I can't claim that this word describes me. And I question the second syllable as my dictionary says its a schwa sound, not a short I.Q: 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?
A: BUSINESSWOMEN (when pronounced 'biz-nis-wi-min)
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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.
Best to not be a schwa sticker.
DeleteSchwa sticker, schwa stickler.
DeleteI concur with the Schwa problem.
DeleteBut while my kid enjoys the dreaded Nickelodeon show Henry Danger (avoid it at all costs), there is a terrific performance by the American uber actor Michael Cohen as Schwaz.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sxN7ntw0Wk
Blaine I was going to say Movie "9 to five" for a clue but that is TMI right??
DeleteI'm sensing a bit of bad luck with this one.
ReplyDeleteSomething fishy about this puzzle...
ReplyDeleteI agree with this statement, since that's the first thing I thought of.
DeleteI don't think it's what you're thinking, if what your thinking is what I'm thinking it is.
DeleteI think. Not sure if I am.
That's what I thought you were thinking, and when I initially posted the clue I considered making a statement that it wasn't that, but I wasn't awake and it got too long. Though not nearly as long as all this. Ah well, too PC or not PC?
DeleteEEIOU, but not a HOUSEWIFE.
ReplyDeleteBut coiffeuses may be involved.
Delete(Although Will's on-air wording implied the vowels are not consecutive in the word.)
DeleteIt's just my compulsiveness that keeps me looking for more of these.
DeleteWill did add the comment, "they [the vowels] are all separate" the second time he read the puzzle.
Deletenope, definitely not.
DeleteI guess I was a little overindulgent with my housewives clue. I will have to reconfigure my picturephone to capture new undiscovered country...
DeleteHere are the CARTOONS OF THE WEEK, good ones...
Deleteunforgivener. Not sure that is a real word, but perhaps it should be.
DeleteDirected by John Huston Jr. and starring Burt Lancaster Jr and Audry Hepburn 2nd. I suppose.
DeleteMy answer seems to jibe with the hints given above, but I count not just one but two schwas, according to my lexical bible.
ReplyDeleteLegoSchwimmingWithTheSchwarks
It probably all depends on how you pronounce the schwas. Let me just say - IF all the vowels (except for the silent I) are pronounced as a short I, then I would still understand the word, and relate to it.
ReplyDelete--Margaret G.
Yes the I's have it.
DeleteOne word sums up my feelings about this puzzle:
ReplyDeleteTediousness.
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DeleteSome people just cannot take a hint.
DeleteSDB: So you saw the pacific ballet and did not tell me! Wonder what exquisite performance you saw. I watched Great Performances: The Riddle of Bach last night. You might like it.
DeleteNatasha:
DeleteIf I didn't tell you, then how do you know I saw it? You must have read my post to you in last week's blog that I addressed to you. Below is a cut'n'paste of it:
skydiveboy Sat Sep 28, 10:16:00 AM PDT
Natasha:
Pacific Northwest Ballet had their opening night of the new season last night. It was amazing!
https://www.pnb.org/season/carmina-burana-agon/
SDB: I overlooked that it was to Natasha. I thought it was to someone else. Will have to look again. Thanks for letting me know. I saw the musical Anastasia in SF. It was spectacular. Wonder if it has been to Seattle.
DeleteSDB: Did you post about the ballet twice? I swear I saw it posted to someone else. Maybe I am losing it. Overwhelmed with all this teaching this semester.
DeleteNatasha:
DeleteNo; just once. Don't worry about it. By the time they lock you away you will not care anyway.
Wow! I wish I had your discipline.
DeleteMichele: Did you lose weight?
DeleteRomy: Actually, I have been trying this new fat free diet I invented. All I've had to eat for the past six days are gummy bears, jelly beans, and candy corns.
Michele: Wow! I wish I had your discipline.
Having lived in the Boston area during the "dawt-cawm" bubble, I can attest to this "finnettick fact".
ReplyDeleteMeant to reply to Buck Bard's hint... Sawrrie!
DeleteI thought "interminably" should be NO END.
ReplyDeleteBut the answer did remind me of an old song I haven't heard in 40+ years.
DeleteDorothy Baker, huh? I always knew The Wicked Witch Of The West had a real name.
