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Welcome to our
July 29th edition of Joseph Young’s Puzzleria!
Mark Scott of
Seattle (also known as skydiveboy) has been generously and regularly
sharing his wonderful puzzles with us since his debut poser in the summer of
2014 (see his “Guest French Chef Slice”). This week, Mark contributes his latest “beaut of a baffler” which appears immediately beneath
our main MENU. It is titled “Prescription Description Slice: Hickory dickory
doc, and please iron my lab frock.”
Our pretty darn
deep gratitude, Mark.
Also on our
menus this week, along with a quintet of messy culinary Riffing/Ripping Off
Shortz Slices, are:
1 Hors d’Oeuvre
exploring what the Jamaican bobsled team is up to these days;
1 hearty, heady
Mongrel Morsel requiring the use of an “I-dropper”;
1 relatively
tough Appetizer requiring Einsteinian genius and speed-of-light wits (be sure to keep them
about you!); and
2 Desserts: one, Rozellean; and another, just
one heartbeat away from being the main course.
So, go see your
doc, have your head examined, get your “eye” dropped. Keep your heart beating,
your wits whetted, and your bobsled runners waxed.
And, as always, enjoy!
Hors d’Oeuvre
Menu
Bobslacking
Easy As Pie Hors d’Oeuvre:
Olympialackadaisical
The Jamaican
bobsled team is in Brazil, training hard for the Rio Olympics. (Hey, if it is now winter in Brazil, these must be the Winter Olympics! Am I right?)
The coach notices, however, that one of the pushers on his four-man crew appears to be lollygagging – goldbricking, as it were, rather than “going for the gold.” Indeed the pusher seems to be merely going through the motions… and in slow motion at that.
The coach notices, however, that one of the pushers on his four-man crew appears to be lollygagging – goldbricking, as it were, rather than “going for the gold.” Indeed the pusher seems to be merely going through the motions… and in slow motion at that.
So the coach
pulls this bobsledding slacker aside and says just three words to him. The
sluggish sledder, crestfallen, retreats to the Olympic Village, packs his bags
and books a flight back to Jamaica.
The words the
coach spoke sound like the name of something, in two words, that has been
lately much in the news.
What did the
coach say?
Morsel
Menu
Mongrel
Morsel:
Talking
heads on four legs
Take a somewhat
obscure 4-syllable term for many of the “talking heads” seen on TV and the
internet lately. Interchange the two letters flanking the fourth letter. Apply
an “I-dropper” to the fourth letter. The result is a 3-syllable American
regional term for mongrel dog which is sometimes used as a pejorative term for “two-legged
animals”… such as many of those “talking TV heads,” for example.
What are these
two terms?
Hint: The last
part of the term for many of the talking heads is a slang synonym for “heart.”
Appetizer
Menu
E Equals
Emcee Ell-Sevened Appetizer:
Lead foot
meets metal floorboard
Treat the first
two letters of a word as if they were the numbers they somewhat resemble. Treat the remainder of the letters in the word, in order, as a common abbreviation.
Such a numerical/abbreviated “translation” of the word yields an expression
that seems to contradict the word’s connotations of “life in the fast lane” and
“pedal-to-the-metal” energy and vigor.
What is this
word? What is the numerical/abbreviated expression it yields?
MENU
Prescription
Description Slice:
Hickory
dickory doc, and please iron my lab frock
Think of an
order, in 14 letters, that is not uncommon for a doctor to prescribe to a
woman. Now, by simply changing the position of the space(s), and without
changing the order of any of the letters, name a profession a man might seek.
Both the prescription and the profession are more common to the last century,
but also apply today. Said aloud, both of these sound the same, but are very
different in meaning. Can you name them?
Quintet
Unapologetic Of Riffing/Ripping Off Shortz Slices:
Try licking these kitchen spoonerisms
Will Shortz’s
July 24th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle reads:
A spoonerism is
an interchange of initial consonant sounds in a phrase to get another phrase,
as in “light rain” and “right lane.”
Name something
seen in a kitchen in two words. Its spoonerism is an article that is worn
mostly by men. What is it?
Note #1:
Puzzleria!’s definition of “spoonerism” for the puzzles below is a bit broader
than Will Shortz’s definition (although not as broad as in many dictionary definitions). In particular, our definition includes what we call “Mobius
Spoonerisms” or “One-Sided Spoonerisms,” in which one of the two words (or
syllables) to be spoonerized does not have an initial consonant sound, as in “art
deco” and “dart echo” or “overrate” and “Rover ate.”
Note #2:
Puzzles ONE and FOUR involve instances of “G-dropping” – that is, pronouncing “hoping”
as “hopin,’” for instance.
