Friday, October 4, 2019

“Peeuw! Clothes that hamper!” Title search and switcheroo; Stumped? I’ll “drop hints” later; Sports and games challenges... give ‘em your all! Businesswomen had a pharma EIEUO;

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Schpuzzle Of The Week:
Stumped? I’ll “drop hints” later

What do the following nine word pairs share in common?
local pharmacy
income gap
zinfandel tasting
riot act
bronze tan
drop hints
flip side
our house
pitch in


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Drumbeat Of Victory Conumdrums:
Sports and games challenges... give ‘em your all!

🥁1. Take the plural form of a sport. Drop one letter and rearrange to name a scenic American mountain range in two words.
🥁2. Name a popular board game where the first two letters are the symbol for a precious metal and the remaining letters are the brand name of a cough drop.
🥁3. Think of a sport. Move the first letter two places forward in the alphabet to name a participant in a different sport.
🥁4. Name a sport in six letters. Change the first letter to a G and rearrange to name a military rank.
🥁5. Name a five-letter word. Change the middle letter to get another word that sounds very similar to the first word but with a different meaning. By choosing a different first letter you can get another pair of words with this same property. What are these four words? 
Hint: Two of these words are used in a common six-word expression related to giving your all, where the two words share neither their first nor middle letters.


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Money Laundering Slice:
“Peeuw! Clothes that hamper!”

Rearrange the letters in a phrase lately in the news to form three containers: 
🍺🍺Two associated with cleanliness, and 
🍺A third holding dirty money perhaps in need of laundering. 
What are these three words?

Riffing Off Shortz And Baker Slice:
Businesswomen had a pharma EIEUO

Will Shortz’s September 29th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by listener Dorothy Baker of Dallas, Texas, reads: 
Think of a word that has five vowels – two E’s, an I, O, and U. Curiously, every vowel except the “I” is pronounced like a short “I.” And the “I” in the word is not pronounced at all. What word is it?
Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Baker Slices read:
ENTREE #1:
Think of a one-sentence quotation by a European author regarding the nature of marriage and the sexes. 
Consider two consecutive nouns in this quotation, which together contain only five vowels – an A, E, I, O, and U. Change the first of these nouns to its plural form. 
Curiously, the “I” in this altered two-word result is not pronounced at all, two other vowels are pronounced as like a short “I,” and the other two vowels are pronounced as a word formed by inserting a “C” in the author’s surname and interchanging its final two letters. 
Who is this author? 
What is the quotation? 
What are the two consecutive nouns?
ENTREE #2:
Think of a word for something aviators, navigators and other travelers need to monitor. 
It has four identical vowels and a Y. Curiously, every vowel except the “Y” is pronounced like a short version of itself or a schwa (which sounds pretty much the same as the short versions).  
Add all but the last letter of a country to the beginning of this word to form a new word that has six identical vowels and a Y. Again, curiously, every vowel except the “Y” is pronounced like a short version of itself or a schwa. This new word allegedly and “allegiantly” describes a quality possessed by the United States of America.
What two words are these?
ENTREE #3:
Rearrange the letters in the phrase “piglet hams” to form the two-word title of one of 150 poems in a songbook. 
The “a” in the first word in pronounced as a short “o” and the “ei” in the second word is pronounced as a long “a.”
What two-word title is this?
ENTREE #4:
Think of a person whose full name has five vowels – but no I or U. Curiously, every vowel is pronounced pretty much they way you would expect them to be pronounced. The surname of the person is a possible profession of a businesswoman. 
Take this person’s full name and combine its letters with the letters in the city from which the person hails. Remove one of the vowels that appears thrice in this result. 
Rearrange these 17 letters to form four words: a “piping Prosciutto product” such a businesswoman might provide, in words of three and five letters, plus two ingredients in this product, in words of four and five letters.
What is this person’s name? 
What is the product and what are two of its ingredients?
Hint: The person is a puzzle-maker.

YouBeMeForAWhileAndI'llBeYouDessert:
Title search and switcheroo

A past television show featured two main characters occasionally called just by their official titles and last names. 
Switch the characters’ titles. The last two letters of one title are now the first and third letters of the new name following it. Four of the final five letters in the other title can be rearranged to form the new name following it.
Who are these characters?

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34 comments:

  1. For a change, I got the Schpuzzle right away. It was pure luck, apparently.

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    1. Clever hint. Paul.