ReplyDeleteClue: there are a lot more of these now than before. Of course, I may have come up with a different answer that doesn’t fit some of the above comments. Still has the schwa problem, though, according to my dictionary.
ReplyDeleteWill waited too long for the fitting day for this puzzle.
ReplyDeleteDefinitely two different answers this week, maybe more!
ReplyDeleteI think you are making a mistake.
DeleteDefinitely not!
DeleteI worked hard to solve this puzzle.
ReplyDeleteWas it worth it?
DeleteAll I've got is Old MacDonald and the farm.
DeleteI remember getting up early on Saturday mornings in the 1950s and watching "Modern Farmer" on TV. You?
DeleteNo, I never saw that show. We got our first TV in the 1960's.
DeleteAre you speaking of Mr. Green Jeans and Captain Kangaroo?
DeleteNo, an obscure documentary series show about farming that for some reason aired at 6:00 a.m. or so on Saturday in the NYC market.
DeleteWe had a black and white set in the 50s, but didn't get a color one until after I went away to college in 1970. My brother, an ascetic even then, didn't approve, and was home when the guy came to install the new set. At one point, nature called and the installer asked, "Do you have a bathroom?" "No," my brother replied, "It was a choice between a bathroom and a color TV, and we went for the TV."
I'm interested in hearing from you on Thursday.
DeleteI also grew up in the New York City area in the 1960s and know the show of which you speak.
But I have an answer to the puzzle and do not see how it relates to that show, yet it relates to the clues Lego and Jan have left above.
Looking forward.
Only tangentially related the puzzle. Mostly just riffing on Word Woman's farm reference.
DeleteJust a walk down memory lane. Did they have Howdy Doody on the East Coast?
DeleteSure.
DeleteSo this mystery word is pronounced differently in Bawston? Am I getting warmer?
DeleteI never got to see that show "Modern Farmer: but I have watched Modern Family a couple of times. Onl y a couple of times. This is not a clue BTW as right now I am SOL.
DeleteIf I remember correctly, they eventually shortened the title of that show to Maude.
DeleteAnd SDB do you remember J,P. Patches and Gertrude in Seattle? I believe this was a local thing according to my wife and I never saw it growing up in Stumptown.
DeleteOf course, but I was too old for that show although I sometimes saw my younger brothers watching it. I had Howdy Doody and Sheriff Tex, but preferred drama shows or stand up comics. I loved westerns.
DeleteBusinesswomen work hard.
DeleteJan, were you perchance throwing back to "Agriculture USA," a little oddball kids game/quiz show that broadcast in the New York City Market at about 5:30am on Saturdays, during the 1960's, while we were all waiting for the *real* cartoon lineup to begin?
DeleteNo, I'm sure the show was called "Modern Farmer". Maybe a USDA product? Anyway, I was half alluding to the business aspects of farming that it featured.
DeleteI hope Will did not find this a "challenging challenge."
ReplyDeleteIn all seriousness, I found it a puzzling puzzle for a while ... until the breakthrough.
DeleteOne answer has 4 short I's identically pronounced, a silent I, and no schwas, as per WS' wording, and no adjacent vowels, as per WS' oral hint.
ReplyDeleteAt least one alternate exists, with two short I's and a schwa, but it does not meet the all-vowels-separate hint, and two vowels are merged into the schwa.
I just solved it. I would tell you how, but it might give too much away.
ReplyDeleteBonus ANAGRAM Puzzle (are the mighty falling?):
ReplyDeleteName a word some people in Washington use to describe themselves. Move the first letter 2 places back in the alphabet (e.g. A → C) and rearrange for a word many others use to describe them. What are the words?
As always, clues are welcome, but do not give the answer until Thursday 3 pm EST.
I got a very interesting, D.C.-specific answer that probably isn't what was intended. Is one of the words politically incorrect?
DeleteI hope there's more than one answer. My answer isn't "politically incorrect" in terms of offending a certain group of people.
DeleteI look forward to your alternate Thursday.
When you say: "Move the first letter 2 places back in the alphabet" do you mean C becomes A?
DeleteAs in many people in Washington consider themselves CORRECT; change the C to an A and others consider them to be a REACTOR?
