PUZZLERIA! SLICES: OVER e4 + 5! SERVED
Welcome to the
August 28th edition of Joseph Young’s Puzzleria! This week we offer
you fresh trending-news appetizers, an entrée slice, and, to top it all off, a
dessert baked up by gourmet French puzzle chef Monsieur Garcon du Parachutisme.
Blog-followers may know the chef better by his cyber-screen-name “skydiveboy.” His
friends know him as Mark Scott of Seattle.
So click and
tighten your seat belts… you are in for a wild puzzle ride. But eventually, as you continue to gobble and guzzle our scrumptious puzzles, also be prepared to
loosen your seat belts a notch or two – as at a Thanksgiving dinner served on a Greyhound bus, for instance, or at a drive-thru oriental buffet restaurant.
Appetizer
Menu
Mr. Capital Gain?
A 2016
presidential candidate’s use of a two-word term (deemed by a number of people as “disparaging”
or “pejorative”) sparked controversy this past week on the campaign trail. The
two words in the plural term contain six letters each.
Each of the
following nine clues leads to a three-word phrase that can be anagrammed to form the
controversial term. (In the fourth clue only two words are anagrammed.)
1. Ubiquitous
blare on Manhattan streets…
2. Scruffier
inmate…
3. Opens some trash
receptacle…
4. Pessimistic
about the future silver-screen bankability of actor Kevin (two words divided by
the word “on”)…
5. Taxi driver,
fresh from the barber…
6. One emerging
from a two-thirds vote of a synagogue congregation…
7. What a frisky
kitten might do during Christmas gift unwrapping…
8. What a famished
French filcher does while passing a patisserie…
9. John the
Baptist, after days of wandering alone in the wilderness, addressing his lunch…
What is this
controversial term? What are the nine answers to the clues?
Boxing
Outside The Ring Appetizer:
Sunday Punch
On August 19,
1930, in Queensboro Stadium in New York, Justo Suarez delivered a knockout
punch sending Bruce Flowers to the canvas with a thud. On April 27, 1996, in Miami
Beach, Florida, Elieser Castillo delivered a knockout punch sending James
Flowers to the canvas with a thud.
Just this past
week, on August 23, half-a-world away in Asia, a mere boy engaging in “the manly
art” stumbled against the ropes and seemingly was about to go down for the count, yet somehow managed to deliver a knockout punch so potent (or shall we say “puissant”?)
and thud-provoking to yet another Flowers that the canvas was torn and had to
be restored.
In what Asian city
did this occur? Explain your answer.
Hint: The city
sounds like a kind of personality or blood.
Distasteful
Appetizer:
The sub-rosa way
The following
statement may have appeared as a part of an editorial in the wake of a scandal
in the recent news:
“People were
led to believe these men were out to benefit (5-letter adjective) (8-letter
noun), but sadly they were apparently in it chiefly to (5-letter verb)
(8-letter noun).”
The 8-letter
nouns are identical. The 5-letter adjective and verb are identical except for their
first and third letters. What are these words?
Financial
Interest Comedy-pounded Appetizer:
Sitcommerce
Imagine you are
reading the Wall Street Journal to glean financial news of the day. Four words
you might expect to see there are associated with a popular TV sitcom from the
distant past.
Two of the
words are surnames of two of the cast members, while a third word comprises the first
seven letters, in order, of the surname of another cast member. The fourth word is the
name of the title character after you remove from it what some people
mistakenly believe is the postal abbreviation of a New England State.
Two of these
four words were especially pertinent to recent reporting in the WSJ’s Markets
Section.
What is the
sitcom and what are the four words?
MENU
Sounds Of
Science Slice:
Rock ’n’
rotate-about-a-fixed-axis
Place the
surname of a well-known scientist to the left of the surname of an
engineer/inventor who ought to be more well-known. The result is a song title
appearing on an early album by a popular rock musician.
The
engineer/inventor founded and developed two upscale product brands. One brand
appears in the lyrics of a title song track by the musician. The other brand
appears in the titles of two songs by the musician.
Who are the
scientist, inventor/engineer and musician? What are the early-album song title
and the two brands founded by the inventor/engineer?
Dessert Menu
Fruit Of The
Looming Solution Dessert:
Picking the
Miranda right fruit
People and
products from France are French. If from Italy they are Italian.
Think of
another country and replace the last letter with a different letter to get the
word commonly used to refer to their people or products. Now, rearrange those
letters and you will name a fruit this country produces and exports.
What is this
country and what is the fruit?
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Here is what Carmen Miranda looks like... after canning the fruit:
Happy Friday, all! I have the Sounds of Silence (SOS) puzzle. . .
ReplyDeleteWord Woman,
DeleteThat was quick!
Lego:NoteToSelf:RachetUpLevelOfDifficultyForWordWoman
I have the pejorative term for the HNRA and several of the phrases.
ReplyDeleteI also have the BOTRA and the DA. There is an interesting connection between the DA and Seattle.
I also got the FIC-pA (or were you going for FICA?). According to IMDB, there is another cast member who appeared in a few episodes whose surname is associated with one of the surnames in the intended answer.
DeleteDavid,
DeleteI am unable to find the “other cast member who appeared in a few episodes whose surname is associated with one of the surnames in the intended answer.” But I don’t yet want a hint, I don’t think.
Regarding the “interesting connection between the DA and Seattle”: There is also a coincidental nominal connection between the DA/Seattle connection and one of the FICA’s four words.
After reading your and Word Woman’s triumphant puzzle-solving comments, I gather that my puzzles this week offer scant “chewiness,” at least for you and her. I was hoping to provide Puzzlerians! an alternative more challenging than this past week’s NPR “Gen.-who-served-as-Col.” non-puissant-Pow! puzzle.
