Welcome to our
August 26th edition of Joseph Young’s Puzzleria!
Our featured
puzzle this week is tricky poser posed by Planned Chaos. We thank him greatly. 
It appears beneath our
main MENU and is titled “How Now, Cow Brow? Slice: A hair-raising high-steaks
adventure, maid to order!”
A half-dozen
additional puzzles are listed under this week’s menus. Enjoy ’em all.
Hors d’Oeuvre
Menu
Extension
Chord Hors d’Oeuvre:
Adding on to
an idiom
Think of an
idiom with biblical origins that contains mostly nouns. Place a colon or comma
(or any piece of punctuation of your choice) after this phrase. Now extend it
by adding five additional words that further amplify on and elucidate the
phrase.
The five words include the following (but not necessarily in this order):2 adverbial antonyms,
1 repetition
of one of the nouns in the idiom (minus, from the end of the noun, a letter and piece of
punctuation).
The initial
letters in the idiom followed by the initial letters of the five-word extension spell out a U.S.
state.
What is the
idiom and its extension? What is the state?
Hint: #1: the
adjectival antonyms, which begin with the same letter, appear in the lyrics of a popular holiday song.
Hint #2: There
is a preposition in the idiom.
Hint #3: Both adverbial antonyms begin with vowels.
Hint #3: Both adverbial antonyms begin with vowels.
Hint #4: The
state is not Iowa or Ohio, or even Maine or Idaho. (This is a “wise guy” hint.)
Morsel
Menu
Oxymoronical
Morsel:
Dulling a
sharp pain
Add two letters
in front of a pain-relieving product with an oxymoronic name to form a two-word
tautological description you might see on a fast food restaurant menu.
What is the
product?
What is the
description?
Appetizer
Menu
Service With
A Smirk Appetizer:
Hamburger-standing
on ceremony
Name something,
in two words, that someone usually brings to a certain religious ceremony. A
one-word homophone of that thing might be served at a reception following the
ceremony.
What might be
brought to the ceremony, and what might be served after the ceremony?
Hint: An
implement with more precision than the one used in preparing what is served
post-ceremony is usually a part of what is brought to the ceremony.
MENU
How Now, Cow
Brow? Slice:
A
hair-raising high-steaks adventure, maid to order!
Take the name
of a personal grooming tool and write it in uppercase letters. Remove a letter
and rotate one of the remaining letters sideways.
Depending on which letter is removed, the result can be rearranged
to name one of two different things that are often shot on a range.
What are these words?
Ripping Off
Shortz Slices:
My name iss
famous
Will’s Shortz’s
National Public Radio Weekend Edition Sunday Puzzle from August 21st
reads:
Name a famous
person with the initials B.S. and another famous person with the initials G.M.
– whose first and last names, respectively, rhyme with each other. One of the
names has one syllables and one has two syllables. Who are these famous people?
Puzzleria!’s
Ripping Off Shortz Slices read:
The nine
mini-puzzles below each give descriptions of a pair (or trio) of persons
possessing various degrees of fame of celebrity. The first names of each pair
rhyme, and the last names of each pair also rhyme.The number of syllables in the first and last name of each member of the pair (trio) is given in parentheses at the end of the descriptions. The parentheses at the beginning of the descriptions contain the initials of one (yes, just one) of the two (or three) persons described.
Who are these
pairs (and trio) of persons?
(B.W.) A
color-barrier-breaking MLB player, broadcaster and executive; an executive who
is one of the 20 richest people in the world (1, 1)
(J.C.) An actor
who, because of his name, was sometimes confused with a television legend; a person
who did something no one else has ever done in the Fall Classic (1, 2)
(B.H.) A
baseball great; a comedic and voice-over actress (2, 1)
(K.C.) A
presidential spokesperson; a quarterback who has a bust in Canton but who was
not a bust in his second Super Bowl (1, 2)
(M.W.) A
singer/songwriter whose most popular album had a two-word rhyming title; a Rock
and Roll Hall of Famer from Motown (2, 2)
(D.B.) A
co-founder of a band whose second album is the name of a city recently in the
news; an American League MVP, World Series Champ and National League Manager of
the Year (1, 2)
(G.M.) An
alt-rock front man who created an “extraordinarily impressive” festival,
according to Merriam-Webster’s definition of the festival’s name; a character
actor perhaps best known for to whom he was married (2, 2)
(J.W.) A
document shredder/smuggler; a pol who’s a doc; a three-time NBA All-Star who
was drafted first overall (1, 1)
(E.A.) A
singer-songwriter who emerged from the Greenwich Village folk scene; two-time
NHL champ who was in the early 1970’s the highest-paid athlete in the world (2,
3)
Riffing Off Crosby, Shortz And Nash (No Young) Slice:
The
three-hump consonant
The one-hump camel, he’s Arabian
The two-hump camel, he’s a Bactrian
No three-hump camel?
Wait, there’s maybe an
Wait, there’s maybe an
Offsprung crossbred tri-humpbackedrian!*
(* “Tri-hump” anagrams to both “triumph”
and “Hi, Trump!” – that is likely not an auspicious omen.)
Humptyback camels
are similar to certain consonants – namely certain consonants in the center of
the alphabet: the Arabian “n” and the Bactrian “m” (see the illustration at the left containing
the quatrain).
I propose
introducing a 27th letter to the alphabet. It looks like a
three-hump “m”. I call it the “emen.” Actually it is the 25th letter
in my new Puzzlerian! Alphabet,
because my “emen” will replace both the
“m”and the “n”. Wherever either an “m” or “n” appears in a word, simply replace
it with an emen!
How should an
emen be pronounced? About halfway between an “m” and an “n”. Just touch the top
of your tongue to the roof of your mouth just above the teeth while holding
your lips together… well, it does take a bit of practice.
My proposal has
a few flies in its ointment, of course, when it comes down to actually applying
it to the skin of your text. “Cone” and “come,” and “mice” and “nice”, for
example, will be indistinguishable when you replace their “m”s and “n”s with
emens. But I am confident these flies can be somehow swatted.
In the
following puzzle, an emen must be substituted for each “m” and each “n” that appears
in the names of the persons I am asking you find:
Name (in three
syllables) a famous character from a TV sitcom and another somewhat famous person
(in three syllables) who was the presidential nominee of a major political
party. Their first names rhyme, as do their last names. The initials of one of
the names are A. L.
Who are these
famous people? Amen!
Dessert
Menu
Nouns In The
News Accounts Dessert:
Similarly
heard third words
A 6-letter common noun and 8-letter proper noun appeared recently
in news accounts.
