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Welcome to our
October 28th edition of Joseph Young’s Puzzleria!
Will Shortz did
not bless us with a puzzle to rip-or-riff-off this past Sunday, so we are instead
ripping/riffing off an enjoyably ingenious geographically themed puzzle
skydiveboy contributed to Puzzleria! fourteen months ago.
We have titled
our rip/riff-off Slice: “Beware of Greece
bearing fruit.”
Also on our
menu this week are:
One uncivil
political Hors d’Oeuvre;
One Riddlesome
Morsel;
One festive and
refreshing Appetizer;”
One name-the-triplets
Slice, and, finally
One kissing-the-sky (or “this guy”) Dessert.
So, think Good,
It’s Friday.
And, as always,
please enjoy.
Hors d’Oeuvre
Menu
Bad Losers
Aplenty Hors d’Oeuvre:
Adject
incivility (mind your inverted p’s and q’s)
The following six
phrases were overheard in media press rooms and/or at campaign rallies during
the past year:
“Bland as
polyester”
“Stern’s pal: a
‘boy’ led”
“Debater ‘nays’
polls”
“Pander, yell boasts”
“A Sanders
potbelly”
“Bad losers
aplenty”
Rearrange the
letters in any one of the phrases to form two impolite adjectives, both uttered
within the past two months by presidential candidates – one by the Democratic
nominee, and the other by the Republican nominee.
What are these adjectives?
Note: One of
the adjectives functioned in its utterance as a plural noun.
Morsel
Menu
Black And White
And Silver Morsel:
Spoon-feeding
BeaTrix to kids
A riddle:
What is the
difference between what Lewis Carroll and Beatrix Potter portrayed on
black-on-white pages and what Mary Tyler Moore, Whoopi Goldberg, Ingrid Bergman
and Helen Reddy portayed on the silver screen?
An answer:
Lewis and Beatrix portrayed
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _,
while Mary, Whoopi, Ingrid and Helen portrayed
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _.
Fill in the blanks.
Appetizer
Menu
Good Old
Summertime Appetizer:
Alfresco
festival refreshments
Name a popular
genre of music celebration often held outdoors during the summertime. It is a
two-syllable compound word that usually precedes the word “festival.”
Split the word
into its two compound parts, each which begins with a consonant blend.
Interchange the second letters in the two parts. Pronouncing the result aloud
results in a beverage you might buy from a festival vendor, and something that
may contain that beverage.
What are the
beverage and its container? Name the type of celebration?
MENU
Three Of A
Kind Slice:
Take a name
used by a luxury sports car manufacturer for a number of its high-end models in the late-1950’s and mid-2000’s. Interchange the third and fourth letters in
the name and remove the fifth letter. Divide the resulting string of letters
into three parts to name what could be the names of newborn triplets.
What is the
name used by the manufacturer? What are the names of the triplets?
Hint #1: The
name used by the luxury sports car manufacturer is also the name of a regional
chain of gas stations.
Hint #2: If you
reinsert the “fifth letter” that you removed back to its original position, the second triplet’s name will become a vehicle for
transporting the triplets.
Ripping/riffing
Off skydiveboy Slice:
Beware of Greece
bearing fruit
In our August
28, 2015 edition of Puzzleria!, we ran an excellent puzzle by skydiveboy titled
“Fruit Of The Looming Solution Dessert: Picking the Miranda Right Fruit.”
Puzzleria!’s
rip/riff-off puzzle reads:
People and
products from Sweden are called Swedish. If from Bolivia they are Bolivian.
Take the word
commonly used to describe the people and products of another country. Change
that word’s second letter to a different vowel and move its first letter to the
third-last position to name a fruit that this country produces and exports.
What is the
fruit? What are people and products of the country called?
Dessert
Menu
Lady
Mondegreen Dessert:
Free Dobie Gray’s soul: give him the Beach Boys!
Mondegreens are
misheard lyrics from verse or song. For example, “‘Scuse me while I kiss this
guy” from “Purple Haze” by Jimi Hendrix, and “There’s a bathroom on the right”
from “Bad Moon Rising” by Creedence Clearwater Revival.
