Friday, March 12, 2021

TV Guise: Comedies of Error! Stoneware bowls and rolling balls; Great Scott! A “Skydiversion!” Telecommunication & Mini-critters; Percuss, paradiddle, pick, pluck, plink (or otherwise play)

 PUZZLERIA! SLICES: OVER 6!p SERVED



Schpuzzle of the Week:

Stoneware bowls and rolling balls


Name something you may see at a ceramics shop, in two words. 

Spoonerize these words to name something you may see if the numbers on your ticket match those on the rolling balls. 

What two things may you see?


Appetizer Menu


Misguided Appetizer:

TV Guise: Comedies of Error!

TV GUISE

Through an unfortunate miscommunication in outsourcing, the titles of a series of television programs accidentally had one (and only one) letter changed. 

Due to imperfect artificial intelligence, the guide automatically generated descriptions of the shows that are just not quite right.  

Below are thirteen generated descriptions, sometimes with an (artificial) acclamation.  

Can you name the mistaken and the original titles of these shows? All shows are well known, either having run for at least five years or having a lasting impact on popular culture.  

Note that while only one letter is changed,
occasionally punctuation, capitalization and spacing between letters are changed to create new words.

Here is an example in which all that changes is just one letter:

A wise and mild-mannered patriarch strings his family along.  

“A prelude to Family Ties?”  

Answer: Father Knots Best (Father Knows Best).

Comedies:

 The conservative patriarch of a working class family finds conflict when a stuffy alien moves in.  

“That ain’t meat in your head!”

An oddball group of city detectives attempt to make a cloying dinosaur go extinct.  

“You’ll sing NY isn’t the only thing to love!

 A daughter in a newly formed large family displays her lesbianism by taking on her brothers.

The crew and five passengers on a 3 hour bus tour are stranded in Bakersfield.

Blue collar worker tries to have a winning streak with a flashy new scheme each week. 

“It’s a real crack up when you get to the bottom of things, so don’t be left behind!”

Lothario American leader in a German POW camp combats the SS and the STD’s.

“I feel something! Could put you in the Klink.

A Cuban-American entertainer washes his wife.  

“It’s a real ball!”

A boy in the 1950’s decides to have gender reassignment surgery.  

“Don't use a cleaver to chop that wood!”

With three different stories and adventures, each week presents tales of amour on Noah’s Ark.  

“They’re really cruising!”  [Three answers]

Presents the work of the most popular economists offering an alternative to capitalism.  Case studies include Richard Wolff, Rosa Luxembourg, Vladimir Lenin, and Friedrich Engels.  

“An out of this world concept!”

As told by their father, the grifting adventures of of Don Jr, Eric, and Ivanka.  

“There’s more than one hoax!”

Comedy ensues when Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning are forced to live together.  

“Two versus verses!”

A musical family is sometimes on the fly after an experiment in teleportation has an unfortunate mishap.  

“What a combo band! Theyll make you happy...

Sheepish Editor’s note from LegoLambda:

The parenthetical note, “(Alice didn’t go through the looking glass, more like a telescope) (that appeared as a part of TV Guise description #6) was actually a hint to one of the other twelve TV Guise comedy descriptions. 

It was my mistake.

But, can you figure out which of the twelve other comedies that parenthetical note is a hint for?

My apologies to Ecoarchitect and to all Puzzlerian!s for my blunder.


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Verbal Vibrato At A Venue Slice:

Percuss, paradiddle, pick, pluck, plink (or otherwise play)

Name a verb for what some performers at a famous music venue do to their instruments. 

Rearrange the letters of this verb to spell a German word you might know.

Rearrange the letters of the first word in the name of the venue to spell a German word associated with the first German word. 

What are this verb, venue and two associated German words?


Riffing Off Shortz And Scott Slices:

Great Scott! A “Skydiversion!”


Will Shortz’s March 7th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Mark Scott, of Seattle, Washington, reads:

Think of a country with a one-word name. You can rearrange its letters to identify a member of one of our country’s armed forces. Who is that, and what’s the country?

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Scott Slices read:

ENTREE #1

Take the first name of an actor surnamed Williams and the surname of a singer named Kitty. 

Rearrange these ten combined letters to spell one of our country’s famous thoroughfares. 

Now take a two-word term for an “aggregation of buyers and sellers of shares,” in five and six letters, that is associated with that thoroughfare. Change the second word in that term to a four-letter synonym if itself. Rearrange these nine combined letters to spell the first name and surname of a puzzle-maker. 

Who is this puzzlemaker?

What is the country?

ENTREE #2

Think of a country with a one-word name. 

You can add an “i” and rearrange the resulting nine letters to name a petty officer on a merchant ship having charge of hull
maintenance and related work.

What is the county? 

Who is the officer?

Bonus Hint: An abbreviated version of the officer is an anagram of “bonus.”

ENTREE #3

Take a word for American infantrymen especially during World War I which were also advertising mascots for a Minneapolis-based company that was one of the world’s largest producers of grain and other foodstuffs until it was bought by General Mills in 2001. 

This company might ___ many a ___ from local pork-producing farmers who might also “bust” ___ with a plow to cultivate grain the company may also purchase. The letters in those blanks (three letters in each blank) can be rearranged to spell the word for the infantrymen/mascots.

What is this word?

What are the three words in the blanks?

What is the Minneapolis-based company?

ENTREE #4

Think of a country with a one-word name. 

You can rearrange its eight letters to identify a member of one of our country’s armed forces. 

If instead you remove one letter from the country’s name you will spell a common surname – that is, a common-noun surname as opposed to a proper-noun surname.

What’s the country?

Who’s the member of the armed forces?

What is the common-noun surname?

