Welcome to Joseph Young’s Puzzleria! In
a few weeks we will be celebrating our first anniversary. In preparation, as we were riffling through documents in the P! archives, we happened upon a sheaf full
of weatherworn, dog-eared, cat-pawed newspaper clippings from 1947.
(Even though Puzzleria! began on May 9,
2014, these musty clippings somehow mysteriously found their way into our
archives. But that’s okay, because mystery is smack-dab in the middle of
Puzzleria!’s wheelhouse.)
And so, because we are recyclers (and
bicyclers) extraordinaire, we cobbled... no, wait, we cut-and-pasted these mysterious clippings into this week’s
“Airlines Headlines Slice: Wooden Airships.” Cobbling is what we do to corny content, such as the following paragraph:
Speaking of “archives,” is that what pirates
exclaim when they enjoy oniony grass-like herbs in their salad? Is it where
bees make multicolored honey? And, does Archivy grow, all Wrigley-like, on a St. Louis
landmark?
But such lite-weight, get-thee-to-a-punnery cornpone is merely a vegetarian appetizer.
The real meat can be sampled and savored below from our menu:
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Dagwood Sandwich Slice:
Salami on weapon-rye
Take two different
letters that both appear in the first one-fifth of the alphabet. “Sandwich” them
around the fourth letter of a kind of weapon to form a word that is a part of
that weapon. The words are not etymologically related.
Take two different
letters that both appear in the first one-fifth of the alphabet. “Sandwich” them
around the fourth letter of a kind of weapon to form a word that is a part of
that weapon. The words are not etymologically related.
What are these
words?
Airlines Headlines Slice:
The news clippings on Puzzleria! this
week all mention (or allude to) the rescue of Rosalita (Rosie) Roseboro on November 2, 1947 during the
maiden (and final, as it turned out) flight of Howard Hughes’ prototype H-4
Hercules military transport aircraft. However, after poring over library-microfilm
newspapers (and pouring over them with black coffee when we occasionally nodded off), and after scouring online archival accounts of that historic but brief air
journey, we can find no mention of this rescue whatsoever.
So what? So, whatever. All we know, Mr. Phelps, is that your puzzling mission,
should you choose to accept it, is to edit these four headlines:
1.) Big ‘bird’ gives mom daughter
2.) Hughes’ aeroplane rescues girl from
harbor
3.) Transport plane delivers daughter from
water to mom
4.) Hughes’ craft rescues damsel in distress
into one elegant headline. (This may
seem like one of Will Shortz’s “creative challenges,” but it is not; we have
one specific headline in mind.)
Our intended five-word headline consists
of, in order: a two-word subject, a predicate, an indirect object, and a direct
object. For example, it reads something like “Lego Lambda provides Puzzlerians
puzzles.”
In the five-word headline you form, you will be able to:Switch the initial letter of the third word with the initial two letters of the first word, in effect “spoonerizing” them to form two new words. Connect the fifth word to the end of the new third word. The result is the name of a popular singer and band leader.
Place the second word after the fourth
word, leaving a space. The result is the “author” of some juvenile verse that the popular singer, then age 42, recited once at a concert.
What is this headline? Who are the singer and the “author?”
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Hi from snowy Colorado.
ReplyDeleteSo for the first puzzle we can use A,B,C,D,E and 1/5 of F? Harkening back to that graffiti-izing letters from last week (but subtracting this time).
Excellent observation, Word Woman. Last week's graffiti puzzle does indeed echo this puzzle, albeit not intentionally. But neither an "F" nor even one iota of an "F" is necessary for solving this "Dagwood Sandwich Slice."
DeleteLego
If the fourth letter of the weapon is the "salami," then the two slices of "rye" are any two of the first five letters of our alphabet. It is not an instance of "A, E, B, C, D, and sometimes F." Nor ought any "naughty bits" of the "F-letter" be used. Your options are only the letter grades A, B, C and D, with "F for Failure" replaced by "E for Excellent."
Incidentally, what is the name of your pet chapalmalania, pictured to the left of your screen name (see PEOTS? Does she/he play nice with your pet wonderdog Maizie?
LegoDogwoodSandwichChumbawambaChapalmalaniaChalupamania
I asked Maizie and she suggests Chaparral, the Chapalmalania. What do you think?
DeleteMaizia is a marvelous moniker maker. Chaparral, or "Chap" for short. But can you make it stick?
DeleteLegoLippy
Holy chapstick, I believe I have the Dagwood slice!
DeleteYes, Word Woman, I figured this one might be an Easy As Pie Slice for you. People who do crosswords might also have an advantage, dealing as they do with answers to clues like "Confederate Gen. Robt. (four letters)."