At least skydiveboy has giving you a substantial “dessert puzzle” on which to chew!
LegoTossingUpSoftballsCreampuffsMarshmallows
I have SDB's Dessert Slice and I just want to say it is an excellent puzzle requiring no popular culture nor sports knowledge. Will Shortz truly should have used it.
ReplyDeleteron:
DeleteCongratulations on solving it so quickly, and thank you for the compliment, I appreciate it.
Yes, I second your sentiments, ron. It was a splendid puzzle, as are all of skydiveboy's efforts. We are privileged to be privy to his inexplicably-non-Will-worthy contributions!
DeleteLegoAndPlease,skydiveboy,Don'tTakeTheWord"Privy"TheWrongWay
Thanks lego, I won't. That being said, I have long hoped to run into Garrison Keillor one of these days so I could refer to his show as, Privy Home Companion.
DeleteGot Sitcommerce.
ReplyDeleteOut.
Paul,
DeleteI just goofed! I removed your deleted comment. That was okay. Nobody could read it because you had removed it. I try to always remove deleted comments to keep the comments section less cluttered.
But, to my chagrin and horror, my removal of your deleted comment also somehow also deleted your reply to that deleted comment (your "weird associations" to the HNRA. I had a brief glimpse of that post, and was about to savor in a leisurely manner after performing my "housekeeping" task.
If you please, could you recreate and post them for the benefit and pleasure of me and others who had not yet had an opportunity to enjoy those "weird associations?" Thank you.
LegoMeaCulpa
I thought you were rapping my knuckles. Turns out I still had the whole thing on the clipboard, so here 'tis:
DeleteWeird associations for the nine anagrams, in no particular order:
Olympic event
Crop failure
One
Clouts
Five
Lapel pins
Vocation
Nick
JFK
I also have an answer for one of the other puzzles, but I'd better stop hinting before I get my knuckles rapped.
Don't you guys get copies of every post by checking the "Notify me" box? They never really go away, if so. .
DeleteAnd, Lego, as the blog owner, you get these copies automatically, right? No box checking required?
Right? ;-)
Woman,
DeleteThanks. I had no idea. I must be the most unblogsavvy blog operator on the Internet!
Speaking of savvy blog operators, however, check out Word Woman's PEOTS blog, which this week celebrates its 100th week of science-made-accessible and words-made-marvelous. It would be great if PEOTS could get 100 comments on its 100th anniversary!
LegoCongratsWordWoman
Lego
Thanks, Lego, for the PEOTS plug. I lichen that idea of 100 comments. Ditto, ditto, and ditto don't count. ;-)
DeleteHere's hoping you found your comment backlog with Paul's every syllable.
Re: the Carmen Miranda hat: It would be nice to see an actual photo of Carmen Miranda to honor her. Mirandize her properly, please ;-).
I have the country and the fruit. . .and like them both and the sdb puzzle, too.
Paul,
DeleteRegarding your “Weird associations for the nine anagrams, in no particular order.”
I’ve figured out about half of them, I think. Yes, I realize that once that many dominoes fall, the rest should also follow suit… (Mixed metaphor? Yes, though there are pips on both dominoes and playing cards.) But all I can get to fall so far is four.
I’m positive only that “opens a trash receptacle” equals “lapel pins.” Note my other guesses below.
Olympic event (“what a frisky kitten might do”)
Crop failure (“scruffier inmate”)
One (?)
Clouts (?)
Five (?)
Lapel pins (“opens a trash receptacle”)
Vocation (“who emerges form a two-thirds vote…”)???
Nick (“what John the Baptist exclaims…) (????)
JFK (?)
If I am correct about pairing “Olympic event” with “what a frisky kitten might do,” would it not be better to have the clue read “what a man in an old cigarette TV commercial ‘who’d walk a mile for…’ might exclaim as he’s reaching the end of his walk”?
LegoTwoOuttaThreeAin’tBad,MeatLoaf,ButFourOuttaNineSureIs!
Lego, thanks for the newly added Carmen Miranda image, post canning. Fruitful still.
DeleteBy the way, did you intend to call me "Woman" in the previous post? You can me "Word" and you call me "Word Woman" . . .
;-) [with a nose]
Olympic event (“what a frisky kitten might do”) check [but our mileage may differ]
DeleteCrop failure (“scruffier inmate”) check [but our mileage must differ. I had intended this to pair with ("Taxi driver, fresh from the barber"), but then I paired "taxi driver" with something else, and never really came up with anything for ("scruffier inmate"). In other words, I messed up, leaving me with two loose ends, but if they fit together for you, then it's all good. Thanks.]
Lapel pins (“opens a trash receptacle”) check
Vocation (“who emerges form a two-thirds vote…”)??? check [why the question marks?]
Perhaps if JFK had consulted a soothsayer, the news would have been better on that fateful day.
I marvel at your incomprehension of clouts.
I chuckled when I arrived at Mr. Weir's page. A great coincidence, but not what I was thinking. I'm imagining a scenario involving Newkirk, LeBeau, and Schultz.
That leaves only two, which I find reminiscent of the rationals.
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Wired incorrectly? Most peculiar! (5)
Paul,
DeleteI marvel when I luck into solving, or even understanding, anything! My brain grasps notions like my hand grasps oceans.
For some reason the letters in this HNRA puzzle are amazingly anagrammable. I kind of created a monster. Believe me, I consider myself fortunate to grok even 4 of your 9 weird associations.
LegoReducedToIgnomyByPaul'sEnigmony!
Got all but two of the anagrams. Any possible hints for the others? Nothing is really coming to me right now.
ReplyDeletepatjberry,
DeletePossible Hints:
BOTRA: The boy was engaging in “the manly art."
DA: The eight-letter noun is a plural that ends not in S.
FICA: The name of the title character is a nickname.