      LegoWhoWondersIfComicRonWhiteCouldSolveThisSchpuzzle

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    2. I was always taught: be tactful; breathe tastefully; never drink from Pepsi long-neck bottles.

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    3. Nice Schpuzzle hints, geofan. You and Paul are true puzzle Geeks!

      LegoWhoseSolemnPledgeToViolinTeddyIsAGuaranteeThatSheShallSoonSolveTheSchpuzzle

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    4. Is it Easter yet? The Peeps... I long for them.

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    5. Sure, Eating Peeps is a sweet Easter tradition, Megatart Stratagem, but I prefer an Independence Day patio table piled high with hot dogs and apple pie!

      LegoWhoMaintainsThatRobertPirsigMaintainedHisMotorcycleWell

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  2. Happy October to all!
    You'll be happy to know Mom can drive herself again, and she got our supper earlier from Hardee's. I did my other puzzles, and I checked Puzzleria! late last night. Tough ones though. The Schpuzzle was the easiest, for sure. But I could only get Conundrums #2, #3, and #4 as well. It also took me a while to get to sleep last night(actually, this morning). Hints please, Lego! Hope I sleep better tonight!

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  3. Pre Mon/Tues-hints, have all except the Money Slice and the Dessert.

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  4. Well, I guess I promised I'd "drop hints later." Monday evening is later than Sunday, so here are some Monday hints:
    Schpuzzle Of The Week:
    Tunnel vision may help you solve this... and Mr. Presley may help you find a hint hidden within the text of this hint.

    Conumdrums:
    1. The scenic mountain range may be American, but the sport? Not so much.
    2. The board game rewards resource management. As for the cough drop, the answer is easy... don't blow it!
    3. The first sport is notable for its participants being "squabblers." The surname of a notable participant in a second sport is a synonym of "cobbler."
    4. The first five letters of the sport are the start of many a countdown. As for the military rank... O'Toole.
    5. The common six-word expression related to "giving your all" is something drag racers do

    Money Laundering Slice:
    The phrase contains two words, the first with more than four times as many letters as the second. The beginning letters of the two words, respectively, are the first and final letters in the first name of a puzzle-maker.

    ROSABS:
    ENTREE #1:
    The author: G_____ Brander Wash
    ENTREE #2:
    The country (minus its last letter) that you add to the beginning of the word with the four identical vowels and a Y is quite populous.
    ENTREE #3:
    The songbook is a part of a bigger library. One might say the songs are, if not inspirational, at least inspired.
    ENTREE #4:
    The recipe for the “piping Prosciutto product” substitutes a meat product for a dairy product.

    YBMFAWIBYD:
    The past television show is a sitcom from the 1960s. The two main characters wear uniforms, and badges. One of them packs heat.

    LegoWithLibertyAndJustReallyGreatHintsForAll!

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    1. Okay, i just now dropped in after several days, to find the hints, and bingo, understand the Schpuzzle. At last! THANK YOU!

      I haven't looked at the others hints, and I still have the FIRST and FIFTH Conundrums to solve, plus the FIRST entree. Oh yeah, I hadn't gotten the Dessert or the Laundry slice yet either. Much work yet to do....

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    2. And thanks to the Dessert hint, just solved it. I had been attempting to go for something with a Doctor....

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  5. Got the Dessert, but can't find the quotation from the author in Entree #1. Still cannot figure out the rest.

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    1. cranberry,
      The quotation is from "Man and Superman" (1903) act 2.
      ENTREE #2:
      "One nation, under God...
      ENTREE #3:
      It wasn't Barry, or even Bruce, who wrote the songs... it was David (of David & Goliath fame).
      ENTREE #4:
      And it was a Baker who cooked up this week's NPR puzzle. A Baker from Dallas.

      LegoSaySIfYouHaveSolvedTheNPRPuzzleYouHaveAlsoSolvedEntree#1

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  6. I'm exhausted, but still can simply NOT work out either Con #1 or the Laundry Slice....I did come up with a nice LONG first word, but given the hint about what the letter must be for the following short word, I can't make anything work out, although I came up with several partial possiblities. Sigh....

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    1. In Con #1, remove one letter from the plural form of a sport and the result is certain gemstones.
      In the Laundry Slice, the short word has 3 letters. It anagrams into a tool.
      One of the two containers associated with cleanliness is an 8-letter compound word. The other is 4-letter "crosswordese."
      The third container contains 4 letters also.