ENTREE #5

Think of a country with a one-word name. You can rearrange its letters to spell two nouns that apply to men:

1. a 3-letter synonym of  “rake,” and

2. a 4-letter synonym of  “snake.”

What’s the country?

What are the two synonyms?

ENTREE #6

Think of a country with a one-word name. 

You can rearrange its final three letters to spell a body part.

You can spell its first four letters backward to get an automobile part.

Take a five-letter synonym of  “delicacy, kickshaw, tidbit
and treat.” Place it in front of the body part (without a space), followed by the auto part.

The result is a brand name of the auto part.

What’s this country?

What are the body part and auto part?

What is the five-letter synonym and auto-part brand name?

Hint: The five-letter synonym, if repeated, is the title of a song associated with Frankie Lymon. 

ENTREE #7

Think of the new name of a recently renamed African country with a one-word name. 

You can rearrange its letters to spell a kind of 4-letter alcoholic beverage and a 4-word Italian city that is home to a 2-word sweet sparkling white variety of this beverage. 

What’s the country?

What are the beverage and the city that is home to a variety of the beverage?

Hint: The eight letters in the second word of the variety of the beverage can be rearranged to form the two words that describe either this song or that song.

ENTREE #8

Think of a celestial body that orbits the sun, the name of an Earth orbiter since 1962, and the name of a card game played with 32 cards. 

Rearrange the combined letters to name a puzzle-maker and the city where this puzzle-maker lives.  

Who is it? 


Dessert Menu 


No Phone No Lights No Motor Car Dessert:

Telecommunication & Mini-critters


Name a man associated with telecommunications whose first name is a small creature and surname sounds like a similar small creature. 

Who is this man?

Hint: The man is also associated with “Gilligan's Island.


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73 comments:

  1. Hello, all,

    Guess I will be the 1st to post this week.

    Rather quickly got the Slice and all Entrées except #3,4.

    Think I will boycott the Appetizers, as I can hardly imagine anything more repulsive than spending the next week combing through lists of sitcoms that I detest anyway. Better to complete my TAXES.

    Otherwise, a nice set of puzzles this week.
    geofan

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  2. Does anyone know origin of saying -"oh Great Scott? Something to do with Mark Twain i heard.

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    1. I guess Mr.Watson also was heard to say this on occasion in the original Sherlock series. Also "By Jove"

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  4. Happy nine-minutes-remaining-of-Friday to all!
    At the time I started posting this comment the clock showed 11:51PM here in AL, hence the unusual greeting. By the time I've finished, it'll probably be after midnight, and therefore be Saturday morning, but that's neither here nor there. Anyway, I've done all my usual Friday night activities, including the Everyman crossword, which was supposed to appear last Saturday, but it never did, and I sort of forgot about it until tonight, so I checked it, and then I solved the new one, so if I'm a little later than usual checking in, it's because of that. I also was unable to find the new Puzzleria! late last night, so I also only just saw it earlier tonight and solved what I could, so my lateness is also because of that. Anyway, I was quite amused by the TV Guise section, even though I'm a little unsure about #4 and #5, as well as #8(which I'm quite certain has a dirty answer, or at least I've not come up with anything that sounds suitable for publication; Let's just say if you know the original show title, part of it has a totally different connotation according to the synopsis provided, so you have been warned!). I also don't have Entrees #4 or #5, but other than that, these were quite easy this week! I even sort of figured out the Dessert just from the "Gilligan's Island" picture. I hadn't even read it through yet, and I already knew what the answer would involve! Oh well. Some weeks are like that, I guess.
    Anyway, as I speak it is now 15 minutes after midnight, Mom went to bed an hour ago, and I really have nothing more to say. I have Seth Meyers on TV, they're rerunning the last time David Spade "made an appearance" on the show. It was via Zoom, of course. If anyone actually appears in studio now, it's a much bigger surprise. When I was growing up, Zoom was still a children's show on public TV, based in Boston, from WGBH. Being on Zoom then would've been a much better treat for some people, I'm sure. Now Zoom is a totally different thing, and practically the only way you can see any celebrities right now. I don't know if anyone else here watches streaming services regularly, but I don't really do it myself. If I don't see it on my plasma screen TV, I'm watching it on my Kindle Fire(mostly YouTube). Recently I started watching this guy Rick Nineg(actually pronounced 9-G), who's collected trivia about The Three Stooges and old TV shows. My favorite ones are when he's found bloopers that were actually left in the finished product, but they clearly should've cut them out. A lot of them involved the shadow of the boom microphone showing up, or apparently Larry of the Stooges kept breaking character and laughing, stuff like that. It's really interesting. You can find the clips on YouTube. It has all kinds of things like that. No wonder I've been so late to bed most nights!
    In closing, as usual, I wish you all good luck in solving, please stay safe, and if you must go out, when you must go out, please wear a mask! Cranberry out!
    pjbAlsoGotANewGAMES/WorldOfPuzzlesMagazineYesterday,ButHeHasn'tDoneMuchInItAsOfYesterday(OrIsItTheOtherDayByNow?)

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    1. Congrats on your Blaine solve this week. I had a near miss with Airmen- E.(class). Armenia. My wife met one of the stooges when she was a kid.
      My wife's uncle was married to singer Ginny Sims who palled around with them-the stooges.

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  5. Let's see....I believe I have HALF the Schpuzzle, but I could be wrong, because I can NOT come up with anything that works for the second half (which of course, is dictated by said first half). I thought the Slice was a bit more difficult than Geo apparently did, but I did solve it. Have all the Entrees except #4 (contrary to Geo, #3 seemed pretty easy to me), and #8, for which I thus far have only one of the three words; the puzzle maker I suspect Lego chose, well, I have NO idea where he lives, how are we supposed to know?