SOSS: The “early album” has been in the news lately.
FOTLSD: Alchemy…Golden sections spring from silver tracts.
LegoDisclaimer:HintFor(FOTLSD)NotAuthorizedByskydiveboyOrAnyOfHisSubsidiaries
Good evening everyone. I've only just tuned in here, so am rather late to the party compared to all the solving that has already successfully been achieved!
ReplyDeleteThus far, I've solved only our first DESSERT slice (say I with a distinct grin, having had a certain 'hand' in there even being a dessert slice included!) I like the fruit, as well, but don't know much about the country.
On to the rest of our weekly "meal."
ViolinTeddy,
DeleteCongratulations, but I am concerned that you must be a pessimist to begin your meal with dessert. Not that I mind, of course.
A pessimist? Not quite sure why, SJB....
ReplyDeleteWrangled with the Sitcom/FICA puzzle and finally got it, though I do NOT think it was a bit easy (referring to Lego's worry above that there must be minimal chewiness to this week's offerings.)
Have the two-word term in the very first appetizer, but can't get very far with the nine anagrams...having worked out only one or at most two words for some of them, and find myself 'stuck' with the extra letters that refuse to form third words.
The other unclear item to me is that I can't figure out why we have to explain the city in which the 'Flowers' disaster occurred....I know what it is, but I can't for the life of me figure out HOW its name relates to either a personality type or blood. Clearly, I'm missing the joke or riddle or whatever....
Have you not heard the old saying? Eat dessert first. Life is uncertain.
DeleteAh, I see your point, SDB. Good advice, really! But I'm still not a pessimist!
DeleteAre you positive about that?
DeleteIndubitably!
DeleteBut it is clearly not so, as I earlier saw you eating your dessert first. You cannot deny that. Don't go pulling a Hillary on us now. Can we check your emails?
DeleteMy server is EMPTY, I swear!
DeleteSure it is after you deleted it. We are not at all deceived. We know Humpty was pushed.
DeleteI'm innocent! And look how much of the rest of the meal I have chowed down already! (Scrambled eggs, anyone?)
DeleteWhat a yolk that is!
DeleteI'm fried...you win!!
DeleteVT,
DeleteWe've all been there.
Yes, VT and Paul. Too true. And not just fried...
DeletePoached, scrambled, (be)deviled, hard-boiled... and just plain beaten.
LegoPoachoCinco
Hurrah, I just sleuthed out the Sounds of Silence puzzle. Of course, how I got there was a rather circuitous laugh, because I had honed in on a completely WRONG scientist and from that person, to a song title I only vaguely was aware of, thence to the musician in question.
ReplyDeleteBut when that song title ultimately led nowhere (i.e. no possible inventor whose name could complete the song name), I had to go looking at ALL the musician's song titles to suggest a product that ultimately led me to the inventor whom I'd never heard of. And then I STILL didn't have the asked-for song title from the early album, which naturally, I had NEVER heard of either! [Since you keep creating puzzles about rock musicians, Lego, I am destined to be clueless!]
However, lots of Googling finally resulted in victory. Whew. : o )
Yes, ViolinTeddy, we do tend to be a tad rock-heavy with our puzzles. (and sports-heavy... ron can confirm this!) I resolve to try to be a bit more broad-minded in my approach to puzzle subject matter.
DeleteIn the meantime, thanks for your pluck and loyalty.
LegoEventuallyI'llHitRockBottom
From my viewpoint, almost all rock, aside from pumice, is rock-heavy.
DeleteAfter an awful lot of lengthy wrangling, I've finally come up with the phrases for anagrams 1, 2, 5, 6, and 8 (love this last one)...with partial answers for 3 and 4. But 7 and 9 are thus far total stumpers.
ReplyDeleteViolinTeddy,
ReplyDeleteTwo Hints:
7. People who bring livestock or pies and other baked goods to the state or county fair also do this.
9. See the Easy As Pie Slice: Food mapping
LegoYouMakeHead-ScratchingSquintsAndWince...WeGiveHints
Thanks, oh PuzzleriaMaster! I continue to arrive nowhere re the kitten and the fairgoers, but having referred to your past Slice hinted above, I came up with a rather funny sentence for John the Baptist to say --however, sadly it is leaving out ONE letter...I'll share it on Tuesday.
DeleteThus, these two anagrams still have me undone.
I think I have everything but the rock album and a couple of anagrams. Anything else you might be willing to add about the album?
ReplyDeletepatjberry,
Delete1. The scientist was good at analyzing things.
2. Remove a letter from the engineer/inventor's surname and you get an antelope.
3.
The album
A nihilverse created by a non-existent god:
No air to breathe, no fruit to pick, no tracts of land to trod,
No swallows sing, no swallowing, no energy to burn,
No Orbiting in atoms, and in space doth NO ORB TURN.
LegoIsGoodAtGiving"Nothing"Hints
I'm glad I was paying attention (sort of) to the discussion vis-à-vis postal abbr's. That was my initial lead. However, the butler didn't do it, and the Colonel couldn't have been involved. But soon certain things became clear. The testimonies of the brother and his mother corroborated my suspicions, leaving only one of the friends!
ReplyDeleteYour turn.
NB?
Delete. . .in the singular imperative mood, of course.
DeleteNebrasko.............Nebraskemos
DeleteNebraskas
Nebraska.............Nebraskan
Yeah, Paul and WW, I was particularly amused by the use of our last week's state postal abbreviations discussion coming to roost within the Sitcommerce puzzle!
DeleteAnd chuckled, as well, at the infamous 'puissant' making an appearance within the boxing puzzle intro, not that any Superman was involved this time around.
ViolinTeddy,
DeleteThe encore appearance of "puissant" one week late is what we who were once pliers of the pedagogical profession call "reinforcement."
