Friday, September 30, 2016

“He ain’t heavy, he’s a brotherload!” Furrowed browsers and U-boat loos; Pammela’s Salem map? LeBronze Names; A sophist’s fable; A container contained in what it contains;


Welcome to our September 30th edition of Joseph Young’s Puzzleria!

We are serving you six fresh puzzles this week:

1. An Hors d’Oeuvre about a fabulous example of sportsbearship;

2. A Morsel about the ins and outs of branding and packaging;

3. An Appetizer about sumo kind of Heavy Boy’s Town;

4. A Slice about cartography... and perhaps capitals;

5. A Slice about browsing the headlines and subheads for the latest news; and


6. A Dessert worthy of a bronze medal.

Please enjoy them all:

Hors d’Oeuvre Menu

Jackal Ursus Bear Hors d’Oeuvre:
A sophist’s fable

Nearly a half-century ago an instance of sportsmanship occurred at the end of an biennial sporting event. The following is a fable of the how the event ended, with significant “hinting” words and phrases appear in bold and blue:

A bear and a jackal once faced off in a game played in a green jungle. It was a close game, with the score nip and tuck as the game drew to a close. The bear finished playing the game before the jackal finished. While waiting for the jackal to finish, the bear lumbered over to a nearby concessions stand to draw a draft beer to give to the jackal. The bear picked up the tab, the jackal picked up the beer and his ball, and the game ended. No one lost. Both won, in a way.
 
The bear’s act of generosity, however, was unpopular with a maned ass who had been rooting against the jackal. But many other fans of the game in the jungle had traditionally rooted against the bear, especially when he was competing against the king of the jungle, whom they deemed the more popular.

Who are the bear, the jackal, the maned ass and the king of the jungle? What is this biennial sporting event?

Hint: The “king of the jungle” appeared in recent headlines.
Hint: The “jackal” accomplished a major victory in the year following the events in this fable. The setting of his victory was the same as the setting of the currently occurring “biennial sporting event.

Morsel Menu

A Pair Of Pathways To A Solution Morsel:
A container contained in what it contains

Remove all punctuation from a popular brand name consumable product. Remove from it a palindromic fragment of consecutive letters. Move the fourth letter of the remaining fragment to the second position to form the name of a possible producer of the consumable product’s container.

Remove all punctuation from the same brand name consumable product. Again, remove from it a palindromic fragment of consecutive letters. Interchange the second and third letters of the remaining fragment and spell the result backward to form the name of the same possible producer of the consumable product’s container.

What is this product and the possible producer of its container?

Appetizer Menu

Mover Lifter Puller Appetizer:
“He ain’t heavy, he’s a brotherload!”

Name a mechanical apparatus used to move, lift or pull out heavy loads.

Now name what coaches of a certain sport encourage their players to do with more efficiency and effort in order to move, lift or pull down heavy loads.

The apparatus and words of coaching advice you have named are the identical three-word phrase. What is it?   


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Global Positive Self-Image System Slice:
Pammela’s Salem map?

Take a word that you should find on any self-respecting map of the United States. The word contains consecutive letters that spell a verb that you should interpret as a command – a command that you should carry out on the very letters that form the verb. (See the “Specialty Of The Teahouse Slice: Teatime Proustries” puzzle I composed and posted on this early 2015 Puzzleria!)

After obeying the command rearrange the letters you see to form two nouns: 1. A synonym of a shortened form of a name of a female character from Greek literature, or more recent British literature, and 2. a more general term for that synonym.

What is the word on the map? What are the two nouns?
Hint: The word that you should find on any self-respecting map of the United States is one of a group of 50, or one of a special group of 50 situated within one of the first group of 50.


Two Heads Are More Opinionated Than One Slice:
Furrowed browsers and U-boat loos

A political “first” received news coverage very recently.

Imagine an article on an editorial page that voices an unfavorable opinion about that first-time political action.

The opinion piece’s main headline consists of three words:
1. A plural 9-letter noun (the subject),
2. An 8-letter verb (the predicate), and
3. A 4-letter noun (the direct object).

Its subhead also consists of three words:
1. A 6-letter verb (another predicate of the 9-letter noun in the main headline),
2. An 11-letter adjective, and
3. A 4-letter direct-object noun.