    As to those Appetizers, the first three worked out easily, and #7 was easiest of all, but that's where the 'easy' ended. I'm pretty sure I have the correct original TV shows for #4, 6 and 8 and 9, and possibly #13,but so far haven't been able to figure out which letter to change in each of them. For #s 10 and 12 I have no idea where to begin.

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    1. VT: Correction: in the above I meant Entrées #4 and #5, not #3. I agree that #3 was easy.

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    2. VT,
      If you are in the hometown where the puzzle-maker in Entree #8 lives, you have have just been eaten by a giant SEA TURTLE!

      LegoSaysYYURYYUBICURYY4ME(OrAsTheMysteryPuzzleMakerMightSay:YYIMYYIBICIMYY4U!)

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    3. OK, Lego, thanks...I had considered that to be the town, but then couldn't find a 'name' that would work for the only puzzlemaker I'm aware of who lives there.

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  6. Note that the parenthetic remark after Appetizer #6 was a hint intended for a different number - but I won't say which.

    Geofan: sorry you don't like sitcoms, I can only say that most of these are considered classic shows, with some having relics in the Smithsonian. All of them started at least 44 years ago, plenty of time to heal your pain.

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  7. I love sitcoms. I just wished you could have more westerns,of my youth, Gunsmoke, Rawhide, Rifleman, Maverick, Have Gun will travel. Oh wait a minute those aren't sitcoms are they?? Ok now what was the first every sitcom? But more of these are classics.

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    1. Plantsmith,
      Rest assured. This is not the last "TV Guise" you will be seeing on Puzzleria! Ecoarchitect tends to be pretty prolific with his puzzle-making. There are more.Stay tuned.
      Sorry to eco for messing up the parenthetic remark/hint after Appetizer #6. But thanks to eco for covering for my mistake by turning it into another puzzling challenge.

      LegoWhoObservesThatIfYouGiveALemonToEcoarchitectHeWillMakeLemonade(OrPerhapsAnEnergyEfficientSlitLevelRanchHome!)

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  8. Well E5 i see Abyssina has A-S in it. Too many letters. Oh well.

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  9. What I'd really like to know is: What kind of snake that is in the picture in Entree 5, and where do you find them?

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    1. In the leaves?

      LegoWhoAdmitsHeSeesNoSnakEInThoseLeaves(Let'sLookAtSomeGrass!)

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  10. Could App 11 be "it takes a Thief."? Loved that show.

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    1. That's intensely funny, PLTSH!

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    2. It's definitely not It Takes a Thief, though that show is in my list of potential future Guises. Tough to change one letter and make something meaningful, but I have a couple of options.

      The TV show for #11 relates to the quantity of horrid progeny.

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    3. Hey eco, mind if I turn the tables on you with one "TV Guise" idea of my own? See if you can figure this one out:
      A "Bowling For Dollars" reboot, but all the competitors are improv comics.
      Hint: It's not based on a sitcom, but it did originate across the pond.
      pjbMightWellBeMakingAMochrieOfThisWholeThing!

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    4. I think I finally came up with an answer for your #11, eco.Still too many others not solved yet, tho.

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  11. Well might be a cooking show--"It bakes a thief?" Don't get me started.

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  12. Monday Hints:

    Schpuzzle of the Week:
    The "something you may see at a ceramics shop, in two words" has three and two syllables and, of course, rhymes with the "something you may see if the numbers on your ticket match those on the rolling balls."
    The ticket is something you might purchase at a 7-11.

    TV Guise: Sit-comedies of Error:
    1. Alien Life Form
    2. "Sauricide?"
    3. ?
    4. Bakersfield ain't too beachy!
    5. "Alice didn't go through the looking glass, more like a telescope."
    6. ...not Schultz's Simplex
    7. “It’s a real ball!”
    8. “Don't use a cleaver to chop that wood!” Cleaver is the operative word...
    9. A nanny, wild pig and big snakes
    10. “An out of this world concept!” Your TV isn't the only thing with
    11 “There’s more than one hoax!” Not just one, or two, but ...... "Yipes, Stripes!"
    12. A pair of poets?
    13. ?

    Verbal Vibrato At The Venue Slice:
    The initial letters of the 3-letter famous music venue spell a synonym of "sentimental tripe" or "sticky substance."

    Riffing Off Shortz And Scott Slices:
    ENTREE #1
    "Trick or _____" + "_____ Fargo" are first name of an actor surnamed Williams plus the surname of a singer named Kitty.
    ENTREE #2
    The officer? "Red-tailed B_ _ _" + "Mark T_ _ _ _"
    Place those words beginning with B and T next to one another. Switch the fourth and fifth letters.
    ENTREE #3
    The Minneapolis-based company = "medicinal capsules" + "inter"
    ENTREE #4
    It's a common-noun surname.
    ENTREE #5
    The country with a one-word name is in equatorial South America.
    ENTREE #6
    The body part appears on the head. The automobile part needs to be filled.
    ENTREE #7
    The 9 letters in the old name of the recently renamed African country can be rearrange to spell a 3-letter cutting tool (varient spelling), another 3-letter cutting tool, and "nothing"... or the same 3-letter cutting tool (varient spelling), a 3-letter leather-punching tool, and a synonym of "transgression."
    ENTREE #8
    Pilots and Sonics used to play in the city.

    No Phone No Lights No Motor Car Dessert:
    The small creatures are aquatic.