      LegoDetectsADoubleDribblingViolationAndThusStopsPlay

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    2. Drop one letter from the mountain range of Con #1. Add four other letters and rearrange to get a different mountain range. The four added letters and the dropped letter can be put together and arranged to form the name of a place where the sport is played.

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    3. Thanks for the "Conundriffoff,: Paul. It has, alas, it seems, stumped me thus far. I thought I was well on may way to solving it... but then when I got down to anagramming where the sport is played, it turned out to be in an EDSEL!

      LegoMountainMamaWestVirginia

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    4. Thanks, Lego. I have the Laundry slice now....and indeed, had been close...within ONE letter of the correct phrase! i had just not been able to make the three resultant words turn out...I will include what I had circled around tomorrow in my answer post.

      On to Con #1....and I think I spotted your hint for the mt range..I had written down every OTHER range but that one! Will proceed thus to work backwards...

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  7. I now have Entree #2, but the prosciutto product still eludes me though I know the puzzle-maker's name. Not every anagram comes easy. Also, Man and Superman and David gave me nothing. What else have you got?

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    1. The prosciutto product is the most basic product that the professional businesswoman in Entree #4 would produce. It is a prosciutto product because one of the ingredients is for all intents and purposes a meat-based substitute for butter. The other ingredient is yellow and has white ovoid packaging.
      In Entree #1 "Man and Superman" is the title of the play in which the quotation appears. The two nouns you are looking for should be familiar to those who solved the present NPR puzzle, as you did, cranberry. They can be connected to form a 4-syllable compound word.
      In Entree #3, David is a biblical character who (like Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Paul, George and Ringo) actually wrote a book in the bible, but in the OT not the NT. What he wrote were lyrics meant to be set to music. Lyrics to the song with the title we are seeking include: "O LORD, our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth!"

      OhLegoOurLegoHowConfusingAreThyPuzzlesOnAllTheCybersphere!


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    2. Finally got Entree #3. Should've got that one sooner.

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  8. Believe I have an alternate answer to Con #1. More Wednesday.

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  9. For once, I'm going to be ON TIME with answers!

    SCHPUZZLE: They all spell out Greek letters.....ALPHA, OMEGA, DELTA, IOTA, ZETA, PHI, PSI, RHO, and CHI.

    CONUNDRUMS:

    1. [Per hint: RUBIES]: Thus, RUGBIE(minus S) & LED ???? (I know something is wrong here, but I simply can't figure out HOW to get the mts without these 3 extra letters) => BLUE RIDGE Paul's: WALES?

    2. AG/RICOLA [I never heard of this board game!]

    3. HOCKEY => JOCKEY

    4. TENNIS => ENSIGN

    5. PEDAL => PETAL ; MEDAL => METAL [Put the pedal to the metal]


    LAUNDRY SLICE: WHISTLEBLOWER LAW => WASHBOWL, EWER & TILL. [On Monday evening, I had tried WASHER & WELL, and even tried to use TUB, but then needed a different, slightly longer second word. Had also considered OILWELL, i.e. VERY DIRTY MONEY!!]


    ENTREES:

    1. GEORGE BERNARD SHAW : IT IS A "WOMAN'S BUSINESS" TO GET MARRIED AS SOON AS POSSIBLE, AND A MAN'S TO KEEP UNMARRIED AS LONG AS HE CAN => WOMEN & BUSINESS

    2. VISIBILITY & INDI(A) => INDIVISIBILITY

    3. PSALM EIGHT

    4. DOROTHY BAKER & DALLAS => Remove an "A" => Dorothy Baker Dalls => HOT BREAD & LARD & YOLKS

    DESSERT: SHERIFF TAYLOR & DEPUTY FIFE => SHERIFF FIFE & DEPUTY TAYLOR

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  10. AGRICOLA > Ag+Ricola
    TENNIS > ENSIGN

    WOMAN'S BUSINESS > WOMEN'S BUSINESS?? / G.B. SHAW > SCHWA
    VISIBILITY > INDIVISIBILITY
    PIGLET HAMS > PSALM EIGHT

    DOROTHY BAKER + DALLAS - A > ????

    ------------HINTS----------------

    "It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's to keep unmarried as long as he can."

