tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3930236368587920355.post3547252437614425306..comments2024-03-27T19:58:14.682-07:00Comments on Joseph Young's Puzzleria!: Pastry from the Yreka Bakery; Superatomic wanderers; What does the fox… sayfguard?; The potable calling the kettle “dark-colored”; Psychic powerhouse; Canon shot?; “Page turners” & “Turn pagers off”; An utterly united state; Pick ’n’ grip ’n’ grin?legolambdahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18081014756741740081noreply@blogger.comBlogger83125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3930236368587920355.post-55212627010305327422016-05-20T14:03:39.879-07:002016-05-20T14:03:39.879-07:00I just looked up VOICE in the online Merriam-Webst...I just looked up VOICE in the online Merriam-Webster Dictionary. It specifically refers to voice as in instrument. skydiveboyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17174073226290431753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3930236368587920355.post-59794469583000678762016-05-20T13:40:24.205-07:002016-05-20T13:40:24.205-07:00OOOOOH, LegoDo(nut): now I get it re Otto (and th...OOOOOH, LegoDo(nut): now I get it re Otto (and thank you for replying, as I'd still been dying of curiosity!): Otto as in BISMARCK! I had completely missed the last name in your answers list, since the name appears in the ORANGE type, which I often can't even SEE on this blog. [I reiterate that just FINDING the light orange 'Comments' each time I check in here is murder on my eyes.]<br /><br />Yes, I agree that the THERAMIN/NEITHER answer was both clever and elegant....but I hadn't actually realized that the 'Handel Bars' slice WAS Chuck's puzzle. <br /><br />Lastly, I'm glad to know I wasn't the only one to get Castro, but not to have consider voices as instruments. You are correct, of course, that professional singers DO consider their voices as such. But I bet those poor Castrati of old would have given anything NOT to have been burdened with such an instrument!ViolinTeddyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11162884875089825084noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3930236368587920355.post-47984092258016927512016-05-20T13:39:38.596-07:002016-05-20T13:39:38.596-07:00OOOOOH, LegoDo(nut): now I get it re Otto (and th...OOOOOH, LegoDo(nut): now I get it re Otto (and thank you for replying, as I'd still been dying of curiosity!): Otto as in BISMARCK! I had completely missed the last name in your answers list, since the name appears in the ORANGE type, which I often can't even SEE on this blog. [I reiterate that just FINDING the light orange 'Comments' each time I check in here is murder on my eyes.]<br /><br />Yes, I agree that the THERAMIN/NEITHER answer was both clever and elegant....but I hadn't actually realized that the 'Handel Bars' slice WAS Chuck's puzzle. <br /><br />Lastly, I'm glad to know I wasn't the only one to get Castro, but not to have consider voices as instruments. You are correct, of course, that professional singers DO consider their voices as such. But I bet those poor Castrati of old would have given anything NOT to have been burdened with such an instrument!ViolinTeddyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11162884875089825084noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3930236368587920355.post-2366003942433955682016-05-20T01:07:50.947-07:002016-05-20T01:07:50.947-07:00ViolinTeddy,
Regarding your BITS & PIECES post...ViolinTeddy,<br />Regarding your BITS & PIECES post:<br /><br />I think that FLUTE/LEFT is a fine alternative solution to Chuck’s puzzle. But don’t you agree that Chuck’s answer is pretty darn clever and elegant?<br /><br />For info on our old pal Otto, read under “Regional Variations” on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berliner_(doughnut)" rel="nofollow">this site</a>.<br /><br />I too considered Castro as the world leader. But I could just not get my head around “castrato = musical instrument.” After skydiveboy’s explanation, however, I recalled singers referring to their voices as their “instruments.”<br /><br />LegoWhoNotOnlyDunksDonutsBut<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KecIdlEAKhU" rel="nofollow">SinksBismarcks</a><br />legolambdahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18081014756741740081noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3930236368587920355.post-48968285504089439822016-05-19T19:17:33.590-07:002016-05-19T19:17:33.590-07:00I'm not quite sure how violins being made of t...I'm not quite sure how violins being made of trees came into this, but I'm even more puzzled about Barney and Andy getting included...particularly annoying to me has always been the fact (seen recently thanks to "ME TV") that in one episode (also with Barney originally singing the solo, in which he has NOT tone deaf as in the clip above) they have Gomer singing in his 'stupid' voice, and only later on in his own show, does Gomer suddenly have the gorgeous bass voice.<br /><br />I still never would have put voice parts on the 'instruments' list, even though I had Castro (and consulted lots of lists, in hopes...) But of course, if you, sdb, had used "name a voice part" it would have narrowed things down right away/too much....oh well.ViolinTeddyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11162884875089825084noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3930236368587920355.post-6580296794866532642016-05-19T17:55:54.071-07:002016-05-19T17:55:54.071-07:00Very funny, Lego. However I should point out that ...Very funny, Lego. However I should point out that violins are made from trees, but trees are not instruments. skydiveboyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17174073226290431753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3930236368587920355.post-82619571272707103752016-05-19T17:34:44.082-07:002016-05-19T17:34:44.082-07:00Not so sure 'bout that, skydiveboy.