Rearrange those 14 letters to form two captions of 8, 3 and 3 words each.
Rearrange those 14 letters to form two captions of 8, 3 and 3 words each.
One caption applies
to the image of the CD (compact disk) above.
The other
caption (which includes a shorthand synonym of “images”) applies to the remaining three images here (as well as to the image with the bear in it at the top of this week’s blog). 
There are two acceptable possible 8-letter words for this first caption, the picture of the compact disk.What are these nouns in the news?
What are the
two captions?
Hint: The third
words in the captions rhyme.
Note: The 8-letter proper noun includes a space, which makes it appear as two words.
Note: The 8-letter proper noun includes a space, which makes it appear as two words.
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Still recovering from David's uu puzzle. . .
ReplyDeleteYeah, autumn is coming!
Happy Friday.
UUord UUoman
W is actually quite fascinating.
DeleteThanks, UUord UUoman, for that UUonderful link abour UU!
DeleteW, of course, is the only letter in our English Alphabet with more than one syllable. The total # of syllables in our 26 letters is 28, with W accounting for 3 of 'em. The beauty of replacing the M and N with an "emen" (see "Riffing Off Crosby, Shortz And Nash (No Young) Slice: The three-hump consonant") is that we reduce the number of letters in the alphabet by one while maintaining the 28-syllable count! Conservation of syllables, reduction of symbols!
I thank David for his very clever Olympian puzzle, even though I was not sufficiently clever to solve it. David's puzzle was reminiscent, I thought, of this excellent NPR puzzle. I love puzzles with, as David modestly puts it, "cheating." I would say it is not so much "cheating," however, as "trickery" or "adding an unexpected twist." Such trickery forces puzzle solvers to think "beyond the box" which, IMO, is the essence of great puzzletry.
There is an element of such "trickery" in Planned Chaos' puzzle that we are featuring this week. skydiveboy's excellent "Bonus French Chef Slice: 52-Card Poker Pick-up" is another great example.
I also would put two controversial NPR puzzles in this "great puzzle" category: the infamous "upside-down digital clock" puzzle, and the "TWO W'S" puzzle. Puzzlers either loved them or hated them. I loved them.
What's up at your entertaining and educational PEOTS blog this week, VVord VVoman?
LegoUUhoVVishesHeCouldTypeOutAn"Emen"OnHisKeyboard
Plagiarizing myself from Blaine's at the time of the "TWO WS", I said "I think I remember seeing a film about two sets of female sheep Siamese twins who became best friends, called 'Double Ewe, Double Ewe'."
DeleteI checked on both UUikipedia and EMENetflix, and rewatched the film, which was a Disney movie co-starring Hayley and Hayseed Mills, both in a double role, Hayley the daughters of a widower sheep rancher, Hayseed the sons of the local widow veterinarian. In school the pair of twins didn’t get along. The Hayseeds thought the Hayleys never wanted to hang out with the gang after school because they had to go home to help with the shearing. The Hayleys thought the Hayseeds were stuck-up because their mother was a vet.
The sheep in question were born downwind of Three Mile Island. The farmer and the veterinarian both wanted to euthanize the doubles ewes, but the Hayleys and the Hayseeds (who went to the ranch to assist with the birth) both wanted to save the double ewes. This being a Disney film, the Hayleys/Seeds were allowed to save the ewes if they did all the work required to keep them alive. It turned out that the same genetic defect that made them conjoined twins also made them highly prolific producers of the highest quality of wool and also only able to give birth to females, who shared their mother’s genes. The Hayleys/Seeds got rich, forming the Best Worsted Company.
Their parents also fell in love, and in the last scene, got married in a field at the ranch, walking between two long rows of the double ewes and their offspring, which the Hayleys/Seeds called the “Aisle of Ewe”.
Emen to that, Lego!
DeleteWe are talking about CRISPR, a tool used in epigenetics to influence various traits in offspring. Come have a look!
David,
DeleteThanks for hopping aboard my "emen bandwagon"!
I love your "Double Ewe, Double Ewe" fable. It's kind of like "Babe" Meets "The Parent Trap"!
Is this "screenplay" your origial concept, David? It is very clever. I will never again be able to look at a UU without thinking of the Hayleys and Hayseeds.
LegoAndTheyAllMadeAMintAtTheBestWorstedCompanyAndLivedHappilyEverAfterInTheAisleOfEwe
In my first time through, I came up with one solution, the emen one (calling it enem, a new letter, would be perhaps a bit off-putting). I am reminded of a Haydn string quartet.
ReplyDeleteDavid,
DeleteDo you allude to Hayden-in-plain-sight's "Emenperor" string quartet?
LegoAgreesItIsIndeedOffPuttingToCallMyNewLetterEnemYouKnowWhatHeMeans?
I'm not familiar with that quartet, so initially I would say you are wrong.
DeleteSo far I have all the rhyming names but K. C. and whoever else. I even got the "emen" puzzle. All others will of course require hints, Lego(and PlannedChaos too).
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Deletepjb,
DeleteROSS:
"A quarterback who has a bust in Canton but who was not a bust in his second Super Bowl"...
There are fewer than 50 Super Bowl-winning QBs because guys like Bradshaw, Montana, Brady and Manning (either Eli or Payton) have won more than one. Just find a Hall of Fame Super Bowl winner who was unsuccessful in his first attempt.
ECHO:
See my August 27, 2016 at 5:33 AM reply to ViolinTeddy
OM:
It would likely be a fast food Mexican restaurant (or should that be "restororant"?).
SWASA:
Seinfeld
HNBCS:
See PlannedChaos' generous offer in his August 26, 2016 at 9:16 PM comment.
NITNAD:
The news accounts are "sciency."
Rhyme.
LegoWhoDoesNotHaveABustInCantonButHasABustedBicycle
PC, I would love to email you about a hint, since right now I need all the help I can get. But I have to know your email address. Is it @aol.com or @att.com?
DeleteBTW I think I need more info about the presidential spokesperson with K. C. as his/her possible initials.
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DeleteWhen I click there, a dialog box (I guess that's what they call it) pops up offering me a few options which are not at all clear to me. Not that I care.
Deletepatjberry,
DeleteThe presidential spokesperson worked for two consecutive presidents, the second of which served as a senator of the state in which the spokesperson was born.
LegoWhoIsRemindedOfArtFernAndPickles
There's a famous historical figure whose last name is an anagram of a popular recreational activity and whose first name is an anagram of a term associated with that activity. The answer to this riddle could be construed as a hint to one of this week's puzzles, so don't holler for help; I won't respond.
