Friday, June 3, 2016

“What politicians da-doo-ron-ron” Pursuing parallel parking spots; Kaleidoscopic “chamelons”; Chickens in the kitchen? Fred Flintstone meets Boris Godunov; Loop, flicklob and chop! Transporting comestibles across state lines; Chapel choppers; Odium takes the podium;

P! SLICES: OVER e4 + pi4 + (pi.e)2 + phi11 SERVED

Welcome to our June 3rd edition of Joseph Young’s Puzzleria! We feature another excellent patjberry puzzle this week, one that manages to marry popular music with politics.

Patrick’s puzzle, titled “Billboard Chart Slice: ‘What politicians da-doo-ron-ron,’ ” appears under our main MENU.

All nine (count ’em, nine) hors d’oeuvres, morsels, appetizers, slices and desserts on this week’s menu are guaranteed to be gluten-free, MSG-free, BHA-free, BHT-free, trans-fat-free, sulfur-dioxide-free, potassium-bromate-free, high-fructose-corn-syrup-free, sucralose/saccharin/aspartame-free and sugar-free (well, except for maybe the dessert, that is).

Oh yes, we almost forgot. All nine of this week’s menu items are also 100% anagram-free!

As always, you may want to take a few of our puzzles with a grain – but only one grain – of sodium chloride.

So, get shakin’… and enjoy a guilt-free puzzling experience:

Hors d’Oeuvre Menu

A Night At The Opera Hors d’Oeuvre
Fred Flintstone meets Boris Godunov

A radio announcer – best known for introducing operatic performers – regularly introduced a particular non-operatic performer as one “who starts a fire by rubbing” together, not sticks or flint stones (like Fred Flintstone might), but other, more intangible things. The entertainer’s full name sounds similar to a creature that would probably not make a good household pet.

Who is this entertainer? 
Extra credit: What are the intangible things that might be rubbed together?

Archdioceasy Rider Hors d’Oeuvre:
Chapel choppers

(Note: I’m dedicating this this puzzle to my brother, Michael Peter. No, he’s not dead. He’s just a motorcycle guy.)

Divide into two unequal parts an 8-letter word that appears in the names of many Christian churches. Duplicate the final letter of the first part, take its mirror image, uppercase that mirror image and place it at the beginning of the second part. Change into lowercase the first letter of the first part.
 
The 9-letter result – an adjective and slang noun – names what a motorcycle aficionado may harbor in her, or his, garage.

What is in the garage?   

Morsel Menu

Media Jackal Morsel:
Chickens in the kitchen?

Name a person who works in the television news broadcasting profession. The person’s full name, first and last names, rhymes with a word coined about three centuries ago.
 
The word has become associated with both a common kitchen item and a common barnyard creature.

Who is this person and what is this word? 


Arrayed Radii Morsel:
Pursuing parallel parking spots

In the diagram pictured here, F is a focus of an ellipse, C is the center of an ellipse, and J and D are centers of circles.

Name the line that is parallel to a radius.

Appetizer Menu

Voluntary Guidelines Appetizer:
Odium takes the podium

The following “doggeriddle” was inspired by recent national health and wellness news story:

When there’s ice over-copious, I preserve life.
It is food I preserve, though, when ice is not rife.
Use reserve, though, with me in food, be a custodian
Of your health… overuse me and my name is Odium.

... What am I?

One Of Those “Bevvies” Appetizer
Kaleidoscopic “chamelons”

Name a creature, in nine letters. Duplicate the fifth letter and place it at the end of the word. Change the sixth letter to an E and place a space after it, resulting in a brand name beverage preceded by an adjective that often describes it.

Name the same creature. Change the sixth letter to an E and place a space after it, resulting in two colors.

Duplicate the fifth letter in the first color and place it at the end of the second color. To the end of the second color also add a girl’s name, plus a duplicate of the first letter in the girl’s name. The result is two fruits which are similar in color.

What is the creature? What are the brand name beverage and its color? What are the pair of colors and pair of fruits?

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Billboard Chart Slice:
“What politicians da-doo-ron-ron”

Name the title of a Billboard # 1 hit by a duo, the title of a Billboard # 2 hit by a group, and the title of a song by a “progressive rock” group that did not make it onto the Billboard Hot 100 Chart. All three titles contain exactly two words, and all three titles share the same second word.