Delete"Move the first letter 2 places back in the alphabet (e.g. A → C)"
DeleteIf I move an A 2 places BACK in the alphabet, I come up with Y. If I move an A 2 places FORWARD in the alphabet, I come up with a C.
DeleteSo which is it? Move a letter 2 places BACK or FORWARD in the alphabet?
DeleteIn my alphabet the first letter is A, the last letter is Z. A is the front (most forward), Z as the end (furthest to the back). Is that not how you think of it? 2 letters back = A → C.
DeleteI like the answer that I've come up with, but I'm certain there are alternatives, and it's bugging me...
DeleteIn the alphabet debate, I agree with Ron's model. But of course, for eco's bonus puzzle, one must use eco's model.
DeleteIMHO, it is less ambiguous if one uses "earlier" and "later" in place of "front" and "back."
"later", dude. (smiley thing)
DeleteSo, according to the ECO model, if people in Washington consider themselves REAL, the others would consider them LATE,, changing the R BACK to a T?
DeleteThis is changing the 18th letter of the alphabet (R) 2 letters BACK to the 20th letter of the alphabet (T). You must be joking...
Deleteeco must have obtained a bad batch of weed because most people would consider moving an A to Z going backward. Most of the books I read go from left to right and consider it moving forward.
DeleteMost books have the last page towards the back.
DeleteExactly. And one reads ahead and forward in order to get there.
DeleteI think you and Ron have the wrong perspective. If the puzzle were posed from the point of view of the reader your interpretation might be feasible. However, the puzzle clearly says move the letter back and makes no inference of repositioning yourself. The letter A is not in back of the letter C.
DeleteI even gave a simple example for those who are backwardly challenged.
I will add the clue that both words are appearing in common parlance and in the news, especially the second word. And they have more letters than any examples proffered so far.
When you count backward, do you say 1 2 3 4 5 … ?
DeleteWhen you recite the alphabet backwards, do you say A B C D … ?
But we are all glad you unambiguously stated A → C in your clever puzzle.
geofan: You nailed it! When they nailed Jesus to the cross do you suppose they..... Oh well you can hammer that one out yourselves. (And, NO! I am not saying Jesus was just having his nails done.)
DeleteAs long as we're on the topic of the alphabet backwards...
DeleteRight, but is the I pronounced as a schwa?
DeleteOK, I now have an answer with which I am satisfied, despite any Left-Right ambiguities. My alternative will have to wait for the deadline.
DeleteGeofan, SDB, etc. At the risk of belaboring the point, you are still treating this from the perspective of an outside viewer, which is not what "moving the letter" is, it's what moving the viewer does. If you had a stack of letters and the task was to move a letter back, it would not go forward in the alphabet.
DeleteThat's my final comment on this, I look forward to alternative answers. I think eighdreeun has it, Jan may have an advantage for this puzzle.
This is my final comment on this subject: This goes for everyone, remember you do not see the world as it is, you see the world as you are, and some people are bassackwards.
DeleteMy grin-worthy alternative:
DeleteMany a pol considers themselves a REPRESENTATIVE,
But there are those who would disagree, and call them an
INVETERATE PEST
Interestingly, I hadn't thought of PATRIOT/TRAITOR. The answer I liked was ELECTED LEADER/GLAD REELECTED.
DeletePolitical clue: Hillary and Her Servers
ReplyDeleteI submitted BUSINESSWOMEN.
DeleteMy clue, Hillary and Her Servers, related of course not to email servers but to the many BUSINESSWOMEN who served on her campaign, and were tossed back into the government and private sectors, while we had to watch F%^&face Von Clownstick commit epic graft and drive this great nation into the dirt.
I didn’t attend mine.
ReplyDeleteWell, I still haven't gotten it,but at least I've learned what a schwa is. I can guess a few ways that that word must end but that's about it.
ReplyDeleteBy the way Schwa happens to be the first 5 letters of my last name.
ReplyDeleteAre you related to the famous tire dealer whose first name is Les?
DeleteI think this puzzle is truly beautiful, although the beauty might be somewhat dependent on the i of the beholder. Ask ten people on the street to pronounce this word, and 9 of them will pronounce it exactly as described. I can't imagine anyone pronouncing the EEOU vowels as schwas.