With
mondegreens in mind, why do my ears (my ears, in particular) perk up when I
hear this song? At what exact point in the song to my ears experience this up-perk?
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.)
Please post
your comments below. Feel free also to post clever and subtle hints that do not
give the puzzle answers away. Please wait until after 3 p.m. Eastern Time on Wednesdays to post your answers and explain your hints about the
puzzles. We serve up at least one fresh puzzle every Friday.
We invite you to make it a habit to “Meet at Joe’s!” If you enjoy our weekly
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you.
Up-perked ears here--Happy Friday!
ReplyDeleteElla & Janet
ReplyDeleteShirley & Betty
Steve & Ben
I don't know nothin' about birthin' sports cars
Simon & Keith
Abe & Hill
Lego lives life in “la jet lane!” with “tires by Ethyl” and could “even best” Dan Gurney (bad name for a revird racecar!) by an “Eskimo-thin” margin if only he could “be a Hill” (Phil or Graham).
DeleteLegoHeyYouMedics,PutThisGurneyInReverse!
Will I accept this week's 'official' answers? I'll keep you in suspense. As we all know, the system is rigged against me. I have such high energy, let's just reveal the answers now and declare me the winner.
ReplyDeletePC,
DeleteYour screen name, alas, fits only too well the modus operandi of the buffoon whom you lampoon.
LegoSaysIfWeWantedSuspenseWeWouldHaveNominatedAlfredHitchCock,Not(InsertYourOwnLewdJokeyPunHere)
Insert? Why, Lego, no need to work blue! Enough states will be going blue as it is.
DeleteI have the first three, not the last. Will need hints for them. Listened to the song in question, couldn't figure out the mondegreen(and I've read about three different books on the subject of mondegreens, but I don't recall this song as possessing any unless you've seen "The New Adventures of Old Christine", in which case they probably only made up theirs).
ReplyDeletepjb,
DeleteThe mondegreen in this song pertains solely to me. It is my ears that perk up when I hear it. It would be like if your brother named Mel (if you had a brother named Mel) or like if Billy Bush's brother named Barry (if he had a brother named Barry) were listening to this song.
LegoOfCourseIsJustMyScreenName
Good evening, everyone. Before I left for a bunch of errands in a nearby town this afternoon (exhausting), I took a quick peak at today's puzzles -- got the Hors D'O immediately, AN answer for the Morsel (sure of the first words, not so sure of the second words), and joyfully knew the answer to the Appetizer, (i.e. same three pjb got.) Had no time to continue, although no more solutions popped out at me.
ReplyDeleteThis one enjoys a certain amount of popularity.
ReplyDeletePaul,
DeleteThanks for linking to my favorite Peter Gabriel song.
LegoMusesThatWeAllHearWhatWeWantToHearAsWe're"KissingBaboonsInTheJungle"(WhichIsAMisheardLyricWeActuallyDidNotMishear
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ReplyDeleteWhen I hit on the Rip Off answer, it struck me that it SEEMS familiar somehow.....
ReplyDeleteVT,
DeleteOne of my greatest fears is that I will repeat a puzzle I have already presented. I do keep a primitive database/history of my puzzles, but it is not foolproof. I could use P!'s "Search This Blog" feature, but I usually forget to do that.
Then there is always the possibility that some brilliant puzzle-crafter has come up with an identical puzzle to mine!
LegoDareIToEatAPeachIndeed!
I think it might be possible that this puzzle was presented either on Blaine's blog or in the comments sections of P!.....not at all sure, but somewhere.
DeleteYou are correct! 100%! Here it is. I did a "Search This Blog" search.
DeleteHow did that happen? I am sorry and mortified. I owe you all a puzzle.
LegoPraysDementiaIsNotKnockingOnHisDoorAndBeggingCandy
It was an Appetizer that time, even though it was another RIPPING OFF puzzle, that time off Mark (SDB)....well, these things happen. With ALL the puzzles you create, once in a while, anyone would be bound to screw up. Don't feel bad. No harm done!!
DeleteLego, I thought Will Shortz told you to soldier on as if we, your followers, are all the uninformed ones!
