I've got nothing...Q: Name a famous actor or actress whose last name ends in a doubled letter. Drop that doubled letter. Then insert an R somewhere inside the first name. The result will be a common two-word phrase. What is it?
A: CATE BLANCHETT --> CARTE BLANCHE
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You may provide indirect hints to the answer to show you know it, but make sure they don't assist with solving. You can openly discuss your hints and the answer after the deadline. Thank you.
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ReplyDeleteYou may provide indirect hints to the answer to show you know it, but make sure they don't give the answer away. You can openly discuss your hints and the answer after the Thursday deadline. Thank you.
Just like the limbo – how low can you go?
ReplyDeleteChuck
I've been out of town for little while. With this bedbug deal going on I always give the linens a good shaking out. This may only shake them up, but at least I'll know who's in charge...them.
ReplyDeleteBlaine,
ReplyDeleteNice touch, including only actors/actresses with double-letter-ending surnames in your blogtop illustration (Two of them were in TV’s M.A.S.H.H.) . Have we told you lately what a great blog you are running here? (I’m being serious and sincere.)
Only 45 FIRS/LEAVES/ LIFESAVERS responses. Will is befuddled at the relatively poor showing. Rachel asks if this might be a record for the lowest number of correct entries.
Hello! Has Rach completely forgotten the Feb. 2 HIS/SHE/UPSIDE-DOWN/DIGITAL/CLOCK that garnered 15 correct responses? I know we Blainesvillians sure haven’t!
Lotsa correct entries this week. But no, no Hot Turkey Sandwich entrees… I’m talkin’ “Winner, winner, chicken dinner!” (No hints in this post. I have not yet solved this week’s puzzle.)
LegoDrumstick
I believe many years back there was only one winning entry on a very difficult math puzzle.
DeleteAnd didn't the Sunday, October 13, 2013 grid puzzle that went on for two weeks have only one correct answer?
DeleteI can't quote dates the way you guys do, but at least once, way back when, Will gave a puzzle - something about shifting letters of the alphabet and all that - which he conceded the next week had been incorrectly stated and had no answer.
DeleteDoes anyone remember some years back when they said NPR was going to produce some sort of compendium - book, CD, whatever - of favorite moments in the Sunday puzzle? I suggested the gaffe described above, but never heard any more about it, and I don't think the project went to completion.
Everything I had to say about this week's challenge is at the end of last week's thread.
Nxte xah ccstga utxxddtf fj mpm jjjfyshkfjl wn jiztdgttj.
DeleteBob K,
DeleteA puzzle sans answer?
I have to cry foul!
We hadn’t a chance here.
Lapel pins for all!
PC,
YYUR YYUB ICURYY4ME
OK, that’s the juvenile extent of my cryptoknowlege. You may have explained this all before, but I want to know how to crack your comments, to know what you are saying to us. They can’t be simple letter-for-letter crytoquotes. Is there any hint/help you can give me without giving it all away?
LegoBewildered
@legolambda,
DeleteMy comment is encoded with a vigenere cipher, using (some form of) the answer to this week's puzzle as the key.
There is a c.d. out of Sunday Puzzle gaffes and look backs of past Sunday Puzzle highlights. I received it when I had the good fortune of playing on the air a few years ago.
DeletePlannedChaos:
DeleteRegarding your (some form of) the answer to this week's puzzle as the key: I've tried the following:
The actor (or actress)'s name
The above ROT13'd
The reverse of both of the above
The two-word phrase
THAT ROT13'd
and the reverse of both of THOSE
I've even looked up the actor (or actress) in the IMDb and tried the character names of the person's roles. Still no luck.
So, PC, could you give us a clue as to what-the-heck form of the answer you used as the key?
@Enya_and_Weird_Al_fan,
DeleteWhen using Sharky's Vigenere Cipher to decode, make sure to tick the "subtraction" radio button (to the left of the "secret key" entry form).
It's also possible that we have different answers.
Thanks for that info, Jim! Do you still have that CD? What is the actual title? Is there a pkaylist?
DeleteI'm really surprised that I never heard more about it after the initial request for suggestions. Thanks for any more you can tell me. (Which means the first five pages of Google results showed me nothing!)