ReplyDeleteAgree.
DeleteI like it, too.
DeleteWord Doctor: How do you pronounce a schwa?
DeleteLego: Uh... a what?
Word Doctor: Close, but no cigar.
Lego: I thought you told me to stop smoking cigars.
Word Doctor: It's a figure of speech. Doctors don't dole out cigars to patients simply because they answer questions correctly.
Lego: I am well aware that "Close, but no cigar" is a figure of speech.
Word Doctor: No, I meant the schwa. It's a figure of speech.
Lego: How do you figure?
Word Doctor: Just try to pronounce the "u" in "figure" or the "i" in "cigar."
Lego: You mean "ŭ"? And "ĭ"?
Word Doctor: Not even close. Here, try opening your mouth and saying "Ah!"
Lego: Ah!
Word Doctor: No. Try saying it with less enthusiasm.
Lego: Ah.
Word Doctor: Not quite. Less than that.
Lego: uh.
Word Doctor: Almost. Try one more time.
Lego: ə
Word Doctor: Bingo!
Lego:There'sNoSchwaIn"Bingo!"
Schwa schwagger there, LegoDialoguer.
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ReplyDeleteSorry Blaine. Did not think that was a clue.
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DeleteThe vibrant colors of autumn are here!
ReplyDeleteRegarding the merger of "short I" and schwa in different dialects of English, see here .
ReplyDeleteHappy tensing!
DeleteI love family reunions where I get to reconnect with all my uncles. I get such a natural high that the aunts look like humans.
ReplyDeleteTake your time, short-i
ReplyDeleteEwe!
DeleteWhat's worse that ants in your pants? Uncles.
ReplyDeleteI just realized that I am not sure what letter is being called a schwa.
ReplyDeleteMaybe different ones by different posters.
Maybe being specific would give it away.
Tired old puzzles anyway.
I'm sure no one here will care that I am preparing a Greek pasta dish for dinner this evening, but for me it will be a feta accompli.
ReplyDeleteBUSINESSWOMEN
ReplyDeleteBUSINESSWOMEN
ReplyDelete> I don't know about Duckduckgo, but you could search Google or Yahoo for an example.
Businesswoman Marissa Mayer was an executive at Google and Yahoo.
BUSINESSWOMEN → (bĭz′nĭs wĭm′ĭn) (no schwa ə sound)
ReplyDeleteMy “housewives” clue was meant to suggest a plural compound word referring to females using only the vowels EEIOU...
My dictionary gives each vowel (e,e,o,u in the answer) the sound of the “short ĭ as in pit,” no schwa (ə) BUSINESSWOMEN.
BUSINESSWOMEN
ReplyDelete"The vibrant colors of autumn are here!" Businesswomen Grace Hanson and Frankie Bergstein start a company called Vybrant (with a Y) in the "Grace and Frankie" Netflix series. Any other G and F fans out there in Blainesville?
I think Elisabeth Warren also is sporting some vibrant colors these days.
DeleteIndeed.
DeleteI wrote, “Will waited too long for the fitting day for this puzzle.” Exactly one week before, 22 September, was the annual American Business Women's Day.
ReplyDeleteI had in mind:
ReplyDeleteBUSINESSPERSON
or
BUSINESSWOMEN
The E in person doesn't work.
DeleteBusinesswomen.
ReplyDeleteI couldn’t say how i arrived at the answer because it was inspired by my better half, a businesswoman.
BUSINESSWOMEN
ReplyDeletealternate answer (some vowels together): EGREGIOUS
In these parts, at least, this isn't an answer. The first E in EGREGIOUS is totally a Schwa, and the second is pronounced as a long E.
DeleteBusinesswomen - let's not schwabble about pronouncements.
ReplyDelete"Something fishy about this puzzle..." Juveniles who thought this was a reference to women might not be mature enough to remember the puzzle from September 10, 2006, which a lonely blogger titled "O as in FISH," alluding to GHOTI as a means to spell fish. Interestingly there were 0 comments - was Blaine typing in the wind? - and the puzzle was posted on Friday, September 8 - was he Blainevoyant?
