Friday, June 1, 2018

A nightcap to cap off the night? Erconstructive obdily usrgery; Spoonerfuls o’ food fit for the famished; All-day picnic dishing

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Blue Plate Special Of The Week:
All-day picnic dishing

You are packing an all-day picnic basket: 
🍵🍺Begin by including two beverages. 
🍛Combine the letters of the two beverages, change one letter, and rearrange the result to spell a luncheon dish. 
🍳To this, add a vowel and rearrange to spell a breakfast dish. 
🍗To this, add a consonant and rearrange to spell a dinner dish. 
💿To this, add a consonant and rearrange to spell what these dishes may be served on, in a two-word term. 
What are these six picnic items?
Bonus Blue Plate second helping: 
☕To the letters in the two words denoting what these dishes may be served on, subtract a P and add a T to form two words: a hot beverage to enjoy during the evening campfire (with smores!) and the luscious froth that floats on the brim of that beverage.  


Appetizer Menu

Dad’s Boot Rear Appetizer:
Spoonerfuls o’ food fit for the famished


Write a caption for each of the 15 numbered images pictured here, then spoonerize each caption in some manner to name something you can eat or drink. 
For example, an image of a father kicking a burglar or other intruder in the posterior could be captioned “boot rear” which, when spoonerized, becomes root beer.

To further help you as you solve, fifteen hints appear below: 
The type of food (Meat, Sweet, Dairy, etc.) appears in green.
The number of words each caption contains appears in (parentheses)
The number of words in each food-answer appears in [brackets]
(Numbers 2, 4, 5, 8 and 11 are the most far-fetched of the fifteen captions/foods.)
1. Veggie (2 words in the caption) [2 words in the food]
2. Veggie; Note: Before you spoonerize the caption to reveal the food, you must first flip the third-last letter of its first word 180-degrees along the axis perpendicular to the surface it is written on. (2) [2]

3. Legume (2) [1]
4. Meat (4) [2] Spoonerize only the first and third of the 4 caption words to reveal the food.
5. Meat (2) [2]
6. Meat (2) [1 word, but sometimes written as 2]
7. Meat (2) [1]
8. Porridge (2) [2]
9. Sweet (3) [2] Spoonerize only the first and third of the 3 caption words to reveal the food.
10. Sweet (3) [2] Spoonerize only the first and third of the 3 caption words to reveal the food. 
The third word does not begin with a consonant sound, so the spoonerization is similar to the likes of ginger ale” becoming “injure jail.”
11. Sweet (3) [2] Spoonerize only the first and third of the 3 caption words to reveal the food. 
And, you are advised to write the caption Ebonically
12. Dairy (2) [2]
13. Dairy (2) [2]
14. Pasta (2) [2]
15. Meat (2) [2]

MENU

Brandy Name Slice:
A nightcap to cap off the night?

Reverse the letters in the brand name of something you drink to spell something you wear. 
What is it that you wear? 
What might you drink?

Riffing Off Shortz Slices:
Erconstructive obdily usrgery

Will Shortz’s May 27th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle reads:
Name part of the human body. Switch the first two letters to get a two-word phrase for something that is worrisome. What is it? 
Puzzleria!’s Riffing Off Shortz Slices read:
ONE:
Name part of the human body associated with contemplation. 
Switch the first two letters and change a later vowel to a different vowel to get a part of the human body associated with audition. What is it?  
TWO:
Name part of the human body. 
Change the first letter to the first letter of an adjacent body part which includes one end of the first body part. Switch the first two letters of this result to get the first name of a Scandinavian actress. To find her last name, switch the first two letters of another body part. 
Who is this actress?  
THREE:
Name part of the body often considered to be vulnerable. Switch the first two letters to get a two-word comparative phrase for what a _____ dancer often possesses vis-a-vis, say, a ballet dancer. What is this body part?
Hint: the word in the blank echoes the word “ballet” and is a part of the vulnerable body part. 
FOUR:
Name part of the human body. Switch the first two letters to get the last name of a past muckraking journalist/photographer. What is this human body part and who is the journalist/photographer?
Hint: The relatively primitive camera this journalist used had a part called a diaphragm, which is also a human body part. Were the jounalist alive today he would use a camera with a part serving the same function as the diaphagm... and that part is the answer to this puzzle!  
FIVE:
Name part of the human body. Move the first two letters to the end of the word to get something much shorter than a homonym of another part of the human body. What are these two body parts? 

