE Teddy of "teddy bears," which very item comprises half of my ID.
Lastly, heaven forbid that we should have a Ted Cruz in the White House.
Got it. I did indeed change the fad name, and magically all your hints confirm my answer. I'm glad I was familiar enough with that president to grok his nickname, and also familiar with the word origin of one of the New Testament writers. --Margaret G.
ReplyDeleteMargaret G.,
DeleteYour mention of familiarity "with the word origin of one of the New Testament writers" is an excellent clue.
LegoJohnWasAnAwfulClueGiver...HisGospelWasSufficientlyCrypticButThenHeWentAndWroteRevelation!
At the Saratoga horse race track now.
ReplyDeleteSaratoga... Isn't that where they filmed "Animal House"?
DeleteLegoSaraSaraSaraSara...
"Well I hear you went up to Saratoga/and your horse naturally won..." Sorry, I just had to quote Carly Simon in this instance.
ReplyDeleteHey David, are you so vain you probably think this blog is about you? LOL
ReplyDeleteI bet next you'll fly your Lear jet up to Nova Scotia to...ah, you know.
ReplyDeleteI dunno. The blog background/scarf it was apricot. . .
ReplyDeleteIncidentally, NEW DOOR/ONE WORD is an old one. Or should I say NOODLE?
ReplyDeleteYou know, WW, all the puzzlers did dream that they'd be David's partner...
ReplyDelete;-)
Deletepatjberry, maybe we can ramp up the comment number to 200 here, too. . .
Say, I wonder if David also has an E and an R in his full name.
ReplyDeleteMiddle name is Edward, so yes.
DeleteCould be James Taylor, could be Mick Jagger, could be Warren Beatty...
ReplyDeleteWW, I know a lot about 70s music. "You're So Vain" is one of the best when it comes to the song itself and the trivia surrounding it.
ReplyDeleteWe used to sing it to the quartz veins in underground mines at field camp outside Tucson, AZ.
DeleteSay WW, do you ever think about the guy playing cowbell on "Don't Fear the Reaper"?
ReplyDeleteAll the time. And you?
DeleteHe looks familiar, like somebody on SNL a few years back.
ReplyDeleteYou do know there's a cowbell on "Hair of the Dog", as well as "Mississippi Queen".
ReplyDeleteSorry I'm a little late getting back. Had to put my nieces to bed, recharge the Kindle, that sort of thing.
ReplyDeleteWelcome all, to this week's Twitter version of Puzzleria!
DeleteLegoWeDon'tNeedNoStinkin'140CharacterLimitOnOurBlogBecauseWeLikeCharactersAndTheCharactersWeDoHaveAreReallyInterestingCharacters!
CPS
ReplyDeleteFINNISH (Helsinki) PHOTO
PHOTO FINISH
OSLOFS
PET ROCK
Drop the K, add HEM (hem=skirt), add I (personal pronoun), add CAL (for Calvin Coolidge), yielding: PETROCHEMICAL. PETRO=ROCK.
EEHOPS
The only singers I know that fit the pattern 4, 3, 4 are Dave Van Ronk & John Bon Jovi. So I am completely out of it on this one.
Excellent solving on the CPS and OSLOFS, ron, and thanks for giving the EEHOPS a go. (Incidentally, Dave Van Ronk is an underappreciated folk legend.)
DeleteI may give a hint on this newsy puzzle slice anon.
LegoThe3HeadlinesMention3DifferentPeopleWithTheSameName
One Christmas I made "pet rocks" for all my friends, complete with individual backstories. The movement from PET ROCK to PETROCHEMICAL was fun, Lego. I could almost smell the PETRICLOR solving the puzzle ;-).
ReplyDelete^^^ PETRICHOR. . .
DeleteThanks, Word Woman, but let's call a feldspar a feldspar here... you did enjoy an unfair advantage on this puzzle!
DeleteI wonder how many of your home-quarried "pet rocks" with individual backstories still exist and grace (or take up space on) mantlepieces, trophy cases, coffee tables, office decks (they make splendid paperweights!), utility drawers, attic stacks, bookshelves, fridge tops, cardboard-box bottoms, stone fences, cobblestone walkways, rock gardens, etc.
LegoMyPetRock'sNameIsKnute
I absolutely did have an unfair advantage, Lego. As soon as I consulted my mood ring, I knew! I wondered if a time was as fad-infused as the 1970's but I just thought of the Tamagotchi pets of the '1990's.
DeleteI doubt the rocks are gracing any surface but a garden pathway. It was fun to write the descriptions with a geological bent (gneiss, many-layered thing, what a cal cite, etc., were involved).
BTW, thanks for cleaning up the triple posting!
When I 'moused over' the land/waterscape, I was able to access this information:
ReplyDeletehttp://3.bp.blogspot.com/-B3TqvP8cGHk/VbIEx6zrKkI/AAAAAAAACq4/BgqeReQHn0Y/s400/helsinki_wide03.jpg
I was even able to Google it..Either way, it leads to Helsinki, which is an anagram of e-linkish, which is (I claim) a synonym of 'hypertextual'.