LegoDocDopeyGrumpyHappyBashfulSleepy&SneezyWerePliersOfTheMiningProfession,ThusWereNeverCrushedInACaveIn
Got the rock album. Lego, dare I say that's so ingenious you're on fire! I fear I may go blind!
ReplyDeleteVery well done, patjberry. You could give Pointers on how to solve these puzzles, Mann.
DeleteIrma La DEUCE could be quite the beguiler…
But had neither the style or the smile of DELILAH.
LegoMakingARunForIt…CoverMe!
Lego, you shock me! Neither NOR, not neither or.
Deleteskydiveboy,
DeleteThank you for your correction. Either I am not as sharp a grammarian as I thought nor there was something wrong with my computer keyboard...
Umm, uh, yeah, keyboard malfunction, that's the ticket, after I typed the "n" in "But had neither...," my "n-key" suddenly stopped working! I swear to Strunk & White. It just went completely dead! I swear. Dam it!
LegoOhOhIThikItIsHappeigAgai!ThatWasSupposedToBe"Dam_It"
We did get it the first time, Lego. ;-)
DeleteWord Woma_
Do't metio it, lego. I'm dar happy to help.
DeleteYou know we love you, Lego, to the _th degree!
DeleteMy dad-blamed keyboard is still broke! The first letter of that three-letter vowelless term for “ultimate” (see post above) should really be rotated 90 or 270 degrees clockwise, so it would be spelled “zth,” & would be vocalized as “zeeth.”
DeleteDo you all agree with me?
LegoLipogramaticllyToTheZthDegree
You must be gnashing your 'zeeth' at your broken keyboard!
DeleteViolinTeddy,
DeleteDid you aim rather to say, “Your 'zeeth' surely do gash at your broke keyboard!”?
Yes! They do! They form molar-shaped, bicuspid-shaped and similar other freshly-forged zooth-holes all over my keyboard!
LegoBuryingHisZeethThroughTypewritingKeysToTheVeryMarrowOfHisWork
…Obviously all this zeeth-gashing has failed to repair my faulty keyboard. Please pass me that sledgehammer.
DeleteLegoIfICouldJustRotateThoseZZZZsEither90Or270DegreesClockwiseAsITypeThemAllWouldBeHuckyDory!
You're darn right that engineer/inventor ought to be more well-known! Then maybe I'd know who it is! I think I have the scientist and the musician, but ... maybe it's just too upscale for me.
ReplyDeleteDoesn't stop me from having fun!
Downscale works for me.
DeletePaul, I suspect you may have stumbled upon the musician the same way I did (see my Aug. 29 midnight-ish...although I'm never sure HOW this blog handles times, since we are all in different zones), by having come up with the wrong scientist, which made me think of the right musician. From there, I perused his song titles to find INVENTION words included twice in one case and once in another case, which Lego indicated are by this not-well-known inventor.
DeleteBut of course, that only works IF you came up with the correct musician. Then if you had the WRONG scientist....well, you can take it from there.
ViolinTeddy,
DeleteDr. John's Diagnosis: Sounds to me like a case of being in the right musician at the wrong scientist!
LegoDisclaimer:Dr.JohnIsNotARealDoctor,ButHeDoesPlayOneOnPiano
I'm sorry to say that most of these blog links to videos for various musicians have usually left me at a loss (with the exception of when, I think it was Paul?, put one on last week relative to my 'dessert' puzzle (marshmallow) for "H.M.", i.e. a Beatles video.
DeleteTrue, Violin Teddy. The “music of the masses” (pop, rock, country, etc.) tends to be lyrical – sung music. The classical music with which you are perhaps more familiar tends to be instrumental, with opera as one exception. Right?
DeleteIf that is the case (case, not satchel!), not many classical compositions or titles creep into Puzzleria! simply because we are so word intensive. There are usually at least some lyrics that dovetail with the point we are trying to make. The same maintains with videos (movie clips etc.) and even photos/illustrations… (A picture can launch 1,000 ships… no, wait, a picture is worth 1,000 words, and all that.)
A popular song with poetic lyrics can be very moving (“Bridge Over Troubled Water,” for example). Lyric-less “classical” music can be moving by the sheer elegance of its melody. We might say its beauty is ineffable.
Please weigh in, VT. What nuances may I be missing?
LegoYou’reALittleBitClassicI’mALittleBitRock’N’Roll
Lego:
DeleteCheck out both of these recordings by this singer:
http://www.allmusic.com/album/canteloube-chants-dauvergne-vol-1-mw0001552100
Thank you, skydiveboy. These are beautiful examples of beautifully lyric classical music, at least to my ears.
DeleteI should have known you would come through with some examples.
LegoThoseAreTastySlicesOfCanteloube
Oh, I'm all FOR lyrics, LegoLittleBitRocknRoll! Perhaps I just am too impatient when clicking on the links provided to sit through a 'rock' song to HEAR whatever lyrics are being referred to. (Just an aside: I'm not THAT big an opera fan, except for Madame Butterfly in which I once sang in the chorus and Tosca, for which I played in the First Violin section).....
ReplyDeleteBut currently running through my head is the plaintive, gorgeous Ashokan Farewell, because not only has it just been heard repeatedly on PBS (during their rerun of the 25th anniversary of Ken Burns's Civil War documentary), but I just performed it this summer at a very special reunion, along with my brother on the keyboard. So that piece is DUG into my soul. No lyrics, however.
Has anyone else heard Mat Kearney's "Coming Home" (to Oregon)? It's my newest favorite WITH LYRICS!
Mat Kearney's music was enjoyable, VT, though from the video I saw one would think Oregonians play an awful lot of football all the time.
DeleteAshokan Farewell is so haunting and sad.