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37 comments:

  1. NO DESSERT? Of course, there are plenty of OTHER puzzles (love the Blue PLate Special title...haven't looked at it yet, though).....but no dessert? We sugar addicts are sad!

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  2. Speaking as a diabetic who needs no dessert anyway, I'm surprised but not bothered by there being no dessert this week. BTW we'll be celebrating Mia Kate's 11th birthday in FL this next week, and we leave on Wednesday. I will try to get around to revealing my answers as soon as we get to the condo, and I get the Kindle working with their Wi-Fi. So far I've solved the entire Blue Plate Puzzle(quite clever!), all the captions except #5 and #8, the Menu, and Riff-Offs #1, #2, and #4. Quite a comprehensive bunch of puzzles this week! Of course, I'll need good hints for the unsolved ones, Lego. Glad to see I'm not the first to comment this time, this late, for once! Thanks VT!

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  3. Think of a body part one might associate with a certain color. Interchange two nonconsecutive letters in the name of the body part and write the result after the name of a different color, with no space in between. Read the whole thing backwards to name a third color.

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    1. Excellent Riff-Off again, Paul. It is indeed an elegant Riff-Off, actually... Dare I say "Will-worthy"?
      And a homophone of the body part is associated with a third color.

      LegoDillyDillyButNotTheLightweightKingOfBeers...RatherTheKingWhoLetTheLambdasPlay

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  4. I solved it too, Paul. Dilly dilly indeed!

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  5. I can only admire all the solving (above). I'm having another abysmal week when it comes to puzzles! In the wee hours of Friday morning, I managed to 'get' only Root Beer #14, and Riffs #2 and 4. I tried valiantly, spending quite along time, on the Blue Plate Special, but every time I thought I'd hit on a possiblity [letters that appeared would lead to a luncheon dish, or going backwards, liquids that might end up leading to serving pieces, for example, things wouldnt' work out. Thus, I remain, as so often, frustrated.

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    1. I've only solved one of lego's puzzles so far, and my puzzle is a hint for that (lego's) puzzle, which it seems you have not yet solved.

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    2. Thanks, Paul, I'll have a look.

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  6. VT, about the only suggestion I have for you concerning the Blue Plate Puzzle is that one of the food items was mentioned in last week's P!, although not within the context of it being a food item then. Hope that helps.

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    1. Nice Blue Plate hint, cranberry.
      Also, Paul just gave a fine hint to Riff # 1.
      There is no shame in not solving all 15 appetizer images. As I noted, a handful are quite far-fetched, and linguistically stretched.
      And, some of the Riffs this week are also stretches. (I like Riff #5, however.)
      I will begin working on writing some hoped-to-be helpful hints.

      LegoStretchingC r e d u l i t yWithMostEveryPuzzleHeComposes

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    2. Thanks, pjb/cb. I shall see if I can figure it out.

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    4. You hint, pjb/cb, did it for me! I found the dinner food, then worked backwards, like I so like to do. Actually, I HAD had one of the correct beverages (which I hate; the other one I would never even drink), and also had had the breakfast food written down, as well as ONE word of the serving accessories (I hadn't realized it was a two-word term, instead I had wrongly thought it was just two separate items.)

      I'm still nowhere on Paul's take-off or on the Riff #1 to which it apparently refers.

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    5. Good point, ViolinTeddy, about my text not making it very clear whether I was looking for two separate serving accessories or one two-word serving accessory. I have revised the wording. Thank you.

      The body part in Riff#1 is associated with a body part in Riff#3. Think omphalos.

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    6. Thanks on all fronts, Lego. I DID manage to solve RIff #3 and 5 last night (I was just too lazy to post.) So I'll try to apply your latest hint, above,knowing the answer to Riff 3.

      Ooh, I had also figured out (thanks to your hint, since I had had NO idea who the "Robert" was) the Appetizer's #15, giving me all of TWO solved among the 15. : o (

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    8. Somehow this week, I've managed to have DOUBLE posts going on each time (which is why I keep deleting one of each.) Anyway, I just figured out Riff 1, so wanted you to know that your most recent hint was a great help. I had completely failed to try that particular word as a body part, although I HAD concluded what the audition thing meant.