The #1 hit title sounds like what some politicians want to do to certain government-run services.
The #2 hit title sounds like what some “political groupies” do to politicians they rally around.
The non-charting song title sounds like what politicians do to budgets, policy packages and peace treaties.

What are these three song titles?

Hint: The name of the group that performed the song that did not chart on Billboard appears intact in the second word of the song’s title.

Ripping Off Shortz Slice:
Loop, flick/lob and chop!

Will Shortz’s May 29th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle reads:
What are the most consecutive points a tennis player can lose and still win a best-of-five-sets match? There’s no trick. It’s a straightforward question. The modern tennis tiebreaker rule does not come into play.

Puzzleria!’s “Ripping Off Shortz Slice reads:
What are the most consecutive points Will Shortz can lose and still win a best-of-five-sets tennis match? 

There is a trick. It’s a crookedbackward question. The modern tennis tiebreaker rule may or may not come into play… but remember, ’tis now June, and no longer May.

Hint: In the 20th Century, the answer to this puzzle would have been 30 points greater.

Dessert Menu

Eddyble Dessert:
Transporting comestibles across state lines

Name a specialized profession – in two words of twelve total letters – in which an edible product is produced. The first word is the name of the product.

Remove an R from the left side and an L from the right side of the first word. Place this result to the left of and adjacent to the second word, without a space, to form the name of a past U.S. automobile manufacturer.
 
A major appliance manufacturer is situated across the state line, less than 50 miles, from what had been the auto manufacturer’s base of operations. The name of the appliance manufacturer is an English word that translates into the name of the edible product in its language of origin.

What is the specialized profession? What are the neighboring manufacturers?  

Every Friday at Joseph Young’s Puzzleria! we publish a new menu of fresh word puzzles, number puzzles, logic puzzles, puzzles of all varieties and flavors. We cater to cravers of scrumptious puzzles!


Our master chef, Grecian gourmet puzzle-creator Lego Lambda, blends and bakes up mysterious (and sometimes questionable) toppings and spices (such as alphabet soup, Mobius bacon strips, diced snake eyes, cubed radishes, “hominym” grits, anagraham crackers, rhyme thyme and sage sprinklings.)


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92 comments:

  1. Anagram-free week, Lego?! Sikey, er, yikes!

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    1. Yes, Word Woman, I am hoping Mendo Jim, everyone’s favorite “curmudgeon,” will approve.

      For another fun “creative challenge,” Puzzlerians! may want to mosey on over to Word Woman’s Partial Ellipsis Of The Sun (PEOTS) blog. She invites you this week to ponder what you would name a new insect if you discovered one. For example, a previously unknown species of praying mantis, Ilomantis ginsburgae, has been identified and named in honor of SCOTUS Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

      LegoWellAtLeastMendoJimMightHaveApprovedUntilWordWomanWroteTheWord”Sikey”…Arts!Star!Tsar!

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  2. Got the ANATOHd'O. The performer was destined to be one of the rare ones, even from birth.

    Also, got the OOTBA, even though I think you are short a letter in the 2nd fruit.

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    1. I was worried that I might have worded the ANATOHd'O a mite too obscurely. Good work.

      Thanks for the heads-up on my OOTBA goof. I have repaired it. You (and ViolinTeddy and other Puzzlerians!) seem to have the uncanny knack of solving my puzzles even when my erroneous wording creeps in and renders them even more mystifying than they actually are.

      Thank you, David.

      LegoIsGratefulThatDavidMadeLego'sFlawedPuzzleANorthernMoroccanCity

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  3. I also got the ARHd'O. Not a clue, but when some one says to me "I'm too tired", I respond "You don't look like a motorcycle (or bicycle)".

    As for the ARM, the less said the better, although it is not likely that you will give us Puzzlerians a break.

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  4. And regarding the VGA, you do have a knack, Lego. That could get you arrested.

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  5. For the ED (they have drugs for that now), how do you know all the trivia you need to come up with that puzzle?

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    1. That's an EXCELLENT question, David! I was literally just wondering the same thing, when I remembered your comment containing 'ED" and came back up here to read it. Lego astounds us from week to week, surely!

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  6. Happy Friday to all! I've only just arrived for the day, read the comments (which don't make much sense yet, since I haven't seen any puzzles) and am about to begin. Ah, the always anticipation! But I must say, it IS amazing to have a NO anagram set!

