PUZZLERIA! SLICES: OVER (876 + 54) SERVED
That is because we are ripping off not only puzzlemaster Will Shortz but also one of Puzzleria!’s own puzzlemasters, Patrick J. Berry, who has contributed scads of wonderful puzzles to this blog, including ingenious cryptic crosswords.
(We are in good company – a group mentioned in this week’s Triplet Cities Slice also ripped off Berry!)
One unwelcome Appetizer,
A phrase containing four consecutive words of 5, 2, 4 and 5 letters made headlines this past week, and may well appear in future United States history books. Remove six of those 16 letters and rearrange them to form a word that means “an environment promoting the growth of something, especially something unwelcome.” The phrase containing the 16 letters is a controversial statement spoken about the deadly incident to which the phrase alluded.
⇨ “...mobs decried undocumented aliens ...”
Triplet Cities Slice:
Take the first and final words from the title of a hit song by a band contemporary to the Beatles. Add a letter to the end of the first word to form the two-word name of a well known U.S. city. The band’s name consists of two other well known U.S. cities. What is this band and their hit song?
Will Shortz’s August 13th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Puzzlerian! and Puzzleria! contributor Patrick Berry, reads:
ONE:
TWO:
Rearrange the letters in the second word to form two words of 3 and 4 letters.
THREE:
FOUR:
Name a long-running TV show in two words and ten letters. Rearrange its letters to name the type of competition, also in two words, that occurred in the season finale of the show’s first season. In the competition, the winner sang a song about a domestic task.
What show is this? What might you see at Wimbledon? What would you probably not hear the the United Center?
Stressed Dessert:
1. They have the same number of letters.
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.)
Welcome to our August 18th edition of Joseph Young’s Puzzleria!
Our featured puzzles this week are our Rip-Offs! – a half-dozen of ‘em!
That is because we are ripping off not only puzzlemaster Will Shortz but also one of Puzzleria!’s own puzzlemasters, Patrick J. Berry, who has contributed scads of wonderful puzzles to this blog, including ingenious cryptic crosswords.
(We are in good company – a group mentioned in this week’s Triplet Cities Slice also ripped off Berry!)
So, Dr. Shortz choose a puzzle submitted to him by our “Puzzleria!master.” It was featured as the August 13th National Public Radio Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle.
Congratulations, Patrick!
Also on this week’s menus are:
One unwelcome Appetizer,
One “Tale of Three Cities” Slice, and
One of those stressed-out Desserts.
As always, please enjoy.
Appetizer Menu
American History Mystery Appetizer:
Something unwelcome this way came
A phrase containing four consecutive words of 5, 2, 4 and 5 letters made headlines this past week, and may well appear in future United States history books. Remove six of those 16 letters and rearrange them to form a word that means “an environment promoting the growth of something, especially something unwelcome.” The phrase containing the 16 letters is a controversial statement spoken about the deadly incident to which the phrase alluded.
The remaining ten letters of the four consecutive words in the phrase can also be arranged to form words pertaining this unwelcome incident. Words formed from those ten rearranged letters appear in each of the following four phrasal snippets that might have appeared in news accounts about the incident:
⇨ “...mobs decried undocumented aliens ...”
⇨ “...no bail was granted to the alleged perpetrator of the deadly mess...”
⇨ “...racial bias clashed with the solemn tone from clergy ...”
⇨ “...calling names boils over violently...”
What are the four consecutive words in the phrase? What is the six-letter word for the environment promoting unrest? What are the words in the snippets that can be rearraged to complete the phrase?
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Triplet Cities Slice:
AC/DC elecTriCity
Take the first and final words from the title of a hit song by a band contemporary to the Beatles. Add a letter to the end of the first word to form the two-word name of a well known U.S. city. The band’s name consists of two other well known U.S. cities. What is this band and their hit song?
Ripping Off Shortz And Berry Slices:
Berry’s fare is on the air!
Will Shortz’s August 13th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Puzzlerian! and Puzzleria! contributor Patrick Berry, reads:
Name a long-running TV show in two words. Add a C and rearrange the result to name another long-running TV show also in two words. What shows are these? And here's a hint: Both shows are currently on the air, although the second one was most popular the past.
