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Welcome to our July 28th edition of Joseph Young’s Puzzleria!
Among our seven puzzle offerings this week is a creative challenge, similar to the ones Will Shortz periodically purveys on National Public Radio’s Weekend Edition Sunday program.
This Puzzleria! “mini creative challenge” was sparked by a recent correspondence between LegoLambda and frequent Puzzleria! contributor Mark Scott of Seattle (aka by his screen name “skydiveboy”). You will find the instructions and rules of our challenge under the Appetizer menu. It is titled “USA TODAY, Usurpia tomorrow?” Thanks to Mark for that creative spark.
Note: The closest P! has come previously to offering a creative challenge was this puzzle involving “Acrofinitions” (a concept that might just be original to this blog).
Also on this week’s menus are:
2. One dickens of an Appetizer,
3. One eco-friendly Slice,
4. One Reincemeat pie Dessert,
5. One car and driver and pool and diver Dessert, and
6&7. Two Riffing/Ripping Off Shortz “only-two-consonants” caption puzzles.
Ladies and gentlemen, start your creative engines.... An’, Engeoy!
Appetizer Menu
Crime And Punishment Appetizer:
Lawyer-up like the dickens
Name a well known attorney who no longer practices law. The attorney’s last name is a noun which is also the name of a criminal court that makes an appearance in a Charles Dickens novel. The remaining letters of the name by which the attorney is known spell out a verb for what criminals often try to do before ultimately being brought to justice.
Who is this attorney?
One-Week Creative Challenge Appetizer:
USA TODAY, Usurpia tomorrow?
In recent correspondence with master puzzle creator and Puzzleria! contributor Mark Scott of Seattle (also known as skydiveboy, his screen name) Mark mentioned to me that one of his pet peeves about the “United States of America” is that we have never really named it. The United States (U.S.) is not a name – it is more like a description. 
We call ourselves not “United Staters” but “Americans.” But, Mark added, all people in the entire Western Hemisphere – comprising North America, South America and Central America –call themselves “Americans”... which they are!
There are actually three “united states of America,” Mark continued. But the other two – Mexico and Brazil – had the creative vision and decency to actually name themselves.
That “skydiveboy/legolambda” conversation inspired the creation of a creative opportunity for Puzzlerians!
And, that leads us to this “Mini-Creative Challenge”:
Provide a “real” name for the country we call the “United States.” Be clever, be whimsical, be “punny,” be outrageous and/or be historically correct. In any case, be creative.
Generate as many answers as you wish. My best effort thus far is “Usurpia.”
Unlike Will Shortz’s two-week creative challenge, you will have only one week, not two, to come up with answers to this Puzzleria! creative challenge.
So, start pondering!
MENU
Eco-Friendly Informal Artistic Slice:
Art Ferns?
Art Ferns?
Name a millennium-old art form in which the works of art are usually green. Interchange its third and fourth letters, then interchange its fifth and sixth letters to form the name of a nation.
Note: The nation is also known by a longer and more formal name.
What are this art form and country?
Ripping Off Shortz Slices:
Chimps go bananas, gnus go gaga
Will Shortz’s July 23th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle reads:
What common three-word expression – 14 letters in all – has only N and G as consonants, and otherwise is all vowels? Puzzleria’s! Ripping Off Shortz Slices read:
ONE:
What uncommon seven-word expression – 27 letters in all – has only M and T as consonants, and otherwise is all vowels?
The expression might serve as a lengthy caption that I might have written for the image pictured here. Focus on the man at the left in the Los Angeles Dodgers uniform who seems to be peckish for leather. I played with him when I was a Dodger (sorry, that is fake news!). My caption (written in the past tense) would be in the form:
(preposition, 2 letters) (noun, 8) (verb, 3) (article, 1) (noun, 4) (preposition, 2) “(noun, 7)”
__ ________ ___ _ ____ __ “_______”
Hint: The initial letters of the first six words in the caption are: m, t, a, a, m and a. The seventh word is a made-up word that is a homophone of a word that appears in an image elsewhere in this week’s blog.
Hint: The initial letters of the first six words in the caption are: m, t, a, a, m and a. The seventh word is a made-up word that is a homophone of a word that appears in an image elsewhere in this week’s blog.
TWO:
What uncommon twelve-word expression – 66 letters in all – has only N and S as consonants, and otherwise is all vowels?