    LegoWhoNotesThatTheMusicVenueInTheVerbalVibratoSliceBeginsWithASlangTermForALargeNumber

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  13. Well, I got Entree #5, but I still need more to go on with #4.
    pjbKnowsHisOwnSurnameIsACommonNoun,ButItMostLikelyWon'tApplyHere

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    1. cranberry,
      You and I have both been "blessed" (?) with surnames that double as common nouns ("pick a berry," "foxes raise their young"). But when we sign our surnames, "Berry" and "Young," they are also uppercase Proper Nouns.
      So, in the puzzle text, when I say,
      "If instead you remove one letter from the country’s name you will spell a common surname – that is, a common-noun surname as opposed to a proper-noun surname..."
      ...it is possible that the letter you remove is the initial uppercase letter, which might result in "pain" (Spain) or "man" (Oman), for example. But neither of those are common surnames, even though they are indeed common nouns.
      ...but if instead you remove an interior letter from a nation, say an "i" for argument's sake, you just might end up with a string of letters that no longer spells a county, which is a proper noun. So, you should lowercase its initial letter. When you do so, you will form a lowercase word "that is a common-noun surname as opposed to a proper-noun surname!"

      LegoAnOmanWhoFeelsNoSpain!

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    2. I think I liked it better when you just said where the country is located, like #5.
      pjbSaysThere'sNothingLikeEndingUpALotMoreConfusedThanWhenYouFirstStarted

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    3. The country in question is in northern South America.
      The first half of the country's name sounds like it might have "a fringe on top."
      The second half of the country's name is a word in this sentence.

      LegoSays"JustTakeAButOfMyUnrulyWildHirsuteFringeOffTheTopPleaseMrBarber!"

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  14. Also for App 11. " Breaking Bad" ?

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  15. Sorry for late hints/ additions, I've been looped with projects, and hence out of the loop.

    To add to Lego's hints for the Appetizers:
    #3: How to begin? I know! "Here's the story..."
    #10: “An out of this world concept!” Your TV isn't the only thing with an antenna!" I neglected that last bit when I sent it to Lego.
    #11: Think of Don Jr, Eric, and Ivanka as the new Mike, Robbie and Chip.
    #12: In the original show, one character was a grouch, the other was a bit catty.
    #13: This show might fly.

    The Dessert made me think T.S. Eliot wasn't expansive enough.

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    1. Thanks greatly for the hints, eco.
      There are still 4 of the 13 TV Guise comedy shows that I have not solved: 5, 8, 10 and 12. These hints may help me on #10 and #12.

      LegoWhoSays"JustCallMeMacavity"

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    2. BUt you gave a Monday HINT on #12, Lego....which I thought about a lot and then got the answer.

      How about #13? YOu didn't have a hint for it; have you since figured it out?

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    3. VT,
      In TV Guise #13, eco's caveat that "occasionally punctuation, capitalization and spacing between letters are changed to create new words" comes into play... specifically the "spacing between letters" part. A relatively long odd-number-lettered word in the "original" title splits into two smaller words with even and odd numbers of letters.
      (The even part does not change. The odd part is a realy tiny creature.)

      LegoAdmitsThatThisOneTookHimSomeTimeToSolve

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  16. If i am correct five also is reminiscent of a Calgon plumber add of some years back.

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  17. Finally got Entrée #4 with all the hints. What threw me off was that the puzzle states that the country has nine letters when in reality it has eight letters. I spent hours looking at lists of 9-letter countries in vain.

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    1. ME TOO, Geo!! That list of 9 letter one-word countries was driving me crazy. DId Lego goof?

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    2. He most certainly did! After the last hint he gave me, he most certainly did! And it was such a "Duh" moment when I figured out the common-noun surname!
      pjbHasBadWeatherComingInHisAreaTomorrow,SoHeReallyDoesn'tWantToBeJerkedAroundLikeThisTheDayBefore!

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    3. Yes, I did indeed goof, and I sincerely apologize to you all.
      I realize this is really frustrating, and I will do my darnedest to self-edit myself with more rigor and competence.

      LegoWhoAsksForgiveness

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    4. "to err is human, to forgive- uncommon--no it's Divine."

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  18. About 12 hours ago, as I was falling asleep, suddenly I realized, with elation, WHAT the other two Schpuzzle words had to be; I had been 'close' before turning off the computer, but the last word I'd thought of (previously) would have had to rhyme with a word that didn't exist!

    However, with a slight change of its ending, then it all worked. Nobody else has been talking about the Schpuzzle much, so maybe everyone else has gotten it already?

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    1. Got it with very little difficulty, oddly enough.
      BTW No fooling here, guys, we got some bad weather coming through AL tomorrow. Tornadoes are a possibility! I hope to be revealing my answers here soon enough before anything goes wrong! Pray for us down here!
      pjbHasHisHelmet,HisFlashlight,AndHisPhone,AndIsReadyToHideInTheUtilityRoomWhenNecessary!

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    2. Saying prayers, cranberry. Hunker down.

      LegoHopesTheBamaTornadoTurnsOutToBeMoreOfATornada

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    3. Yea take care Cranberry. Atlanta is also in the cross hairs of that tempest. The utility room? I thought it was the bathroom? Ready to return to the West coast.
      VT- still working on Schpuzzle. Keep thinking i have the first two words, but as for the seconds?

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    4. The two second words in the Schpuzzle are both 6-letter compound words with a "y" somewhere in the interior.

      LegoSupposesOneMayPoutIfNotAbleToSolveTheSchpuzzle

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    5. The "utility room" is what we call the room with the washer and dryer. It's located next to the garage. I think we've called it that ever since we lived in the house where I grew up. BTW Any chance I might post my answers a little early? It's five after 2:00PM here, and they say this hour is when it'll start to get really bad, though all the local meteorologists have already been on a few hours now.

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  19. It appears that my answer to the Schpuzzle (and two less-plausible alternates) are not the intended answer. My "best" answer yields from the ceramic product (which would be slightly radioactive, owing to its coloring agent) two words that one could more likely hear than see from the postulated lottery winner. 2 + 1 syllable word and not a strict rhyme (but a strict Spoonerization).