ReplyDeleteCAROM is a term associated with POOL. TWEEZERS are kind of like chopsticks, a little bit.
DeleteI hope posting the 'Dirty Harry' Chef Boyardee cameo below didn't give too much away.
Reporting in a tad late, from points west, success here thus far only on 6 of the 9 Ripping Off Shortz slices (possibly 1/2 of another, but I'm not sure; ANd the RIFFING Off Crosby etc [I guess those would be all the 'rhyming ones' pjb was talking about.]
ReplyDeleteNo luck at all on the first three of the day, nor on PlannedChaos's, and I haven't really attempted Dessert yet.
But Lego, I have a question on the Hors D'Oeuvres, re if I'm misunderstanding something, or there might be some kind of mistake. I went through ALL long-enough states, and could not find a single one that meets the qualification of the next-to-last four letters being two vowels plus two of the same letter (for example, AA TT plus one letter for the repeat noun at the end.
A couple of states have the requisite repeat letter 'second and third from the end', but then NOT the two vowels before those....so I think it's impossible, unless I am grossly not understanding it. Thanks...
ViolinTeddy,
DeleteHint: #1: the adjectival antonyms, which begin with the same letter, appear in the lyrics of a popular holiday song...
This letter is indeed a consonant.
Hint #3: Both adverbial antonyms begin with vowels.
Each begins with a vowel, but it is not the same vowel.
Also,
The "1 repetition of one of the nouns in the idiom (minus, from the end of the noun, a letter and piece of punctuation)" that is one of the five extended words begins with a consonant.
The idiom comes from a New Testament passage.
LegoLambdaIsAlsoSortOfAHintToThisPuzzle
ECHO, additional hint:
DeleteIn my intended answer (your mileage, of course, may vary), the five-word extension that follows the idiom consists of:
"...Adverb Adjective Noun, Adverb Adjective."
LegoAddingVerbsAndJectivesAllOverThePlace!
Other lyrics from the same holiday song appear in the same New Testament passage (in some translations).
DeleteAh, it's a good thing you pointed out that the extra five words aren't supposed to be in the order you had listed them in the puzzle, because I thought they were to appear in the 'state name' exactly was presented. What about the order of the initials in the idiom itself? Are THEY supposed to remain in the order they came in originally, or are we meant to juggle them around as well?
DeleteNever mind....I just deduced the state and from it, the idiom (doing things backwards, as per frequently), plus the repeat noun, and now just have to figure out the two adjectives and two adverbs....thanks for the help.
DeleteWell, I now have written down a five-word extension for the idiom, but although it meets the required conditions, it seems that my particular set of words is a mere 'choice', i.e. there could be any number of other sets of such words -- that is I'm trying to say that I have no confidence in my four (elected) adjectives and adverbs as constituting the ONLY answer.
DeletePaul,
DeleteRegarding your August 27, 2016 at 11:36 AM comment:
I did not know that!
Had I known that I would of course milked it like Farmer Not So John.
Paul, is the "studylight.org/commentary" site your source?
LegoMakingAListOfBiblicalWordsThatAppearInHolidayNoveltySongs
ViolinTeddy,
DeleteRegarding your August 27, 2016 at 11:51 AM comment:
Congrats on the solve. As you now are aware, the words of the idiom remain in their correct order as you spell out the state, and the words of the "extended elucidation" are in "Adverb Adjective Noun, Adverb Adjective" order.
LegoWhoseLifeIsInApplePieOrder(AlasTheApplesAreRotten)
biblehub.com, but thanks for the studylight link.
DeleteThanks for the congrats, LegoApplePie.....I'm pleased to report I also got the MORSEL a few hours ago, plus AN answer for PlannedChaos's puzzle, although I am NOT confident of its being correct, either. (The word 'shot' is what has me worried.) "Range" I am chuckling about....
DeleteOh, and like pjb, I now have all the Ripping Off Shortz nine except for K.C.
Re Dessert, I'm pretty sure I know the two 'third words' but am stumped as to the rest of it.
VT,
DeleteAll the critters pictured in the Dessert appear to be domesticated (which you should keep in mind when solving for the other 3-letter word). But all also appear to be very unusual (which you should keep in mind when solving for the 8-letter word).
For the other caption, "Dad's" is the word to consider when trying to determine the 8-letter word. The genre of music describes the 3-letter word.
LegoFeelingATadDizzy...AndCharlie
Thanks, LegoTad, I did think that the CD's other three letter word was the music genre....I'll have to go to work on the other hints....
DeleteAlrighty, I finally worked out the two captions (whew), now am sweating trying to figure out the two word news account, because it surely is NOT popping out at me!
DeleteI'm utterly stuck.
DeleteHowever, I finally just figured out the K. C. rhyme.....that was a toughie.
DeleteI have an answer for SWASA, but I question it's homophonicity. Anyway, for a musical hint, go with Foghat, not Dave Dudley.
ReplyDeletePaul,
DeleteCongrats on the solving. It is a weird puzzle.
Online dictionaries including Merriam Webster and YourDictionary are on your "wrong side" of this "Homophonicity." (Per usual, the dreaded schwa comes into play!) But on my "right side" of the Homophonicity are the Cambridge English Dictionary, the Oxford dictionary, Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, the Macmillan Dictionary, the Free Dicionary, Dictionary.com, and The Donald Trump Not-Free Dictionary.
LegoIsActuallyOnNeitherSideOfTheTracksButSmackDabInTheMiddleWaitingForTheDoubleE
Over at Blainesville, I tried to schwada-wada-wada the middle vowel of Colossus/callosum, so I haven't a leg to stand on.
DeleteA bris is performed eight days after a boy's birth. Foghat recorded 'Eight Days on the Road'.
DeletePuzzlerians!
ReplyDeleteWe have tweaked slightly the wording of Planned Chaos' "How Now, Brown Cow? Slice." This "tweaking" doubles your chances of solving the puzzle by allowing for TWO correct answers...
Of course, you will receive "extra credit" for coming up with both answers."
LegoAndAsAlwaysWeWillGradeOnBathtubCurve
I THOUGHT something changed there! Thanks for reassuring me that my mind isn't totally shot.
DeleteI seem to recall that some outlandish percentage of accidents occur in the bathtub, so let's be careful in there.
More hints, please! PC, you are aware I emailed you earlier, aren't you?
ReplyDeleteYes, I got that. I did respond, but in testing the antispam email forwarding service it seems to not be working so well, so I take it you didn't get my response? Try emailing this address, then I'll have your email and I can message you directly. Sorry about the extra work.