The expression might serve as a lengthy editorial caption – not for the image pictured here but for a photo that might have been taken soon afterward. The image pictured is a photograph that might have been taken by one of the photographers in a phalanx of Shia and non-Shia Syrian journalists toiling side-by-side in a photo-journalists’ pool. The photo taken soon afterward would have had to have been taken by one of the non-Shia journalists, not a Shia journalist. The caption (written in the present tense) would be in the form:
(adjective, 6 letters), (adjective, 7) (proper noun used as an adjective, 4) (plural noun, 9) (verb, 6) (plural proper noun, 6), (plural hyphenated proper noun, 9) – (verb, 3) (adjective, 2) (plural noun, 6), (preposition, 2) (plural proper noun, 6)
______ _______ ____ _________ ______ ______, ___-______ – ___ __ ______, __ ______
Hint: The initial letters of the twelve words in the caption are: i, a, I, a, a, S, n, u, n, n, o, and S. The sixth and twelfth words are the same. The ninth word is the same as the eleventh word spelled backward.
Dessert Menu
Reincemeat Pie Dessert:
A tweet about a twit
On August 28, 2017, by-then-former White House chief of staff Reince Priebus will make a Tweet that will include these three word-snippets:“...a nut’s comic anarchy...”
“...a month’s inaccuracy...”
“...Tony, an anarchic scum...”
Rearrange the letters in any one of the three snippets to reveal the first and last names of the person to whom Priebus refers.
Who is this person?
Gator Tail Dessert:
Drivers and divers in the car pool
Name something drivers might do, in two words, while being tailgated or cut off by other drivers, or while idling. Interchanging these words and pronouncing the result sounds like the name of a place popular with divers.
What might drivers do? Where might divers go?
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Should anyone be wondering if I had thought of a fitting name for our country, the answer is yes: Hypocracia
ReplyDeleteIncidentally, for the "rename the U.S.A" creative challenge, please feel free to reveal your answers at any time. No need to wait until Next Wednesday.
DeleteLegoWhoseSecondCandidateForARenamingIs"Vespucci"
How about "ATLANTICTOPACIFICA"? Ha ha
ReplyDeleteIsn't that a bit of a stretch?
Delete3000 miles worth!?!
DeleteThat is my point. Like Liberace might have said: "From sea to shining sequin."
DeleteFrom the mountains, to the prairies, to the oceans white with foam, ......
DeleteUSurpanation, which yields citizen Usurpanite.
ReplyDeleteAlso USurpapedia yields a Usurpaped, and Warmania yields a Warman.
DeleteWARMANIA & its citizens WARMANIANS seems to sum it all up for me. I do not intend this as negative, just matter of factual, like Romania & Romanians.
DeleteI hear Trump is seeking war with IRAN.
DeleteThat is my understanding too. Apparently he went into a full blown rage in the oval office last week demanding something being done about the Trumped up lies about Iran not keeping its bargain. He was somewhat calmed down by the three high ranking cabinet members who got him to hold off until October.
DeleteIn the mean time, and I do mean mean time.
The Mooch screwed the pooch and is now alone on the couch having being left by his cooch.
SDB, Are you familiar with Betsy Hartmann's The American Syndrome where she highlights, among other things, our "mania for war" (Warmania)? Or perhaps you watched, or attended her recent (June 26) SEATTLE TOWN HALL where she discusses her ideas?
Deleteron,
DeleteNo, but I watched the first 6 1/2 minutes of her talk and will get back later to finishing it when I have time. It sounds very interesting.
Happy Friday everyone! I have already solved everything but the Ripoffs and the second half of the Dessert. As for the creative puzzle, might I suggest "The Great Divide"? Or perhaps "The States of Confusion"? "The United(in location only)States", anyone? How about "England 2.0", or "England: The Unabridged Version"?(For obvious reasons we can't be low-fat or gluten-free!)Perhaps "Big Brother: The Country", or the rest of the world could just refer to us as "That Place Where Those People Are From"! Any will do, I think!
ReplyDeleteMILITIATOPIA. This yields a MILITIATOPIAN (or a Militiaman). As MLK, Jr. said, we are "the greatest purveyor of violence in the world," and we still are...
ReplyDeleteShortened version: MILITARIA and its citizens MILITARIANS. Also OLIGARCHIA and its citizens OLIGARCHIANS.