@Enya_and_Weird_Al_fan,
DeleteI think you've hit on the problem. I thought I was doing a ROT13 using "N" with 2.0.1, but it looks like it was really a ROT-14. Therefore, I worked out that the message I meant to write was:
Lvrc vyf aaqrey srvvbbrd dh knk hhhdwqfidhj ul hgxrberrh.
This is the previous message, ROT24'ed.
That should solve it for you.
Jim,
DeleteThey musta been plumb out of those on-air NPR puzzle CDs when I got the call last year. That would be much more fun than this darn lapel pin!
Thanks, PC, for the vigenere cipher link, and thanks to EaWAf for the subsequent give-and -ake with PC, which shed some further light on the process.
My conclusion? ICU(guys both)RYY4ME. Next to you two I feel like a cipher.
LegoSharky
Iĺl dig it out and post the info asap. I have not listened to it since shortly after I received it. Its entertaining! If I can figure out how, Iĺl try and share it. I have yet to wear my lapel pin...
DeleteI found it on Amazon. NPR Sunday Puzzles Audio c.d. You can listen to an audio sample there too.
DeletePlanned Chaos:
DeleteSorry, but you STILL didn't have it right! If you want the key to be name of the Actor (or Actress) ROT13'd with the "subtract" button ticked, then your cipher post should have been:
Mwsd wzg bbrsfz tswwccse ei lol iiiexrgjeik vm ihyscfssi.
@Enya_and_Weird_Al_fan,
DeleteOnce you pointed out that version 2.0.1 of Sharky's vigenere cipher has an off-by-one error, I stopped using it and instead tailored my comment for the v1.0, since v2.0.1 isn't working correctly. So you can disregard my comment about the subtraction radio button.
Due to the off-by-one error, the "correction" you made so that the decoding would work within v2.0.1 ends up being ROT-14'ed instead of ROT-13'ed.
The important thing is that you cracked the encryption. (Surely it wasn't worth all this effort!)
So, PC, what is worth effort ... or what is effort worth ... at this point I don't much care.
DeleteAnd don't call me Shirley!
DeletePlannedChaos:
DeleteDoes there exist some "gold standard" definition of the vigenere cipher that was followed by the version 1.0, but is NOT followed by the new v.2.0.1?
That was just a bit nuts (clue here).
Delete@Enya_and_Weird_Al_fan,
DeleteYes; v2.0.1 no longer agrees with the tabula recta.
'Tabula' seems to keep turning up. Just an observation.
DeleteNot entirely a coincidence, Paul.
DeleteIs any coincidence entire?
DeleteIs it generally agreed that Will intends for us to remove only one instance of the doubled letter? From the wording of the puzzle, I would assume so, but want to make sure.
ReplyDeleteI removed both. I believe jan & Blaine did also.
DeleteYou know what happens when you assume...
DeleteI know! I know! It makes an ____ out of ___ and ___!
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ReplyDeleteI removed two identical letters. You need to follow the rules exactly as written.
ReplyDeleteEric -
ReplyDeleteScratch both letters.
Chuck
Bofum :-)
ReplyDeleteWhere is Uncle John when you need him?
ReplyDeleteI'm impressed by Blaine's montage of actors who have double-letter last names. I'm guessing we can rule out all of them.
DeleteWillie wubbed the world the wong way too wate for the juwy fireworks.
ReplyDeleteGreat puzzle!
ReplyDeleteThis comment has been removed by the author.
ReplyDeleteNice going removing that post. It did give too much away.
DeleteThanks, ron. I had some help from a fellow Blainesvillean with wicked editing chops. Wish I would have taken it down sooner. My apologies to you, Blaine and all of Blainesville.
DeleteLego...
I removed both of the double letters, but one (of those letters) still remains in the two word phrase answer.
ReplyDeleteShould perhaps be awarded to recognize exemplary sportsmanship on the pitch.
ReplyDeleteI offer a clue as to the two-word phrase:
ReplyDeleteThe words by themselves are not well known. They DO come up on Dictionary.com; one of the words with 3 meanings, the third qualified as "Archaic"; while the other is only defined as <a certain gender-specific> given name.
However, if you strip off the ending letters of each word, they each become very well-known words!
ReplyDeleteThat's so yesterday, Jim. jan posted the same early Sunday morning. What kind of key did you use on that Vignere's Cipher?