Puzzleria’s! Ripping Off Shortz And Berry Slices read:
ONE:
Name a long-running TV show currently on the air, in two words. Remove its final two letters and rearrange the result to name a nearly-century old clothing brand that, fittingly, is also the name of a nearly two-mile high peak in the Grand Teton Range. What show and brand/peak are these?
TWO:
Name a TV game show that appeared on the Nickelodeon TV channel, in two words. Rearrange the letters in the first word to name a long-running network sitcom.
Rearrange the letters in the second word to form two words of 3 and 4 letters.
The 3-letter word is a homophone of a letter of the alphabet. Add this letter to the letters of the word “antler” and rearrange the mix to form a 7-letter word that is the first word of a 2-word hangout frequented by the sitcom’s characters.
The 4-letter word is the second word of the 2-word hangout.
What are this Nickelodeon game show and sitcom? Name the hangout in the sitcom.
THREE:
Name a long-running TV show in three words and 11 letters. Subtract an L and rearrange the result to name what Dorothy might have shouted to her little black dog, in two words, when he nipped at Scarecrow’s straw leg or yipped at Tinman’s creaky squeaky joints. long-running TV show also in two words.
What show is this? What shout is this?
FOUR:
Name a long-running TV show in two words and nine letters. It is currently on the air. Rearrange the result to name a two-word phrase describing “One of These Days” and, perhaps to a lesser degree, “Fearless.”
What show is this? What description is this?
FIVE:
Name a long-running TV show in two words and ten letters. Rearrange its letters to name the type of competition, also in two words, that occurred in the season finale of the show’s first season. In the competition, the winner sang a song about a domestic task.
What show is this? What competition is this?
SIX:
Name a long-running and currently airing TV show in two words and ten letters. Rearrange the letters to name something you might see at Wimbledon, also in two words. Now rearrange the letters to name something you might hear at Little Caesars Arena, the BMO Harris Bradley Center or Target Center (but probably not at the United Center), also in two words.
What show is this? What might you see at Wimbledon? What would you probably not hear the the United Center?
Hint: The two words of the TV show echo last week’s “Bluish/Blush” Appetizer on Puzzleria!
Dessert Menu
Stressed Dessert:
A Synthesis of antithesis
Name a word for a feeling a person might experience as a result of being stressed. Name another word that is the antithesis of being stressed.
The words do have much in common, however:
1. They have the same number of letters.
2. Each has just one vowel; it is the same vowel.
3. Each has a string of four consecutive consonants.
What are these two words?
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Before the Eclipse, I'll be feeling like CRAP (totally STRESSED), but after the Eclipse I'll feel completely CALM (totally UNSTRESSED). CRAP/CALM, what more could you want? Two words with the "same number of letters," both with the same single vowel and both with the same first letter...
ReplyDeleteI could not ask for anything more, ron. Your posts always make me happy as a clam at high tide. No need ever to CLAM up, or to CARP, in response to your always pithy comments.
DeleteLegoWhoPlansToLaunchAnOnlineHairStylingFranchiseCalled"eClips"
I think ARRGH & AHHHH works, but I've got something a bit more legit.
DeleteHa ha, you guys.....re calm and crap. Just missing the four consecutive consonants.....
ReplyDeleteSo saying, I was up all night, first outside on my porch, climbing a step ladder painting "rafters" (no porch roof) that have needed it for a long time (and I finally got more cortisone shots in knees, so I could carefully do up and down on said ladder)...THEN I discovered that the new P! had been posted...so there I sat, working on the puzzles.
It was going well....did the Appetizer backwards as is so often the case, in order to use the remaining six letters for the required environment (I had gotten nowhere trying to come up with that word FIRST)....and then got lucky on the Triple Cities slice, stumbling upon the right song title words, and thus eventually the band (which, as per always, I had never heard of.)
I knew Rip Off #2 immediately, managed to solve #1 [Hee hee, I say to Lego], finally figured out #3 [got lucky again, stumbling over the correct TV show], but hit a wall at #4 and #5. [Subsequently, think I got #6, wasn't sure till I saw your inbuilt hint there.] Came up with a partial alternate answer for 6, too.