DeleteHaving tackled things yesterday, I found the first Appetizer and the first Dessert immediately (hurrah), and worked out the first Rip Off (and was pleased about that) and MOST of the second RIp Off...I am stuck on the first two adjectives and the hyphenated noun. Will still try to logic those out, when I have time.
ReplyDeleteOtherwise, am still without a solution for the Eco Slice (unlike pjb, I guess) and the second Dessert, although I'm pretty sure of ONE of the two words, just haven't been able to turn it around into the required "sounds like" phrase that would mean what it is supposed to mean.
I am pretty stunned by all the negative connotation of names offered up here for the ole red, white and blue. Not that the current admin doesn't INSPIRE such negativism, but it surely is depressing!
VT:
DeleteMy thoughts that inspired Lego to offer this challenge did not come from current politics, but from my realization of the truth about our country way back when I was in sixth or seventh grade. It is also not negativism to realize something truthful that we may not like finding out that is unpleasant about ourselves, such as having such disdain for other peoples that we refuse to allow them to call themselves American simply because we are too busy chasing the almighty buck to take a moment to actually name our country. It is extremely offensive to many citizens of other American countries, and I do hear it from some of them from time to time. I find "all the negative connotation(s) of names offered up here" to be somewhat reassuring in that at least some, who are willing to actually look at what we are doing to the world, are seeing it for what it actually is, and not at all what we are spoon fed by the propagandists who control things.
Actually, I agree with your sentiments, sdb, it's just that it IS depressing to realize there is so much wrong with us. I myself hate the 'we are the greatest nation on earth" crap....it is SO self-righteous and presumptuous. Sigh
DeleteVt:
DeleteYour reply is most satisfying indeed. I was afraid you would not understand my point of view, but I am most pleased to find I was wrong in this regard. It is now up to we who have this unpleasant understanding to do what we can in order to change things for the better. I, and most likely you as well, felt we had accomplished this to at least some reasonable degree, up until the evening of November 8, 2016, when we learned just how mistaken we were. So reminiscent of Germany on the night of November 9, 1938.
There is so much that could be said on this entire topic, that I feel inadequate to even attempt a few words (especially this late at night).
DeleteThere is the natural human propensity to engage in the pecking order, i.e. 'let's dump on some other group, to make ourselves feel better." Done by the Nazis in the worst way, done by whites against blacks in decades past (and who knows how much is still happening), etc etc.
I don't know HOW those of us, who as you say "have this unpleasant understanding" can ever change the mindsets of the type of folks who thought Trump was 'the answer' as the president. (A friend of mine bluntly calls them 'idiots.')
It is actually a matter of brain physiology, i.e. the repressed, overly rigid types (i.e. right wing religious, Repubs in general) who simply don't seem to have it IN them to see things in a liberal fashion, and such is 'grooved' into their white and gray matter.
No argument will ever work. We are speaking different languages. Thus, I don't feel a lot of hope for this chasm of separation to ever be bridged, frankly. I believe we could talk ourselves blue in the face, to no avail. Of course, there IS the issue of the Dem side not having gone to the polls in sufficient numbers.....but one can't go to every residence and force people to vote, either. Ideas, sdb?
Nice discussion, ViolinTeddy and skydiveboy.
DeleteVT's initial comment about the negative tenor of the USA renaming efforts prompted me to visit our Constitution's Preamble and our Declaration of Independence, and come up with:
Tranquilia
Inalienablia (pronounced IN ALE LEE ON AH BLEE AH, with accents on the second and fifth syllables)
LegoWhoFindsItInterestingThatTheBulkOfOurDeclearationOfIndependenceConsistedOfGrievancesVersusKingGeorgeIII(AndThatManyPeopleHarboredGrievancesTowardOurThirdPresidentGeorgeDubya)
VT:
DeleteI enjoyed reading, and then re-reading, your post. I agree with what you said, and your friend that you mentioned is certainly worthy of friendship, I would say.
You are very correct in your understanding of the futility of trying to have any kind of meaningful political conversation with Right Wing idiots. They don't even hear what you are saying, let alone try to understand. Their bumper sticker said it; and they believe it!
I have never been a big fan of fantasy, but Gulliver's Travels and Lewis Carroll are two I do enjoy. Although I am in no way Trans, I lately am feeling a bit like Alice trying to deal with the nuts she kept running into. Or I feel like an unintended passenger on a ship of fools.