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  7. Just did the "Bevvies" puzzle (I STILL hate those initials-only IDs for the puzzles, since I can NOT tell which is what): one could have just started (again) with the drink name, in order to proceed to the two fruits by adding the girls name, etc., couldn't one have?

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  8. The only two puzzles I've gotten so far are the "revives" puzzle and my own(which does not count). Will require hints for all others.

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  9. That should read "bevvies". Damn that autocorrect!

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  10. Well, I managed to eke out the first (NIght at OPera) hors d'o, but other than Bevvies, nothing...they must be particularly difficult this week? Oooh, I believe I also answered the "Voluntary Guidelines Appetizer". So only 1/3 of the pile thus far. : o (

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  11. I have a word with n syllables that could pertain to a barnyard animal or a kitchen object. According to my source, it was coined about 302 years ago. I have a television journalist whose name has n+1 syllables, with n-1 corresponding syllables rhyming. I have a person recently retired from a different profession who I suppose could be embarking on a new career, and all n syllables of that person's name rhyme with their counterparts in the 302-year-old word.
    Am I even close?

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  12. Remember, only you can prevent forest fires.

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    1. Is that a hint, Paul, for the Media Morsel? I could sure use one!

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  13. Hurrah, the first portion of the dessert just came to me (well, I thought of a short enough category to look up on Google, and then got lucky when my eye fell onto the auto manufacturer!) Bingo. However, the only appliance manuf. close enough, that I can find, has a name that I can NOT find translatable into any food, darn it.

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  14. I finally found out, indeed, what that appliance name means (in a language I have studied, yet), and can only say it's utter NEWS to me!

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    1. If that is News to you, ViolinTeddy, am I to assume that the automobile in your solution is not an Olds?

      LegoDiamondREOSpeedwagon

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  15. Very funny, as per usual, Lego!!! : o )

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  16. Hints, please. I think I'll need all the help I can get this week.

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  17. A few gentle mid-weekend hints:
    ANATOHO
    Are the Intelligent Design proponents Flintstone fans? (Lions & Lambs and Cats & Dogs… and Dinos & Cavemen living together! Oh my!)

    ARHO:
    This week’s Dessert can’t hold a candle to this puzzle’s Bavarian Delight.

    MJM:
    Echoes of the greatest soccer player ever (not the Spice Gal spouse!)

    ARM:
    “ARM,” you say? This puzzle is so easy it is almost humorous!

    VGA:
    The answer is on the very tip of the doggeriddle’s tail.

    OOTBA
    Beverage: Created by a playwright; out-of-this-world
    Colors: Boenher
    Fruits: Golden Globes Awards

    BCS:
    The #1 hit title: Bye-bye, bureaucrats; Hi-hi, bigbiz!
    The #2 hit title: Treat ’em like Aslan.
    The non-charting song title: Wrap it all up and tie it in a bow.

    ROSS:
    Lawn tennis is often called just “tennis” And remember, this is not just anyone who is playing “tennis.” It is Will Shortz!

    ED:
    “Eddyble” is a hint.
    The state line you would cross is the border between two Big-10 states. One of the model’s nameplates was “ahead of its time.”
    Could have won a “Golden Dome Award”?

    LegoBendItLikeSportySpouse?GingerSpouse?PoshSpouse?BabySpouse?ScarySpouse?

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    1. Also, for the ED, if you take one of the manufacturers, and add two letters to the middle and add a space, you will get a description of a person who is learning the profession.

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  18. Well as I said earlier, I already have the nine-letter creature puzzle and my own puzzle. After looking over these hints, I still have the two aforementioned puzzles and nothing else. Keep trying, Lego.

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  19. Now I have the Dessert puzzle solved. It's still going to take a while for the others. I might have the one about the non-operatic performer, but I'm not sure.

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  20. Oh, I see. Math is serious business, young man.

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  21. I don't care what surface it's being played on, I've had all the tennis scorekeeping I can take recently. (Why doesn't spellchecker recognize 'scorekeeping'?)

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  22. Edgar Allen Poe
    Was passionately fond of roe.
    He always liked to chew some
    When writing anything gruesome.

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  23. I think I have just, at long last, solved the Motorcycle Hors' D'o, although I completely fail to get WHY one has to have a motorcycle in order to have this item in one's garage....OOH, it finally came to me what your Bavarian hint has to do with it all.

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  24. Well I wish you could tell me what you got, VT! I'm stumped! How about a hint?