    PEDAL, PETAL, MEDAL, METAL (Pedal to the metal)

    HOCKEY > JOCKEY

    SHERIFF TAYLOR, DEPUTY FIFE > DEPUTY TAYLOR, SHERIFF FIFE

    The Leeds rugby team is the Rhinos; and I believe I've driven on a few country roads in the Blue Ridge mountains.
    BIG SUR

    HOT BREAD LARD YOLKS

    I've got nothing for the laundry slice; I never liked doing laundry; who does?


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    1. Paul, I got sooooo close to solving your BlueRidgeLeeds Conundrum riff-off... but no cigar. I was so tunnel-visioned-in on "the name of a place where the sport is played," assuming it was something like "arena" or "stadium," that, when confronted with the S of big Sur and the LEDE of bLuE riDgE, all I could think of was a rugby match played in an Edsel!

      LegoWhoWonders:InTheRugbyMatchBetweenTheWarringtonWolvesAndLeedsRhinosWhoLeeds?(RHINOS,ByTheWay,IsAnAcronymForRugbyHeroinesInNameOnly)

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  13. SOTW: Each pair encloses a Greek letter: α, ω, δ, ι, ζ, φ, ψ, ρ, χ

    Conundrums
    #1 alternate answer: MOUNTAINEERING(S) - I => GREEN MOUNTAINS (Vermont).
    IMHO the probable intended answer [RUGBIES - E => BIG SUR] is not correct, as Big Sur is a region (before checking just now, I had thought of it as a single mountain), not a mountain range. The puzzle stated "a scenic American mountain range" as the desired answer.
    #2 AG + RICOLA => AGRICOLA
    #3 HOCKEY / JOCKEY
    #4 TENNIS / ENSIGN
    #5 PEDAL / PETAL; MEDAL / METAL (Pedal to the metal)

    MLS: WHISTLEBLOWER LAW / WASHBOWL / EWER / TILL (post-hints - Will Shortz was the puzzle-maker in the hint)

    Entrées
    #1 G.B. SHAW / SCHWA / WOMAN'S BUSINESS "It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, an a man's to keep unmarried as long as possible"
    #2 VISIBILITY / INDIVISIBILITY
    #3 PSALM EIGHT
    #4 DOROTHY BAKER / HOT BREAD / LARD / YOLKS

    Dessert: SHERIFF ANDY TAYLOR / DEPUTY BARNEY FIFE (Andy Griffith Show) (Post-hint)

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    1. I love your MOUNTAINEERING(S) alternative answer to Conundrum #1, geofan. Very nice work!

      LegoWhoWondersIfAficionadosOfMountaineeringSeekOutPiercedMountains

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  14. Schpuzzle
    All the phrases contain letters in the Greek alphabet.
    locALPHArmacy
    incOMEGAp
    zinfanDELTAsting
    rIOTAct
    bronZETAn
    droPHInts
    fliPSIde
    ouRHOuse
    pitCHIn
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    2. AGRICOLA(AG, silver,+RICOLA)
    3. HOCKEY, JOCKEY
    4. TENNIS, ENSIGN
    5. PETAL, PEDAL, METAL, MEDAL(put the pedal to the metal)
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    WHISTLEBLOWER LAW(WASHBOWL, EWER, TILL)
    Entrees
    1. GEORGE BERNARD SHAW, SCHWA, WOMAN'S BUSINESS, "It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's business to keep unmarried as long as possible."
    2. VISIBILITY, INDIVISIBILITY(INDIA)
    3. PSALM EIGHT
    4. DOROTHY BAKER, DALLAS(HOT BREAD, LARD, YOLKS)
    Dessert
    SHERIFF ANDY TAYLOR, DEPUTY BARNEY FIFE
    Cue the guy whistling the song about the fishing hole.-pjb

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  15. This week's official answers, part 1:

    Schpuzzle Of The Week:
    Stumped? I’ll “drop hints” later

    What to the following nine word pairs share in common?
    local pharmacy
    income gap
    zinfandel tasting
    riot act
    bronze tan
    drop hints
    flip side
    our house
    pitch in
    Answer:
    A Greek letter is spelled out between the words.
    locAL PHArmacy
    incOME GAp
    zinfanDEL TAsting
    rIOT Act
    bronZE TAn
    droP HInts
    fliP SIde
    ouR HOuse
    pitCH In