I'm happy you enjoyed my humble thoughts, sdb. Was wondering, however, from your last two sentences, are there a lot of the aforementioned 'idiots' up there in Seattle? I thought our NW here was pretty much a liberal place? But I guess that, like ants, said rigid nut cases lurk everywhere, but out here in WA and OR, at least NOT in the majority.
DeleteI know what you mean about being an "unintended passenger on a ship of fools." It's awful. I'm sure you, and most of us on this blog, felt the same PUNCH in the gut last November, about the horror about to rain down upon us. Thank goodness for people like Stephen Colbert, who do their best to expose the atrocities comedically. I am truly afraid of what Trump may be hiding.
VT:
DeleteWhile Seattle is indeed a liberal oasis in this sea of SHIT (acronym for Stupid Hoard of Idiotic Twits) and is not a village, we do, however have our fair share of idiots, of which we are not at all proud.
As to last November 8th. I believe I posted how it affected me on Blaine's sometime back. It was waking up from a good night's sleep and immediately feeling like I was waking into, not out of, a nightmare of gigantic proportions. This is not hyperbole, but actually how I felt for months. I am happy in that I do live in Seattle, which is a long distance from the East Coast, because I am an expert shot with both rifle and pistol.
Are you saying, sdb, that IF you lived near Wash, DC, you might do something regrettable? (From the point of view of the law, that is!)
DeleteI have the DISTINCT memory of the moment I turned on the TV and saw how the numbers were going...the huge THUD in the pit of the stomach....the dawning realization that THIS WAS NOT GOOD, and HOW could this have happened? I suppose we are all still in shock.
VT:
DeleteI have never regretted jaywalking.
The Coalition of Tentatively Autonomous Groups (CTAG for short). No, I don't really know what I mean by that.
ReplyDeleteOther than that, I can do the fandango, and that's about it.
Paul,
DeleteHow about "Society of Tentatively Autonomous Groups" (STAG for short)?
LegoAsksDoesAStagHaveAFangNo?Da?
Fangs for the link, Lego, and for reminding me of Pat Paulsen's Straight Talking American Government Party.
DeleteSpeaking of evolution, how about the Union of Antagonistic Commercialist Gangs? [I still don't really know what I mean by any of this, but I am choosing the initial letters for a reason.]
You're welcome, Paul.
DeleteIn the present presidential and political climate, the notion of Pat Paulson becoming prez is not all that far-fetched.
I look forward to the reason for your choice of initial letters.
Speaking of the Casa Blanca (as those on the other side of the future wall would say), when I uploaded my "Reincemeat Pie Dessert: A tweet about a twit" puzzle last Friday morn, I was so tickled that I had come up with such a super-timely and cutting-edge poser. Could I have been more wrong?! Watching the activities on 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue these days is like watching a time-lapse video playback of clowns bumping into and yelling at one another while cramming themselves into a VW Beetle (with a Rose Garden vase gracing the front dash).
LegoWhoWouldVoteForPatJosephsonForPrez
Cytosine, Thymine, Adenine, and Guanine [that's for DNA]
Deleteand Uracil [for RNA]
But don't let that stop you from looking forward.
I'm looking forward to voting for Pat Theodorasdatter.
I still need hints for the Ripoffs and the second half of the Dessert. I have everything else. Got any good ones, Lego?
ReplyDeleteHints:
ReplyDeleteROSS:
ONE:
The third word is a homophone of a number.
The fifth word followed John and preceded Donald.
The sixth word would not need to be in quotation marks if it began with the first three letters of the second word.
TWO:
The first word is a word in the title of a Lindsey Buckingham album.
The last syllable of the second word is a number.
The third word is a title of a Dylan song.
The fourth word: Ray and Booth, for example.
The sixth word = non-Shias
The seventh word = Shias
GTD:
What drivers might do some bulls might do too.
LegoSays"WhoNeedsRaysWhenYou'veGotTanningBooths?"
What sort of preposition does #1 begin with? I can't think of a good enough two-letter word that meets the criteria.
ReplyDeleteWhat about the hyphenated word? How am I supposed to know that?
ReplyDeleteAPPETIZER #1: F. LEE BAILEY
ReplyDeleteAPPETIZER #2: ATLANTICTOPACIFICA;
ECO-FRIENDLY SLICE: BONSAI => BOSNIA [NO hint....I finally solved this at 2:45 a.m. this morning, sitting upstairs in bed!! Boy, was I tickled.]