DeleteI still only have the rhyming names(except for K.C., and I'm convinced that's a misprint at this point), and no previous hints have helped. I need better hints, please!
ReplyDeleteIt's not a misprint, pjb, I just finally figured it out.
Deletepjb,
DeleteECHO:
The first two or three letters of the adverbial antonyms are prepositional antonyms.
The holiday song lyrics that contain the adjectives is a Christmas song.
The parts of speach of the idiom are:
Noun Preposition Noun Noun (with the second noun acting as a modifier).
OM:
The two words you might see on a fast food restaurant menu, because they are synonyms, often do not appear adjacently on menus and ads, but both words often do appear on the same menu or ad.
The two letters you add to the pain-reliever brand name are both in the second half of the alphabet.
One of the two words was a modifier in a classic upset-stomach TV ad.
SWASA:
PlannedChaos offers hints via e-mail. Pas mal. Lego tends to send his in a pell-mell mishmash, like kiosks at a megamall or gunmolls at a bank hold-up gone bad. Successful solvers tend to burrow into puzzles like a mole after its last meal. Some miss "solvation" by a mile, but others, if they grind all element of the poser like grains in a peppermill and mull over the sifting usually achieve more amazingly metaphorical moolah that a millionaire!
Oh, and the reception meal is kosher.
NITNAD:
I'll bet Kevin Spacey could solve this one easily. (This clue ought to help VT with the news account.)
There is something very strange and not-status quo about these domesticated critters.
Be vigilant with the CD image, burn midnight oil (and beds!) to solve it. You can always nap later. Apt learners shall prevail!
LegoNeedsToNapNow
Well, Lego (I hope you have a nice nap), I am failing spectacularly at using Kevin Spacey to come up with anything relating to news, using the 14 letters that I have (which simply MUST be correct, because the two captions ARE.) Google has once more failed me.
DeleteVT,
DeleteThink outer the box.
LegoMeansWayWayOuterIndeedLightYearsOuter!
IT JUST HIT ME!!!! HURRAH and celebration! Thanks so much, it was driving me crazy, and I'd been NOWHERE close! And I even knew about this news story...duh!
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ReplyDeleteWow, you have me completely confused now, PC, because I had chosen (pre your hint) an eight-letter grooming item, which I turned into (following directions) a type of DISH by having removed a CONSONANT, not a vowel. [Hence my worry above about the word 'shot', but my amusement with the word 'range.' ]
DeleteI have NO idea about the cattle call answer.
Ah crap, I got that backwards. RED ALERT! RED ALERT! All Puzzlerians! in receipt of my clue: I got that backwards! Correct text below! (thanks, VT!)
DeleteThe grooming product is one word, eight letters long, and when a letter is rotated and a vowel is removed it can be rearranged into a type of thing where there are often cattle calls prior to when these things are shot. (This was the first intended answer, and is very misleading, but doing a web search with this term should get folks on the right path.) However, if instead a consonant is removed, the result can be rearranged to get a type of dish that is probably much more in line with what the original clues were hinting towards.
My puzzling license is revoked for the week!
Ah, you are most welcome, PC....I am pleased that my confusion ended up helping. DO YOU WANT ME TO DELETE MY POST that caused this revelation? (I.e. to remove any excess hints possiblities?)
DeleteYou can leave your post. I think everyone else is having a hard enough time solving it as it is.
DeleteWhew! That helped. Over a long and windy cobblestone road. . .
DeleteI called the gas company. Problem solved.
DeleteThat and this week's Sunday Puzzle prove I am striking out big time. This week's Sunday Puzzle says to name a seven-letter one-syllable word that becomes FOUR syllables when you insert the letters IT somewhere inside. You're all against me here aren't you? Maybe I just need to take a break from this crap.
ReplyDeletepjb,
DeleteI just posted the following hint to the NPR puzzle over on Blaine's blog. I am posting it here because it is, for now anyway, difficult to navigate over there with all the loading and reloading.
My hint:
The first name of the fictional character.
This fictional character's last name is the singular form (plus an "e") of one-ninth of the answer to the Hors d'Oeuve titled "Adding to an idiom" in this week's Puzzleria!
LegoAddsThatTheFirstNameOfTheCharacer'sCreatorIsAlsoAHint
What fictional character?!
ReplyDeleteSorry, I should have written, "The first name of a fictional character." Sorry.
DeleteFor those who have not solved the "Adding to the idiom" Hors d'Oeuvre here is a little hint that might help in solving both the Hors d'Oeuvre and the NPR puzzle:
"Some hug!" (It's an anagram.)
LegoWhoIsAFactualCharacter
It's times like these when the interrobang comes in handy: ‽
DeleteHTML: ‽
Very useful info, PlannedChaos!
DeleteI could have used it above for my anagram, "Some Hug‽"
LegoAdmitsThat"Interrobang"IsAFineTermForThisMarkOfPunctuationButWouldHavePreferredThatItBeCalledAn"Exclamahuh‽"
Hey Lego, I meant to follow up on the "number of puzzles served" signage issue that came up last week. I see you're now using an image, so does that mean the HTML entity for pi didn't work? Does Blogger handle HTML character entities properly in comments but not in posts?
DeleteThanks for asking PlannedChaos.
DeleteAs many Puzzlerians! are aware I am a kind of a Luddite when it comes to computing. Blogger is pretty user-friendly, I believe, but it still often throws me for the occasional loop.
(But linking is a breeze in Blogger, as is dragging images into the template, although getting the images to go exactly where you want them to go is often too tricky for me. All in all though, Blogger is pretty nifty.)
My practice is to cut and paste my copy from a Word document (zillions of fonts, including symbols) into Blogger's template, which offers, as far as I am aware, only a handful of fonts, not including symbols. Consequently(?), the pi symbol I pasted ends up looking like a "p"!
But it is extremely probable I am probably missing something.
LegoMissingTheBoatThePointMarkAndForestForTheTrees
My theory was that if you copy and pasted the text π into Blogger, it would turn that into π once posted. That's the magic of HTML character entities: a sequence of traditional characters can be translated into a single, more exotic character. Try copying and pasting the following text into your Word document, and then seeing if that works for next week's post:
DeletePUZZLERIA! SLICES: OVER (eπ)³ – eπ² SERVED
(I also included entities for the superscript 2 and 3.)
This should end up looking like:
PUZZLERIA! SLICES: OVER (eπ)³ – eπ² SERVED
Feel free to email me about this if you want more assistance.
