Basic math leads to higher math; New horizons, ancient “verticons” Forming fibbery from formality; Songbirds & bees, breeze & trees; Good guys, bad guys... Take your best shot at the disTV Guise from the Golden Age

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Schpuzzle of the Week:

Songbirds & bees, breeze & trees 

Contemplate these three breezy words:

What the breeze did, what the willow trees thus did, and what the breeze often does to
flies and bees. 

These three words sound like a song title. 

What title is it?

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MisTVGuided Appetizer:

Good guys, bad guys... Take your best shot at the disTV Guise from the Golden Age 

TV GUISE

We published the first edition of TV GUISE on Puzzleria! this past March.  

Now, courtesy of Ecoarchitect, we are proud (or something like that) to deliver to you the second edition. 

All 13 of these show titles are
from the Golden Age of television – the 1950s and 1960s, or thenabouts.

Here is how TV GUISE came about:

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?  

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).

And now, here are the “misGUIDEd” shows in Ecoarchitect’s latest edition: 

 An upbeat criminal attorney switches his life orientation, becoming a bricklayer.  “Will he pursue a wife on Easy Street?”

 Police web in LA looks to remove cross
dressers.  “TGIF!”

Retrospective of Rod Serling time-jumping between episodes.  “Unmasked!”

 There’s no accounting for the G-Men chasing bootleggers.  “This stacks up really well!”

An enthusiastic look at the weapons culture of the Old West, with a call for additional arms.  “You can’t dodge this show!”

 Convenience store factors in smaller group’s trip on Los Angeles Boulevard.  “Pretty Kookie!”

There are 8 million stores and they all sell overpriced shoes.  “Just Watch It!”

 20 years ahead of his time, a charming desperado and his sidekick find action
throughout nightclubs in the west.  “You’ll say ‘Let’s Went’ for every episode!”

Shown opposite “Leave It To Be A Her,” there is definite conflict regarding the gender of the title character and the adventures of his/her family.  “Well, this show will never fall down!”

With an alternate ending, Blaine, an expatriate living in the West, marries his former love.  “Never gonna give this up!”

Fan favorite show about a girl falling in love with a man six times her age. “This show is great even though the main character sucks!” 

An Egyptian God decides, ironically, to become a Caucasian in the Old West.  “A Rowdy Show!”

A special tribute to a fictional Joseph Young, whose repeated blog puzzles provide a good example for all, especially his son.  And he gives many a second chance.  “Don’t chuck this out or you might be short-shrifted!”

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Arithmetix Mix-Up Slice:

Basic math leads to higher math

Take something arithmetic students learn, in two words.

Rearrange the letters to spell a calculus term, a
quantum mechanics term, and a two-word economics term pertaining to budgets. 

What are these six words?

Riffing Off Shortz And Pegg Slices:

New horizons, ancient “verticons”

Will Shortz’s August 1st NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Ed Pegg Jr., reads:

Think of something that gets people moving vertically. Remove the middle two letters, and you get something that moves people horizontally. What two things are these?

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Pegg Slices read:

ENTREE #1

Think of something that gets people moving vertically, in four letters.

Think of something that gets people up and moving about vigorously, in three letters.

Think of a form of lyric poetry, in five letters, that can be very moving – as written by Horace and Pindar, for example.

Rearrange these 12 letters in these three words to spell the name of a puzzle-maker.

Who is the puzzle-maker?

What gets people moving vertically?

What gets people up and moving about vigorously?

What is the moving form of lyric poetry?

Hint: The puzzle-maker’s name includes an abbreviation. In your answer you must spell it out. 

ENTREE #2

Think of things that get people moving vertically. 

Remove three interior letters, and you get
things that cause other things to move in circular paths. 

What three things are these?

ENTREE #3

Think of things that get people moving vertically downward, figuratively. 

Remove three consecutive interior letters, and you shall get things that will move people vertically downward, mephist.... metaphorically. 

What two things are these?

ENTREE #4

Think a verb that means to lift people vertically. 

Remove two consecutive letters near the
middle and you get a verb that means to lift people’s spirits. 

What two verbs are these?

ENTREE #5

Think of something that moves diagonally. 

Move the middle two letters to the end. Invert the new last letter. 

The result is a diagnostic medical procedure.

What moves diagonally?

What is the diagnostic medical procedure?

ENTREE #6

Think of things, in two words, that get people to move an implement vertically, but not upward. 

Spoonerize the two words – that is, switch their initial consonant sounds. 

The result is something certain circus performers pay to the American Guild of Variety Artists (AGVA), an AFL-CIO-affiliated labor union. 

What things get people to move an implement vertically?

What do certain circus performers pay to the AGVA?

ENTREE #7

Think of things, in two words, that get people moving an implement horizontally, but not leftward. 

Rearrange the letters, and you get a two-word term describing or indicating a college student’s high achievent on an exam that requires no implement – such as, say, a pen or word processor. 

What things get people moving an implement horizontally?

What term describes or indicates high achievent on an exam that requires no implement.

ENTREE #8

Think of something that moves both vertically and horizontally. 

Remove the middle two letters. The result will be the first name of someone who spent much of his life going around in circles. 

What moves vertically and horizontally?

Who spent much of his life going around in circles.

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Deceitful Dessert:

Forming fibbery from formality

Name some formal attire, in four words. Replace one word with a homophone and change a letter in another word. 

The result is a fib and some falsehoods. 

What is this formal attire?

Every Friday at Joseph Young’s Puzzleria! we publish a new menu of fresh word puzzles, number puzzles, logic puzzles, puzzles of all varieties and flavors. We cater to cravers of scrumptious puzzles!

Our master chef, Grecian gourmet puzzle-creator Lego Lambda, blends and bakes up mysterious (and sometimes questionable) toppings and spices (such as alphabet soup, Mobius bacon strips, diced snake eyes, cubed radishes, “hominym” grits, anagraham crackers, rhyme thyme and sage sprinklings.)

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