LegoAndTh...Not so sure 'bout <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ie0Ivttylc" rel="nofollow">that</a>, skydiveboy.<br /><br />LegoAndTheNuclearBombWasSupposedlyThe<em>Ultimate</em>WeaponOfMassDestructionOfEardrumslegolambdahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18081014756741740081noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3930236368587920355.post-7681794397489966122016-05-18T19:38:48.022-07:002016-05-18T19:38:48.022-07:00If you try a Google search of "Is the human v...If you try a Google search of "Is the human volic an instrument?", you may be surprised at what you find. It seems most in the musical field consider the human voice to be the ultimate instrument.skydiveboyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17174073226290431753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3930236368587920355.post-83245465178001026722016-05-18T19:30:31.447-07:002016-05-18T19:30:31.447-07:00Well, as a member throughout my life of many diffe...Well, as a member throughout my life of many different choirs, to me tenor, soprano et al are VOICES, not instruments, except in the very broadest sense.ViolinTeddyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11162884875089825084noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3930236368587920355.post-89487364440744566432016-05-18T18:38:46.421-07:002016-05-18T18:38:46.421-07:00As that hot poet, Omar Cayenne wrote: "A box ...As that hot poet, Omar Cayenne wrote: "A box of Wine, a Loaf of Bread—and Thou." skydiveboyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17174073226290431753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3930236368587920355.post-4590350713129157002016-05-18T18:33:44.871-07:002016-05-18T18:33:44.871-07:00I too got FLUTE & LEFT.
The wikipedia lists ...I too got FLUTE & LEFT. <br /><br />The wikipedia lists it along with others, such as Tenor and soprano, etc. <br /><br />https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_musical_instrumentsskydiveboyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17174073226290431753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3930236368587920355.post-89196808387498822662016-05-18T18:26:08.602-07:002016-05-18T18:26:08.602-07:00It's box Pinot Noir on my end, but I'm not...It's box Pinot Noir on my end, but I'm not one to snub my elitist brother.Paulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11114786604125384958noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3930236368587920355.post-51572115769488428512016-05-18T18:21:05.877-07:002016-05-18T18:21:05.877-07:00BITS AND PIECES, Lego:
1. Did you see that pjb a...BITS AND PIECES, Lego:<br /><br />1. Did you see that pjb and I both had FLUTE/LEFT for the puzzle where your answer was really THERAMIN/NEITHER???? (I considered a Theramin for SDB's puzzle, but had gotten FLUTE right away, so never went further.) Having played the flute when I was in fourth through sixth grades, I can attest that the left hand HAS the stronger 'grip' on it.<br /><br />2. WHO IS OTTO, re bakery? I had hoped you would explain that one.<br /><br />3. I never would have considered "CASTRATO" to be a musical instrument. But at least, I had the CASTRO part, thanks to Cuba/Tuba. Paul's "Unique/Eunuch" is frustratingly clever.ViolinTeddyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11162884875089825084noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3930236368587920355.post-64728549874199801922016-05-18T18:08:53.746-07:002016-05-18T18:08:53.746-07:00Let's raise a glass of Porto to that! After al...Let's raise a glass of Porto to that! After all there must be a storm somewhere in the world.skydiveboyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17174073226290431753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3930236368587920355.post-61648473983677017932016-05-18T17:53:51.069-07:002016-05-18T17:53:51.069-07:00Absolutely not. Excellent observation.Absolutely not. Excellent observation.Paulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11114786604125384958noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3930236368587920355.post-28531059650847964722016-05-18T17:47:21.706-07:002016-05-18T17:47:21.706-07:00Can you give me an example of a word that was not ...Can you give me an example of a word that was not made up? skydiveboyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17174073226290431753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3930236368587920355.post-78888041443451429982016-05-18T17:42:43.393-07:002016-05-18T17:42:43.393-07:00Since