RIP OFF #1: MY TEAMMATE ATE A MITT AT "TEETIME" [Pre-hint]
RIP OFF #2: INSANE ASININE ISIS ASSASSINS ASSESS SUNNIS, NON-SUNNIS -- USE NO NOOSES ON SUNNIS [Pre-hint escept for Insane, Asinine & hyphenated word]
DESSERT #1: ANTHONY SCARAMUCCI
DESSERT #2: JAM BRAKES => BREAKS JAM????? Bulls: CHARGE? RUN? GOUGE? GORE? SNORT? SWERVE?
Appetizer #1
ReplyDeleteF. LEE BAILEY(OLD BAILEY, FLEE)
Appetizer #2
THE GREAT "DIVIDE"
Menu
BOSNIA, BONSAI
Ripoff #1
MY TEAMMATE ATE A MITT AT "TEETIME".
Ripoff #2
INSANE ASININE ISIS ASSASSINS ASSESS SUNNIS, NON-SUNNIS...USE NO NOOSES ON SUNNIS.
Dessert #1
ANTHONY SCARAMUCCI
" I see a little silhouetto of a man---Scaramouche! Scaramouche! Will you do the fandango?"-pjb
Nothing really matters
DeleteAnyone can see
Nothing really matters
To Trump.
This week's official answers, for the record, Part 1:
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Crime And Punishment Appetizer:
Lawyer-up like the dickens
Name a well known attorney who no longer practices law. The attorney’s last name is a noun which is also the name of a criminal court that makes an appearance in a Charles Dickens novel.
The remaining letters of the name by which the attorney is known spell out a verb for what criminals often try to do before ultimately being brought to justice.
Who is this attorney?
Answer:
F. Lee Bailey
The verb for what criminals often try to do before ultimately being brought to justice is "flee" << "F. Lee"
One-Week Creative Challenge Appetizer:
USA TODAY, Usurpia tomorrow?
In recent correspondence with master puzzle creator and Puzzleria! contributor Mark Scott of Seattle (also known as skydiveboy, his screen name) Mark mentioned to me that one of his pet peeves about the “United States of America” is that we have never really named it. The United States (U.S.) is not a name – it is more like a description.
We call ourselves not “United Staters” but “Americans.” But, Mark added, all people in the entire Western Hemisphere – comprising North America, South America and Central America –call themselves “Americans”... which they are!
There are actually three “united states of America,” Mark continued. But the other two – Mexico and Brazil – had the creative vision and decency to actually name themselves.
That “skydiveboy/legolambda” conversation inspired the creation of a creative opportunity for Puzzlerians!
And, that leads us to this “Mini-Creative Challenge”:
Provide a “real” name for the country we call the “United States.” Be clever, be whimsical, be “punny,” be outrageous and/or be historically correct. In any case, be creative.
Generate as many answers as you wish. My best effort thus far is “Usurpia.”
Unlike Will Shortz’s two-week creative challenge, you will have only one week, not two, to come up with answers to this Puzzleria! creative challenge.
So, start pondering!
Answers:
Here is the list of creative challenge entries (sorry if I missed any):
cranberry:
THE GREAT "DIVIDE"
"The States of Confusion"?
"The United (in location only) States"
"England 2.0"
"England: The Unabridged Version"?
"Big Brother: The Country"
"That Place Where Those People Are From"
ViolinTeddy:
ATLANTICTOPACIFICA;
Paul:
Union of Antagonistic Commercialist Gangs
Coalition of Tentatively Autonomous Groups (CTAG for short)
ron:
USurpanation; USurpapedia; WARMANIA; MILITIATOPIA; MILITARIA OLIGARCHIA
skydiveboy:
Hypocracia
Lego:
Usurpia; Vespuccia; Tranquilia; Inalienablia
Thanks to everyone for your creative renamings of the USA. You all passed Puzzleria!'s challenge with flying "Old Glory" colors. I loved every entry.
But, if I have to choose just one (and I guess I do), there is just something about cranberry's "England 2.0" that tickles my fancy. I also like his "Big Brother: The Country."
2nd Place: "USurpanation" (ron)
3rd Place: "ATLANTICTOPACIFICA" (VT)
Sorry, no lapel pins.
All other entries are not just "runners"-up... they are "sprinters"-up! They are not just honorable "mentions"... they are honorable "vociferations"!
Those who did not place, don't despair. As I once wrote in my college newspaper:
Good losers keep trying
So up with that chin.