Thanks, though, I needed something to wring out the Donnie and Marie. . .
ViolinTeddy,
DeleteThank you for your feedback and the lovely examples of classical music. I second Word Woman’s assessments of them.
But, Word Woman… Wring out Donny and Marie!? No! Let Donny and Marie ring out! (Sorry, Word Woman. More ‘mond-wringing ahead!)
LegoMakeICanGainAnAppreciationOfClassicalMusicViaOsmondYoYosis
Yo, ok, Lego, but if you are going early 70's I'd rather go here.
DeleteFast forward 30 ish years and, well, still some pitch better than baseball.
I see that your "n"s have recovered!! (DoNNy) HA HA.
DeleteAlso, LL and PJB, Ashokan Farewell really is NOT classical...it was written in the 1980s by a fiddle guy named Jay Ungar, who just started playing it because he was feeling sad that his fiddle camp, named after his place in upstate NY somewhere, was ending. He was going for a Scottish-type lament.
DeleteThe piece has since been played/ recorded by all sorts of instrumentalists ...guitarists, for one. (In fact, guitars were used in the first recording, by Fiddle Fever.) I should provide the link, should anyone be interested:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDkQ4FeooLA
The very best part is at the end, with multiple fiddles doing nifty harmony. The guitars are in the middle.
Sorry, I don't know how to RENAME links, the way everyone else seems to.
There wasn't any 'REPLY" icon directly under WW's comment, so I'm stuck replying down here. Sorry about Mat Kearney's video having so much football. I am not a fan either, but he was born in Eugene, and so they are showing the Ducks (which team is very popular down there.)
DeleteI just ignored all those video portions, and concentrated on the emotions of 'coming home' and the song's cool refrain, especially the "whoa" intro to it, which seems to "build" to all the sentiments which come afterward: "I'm coming home to the place that I remember; to the land of my first love. Won't you spread arms wide for this wayward son, I left my heart in Oregon."
Violin Teddy, I listened again to "Coming Home" without watching the video. Much better. . .and I know it will help with "Oregon" pronunciation ;-).
DeleteThis version of Ashokan Farewell spoke to me today, an anniversary of much sadness for my family. The sweet sadness of that violin! In this case, watching the musicians added beautifully to the music.
Oh, Word Woman, I am so very sorry to learn that this is a sad anniversary week for you. I can identify only too well, I fear, because this very week is six years since our mom lay dying from a hem. stroke, and the days of the week are thus actually the same as in 2009, making it all the worse. Plus my own b'day, the last day I could ever speak to her on the phone knowing she actually heard me, is coming up. Not fun.
DeleteSo please know that I fully share your sadness.
That version of A.F. was not one I'd ever heard/seen; it was so interesting to be able to see which fiddler was playing what part, and also neat that a banjo was included.
Thank you, ViolinTeddy. I am so sorry to hear about your mom and that this time is also hard for you. My sister died this day as a result of a car accident a couple days before. By some miracle in pre-cell phone days, the rangers found me at Jewell Cave, SD, and I was able to fly back to CT be with her for 24 hours before she died. This year, the Ashokan Farewell is particularly poignant. I hope the week and your birthday include some joy as well. For me, that's a swim! Take care and thank you for sharing this music.
DeleteNOW that I already wrote way down at the bottom, Word Woman, does the REPLY icon choose to function! Please see mine (mostly to you) at 9:52 P.D.T.
DeleteVT, I hate to say this, but between the music you guys are discussing now and that of the musician alluded to in the puzzle, I prefer the latter. Though we do have public TV and radio here in AL and they broadcast the music you seem to enjoy, not all of us are that highbrow. Rock and pop music must just be easier to incorporate into these puzzles.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you, patjberry, no need to apologize. I would imagine our tastes in music run somewhat parallel.
DeleteMy puzzles’ subject matter reflects my interests and what I know best. I know rock/pop/folk quite well, country and jazz, not quite as much, and classical and other genres not so much.
Ergo, lots of rock/pop/folk-tinged puzzles!
But even though my classical music knowledge is shallow at best and surface at worst, I have managed to allude to classical music in my puzzles at least once, in the Specialty Of The House Slice:“Well now, isn’t that spatial! in the January 2, 2015 edition of Puzzleria!
I shall try to do more of that.
LegoNeedsToGetAHandelOnSomeBrahams&SweepUpSomeOfThoseClasicalMusicCobwebsHaydenBachInPuzzleria!’sCornersAndPutThemOnOurMenuForAllToUnRavel
That's okay, PJB, it wouldn't be the first time that I've been made aware that classical (and even fiddle music) isn't the MOST popular stuff in current-day America. I relish being in the minority of musical tastes!
ReplyDeleteViolinTeddy.
DeleteI certainly do not begrudge your relishing “being in the minority of musical tastes,” just as foot-long as you are not being a hotdog about it. I have mustered up the courage to admit that I tink (sic, see signoff below) your classical gifts are just bunderful. No sauerkraut grapes or chopped-onion tears here. I’m just trying to ketchup!
LegoPickledTink..ingAboutButNotComingUpWithAnyMoreAwfulHotdogPuns...IMeanBuns!
Seeking partial credit for:
ReplyDeleteSurname of a famous psychologist + Middle name of a tycoon who founded a research university
Paul,
DeleteYou of course deserve full credit for the first of those addends, but only “umpartial” credit for the second. Umpartial credit (UC) is warranted when the arbiter, Lego in this instance, deems an answer “questionable.” There are no shades of gray, no sliding scales, no marking on the curve involved in UC. The credit is either granted fully, or denied flatly.
Paul, either you are safe, or you are out.
Lego’s arbitrary process:
Sure the tycoon’s middle name works, but we called for a SURname.
So, Strike One.