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    1. L'abeillesea rouge

      LegoOceansOfCrimsonTeemingWithBuzzards

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    2. Let's see, pjb.....think hard about the ONLY letters that you can actually do mirror images of, then look through church name lists. Actually, I had looked through quite a few different lists before suddenly the correct word HIT me like a brick wall! I knew immediately that it was THE WORD because I had already practiced (on wrong words) doing the procedure Lego outlines in the puzzle.

      I guess my best hint would be, divide it up into 3 and 1 + 5. And you'll realize what the Bavarian has to do with it all as son as you see the two words (though as I said, I still don't get what it actually has to do with motorcycles.)

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  25. I think I still need better hints. This is getting me nowhere.

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  26. I have no idea what else to say, PJB, without completely giving it away, and then what's the point? It's not really puzzle-solving, if the answers are essentially doled out to us, right? Did you translate Lego's hint above mine?

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  27. patjberry,

    ARHDO:
    ViolinTeddy’s June 5 at 12:43 AM is an excellent insight into a successful solving strategy for the ARHDO motorcycle puzzle. Her solution-yielding algorithm is exactly the approach I would take were I trying to solve the puzzle.
    But here is a bit more of a hint: The word appearing in the names of many churches is a name/synonym for JC. What ends up in the garage is an iron horse of a certain color.
    Still, I give VT’s post my stamp of approval… and, if she gets enough of those she can exchange them for a toaster or tote bag.

    MJM:
    Think CBS. The news broadcaster is/was a colleague (on the same show even) as a person featured in a recent P! puzzle.

    ARM:
    Although there is not a plentitude of radii in the diagram, radii are ubiquitous all around us… and so are what are parallel to radii.

    ROSS:
    Will Shortz said today on NPR that he has participated in his share of tennis, even the kind they’ve been playing at the French Open. Pretend he didn’t say that.

    LegoBelievesTheSonOfManAsA12-Year-OldDitchedHisParentsToStayBehindInJerusalemWhileTheyReturnToBethlehem,AnsLaterInLifeHadAHissyFitWithTheMoneyChangersAtTheTemple…StillHeHadSomeCompensatingQualities

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    1. Hey, I can ALWAYS use another tote bag, preferably with a nice cloth lining, and some zippered inner pockets. (Got that, Mr. Bank of Lego?)

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    2. I'm not utterly SURE, but I think your hint enabled to finally pin down the Media Jackels Morsel. Never would have come close, though, without said hint.

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  28. I didn't realize the nine-letter phrase was two words. Now it makes sense! Got it! Sorry I didn't see it earlier, VT. I had seen the word in question before, but I didn't make the connection. Knowing it's a synonym for Christ himself was all I needed.

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  29. Just got the news broadcaster! I just need a good enough hint to be sure about the opera puzzle, and a good enough hint for the doggeriddle puzzle. ARM and ROSS both seem to be logic puzzles. I can't do logic puzzles.

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    1. patjberry,
      ANATOHO:
      “The entertainer’s full name sounds similar to a creature that would probably not make a good household pet.” Really?
      You betcherass!

      VGA:
      “What am I?”
      An essential elemental component of mine is being freighted not in a gondola car but in the caboose of the quatrain. Indeed, many non-scientists treat me and the components as if we were synonymous twins.

      LegoAplogizesForTheDrunkenSailoresqueLanguageInHisFirstHint

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  31. I think I have the answer to the doggeriddle, but if "ass" is a clue for the opera puzzle, then my answer for that one is wrong.

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  32. I may need more to go on than "ass".

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    1. pjb,

      "Ass" is the middle syllable (it gets the accent) of the word that might help you.

      Ask yourself, why would "creation scientists"give the thumbs-up to the Flintstones?

      This puzzle is very similar to the JIM morsel, "Homophonophilia" in this edition of Puzzleria!

      LegoSays"SoAnythingICouldDoToASSistWouldBe...Uh...VeryASSistful"

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    2. Perhaps it will come to me AFTER, i.e. as soon as, I file this post, but I know the Opera puzzle answer and have NO clue what 'ass' has to do with any portion of it. So I wouldn't worry about that, pjb, if you already came up with an answer. Lego is repeatedly giving it away, anyhow, with the Flintstones clues.

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  33. I have a Rip Off Shorts, no wait, a Rip Off Shortz puzzle you might want to use on Friday. Is there an email address I can use to send it to you?