DeleteBut I will say that you two boys got it going on there. . .
DeleteI think I've solved it: Jim's post used invisible ink. Hold your display up to a heat source, and the message should appear. Alternately, leave Jim's message on your screen for a few hours and the heat from your computer will eventually have the same effect. (Too bad most displays are LCD these days; they don't output as much waste heat as the old-style CRTs.)
Deletewoah you got my king in trouble big Jim.
ReplyDeleteYou think you can post whatever type of message you want on this blog, whether it makes sense or not? Benevolent Blaine, you're too generous sometimes.
ReplyDeleteIt does seem to be getting stranger and stranger around here.
DeleteWell named, Paul.
Delete[Not (a) well named Paul.]
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DeleteWell, I find that comment a Paul lean..
Delete:>)
DeleteWW - Once upon a time in the remote desert, there was a well named Art, which was short for Artesian. But he was lonely, so his master dug a well named Paul to keep him company.
Or did you mean, "Well-named, Paul"?
;>)
Bob, you are so dashing.
DeleteBob, What does this have to do with Asian Art?
DeleteYou may hold the letters folks. I know it's a hyphen, not a dash, but Bob is far more dashing than hyphening.
DeleteNote to self: on punctuation posts, add the punctuation before posting.
Well, well, well -- a deep topic indeed.
Btw, Bob, as a kid I thought it was "artreesian" for deep tree roots. Oh, wait, that was last week. . .
I haven't heard from Art in years. I hope he's staying out of trouble. And on that note....
DeletePaul, that was a splendid leak, er, link. That John and that Paul;-)...
DeleteHope Art gets back in touch with you soon. What the frack, right?
That's right.
DeleteHas this blog always been so...uh...free-flowing, stream of consciousness, arcane, and off-topic? It seems than when I first discovered Blaine's World, everyone's rapier wit was focused on the week's puzzle answer. Now I just feel like a far weirder and stranger stranger in a strange land. Then again, it ties into Paul's observation a few posts above, so perhaps all is well? Existential crisis going on here, I apologize.
DeleteRuth, free-flowing, artesian, fracking, wells--they're all connected to the puzzle at hand this week, given the great space we have, yes?
DeleteGlad to have you back, semi-regularly, even if your answer is no.
Come Back Soon with a comeback. ;-)
WW, perhaps therein lies my angst and reticence to join you all every week. Artesian? Fracking? Wells? I don't see the connection to this week's puzzle, but I'll wait for your explanation another 24 1/2 hours. I might be too focused on one particular role of the actor/actress in question, thereby missing the connection. But on a lighter note: a priest, a minister, and a rabbi all walked into a bar. The bartender looked up and asked "Is this some kind of joke?" So there you have it.
DeleteMore tomorrow, Ruth, but for a start this week see Jim and jan's identical comments (that can explain this week ;-)).
DeleteI like the bartender joke.
--"Word"--
(What my daughter says when I've said something funny [not very often]).
In retrospect, "curiouser and curiouser" might have been better than "stranger and stranger" in lots of ways.
DeleteBut I refuse to worry about it . Sterve care, that's my motto.
Well, Paul, I thought stranger and stranger was perfect. SMH (scratching, not shaking) my head at Sterve care, though...
DeleteSterve
DeleteCare = Worry
"Death to Worry" (as opposed to worrying yourself to death)
I think Michael Scott might find that catchy.
1. Take this week's puzzle creator and rearrange to give Captain Hook's response when asked which crew member he'd be willing to put in danger.
ReplyDelete2. Rearrange the first five letters of a well-known role played by this week's celebrity to name a lobbying group featured in a recent puzzle.
3. Take the answer to this week's puzzle and rearrange to name a type of drink on the Starship Enterprise.
Answers on Thursday.
The second word of the 2-word phrase in this puzzle's answer is the first name of a character recently played by the actor/actress.
Delete(Still working on the Star Trek drink, All I can think of is Tea, Earl Grey, Hot, which doesn't work.)
jan.
DeleteI have NO IDEA what you mean by your recent post "The second word of the 2-word phrase in this puzzle's answer is the first name of a character recently played by the actor/actress."
I've gone to the actor/actress's page on the IMDb, and NONE of this person's roles have the first name the same as the 2nd word of the 2-word phrase in this puzzle's answer.