DeleteLegoThirty-Three-And-A-Third
If MARXISM is some kind of weapon, then the Marxists certainly use an AXE!
ReplyDeleteron,
DeleteI was aware that Lenin wielded an axe, but I did not realize that Marx wielded one also.
LegoMikeBloomfieldHadABluesAxButPaulBunyanHadABlueOx
I was all set to make a silly joke, but then I checked some things, and suddenly it wasn't so funny.
DeleteNevertheless, I don't think this gives too much away. And it is pertinent. And it's fun (at least I think so).
I think so too, Paul. Most every Lennon-McCartney song that is actually a McCartney-McCartney song is nothing if not fun.
DeleteLeGoOutThroughTheBathroomWindows8
Unless my perception is muddled, the site of the poetry recitation has something in common with a former POTUS, as well as someone who would probably understand zircon dating perfectly
ReplyDeletePaul, we have missed you at PEOTS. Oh wait, you were there ;-).
DeleteLurko ergo sum.
DeleteI am certainly not a Latin scholar, Paul, but shouldn't that be, "In cognito ergo sum.?"
DeleteLegoILatinizeThereforeILambda
You, lego, are more of a Latin scholar than i ever expect to be; but doesn't 'incognito' suggest appearance in disguise, whereas 'lurk' indicates avoidance of appearance altogether?
DeletePaul[I wish I had thought of the malleable signature trick]?
Lurko made me smile. In cognito -- just a smirk.
DeleteYes, the malleable signature thing sometimes says it all, I concur.
And 'in cognito' almost made me bust out laughing, so, there you go!
DeleteHa! Then, in honor of Plantation Week, how about "Tara In Cognito?" :-p
DeleteAnd lego is correct, I couldn't decide how many e's in thrfor, so i elected to latinize.
Deletesmall pars
Deletewhoa
DeleteActually, Paul, I defer to your expertise in Latin (and in everything else for that matter).
DeleteBut here's why "In cognito ergo sum" is appropriate to my lurking proclivities: I always wear Groucho glasses, every time I view any website. (Here is a recent computer-cam capture of me as I was reading one of skydiveboy's more outrageous comments over on Blaine's blog.)
Incidentally, the secret word this episode is "mallard"... that is, er, I mean, "malleable," George Fenneman. Please feel free, Paul, to perform the malleable signature trick any time you want. In the hands of a Houdini like you it might actually draw cyber-oohs and cyber-aahs!
LeGrouchoScuseMeWhileIKissDisguiseOozingOzzing
i'll get back to you after i've figured and/or searched out 'Plantation Week', which may or may not be this kalpa.
DeleteFound it!
DeleteBut I don't think it's pertinent.
Wow, if that was a kalpa, it sure went by fast. Thanks for the fruits of your plantation research, Paul.
DeletePlantation Week, Plantation Elementary Schools, Plantation Lane, on and on.
The poetry recitation took place in East RUTHERFORD, NJ.
DeleteMy perceptions are always HAZY (and I say that in EARNEST).
Will Shortz’s NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle yesterday was clever, even “elegant”:
ReplyDelete“Take the first names of two politicians in the news. Switch the first letters of their names and read the result backward to name something that each of these politicians is not.”
The “piggyback” puzzle I created, below, is much more wordy, much less clever, and certainly much less elegant. But it’s all I got:
Two stylishly flamboyant performers and recording artists are each known by one name. One is known by a six-letter name, the other by a five-letter name. Place the names beside each other, the longer one first.
In the shorter name:
Replace the final letter, a vowel, with a different vowel. Move the fourth letter to the end. The two performers’ names share two letters in common. Remove both from the shorter name.
In the longer name:
Replace the second letter with the final vowel that was replaced in the second name. Switch the fourth and fifth letters with each other, then replace the new fifth letter with the next letter in the alphabet.
Read the result not backward but forward to name something that it would seem that each of these performers is not… but, then again, who knows?
Hint #1: The first names of two athletes – an Oregon Duck football player and a 1950s-60s-era Bahamian journeyman MLB infielder – are the middle and last name of one performer. The last names of the athletes are the middle and last name of the other performer.
Hint #2: One of the performers was once confused with a two-time presidential candidate because their names are somewhat similar. The performer repeatedly publicly denied being the candidate and they even had their photo taken together to prove they were not the same person!
LegoCan’tMakeASilkPurseOuttaAPiggyback’sEar
Hint for the Airlines Headlines Slice: "Wooden Airships":
ReplyDeleteThe names of the daughter and mother, Rosie and Sandy, were not accidental.