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    1. Thanks, David. You can reach me at:
      legolambda@aol.com

      LegoYouCanJustNeverRipOffEnoughShortz!

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  34. I guess we're talking about the Church of Scotland ...

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    1. Capt. James T. Church-of-Scotland, Paul, or Church-of-Scotland Douglas, Michael's pop?

      LegoWhoIsSuddenlyPeckishForABigBowlOfBlancmange

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  35. E.C. Bentley
    Should be studied intently.
    Especially those scenes
    In which Trent intervenes.

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    1. Captain JamesT. Kirk
      Sported an eternal smirk.
      Mr. S'chn T'gai Spock
      Just thought that was a crock.

      Paul the Bunyonesque
      (Paul also Onionesque!)
      Carves quatrains with his ax
      And Clerihewing whacks.

      LegoPeelingAwayTheBarkOneLayerAtATime

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    2. Sure like some clerihews. . .

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  36. You know, all this time I hadn't even asked how anyone's doing with my puzzle. VT, how've you been doing with it?

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    1. Well, pjb, since you specifically asked (by the way, do you like your initials to be lower case, like your full name/ID on here, or do you prefer them capitalized? I've been meaning to ask!)......I'm NOT doing well with your puzzle! : o (

      I researched and researched, and while I did find one song that COULD be the #1 hit, and which seemed to have a second word which IS used in a lot of songs, I'm not sure it matches the given hint about what politicians want to do to gov't programs. But then I can simply NOT come up with a group's #2 song, with the same second word, not to mention "progressive rock" (although I DID find a group with that second word as their name)'s song....sigh....Thus, as you have seen me say in the past about puzzles, I had largely given up.

      Can you tell me IF the second word (in all the song titles) has FOUR letters?

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  37. I will say indeed the second word has four letters and is, in fact, a plural noun. And if you meet someone for the very first time, these may be the first thing you notice about the person, because all people have these(with varying degrees of ability to use them, depending on the person; I myself have to wear something to improve mine). But as sure as you're trying to figure out my puzzle, you're using them right now.

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  38. Plus, this word sounds like a certain suffix used at the end of many verbs(and if you're British, you'll probably spell this suffix slightly different).

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  39. Finally, the group in question who recorded song#2 has actually been mentioned in a previous puzzle of mine. Think ornithology.

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    1. OOh, okay, pjb it is. Personally, I prefer the VT capitalized, or otherwise I might completely MISS seeing it!!!

      I clearly have the wrong four-letter word, then, because mine wasn't plural. I will rethink (although an obvious candidate is in my mind, given all you wrote.) I also remember a former puzzle of yours involving bird bands! Will give it all another stab. Thanks

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  40. BTW noncapitalization of pjb is fine. I don't mind having it all lowercase. I hadn't given it much thought before, but I do think it looks cooler that way. Like with ron.

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    1. Yippee, I've now got the first two songs (in fact, the #2 hit is the one that started running through my mind after I knew what the four-letter word was.....and indeed, it's the very band I was thinking you were referring to. Now I just have to figure out what song #3 is.....AND I see how the political 'hints' fit those first two songs (cute)....

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  41. I will say though I know a lot of the group's work, I was originally unfamiliar with the third song. But it does have the same thing in common with the other two.

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    1. I have exhaustively clicked on dozens of what I THOUGHT was the third song's group's name (per the hint), and I can NOT find anything with the 'second word' in question, except a THREE-WORD title, that doesn't fit the politician hint given for it. From that hint, I know what the title OUGHT to be, but Googling that (or another word close to it) shows up no song with such a name. So I guess I'll have to settle for 2/3 of your puzzle, which is more than I ever thought would happen.

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  42. Here's a hint that might help you: It's rather fitting that this would be the LAST song title.
    I will agree I hadn't heard of the song either. Lego did say it did NOT make the Billboard chart.

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    1. Secondary research informs me, however, that the third song did reach chart Position #20 on Billboard's Mainstream Rock Tracks (not the Hot 100, though) sometime in the 1980s.

      But I had never heard of the song either.

      LegoWhoAspiresToBe#1InYourHeartWithABarneyFifeBreastPockerBullet

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    2. Fabulous, the Mainstream Rock Track hint gave it to me, Lego, thank you so much. I AM mystified, however, as to why THAT TITLE never showed up in the (correct band) list that I was so lengthily perusing. (I had the wrong synonym for the political action, never having though of this one.)