DeleteI am soldiering on, but with the weird knowledge that soldjer is preferred by predictive text.
And, we are having discussions about how people are weird. . .
DeleteThanks, Word Woman,
DeleteOur Puzzlerian! soldjers and sojourners are truthfully uniformly less uninformed than yours truly, their shadow sergeant. To wit, ViolinTeddy informed me of a disconcerting oversight on my part.
VT (aka "ViolinTedditor" has always been more informed(and less uninformed)than I.
LegoMusesThatSometimesPeopleWhoSeemToBeDefinitelyWeirdAreSimplyDifferentlyWiredOrInfinitelyWired
Mondegreens abound!
ReplyDelete“‘Scuse me while I kiss this guy” from “Purple Haze” and “There’s a bathroom on the right” from “Bad Moon Rising” are famous mondegreens. I thought my Dobie Gray "Drift Away" mondegreen (mishearing "beat, boys" as "Beach Boys") might have been unique to my ears... until just a few minutes ago when I DuckDuckGoogled it.
Do any of your Puzzlerians! have a mondegreen that may be unique to your ears? One that you alone have misheard?
Also, I want to respect people's anonymity here, but would anyone be willing to share a more "personal" mondegreen lyric, as I did in the solution to this week's Dessert?
LegoMusesThatPerhapsWeShouldCallSpoken-WordMishearings"Litellas"
Not sure if it's worth much, but from my earliest school years, I thought the National Anthem contained the words "dawnderly light."
Delete"Dawnderly" is a wonderful word. it trips off the tongue like tra-la-las sung.
DeletePray tell, ViolinTeddy, when you heard the words "dawnderly light" what was the nature of the light that you pictured in your mind's eye?
I picture a muddled and muted version of light -- shaded, as if by an awning... but an awning frayed and moth-eaten, billowing in the breeze, rendering dappled shafts of dancing shadows.
LegoWanderingDawnderlyOffTopic
My goodness, Lego, how poetic (but would you be any less so?) I sadly can't contribute anything about danderly's characteristics, because at the moment, I can't recall having pictures it in my mind's eye, all those years ago. If any long-forgotten memory comes to me, I'll be sure to let you know.
DeleteDAWNDERLY, of course
DeleteThe neologism game!
DeleteDawnderly: A barfly, characterized by his loping walk home in the wee hours of the morning.
I thought a Mondegreen was a voter who couldn't decide between Fritz Mondale and the Green party in 1984. Ah, those were the days, my friends. . .(No e-mails to think about)
DeleteA dawnderly is not a dandelion, nor is a dandelion a dawnderly.
DeleteI'll explain later, if pressed.
PC:
DeleteDoes that make Andy Capp the quintessential barfly?
I always thought it was "the dawn's early lie !"
DeleteCalm down, Joe Wilson.
DeletePerk up, meet Danny Wilson.
DeleteLegoAfterALifetimeOfRecitingMary'sPrayerBelievesSheIsFullOfGrapes
One lyric I've never been able to figure out comes from John Cougar Mellencamp's "Pink Houses":
ReplyDeleteAnd there's a woman in the kitchen cleanin' up the evenin' slop(?)
And he looks at her and says "Hey darlin', I can remember when you could starve a flop(?)"
That's what it's always sounded like to me, anyway!
According to this, the last line is "when you could stop a clock." I don't know how official any of this is, though.
DeleteYou mean the title of that song isn't "Ain't That America?"?
DeleteIt doesn't sound like that to me. I must disagree with whoever transcribes those lyrics.
ReplyDeleteI might have the part of the song that makes Lego perk up his ears. You have to know his real name, and where it sounds like she's saying it.
ReplyDeleteMighty good puzzlin', pjb.
DeleteBTW, if Lego didn't perk up his ears, would he be daydreaming for M years?
DeleteYes I'm lost in a daydream, Paul,
DeleteDreamin' 'bout my Bobby Jindal wonder of boy... (actually more of a nightmare than daydream).
LegoFallingOnHisFaceOnSomebody's(DefinitelyNotHis!)NewMownLawn
Remember last year when a real estate developer and Presidential hobbyist imitated a disabled New York Times reporter? Well, a doctor that examined him for five minutes while a limousine waited outside has just released a new report, claiming that he can't help himself and that his idiocy is entirely involuntary. What a myoclonic jerk.