It is true, however, that the Republic of Suriname is in the same hemispheres (Western and Northern) as the research university.
Ball One.
But the two locations are on different oceans, Atlantic and Pacific!
Strike Two.
But hold on a second. The university is just north of the Big Sur!
Ball Two.
And it pioneered a way-ahead-of-its-time groundbreaking politically correct statement in 1972.
Full Count.
(Paul steps out of the box, adjusts his batting glove, knocks dirt from his cleats with his 35-ounce Hillerich & Bradsby, spits, and steps back in.)
And… the tycoon-founder has a first name that is even weirder that his middle name!... Goinggg, Goinggg...
Gone!Tater! Circuit clout! Grand Salami! Touch ’em all, Paul! You are safe at home. Full credit.
LegoWhat’sThat?skydiveboyWantsToUseHisChallengeToOverturnMyCall,ToUndoTheRulingOnTheField?,…OkayWhereAreThoseReplayCameras?
I'm with ViolinTeddy and Lilo - Dessert first! With that, I solved the dessert puzzle, and got 8 of the 9 anagrams for the 1st appetizer, as well as the 2nd appetizer (love the homonym(s)!). For me, that's a fairly good percentage, especially as I'm not either sportive nor an aficionado of popular music new or old.
ReplyDelete--Margaret G.
Great work, Margaret G. Thanks for your contributions to P!
DeleteAnd thanks also for your congratulations on my range-picking prowess over on the AESAP blog.
LegoDessertPrecedesSalad&EntreeAlphabetically...WhatAboutThe"Appetizer?"YouAsk...DessertIsTheAppetizer!
Well, I seem to be truly cursed this evening, trying to post ANYthing here. I can't get the REPLY icon to work underneath the last post Word Woman addressed to me (above at 1:36 p.m. P.D.T. ,so I'm stuck replying way down here and can only hope that WW will find it.
ReplyDeleteThen, too, I could have sworn that I had already replied to her post around nine hours ago, because I KNOW I had something all typed out, but then wasn't signed in, so had copied it, so as to paste as per usual, then must have FORGOTTEN, since I was rushing to get out of the house. Grrr.
NOW I had half a post all typed out, went up above to re-read, and it disappeared!
What I had wanted to reply to Word Woman was that I am awfully glad that she was able to get to her sister's side in time; that not having been able to do so in my own case has haunted me these six years...sigh. And that I'm so humbly grateful that Ashokan Farewell came along at a propitious time for her this year.
I myself had never even heard of it until my brother brought it up for us to play together at our mom's memorial service (one of several pieces we did, as we rather made it a concert), so that is why it IS do deeply soulful to me. Obviously, it has the same effect on you, WW, as well as many others.
Well, I'm sure poor Lego is wondering how his blog turned into such non-puzzle subject matter, so I apologize. I can only hope that the REPLY functions restore themselves (at least to MY computer, which shows some 'javascript' message in the lower left corner if I try to click on the icon; I have no idea what that portends.)
ViolinTeddy,
DeleteI share the sentiments in Word Woman’s August 31 at 1:36 PM comment. I’ll bet your mother has a beautiful spirit. Still, it is so difficult for us when the embodied spirit is no longer present. There is nothing, nothing tougher than losing a loved one, even if we believe, as I do, that it is but a temporal loss. I believe that time imprisons us, and that what we call death releases us from time’s shackles, allowing our spirit, our essence, to escape into eternity.
ViolinTeddy, I want you, and any other follower/contributor to this blog, to use its space as you see fit. No apologies required.
We have unlimited space here. All that is limited is the time we have remaining here. But timeless eternity awaits.
LegoCondolent
Thank you, dear Lego. You are a doll, and I appreciate what you wrote above.
DeleteThank you, ViolinTeddy and Lego, for your heartfelt words. Glad we may share this space, which is mostly visual, via music. It sure brings forth much connection for me. VT, I am, like Lego, sure your mom's spirit knew and knows you are there. The concert in her memory sounds amazing.
DeleteOne more memory: A cat jumped on my sister's body after her wake. The funeral director was mortified (as only he could truly be) saying their cat had never done that, etc. We all smiled because Judy loved cats almost as much as breathing.
Have a beautiful September morn, everyone.
Since everyone seems to have solved SDB's dessert slice, I'll give my answer here and let everyone else post the answers to the rest.
ReplyDeleteFOTLSD:
Replace the last letter of ARGENTINA with an E to obtain ARGENTINE, a word used to refer to people or products from Argentina. Rearranging those letters yields TANGERINE, a fruit produced and exported by ARGENTINA. See Argentina's TANGERINE EXPORT HISTORY.
I'll wait for lego to post the official answers to his nine great anagrams before trying to explain my weird associations.[Those who know how to check the right boxes and thus have an unexpurgated record of my posts may see what I'm getting at here]
DeleteI did some looking around on the interwebs and was astonished at some of the retaliatory measures some people would take in response to a simple tap on the knuckles with a ruler. Kids were much tamer in my day.
For HNRA, I have ANCHOR BABIES, which anagram to:
ReplyDelete1. A cabbie's horn
2. A shabbier con
3. Broaches a bin
4. Bearish (on) Bacon
5. A cabbie shorn (compare with1.)
6. A chosen rabbi
7. Chase a ribbon
8. Nabs a brioche
9. ???????????? (Hi, something?)
I stated above that I was waiting for lego's official list, but I was typing that while David was posting his great list, so I'll seize the opportunity:
Delete1. compare with 5
2. lego will have to explain this
3. broach, brooch, whatever -- I'm not much into jewelry
4. Although Kevin Costner was the star of JFK, The Oracle of Bacon informed me that K.B. also had a role in that movie, as did Walter Matthau, star of The Bad News Bears.