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    3. I AM puzzled, pjb, if you had never heard of the third song, how could you make up a puzzle using it? Did you have the political hint BEFORE coming up with a song title to fit it?

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    4. I only really had the first two songs, and didn't think it would be much of a puzzle at first. Lego should be credited with the addition of the third song.

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    5. Ah, that makes sense, then....thanks for letting me know.

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  43. Who ever heard of Milton Cross? Not me. That firestarting technique may never have required Smokey's intervention, but it apparently captured the Bandit's attention.

    I suspected the geometry puzzle was NEI from the beginning.


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    1. paUl,

      We always gotta walk that fine line between NEI and TMI... and perhaps even FYI! But, as usual, my finite I must defer to your infinite U.

      LegoThouShaltNotCrucifyLamkindaOnAMiltonCrossOfGold!(DespiteTheFactThatHeBrokeTheThouShaltNotAnagramCommandmentInThisPost)

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  44. Megyn Kelly seems to be a difficult name to avoid lately, but that didn't seem to work. Legginjelly? I don't think so. Scott Kelly sounded like a familiar name. I'll admit I did not follow his recent space mission, but apparently a lot of people did, due to his excellent communication skills, so a second career as, say, "Science Correspondent" seemed plausible. But when I searched for 'Dot Kelly', at the bottom of a page of links to Facebook and Twitter accounts for people who probably don't appear regularly on the telly, was a little note from Google:

    Do you, you pathetic, ignorant dolt, perchance mean Scott Pelley?

    Actually, Google was a trifle more diplomatic.
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    I think UJ (which would have to be drawn) MAY be parallel to LC and CP, which I believe are radii of the ellipse, but I don't think there's enough information to prove that rigorously, and we all know that 'proof by picture' doesn't work. Speaking of pictures, the fellow walking atop the Great Wall of China was a performance artist who calls himself Ulay, but I suspect WW knew that before asking. Anyway, I think it's time to put my old shirt back on (a little worse for wear after the laundering) before I get sued for copyright infringement or something.
    ****************************************************************

    Rumor has it the very first clerihew concerned itself with a fellow named Davy. I don't think he was ever in the navy (certainly not for life), but I think he knew a lot about electrolytes and such.

    As I said, I refuse to figure out the ping-pong score.

    My grandfather had several Studebakers.
    An eddy is a whirlpool.
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    Enough of this lunacy; I've got to doctormyize the budget and bettedavisize that peace treaty.

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    1. It might be fun to be inside your gray matter, Paul. Quite a ride.

      I didn't know about Ulay on the Great Wall of China. Does he grease up ahead with Oil of Ulay?


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  45. So about the ARM (the acronym was the first clue), the answer is ULNA, the bone that is "parallel"(ish) to the radius. You may also notice that a line in the drawing goes, left to right, from U to L to N to A.

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    1. Also, why I said you would not give us a break.

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  46. For the ANATOHd'O, Dinah Shore (not dinosaur), who "starts a fire by rubbing two notes together". My comment that she was destined to be rare from birth alluded to the fact that she was born February 29, 1916.

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  47. For the VGA, salt, chemically NaCl, which, when pronounced as a word, might sound like "knack L", which is sort of what I wrote above ("you do have a KNACK, Lego"). I also wrote "That could get you arrested" for asSAuLT.

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  48. Morsel Menu:
    Isn't the radius parallel to the ulna?
    Check out the ⅐ Ellipse.
    “Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points, of which facts are one and ideas the other.” -Victor Hugo

    Appetizer Menu:
    SALT. Sodium becomes odium.
    Haven't we seen this creature before? ORANGUTAN>>>ORANGE TANG>>>ORANGE + TANGERINE

    Dessert Menu:
    STRUDEL BAKER -RL = STUDEBAKER, Corporate Headquarters: South Bend, Indiana. “strudel” in English is WHIRLPOOL, Corporate Headquarters: Benton Harbor, Michigan, 38.6 miles from South Bend, Indiana.

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    1. And take STUDEBAKER, add and NT to the middle and separate into 2 words to get STUDENT BAKER, who may a apprentice to a Strudel Baker.