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  7. HINTS:
    BPSOTW:
    The luncheon dish is Mexican.
    The first word in the breakfast dish is a part of this week's Appetizer.
    The dinner dish can be anagrammed to form a tiny bounding biter plus something much tinier that can be found everywhere but is never seen.

    DBRA:
    4. "I think I can, I think I can... I knew I could, I knew I could guzzle this can 'o beer!"
    5. cigarettes... they're shot from cannons?
    8. The name of the food has a "Crimson connection."
    15. Robert has a "Crimson connection"nalso.

    BNS:
    A nightcap to cap off the night
    Something you drink might also be something Mr. Nolte drinks. The what-is-it-that-you-wear? is a homophone of a surname familiar to NPR listeners.

    ROSS:
    1. The part of the human body associated with contemplation is situated below the neck.
    2. Body parts: A bone that, when the body is at rest, is adjacent to the second body part.
    3. Soft. White.
    4. Somewhere under the "rainbow," blackbeards may be close by...
    5. "...to get something much shorter than a homonym of another part of the human body"... or, to be more precise, 0.08333333... shorter.

    LegoHintacious

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  8. Speaking as the sole Alabamian on this blog(probably), I have to say I resent any "Crimson connection" you may be alluding to regarding the doctored picture of Klansmen on #8. It seems in poor taste to begin with to feature the Klan in what is supposed to be a lighthearted setting for everyone, as Puzzleria! has always been intended. Furthermore, whatever your hint(and the picture)are intended to suggest is lost on me anyway as a sort of "porridge". An apology may be in order here, Lego. While I indeed know we here in AL have had a far-from-spotless track record when it comes to civil rights in the past, and I don't doubt there are Klansmen residing in the state, still I must take offense to any connection you may be insinuating in what is supposed to be an otherwise harmless hint. Surely you know better than that. These are dangerous times, and whatever is said can be misconstrued as an insult even if the speaker's intentions were 100% honorable. I suggest you rephrase your original hint, and only then can we consider the matter closed.

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    1. cranberry,
      I hinted that the "name of the food" has a "Crimson connection," not the "caption of the picture."
      No offense intended to Alabama at all. Alabama did not even cross my mind untill you brought it up in your post. Alabama is not the only institution that has adopted the color "Crimson."

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  9. Sorry, Lego. I'm a little sensitive about that sort of thing, as I would guess anyone would be about their own home state. I know you wouldn't want anyone to say anything disparaging about Minnesota. I jumped to a very wrong conclusion when I read the hint. Still, I've looked up every porridge there is(I think), and I can't seem to find anything that would seem to work here. Got any other hints(that I promise not to overreact about), Lego?

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    1. 'Tis a club associated with crimson.
      Some notable members:
      JFK
      FDR
      Robert Benchley
      "Felix Ungar"
      The "Love Story" guy
      The "Paper Lion" guy
      "Francis Muldoon"
      Mo Rocca
      Grover Norquist
      "Watergate's Robert Mueller"

      One notable non-member:
      Conan O'Brien

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    2. Not being outraged as pjb is above, I calmly worked out all your hints re Appetizer #8 and just nailed it. Only 12 more to go (sigh)....as well as the Brandy slice. (Does one have to have a facility with alcohol to solve that one?)

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    3. Having a bit more luck, just worked out Appetizers #3, 6 and 10. Good thing I remember the relevant "theme song!"

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    4. VT,
      The brand name of something you drink in the Brandy Slice does contain alcohol, but not as much as the drinks pictured in the image.
      I was hopful that Will might possibly use this puzzle on NPR but I guess that he was already familiar with its wordplay.

      LegoWhoIsAFanOfTheReigningWorldSeriesChamps

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    5. Have to chuckle, Lego, I would have NO concept whatsoever, of how much alcohol is in the pictured drinks, nor what they might be called!

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  10. Think of an adjective in 10 letters. Replace one of the letters with a letter 3 places later in the alphabet (e.g., replace E with H or G with J). Do the same with another letter in the adjective. Rearrange to get a body part described by the adjective.

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    1. Wow, great puzzle, Paul. I don't yet know the answer, but the adjective/noun wordplay/interplay is wonderful. I shall work on it.