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  20. Schpuzzle: Pottery Layout & Lottery Payout

    Appetizers:
    1. ALF in the Family (All in the Family)
    2. Barney Killer (Barney Miller)
    3. The Brady Punch (The Brady Punch) I may have missed a nuance.
    4. Gilligan's Inland (Gilligan's Island)
    5. Probable solution: The Money Mooners (The Honeymooners)
    But I like: The Line of Riley (The Life of Riley) A different
    line or scheme per episode
    6. Hogan's Herpes (Hogan's Heroes)
    7. I Lave Lucy (I Love Lucy)
    8. Leave It To Be A Her (Leave It To Beaver)
    9. The Love Goat; The Love Boar; The Dove Boat (The Love Boat)
    10. My Favorite Marxian (My Favorite Martian)
    11. My Three Sins or My Three Cons (My Three Sons) I can play along
    12. The Old Couple (The Odd Couple)
    13. The Part Midge Family (The Partridge Family) Original show came
    easy, but Post hint on the variation - shades of Vincent Price
    Backup: The Flying Nut (The Flying Nun)

    VVAAV Slice: Strum; Grand Ole Opry; Sturm und Drang

    Entrees:
    1. Mark Scott; Treat & Wells; Stock Market; Mart; The Country =
    USofA
    2. Botswana/ Boatswain
    3. Doughboys/ Buy; Hog; Sod; Pillsbury
    4. Suriname; U.S. Marine; Surname
    5. Ecuador; Cad & Roue (or is it the other way around?)
    6. Eritrea; Ear & Tire; Goody & Goodyear Tire
    7. Eswatini; Wine & Asti
    8. Mark Scott of Seattle (Comet; Telstar; Skat)

    14.

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  21. ALF in the Family
    Barney Killer
    The Brady Butch
    Gilligan's Inland (?)
    Hogan's Herpes
    I Lave Lucy
    The Live Boat; The Dove Boat
    My Three Cons

    STURM UND DRANG

    TREAT (Williams), (Kitty) WELLS > WALL STREET / STOCK MARKET > STOCK MART > MARK SCOTT
    (Pillsbury)DOUGHBOYS BUY HOGs from SODbusters

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  22. Schpuzzle
    Original answer: YELLOW BOWL => BELLOW, YOWL
    [alternates] (1) CLAY POT => PAY CLOT or PLAY COT
    Intended answer [post-Tue-hint] LOTTERY Pxxxx => POTTERY Lxxxx

    Appetizers: skipped

    Vibrato Slice: STRUM, GRAND => STURM, DRANG

    Entrées
    #1: TREAT(Williams), (Kitty)WELLS => WALL STREET, STOCK MAR(ke)T => MARK SCOTT
    #2: BOTSWANA + I => BOATSWAIN; Hint: BOSUN
    #3: DOUGHBOYS => BUY, HOG, SOD
    #4: SURINAME => U.S. MARINE; SURINAME – I => SURNAME
    #5: ECUADOR => CAD, ROUE
    #6: ERITREA => TIRE, EAR + GOODY >= GOODYEAR TIRE
    #7: ESWATINI => ASTI (spumante) WINE; SPUMANTE => SPAM TUNE
    #8: COMET, TELSTAR, SKAT => MARK SCOTT, SEATTLE

    Dessert: “NEWT” MINOW (former FCC Chairman). Got it from the hint.
    I totally agree with Minow's assessment of USA TV as a “vast wasteland.”

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  23. BTW My TV Guise idea was "Whose Lane Is It Anyway?", instead of "Line".
    Schpuzzle
    POTTERY LAYOUT, LOTTERY PAYOUT
    Appetizer Menu
    1. ALF IN THE FAMILY(ALL)
    2. BARNEY KILLER(MILLER)
    3. THE BRADY BUTCH(BUNCH)
    4. GILLIGAN'S INLAND(ISLAND)(?)
    5. THE MONEYMOONERS(HONEYMOONERS(?)
    6. HOGAN'S HERPES(HEROES)
    7. I LAVE LUCY(LOVE)
    8. LEAVE IT NO BEAVER(TO)(?)
    9. THE LOVE GOAT, THE LOVE BOAR, THE LOVE BOAS(BOAT)
    10. MY FAVORITE MARXIAN(MARTIAN)
    11. MY THREE CONS(SONS)
    12. THE ODE COUPLE(ODD)
    13. THE PARTMIDGE FAMILY(PARTRIDGE)
    Menu
    Verbal Vibrato at a Venue Slice
    STURM UND DRANG, STRUM, GRAND OLE OPRY
    Entrees
    1. WALL STREET, STOCK MARKET, STOCK MART, MARK SCOTT
    2. BOTSWANA, BOATSWAIN
    3. (Pillsbury)DOUGHBOYS, BUY, HOG, SOD
    4. SURINAME, U.S. MARINE, SURNAME
    5. ECUADOR, CAD, ROUE
    6. ERITREA, EAR, TIRE, GOODYEAR(GOODY, GOODY)
    7. ESWATINI(formerly Swaziland), WINE, ASTI, SPUMANTE(SPAM TUNE)
    8. COMET, SKAT, TELSTAR, MARK SCOTT, SEATTLE
    Dessert
    NEWTON "NEWT" MINOW(MINNOW)
    Hope to see the next Puzzleria! early Friday morning(God willing!)-pjb

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    1. cranberry - Hope you are ok tonight.

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    2. Oh my gosh, pjb, just hearing on NBC news that, granted, is three hours later than in the East, about the Level 5 tornadoes in AL....can't remember what city you are in...are you alright?