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    Drumbeat Of Victory Conumdrums
    Sports and games challenges... give ‘em your all!1. Take the plural form of a sport. Drop one letter and rearrange to name a scenic American mountain range in two words.
    Answer:
    RUGBIES, BIG SUR
    2. Name a popular board game where the first two letters are the symbol for a precious metal and the remaining letters are the brand name of a cough drop.
    Answer:
    AGRICOLA, AG, RICOLA
    3. Think of a sport. Move the first letter two places forward in the alphabet to name a participant in a different sport.
    Answer:
    HOCKEY, JOCKEY
    4. Name a sport in six letters. Change the first letter to a G and rearrange to name a military rank.
    Answer:
    TENNIS, ENSIGN
    5. Name a five letter word. Change the middle letter to get another word that sounds very similar to the first word but with a different meaning. By choosing a different first letter you can get another pair of words with this same property. What are these four words? Hint: two of these words are used in a common six word expression related to giving your all, where the two words share neither their first nor middle letters.
    Answer:
    MEDAL, METAL, PEDAL, PETAL
    put the PEDAL to the METAL

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    Money Laundering Slice:
    “Peeuw! Clothes that hamper!”

    Rearrange the letters in a phrase lately in the news to form three containers: two associated with cleanliness and a third holding dirty money perhaps in need of laundering. What are these three words?
    Answer:
    Whistleblower law;
    Washbowl, Ewer, Till

    Lego...

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  16. This week's official answers, part 2:

    Riffing Off Shortz And Baker Slice:
    Businesswomen ran a pharma EIEUO

    Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Baker Slices read:
    ENTREE #1:
    Think of a one-sentence quotation by an Irish author regarding the nature of marriage and the sexes.
    Consider two consecutive nouns in this quotation, which together contain only five vowels – an A, E, I, O, and U. Change the first of these nouns to its plural form.
    Curiously, the “I” in this altered two-word result is not pronounced at all, two other vowels are pronounced as like a short “I,” and the other two vowels are pronounced as a word formed by inserting a “C” in the author’s surname and interchanging its final two letters.
    Who is this author?
    What is the quotation?
    What are the two consecutive nouns?
    Answer:
    George Bernard Shaw;
    “It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's to keep unmarried as long as he can.”
    "...woman's business..." --> "...women's business..."
    (The "i" in "women's business" is not pronounced, the "o" and "u" are each pronounced as a short "i" and each "e" is pronounced as a schwa.)
    ENTREE #2:
    Think of a word for something aviators, navigators and other travelers need to monitor. It has four identical vowels and a Y. Curiously, every vowel except the “Y” is pronounced like a short version of itself or a schwa (which sounds pretty much the same as the short versions).
    Add all but the last letter of a country to the beginning of this word to form a new word that has six identical vowels and a Y. Again, curiously, every vowel except the “Y” is pronounced like a short version of itself or a schwa. This new word allegedly and “allegiantly” describes a quality possessed by the United States of America.
    What two words are these?
    Answer:
    Visibility; Indivisibility
    ENTREE #3:
    Rearrange the letters in the phrase “piglet ham” to form the two-word title of one of 150 poems in a songbook. The “a” in the first word in pronounced as a short “o” and the “ei” in the second word is pronounced as a long “a.”
    What two-word title is this?
    Answer:
    Psalm Eight; (som, ayt)
    ENTREE #4:
    Think of a person whose full name has five vowels – but no I or U. Curiously, every vowel is pronounced pretty much they way you would expect.
    The surname of the person is a possible profession of a businesswoman.
    Take this person’s full name and combine its letters with the letters in the city from which the person hails. Remove one of the vowels that appears thrice in this result. Rearrange these 17 letters to form four words: a “piping Prosciutto product” such a businesswoman might provide, in words of three and five letters, plus two ingredients in this product, in words of four and five letters.
    What is this person’s name?
    What is the product and what are two of its ingredients?
    Hint: The person is a puzzle-maker.
    Answer:
    Dorothy Baker, from Dallas;
    Hot bread; yolks, lard

    Lego...

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  17. This week's official answers, part 3:

    Dessert Menu

    YouBeMeForAwhileAndI'llBeYouDessert:
    Title search and switcheroo

    A past television show featured two main characters sometimes called just by their official titles and last names. Switch the characters’ titles. The last two letters of one title are now the first and third letters of the new name following it. Four of the final five letters in the other title can be rearranged to form the new name following it.
    Who are these characters?
    Deputy (Barney) Fife; Sheriff (Andy) Taylor
    (depuTY TaYlor; shErIFF FIFE)

    Lego!...WhoReportsThatTheFishin'HoleWhistlin'GuyIsHerebyCued(ThanksTocranberry)

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