      LegoDoffingHisPuzzler'sHatAndDonningHisSolver'sHat

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  11. Ale, tea;tamale; oatmeal; meatloaf; foam plate; latte, foam

    Chalk boy, bok choy; dot hog, hotdog

    Stroh's, shorts

    Navel, anvil
    [Navel(orange), neval, redneval, lavender]
    Navy blue

    Underbelly, nuder belly
    [Vulnerable, yulnerdble, underbelly]

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    1. [Vulnerable, yulnerdble, underbelly]
      Beautiful riff-off, Paul.

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    2. I had desperately wanted the answer to be "keratinous" and the body part "fingernail". But of course, it wouldn't work out, because I attempted to force it to!!

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  12. I had no more time to try to work on anything else, not that I expected to have much luck:

    BLUE PLATE SPECIAL: TEA & ALE [Change an E TO M] => TAMALE + O => OATMEAL + F => MEAT LOAF + P => FOAM PLATE (minus P, plus T) => BONUS: LATTE & FOAM

    BOOT REAR APPETIZER:

    3. BOY SCENES => SOYBEANS

    6. DOT HOG => HOT DOG

    8. PASTY HOODING => HASTY PUDDING [Hasty Pudding Club at Harvard, i.e. crimson]

    10. COAT MEAL OOKIE => OATMEAL COOKIE

    14. MAO CHAIN => CHOW MEIN

    15. DENSCH FRIPP => FRENCH DIP?


    RIFF OFFS:

    1. NAVEL => ANVIL

    2. ULNA => ELNA -> LENA; LOIN => OLIN

    3. UNDERBELLY => NUDER BELLY [Dancer]

    4. IRIS => RIIS

    5. CHIN => INCH

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  13. Greetings from Ft. Walton Beach!
    Blue Plate
    TEA, ALE
    TAMALE
    OATMEAL
    MEATLOAF
    FOAM PLATES
    LATTES with FOAM
    Appetizer
    1. BOK CHOI(chalk boy)
    2. BAMBOO SHOOTS(shampoo boots)
    3. SOYBEANS(boy scenes)
    4. CHICKEN NUGGET(Nick can chug it)
    5. STUFFED PEPPERS(puffed steppers)
    6. HOTDOG(dot hog)
    7. KIELBASA(Biel casa)
    8. HASTY PUDDING(pasty hooding)
    9. MOLASSES COOKIE(Cole lasses, Mookie)
    10. OATMEAL COOKIE(coat, meal, ooky)
    11. BLUEBERRY PIE(Pooh bury Bly)
    12. BRICK CHEESE(chick, Brees)
    13. FARMER CHEESE(charmer fees)
    14. CHOW MEIN(Mao chain)
    15. FRENCH DIP(Dench, Fripp)
    Riff-Offs
    1. NAVEL, ANVIL(part of the inner ear)
    2. ULNA(bone), LENA OLIN, LOIN
    3. UNDERBELLY, "NUDER BELLY"
    4. IRIS, JACOB RIIS
    5. HIP, PHI, THIGH
    Anyone heading back to Blaine for the two-week creative challenge, I'll see you there!-pjb

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  14. This weeks answers for the record, part 1:

    Blue Plate Special Of The Week:
    All day picnic dishing
    You’re packing an all-day picnic basket:
    Begin by including two beverages.
    Change one letter of the two beverages’ letters and rearrange the result to spell a luncheon dish.
    To this, add a vowel and rearrange to spell a breakfast dish.
    To this, add a consonant and rearrange to spell a dinner dish.
    To this, add a consonant and rearrange to spell what these dishes may be served on, in two words.
    What are these six picnic items?
    Blue Plate Special Second Helping:
    To what these dishes may be served on, subtract a P and add a T to form two words: a hot beverage to enjoy during the evening campfire (with s’mores!), and the luscious froth that floats on the brim of the beverage.
    Answer:
    Tea; Ale; Tamale; Oatmeal; Meatloaf; Foam Plate
    Blue Plate Special Second Helping: Latte, foam