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    3. Relax, VT, I survived it all. We had no real tornado activity in Jasper, thank God. Just a thunderstorm, nothing more. It had weakened a bit by the time it got to us. I was more worried we'd be without power for a few days. It has happened before, almost a decade ago(Apr. 27, 2011). Tonight the satellite TV messed up a few times, and we had to reboot it, but that's all.
      pjbBelievesInPowerToThePeople,ButOutagesToNone

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  24. TREAT(Williams), (Kitty)WELLS
    Sorry, forgot that part.

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  25. Interesting that no one got the correct answer to Appetizer #5, perhaps you've lost touch with your 3rd grade humor. The official answers for the Appetizers:

    1. The conservative patriarch of a working class family finds conflict when a stuffy alien moves in. “That ain’t meat in your head!” ALF in the Family of course from All in the Family. This was my favorite Guise.

    2. An oddball group of city detectives attempt to make a cloying dinosaur go extinct. “You’ll sing NY isn’t the only thing to love!” Barney Killer from Barney Miller. Just the thought of this TV cross reference made this my most-loved Guise.

    3. A daughter in a newly formed large family displays her lesbianism by taking on her brothers. The Brady Butch, naturally from The Brady Bunch. As a Bay Area resident this has to be my first choice of Guises.

    4. The crew and five passengers on a 3 hour bus tour are stranded in Bakersfield. Gilligan's Inland, from Gilligan's Island. With the 's changing from a possessive to the contraction for "is", is it any wonder this is the Guise I treasure most?

    5. Blue collar worker tries to have a winning streak with a flashy new scheme each week. “It’s a real crack up when you get to the bottom of things, so don’t be left behind!” The Hiney Mooners, from The Honeymooners. The juvenile humor and multiple puns ensures this will be my most esteemed until "the end."

    6. Lothario American leader in a German POW camp combats the SS and the STD’s. “I feel something! Could put you in the Klink.” Hogan's Herpes from Hogan's Heroes. The connection with star Bob Crane's personal life made this my favorite.

    7. A Cuban-American entertainer washes his wife. “It’s a real ball!” I Lave Lucy from I Love Lucy. I think this one was pretty easy, but it remains my most cherished.

    8. A boy in the 1950’s decides to have gender reassignment surgery. “Don't use a cleaver to chop that wood!” Leave It To Be A Her, Leave It To Beaver, you can decide what "It" is; Lorena Bobbitt and I agree this is our number one - ouch!

    9. With three different stories and adventures, each week presents tales of amour on Noah’s Ark. “They’re really cruising!” [Three answers] The Love Boar, The Love Boas, The Love Goat from The Love Boat. The three options definitely made this my pet puzzle.

    10. Presents the work of the most popular economists offering an alternative to capitalism. Case studies include Richard Wolff, Rosa Luxembourg, Vladimir Lenin, and Friedrich Engels. “An out of this world concept!” My Favorite Marxian from My Favorite Martian. I'm a fan of Richard Wolff, seen him speak several times, so this Guise is surely my most precious.

    11. As told by their father, the grifting adventures of of Don Jr, Eric, and Ivanka. “There’s more than one hoax!” My Three Cons riffing (ripping?) off My Three Sons. Clearly this is the best one of all.

    12. Comedy ensues when Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning are forced to live together. “Two versus verses!” The Ode Couple from the Odd Couple. Tuesday hint referred to Oscar (the grouch) Madison and Felix (the cat) Unger, played by Jack Klugman and Tony Randall. Literary references like this are absolutely the tops in my mind!

    13. A musical family is sometimes on the fly after an experiment in teleportation has an unfortunate mishap. “What a combo band! They’ll make you happy...” The Part Midge Family from the Partridge Family, with side reference to the 1958 & 1986 films "The Fly," as a midge is a type of fly. I adored this one more than all the others!

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    1. Eco, I got your #5!! And I promise I DID NOT peek!

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    2. Eco, my apologies. I honestly thought "Beaver" was still a part of the title!
      pjbSaysAMindIsATerribleThingToHaveInTheGutter

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    3. BTW I know I should have gotten the "Hiney" part in "The Hineymooners", but "The PartMidge Family" was a bit of a stretch, IMHO.
      pjbWouldHaveAtLeastTriedToMake"Cartridge"Work,IfNecessary

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    4. Alabama getting hit hard. You OK?

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  26. 3/15/21 temp am --51 degrees
    Schpuzzle: Pottery / Liner-- Lottery-??

    Appetizers:
    1. AL in the Family (Alf-in the Family)
    2. Barney Killer (Barney Miller)
    3. The Brady Bunch ?? I
    4. Gilligan's Inland (Gilligan's Island)
    5. King of Queens-- King of tweens. Junior high humor in tact.
    6. Hogan's Heroes ??
    7. I Dove Lucy (I Love Lucy) Dove soap
    8. Leave It To Beaver-. Leave it at beaver?
    9. ??
    10. ??
    11. My Three Dons ,(My Three Sons)
    12..(The Odd Couple)
    13. ??

    Slice: Sign ; Grand Ole Opry; ??

    Entrees:
    1. Mark Scott; Treat & Wells; Stock Market; Mart;
    2. Botswana/ Boatswain
    3. Doughboys-Buy, Hog, Sod, Pillsbury
    4. Suriname; U.S. Marine, Surname
    5. Ecuador-Cad, ??
    6. Eritrea-Ear & Tire,Goody , Goodyear Tire
    7. Eswatini- Wine , Asti -(BTW-I did my peace corp tour here-Swaziland)
    8. Mark Scott , Seattle ( Mercury,Skat)

    Dessert=--??


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  27. As usual, I have NOT looked at anythuing above, before posting answers. Will do so immediately afterward, given the several Appetizers I couldn't get, or got only partially.