That leaves the dessert, and unlike Ron's creative answer, I have the stressed word, but have NOT been able (despite lengthy searches, which is what took me most of the night) to come up with the opposite word, since it has to meet the same qualifications.
All in all, an interesting night's work. Afterward, I finally went out (it was now daylight) and watered my back yard, then FINALLY hit the hay. I'm an owl, that is for sure!
I know the four words in the Appetizer, but can't figure out the other words. I have the Menu. I've solved Ripoffs #2, #3, and #6. I can't get the TV show for #1. No luck with the Dessert. I do think I have another puzzle of my own coming soon to Puzzleria! Everybody be on the lookout for it next week! Will need hints for all I have yet to solve, Lego.
ReplyDeleteJust figured out the other words in the Appetizer!
ReplyDeleteI think I have everything except ROSABS THREE, FOUR, and SIX.
ReplyDeleteLego and/or Tedditor might want to take another look at THREE. Anytime the first letter following a period is lower case, the meaning becomes less than exactly clear for me.
Yeah, I had noticed that, too, Paul....but figured he just forgot to put in a 'The.' At first, the meaning confused me, but having gotten the answer, it them made sense....the show was known both by three words and also by only two words in its title.
DeleteI realized, Paul, after I went to bed, that what Lego did in #3 was actually a hint!
DeletePaul and ViolinTeddy,
DeleteMuch as I would like to take credit for "long-running TV show also in two words" being a clever hint (as VT suggested), it was not an intended hint at all! Somehow I just inadvertently pasted that phrase into ROSABS # 3.
Bottom line: It was just another goof. Sorry. I am about to delete the inadvertent (yet perhaps serendipitous, according to VT) phrase.
LegoWhoIfHeWereAPitcherJustTossedUpAnotherGopherBall!
Love isn't always on time. Jus' sayin'.
ReplyDeleteI posted this comment before I had totoly solved #3. Note the tie-in with #4.
DeleteBTW, I was headed South toward the 'path of totality', but didn't quite get there, so I witnessed 3 crescents.
Where is everybody? No one's posted anything new for two days now! Lego, I still need hints for the toughies. Somebody else say something!
ReplyDeleteYeah, there does seem to be an appalling lack of participation! Rather scary! What can we do?
ReplyDeleteFear not cranberry and ViolinTeddy. Hints are coming anon.
ReplyDeleteIn the meantime, I just posted the following screed over on Blaine's blog:
An excerpt from President Trump’s 8/19/17 Afghanistan speech (my emphasis is added in bold):
“The men and women of our military operate as one team, with one shared mission and one shared sense of purpose. They transcend every line of race, ethnicity, creed and color to serve together and sacrifice together in absolutely perfect cohesion. That is because all service members are brothers and sisters. They’re all part of the same family. It’s called the American family. They take the same oath, fight for the same flag and live according to the same law. They’re bound together by common purpose, mutual trust and selfless devotion to our nation and to each other.
The soldier understands what we as a nation too often forget, that a wound inflicted upon a single member of our community is a wound inflicted upon us all. When one part of America hurts, we all hurt. And when one citizen suffers an injustice, we all suffer together. Loyalty to our nation demands loyalty to one another. Love for America requires love for all of its people.
When we open our hearts to patriotism, there is no room for prejudice, no place for bigotry and no tolerance for hate. The young men and women we send to fight our wars abroad deserve to return to a country that is not at war with itself at home. We cannot remain a force for peace in the world if we are not at peace with each other.”
My comment: Note that the sentence beginning “They transcend every line of race, ethnicity, creed and color…” does not include “gender identity" among the “many line(s).”
Most have interpreted the third paragraph in this excerpt as an allusion to the prejudice and bigotry that recently scarred Charlottesville. I prefer to interpret it as President Trump's mea culpa for the following:
The text of President Trump’s 7/26/17 morning Tweets:
"After consultation with my Generals and military experts, please be advised that the United States Government will not accept or allow Transgender individuals to serve in any capacity in the U.S. Military. Our military must be focused on decisive and overwhelming victory and cannot be burdened with the tremendous medical costs and disruption that transgender in the military would entail. Thank you."