    Appetizer Menu

    Dad’s Boot Rear Appetizer:
    Spoonerfuls o’ food fit for the famished
    Write a caption for each of the 15 numbered images pictured here, then spoonerize each caption in some manner to name something you can eat or drink. For example, an image of a bully kicking someone in the posterior could be captioned “boot rear” which, when spoonerized, becomes root beer.
    Here are fifteen hints. The number of words each caption contains appears in (parentheses). The number of words in each food appears in [brackets]. (Numbers 2, 4, 5, 8 and 11 are the most far-fetched)
    1. Veggie (2 words in the caption) [2 words in the food]
    2. Veggie; Note: Before you spoonerize the caption to reveal the veggie, you must first flip the third-last letter of its first word 180-degrees along the axis perpendicular to the surface it is written on. (2) [2]
    3. Legume (2) [1]
    4. Meat, meal (4) [2] Spoonerize only the first and third of the 4 caption words to reveal the food.
    5. Meat, meal (2) [2]
    6. Meat, meal (2) [1, or sometimes written as 2]
    7. Meat, meal (2) [1]
    8. Porridge (2) [2]
    9. Sweet (3) [2] Spoonerize only the first and third of the 3 caption words to reveal the food.
    10. Sweet (3) [2] Spoonerize only the first and third of the 3 caption words to reveal the food. The third word does not begin with a consonant sound, so the spoonerization is along the lines of ginger ale” becoming “injure jail.”
    11. Sweet (3) [2] Spoonerize only the first and third of the 3 caption words to reveal the food. And, you ought to write the caption Ebonically. https://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/ebonics/
    12. Dairy (2) [2]
    13. Dairy (2) [2]
    14. Pasta, meal (2) [2]
    15. Meat (2) [2]

    Answer:
    1. Chalk boy; Bok choy
    2. Shampoo boots (>> Shamboo boots); Bamboo shoots
    3. Boy scenes (John Boy Walton; Tarzan's "Boy"; Boy George; Robin, the Boy Wonder); soybeans
    4. Nick can chug it; Chicken nugget
    5. Puffed steppers; Stuffed peppers
    6. Dot hog; Hotdog
    7. Biel casa (Yes, I know it probably should be "Casa Biel"); Kielbasa
    8. Pastie hooding; Hasty pudding
    9. Cole lasses, Mookie; Molasses cookie
    10. Coat, meal, "ookie"; Oatmeal cookie
    11. Pooh bury Bligh; Blueberry pie
    12. Chick, (Drew) Brees; Brick cheese
    13. Charmer's fees; Farmers cheese
    14. Mao chain; Chow mein
    15. Dench, Fripp; French dip

    Lego...

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  15. This weeks answers for the record, part 2:

    MENU

    Brandy Name Slice:
    A nightcap to cap off the night
    Reverse the letters in the brand name of something you drink to spell something you wear. What is it that you wear? What might you drink?
    Answer:
    Shorts (Stroh's)

    Riffing Off Shortz Slices:
    Erconstructive obdily usrgery
    ONE:
    Name part of the human body associated with contemplation. Switch the first two letters and change a later vowel to a different vowel to get a part of the human body associated with audition. What is it?
    Answer:
    Anvil (Navel >> Anvel >> Anvil, one of the three bones of the inner ear, along with hammer and stirrup)
    TWO:
    Name part of the human body. Change the first letter to the first letter of an adjacent body part which includes one end of the first body part. Switch the first two letters of this result to get the first name of a Scandinavian actress. To find her last name, switch the first two letters of another body part
    Who is this actress?
    Answer:
    Lena Olin;
    (Ulna >> Elna {after replacing the U with the E in Elbow} >> Lena)
    (Loin >> Olin)
    THREE:
    Name part of the body often considered to be vulnerable. Switch the first two letters to get a two-word comparative phrase for what a _____ dancer often possesses vis-a-vis, say, a ballet dancer. What is this body part?
    Hint: the word in the blank echoes the word “ballet” and is a part of the body part.
    Answer:
    Underbelly; (A belly dancer normally possesses a “nuder belly” than a ballet dancer.)
    FOUR:
    Name part of the human body. Switch the first two letters to get the last name of a past muckraking journalist/photographer. What is this human body part and who is the journalist/photographer?
    Hint: The relatively primitive camera this journalist used had a part called a diaphragm, which is also a human body part. Were the jounalist alive today he would use a camera with a part serving the same function as the diaphagm. That part is the answer to this puzzle.
    Answer:
    Iris. (Jacob) Riis;
    Hint: The iris of a camera now does what the camera's diaphaghm once did.
    FIVE:
    Name part of the human body. Move the first two letters to the end of the word to get something much shorter than a homonym of another part of the human body. What are these two body parts?
    Answer:
    Chin; Foot (Chin >> Inch)

    Lego...

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