ReplyDeleteI would like to givea big shout-out to Margaret G., who participated this morning as the on-air contestant on NPR's Weekend Edition Sunday's Puzzle with Will Shortz and Rachel Martin.
ReplyDeleteMargaret did very well! She has often contributed comments to this P! blog.
During the "chit-chat" portion of the on-air segment, Margaret asked Will an excellent question: wht his Sunday puzzles tend to skew more to word puzzles and less to number puzzles. Will said -- accurately, IMO -- that original number puzzles are hard to find.
Here at P!, word puzzle far outnimber number puzzles also. I wish I could offer more number puzzles,but I find them more difficult to construct/compose. But I will work harder to come up with more mathy challenges in future Puzzlerias!
Thank you, Margaret G., for reminding us that numbers are characters too. And, nice work on-air. You were a PAragon Contestant!
LegoUncomfortablyNumber
Currently am sweating over this week's Sunday Puzzle. Caught Lego's mention of a comparison between the person in question and Mitt Romney. Lego, might you elaborate on this here? No one on Blaine's blog has to know.
ReplyDeleteThis week's Sunday Puzzle: Think of a name in the news who has a double letter in his/her last name. Change the double letter to another double letter, and you'll get the commercial name of a certain food. I'm stumped. Any hints, Lego?
ReplyDeleteHere is a hint that I was thinking of posting on Blaine's blog. But I will post it here. I don't think it is a giveaway:
DeleteThe commercial name of the certain food is almost always preceded by another word that specifies the ingredient(s) in the "certain food." The most common of these preceding words also has a double letter.
You can change that double letter to a variety of other double letters that will yield a mess of legitimate words. One of those words is a name of a Jay Leno associate.
LegoNotesThatTheWordIsNotTheNameOfAJohnnyCarsonAssociate(ButItIsClose)
Does 'double letter' mean that the two same letters are TOGETHER in the word, or can they be interspersed by other letters?
DeleteVT,
DeleteThe letters are TOGETHER in the word, not interspersed. Good question.
The person in the news may not be well known to those who are not cable-news junkies who watch CNN, FOX and/or MSNBC 24/7.
Rob gave this hint this morning on Blaine's blog:
"Is this all some sort of Hitchcockian plot?"
I complimented Rob on his hint because I had been toying with the notion of posting a variation of it myself.
LegoWhoHopesYouAllExperienceA"DoubleLetterScore"AndSolveWill'sPuzzle
I no longer (very sadly) have any of those cable new channels, so I may be screwed. But thanks for the clarification and extra hint (I hadn't looked at Blaine's yet.)
DeleteI have what I believe is the intended answer. I also have an answer that is somewhat plausible, in my opinion, and a laughable answer that could be construed as a hint to the 'real' answer. I wouldn't want to bias or defile anyone's thinking by being more explicit.
DeleteThere's a television show whose name contains three words that are all variations of the Leno associate. At this point these are less like hints and more like chaff.
DeleteGetting back to this puzzle blog, I guess if you had inadvertently run the exact same ripoff puzzle as before, then I've solved it too. Now all I need is a good hint for the sportscar/triplets puzzle.
ReplyDeletepatjberry,
DeleteThe "name used by a luxury sports car manufacturer for a number of its high-end models in the late-1950’s and mid-2000’s" is a six-syllable two-part compound word.
The first part is the first part a DC Comics superhero. The second part is the second part of a Marvel Comics superhero.
The triplets' names are 1, 1, and 3 syllables long.
LegoTheGreenHinternet(OrOughtThatBeGreenHairnet?)
Well, I've been down umpteen lists, including one presumably of ALL sports cars, and I can't find any model name (not including the car company itself) that is six syllables long, let alone in the right time period. The scream you hear.....
DeleteAmazingly, I just solved it....using the hints for the partial names, plus a hunch I'd had earlier as to the middle name...and bingo. STILL have not found the actual CAR in existence, however....