DeleteIn playing around with the values, I find the expression
Delete(π + π^π)e^e
rather aesthetically pleasing, and it is equal to almost exactly 600 (about 600.1656). Only problem, no character entities for superscript e and pi, so I used carets there. But any characters can be wrapped in the html tag <sup> to make them superscript, like so:
(π + π<sup>π</sup>)e<sup>e</sup>
Blogger doesn't allow comments to use the <sup> tag, but I presume they are allowed in Blogger posts. Here is an image showing how it will look.
I finally got the last puzzle!
ReplyDeleteGreat work, pjb. All the more impressive because I mistakenly wrote that "there are two acceptable possible 8-letter words for the second caption," the one regarding the animal images. But actually, there are two acceptable possible 8-letter words for the first caption, the picture of the compact disk.
DeleteSorry for the goof, which I just now corrected
LegoNotesThatpatjberry(AndOtherPuzzlerians!Too‽)PrevailedInTheFaceOfAdversity
Now as for the other puzzles, I should think a good hint for the idiom puzzle might be something about the state I'm supposed to be looking for, like a factoid or something. For PC's puzzle, I'd appreciate at least the first letter of either word, or both if possible. The same might go for the religious ceremony puzzle, and the pain reliever puzzle deserves the first two letters I'm supposed to add(sure, I have no idea what comes after it, but it's a start). As for K. C. the unknown rhyming name, I could probably do with a not-too-vague rhyme of what both names should sound like. Nothing too hard, nothing too easy, just some hints worth all the actual time and trouble checking this website every weekend. Sorry if I've been a pest about it, it just gets a little frustrating to try to do these things and I can't find the right answers, or parse out the wordplay or whatever. I'm just lucky I remembered the news item and had to get the exact name of whatever it is in that last puzzle. Also, another hint for the Sunday Puzzle might be encouraging as well. Tough one this week!
ReplyDeletePJB: check your email for some theme-appropriate clues.
DeleteIf you feel that checking this website is an arduous process that deserves recompense, it seems to me you may not be acting in your best interest by continuing to do so. The only reason I play puzzles is to have fun. And if I reach a point in trying to solve a puzzle where it stops being fun for me, I stop working on that puzzle and move on to something else. Your mileage may vary.
PJB, you can get the state the same way I did. Since you KNOW the order of the added five words, and have an idea of what kind of letters they begin with, go look at the endings of all the states. Only ONE (that I found) will meet the criteria. Frankly, I don't see how anyone could DO that puzzle without approaching it this way.
Deletepjb,
DeleteECHO:
You can deduce from my August 27, 2016 at 11:40 PM post how many letters are in the state, which means only 10% of the states qualify.
W-I-S-C-onsin: "Walking Into Snowy Coldness:"?
M-I-N-N-esota: "Meddlers In Nanook's Neighboorhood:"?
N-E-W M-exico: Nature's Evidence With Mankind:"?
L-O-U-I-siana: "Love Opens Up Intimacy:"?
N-E-W J-ersey: "Never Eat Wormy Jalapenos:"?....
But, of course, from my Aug. 27 post, you also know the idiom's parts of speech and their order.
Can't think of a non-googlable factoid about the state.
Once you solve this -- and you will -- the NPR puzzle should fall into your lap, Pal.
HNBCS:
I defer to PlannedChaos to give hints to his puzzle.
OM:
The two letters you must add appear on another line products on shelves nearby the pain relieving product's placement. The two letters are followed by and "F". These products tend to be "pain preventers" rather than pain relievers.
SWASA:
The initials of the "something, in two words, that someone usually brings to a certain religious ceremony" are also the initials of a well-known fast food place that might conceivably cater such a ceremony's reception and serve the one-word item.
The first syllable of the food that might be served at the reception would seem to dovetail well with "fast" food.
ROSS: (K.C.)... and (L.D.), who played for K.C.!
Here is an NPR puzzle hint I'll probably post on Blaine's eventually, when the loading/reloading issue is resolved:
Almost exactly 13 months ago... you know where to look.
LegoThinksItIsWomenCausin'Men'sPausin'
Am worn out, but I think I finally hit upon the solution for the Appetizer (recalling one of Lego's hints somewhere above in all our comments! This has become a CHATTY blog!) Now, on to trying to apply the various hints for the NPR puzzle.
ReplyDeletePC, I do try to have fun with this website, but sometimes it's difficult looking up the appropriate source material for whatever's required in a certain puzzle. Also, when you do things as regularly as I do, just about anything can get to be a routine that may get old after a while. You should see what all I do before getting to sleep at night. Seems we never get a break from Puzzleria! Sure, Ask Me Another or Wait, Wait Don't Tell Me may be a rerun or clip show one week, or the Guardian website may have a more complicated cryptic crossword than I'm able to do, or the Private Eye crossword may still be last week's(it is changed every other week after all), but Puzzleria! is always there week after week. And as with recent weeks, the puzzles can be more difficult to the extent you can't even just solve them in a few minutes of reading the whole thing once. If I can do it that fast, I consider myself way ahead of the game. Besides, last week who didn't know about Ryan Lochte's scandal? I also already knew Usain Bolt has USA at the beginning of his name. It was only a matter of finding an American Olympian named JAMES. I also got lucky with El Salvador and its anagrams. This week it just didn't come as easy and I thought maybe I was just burnt out. I got all but one rhyming name, though. Good thing Lego mentioned them a day or two earlier in an email. But some of the hints are just way over my head. I'm not that good at certain trivia subjects. So I ask for better hints and hope a bell will ring in my head as I read them.
ReplyDeleteI just got a little depressed about it this week, that's all. I expect nothing but the right answer because I know we don't win anything for our effort here. That's why I hope to get the answer right with the Sunday Puzzle each week. But that won't happen this time. Oh well.
Thanks for sharing, this helps me understand where you're coming from. :)
DeleteI second that, and I'll try to minimize the tedium and maximize the fun in future Puzzlerias! I hear there is a fun cryptic crossword in store soon.
DeleteDon't give up on the NPR puzzle this week yet, pjb. It's still early...
13 months ago. It's what one of the parents did.
LegoLamentsThatYouWinNoLapelPinHereAtPuzzleria!ButWeAreHopingSoonToAwardToOurSolvers,FromPopeFrancis'Zucchetto,ATinyClumpOfPapalLint
The biblical idiom came to me last night, so I know which state it is, but I need help with the last five words. Any suggestions, Lego?
ReplyDeleteOh, for goodness' sake, pjb!
Deletepjb,
DeleteYou have solved the puzzle. Congratulations! The real crux of the puzzle solution is the first four words. The other five words are arbitrary words that I chose hoping that they would more or less flow (trickle?) from the idiom words upstream.