Note:
The double-deck headline could have appeared above a non-opinionated “straight news” story – on Page 1, for example, instead of the opinion page – were it not for two “loaded,” judgmental words: the plural 9-letter noun in the main headline, and the 11-letter adjective in the subhead...
Oh, and the letters in the main headline can be rearranged to form the subhead.

What are the political “first,” the main headline and the subhead?


Dessert Menu:

Idolatrous Dessert:
LeBronze Names

Remove a consonant from the interior of a word that is the name of a place where several graven bronze images of idols can be seen.

Change the vowel sounds in the first syllable and in the third syllable. The result, when spoken aloud sounds like the brand name of a product associated with bronze.

What are the place name and the brand name?

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79 comments:

  1. The Hors d’Oeuvre is quite figure-out-able and very educational for anyone willing to put forth the effort. The last element to fall into place for me turned out to employ the "trick" I had at first thought it did. I can think of more things to say, but I think I'd better keep them under my hat for now.

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  2. The following words have something in common: income, memorial, demand, wand, floral, and candid. Determine what this is, and think of three other words that belong in this category.

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    1. Was it Othello or the captain of the Nautilus? No, I believe it was Fu Manchu who said "In all honesty, these mysterious riddles require more thought than they are worth."

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    2. Two of those words could go on the list.

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    3. Nice challenge, PlannedChaos.
      Four words: flak, aklmond, mend, gain... plus the consumable brand name in my APOPTASM!

      LegoMuses"Hey,APOPTASM,NotABadHint"

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    4. Lego's managed to decode this arcane puzzler!

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    5. Some of us would rather be nails than hammers.

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  3. Lego, would I be correct in asserting that the Hors D'O's "annual sporting event" is actually BIENNIAL?

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    1. Yes you would, ViolinTedditor! Quite correct indeed. I shall correct my faulty text posthaste. My greatest gratitude.

      LegoWhoIsOnlyHuman(OrPerhapsOnlySubhuman!)

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    2. Hee hee, Paul!

      And you are most welcome, Lego. I suspect I know the 'reason' you might have made this goof, but I don't want to explain it now, as it would give away the answer, to the specific event, at least. I'll write it out next Wednesday.

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    3. Biennial. Millennial. Triennial. Quadrennial...Here's to all the Ennials!

      I read these clues weekly hoping there's one that is easily solvable. Not this week...

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    4. WW, you forgot 'BICENTENNIAL"!! HA! I actually had to think before I typed out 'biennial' above, to make sure it got it correct.

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  4. Craig Finn and Tad Kubler don't really speak to me. I'll stick with Glen Campbell.
    We have to use our brains, too?

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    1. Paul,
      How 'bout Neil Finn?
      How 'bout Mike Hammer?

      LegoThinks:StacyKeachIsVeryUnderrated

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    2. LFTR PLLR isn't really my kind of music; anybody remember Wichita Lineman?

      Jennifer Pulley used to host a kid's science show called "Brain Stew". ("Brains, too", get it?)

      I don't know very much about football, but I think a defensive end is a lineman. Otherwise, I'm going to look pretty foolish tomorrow at 3PM.

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  5. Oh, man! I'm really missing stuff left and right, here!

    But I'm pretty sure this is an annual event.

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    1. "Oh" is just another postal abbrev. word. I should have used it along with "dear me!"

      "Man" points to the formula for the mechanical advantage of a block and tackle:
      MA = n

      Lou Barletta plays for the Republicans. He once tried out for the Cincinnati Reds. He's from Hazleton, PA.
      Pete Rose has no plaque in Cooperstown.

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  6. I will require hints for EVERYTHING. After getting home from FL today I'm too tired to fool with any of this right now, no offense.

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  7. I can't solve anything (except the Hors D'O) either.....must be an exceptionally tricky bunch of puzzles this week.

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  8. I see the controversy hunters over at Blainesville are investigating spelling.

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    1. Well, the dilemma of noun spelling vs. adjective spelling is correct and relevant, isn't it?

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    2. Sure. I was just attempting to get around the issue.

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    3. Fred Dryer played defensive end, Then he played Hunter.

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  10. I got the Sunday Puzzle. I know about the spelling issue. What I need are some good hints for these puzzles. Lego?