LegoLaments”YeahSureThisGuyHasNoRegretsNoApologiesAndAlasThePigsHaveAlreadyFlown!”
Well, there's always the question of WHO wrote what Trump spoke today....he is probably too dense to even realize the contradictions in what he said now with what he said the other day. Do you think he actually is DOING a mea culpa, re the transgender-in-military thing? Since he specifically, as you point out, Lego, did NOT mention that minority today, how is it a mea culpa? Am I somehow missing a line of thought?
DeleteGood point, VT. Last evening's Trump speech was a "teleprompter special." And you are correct; I do not believe he was really apologizing... it's just not in his DNA.
DeleteThe version of my post over on Blaine's is a bit more clear about this. Sorry for the confusion.
LegoWhoMustAdmitThatApologiesAboundInHisDNA
ROSABS
ReplyDelete#1:
The final word in the title of the long-running TV show currently on the air is the same final word in a ground-breaking sitcom with a castmember who appeared in "Spinal Tap."
#2:
The sitcom has an ensemble cast, something like Seinfeld but one-and-a-half times as big.
#3:
The sitcom didn't have a cowardly lion in its cast but it did have a Gopher who was the best man at the wedding of a pair of presidents' kids.
#4:
Didn't we just see the dark side of the moon yesterday?
#5:
"Waite, Pa! I lust Learned that The Geer and Cotler pins are loose on our John Deere! Boy, use the team of horses to plow the field."
#6:
What might you see at Wimbledon would happen when there is a foursome present on the grass court. It doesn't involve an ace... more like "lost in space."
What you probably would "not hear the the United Center?" Well, on second thought, you might well hear it there. Hometown fans can be surly and vocal then their team is underperforming. (See Luke 4:24, Matthew 13:57, or Mark 6:4)
SD:
Add some computer storage to the end one of the words to get a very very small unit of length.
Remove an "i" from a brand of crackers and add the 3-letter result to the end of the other word to get the surname of a poet Lou Reed admired.
LegoDrawingBadLinesHereAndAsAResultWhatTheyAreAin'tExactlyClear
Many thanks, Lego, for those hints for #5 and the Dessert.....thus enabling at last an answer for #5 (I'd been completely on the wrong track and would have NEVER come up with the correct solution.)
DeleteAs for the Dessert, my first half was right, but although I've now figured out the second word due to the hint (and only due to the hint), I STILL don't understand how said word fills the bill for "the antithesis of being stressed."
And I HAVE to ask: were you purposely waiting to do hints, because of #4? (i.e. wanting to wait till after the eclipse?) Hee hee
DeleteOH, I JUST GOT IT, re the second word of the dessert!! [Re how it fills the bill.]
DeleteI got the second word, and apparently it's a play on the word "stressed". #5 I got. Funny I never realized that anagram before! Still confused by #1. #4 is obviously about the rock group who recorded the songs.
ReplyDeleteI still need help with #1, #4, and the Dessert. Got anything else?
ReplyDeleteHints:
ReplyDeleteROSABS:
#1:
The first word in the TV show might be followed by "art." The second word in the TV show might be preceded by "nuclear."
I would give a hint for the clothing brand, but it is unmentionable.
#4:
Not really the dark side of the moon, the wall or animals, but a homophone of something you see at the Olympic games. The long-running TV show in two words and nine letters is a sitcom set in David Letterman's old stomping grounds.
SD:
The feeling a person might experience as a result of being stressed is the first part of the surname of a fictional character who was a "Rabbit."
The word that is the antithesis of being stressed is the first part of the surname of of a nonfictional character who was a "Bear."
LegoANonfictionalCharacterWhoIsA"Lamb...duh!"
I am chagrined to say that I had had the wrong TV show for #4 (but the one I had HAD made sense with the dark side of the moon reference); I'm still not sure I understand what that reference has to do with what turns out to be the correct TV show as revealed by this last hint (will you explain tomorrow, I hope?)
DeleteThat takes care of the TV shows! But the Dessert is still bugging me. I just don't get it. I need one more good hint.
ReplyDeleteWait! I get the Dessert now! The four consecutive letters are NOT the same four letters in both words! I got this!