If the chooser's a loser
The non-chosen win!
Lego:
This week's official answers, for the record, Part 2:
ReplyDeleteMENU
Eco-Friendly Informal Artistic Slice:
Art Ferns?
Name a millennium-old art form in which the works of art are usually green. Interchange its third and fourth letters, then interchange its fifth and sixth letters to form the name of a nation.
Note: The nation is also known by a longer and more formal name.
What are this art form and country?
Answer:
Bonsai; Bosnia
Ripping Off Shortz Slices:
Chimps go bananas, gnus go gaga
ONE:
What uncommon seven-word expression – 27 letters in all – has only M and T as consonants, and otherwise is all vowels?
The expression might serve as a lengthy caption that I might have written for the image pictured here. Focus on the man at the left in the Los Angeles Dodgers uniform who seems to be peckish for leather. I played with him when I was a Dodger (sorry, that is fake news!). My caption (written in the past tense) would be in the form:
(preposition, 2 letters) (noun, 8) (verb, 3) (article, 1) (noun, 4) (preposition, 2) “(noun, 7)”
__ ________ ___ _ ____ __ “_______”
Hint: The initial letters of the first six words in the caption are: m, t, a, a, m and a. The seventh word is a made-up word that is a homophone of a word that appears in an image elsewhere in this week’s blog.
ANSWER:
My teammate ate a mitt at “teetime”
TWO:
What uncommon twelve-word expression – 66 letters in all – has only N and S as consonants, and otherwise is all vowels?
The expression might serve as a lengthy editorial caption – not for the image pictured here but for a photo that might have been taken soon afterward. The image pictured is a photograph that might have been taken by one of the photographers in a phalanx of Shia and non-Shia Syrian journalists toiling side-by-side in a photo-journalists’ pool. The photo taken soon afterward would have had to have been taken by one of the non-Shia journalists, not a Shia journalist. The caption (written in the present tense) would be in the form:
(adjective, 6 letters), (adjective, 7) (proper noun used as an adjective, 4) (plural noun, 9) (verb, 6) (plural proper noun, 6), (plural hyphenated proper noun, 9) – (verb, 3) (adjective, 2) (plural noun, 6), (preposition, 2) (plural proper noun, 6)
______ _______ ____ _________ ______ ______, ___-______ – ___ __ ______, __ ______
Hint: The initial letters of the twelve words in the caption are: i, a, I, a, a, S, n, u, n, n, o, and S. The sixth and twelfth words are the same. The ninth word is the same as the eleventh word spelled backward.
Answer:
Insane, asinine Isis assassins assess Sunnis, non-Sunnis – use no nooses on Sunnis.
Lego...
This week's official answers, for the record, Part 3:
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Reincemeat Pie Dessert:
A tweet about a twit
On August 28, 2017, by-then-former White House chief of staff Reince Priebus will make a Tweet that will include these three word-snippets:
“...a nut’s comic anarchy...”
“...a month’s inaccuracy...”
“...Tony, an anarchic scum...”
Rearrange the letters in any one of the three snippets to reveal the first and last names of the person to whom Priebus refers.
Who is this person?
Answer:
Anthony Scaramucci
Gator Tail Dessert:
Drivers and divers in the car pool
Name something drivers might do, in two words, while being tailgated or cut off by other drivers, or while idling.
Interchanging these words and pronouncing the result sounds like the name of a place popular with divers.
What might drivers do? Where might divers go?
Answer:
SEE RED (as in a RED light or stop sign while idling at and intersection, or to "see red" as in road rage at being cut off or tailgated);
RED SEA (see #9, #20 and #42)
Lego...
I had no idea that the Red Sea was popular with divers. I guess I put down about everything ELSE that an angry bull might do.....but having read (ha) that they are colorblind, in truth, I didn't come up with see red. Ever.
DeleteLego, thanks for choosing one of my submissions for the new name for the United States. Though I do have to say for sheer inventiveness in wordplay, I still like "The Great Divide".
ReplyDeleteYou're welcome, cranberry. "The Great Divide" certainly does describe US.
DeleteIncidentally, Puzzleria!'s "Total Pageviews" are about to hit 123,456 within the next day or two.
LegO...neTwoThreeFourFiveSix"Divided"By"G8"EqualsOneFiveFourThreeTwo!(NotTheFactorialSign...JustAnExclamationMark)