it's a made-up word, why not?Since it's a made-up word, why not?Paulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11114786604125384958noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3930236368587920355.post-57340830470458488972016-05-18T17:17:39.256-07:002016-05-18T17:17:39.256-07:00Are you saying we managed to disarmageddon?Are you saying we managed to disarmageddon?skydiveboyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17174073226290431753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3930236368587920355.post-37083845422537637382016-05-18T16:20:40.112-07:002016-05-18T16:20:40.112-07:00Armageddon averted. Whew!Armageddon averted. Whew!Paulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11114786604125384958noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3930236368587920355.post-5981284008127693652016-05-18T16:14:57.264-07:002016-05-18T16:14:57.264-07:00This week’s official answers for the record, Part ...This week’s official answers for the record, Part 3:<br /><br />Riffing Off Shortz Slice:<br />The potable calling the kettle”dark-colored”<br />Name something in 10 letters that’s a common household item associated with a dark-colored potable. You can rearrange the outside six letters to form another dark-colored potable. That potable is roughly the same dark color as a potable spelled out by the middle four letters.<br />Rearrange all letters in the 10-letter word to form a two-word synonym of a dark-colored “inferior wine” (like the stuff they were serving at the Cana wedding until J.C. did his miraculous stuff).<br />What is the household item associated with a dark-colored potable? What is this dark-colored potable? What are the other three dark-colored potables, including the two-word synonym for “inferior wine”?<br />Hint 1: You can rearrange the 10 letters of the household item to form three words:<br />1. a 3-letter container for the potable associated with the household item<br />2. a 3-letter name for one of the other dark-colored potables, the one that was formed by rearranging the outside six letters of the household item<br />3. Andrea, Sharon, Caroline or Jim (a 4-letter capitalized word)<br />Hint 2: Change the fourth letter of the word spelled out by the middle four letters to form the first name of a composer and songwriter whose last name is the potable formed by the six rearranged outside letters.<br />Hint 3: Replace the final letter of the two-word synonym for “inferior wine” with the next letter in the alphabet to form an informal name for a contemplative order of Franciscan nuns.<br /><br />Answer: Percolator, coffee;<br /><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porter_(beer)" rel="nofollow">Porter</a>; <a href="http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cola" rel="nofollow">Cola</a>; Poor <a href="http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/claret" rel="nofollow">claret</a><br />Percolator = Per + cola + tor; Per + tor >> porter<br />Hint 1:<br />1. POT (of coffee)<br />2. ALE (like <a href="http://www.beerinfo.com/index.php/pages/toptenlist.html" rel="nofollow">porter</a>,for example)<br />3. <a href="https://www.facebook.com/thecorrsofficial/" rel="nofollow">CORR</a><br />Hint 2: Cola >> Cole >> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WX_fKVWX2s" rel="nofollow">Cole Porter</a><br />Hint 3: Poor Claret >> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poor_Clares" rel="nofollow">Poor Clares</a> <br /><br />Dessert Menu<br /><br />Microscopic/Telescopic Dessert:<br />Superatomic wanderers<br />Particle physics research often involves creating models and solving calculations and graphs that include “lepton axes.” This realm of the subatomic is like an “infinitesimal inner space” populated by nuclei orbited by spinning protons, neutrons, electrons, leptons, muons and neutrinos – animated by forces not of gravity but of electromagnetism.<br />On a scale vaster than the subatomic (and vaster even than atomic subs), heavenly bodies spin as they orbit about countless stellar “nuclei.” Recent science news reports have documented the fruits of telescopic research probing this vast outer space, tracking and identifying a number of such heavenly bodies. This research has implications for the potential of extraterrestrial life, perhaps even for human life which really would be out-of-this-world.