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  49. DINAH SHORE, DINOSAUR
    REDEEMER, RED BEEMER(BMW)
    SCOTT PELLEY, POTBELLY(stove or pig)
    SALT or SODIUM
    ORANGUTAN, ORANGE, TAN, ORANGE TANG, ORANGE and TANGERINE
    1. PRIVATIZE/PRIVATE EYES(Daryl Hall and John Oates);1981
    2. LIONIZE/LYIN' EYES(The Eagles);1975
    3. FINALIZE/FINAL EYES(Yes);1987, from the album BIG GENERATOR
    STRUDEL BAKER, STUDEBAKER, WHIRLPOOL("strudel" in German)
    I'm no expert on geometry or tennis, so I couldn't answer those.

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  50. OOh, I"m late today (had appt and just got home):

    A Night At The Opera Hors d’Oeuvre: (Milton Cross) DINAH SHORE/dinosaur; TWO NOTES (rubbed together)

    Archdioceasy Rider Hors d’Oeuvre: REDEEMER -> red Beemer


    Media Jackals Morsel: SCOTT PELLEY rhymes with POTBELLY. (As in an old stove and a pig.)

    Arrayed Radii Morsel: All the lines are parallel to SOME radius of each of the circles, just not the labelled radii.


    Voluntary Guidelines Appetizer: SALT

    One Of Those “Bevvies” Appetizer: ORANGUTAN; ORANGE TANG; ORANGE & TAN; ORANGE & TANG{ERIN}E


    MENU -- Billboard Chart Slice: PRIVATE EYES (Hall & Oates); LYIN' EYES (Eagles); FINAL EYES (Band: YES)

    MENU -- Ripping Off Shortz Slice: I already didn't understand why the Sunday Puzzle answer was 76 instead of 71!!


    Eddyble Dessert: STRUDEL BAKER; STUDEBAKER & WHIRLPOOL [means STRUDEL !!!! Who knew?]

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  51. Sorry I’m so late with these. I was on the road.

    This week’s official answers for the record, Part 1:

    Hors d’Oeuvre Menu

    A Night At The Opera Hors d’Oeuvre
    Fred Flintstone meets Boris Godunov
    A radio announcer – best known for introducing operatic performers – regularly introduced a particular non-operatic performer as one “who starts a fire by rubbing” together, not sticks or flint stones (like Fred Flintstone might), but other, more intangible things. The entertainer’s full name sounds similar to a creature that would probably not make a good household pet.
    Who is this entertainer?
    Extra credit: What are the intangible things that might be rubbed together?

    Answer: Dinah Shore (dinosaur); (musical) notes

    Archdioceasy Rider Hors d’Oeuvre:
    Chapel choppers
    Divide into two unequal parts an 8-letter word that appears in the names of many Christian churches. Duplicate the final letter of the first part, take its mirror image, uppercase that mirror image and place it at the beginning of the second part. Change into lowercase the first letter of the first part.
    The 9-letter result – an adjective and slang noun – names what a motorcycle aficionado may harbor in her, or his, garage.
    What is in the garage?

    Answer: red Beemer;
    Redeemer” (a word in many church names) >> Red eemer >> Red beemer >> red Beemer

    Morsel Menu

    Media Jackals Morsel:
    Chickens in the kitchen?
    Name a person who works in the television news broadcasting profession. The person’s full name, first and last names, rhymes with a word coined about three centuries ago.
    The word has become associated with both a common kitchen item and a common barnyard creature.
    Who is this person and what is this word?

    Answer: Scott Pelley;
    potbelly; potbelly stove; potbellied pig


    Arrayed Radii Morsel:
    Pursuing parallel parking spots

    In the diagram pictured here, F is a focus of an ellipse, C is the center of an ellipse, and J and D are centers of circles.
    Name the line that is parallel to a radius.

    The line ULNA is parallel to a radius.

    Appetizer Menu

    Voluntary Guidelines Appetizer:
    Odium takes the podium
    The following “doggeriddle” was inspired by recent national health and wellness news story:
    When there’s ice over-copious, I preserve life.
    It is food I preserve, though, when ice is not rife.
    Use reserve, though, with me in food, be a custodian
    Of your health… overuse me and my name is Odium.
    ... What am I?

    Answer: Salt;
    When ice is over-copious on highways and roads, ice is used as a de-icer to preserve life.
    When ice when ice is not rife (plentiful), impeding refrigeration, ice can be used to preserve food.
    Use reserve (restraint), though, when putting extra salt on your food or ingesting foods with high salt contents, because too much salt can be bad for your health. Thus, overuse of salt iS ODIUM.