DeleteWeirdly, although many of this manufacturer's other models were listed under sports cars, this model did NOT appear, nor did it show up anywhere else I'd been looking...no wonder it was a stumper.
DeleteThe three names are NOT 'cutesy', like Huey, Dewey, and Louie.
Delete'Sarah' is not one of them.
Hint #1: Gas stations in the regional chain are ubiquitous in my neck of "These United Woods" In Minnesota and Wisconsin where "We The People" are "Good God-Fearing" (Boo! It's Halloween) Citizens."
Delete(We are also, at least according to recent polls, "Trump-fearing," but, I fear, that may be just us."
LegoPrays:"May"JustUs"Prevail"
Yes, one thing that had thrown me originally was that I had expected the names to be 'similar', i.e. Milly Molly Mandy (one of my favorite childhood books...one kid has that whole name, however, she's not triplets)....i.e. to have all the first same letter...or indeed per Paul's hint, to rhyme.
DeletePoint well taken, VT. I admit, that was a bit unfair on my part.
DeleteGirl triplets ought to be called something like this and boy triplets ought to be called something like that!
LegoAndHisBrothersWhoAreHisExactSameAge:NamedPregoAndSuperego
So one of your 'brothers' would be named after a tomato sauce? Ha ha ha
ReplyDeleteI don't know how to change what links look like (as you all otherwise seem to know), but here is a picture of my beloved Millicent Margaret Amanda book:
www.google.com/search?q=MIlly+Molly+Mandy&tbm=isch&imgil=PMpK8A0FGcxj8M%253A%253BeOv03Laiob2aKM%253Bhttp%25253A%25252F%25252Fwww.goodreads.com%25252Fbook%25252Fshow%25252F13844.The_Milly_Molly_Mandy_Storybook&source=iu&pf=m&fir=PMpK8A0FGcxj
I was not familiar with "Milly, Molly, Mandy" children's books, ViolinTeddy, but they look magnificent.
DeleteA short tutorial on creating a link:
When you write the following characters:
a "less-than sign", an "a", a "space", an "href", and an "equal sign"
followed by a space, and then copy and paste your file address:
www.google.com/search?q=MIlly+Molly+Mandy&tbm=isch&imgil=PMpK8A0FGcxj8M%253A%253BeOv03Laiob2aKM%253Bhttp%25253A%25252F%25252Fwww.goodreads.com%25252Fbook%25252Fshow%25252F13844.The_Milly_Molly_Mandy_Storybook&source=iu&pf=m&fir=PMpK8A0FGcxj
followed by a "greater-than" sign
followed by:
Milly, Molly and Mandy
followed by a "less-than sign", a "forward slash", an "a", and a "greater-than sign".
The result will be:
Milly, Molly and Mandy
Then, you can have fun and do stuff like:
Milly and Molly and Mandy.
LegoWhoIfHeHadQuadupletGirlsWouldDubThemMollyAndPollyAndTillyAndFlo
Also, in creating the link, there needs to be quotation marks around the address you link to. . .
DeleteThank you guys for that instruction...it looks VERY complicated to me (my brain glossed over, but I will try to pay close attention the next time I need to do a link)...is it the SAME when one's computer is a mac?
DeleteYes, Lego, the MMM books were just lovely...British, of course (my grandmother, born in Switzerland, had been a Christian Scientist, and they were thus published, so that must be why she had them.) This is making want to dig them out and read all over again.
I meant to mention that if *I* had had triplet daughters (perish the thought), I always wanted to name them "Mandy", "Melody" and "Misty."
DeleteI'm still lost on this one. Any other hints, Lego?
ReplyDeleteThe "name used by a luxury sports car manufacturer for a number of its high-end models in the late-1950’s and mid-2000’s" is a six-syllable two-part compound word, with the compound parts possessing 5 and 7 letters respectively.
DeleteIf you interchange the first two letters of the 5-letter part you will get a short version of a synonym of the entire 7-letter part.
The triplets' names are, in order, 1, 1 and 3 syllables long.
LegoIsFeelingReallyLuckyBecauseHeIsInThe"FarrierZone"
"Farrier" and "Zone," of course, are anagrams.