<br />Rearrange the 10 letters in “lepton axes” to form the word astronomers use to name such heavenly bodies. What is this word?<br /><br />Answer: <a href="http://www.techtimes.com/articles/157795/20160512/alien-earth-remains-elusive-despite-discovery-of-more-than-1-000-exoplanets.htm" rel="nofollow">Exoplanets</a><br /><br />Lego…<br />legolambdahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18081014756741740081noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3930236368587920355.post-74004929019539522942016-05-18T16:12:56.399-07:002016-05-18T16:12:56.399-07:00This week’s official answers for the record, Part ...This week’s official answers for the record, Part 2:<br /><br />Appetizer Menu<br /><br />Ripping Off SuperZee Appetizer<br />What does the fox… sayfguard?<br />(The following puzzle is SuperZee’s idea.)<br />Name something in 11 letters that is seen commonly in one particular room of households.<br />If you replace the third letter with a duplicate of the fourth letter and rearrange the first seven letters of the result, you can form a synonym of a critter spelled by the middle three letters of this result.<br />What is this thing seen in households? What are the two synonyms of the critter?<br /><br />Answer: Kitchenware; Hen, chicken<br /><br />I Do Espouse Appetizer:<br />An utterly united state<br />Name something you might find on a table at a wedding reception. Change its first letter to its “alphanumeric 27-sum complement” (see chart below) and spell it backward.<br />Divide the result into three words – one of them a contraction – forming a phrase the bride might have uttered a time or two or more in her life. <br />This phrase is also a part of the title of a 1960’s-era pop song that the groom should now probably stop uttering.<br />What might you find on the reception table? <br />What might the bride have uttered? <br />What ought the groom stop uttering?<br /><br />Answer: <a href="http://origami.about.com/od/Origami-Decorations/tp/Origami-For-Weddings.htm" rel="nofollow">Origami</a>;<br />Origami >> Lrigami<br />“I’m a girl.”<br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raJWuz7qQVc" rel="nofollow">“I’m a girl watcher.”</a> <br /><br />MENU<br /><br />Handel Bars Slice:<br />Pick ’n’ grip ’n’ grin?<br />Name a musical instrument. Remove a letter and rearrange the remaining letters to reveal which hand has a firmer grip on the instrument.<br />What is this instrument?<br /><br />Answer: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QgTF8p-284" rel="nofollow">Theremin</a><br />Theremin – m = therein >> neither (hand)<br /><br />Lego…WithGratitudeToChuckAndToSuperZee<br />legolambdahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18081014756741740081noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3930236368587920355.post-67511044341795810372016-05-18T16:07:04.326-07:002016-05-18T16:07:04.326-07:00This week’s official answers for the record, Part ...This week’s official answers for the record, Part 1: <br />Hors d’Oeuvre Menu<br /><br />Reaping What Thou Hast Sown Hors d’Oeuvre:<br />Canon shot?<br />The Catholic Church’s Code of Canon Law is a vast “legal field” filled with dogmas – called “canons” – sown by church councils over the centuries. But recent news from the Vatican has raised the future possibility of “a canon mowed.”<br />Rearrange the 11 letters in “a canon mowed” to describe, in two words, one potential fruit of such a harvest.<br /><br />Answer: The letters in “a canon mowed” can be rearranged to form “<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/13/world/europe/pope-says-hes-open-to-studying-whether-women-can-serve-as-deacons.html?_r=0" rel="nofollow">woman deacon</a>.” <br /><br />Ripping Off Shortz Hors d’Oeuvre:<br />Psychic powerhouse<br />Name some common household items found in the kitchen, an 11-letter plural word. Form an adjective with its third, fifth, tenth and first letters, in that order. Place the last six letters of the household items after this adjective, forming a two-word phrase describing what a self-proclaimed psychic often did to “prove” he/she had a particular paranormal power. That power is spelled-out by the middle three letters of the 11-letter word.<br />What are these household items? Who is the pseudo-psychic, what did he/she do to “prove” her/his paranormal power, and what was the power?