ReplyDeleteAPPETIZER: "BLAME ON BOTH SIDES" => "HOTBED", leaving letters A B E I L M N O S S => MOBS ALIENS; NO BAIL MESS; SOLEMN BIAS; NAMES BOILS
ReplyDeleteTRIPLET CITIES SLICE: "FOR WHAT IT'S WORTH" => FORT WORTH; "BUFFALO SPRINGFIELD"
RIP OFFS:
1. "MODERN FAMILY" => MODERN FAMI => "MAIDENFORM"
2. "FINDERS KEEPERS" => "FRIENDS" and SEE & PERK => CENTRAL PERK [I LOVE the picture of Bullwinkle!!]
3. "THE LOVE BOAT" => "BEHAVE, TOTO!"
4. "THE MIDDLE" => "MEDDLE HIT" [I had THOUGHT, prior to your latest hint, that the answer was "DOCTOR WHO".]
5. "THE WALTONS" => "TALENT SHOW"
6. "BLUE BLOODS" => DOUBLES LOB; BOOED BULLS? Alternate partial answer: "FAULT LINES" => FAULT LINES (at Wimbledon)
DESSERT: ANGST(rom) and SCHWA(rtz)
I finally got #3 this morning; VT's #6 looks right to me, but I still can't see the answer to #4.
ReplyDeleteAppetizer
ReplyDelete"BLAME ON BOTH SIDES"
HOTBED; MOBS, ALIENS
NO BAIL, MESS
BIAS, SOLEMN
NAMES BOILS
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"FOR WHAT IT'S WORTH" by Buffalo Springfield; FORT WORTH(Texas)
Ripoffs
1. MODERN FAMILY, MAIDENFORM Peak/bras
2. FINDERS KEEPERS, FRIENDS, (Central)PERK
3. THE LOVE BOAT, "BEHAVE, TOTO!"
4. THE MIDDLE, "MEDDLE HIT"
5. THE WALTONS, TALENT SHOW
6. BLUE BLOODS, DOUBLES LOB, BULLS BOOED
Dessert
ANGST and SCHWA
"Goodnight, Legoboy..."-pjb
Oh, OK, I just googled 'meddle hit'.
ReplyDeleteDessert: I had many ANGSTS cause STRESS, but WARMTH of heart relieves STRESS.
ReplyDeleteHey, I like your thinking, Ron!
DeleteI agree with VT, ron. A perfectly wonderful alternative Dessert answer!
DeleteLegoWhoIsUnangstedAndUnstressed("Unschwaed"?)BecauseOfTheWarmthFromron'sCreativity
This week's official answers, for the record, Part 1:
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American History Mystery Appetizer:
Something unwelcome this way came
A phrase containing four consecutive words of 5, 2, 4 and 5 letters made headlines this past week, and may well appear in future United States history books. Remove six of those 16 letters and rearrange them to form a word that means “an environment promoting the growth of something, especially something unwelcome.” The phrase containing the 16 letters is a controversial statement spoken about the deadly incident to which the phrase alluded.
The remaining ten letters of the four consecutive words in the phrase can also be arranged to form words pertaining this unwelcome incident. Words formed from those ten rearranged letters appear in each of the following four phrasal snippets that might have appeared in news accounts about the incident:
? “...mobs decried undocumented aliens ...”
? “...no bail was granted to the alleged perpetrator of the deadly mess...”
? “...racial bias clashed with the solemn tone from clergy ...”
? “...calling names boils over violently...”
What are the four consecutive words in the phrase? What is the six-letter word for the environment promoting unrest? What are the words in the snippets that can be rearraged to complete the phrase?
Answer:
"blame on both sides"
hotbed;
mobs, aliens;
no bail, mess;
bias, solemn;
names, boils;
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Triplet Cities Slice:
AC/DC elecTriCity
Take the first and final words from the title of a hit song by a band contemporary to the Beatles. Add a letter to the end of the first word to form the two-word name of a well known U.S. city. The band’s name consists of two other well known U.S. cities. What is this band and their hit song?
Answer:
Buffalo Springfield; For What It's Worth
Lego...
This week's official answers, for the record, Part 2:
ReplyDeleteRipping Off Shortz And Berry Slices:
Berry’s fare is on the air!