Ah, I see. Somehow, hypertextual always sounds a little off-color (blue?!) to me. . .
DeleteEEHOPS is John Kay(sic) -> John Kasich. I used the clue "grow up!" because that was his message to the other presidential candidates. NEW DOOR is an anagram of ONE WORD. Other people have answered the other puzzles. :) --Margaret G.
ReplyDeleteYou cracked it, Margaret G. Fine work! I was not up enough on the current news to recognize your fine "grow up!: clue. Perhaps that is because I have been told to "grow up!" by so many people over the years that I simply believed you were making a comment on the juvenility of my puzzle!
DeleteAs a great puzzle master recently said, "Half the time I don't even understand the hints (on that blog). So if I can't understand them, and I know the answer, they're not giving anything away."
LegoOldGuyWithAPotBellyAndPeterPanComplex
A John Kay invented the flying shuttle. Another John Kay was involved in the development of something called the 'water frame'. Yet another John Kay is the lead singer of Steppenwolf. Olivia Newton-John and Elton John have also sung on occasion. In spite of all that, I can not complete the three headlines, nor can I see a connection to anyone recently in the news.
ReplyDeleteWhich leaves my mind to scream...
Oh. Okay. Thanks, Margaret G.
DeleteNow maybe I can get back to having sweet dreams.
Paul,
DeleteAs usual this week, 99% of your brilliance eluded me. I was not even aware of your “hovering mouse trick” and its potential to sabotage the security of my photos. (Next time I shall hop aboard a dinghy to Helsinki and snap a shot myselfinki!)
Hypertextual? E-linkish? Helsinki?
I have never once used the word “hypertextual” in my life, but from this day forward I vow that every time I have a hankering to use “hypertextual” (or “metrotextual”) in a sentence, I will opt instead to substitute your wonderful word “e-linkish.” So enthusiastic am I regarding its magnificence that I penned this slogan:
Say “E-linkish”… I’m sure next you will
Relinquish “hypertextual!”
LegoThatDarnSweetDreamingDormousePaulIsAPicassoOfTheE-linkishLanguage
I figured the news stories were well nigh impossible to solve. Petrochemical I got, but I wasn't quite sure about "Finnish Photo" even if the other picture showed a "photo finish".
ReplyDeletepatjberry,
DeleteI am sure you would have solved the news puzzle if perhaps you would have worked backwards, considering a handful of the names in the news to see if could be fitted into the headlines. One might infer, for example, that “sick…” might precede “…with laryngitis”. (BTW, “well nigh” is an expression more people should use!) And, congrats on your “Petrochemical triumph.”
You could have confirmed your "Finnish Photo" suspicions had you cheated like Paul did… okay, calm down, Lego, I guess I should instead say used an ingenious hovering-mouse technique in a hypertextual manner… (strike that, replace "hypertextual manner" with “e-linkish manner”) to ascertain, like Paul did, that the canal scene was indeed in Helsinki, Finland.
LegoMayBeAHelicopterBloggerButPaulWellNighIsAHelicopterMouser(AsWasNoosie!)
This week’s official answers, for the record:
ReplyDeleteExtra! Extra! Hot Off Presses Slice:
Old news, current stagnation
The headlines on the three newspaper pages shown here all contain three words represented by blanks (or uppercase X’s) that you must fill in/replace with letters. The two Puzzleria News headlines are from the 18thCentury. The City Examiner headline is from an edition in the 20th Century.
When you fill in or replace the blanks or X’s with the correct letters and read aloud the trio of words in each of the headlines you will be pronouncing what sounds like the name of a person recently in the news.
Who is this recently newsworthy person?
Answer: John Kasich, former Ohio governor and candidate for the Republican Party's nomination to the 2016 presidential election.
The headlines read:
John Kaye (sic) “shuttles” off mortal coil; Crisis looms
Inventor John Kaye (sic) creates textile frame; Heads spin
Singer John Kay sick with laryngitis; Concert cancelled
The “(sic)” appears in the first two headlines because both spell the name “John Kay” incorrectly as “John Kaye.” (In reality, it is doubtful that a “(sic)” would ever appear in a headline unless it referred to a quote that included a solecism. Here is an example of such a headline that actually might have been published:
Press release touts candidate “Santorum’s pubic (sic) schedule”
Two things Lego (and perhaps other Puzzlerians!) learned:
One: John Kay the singer is a kind of Renaissance guy.
Two: John Kasich’s surname is pronounced kay-sick. This may come in handy if he emerges from the field of “Goldilocks and the 17 dwarfs” to become prez.
Comparative Panorama Slice:
Two peactures not in a pod
The two images presented here are different in a number of respects. Their shapes differ. Their subject matters differ: One documents a sporting event, the other is a landscape. One inspires excitement, the other tranquility. But there is one particular way in which these pictures differ having to do with how a person might describe each of them using two-word phrases such as, “One is a ___ ___; the other is a ___ ___.”
So, how do these pictures differ?
Answer:
One is a Finnish photo (a Helsinki scene); the other is a photo finish (race horse image).