In other words, your five words are as good as my five words, and likely even better! Forget the holiday words and my "adverb adjective noun, adverb adjective" template. Just find five words that flow naturally from the idiom.
LegoSays"Let'sBeCarefulToHaveSomeFunOutThere"
"Naughty", "nice", and "for goodness' sake" are all found in "Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town". Most version of Matthew 7:15 say "beware" of false prophets; the NIV and NET Bible say "watch out".
Delete0:55 - 0:56 just made my day.
ReplyDeleteYo! Jimbo! Check out the Marco Polo comment, above ^.
DeleteBTW, microwaved ramen noodles with kitchup (sec(sic)) can be quite tasty (if your range isn't working (for whatever reason)).
Sorry, Paul, it's just those last few words seem so random without the right hint. Don't you realize how many Christmas songs there are to choose from? I'm still unsure about those.
ReplyDeletePC:
ReplyDeleteSolved it! Good work.
And now you can ride off into the sunset.
DeleteEven if I can find my rusty, I mean trusty, steed, it will be a short ride since I live in Seattle. But then again it may have a claming effect.
DeleteNo one can accuse you of not being a Pacifist.
DeleteIf they do they'll be meeting with the third syllable of that term.
DeleteIt seems lexographic violence lurks even in the heart of Pacifists, but then it does like to make waves.
DeleteI can't imagine surfing the Net without making waves.
DeleteI believe I have your puzzle, PC.
ReplyDeleteBut, now, back to the emen, Lego, I wonder what you'll do with rapper Eminem (Emenem?)
I once met an emen from Yemen. . .
Word Woman,
DeleteThanks for your interest, Word Woemenaemen.
I saw Eemeniemeneemen do a show at Yeemeneemen!
LegoNeedsPlannedChaosToGiveHimTheHTMLCodeForATheTripleHumpedCononant,TheEmen!
Lego, what you're after in your hunt for the elusive emen is a typographic ligature. With the size of Unicode there very well may exist something that more closely resembles an emen, but the best I can find right now is MALAYALAM DIGIT SIX, Unicode code point U+0D6C, with equivalent HTML character entity ൬ which looks like (may not render for everyone):
Delete൬
Other candidates include various squiggly arrows: ⇜ ⇝ ⟿ ⬳; there's the VERTICAL ZIGZAG LINE: ⦚, which the Unicode Consortium wants you to know is nothing like the LEFT WIGGLY FENCE: ⧘ nor the RIGHT WIGGLY FENCE: ⧙; and here's the TWO LOGICAL AND OPERATOR: ⨇.
For the emen's origin story, we have a line of Arabian camels:
🐪🐪🐪🐪🐪🐪🐪🐪🐪🐪🐪🐪
Appropriately enough, the Bactrian camel has a code point one place later:
🐫🐫🐫🐫🐫🐫🐫🐫🐫🐫🐫🐫
Say hi to each other, camels:
🐪🐫🐪🐫🐪🐫🐪🐫🐪🐫🐪🐫
I think this thread may need an enema.
DeleteI think you mean this thread needs an e൬e൬a, which I will happily provide just after Word Wo൬a൬ and Lego get back from seeing E൬i൬e൬'s show in Ye൬e൬.
DeleteLove it, PC!
DeleteLegoBelievesPlannedChaosIsAnHTMLWizard(AndThatskydiveboyIsCorrectAboutThisThreadNeedingAnE൬e൬a!)
I will reveal my five words along with the idiom Wednesday. I have tried to make it fit per the word structure(adverb, adjective, etc.).
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ReplyDeleteFinally got K.C.! Now if I could only get the other puzzles!
ReplyDeletepjb,
DeleteOM?:
The two letters you must add are in the sesond half of the alphabet, with two letters between them.
The six letters in the pain-relief product, plus the two letters you add, can be rearranged to form a 2-word description of a Kikkoman sauce ad.
SWASA?:
A previous hint:
The initials of the "something, in two words, that someone usually brings to a certain religious ceremony" are also the initials of a well-known fast food place that might conceivably cater such a ceremony's reception and serve the one-word item.
The signature item at the restaurant is a slang term for a BIG LIE.
LegoWhoIsBeginningToFishTaleOutOfControl!
Hallelujah! I've solved everything but the personal grooming tool! PC, your thoughts?
ReplyDeleteMaybe I'm just having a blond day, but did you get my second batch of clues in my Sunday email at 10:59PM? Your lack of response has me raising a quizzical eyebrow. I don't mean to pick hairs here, but though in that email it may have seemed like I only provided clues to the things that are often shot on a range, I actually included hints to the personal grooming tool as well. You're a plucky fellow, so I'm confident if you squeeze hard enough you'll yank victory from the jaws of defeat, if only you can get at the root of the problem. But don't scratch your head too hard over this one, or you might give yourself another browbeating.
DeleteOkay, pjb, if PC will allow me, I shall post a musical clue... I know you know music:
DeleteAdd one letter to the beginning and one letter to the end of a rock band to form the name of the grooming tool.
LegoBluePink...Green...Red
Hi! I'm new to this site, but I figured out the idiom and the fictional character name! (Your 13 months ago clue was clever). However, I can't figure out how that first name would be the answer to the NPR puzzle as it doesn't fit the one-syllable, 7-letter rule. Another clue would help! I'm going crazy!
ReplyDeleteAh ok I just saw your other hint: "TheFirstNameOfTheCharacter'sCreatorIsAlsoAHint".
DeleteI feel like I'm on the right track, but I'm still stumped!
emm,
DeleteWelcome to Puzzleria!
The first name of the fictional character is not the answer to the NPR puzzle, but it is a hint to both of the words in that the NPR puzzle is asking for.
Another person with that name did what the 7-word is, and that same person is also associated with the 9-letter word -- because of a (likely apocryphal) popular idiom (with which ViolinTeddy would be quite familiar).
LegoAlwaysWelcomesNewPostersToOurBlog
It pertains to something.
DeletePeter and the Wolf? Peter Wolf?
DeleteLegoThinksAlbiePearsonDarinErstadJimEdmondsToriiHunterAndMikeTroutWereTheAngelsInTheCenterfield!
Cute, Lego!! (Your apocryphal idiom, with which indeed I AM quite familiar!! Not that I have yet solved the NPR puzzle...back to work on it!)
DeleteWelcome EMM!!
Thanks for the clue (and the welcomes)!