ONE:
Name a long-running TV show currently on the air, in two words. Remove its final two letters and rearrange the result to name a nearly-century old clothing brand that, fittingly, is also the name of a nearly two-mile high peak in the Grand Teton Range. What show and brand/peak are these?
Answer:
Modern Family; Maidenform
TWO:
Name a TV game show that appeared on the Nickelodeon TV channel, in two words. Rearrange the letters in the first word to name a long-running network sitcom.
Rearrange the letters in the second word to form two words of 3 and 4 letters.
The 3-letter word is a homophone of a letter of the alphabet. Add this letter to the letters of the word “antler” and rearrange the mix to form a 7-letter word that is the first word of a 2-word hangout frequented by the sitcom’s characters.
The 4-letter word is the second word of the 2-word hangout.
What are this Nickelodeon game show and sitcom? Name the hangout in the sitcom.
Answer:
Finders Keepers;
Friends; Central Perk
KEEPERS = PERK + SEE = PERK + C,
C + ANTLER >> CENTRAL
THREE:
Name a long-running TV show in three words and 11 letters. Subtract an L and rearrange the result to name what Dorothy might have shouted to her little black dog, in two words, when he nipped at Scarecrow’s straw leg or yipped at Tinman’s creaky squeaky joints. long-running TV show also in two words.
What show is this? What shout is this?
Answer:
The Love Boat;
"Toto, behave!" or "Behave, Toto!"
FOUR:
Name a long-running TV show in two words and nine letters. It is currently on the air. Rearrange the result to name a two-word phrase describing “One of These Days” and, perhaps to a lesser degree, “Fearless.”
What show is this? What description is this?
Answer:
The Middle; Meddle hit
FIVE:
Name a long-running TV show in two words and ten letters. Rearrange its letters to name the type of competition, also in two words, that occurred in the season finale of the show’s first season. In the competition, the winner sang a song about a domestic task.
What show is this? What competition is this?
Answer:
The Waltons; talent show
SIX:
Name a long-running and currently airing TV show in two words and ten letters. Rearrange the letters to name something you might see at Wimbledon, also in two words. Now rearrange the letters to name something you might hear at Little Caesars Arena, the BMO Harris Bradley Center or Target Center (but probably not at the United Center), also in two words.
What show is this? What might you see at Wimbledon? What would you probably not hear the the United Center?
Hint: The two words of the TV show echo last week’s “Bluish/Blush” Appetizer on Puzzleria!
Answer:
Blue Bloods;
Doubles lob; Bulls booed (the exception that proves the rule, I guess...)
Lego...
Okie doke now, Lego, please explain to me what "The MIDDLE" has to do with the "dark side of the moon." It seemed to have more to do with Doctor WHo (I believe an episode with that name, at least when I looked it up.)
DeleteUnless (this just hit me, as things so often do, belatedly) that in the eclipse the dark side of the moon was IN THE MIDDLE between us and the sun?
Deletehis week's official answers, for the record, Part 3:
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Stressed Dessert:
A Synthesis of antithesis
Name a word for a feeling a person might experience as a result of being stressed. Name another word that is the antithesis of being stressed.
The words do have much in common, however:
1. They have the same number of letters.
2. Each has just one vowel; it is the same vowel.
3. Each has a string of four consecutive consonants.
What are these two words?
Answer:
angst; schwa
Lego...
VT, it was all a reference to the works of Pink Floyd; Meddle was the name of their 1971 album, if I'm not mistaken. And "MEDDLE HIT" is an anagram of "THE MIDDLE". To be honest though, it took me a while to get that one. I got the Pink Floyd reference, but I started out trying to make an anagram out of FLOYDTUNE or FLOYDSONG, to no avail.
ReplyDeleteVT,
DeleteAnd Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon" was one of the best selling "Progressive Rock" albums ever.
LegoSittingOnTheDarkSideOfTheSun
Ah, okay, thanks to both of you. I had known that the two songs you mentioned were Pink FLoyd (only because I found out via google, of course), but when I had googled "Dark Side of the Moon", that is where I came up with DOCTOR WHO (it was an episode title), rather than any reference that I saw to Pink FLoyd.
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