DeleteLegoApologizesToMendoJimBecauseItIsBadEnoughWhemPuzzlesRelyOnAnagrams,NowHintsDoToo!
Got the BLAHO anagrammed phrases. Mendo Jim doesn't know what joy he's missing.
ReplyDeleteIf you are interested in learning about spinach as an explosives detector (!) join us, fellow Popeyes and Momeyes, and let the plants talk to YOU for a change.
DEPLORABLES AND NASTY. Here's hoping DEPLORABLES doesn't get added to the dictionary at any time, soon or later.
DeleteMaybe Hillary Clinton meant to say "DEPOSE FOR BASKETBALL!"
DeleteAnd Trump kept walking around throughout the second debate because he was antsy.
DeleteHors d'Œuvre Menu:
ReplyDeleteDEPLORABLES + NASTY
Appetizer Menu:
BLUEGRASS Music Festival>>>BREW + GLASS (A Glass of Brew).
Menu:
ROSS:
A repeat of July 8, 2016, on Puzzleria:
Cyprus>>>CYPRIOT>>>APRICOT
Ella & Janet:
ReplyDeleteJanet sang about nasty boys. Ella sang about a basket. I'm not sure what was in the basket, but Ella certainly had a nice voice.
Shirley & Betty:
Shirley MacLaine starred in 'Two Mules For Sister Sara'. Her brother's name is Warren. Betty Aberlin appeared in 'Dogma'[Warning: contains profanity].
The pertinent Helen Reddy role was not in 'Airplane!'. And don't say it was.
Steve & Ben:
Martin picks a mean banjo. Miller is a brand of beer. A stein serves the same purpose as a glass [but a Glass allows one to see more].
In retrospect, I might have mentioned Steve & Edie [just to be confusing], or Jill [instead of Ben].
And don't call me Maurice.
Like VT, I caught onto 'pram' fairly soon, but had trouble making it work. [How does one pronounce a word containing 'pmr'?]
I also found 'Marathon' in the corporate history of 'SuperAmerica', and somewhere or other ran across a 'Marathon' sports car, but I can't seem to locate it now. Anyway, that didn't work, either.
'Sarah' is two syllables, of course, but 'Geraldine' is three.
Simon & Keith:
Carly sang about an apricot scarf. I'm still not sure who that song was about. Mr. Richards claims the song he and Mr. Jagger wrote was NOT about Mr. Bowie's wife, who was born in Cyprus. It may have been for his daughter, 'Dandelion'. Who knows?
Abe & Hill:
One was birthed in KY and practiced law in Springfield. The other was birthed in Chicago and practiced law in AR. At precisely IL seconds into the clip, Vicki distinctly sings 'Joe Young'. I'm mighty sure about that.
"NASTY DEPLORABLES"
ReplyDeleteRABBIT HOLES, HABIT ROLES(They played nuns.)
BLUEGRASS, BREW, GLASS
CYPRIOT, APRICOT
Where Vicki Lawrence sings "but your young bride's..." it sounds like she said the name "Joe Young", which is of course Legolambda's real name.
Closing thought, though it's November now: Anyone else ever notice the phrase HALLOWEEN NIGHT can be rearranged to spell A HOWL IN THE GLEN? Apologies to Mendo Jim.
HORS D'OEUVRE: DEPLORABLES and NASTY
ReplyDeleteMORSEL: RABBIT TALES/TAILS and HABIT TALES
APPETIZER: BLUEGRASS -> BREW GLASS With a nod to my dear, departed friend Jack, who played the banjo and was deeply involved in bluegrass and organizing festivals. How I miss him!
THREE OF A KIND SLICE: "SUPER AMERICA" "SUE / PAM / ERICA" "PRAM"
RIP-OFF: CYPRIOT -> APRICOT
DESSERT: Does some lyric sound like "Joe Young?"