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    1. Hints:
      APOPTASM:
      There are a trio of palindromic fragments in the popular brand name consumable product -- one five-letter fragment and two overlapping three-letter fragments. Remove the three-letter palindramic fragment that begins the brand name. The possible container is cylindrical.
      MLPA:
      The sport was once unfavorably compared to another sport in a bit by George Carlin.
      GPSISS:
      The word on the map is the name of a state.
      The consecutive letters in the word that spell a verb "that you should interpret as a command – a command that you should carry out on the very letters that form the verb" – do not spell out the same verb I used in my past puzzle in Puzzleria!... but ist is a synonym of that verb, one with 3 letters.
      THAMOTOS:
      The political "first" happened in the U.S. Congress.
      The 4-letter words in the main headline and subhead are anagrams of one another.
      ID:
      You might want to use pennies to pay for the product associated with bronze.
      The place with the graven bronze images is on an eastern seaboard.

      LegoRainingDownPenniesFromHeavenMannaFromHeavenHintsFromHell

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    2. Well, the hints gave me, fairly quickly, the Appetizer and the Global Slice answers (happy day), and I know the first time event for the Two Heads Menu Slice, as well as its two last (four-letter) words; I'm also fairly sure of the eight-letter verb, but the 9-letter noun, though I came up with one, won't rearrange into the sub-heading's first two words (along with my 8-letter verb), no matter what I do. So I'm stuck there.

      And no hope on the Morsel or the Dessert.

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    3. VT,
      In the main headline, does your 8-letter verb include a double-letter in its center? Does your 9-letter plural noun begin with a 3-letter kitchen item?
      In the subhead, the 11-letter adjective could also be written as a hyphenated 4-7 word with the same first four letters as the 8-letter verb in the main headline.

      LegoAsksWhatIsTheKitchenItem?GetSmee!

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    4. Yes, Lego, my 8-letter verb does include a double-letter in the center. But no, my (former, I have dumped it) 9-letter plural noun did not contain a kitchen item at the start...I will see if I can find one like that.

      As for the subhead, I had finally settled on an 11-letter adjective that I liked but your hint tells me it isn't correct, nuts. Back to the semi-drawing board.....thanks for the help.

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    5. WELLLLLL......okay, I finally came up with a main and sub headline, but I don't really LIKE the words. Without the kitchen item hint, I never would have thought of the nine-letter noun for this particular event. Nor would I have come up with the 11-letter adjective (I liked my former one better!!)

      That leaves me with only the Morsel unsolved, but I fear there is simply no hope there.

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  11. I still have only the sport puzzle(and not the one with the bear and jackal, etc.; I never even got a hint for that one). Will require more hints before Wednesday.

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    1. More Hints:
      JUBHO:
      "Bear" is a partial nickname. "Jackal" kind of sounds like a surname. The "good sportsbearship" sbiennial sporting event took place across the pond (Beware: Water Hazard!); but the most recent one happened in a midwestern state.
      APOPTASM:
      The consumable product's traditional rival sounds a bit like a Florida city.
      GPSISS:
      The word on the map that is the name of a state can be cut into three words that might finish the following sentence: "You are a creator while I tend to be destructive; It seems as if everything you (7 letters) (1 letter) (3 letters)."
      THAMOTOS:
      See my post above, responding to ViolinTeddy.
      ID:
      The place with the graven bronze images is in the Umpire... I mean Empire State.

      LegoOh,And"ManedAss"IsAnAnagram

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    2. Yeah, I know what Paul means (below), when having to rely on all these hints, it does feeling like cheating. However, this week, they were all SO difficult (except the H.D'O), that it was otherwise hopeless.

      I JUST got the Dessert, I believe. Never would have happened...I had been in the completely WRONG section of the world!

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  12. Another puzzle unravelled at last.

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    1. Nice puzzle. When I couldn't find DELE or STET anywhere on the list of states and their capitals, I considered things like the RID in Florida and the X in Texas, but decided there were way too many possibilities there, and, besides, it didn't seem fair to use a term that was not a bona fide proofreading or typesetting term. But, in light of lego's hint, I realized that CUT does make that cut (along with COPY and PASTE), leaving me with no excuse.
      Penelope was the wife of Odysseus. She had a tendency to become unravelled. I'm not sure who the more recent British character might be.

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  13. Got another one. When I have to rely on lego's generous hints, it feels like I'm cheatin'.