The 5th role ever played by this actor/actress is similar to the 2nd word in the phrase, but you'd have to advance the 2nd letter 3 steps in the alphabet and replace the final letter with a certain pronoun.
Enya_and_Weird_Al_fan: Did I say this was a character in a movie? Check out the celeb's Wikipedia page.
DeleteLiterary clue: Alice Walker.
DeleteEaWAf: jan's observation, in fact, is directly related to PC's clever Crytoquip.
Deletemike_hinterberg, yes! Although there was some cry to quip going on before I solved the cryptoquip while on public transportation. ;-)
DeleteD'oh, just a typo!
Delete"Welcome to our ool."
Oh, I know, mike, but your word was a good description of my process.
DeleteRemove another letter from crytoquip to get a witticism on ice ;-). [Like some jokes and puns 'round here, perhaps?]
Well, we know the answer to PC's question 1. is I RISK SMEE (MIKE REISS anagram). I'll wait until Thursday for the answers to the other two.
DeleteMy apologies to jan.
DeleteI've since learned that the IMDb, while an excellent source of movie and TV appearance credits, is nevertheless sorely lacking in theatre credits.
My apologies to jan.
DeleteI've since learned that the IMDb, while an excellent source of movie and TV appearance credits, is nevertheless sorely lacking in theatre credits.
Maybe because Amazon (owner of IMDb) can't make money selling copies of (unrecorded) theatrical performances.
DeleteSo, what's the Star Trek drink?
DeletePC
ReplyDeleteTried to make my mind a tabula rasa but Can't guess your number three even though I consider my self a Trekkie.
However, I do like your clue, do I have to depend on Thursday for the answer?
ReplyDeleteIt could be said this performer is a credit to his/her name.
ReplyDeleteOr a card?
DeleteWhat an interesting achievements of "firsts" for this actor/actress. Including the first within the firsts.
ReplyDeletePlease elaborate on Thursday.
DeleteThursday is fine since I do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence have not been tested.
DeleteRoRo I get it, , , (on purpose).
DeleteThere is a good ring to this actors/actress' name.
ReplyDeleteOkay now this is for all you who pay attention to the news and are aware of the botched execution last evening in Oklahoma.and is now today's almost only news story. I claim first joke rights. Here it is:
ReplyDeleteI'm afraid this debacle will only compound the situation.
That's it. If you don't get it right away, think about it.
Did you hear about the governor who was so adamantly against capital punishment he couldn't bring himself to execute an order to abolish it?
ReplyDeletestop sdb you're killing me:-)
ReplyDeleteDead Man Squawking!
DeleteCATE BLANCHETT >>> CARTE BLANCHE
Delete-- "You two boys got it going on there"-- 2 boys >>> DuBois >>>Blanche DuBois >>> Carte Blanche
--Well-named -- Streetcar Named Desire (riffing off Paul's kindness of strangers clue.)
--Fracking, artesian, well--hey it's a blank slate {tabula rasa} this week as many alluded to in their clues. On that blank slate we can all possibly head in many directions (like water).
-- Alice Walker >> "The Color Purple" >> The Color White >>>Blanche en francais
--Uncle John >>> King John >>> Magna Carta >>> Carte Blanche
--That was just a bit nuts {blanched almonds}.
-- RoRo I (vs. Elizabeth I who RoRo quoted about secrets.) The commas alluded to leaving out a comma on purpose after RoRo, , ,
WW,
DeleteThank you. First time for that title. Cate had a bunch of firsts besides playing Elizabeth the first twice. She was the first & only) Aussie to win 2 academy awards. Although many actresses have played Bess, Cate was the first to be nominated for the role in "Best Actress" category. My Clue, do referred to Cluedo and character named Blanche. Of course, in the past, Cate has played Blanche DuBois.
I choose Diner hot turkey sandwiches at 20 Paces.
ReplyDeleteYou can eat both of them.
DeleteWhen Harriet Sally?
DeleteNice. I'll have what she's having.
DeleteGreat comeback, er, front, jan.
DeleteShit, I thought you were only s'posed to drop one of the double letters.
DeleteUncle John,
DeleteNext Puzzlemaster election ... vote Will out.
Or, change his name to Wil, Puzlemaster.
DeleteUncle John,
DeleteWhich one did you drop? The left one, or the right one?