5. see 1
6. I didn't know about the 2/3 vote thing, but what else could it be???
7. Imagine turning a herd of cats loose on this Olympic event.
8. Remember the episode in which Newkirk nicks the BRIOCHE LeBeau intended to bribe Schultz with? Of course not; I just made it up.
9. Matthew 3:4 Central to the understanding of this anagram is one's interpretation of LOCUST
I guess I didn't really explain how #6 relates to VOCATION.
DeleteMatthew 22:14
Luke 4:16-22 also seems relevant.
#9
DeletePaul,
DeleteI defer to your superior Chapter & Verse expertise, but...
9. I believe Exodus 10 documents the plague of carob beans!
8. Yeah, I remember that episode. I was a good one. Schultz finds and gobbles down the nicked brioche while LeBeau and Newkirk are outside being roll-called. Then the two GIs discover their brioch has “gone missing,” the accuse each other of eating it. But, when Newkirk and LeBeau notice Schultz’z face is covered with cakey crumbs, they confront him. Schultz, predictably, replies, “I know nothink! So then LeBeau and Newk… Wait. You say you made this up? Never mind.
7. Anna Bessonova would be swallowed up by a kittycat-tomcat-tabby-tornado!
…
3. No lapel pin yet, eh Paul?
2. “I explain nothink! I know nothink!”…
LegoAPlagueBeOnBothOfYourCarobBeanCrews!
For BOTRA: Taipei (Type A)
ReplyDeleteFor DA: Obese children / Abuse Children
ReplyDeleteThe Seattle connection I referenced above is that Seattle purchased the dog that helped in the arrest of Jared Fogle, written here.
That dog's byte is worse than its bark.
DeleteFor the FIC-pA, the show is "Leave it to Beaver" and the words are:
ReplyDelete(Tony) Dow- Wally Cleaver
Frank Bank- Clarence "Lumpy" Rutherford
(Barbara) Billing(sley)- June Cleaver
Bea(ve)r
There was also a (Kevin) Jones- 1st Boy in three episodes.
Barbara Billingsley also famously appeared in Airplane!, of course, and, fittingly, the last element of this puzzle to fall into place for me was Frank BANK who played CLARENCE (remove VE from CLEAVER).
DeleteYour TURN.
David,
DeleteGood addition with the Kevin Jones boy-actor, who played the "1st Boy" in 3 episodes in the 1962-1963 season of LITB. according to IMDb. Wonder what he's doing now? After I read your Friday comment about there being "another cast member who appeared in a few episodes whose surname is associated with one of the surnames in the intended answer," I scoured the IMDb cast of characters thrice, and came up empty thrice! I guess I'm so used to the shorthand term "The Dow" that "-Jones" no longer registers in my brain.
Also, you nailed the 8 anagrams exactly as I wrote them, and Made the correct start on the ninth. You seem to like our appetizers.
LegoJamesEarlBobbyCleonCarolynGraceShirleyTommyLeeCatherineZeta-BrianJesusJohnPaulNorahQuincyRickyLeeTomDeaconEd"TooTall"AndruwChipperSmartyCaseyDavyIndiana... Jones!
lego,
DeleteYou forgot basketball.
Thanks, Paul, for catching my oversight. I do recall C&C's "Sister Mary Elephant," but somehow I missed their Basketball Jones.
DeleteInterestingly, not that many NBA stars surnamed Jones: Bobby, Caldwell, Sam, K,C., Popeye
Many more named Johnson: Dennis, Gus, Avery, Magic, Marques, Vinnie, Buck, Chris, Anthony,,Eddie, George, Ollie, Wesley..
Word Woman,
Thanks for the double dose of James Taylor, earlier, above.. The "Sweet Baby James" album is maybe the second or third album I purchased, and remains still in my top-50.
LegoPrecociousKids&PushyNewsReportersHaveAn"AskItAll"Jones
Okay, Paul, David has steamrolled the appetizers, and we are all on pins and needles waiting to hear what your weird associations are all about. (Well, I, at least am on two lapel pins… and maybe a pine needle or two.)
ReplyDeleteThis week’s answers, for the record: Part 1, Our First Two Appetizers:
“Hi, Nabobs!” Race Appetizer:
Mr. Capital Gain?
A 2016 presidential candidate’s use of a two-word term (deemed by a number of people as “disparaging” or “pejorative”) sparked controversy this past week on the campaign trail. The two words in the plural term contain six letters each.
Each of the following nine clues leads to a three-word phrase that can be anagrammed to form the controversial term. (In the fourth clue only two words are anagrammed.)
1. Ubiquitous blare on Manhattan streets… A cabbie’s horn
2. Scruffier inmate… A shabbier con
3. Opens some trash receptacle…Broaches a bin
4. Pessimistic about the future silver-screen bankability of actor Kevin (two words divided by the word “on”)… Bearish (on) Bacon
5. Taxi driver, fresh from the barber… A shorn cabbie or A cabbie shorn
6. One emerging from a two-thirds vote of a synagogue congregation… A chosen rabbi or A rabbi chosen
7. What a frisky kitten might do during Christmas gift unwrapping… Chase a ribbon
8. What a famished French filcher does while passing a patisserie… Nabs a brioche
9. John the Baptist, after days of wandering alone in the wilderness, addressing his lunch… “Hi, carob beans!”
What is this controversial term? What are the nine answers to the clues?
Answer: Anchor babies
(Answers appear in bold following each of the nine clues above.)
Boxing Outside The Ring Appetizer:
Sunday Punch
On August 19, 1930, in Queensboro Stadium in New York, Justo Suarez delivered a knockout punch sending Bruce Flowers to the canvas with a thud. On April 27, 1996, in Miami Beach, Florida, Elieser Castillo delivered a knockout punch sending James Flowers to the canvas with a thud.