Bonus Anagram (UGH!) Answer (STRAP apologizes, but couldn't resist with the timely circumstances): Patriots → Traitors
Jan had an advantage with the local football franchise.
Is Blaine Blainevoyant?
DeleteNo. He is, in fact... Will Shortz!
Just ask Clark a pseudonym how this could be possible...
Blaine Kent resides in the fictional American city of Blainesville, where he works as a censor for the Daily Post-it. To protect his privacy, this mild-mannered comment-bleeper changes into his cruciverbalist-matrix costume and uses the alias "Puzzlemaster" whenever he pings his pong or purveys his weekly posers.
In his persona as "Puzzlemaster" Blaine has many foes, including:
* Mendo Jim, his archenemy and Blainesville resident curmudgeon,
* ecoarchitect, anagram-pooh-pooher and founder of S.T.R.A.P. (Society To Repress Anagram Puzzles),
* and Seattle-based skydiveboy-genius, who finds the Puzzlemaster's challenges to be such a snap that he solves them while still lollygagging in bed Sunday mornings – before he can even yawn, stretch or rub the sleep from his wise eyes!
LegoLuthorDastardlyInventorOfSecondRatePuzzlesThatRiffOffThePuzzlemaster
And nary a businesswoman in the bunch!
DeleteTake my word for it, Word Woman, this is one bunch you are better off not being in.
DeleteLegoWhoObservesThereIsAnEssInBusButNoBusInEss
Businesswomen
ReplyDeleteEgregious is almost a solution, but the second e is pronounced like an e.
Answers for eco's Bonus Puzzle (in decreasing order of relevance):
ReplyDeletePOLITICOS => SOLICITOR
REPORTERS => PROTESTOR
REDSKIN (member of DC football team) => KINDEST (well, at least some are...)
MIGRANTS => ORGANIST (as in National Cathedral)
I guess I disagree with the construction of the puzzle and perhaps even with how some people pronounce the word!
ReplyDeleteAccording to Wikipedia:
ReplyDeleteThe first confirmed use of ghoti is in a letter dated 11 December 1855 from Charles Ollier to Leigh Hunt. On the third page of the letter, Ollier explains, "My son William has hit upon a new method of spelling Fish." Ollier then demonstrates the rationale, "So that ghoti is fish."[3] The letter credits ghoti to William Ollier Jr., born 1824.
However, some people still give the credit to George Bernard Schwa.
I believe Paul is clairvoyant. Check out the first "Riffing Off Shortz And Baker" puzzle on tomorrow's Joseph Young's Puzzleria!
DeleteLeghoti
When I searched for BUSINESSWOMEN, I was soon led to Liliane Bettencourt and Françoise Bettencourt Meyers, prompting my comment about being "worth it".
ReplyDeleteIn another comment, "breakthrough" was intended as an allusion to the "glass ceiling".
I recall that "cosmetics" and "cosmos" have the same root.
"Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know."(Provided you're guaranteed 15 drachma and hour or 1,000 a month, whichever one works for you.)
"an hour", not "and hour"
DeleteBeauty is truth, truth beauty: The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows, nor eyelashes... no false (fake) eyelashes nor eyebrows.
DeleteI posted on Sun Sep 29, at 06:15:00 AM PDT:
ReplyDeleteI'm sensing a bit of bad luck with this one.
Some people have what is called "triskaidekaphobia", meaning fear of the number 13 or a perception of 13 as being bad luck. I counted exactly 13 letters in "businesswomen".
Ghoti came to mind as soon as the puzzle was stated, giving me 6/13 of the answer.
ReplyDeleteThe silent "i" also seemed familiar.
Are there other examples of an "o" pronounced as a short "i"?
Of a silent "i"?
5/13, but this isn't a math puz.
DeleteParliament has a silent I.
Delete... or a.
DeleteSome people actually pronounce the i, making business a 3 syllable word, though the middle syllable is pretty quick off the tongue.
DeleteSome words have a silent "i", but typically in conjunction with another vowel - cruise, fruit, suit, etc. Seems to be most common where u and i do get along.
Can you say the i is silent in "said". It's certainly not pronounced. But it doesn't create a long a sound like laid, maid, paid, or raid.
Then there's the notion than an i modifies another consonant, but is itself not pronounced....