    SCHPUZZLE: POTTERY LAYOUT => LOTTERY PAYOUT

    APPETIZERS:

    1. ALF IN THE FAMILY

    2. BARNEY KILLER. [Pre-hints]

    3. BRADY BUTCH. [Pre-hints]

    4. GILLIGAN'S INLAND

    5. THE HINEY MOONERS [Pre-all hints]

    6. HOGAN'S HERPES

    7. I LAVE LUCY

    8. HEAVE IT TO BEAVER ?

    9. LOVE BOAS; LOVE BOAR; LOVE GOAT. [How about “DOVE BOAT, LONE BOAT, LORE BOAT?]

    10. MY FAVORITE MARTIAN?
    11. Pre-hint: MY THREE SINS [And how about: MY TWO CADS?, meaning Don Jr and Ivanka mainly].

    12. THE ODE COUPLE

    13. THE CARTRIDGE FAMILY? [I have no idea how to make them ‘fly’]

    SLICE: STRUM => STURM; GRAND => DRANG

    ENTREES:

    1. TREAT & WELLS => WALL STREET; STOCK MARKET => STOCK MART => MARK SCOTT

    2. BOTSWANA => BOATSWAIN / BOSUN

    3. DOUGHBOYS => BUY; HOG; SOD; PILLSBURY (I actually had a toy Doughboy, which the company sent out once upon a time)

    4. SURINAME => U.S. AIRMEN => SURNAME

    5. ECUADOR => CAD & ROUE

    6. ERITREA => EAR & TIRE => GOODYEAR TIRE

    7. ESWATINI => WINE & ASTI. [SPUMANTE = SPAM TUNE]. [SWAZILAND =. ADZ, AWL & SIN]

    8. TELSTAR & SKAT & COMET => MARK SCOTT & SEATTLE

    DESSERT: NEWT MINOW [Former chair of the FCC.]

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  28. One more TV Guise idea that I thought I must share: Mom and I were watching "To Tell The Truth" last night, and they actually had someone on there who was an actual "nitpicker". His job was to actually pick nits(yecch!)off of people, or provide advice to anyone else whose children had nits in their hair, something like that. At some point I jokingly suggested they change the name of the show to "What's My Lice?". Didn't even occur to me until just now it would make a good future "TV Guise" part, if eco does his next one where he changes one letter in different game show titles.(I want to be credited if he uses it!)
    pjbAlsoMustNoteDueToItBeingTheMonthItIs,eco'sTVGuisePuzzleMightWellBeCalled"TheMarchGame"!

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    1. I like it,but feel like i need a shower.
      I was awakened by lightning last night -or AM at 2.30 am. I went back to sleep about 2.35.

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    2. Cran and PS,

      I trust you weren't too badly shaken by the windy waves? Seems pretty early in the year for tornadoes?

      I like the What's My Lice?; that show is in my hopper to dis-guise, but I haven't spent much energy on the game show genre. I had only come up with What's My Lint?, a word like Line is ripe for opportunities. Be warned, name changing can be addictive and distracting.

      And being a nitpicker sounds like a pretty awful job, though the chimps like it.

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  29. This week's official answers for the record, part 1:

    Schpuzzle of the Week:
    Stoneware bowls and rolling balls
    Name something you may see at a ceramics shop, in two words.
    Spoonerize these words to name something you may see if the numbers on your ticket match those on the rolling balls.
    What two things may you see?
    Answer:
    Pottery layout; Lottery payout

    Appetizer Menu

    Misguided Appetizer:
    TV Guise: Sit-comedies of Error!
    TV GUISE
    Through an unfortunate miscommunication in outsourcing, the titles of a series of television programs accidentally had one (and only one) letter changed. Through imperfect artificial intelligence, the guide automatically generated descriptions of the shows that are just not quite right.
    Below are the generated descriptions, sometimes with an (artificial) acclamation.
    Can you name the mistaken and original title of these shows? All shows are well known, having either run for at least 5 years or having a lasting impact on popular culture. Note that while only 1 letter is changed, occasionally punctuation, capitalization and spacing between letters are changed to create new words.
    For example: A wise and mild-mannered patriarch strings his family along. “A prelude to Family Ties?” Answer: Father Knots Best (Father Knows Best).
    Comedies
    1 The conservative patriarch of a working class family finds conflict when a stuffy alien moves in. “That ain’t meat in your head!”
    ANSWER:
    "Alf in the Family"
    2 An oddball group of city detectives attempt to make a cloying dinosaur go extinct. “You’ll sing NY isn’t the only thing to love!
    ANSWER:
    "Barney Killer"
    3 A daughter in a newly formed large family displays her lesbianism by taking on her brothers.
    ANSWER:
    "The Brady Butch"
    4 The crew and five passengers on a 3 hour bus tour are stranded in Bakersfield.
    ANSWER:
    "Gilligan's Inland"
    5 Blue collar worker tries to have a winning streak with a flashy new scheme each week. “It’s a real crack up when you get to the bottom of things, so don’t be left behind!”
    ANSWER:
    "The Hiney Mooners"
    6 Lothario American leader in a German POW camp combats the SS and the STD’s. “I feel something!
    ANSWER:
    "Hogan's Herpes"
    7 A Cuban-American entertainer washes his wife. “It’s a real ball!”
    ANSWER:
    "I Lave Lucy"
    8 A boy in the 1950’s decides to have gender reassignment surgery. “Don't use a cleaver to chop that wood!”
    ANSWER:
    "Leave it to Be a Her"
    9 With three different stories and adventures, each week presents tales of amour on Noah’s Ark. “They’re really cruising!” [Three answers]
    ANSWER:
    "Love Goat"
    "Love Boar"
    "Love Boas"
    10. Presents the work of the most popular economists offering an alternative to capitalism. Case studies include Richard Wolff, Rosa Luxembourg, Vladimir Lenin, and Friedrich Engels. “An out of this world concept!”
    ANSWER:
    "My Favorite Marxian"
    11. As told by their father, the grifting adventures of of Don Jr, Eric, and Ivanka. “There’s more than one hoax!”
    ANSWER:
    "My Three Cons"
    12 Comedy ensues when Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning are forced to live together. “Two versus verses!”
    ANSWER:
    "The Ode Couple"
    13. A musical family is sometimes on the fly after an experiment in teleportation has an unfortunate mishap. “What a combo band!”
    ANSWER:
    "The Part Midge Family"