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  14. I have the consumable product puzzle!

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  15. BTW I have the name on the map. I just can't figure out the anagrams.

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  16. I still need help with the anagrams of the map name and the headline and subhead, as well as the bronze puzzle.

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    1. GPSISS:
      A colony of Nutmeggers. The female character is a more faithful version of Molly B.
      THAMATOS:
      Here is a translation of the headline:
      "Appeasers annul denial, effect 'hyperhyped' ballot"
      ID:
      You might see baseballs nearby the bronze images. You might see beach balls nearby the product associated with bronze.

      LegoWhoIsALessPeripateticVersionOfLeopoldB.

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  17. Been out of town on a business trip with little free time, but was able to get all but the slices this evening. Maybe tomorrow.

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  18. I have the bronze puzzle and the headline puzzle! The map puzzle's anagrams are still not coming to me, though.

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  19. Hors d'Œuvre Menu:
    Jack Nicklaus, Tony Jacklin, Sam Snead (captain) & Arnold Palmer, the event: The 1969 Ryder Cup.

    BTW, the “oe” in the French word “œuvre” is a SINGLE CHARACTER, Œ or œ. Une œuvre d'art, par exemple.

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  20. Morsel: Coca-Cola/ Alcoa

    Appetizer: Block and Tackle

    Dessert: Cooperstown/Coppertone

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    1. P.S. For Maizie fans, this happy, fearless pup is featured in this week's Partial Ellipsis of the Sun post mentioned above.

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    2. The REPLY icon under David's post just above refuses to work, so I have to ask my question here: would someone please tell me what Florida city sounds like "Pepsi?" (One of Lego's hints) Undoubtedly, I am missing something obvious. : o (

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    3. Ah, thanks, David. I guess Pensacola didn't sound 'enough' like Pepsi to have triggered the answer to the puzzle, for me at least.

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    4. ViolinTeddy, the reply string started with my reply. All other replies must follow in chronological order. In other words, you can't bump up above close to David's original comment. Hope that makes sense.

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    5. Thanks, WW...I realized that AFTER my post went on, and I saw it in line with the other replies....and I felt like an idiot, naturally!

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  21. Rip-Off Alert: Take one of the 50 (or the other 50. The word contains consecutive letters that spell a verb that you should interpret as a command – a command that you should carry out on the very letters that form the verb. Rearrange the remaining letter to get a commonish given name.

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    1. Rearrange the letters in "Lego Salon" to form two surnames of people who have the "commonish given name" that David may have in mind.

      LegoRecalsTwoNegative1960CampaignSlogans:OneRepetitive,TheOtherPalindromic

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    2. Yes, that is what I had in mind.

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    3. Lego, I assume that to get your answer and clue, you worked alone, without even a guiding angel.

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    4. Yes, I worked alone... well except for maybe Bo Belinski.

      LegoWhoAlsoDrinksAloneWithNobodyElse(EvenAGoadingDevil)

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    5. Like swigs from the shot glass, so are the days of our lives.

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  22. When I first read the Hors d'Œuvre, I immediately suspected 'maned ass' was an anagram, but then it became apparent that the bear was Jack Nicklaus, the king was Arnold Palmer (RIP), and the 'green jungle' was a golf course. So, I began sifting through late 60's/early 70's golf tournaments, but didn't really get anywhere until I noticed that the latest installment of the event began on the same day the puzzle was posted. And so I learned that 'the jackal' was not CJ Cregg, that there is a golf course named 'The Concession' in honor of the event, and that Tony Jacklin won the U.S. Open at Hazeltine the following year. But who could the 'maned ass' be? That's when I recalled my initial suspicion.

    Sam Snead's trademark was his straw hat.

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    1. I thought this featured Arnie Palmer and Jack Nicklaus but never came up with the other two.

      Did anyone else think it was odd that the New York Times obituary featured Arnie Palmer (the drink) in its headline?

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  23. Words that can be formed using state postal abbreviations include
    oh, dear, me, ma, pa, mi, mandarin (Fu Manchu), candor (honesty), condor (el __ pasa), demand (require), arcane (mysterious), Nemo (Capt.), malarial, moor (Othello), land, mend, lane, pane, mane, main, pain, cane, cone, vane, vain, rind, flak, gala, and many mo'.