    Lego…

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  52. This week’s official answers for the record, Part 2:

    One Of Those “Bevvies” Appetizer
    Kaleidoscopic “chamelons”
    Name a creature, in nine letters. Duplicate the fifth letter and place it at the end of the word. Change the sixth letter to an E and place a space after it, resulting in a brand name beverage preceded by an adjective that often describes it.
    Name the same creature. Change the sixth letter to an E and place a space after it, resulting in two colors.
    Duplicate the fifth letter in the first color and place it at the end of the second color. To the end of the second color also add a girl’s name, plus a duplicate of the first letter in the girl’s name. The result is two fruits which are similar in color.
    What is the creature? What are the brand name beverage and its color? What are the pair of colors and pair of fruits?

    Answer: Orangutan;
    Tang, orange
    Orange, tan
    Orange, tangerine

    MENU

    Billboard Chart Slice:
    “What politicians da-doo-ron-ron”
    Name the title of a Billboard # 1 hit by a duo, the title of a Billboard # 2 hit by a group, and the title of a song by a “progressive rock” group that did not make it onto the Billboard Hot 100 Chart. All three titles contain exactly two words, and all three titles share the same second word.
    The #1 hit title sounds like what some politicians want to do to certain government-run services.
    The #2 hit title sounds like what some “political groupies” do to politicians they rally around.
    The non-charting song title sounds like what politicians do to budgets, policy packages and peace treaties.
    What are these three song titles?
    Hint: The name of the group that performed the song that did not chart on Billboard appears intact in the second word of the song’s title.

    Answer:
    Private Eyes (privatize)
    Lyin’ Eyes (lionize)
    Final Eyes (finalize), by Yes (Hint: Eyes – E = Yes)

    Lego…

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  53. This week’s official answers for the record, Part 3:

    Ripping Off Shortz Slice:
    Loop, flick/lob and chop!
    Puzzleria!’s “Ripping Off Shortz Slice reads:
    What are the most consecutive points Will Shortz can lose and still win a best-of-five-sets tennis match?
    There is a trick. It’s a crookedbackward question. The modern tennis tiebreaker rule may or may not come into play… but remember, ’tis now June, and no longer May.
    Hint: In the 20th Century, the answer to this puzzle would have been 30 points greater.

    Answer: 33 consecutive points:
    In the first game of the five-set match, Will jumps out to a 10-0 lead. But his opponent (let’s call him Jendo Mim) storms back to win that set, 12-10. (Will has at this stage in the match lost 12 consecutive points.)
    Jendo Mim stays hot in the second set, shutting Will out 11-0. (Will has at this stage in the match lost 23 consecutive points.)
    Will remains in his slump, losing the first 10 points of the third set…(Will has at this stage in the match lost 33 consecutive points.) But Will subsequently goes on a tear and wins the third set 12-10. In the fourth and fifth sets Will toys with Jendo Mim, winning the sets 11-3 and 11-7, thereby winning the match 3 sets to 2, even though he lost 33 consecutive points.
    Hint: Prior to 2001, the answer to this puzzle would have been 30 points greater. Why? Because sets (also called “games”) continued until a player scored 21 points, or until a player gained a 2-point lead. In that scenario, Jendo Mim storms back to win the first set 22-20 (Will now has 22 consecutive losses), wins the second set 21-0 (Will now has 43 consecutive losses), and takes a 20-0 lead in the third set (Will now has 63 consecutive losses), at which point Will goes on his own tear to win the final three sets to win the match.

    Dessert Menu

    Eddyble Dessert:
    Transporting comestibles across state lines
    Name a specialized profession – in two words of twelve total letters – in which an edible product is produced. The first word is the name of the product.
    Remove an R from the left side and an L from the right side of the first word. Place this result to the left of and adjacent to the second word, without a space, to form the name of a past U.S. automobile manufacturer.
    A major appliance manufacturer is situated across the state line, less than 50 miles, from what had been the auto manufacturer’s base of operations. The name of the appliance manufacturer is an English word that translates into the name of the edible product in its language of origin.
    What is the specialized profession? What are the neighboring manufacturers?

    Answer:
    Strudel baker; Studebaker; Whirlpool
    (The name of the appliance manufacturer, Whirlpool, is an English word that translates into Strudel.)


    Lego…

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  54. Does this remind anyone else of that?

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