Just this past week, on August 23, half-a-world away in Asia, a mere boy engaging in “the manly art” stumbled against the ropes and seemingly was about to go down for the count, yet somehow managed to deliver a knockout punch so and thud-provoking to yet another Flowers that the canvas was torn and had to be restored.
In what Asian city did this occur? Explain your answer.
Answer: Taipei, Taiwan
Explanation: The “mere boy engaging in the manly art” was a Taiwanese lad strolling through the site of an art exhibition in Taipei, Taiwan showing images of Leonardo da Vinci, the man and his artistic genius. But the boy loses his balance and lurches into a rope barrier (stumbles against the ropes) protecting a painting titled “Flowers.” He breaks his fall (doesn’t go down for the count), however, by placing his closed fist against the painted canvas of “Flowers” (“delivers a potent knockout punch”) thereby creating a tear in the canvas and necessitating restoration. This “knockout” occurred on August 23, a Sunday, as in “Sunday Punch.”
Hint: The city sounds like a kind of personality or blood: Taipei, spoken aloud, sounds like Type-A, as in a Type-A personality or blood type A.
Lego…
Seems my 'funny' sentence for John The Baptist to say wasn't as far from the actual answer as I had thought (somehow, the CAROB never got to my brain, despite the hint Lego had given.) Anyway, missing the "C", it was: "I ABHOR BEANS."
ReplyDeleteBoy, I never did come close to the kitten's ribbon....am annoyed with self! But sure did love that "Nabs a brioche" solution.
This week’s answers, for the record: Part 2, The Other Two Appetizers:
ReplyDeleteDistasteful Appetizer:
The sub-rosa way
The following statement may have appeared as a part of an editorial in the wake of a scandal in the recent news:
“People were led to believe these men were out to benefit (5-letter adjective) (8-letter noun), but sadly they were apparently in it chiefly to (5-letter verb) (8-letter noun).”
The 8-letter nouns are identical. The 5-letter adjective and verb are identical except for their first and third letters. What are these words?
Answer:
“People were led to believe these men were out to benefit obese children, but sadly they were apparently in it chiefly to abuse children.
Financial Interest Comedy-pounded Appetizer:
Sitcommerce
Imagine you are reading the Wall Street Journal to glean financial news of the day. Four words you might expect to see there are associated with a popular TV sitcom from the distant past.
Two of the words are surnames of two of the cast members, while a third word comprises the first seven letters, in order, of the surname of another cast member. The fourth word is the name of the title character after you remove from it what some people mistakenly believe is the postal abbreviation of a New England State.
Two of these four words were especially pertinent to recent reporting in the WSJ’s Markets Section.
What is the sitcom and what are the four words?
Answer:
“Leave It to Beaver”;
Dow, Bank, Billing, Bear
(Tony Dow, Frank Bank, Barbara Billingsley, Theodore “Beaver” Cleaver)
Billingsley – sley = billing
Beaver – VE (not the postal abbreviation for Vermont) = bear
“Dow” and “Bear” appear in this WSJ story.
Lego…
Yeah,yeah,yeah ... so spring the cages on highway 9 already.
DeleteThis week’s answers, for the record: Part 3, Entrée & Dessert:
ReplyDeleteSounds Of Science Slice:
Rock ’n’ rotate-about-a-fixed-axis
Place the surname of a well-known scientist to the left of the surname of an engineer/inventor who ought to be more well-known. The result is a song title appearing on an early album by a popular rock musician.
The engineer/inventor founded and developed two upscale product brands. One brand appears in the lyrics of a title song track by the musician. The other brand appears in the titles of two songs by the musician.
Who are the scientist, inventor/engineer and musician? What are the early-album song title and the two brands founded by the inventor/engineer?
Answer:
Carl Jung;
Henry Leland;
Bruce Springsteen
“Jungleland”, the last cut on the “Born to Run” album
Lincoln, Cadillac
Fruit Of The Looming Solution Dessert:
Picking the Miranda right fruit
People and products from France are French. If from Italy they are Italian.
Think of another country and replace the last letter with a different letter to get the word commonly used to refer to their people or products. Now, rearrange those letters and you will name a fruit this country produces and exports.
What is this country and what is the fruit?
Answer: Argentina; tangerine
Argentina >> Argentine >> tangerine
Lego...
The anchor babies anagrams I got, all but A CHOSEN RABBI and HI CAROB BEANS; I didn't get the manly art puzzle after TAIPEI or Type A(didn't quite understand what else was needed after that); I got Leave It To Beaver, but didn't think of the guy who played Lumpy(I actually found a reference to Beaumont, Texas connected to WSJ, which made me think Hugh Beaumont still figured in it), and then I thought I had to add a postal abbreviation to Beaver, not take one away.
ReplyDeleteI would say you did fine, patjberry. The Taipei puzzle was a tad amorphous; it was a kind of "concept puzzle" almost. No real question asked. In retrospect, I should have asked, "What was the first name of the Flowers the boy punched?"
DeleteThe answer would be "That Flowers has no first name... it is the title of a painting."
Ward, June and Eddie were my favorite characters in the LITB sitcom. "You're looking lovely today, Mrs. Cleaver!" always cracked me up. Eddie, the essence of smarminess.
LegoEddie:"That'sALovelyDressYou'reWearingMrs.Cleaver!IsItNew?"(MinutesLater,OutsideWithWally&Lumpy)Eddie:"Let'sGoDrownACat!"
Sorry to be late to the P! party.
ReplyDeleteI solved the Carl Jung >>> Henry Leland >>>JUNGleland >>>Lincoln and Cadillac puzzle.
I also solved the Argentina >>> Argentine >>> Tangerine puzzle. Our posts about the Ashokan Farewell did make me think of "Don't Cry for Me, Argentina. . ."