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  24. HORS D'OEUVRE: JACK NICKLAUS, TONY JACKLIN, SAM SNEAD, ARNOLD PALMER; 1969 RYDER CUP [which ended in a tie, called "The Concession".] Jacklin won the U.S. Open in 1970. The Ryder Cup USED to take place in odd years; after 9/11/01, it was postponed, thus it is now in EVEN years.

    MORSEL: BOTTLE? Bottled water? NO idea...

    APPETIZER: "BLOCK AND TACKLE"

    GLOBAL SLICE: CONNECTICUT -> CONNECTI -> "CENT" and "COIN" [ Penelope = Penny for short = synonym of 'cent']

    TWO HEADS OPINIONATED SLICE: [First ever Congressional OBAMA VETO OVERRIDE of '9/11 victims can sue Saudi Arabia law']
    "PANDERERS OVERRIDE VETO" and "RENDER OVERPRAISED VOTE"

    DESSERT: COOPERSTOWN (i.e Baseball Hall of Fame) -> Coppertone (i.e. bronze skin)

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    1. I guess RENDER OVERPRAISED VOTE makes more sense than RESEND OVER-PARRIED VOTE, which was the best I could do with all my gyring and gimbling.

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    2. I guess RENDER OVERPRAISED VOTE makes more sense than RESEND OVER-PARRIED VOTE, which was the best I could do with all my gyring and gimbling.

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  25. JACK NICKLAUS(Golden Bear), TONY JACKLIN(jackal), SAM SNEAD(maned mass anagram), ARNOLD PALMER(The King), 1969 RYDER CUP
    BLOCK AND TACKLE
    COCACOLA, ALCOA
    CONNECTICUT
    PANDERERS OVERRIDE VETO, RENDER OVERPRAISED VOTE
    COOPERSTOWN(COOPERTOWN), COPPERTONE
    I wonder why there was no "Rippin' Off Shortz" puzzle?

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    1. Good question, pjb. I did not rip off Will's ghoul-soul-foul puzzle because puzzles that depend so much on precise pronunciation are fraught with peril!

      LegoSaysTomatoYouSayTomahtoLegoSpellsPotatoQuayleSpellsPotatoe...

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  26. Make that maned ass. Autocorrect was a little too fast for me that time.

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  27. I also know it's really COCA-COLA with the hyphen. He did say remove all punctuation.

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    1. Because there is no hyphen in Alcoa....and it would have been in the way.

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  28. This week's official answers, for the record, Part 1:

    Hors d’Oeuvre Menu
    Jackal Ursus Bear Hors d’Oeuvre:
    A sophist’s fable
    Nearly a half-century ago an instance of sportsmanship occurred at the end of an biennial sporting event. The following is a fable of the how the event ended, with significant “hinting” words and phrases appear in bold and blue:
    A bear and a jackal once faced off in a game played in a green jungle. It was a close game, with the score nip and tuck as the game drew to a close. The bear finished playing the game before the jackal finished. While waiting for the jackal to finish, the bear lumbered over to a nearby concessions stand to draw a draft beer to give to the jackal. The bear picked up the tab, the jackal picked up the beer and his ball, and the game ended. No one lost. Both won, in a way.
    The bear’s act of generosity, however, was unpopular with a maned ass who had been rooting against the jackal. But many other fans of the game in the jungle had traditionally rooted against the bear, especially when he was competing against the king of the jungle, whom they deemed the more popular.
    Who are the bear, the jackal, the maned ass and the king of the jungle? What is this biennial sporting event?
    Hint: The “king of the jungle” appeared in recent headlines.
    Hint: The “jackal” accomplished a major victory in the year following the events in this fable. The setting of his victory was the same as the setting of the currently occurring “biennial sporting event.”

    Answer:
    bear = Jack Nicklaus, nicknamed the "Golden Bear."
    jackal = Tony Jacklin, whose surname echoes jackal.
    maned ass = Sam Snead, an anagram of "maned ass," who reportedly was nor pleased with Nicklaus for conceding the final Ryder Cup putt to Jacklin.
    king of the jungle = Arnold Palmer, whose nickname was the "King."
    biennial sporting event = The Ryder Cup, which in 1969 ended in a "draw" after Nicklaus "conceded" a two-foot putt to Jacklin by "picking up" Jacklin's ball marker and handing it to him. The match came to be known as "The Concession."
    Jacklin won the 1970 U.S. open at the Hazelton golf course in Minnesota, site of the just-concluded 2016 Ryder Cup.