Puzzleria!’s “Quintet Unapologetic Of Riffing/Ripping Off Shortz Slices” reads:
Puzzleria!’s “Quintet Unapologetic Of Riffing/Ripping Off Shortz Slices” reads:
ONE. Name
something seen in a kitchen in two words. Its spoonerism is a two word phrase
for the probable result of hiring an incompetent electrician. What is it, and
what is the probable result?
TWO. Name
something seen in a kitchen in two words. Its spoonerism is a 2-word phrase for
a driver of a vehicle who leans heavily on his horn while weaving his way
through a crowd of protestors. What is it, and what is the driver called?
Hint: The first
word of “something seen in the kitchen” is a brand name.
THREE.
A. Name the
title of an author’s debut novel, in two 1-syllable words. Insert a 1-syllable
word between the two parts of its spoonerism and say the result aloud, naming a
North American native mammal weighing about 3 pounds.
The word you
inserted is a homophone of a synonym of “novel.”
What is the title,
and what is the mammal?
B. Name the
title of the same author’s second novel, in one 2-syllable word. The spoonerism
of its syllables, forming two 1-syllable words, if spoken aloud sounds like a
possible caption for the image pictured at the right.
What is the
title, and what is the caption?
C. Name the
title of the same author’s third novel, in one 2-syllable word. The spoonerism
of its syllables forms a word, if spoken aloud, sounds like the name of a land
mentioned in half of the first half-dozen books of the Hebrew Scriptures.
What is the
title, and what is the name of the biblical land?
FOUR. Name
something seen in a kitchen in two words. Its 2-word spoonerism might go, in
part, something like this…
Little Lego, Scripps Finalist: “…Can
you give me the part of speech, Dr. Bailly?”
Dr. Bailly: “It
is a noun, but can also be a verb.”
Little Lego: “Are
there alternative pronunciations?”
Dr. Bailly: “I
just have the one.”
Little Lego: “May
I have the definition?”
Dr. Bailly: “It
is something impossible or inaccessible. Also, as a verb it means
Little Lego: “May
I have the language of origin?”
Dr. Bailly: “Middle
English, by way of Latin from a Greek root.”
Little Lego: “Can
you use it in a sentence, please?”
Dr. Bailly: “So
enamored of Todd was Lisa that she tended to ____ away every third-hour study
hall dreaming of his darling dimples.” (Finalists and audience chuckle.)
Little Lego: “Are
there any other definitions?
Dr. Bailly: “I
have: a translucent spot on old porcelain. Also, it’s a part of the fingernail.”
Little Lego: “____,
_ _ _ _. ____.”
Dr. Bailly:
That is correct, Lego.”
What is the
something seen in the kitchen. What is its spoonerism?
FIVE. Name
something seen in a kitchen in two words. Its 2-word spoonerism is what those
who use this kitchen item may do – especially if they use it to eat an omelet,
for example (or egg foo young!).
What is this
kitchen item, and what may those who use it do?
Dessert
Menu
Rozellean Dessert:
Goeth, Pride…
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _: “_ _ _ _ _.”
This 16-letter phrase concerns person very lately in the news. The person is indicated by the 4-and-7-letter words at the left of the colon. The words in quotation marks are those he might have yelled out (in English) as the news-making incident occurred.
Rearrange those
16 letters to form a statement:
“_ _ _ _ _ _ _ is a _ _ _ _ _ _.”
(Three of the 16 letters are the I, S and A in “is a”)
In the NFL,
this has always been a false statement. The unusual 7-letter first name of the stellar wide
receiver (the 7 blanks that begin the statement) never played for the NFL team (whose 6-letter nickname concludes the
statement). The wide receiver was, however, a Ram, Colt, Redskin and Bronco.
The statement is
true, however, if you consider the unusual 7-letter first name as the title name
of an aquatic star of a 1960’s TV series, and if you change the 6-letter nickname
that concludes the statement to the 7-letter nickname of an NFL team in a
bordering state (although, in the context of the NFL and not the TV series, the
statement would still be false because the stellar wide receiver never played
for the team in the bordering state either).
What are the words
that might have been said by a person very lately in the news, and who might
have said them?
One
Heartbeat Away Dessert:
Branding a
second fiddle
Name a 7-letter
brand of a product you might purchase if you are feeling under the weather.
Replace the sixth letter with duplicates of the second and third letters.
Replace the third letter with a consonant, place a space after it, and add a
vowel at the very end of this 8-letter result to form the 9-letter name of a
U.S. vice-president.
Who is this
vice-president and what is the brand name?
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