Cate Blanchett > Carte Blanche
ReplyDeleteMy Hint:
"It could be said this performer is a credit to his/her name."
Referring to: Diners Club Carte Blanche card.
> Hey, Blaine -- Betcha can't let me get away with this next clue (even more succinct than my "O" last week:
ReplyDelete"Betcha can't let" anagrams to CATE BLANCHETT. What followed is a blank page, or CARTE BLANCHE.
> The second word of the 2-word phrase in this puzzle's answer is the first name of a character recently played by the actor/actress.
She played Blanche DuBois in recent-puzzle-answer Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire in Sydney in 2009.
Cate Blanchett, carte blanche
ReplyDeleteLast Sunday I said, “Just like the limbo – how low can you go?” Cate Blanchett is from Australia, Down Under”
Chuck
My comment from last week:
ReplyDelete"Fo shizzle, true story: Heard the puzzle, ran through the very limited number of actors I knew with double letters, figured I was not sufficiently well-versed in all these new, strangely-spelled names, set the puzzle aside. But then, apparently because I was keeping an open mind - meditating? No, doing laundry - it hit me."
Bit of mis-direct, wanted to create atmosphere of Snoop Dogg, Xhibit, etc. I often write down far-fetched potential answers just to see how a challenge works, and looking at my scratch pad, I have:
Ursala Andress
Brad Pitt
Paul Rudd
Kate Blanchett
Then I broke for my now-famous encounter with the laundry, when it hit me: These crazy kids these days! She doesn't spell her name "Kate", she is "Cate"! And there was the answer!
Oh, yeah, "keeping an open mind" - another reference to the old carte blanche.
ReplyDeleteI thought maybe you inhaled enough Clorox fumes to put you in a bleach trance.
DeleteOK, PC, is it [Star Trek Meaningful anagram of bleach] NECTAR, or [STM anagram of a bench] CLARET?
ReplyDeleteC'mon, PC, time is dilithium crystals, y'know!
Yeah, PC! I can only hold my synthesized synthehol kale nectar for so long!
DeleteThis one was easy: CATE BLANCHETT
ReplyDeleteAdd an “R” to her first name, after removing the 2 “T”s from her surname to yield: CARTE BLANCHE !
Lego's “ChÂTEau BLANC(hett)” did give away too much, and I compliment him on removing that post.
Cate Blanchett plays BLANCHE DuBois in the 2009 theater production of “A Streetcar Named Desire.”
PC's second and third challenges:
Challenge 2: SHELLY, Cate's role in the movie “Coffee & Cigarettes.” (No rearranging necessary) Lobby Group: SHELL.
Challenge 3: Starship Enterprise drink: HERBAL ACCENT (“Carte Blanche” anagram)
So that is synthetic with a hint of realism or reality with a Klingon eyebrow slant. Any way, I prefer shapeshifter's Sham-pain. Does not hit so hard the morningstar after.
DeleteNow I'm really confused. I was sure the lobbying group was (another recent puzzle answer) GLAAD, referring to Cate's role as Galadriel in the Lord of the Rings movies. And what does "herbal accent" have to do with Star Trek?
ReplyDeleteDid ron say he was PlannedChaos?
DeleteGood point, well put.
DeleteMy clue: "card," following SDB's "credit," refers to the Carte Blanche Credit Card.
DeleteI didn't choose GLAAD because I thought it was a media monitoring organization and not a lobby group. Probably PC intended GLAAD as the answer to his second challenge. I just offered what I thought was a stronger alternative.
DeleteCiphertext:
ReplyDeleteLvrc vyf aaqrey srvvbbrd dh knk hhhdwqfidhj ul hgxrberrh.
Plaintext:
Will has always depended on the submissions of strangers, a reference to the famous Blanche DuBois quote.
Key:
pngroynapurgg, the ROT-13 of cateblanchett.
1. Take this week's puzzle creator and rearrange to give Captain Hook's response when asked which crew member he'd be willing to put in danger.
Mike Reiss, "I risk Smee"
2. Rearrange the first five letters of a well-known role played by this week's celebrity to name a lobbying group featured in a recent puzzle.
Galadriel, GLAAD
3. Take the answer to this week's puzzle and rearrange to name a type of drink on the Starship Enterprise.
Carte blanche, NCC herbal tea
Jan, you had it all along, congrats!