This week's official answers, for the record, Part 1:
ReplyDeleteHors d’Oeuvre Menu
Bad Losers Aplenty Hors d’Oeuvre:
Adject incivility (mind your inverted p’s and q’s)
The following six phrases were overheard in media press rooms and/or at campaign rallies during the past year:
“Bland as polyester”
“Stern’s pal: a ‘boy’ led”
“Debater ‘nays’ polls”
“Pander, yell; boasts”
“A Sanders potbelly”
“Bad losers aplenty”
Rearrange the letters in any one of the phrases to form two impolite adjectives, both uttered within the past two months by presidential candidates – one by the Democratic nominee, and the other by the Republican nominee.
What are these adjectives?
Note: One of the adjectives functioned in its utterance as a plural noun.
Answer: The letters in each of the six phrases can be rearranged to form the words "deplorables" and "nasty."
Morsel Menu
Black And White And Silver Morsel:
Spoon-feeding BeaTrix to kids
A riddle:
What is the difference between what Lewis Carroll and Beatrix Potter portrayed on black-on-white pages and what Mary Tyler Moore, Whoopi Goldberg, Ingrid Bergman and Helen Reddy portayed on the silver screen?
An answer:
Lewis and Beatrix portrayed
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _,
while Mary, Whoopi, Ingrid and Helen portrayed
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _.
Fill in the blanks.
Answer:
Lewis and Beatrix portrayed rabbit holes, while Mary, Whoopi, Ingrid and Helen portrayed
habit roles.
Lego...
This week's official answers, for the record, Part 2:
ReplyDeleteAppetizer Menu
Good Old Summertime Appetizer:
Alfresco festival refreshments
Name a popular genre of music celebration often held outdoors during the summertime. It is a two-syllable compound word that usually precedes the word “festival.”
Split the word into its two compound parts, each which begins with a consonant blend. Interchange the second letters in the two parts. Pronouncing the result aloud results in a beverage you might buy from a festival vendor, and something that may contain that beverage.
What are the beverage and its container? Name the type of celebration?
Answer:
Brew, Glass; Bluegrass (festival)
MENU
Three Of A Kind Slice:
“I’m your vehicle, babies”
Take a name used by a luxury sports car manufacturer for a number of its high-end models in the late-1950’s and mid-2000’s. Interchange the third and fourth letters in the name and remove the fifth letter. Divide the resulting string of letters into three parts to name what could be the names of newborn triplets.
What is the name used by the manufacturer? What are the names of the triplets?
Hint #1: The name used by the luxury sports car manufacturer is also the name of a regional chain of gas stations.
Hint #2: If you reinsert the “fifth letter” that you removed back to its original position, the second triplet’s name will become a vehicle for transporting the triplets.
Answer: Superamerica, which is also a regional gas station chain
Sue, Pam, Erica (Reinsert the deleted "r" and "Pam" becomes "pram."
Ripping/riffing Off skydiveboy Slice:
Shoulda Been Called: Deja Vu Slice!
Beware of Greece bearing fruit
In our August 28, 2015 edition of Puzzleria!, we ran an excellent puzzle by skydiveboy titled “Fruit Of The Looming Solution Dessert: Picking the Miranda Right Fruit.”
Puzzleria!’s rip/riff-off puzzle reads:
People and products from Sweden are called Swedish. If from Bolivia they are Bolivian.
Take the word commonly used to describe the people and products of another country. Change that word’s second letter to a different vowel and move its first letter to the third-last position to name a fruit that this country produces and exports.
What is the fruit? What are people and products of the country called?
Apricots; Cypriots
Dessert Menu
Lady Mondegreen Dessert:
Free Dobie Gray’s soul: give him the Beach Boys!
Mondegreens are misheard lyrics from verse or song. For example, “‘Scuse me while I kiss this guy” from “Purple Haze” by Jimi Hendrix, and “There’s a bathroom on the right” from “Bad Moon Rising” by Creedence Clearwater Revival.
With mondegreens in mind, why do my ears (my ears, in particular) perk up when I hear this song? At what exact point in the song to my ears experience this up-perk?
Answer: At the 49-50-second mark in Vicki Lawrence's hit song "The Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia," she sings... "Joe Young," my name.
In the lyrical couplet in which the mondegreen occurs:
...He said, "I'm your best friend and you know that's right,
But your young bride ain't home tonight...,
Ms. Lawrence pronounces "your" so that it sounds like "Joe."
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