I searched for words with silent i. Business was listed as the only word with a silent i.
Delete"parliament" has two schwas → (pär′lə-mənt).
DeleteI had thought BUSINESS and WOMEN separately but didn't connect the two into one word. Was I being sexist or didn't think that a specific word needed to be used to underline that women are equally important in the business world? Forgive the run on sentence.
ReplyDeletejan:
ReplyDeleteOn your recommendation this evening I checked out a copy of the Daniel Ellsberg book, The Doomsday Machine, you highly touted. I am now reading the introduction. It reminds me I knew President Eisenhower gave authority to his top generals to launch a nuclear strike should they feel the need without his permission. I learned of this decades ago. It still shocks me. As was Ellsberg, I too was cleared for all levels of classified material above Top Secret. That does not indicate I was privy to what he was, nor what anyone else was with high clearance. It only means that we were cleared in case it was necessary for us to receive such information. The government operates on a need to know basis. I sometimes had the need to know as an intermediator.
Daniel Ellsberg in his latest book is telling us, with great detail, what Noam Chomsky has been warning us for years now. He, Edward Snowden, Noam Chomsky and a few others of like mind and courage are my heroes.
Interestingly, I met Daniel Ellsberg October 21, 2002, almost 17 years ago. He is the real deal, make no mistake. Listen to what he has to tell us at our peril.
Thanks for recommendation. I am afraid to read this though I need to. I have long admired Ellsberg. I did read the attachment about Cuba Crisis. How little we knew at the time. I was 12,and remember little, but do remember being terrified. I am reading Vuongs book of poetry BTW.
ReplyDeleteI submitted businesswomen. Only one I found that met all the tests.
ReplyDeletejan, and others too, have you heard of Boriska Kipriyanovich? He, and others like him, are here to warn us of what happened on Mars long, long ago. Of course you will most likely find it too outrageous to pay more than scant attention to, but I hope you will be more open minded and go beyond this easy way out of dealing with our reality.
ReplyDeleteI am now reading the beginning chapter in this amazing book. Much I have read so far I already knew, but I also knew most do not know about this. I then began thinking of how few copies are in the Seattle Public Library.
DeleteTotal Copies: 15
Available: 11
On Hold: 5
Ocean Vuong's book, On Earth We Are Briefly Gorgeous tells a different story. The library has many hundreds of copies of this book which are all checked out and many hundreds of holds placed. I am not in any way saying this book is less important than Daniel Ellsberg's, as I consider them both important. Both deal openly with what is truth. What I am concerned about is the lack of attention paid to what directly affects the likelihood of our continuing as a viable species on this planet. We must pay attention to what affects us most directly. We are not doing this.
I'm all in favor of keeping an open mind. Just not so open that your brains fall out.
DeleteAnd just who gets to decide for the rest of us exactly where that point is reached?
DeleteA prophet is never welcome in their own country.
DeleteOr their own planet?
DeleteMost prophets don't.
DeleteDon't profit or don't plan it?
DeleteThis week's challenge: There are two answers to this one, and you have to get them both. Name two tasty things to eat, each in 8 letters, in which the only consonant letters are L and P.
ReplyDeleteToo easy to need a clue
DeleteDo you get extra points if in addition to the two foods, you come up with a drink?
ReplyDeleteIf you eat too many tasty things, you could get indigestion. Alka-Seltzer's ad jingle used to start, "PLOP, PLOP, fizz, fizz, oh, what a relief it is..."
ReplyDeleteAnd here in Hotatlanta they have Goody's Powder.
DeleteEating too many tasty things could also lead to high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and diabetes. Better take a POLYPILL.
ReplyDeleteNice to be living in New York in October.
ReplyDeleteI am heading there Wednesday. Lets see---chestnuts?
DeleteSDB What are those doughnuts they have in Seattle.? Oh yeah "Top Pot"?
ReplyDeleteDid Jeffrey Dahmer like to eat pale people? Oh, only 8 letters? Both of these items are song titles.
ReplyDeleteThanks fir the ear-worm. Now I’ll be hearing Sheb Wooley’s 1958 song, ”Purple People Eater,” all day.
Deletehttps://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CwRejDrFwqM
Very clever! I like it HAHA
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