    Morsel Menu
    A Pair Of Pathways To A Solution Morsel:
    A container contained in what it contains
    Remove all punctuation from a popular brand name consumable product. Remove from it a palindromic fragment of consecutive letters. Move the fourth letter of the remaining fragment to the second position to form the name of a possible producer of the consumable product’s container.
    Remove all punctuation from the same brand name consumable product. Again, remove from it a palindromic fragment of consecutive letters. Interchange the second and third letters of the remaining fragment and spell the result backward to form the name of the same possible producer of the consumable product’s container.
    What is this product and the possible producer of its container?

    Answer: Coca-Cola; Alcoa (aluminum cans)
    Coca-Cola >>cocacola - coc = acola >> Alcoa, or
    acola >> aocla >> Alcoa

    Lego...

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  29. This week's official answers, for the record, Part 2:

    Appetizer Menu
    Mover Lifter Puller Appetizer:
    “He ain’t heavy, he’s a brotherload!”
    Name a mechanical apparatus used to move, lift or pull out heavy loads.
    Now name what coaches of a certain sport encourage their players to do with more efficiency and effort in order to move, lift or pull down heavy loads.
    The apparatus and words of coaching advice you have named are the identical three-word phrase. What is it?

    Answer: block and tackle


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    Global Positive Self-Image System Slice:
    Pammela’s Salem map?
    Take a word that you should find on any self-respecting map of the United States. The word contains consecutive letters that spell a verb that you should interpret as a command – a command that you should carry out on the very letters that form the verb. (See the “Specialty Of The Teahouse Slice: Teatime Proustries” puzzle I composed and posted on this early 2015 Puzzleria!)
    After obeying the command rearrange the letters you see to form two nouns: 1. A synonym of a shortened form of a name of a female character from Greek literature, or more recent British literature, and 2. a more general term for that synonym.
    What is the word on the map? What are the two nouns?
    Hint: The word that you should find on “any self-respecting map of the United States” is one of a group of 50, or one of a special group of 50 situated within one of the first group of 50.

    Answer:
    Connecticut
    cut the verb "cut" from Connecticut, leaving "connecti" the letters of which can be rearranged to form "coin" and "cent."

    Lego...

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    1. "Cent," of course, is a synonym of "penny." Penny is short for Penelope, Odysseus's beloved in Homer's "Odyssey."

      Lego...

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  30. This week's official answers, for the record, Part 3:

    Two Heads Are More Opinionated Than One Slice:
    Furrowed browsers and U-boat loos
    A political “first” received news coverage very recently.
    Imagine an article on an editorial page that voices an unfavorable opinion about that first-time political action.
    The opinion piece’s main headline consists of three words:
    1. A plural 9-letter noun (the subject),
    2. An 8-letter verb (the predicate), and
    3. A 4-letter noun (the direct object).
    Its subhead also consists of three words:
    1. A 6-letter verb (another predicate of the 9-letter noun in the main headline),
    2. An 11-letter adjective, and
    3. A 4-letter direct-object noun.
    Note:
    The double-deck headline could have appeared above a non-opinionated “straight news” story – on Page 1, for example, instead of the opinion page – were it not for two “loaded,” judgmental words: the plural 9-letter noun in the main headline, and the 11-letter adjective in the subhead...
    Oh, and the letters in the main headline can be rearranged to form the subhead.
    What are the political “first,” the main headline and the subhead?

    Answer:
    The political "first" was Congress's first override of a veto by President Obama
    headline: Panderers override veto
    Subhead: Render overpraised vote
    (Note: I kind of like Paul's alternative answer "RESEND OVER-PARRIED VOTE")

    Dessert Menu:
    Idolatrous Dessert:
    LeBronze Names
    Remove a consonant from the interior of a word that is the name of a place where several graven bronze images of idols can be seen.
    Change the vowel sounds in the first syllable and in the third syllable. The result, when spoken aloud sounds like the brand name of a product associated with bronze.

    What are the place name and the brand name?

    Answer: Cooperstown; Coppertone
    Cooperstown - s = Coopertown >> Coppertone

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