    MENU

    Verbal Vibrato At The Venue Slice:
    Percuss, paradiddle, pick, pluck, plink (and otherwise play)

    Name what some performers at a famous music venue do to their instuments. Rearrange the letters of this verb, and rearrange the letters of the first word in the name of the venue to spell a pair of familiar German words.
    What are this verb, venue and familiar German words?
    Answer:
    Strum, Grand (Ole Opry); Sturm (und) Drang

    Lego...

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  30. This week's official answers for the record, part 2:

    Riffing Off Shortz And Scott Slices:
    Great Scott! A “Skydiversion!”
    ENTREE #1
    Take the first name of an actor surnamed Williams and the surname of a singer named Kitty. Rearrange these ten combined letters to spell one of our country’s famous thoroughfares.
    Now take a two-word term for an “aggregation of buyers and sellers of shares,” in five and six letters. Change the second word to a four-letter synonym if itself. Rearrange these nine combined letters to spell the first name and surname of a puzzle-maker.
    Who is this puzzlemaker?
    and what’s the country?
    Answer:
    Mark Scott
    Treat (Williams)+(Kitty) Wells=>TREAT+WELLS=>WALL STREET=>"Stock Market"=>Stock Mart=>Mark Scott
    ENTREE #2
    Think of a country with a one-word name. You can add an “i” and rearrange the resulting nine letters to name a petty officer on a merchant ship having charge of hull maintenance and related work.
    What is the county?
    Who is the officer?
    Bonus Hint: An abbreviated version of the officer is an anagram of “bonus.”
    Answer:
    Botswana; Boatswain
    Hint: Bo'sun
    ENTREE #3
    Take a word for American infantrymen especially during World War I which were also advertising mascots for a Minneapolis-based company that was one of the world’s largest producers of grain and other foodstuffs until it was bought by General Mills in 2001. This company might ___ many a ___ from local pork-producing farmers who might also “bust” ___ with a plow to cultivate grain the company may purchase. The letters in those blanks (three in each blank) can be rearranged to spell the word for the infantrymen/mascots.
    What is this word?
    What are the three words in the blanks?
    What is the Minneapolis-based company?
    Answer:
    Doughboys; buy, hog, sod; Pillsbury
    ENTREE #4
    Think of a country with a one-word name. You can rearrange its nine letters to identify a member of one of our country’s armed forces. If instead you remove one letter from the country’s name you will spell a common surname – that is, a common-noun surname as opposed to a proper-noun surname.
    What’s the country?
    Who’s the member of the armed forces?
    What is the common surname?
    Answer:
    Suriname; U.S. Marine; surname

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  31. This week's official answers for the record, part 3:
    Riffing Off Shortz And Scott Slices (continued):

    ENTREE #5
    Think of a country with a one-word name. You can rearrange its letters to spell two nouns that apply to men:
    1. a 3-letter synonym of “rake,” and
    2. a 4-letter synonym of “snake.”
    What’s the country?
    What are the two synonymss?
    Answer:
    Ecuador; Cad, Roué
    ENTREE #6
    Think of a country with a one-word name.
    You can rearrange its final three letters to spell a body part.
    You can spell its first four letters backward to get an automobile part.
    Take a five-letter synonym of “delicacy, kickshaw, tidbit and treat.” Place it in front of the body part (without a space), followed by the auto part.
    The result is a brand name of the auto part.
    What’s this country?
    What are the body part and auto part?
    What is the five-letter synonym and auto-part brand name?
    Hint: The five-letter synonym, if repeated, is the title of a song associated with Frankie Lymon.
    Answer:
    Eritrea; ear, tire; Goody, Goodyear Tire
    Hint: "Goody Goody"
    ENTREE #7
    Think of the new name of a recently renamed African country with a one-word name. You can rearrange its letters to spell a kind of 4-letter alcoholic beverage and a 4-word Italian city that is home to a 2-word sweet sparkling white variety of this beverage.
    What’s the country?
    What are the beverage and the city that is home to a variety of the beverage.
    Hint: The eight letters in the second word of the variety of the beverage can be rearranged to form the two words that describe either this song or that song.
    Answer:
    eSwatini; Asti (Spumanti), wine
    Hint: "Spam tune" is an anagram of "Spumante"
    Spam tune
    ENTREE #8
    Think of a celestial body that orbits the sun, the name of an Earth orbiter since 1962, and the name of a card game played with 32 cards. Rearrange the combined letters to name a puzzle-maker and the city where this puzzle-maker lives Who is it?
    Answer:
    Mark Scott, Seattle; Comet, Telstar, Skat
    Dessert Menu

    No Phone No Lights No Motor Car Dessert:
    Telecommunications & Minicritters

    Name a man associated with telecommunications whose first name is a small creature and surname sounds like a similar small creature. Who is he?
    Hint: The man is also associated with "Gilligan's Island."
    Answer:
    Newton "Newt" Minow;
    Hint: "Gilligan's Island" creator Sherwood Schwartz named the ill-fated S.S. Minnow after Minow as a sly slight; as chair of the Federal Communications Commission, Minow called television a "vast wasteland."

    Lego!

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