Q: Think of a product for sale at a hardware store. It's a generic two-word name. Replace the first letter of the first word with an S, and replace the first two letters of the second word with an S, and the result will be two new words that are opposites. What are they?Hints: Black Turtleneck or Black Lady
Edit: Both my clues were musical hints. One of the members of Black Turtleneck is Jason Amm who goes by the alias "Solvent". Charles Mingus had an album entitled "The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady".
A: PAINT THINNER --> SAINT, SINNER
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Happy Father's Day, all you dads. I am feeling in colorful spirits today. It is always a blast when you come upon the solution early without wasting a whole week.
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RoRo, in response to your question last week, no, I'm not from Baltimore. I'm from Eugene, but I'm a huge NFL fan. Ed Dickson, former Oregon Duck, was drafted by the Ravens this year.
ReplyDeleteConsecutive words in a Stones song provide the answer in plural.
Possible future Dan Brown title?
ReplyDeleteBlaine loves Charles Mingus, and thus I love Blaine.
ReplyDelete-- Other Ben
Interesting puzzle for Father's Day. Some fathers are good about going to the hardware store and doing projects. Others are not good.
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FIRST = LAST in SPORTS
ReplyDeleteOpera singer Simon Estes (bass-baritone), writer Franz Kafka, diplomat Kofi Annan, and actress Anne Heche are people with 5-letter last names, where the first 2 letters are the same as the last 2 letters. Name a well-known athlete from the first half of the 20th Century with a 7-letter last name, where the first 3 letters are the same as the last 3 letters.
To keep with my silly Bond theme: Shaken, not stirred.
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ReplyDeleteKen, did your well-known athlete play a sport that involves a ball?
ReplyDeleteYes.
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ReplyDeletePAINT THINNER
ReplyDeleteI also submitted PAINT THINNER.
ReplyDeleteI clued it by mentioning Blaine's love of Charles Mingus -- because Blaine had an awfully dexterous clue with "Black Turtleneck or Black Lady."
Charles Mingus had a great 1963 record called "The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady."
Take away SAINT and SINNER and you get the Black Lady.
The hidden clue within my clues is the fact that Roger Moore, along with playing James Bond, also played a TV character called the Saint.
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ReplyDeleteThe question was asked if the sport the athlete played involved a ball. The answer (YES) narrows the range of solutions.
Two other Q&A's will narrow the range even more:
Was the athlete an American? NO
Was the athlete a male? NO
I had the idea it was TIRE IRON + SIRE SON. Not opposites....but close!
ReplyDelete"Pheromone" on "CBS Sunday Morning" referred to the work of Christopher Marley,referring to a saint and Charles Dickens' sinner.
ReplyDeleteKen, I'll come up with an answer today.
ReplyDeleteMy clue about consecutive words in a Stones song refers to Sympathy for the Devil (" . . . and all the sinners saints).
Ken, my guess is that it's a female golf or tennis star.
ReplyDeleteSuzanne Lenglen
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ReplyDeleteThe #1 female tennis player in the world from 1919-1926 was Suzanne LENGLEN of France (see her Wiki entry and numerous Google references). She was arguably the first female superstar of the sports world. The second court at Roland Garros Stadium (site of the French Open) is named Court Suzanne Lenglen (capacity 10,068) in her honor.