<br /><br />Answer: tablespoons; <br /><a href="http://skepdic.com/geller.html" rel="nofollow">Uri</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3vGGf-ZIkc" rel="nofollow">Geller</a>, who “bent spoons”<br /><a href="http://articles.latimes.com/1991-09-13/news/vw-2279_1_uri-geller" rel="nofollow">ESP</a><br /><br />Morsel Menu<br /><br />Books Office Morsel:<br />“Page turners” & “Turn pagers off”<br />Name things that books and movies might have, in nine letters. The singular form of the word contains two consecutive letters that form a common English pronoun. <br />Remove the pronoun to form an adjective that often modifies “hints” or “clues” ... but not a hint, for example, like the unnuanced straightforward hint presented in the previous sentence (about the common pronoun formed by consecutive letters).<br />What are these things that some books and movies have? What is the adjective?<br /><br />Answer: <a href="http://mentalfloss.com/article/26015/10-famous-books-lesser-known-subtitles" rel="nofollow">sub</a><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qcjUlboFk0" rel="nofollow">titles</a>; subtle<br /><br />Riffing Off Shortz Morsel:<br />Pastry from the Yreka Bakery<br />Name something – in 12 letters and two words – that is a common household kitchen item.<br />Select the first and fourth letters from the first word. They spell a two-letter English word whose French translation is the four-letter French word formed by selecting the first, fifth, sixth letters from the second word and adding an “e” to the end.<br />Take the second word’s unselected three letters and spell them backward to form the second name of a woman associated with pastry. Take the first word’s unselected four letters and spell them backward (if you want to… it’s up to you) to form the first name of a man associated with breakfast pastry.<br />What is the household kitchen item? What are the English word and its French translation? Who are the woman and man associated with breakfast pastries?<br /><br />Answer: Potato peeler; Pa; pere;<br /><a href="https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C1CHFX_enUS604US604&espv=2&q=bismarck+pastry&oq=bismarck+pastry&gs_l=serp.3..0l3j0i22i30l2j0i22i10i30j0i22i30.36750.38444.0.39219.6.6.0.0.0.0.182.709.3j3.6.0....0...1c.1.64.serp..0.6.706.DgXkbpq0kNE" rel="nofollow">Otto von Bismarck</a>; <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sara_Lee_Corporation" rel="nofollow">Sara Lee</a><br />Peeler – Per = eel >> Lee<br />Potato – Pa = Otto<br /><br />Lego…<br />legolambdahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18081014756741740081noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3930236368587920355.post-9578809444145874242016-05-18T16:01:20.227-07:002016-05-18T16:01:20.227-07:00Paul,
I am glad you post that explanation. It went...Paul,<br />I am glad you post that explanation. It went right over my head. I should have got it. skydiveboyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17174073226290431753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3930236368587920355.post-27443807927139831902016-05-18T15:19:25.731-07:002016-05-18T15:19:25.731-07:00There will indeed be another excellent puzzle crea...There will indeed be another excellent puzzle created by skydiveboy featured in the May 20th edition of Puzzleria!<br /><br />Official answers to this week's puzzles, for the record, will be posted anon... but, per usual, not anonymously. Among the answers will be the answer to Chuck's Handel Bars Slice, "Pick 'n' grip 'n' grin." <br />But Chuck, if <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJ6h84ZsuW4" rel="nofollow">you're out there somewhere</a> in cyberspace (and I know you are), feel free to weigh in at any time with your answer. My official answers are generally anticlimactic anyway. As usual, you clever and astute Puzzlerians! have unraveled all my <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bC4WF0y6Yj0" rel="nofollow">Gordian</a> knots.<br /><br />LegoYesIKnowIOweYouOfficialAnswerslegolambdahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18081014756741740081noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3930236368587920355.post-31179490474957053842016-05-18T14:58:04.453-07:002016-05-18T14:58:04.453-07:00UNIQUE and EUNUCH aren't exactly homophonic.
...UNIQUE and EUNUCH aren't <b>exactly</b> homophonic.<br /><br />Sue me.Paulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11114786604125384958noreply@blogger.com