Our Second Lady Of Fadima Slice:
Serene Magdalene scene
Name a fad popular in the 20th Century. Replace its last letter with 1.) something a skirt has that is also a synonym of skirt, 2.) a personal pronoun and 3.) a short form of a U.S. president’s first name. Remove all spaces. The result is a general term that encompasses a handful of terms for products that end in the suffix “-ene.” What are the fad and the general term?
Hint: The second part of the fad and the prefix of the general term are synonymous.
Answer: Pet rock; petrochemical
Pet rock – k = Pet roc
Pet roc + hem (the bottom of a skirt, or to skirt) + I + Cal(vin Coolidge) = petrochemical.
The “-ene” pertrochemicals include ethylene, propylene, benzene, toluene and xylene.
Hint: Petro (Peter) = Rock (as Margaret G. wisely pointed out)
Lego…
Calvin Coolidge was a prominent fixture in Northampton, MA. He practiced law there, met his wife at The Clarke School for the Deaf, and his name graces the public library right next to Smith, as well as an assortment of bridges and apartment complexes.
DeleteBTW, not to get all Cliff Claven on you and your list of unique Presidential names, but Calvin's given first name was John.
WW (sticking up for the true JCC ;-) )
Thanks, Word Woman. We may need to recalibrate, add one to the "John column," subtract one from the "Calvin column." Also, scratch Gerald, add Leslie. Probably some others. We suspect that Barack Obama's given name at birth was Kenyata or Nairo-boy.
DeleteHmmm... John Calvin Coolidge. Pre-reminiscent of Martin Luther King.
LegoBumperStickerSeenOnARoaringTwentiesFlivver:WWJCCD
Flivver: I learn something new here just about every day.
DeleteI'd forgotten about Ford being Leslie. Yes, there are likely others. . .
For OSLOFS, I talked about the "cool [as in Coolidge] fads.
ReplyDeleteFor the CPS, I said "... without a final and ...", which is (final - a + and) which is Finland. "Glossy" is the photo finish which we used to get. We did lose an Exacta bet yesterday on a photo finish.
David,
DeleteWill Shortz says he understands maybe half the hints to his puzzles on Blaine’s blog. I understand maybe a fifth or fourth of the hints to my puzzles on my blog. Didn’t see cool/Coolidge. Didn’t connect glossy with photo finish. (Sorry about your exacta loss. Hope you didn’t lose any actaex or fectatri bets on a Finnish photo.)
Your ingenious without a final and ...", which is (final - a + and) which is Finland is worthy of cluedom in a cryptic crossword in the guardian. Great clues!
LegoDavid’sGuardianAngelSpeaksToHimInAnagramsPalindromesHomophones&Synonyms
". . . and . . ." >>> Near and dear to my heart, David. What's entailed in an exacta bet? I know I could look it up but where's the fun in that?. . . Exactamente!
ReplyDeleteFirst two finishers, in order. My picks ended up first and third. Note this was my first time at a race track.
DeleteThanks for the scoop, David. BTW, hovering over the photo finish image shows it was taken at Saratoga!
DeleteWas it fun?
I know one thing for sure: Ill bet no one had to teach David how odds work!
DeleteLegoI'veNeverBeenToATrack,David,WhatWasItLike?
I did enjoy myself, but I'm not sure that I would be a frequent visitor. Maybe if I learned more about betting. It was more exciting when there was the possibility of a small win. It took about 4 1/2 hours for 9 races.
DeleteI went to a polo match the night before, another first. I guess this time of the year, it is all about the horses in Saratoga.
I guess I must have thought "Finnish Photo" was too obvious. The "John Kay(sic)" was actually pretty clever, though. As far as including 20th Century fads is concerned, I did think it interesting that you kept it in the 1970's, with the pet rock for this one and mood rings for a previous one. What's next in a puzzle, Pong? Bell bottoms? Leisure suits?
ReplyDeleteThanks, patjberry. I agree that "Finnish photo" was a bit obvious. I suspect that those who are too young to remember the 1970s (or perhaps did not yet exist) cannot appreciate what an unbelievably and wonderfully tacky/decadent/indulgent/schizophrenic/ weird/banal/magical decade it was.
DeleteI like your ideas for "70s fad puzzles, although I think "-pong" would be more in Will Shortz's bailiwick.
LegoLeisure
Here's a little puzzle that doesn't involve wordplay. Try to solve it before looking at the answer. KNIFE ACT.
ReplyDeleteOr, you could cut the cake on a plane parallel to the top and bottom of the cake--right in the middle. It's a little unconventional, but it works! (Some people don't like the icing on the cake, anyway.)
DeleteI think the two halves must be identical (in ingredients), not two halves, one without frosting and the other with frosting...
DeleteOK, no frosting on this cake! ;-)
Deleteron,
DeleteI love this type of puzzle! Thank you very much for linking to it. Futility Closet is simply a great web site. I have not yet solved it, but I aim to.
I like Word Woman's "thinking-outside-the-cake-mix-box" solution. And she is right about the icing/frosting.
LegoApplyFrosting/IcingToACakeRightOutOfTheOvenAndItWillMeltInYourMouth