DeleteI, too, know the other person with that name and the apocryphal idiom (a moment when my history major comes in handy!), but I still haven't been able to solve that darn NPR puzzle. So close...I'll keep thinking.
Finally got it! Thanks, Lego and PC!
ReplyDeleteLego (and anyone else who might know), I can't even FIND Blaine's Puzzle Blog for August 28.....it refuses to show up via Google, even if I search for that date specifically. Is there something wrong with what my computer is allowing somehow, since you've mentioned posting your clues there?? ....I am utterly flummoxed....thanks.
ReplyDeleteVT, there is no 8-28-16 post at Blaine's. We are all hoping he's just on vacation and forgot to leave an automatic posting. We've all been posting at the end of 8-21-16, but it necessitates hitting "LOAD MORE" several time to see the newest posts. Hope this helps! Word Woman
DeleteWW, I duly hit "LOAD MORE" multiple times, but nothing ever happened, so I still can not see the posts that relate to last Sunday's puzzle....very very frustrating. I then tried doing "load more" on a prior week, and had no problem with that one working, so I have no idea what to do. Am fit to be tied!!
DeleteYou may need to hit LOAD MORE and then hit LOADING and do this three or more times to finally get it to work. Take your time and don't rush it either. It is a real pain in the butt.
DeleteVT, it is quite finicky, especially if more than one person is trying to access the later posts.
DeleteIf you get totally frustrated, shoot me an email
at wordwomans at gmail dot com and I will happily cut and paste the relevant comments.
Word Woman and skydiveboy,
DeleteThank you both for your astute advice on how to navigate the murky waters that seem to be flooding Blainesville this week. It just goes to show how much we all value his blog!
I pray that Blaine and his family are fine, and that he will soon be back at the cyberhelm.
LegoWhoIsABlaineFan
Thanks so much you guys.....
DeleteOooh, thank you, WW! So appreciate that info; I never thought to check the END of 8/21's!!
ReplyDeleteThe Plucky Personal Grooming Puzzle of Planned Chaos:
ReplyDeleteTWEEZERS >>> WESTERNS
TWEEZERS >>> ENTREES or TEENERS (teenagers)
ALF LANDON>>>RALPH KRAMDEN is all I have, but I do have the NPR Challenge.
ReplyDeleteI'm sure we all remember the time Mr. Kotter sat in one position too long and his leg went to sleep and Julie and the sweathogs teased him for the whole rest of the episode by calling him "Gabe Li൬u൬.
DeleteHORS D'OEUVRE: Idiom: WOLF(ves) IN SHEEP'S CLOTHING -- OUTWARDLY NICE SHEEP, INWARDLY NEFARIOUS [NAUGHTY?] ; State: WISCONSIN Holiday Song: Santa Claus is Coming to Town [Naughty/Nice]
ReplyDeleteMORSEL: ICYHOT -> SPICY HOT
APPETIZER: JEWISH WEDDING -- HER RING and HERRING
MENU:
HOW NOW BROW SLICE: TWEEZERS -> TWEENERS; TEENERS -> ENTREES [although how this is 'shot' on a range, i.e. on a stove, is beyond me]
RIPPING OFF SHORTZ SLICES:
B.W.: BILL WHITE and PHIL KNIGHT
J.C.: JOHN CARSON and DON LARSEN;
B.H.: WILLIE MAYS and BILLIE HAYES;
K.C.: KEN CLAWSON and LEN DAWSON
M.W.: HARRY NILSSON and MARY WILSON?
D.B.: JOHN TAYLOR and DON BAYLOR;
G.M.: GARY MERRILL (Bette Davis) and PERRY FARRELL;
J.W.: FAWN HALL and RON PAUL and JOHN WALL;
E.A.: ERIC ANDERSEN and DEREK SANDERSON
RIFFING OFF CROSBY, SHORTZ and NASH SLICES: RALPH KRAMDEN and ALF LANDON
DESSERT: "PATERNAL (or PARENTAL) BOP MIX" "ABNORMAL PET PIX" NEWS ACCOUNT: "PLANET PROXIMA B"
JEWISH WEDDING : ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT : VT RULES!
DeleteI'm sure lego will back me up on this.
But, for that matter; Episcopalians don't eat herring? Whyever not?
DeletePerhaps they are hard of herring.
DeleteThank you, Paul!! : o )
DeletePaul,
DeleteI certainly do back you up on your "ViolinTeddy rules!" comment. Her "Her ring/herring" answer is roughly 20 times better than my intended answer... and I am NOT kidding!
What's even better is that my answer also involves a Jewish ceremony.
LegoAdmitsThatAtTimesHisIntendedOughtNotBeDefended/CommendedButInsteadBeAmended/Upended
: O ))
DeleteWOLF IN SHEEP'S CLOTHING(OUTWARDLY NOTORIOUS SHEEP, INWARDLY NEFARIOUS)=WISCONSIN
ReplyDeleteSP+ICY HOT=SPICY, HOT
BRIS KIT, BRISKET
TWEEZERS, TWENERS=WESTERN
1. BILL WHITE and PHIL KNIGHT
2. JOHN CARSON and DON LARSEN
3. WILLIE MAYS and BILLIE HAYES
4. KEN CLAWSON and LEN DAWSON
5. KERI HILSON and MARY WILSON
6. JOHN TAYLOR and DON BAYLOR
7. GARY MERRILL and PERRY FARRELL
8. FAWN HALL, RON PAUL, and JOHN WALL
9. ERIC ANDERSEN and DEREK SANDERSON
RALPH KRAMDEN and ALF LANDON
PLANET PROXIMA B=PATERNAL(or PARENTAL)BOP MIX
ABNORMAL PET PIX
That's all, folks!
VT, I do have to admit HER RING and HERRING is an inspired answer. Mine is a bit more of a groaner.
ReplyDeleteThanks to you, too, PJB, I have to admit, YOUR answer never occurred to me....although I mourn for the poor babies who are subjected such a stupid 'celebration.'
DeleteThis week’s official answers, for the record, Part 1:
ReplyDeleteHors d’Oeuvre Menu
Extension Chord Hors d’Oeuvre:
Adding on to an idiom
Think of an idiom with biblical origins that contains mostly nouns. Place a colon or comma (or any piece of punctuation of your choice) after this phrase. Now extend it by adding five additional words that further amplify on and elucidate the phrase.
The five words include:
2 adverbial antonyms,
2 adjectival antonyms, and
1 repetition of one of the nouns in the idiom (minus, from the end of the noun, a letter and piece of punctuation).
The initial letters in the idiom followed by the initial letters of the five-word extension spell out a U.S. state.