DeleteFor my first crack at a Vignere's cipher, the machinations and updates, Rot-13 and -14ing, were quite a pain. But, Planned Chaos, it was fun to finally figure out your clever BDB-inspired quote. Thanks for the challenge.
DeleteThe “Partial Ellipsis of the Sun” (PEOTS) blog is especially interesting, fun and accessible this week.
ReplyDeleteGoose your gray cells and give it a gander.
Here’s my goof to which I hope not too many gave a gander Sunday evening. It was my “giveaway-clue” which, before I removed it, was posted visibly in Blainesville for an hour or so:
“Just another off-putting preposterous NPR puzzle, a prime example of putting…
Oh, waiter, please bring me another bottle of your best Chevaux…, I mean Chateau Blanc.”
The first ellipsis replaces “…the CARTe-before-the-horse,” ( which epitomizes “preposterous”). The diner was about to mistakenly ask for a bottle of “Chevaux Blanc” (French for “white horses” before correcting himself (as I did, kinda). I signed off, preposterously, as LambdaLego.
As ron correctly notes above, ChATEau BLANC too closely echoes Cate Blanchett.
LegoCulpa
Lego,
DeleteI saw your removed post and knew it held the clue, but I did not find it at all helpful. I think it was a good clue and most people would need to have solved the puzzle before understanding it.
Lego.
DeleteI did not see your removed post, but I agree (as much as is possible :)) with sdb.
Paul,
DeleteIf you are implying I may be somewhat difficult at times, I want to assure you that I am in full agreement. :-)
sdb and Paul,
DeleteI appreciate your comments but, when in doubt (and at least two very astute bloggers had reasonable doubts), there is no harm in removing it. This puzzle was easy enough that not lots of hints were necessary.
Blaine,
Care to weigh in? Do you just go with your gut when making these kinds of “removal” judgments or do you have some kind of AlGorethm? Also, you must be under great pressure Sunday mornings to solve the puzzle a.s.a.p. so that you can recognize whether a promptly posted clue gives TMI, right?
Paul,
Regarding, “(as much as is possible : ))”: Yeah, I guess we can all relate with that!
sdb,
Glad to see that you can relate too (though it might be more fun if you’d take great umbrage).
LegoL’umbrage
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Deletewoah you got my king in trouble big Jim.
ReplyDeleteJim posted A blank. I posted a check.
Blank check carte blanche
I've been out of town for little while. With this bedbug deal going on I always give the linens a good shaking out. This may only shake them up, but at least I'll know who's in charge...them.
BLANKet CHECK.
Willie wubbed the world the wong way too wate for the juwy fireworks.
ReplyDeleteKaiser Wilhelm wrote a blank check on July 5th that was not well received by the world.
Next week's challenge (Please note this is a two-week challenge): Write a clue for a word in the style of today's on-air puzzle, in which the answer has six or more letters. The clue should both define or describe the answer and contain the answer in consecutive letters.
ReplyDeleteEntries will be judged on accuracy of the cluing, specificity, naturalness of syntax and overall elegance. You may submit up to three clues in your entry. The person who sends the best clue in the judgment of Will Shortz will appear on the program in two weeks. And some of the runner-up entries will be used on the air.
To help understand the latest challenge, I realize the statement of the on-air puzzle is needed:
ReplyDeleteOn-air challenge: Every answer is a five-letter word. You will be given a clue for the word. Besides describing the answer, the clue will also contain the answer in consecutive letters. For example, given "It's near the planet Mars," you would say, "Earth."
I have two already. Now if I could just get back to sleep.
DeleteThese two-week challenges are never good for me. I am especially shut out by a requirement of "overall elegance"!
ReplyDeleteEven if I did come up with some clever answer, I know there will be so many better ones that my only hope would be to be selected by chance; otherwise I could only be an also-ran. Do me a favor and wake me when it's over!
Bob K, I agree with you about the two-weekers.
DeleteThough, I can see the overall elegance in your case.
Bob K.,
ReplyDeleteWord Woman definitely has got your number. Look at her link. The square jaw, the buff frame… You are obviously a… male model!
Clues do not apply the next fortnight-minus-three-days in Blainesville. What will we do to occupy ourselves?
Lego…