LegoCanARoseGrowInTheSand?
A partial answer to the question, “Why do they hate us?” and a sign that the Apocalypse is upon us, in three words:
ReplyDelete“Professional competitive eater”
LegluttonousMaximus
For the record, here are this week’s answers:
ReplyDeleteDagwood Sandwich Slice:
Salami on weapon-rye
Take two different letters that both appear in the first one-fifth of the alphabet. “Sandwich” them around the fourth letter of a kind of weapon to form a word that is a part of that weapon. The words are not etymologically related.
What are these words?
Hint: Most people are familiar with both words, but not as many people are familiar with them in their “weapon” and “part-of-a-weapon” senses.
Answer: FOIL, FOIBLE
Airlines Headlines Slice:
Wooden Airships
The news clippings on Puzzleria! this week all mention (or allude to) the rescue of Rosalita (Rosie) Roseboro on November 2, 1947 during the maiden (and final, as it turned out) flight of Howard Hughes’ prototype H-4 Hercules military transport aircraft. However, after poring over library-microfilm, and after scouring online archival accounts of that historic but brief air journey, we can find no mention of this rescue whatsoever.
So what? So, whatever. All we know, Mr. Phelps, is that your puzzling mission, should you choose to accept it, is to edit these four headlines:
1.) Big ‘bird’ gives mom daughter
2.) Hughes’ aeroplane rescues girl from harbor
3.) Transport plane delivers daughter from water to mom
4.) Hughes’ craft rescues damsel in distress
into one elegant headline. (We have one specific headline in mind.)
Our intended five-word headline consists of, in order: a two-word subject, a predicate, an indirect object, and a direct object. For example, it reads something like “Lego Lambda provides Puzzlerians puzzles.”
In the five-word headline you form, you will be able to: Switch the initial letter of the third word with the initial two letters of the first word, in effect “spoonerizing” them to form two new words. Connect the fifth word to the end of the new third word. The result is the name of a popular singer and band leader.
Place the second word after the fourth word, leaving a space. The result is the “author” of some juvenile verse that the popular singer, then age 42, recited once at a concert.
What is this headline? Who are the singer and the “author?”
Answer:
Spruce Goose brings mother teen
Bruce Springsteen
Mother Goose
Rosalita
Sandy
LegoLooseySprucyGoosey
I did get FOIL and FOIBLE, though I started with EPEE, until I saw it was two different letters. That was fun.
ReplyDeleteI got the AHS (see above), but not the DSS.
ReplyDeleteNot surprising.
I didn't do all that well on the foible portion of my SAT's.
Paul and Word Woman,
Delete“…And so between them both, you see,
They licked the puzzle platter clean.”
-- Mother LeGoose
I don’t know, Word Woman, the word “epee” almost works, sorta. Put a C between the double EE’s and tack an E or A at the end to get either “epecee” or “epecea.” Both these non-words echo “epicene.” Which means “lacking characteristics of either sex.” That seems kinda weak.
What is the ETA for this week’s PEOTS?
LegoGoodAtPostingKindaWeakComments
Epicene? Eocene? Geologic time and extinctions are on tap at PEOTS now:
Delete"Capitanian: A Sixth Major Extinction 262 Million Years Ago?"
In my April 18 comment at 8:19 AM, I wrote:
ReplyDelete“Yes, Word Woman, I figured this (Dagwood Sandwich Slice) might be an Easy As Pie Slice for you. People who do crosswords might also have an advantage, dealing as they do with answers to clues like "Confederate Gen. Robt. (four letters)."
LegoThirty-Three-And-A-Third”
“Confederate Gen. Robt.” = “E. Lee,” is a crossword puzzle clue staple, as is “epee,” a type of fencing sword. The 33-and-1/3 allusion in my “malleable signature trick” refers to an LP (Long Playing) record, and also to the L in "E. Lee" and the P in "epee."
Lego“Elpee”IsHowToddRundgrenSpellsLP
"There's something at the heart of it that's simply awful;
Deletea man who makes his living off a plastic waffle."
Absolutely priceless!
Thanks,lego.
And Todd, of course.
Earlier today on Blaine’s blog, just before everyone was about to reveal their answers/hints to Will’s puzzle, blogger hugh posted the following riddle:
ReplyDelete“Why did the blonde cross the road?”
I responded:
“To get to the peroxide.”
Here are some riddles that “piggyback” hugh’s “blonde chicken riddle.”
Why did the mosquito-slapper cross the road?
Why did the pig…?
…The sleepy person…?
…The big whale, or really tiny tadpole…?
LegocideIsIllegalLegicideIsAnarchy