What is the idiom and its extension? What is the state?
Hint: #1: the adjectival antonyms, which begin with the same letter, appear in the lyrics of a popular holiday song.
Hint #2: There is a preposition in the idiom.
Hint #3: Both adverbial antonyms begin with vowels.
Answer:
Wolves In Sheep’s Clothing: Outwardly Nice Sheep, Inwardly Naughty.
WISCONSIN
Morsel Menu
Oxymoronical Morsel:
Dulling a sharp pain
Add two letters in front of a pain-relieving product with an oxymoronic name to form a two-word tautological description you might see on a fast food restaurant menu.
What is the product?
What is the description?
Answer:
Icy Hot; Spicy Hot
Appetizer Menu
Service With A Smirk Appetizer:
Hamburger-standing on ceremony
Name something, in two words, that someone usually brings to a certain religious ceremony. A one-word homophone of that thing might be served at a reception following the ceremony.
What might be brought to the ceremony, and what might be served after the ceremony?
Hint: An implement with more precision than the one used in preparing what is served post-ceremony is usually a part of what is brought to the ceremony.
Answer:
Bris kit; brisket
MENU
How Now, Cow Brow? Slice:
A hair-raising high-steaks adventure, maid to order!
Take the name of a personal grooming tool and write it in uppercase letters. Remove a letter and rotate one of the remaining letters sideways.
Depending on which letter is removed, the result can be rearranged to name one of two different things that are often shot on a range.
What are these words?
Answer:
WESTERN (movie); ENTREES
TWEEZERS >> TWEENERS – E = TWENERS >> WESTERN
TWEEZERS >> TWEENERS – W = TEENERS >> ENTREES
Lego…
This week’s official answers, for the record, Part 2:
ReplyDeleteRipping Off Shortz Slices:
My name iss famous
The nine mini-puzzles below each give descriptions of a pair (or trio) of persons possessing various degrees of fame of celebrity. The first names of each pair rhyme, and the last names of each pair also rhyme. The number of syllables in the first and last name of each member of the pair (trio) is given in parentheses at the end of the descriptions. The parentheses at the beginning of the descriptions contain the initials of one (yes, just one) of the two (or three) persons described.
Who are these pairs (and trio) of persons?
(B.W.) A color-barrier-breaking MLB player, broadcaster and executive; an executive who is one of the 20 richest people in the world (1, 1)
(B.W.) Bill White;
(P.K.) Phil Knight
(J.C.) An actor who, because of his name, was sometimes confused with a television legend; a person who did something no one else has ever done in the Fall Classic (1, 2)
(J.C.) John Carson
(D.L.) Don Larsen
(B.H.) A baseball great; a comedic and voice-over actress (2, 1)
(W.M.) Willie Mays
(B.H.) Billie Hayes
(K.C.) A presidential spokesperson; a quarterback who has a bust in Canton but who was not a bust in his second Super Bowl (1, 2)
(K.C.) Ken Clawson
(L.D.) Len Dawson
(M.W.) A singer/songwriter whose most popular album had a two-word rhyming title; a Rock and Roll Hall of Famer from Motown (2, 2)
(H.N.) Harry Nilsson
(M.W.) Mary Wilson
(D.B.) A co-founder of a band whose second album is the name of a city recently in the news; an American League MVP, World Series Champ and National League Manager of the Year (1, 2)
(J.T.) John Taylor
(D.B.) Don Baylor
(G.M.) An alt-rock front man who created an “extraordinarily impressive” festival, according to Merriam-Webster’s definition of the festival’s name; a character actor perhaps best known for to whom he was married (2, 2)
(P.F.) Perry Farrell
(G.M.) Gary Merrill
(J.W.) A document shredder/smuggler; a pol who’s a doc; a three-time NBA All-Star who was drafted first overall (1, 1)
(F.H.) Fawn Hall
(R.P.) Ron Paul
(J.W.) John Wall
(E.A.) A singer-songwriter who emerged from the Greenwich Village folk scene; two-time NHL champ who was in the early 1970’s the highest-paid athlete in the world (2, 3)
(E.A.) Eric Andersen
(D.S.) Derek Sanderson
Answer: See each answer beneath the descriptions, above.
Lego…
This week’s official answers, for the record, Part 3:
ReplyDeleteRiffing Off Crosby, Shortz And Nash (No Young) Slice:
The three-hump consonant
The one-hump camel, he’s Arabian
The two-hump camel, he’s a Bactrian
No three-hump camel?
Wait, there’s maybe an
Offsprung crossbred tri-humpbackedrian!*
Humptyback camels are similar to certain consonants – namely certain consonants in the center of the alphabet: the Arabian “n” and the Bactrian “m” (see the illustration at the left containing the quatrain).
I propose introducing a 27th letter to the alphabet. It looks like a three-hump “m”. I call it the “emen.” Actually it is the 25th letter in my new Puzzlerian! Alphabet, because my “emen” will replace both the “m”and the “n”. Wherever either an “m” or “n” appears in a word, simply replace it with an emen!
In the following puzzle, an emen must be substituted for each “m” and each “n” that appears in the names of the persons I am asking you find:
Name (in three syllables) a famous character from a TV sitcom and another somewhat famous person (in three syllables) who was the presidential nominee of a major political party. Their first names rhyme, as do their last names. The initials of one of the names are A. L.
Who are these famous people?
Answer:
Ralph Kramden… that is, “Kra(emen)de(emen)”
Alf Landon… that is, “La(emen)do(emen)”
Dessert Menu
Nouns In The News Accounts Dessert:
Similarly heard third words
A 6-letter common noun and 8-letter proper noun appeared recently in news accounts. Rearrange those 14 letters to form two captions of 8, 3 and 3 words each.
One caption applies to the image of the CD (compact disk) above. The other caption (which includes a shorthand synonym of “images”) applies to the remaining three images here (as well as to the image with the bear in it at the top of this week’s blog).
There are two acceptable possible 8-letter words for this second caption.
What are these nouns in the news?
What are the two captions?
Hint: The third words in the captions rhyme.
Note: The 8-letter proper noun includes a space, which makes it appear as two words.
Answer:
Proxima b; planet
Paternal (or “Parental”) bop mix
Abnormal pet pix
Lego…
I had forgotten about "Nilsson Schmilsson".
ReplyDeleteI've always pronounced it "Neelson", that's why I thought it was wrong. You do have to give me some credit for finding Keri Hilson, though. Never did think to check her discography.
ReplyDeleteYes, pjb, I do give you credit...
DeleteLegoAddsAlasThatIGiveYouNoCash