Q: Name something you might eat for breakfast, in two words. Add a "G" at the end of the first word. Switch the middle two letters of the second word. Then reverse the order of the two words. You'll name an old-fashioned activity. What is it?No help needed on this one.
You may need little help on the puzzle but you'll need lots of help on the activity.
A: RAISIN BRAN --> BARN RAISING
Here's my standard reminder... don't post the answer or any hints that could lead directly to the answer (e.g. via a chain of thought, or an internet search) before the deadline of Thursday at 3pm ET. If you know the answer, click the link and submit it to NPR, but don't give it away here.
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.
A new puzzle.
ReplyDeleteOne of my favorite breakfasts, often enjoyed while reading the headlines.
ReplyDeleteI hope my answer is good enough.
ReplyDeleteTake the breakfast. Remove all repeated letters. You are left with something used in making ancient cosmetics.
ReplyDeleteOh, good, this confirms the answer I came up with!
DeleteCourtney must know something I don't. Rob, do you mean all appearances of the repeated letters, or just the repeat appearances? Either way, I say yuck to those ancient cosmetics.
Delete>...do you mean all appearances of
Delete> the repeated letters, or just
>the repeat appearances?
The former.
OK, but still...yuck.
Delete720 correct responses last week.
ReplyDeleteHello Jan, are you in the math field, and if so, do you have a website. I am hoping to write to you with a question related to math and Boston area. Thank you!
DeleteHi, sorry, no to both. I'm a retired physician associate.
DeleteGood morning and thank you, Jan! I appreciate you.
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ReplyDeleteI am disappointed to see that this was removed. I thought it was beautifully phrased, and a very well disguised indication that ron had solved the puzzle.
DeleteWhat Leo and SuperZee said.
ReplyDeleteA pretty regular Sunday Puzzle offering -- clever, but not very hard to solve.
ReplyDelete(A wish to be "regular" is one reason to eat Raisin Bran; you could say that is its raison d'etre. Or if your sluggish system just needs some physical activity, barn raising would work, too.)
DeleteAh, yes, those grapes do have a raisin d'etre!
DeleteI would say what Rob said, but more ceramics than makeup.
ReplyDeleteOne cuts through wood, while the other cuts through water. You can cut the third with a bridge. See?
ReplyDeleteGot it. I would have had it faster, but I spent too much time searching for a breakfast food called lvoe makin.
ReplyDeleteOr makin lvoe.
DeleteThank you for this. For some reason I had interpreted the last step as reverse the letters rather than reverse the words.
DeleteAs the old joke goes, “Sure beats a ham sandwich….”
DeleteI think I heard that Ivoe makin cures COVID.
DeleteAdmittedly, my comment works better if you view the stream in Arial font.
DeleteThanks for the laugh, Lancek!
DeleteConnections, connections, connections.
ReplyDeleteTake the British name for the old-fashioned activity. Drop the 3rd letter and rearrange to name a body of water.
ReplyDeleteWow. Two exclusive news items on Weekend Edition Sunday this morning.
ReplyDeleteTwo scoops of raisins in Kellogg's raisin bran.
Deletecrow
ReplyDeleteeggg
I am reminded of Michael Caine.
ReplyDeleteUnderwear
ReplyDeleteI saw the movie.
ReplyDeleteThe movie title is a rephrasing of the old-fashioned activity. The "G" is gone.
DeleteI have fallen into the very healthy habit of solving the second part of the puzzle first. Activity handed me the key.
ReplyDeleteI live to solve these puzzles.
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ReplyDeleteit wasn't pumpkin must have been heroin :-)
DeleteNot a clue just a fact...The answer popped into my head as I was falling asleep. Now I can go back to bed!
ReplyDeleteI solved it the same way, except it was after awakening from my nap.
DeleteA certain controversial monarch comes to mind...
ReplyDeleteThat's Bran Stark, who (SPOILER ALERT) was crowned king in the final episode of a (SPOILER ALERT) pretty terrible final season of GoT.
DeleteThis is MY PUZZLE.
ReplyDeleteExactly as submitted over a year ago:
Name a popular food product, two words. Switch the words, making the first word last and last word first.
Flip-flop two letters in the now first word, then add an apostrophe to the now second word, to name an event with a long history here in the United States. What is the product and what is the event?
Siz, your puzzle wording is clearer to me.
DeleteYeah me too.
DeleteOr maybe not *clearer*, but much less awkward.
Thank you, WW. I think it leaves the event name more like it would actually be said, as well, no?
DeleteSiz, yes. It makes the question clearer and makes the answer less obvious -- an $800 Jeopardy! response.
DeleteMy congratulations to Siz on creating an NPR-worthy puzzle, but also my condolences for not getting credit for it.
DeleteOn Puzzleria! each week we post a handful of "riff-offs" of whatever the current NPR puzzle happens to be. I just wrote the following riff-off of Kerry Fowler's (and Siz's) fine NPR puzzle. (Give hints if you like, but no answers please. I will not reveal the answer until Wednesday, October 20 on Puzzleria!)
Here's the riff:
Name something you might eat for breakfast, in three words of 5, 4 and 6 letters. Reverse the order of the three words. Add a “G” at the end of the new first word. Replace the second word with a one-letter word. Divide the new third word in two parts, then replace the first letter of the second part with an “FL”. The result is a four-word phrase that is a “no-no” for infielders (even though it may not affect their pitcher’s “no-no”).
What might you eat for breakfast? What is a “no-no” for infielders?
LegoWhoWasInThe(Size#?)ShoesOfSizAFewYearsBack
The same thing happened to me two or three years ago. Will rejected a puzzle that I had submitted and then used it on the air a year or so later without any acknowledgment.
DeleteNice puzzle. Congrats.
DeleteHint for Lego's riff-off: The third word of the answer can also be something you might buy at a ball game. (No rule against posting riff-off hints here instead of Puzzleria!, right?)
DeleteSplendid hint, Nodd. Thanks for posting it. If it's okay with Blaine, it's okay with me.
Delete(Incidently, it is very kind of Blaine to allow me to post these occasional puzzles and to shamelessly plug Puzzleria! on this outstanding space. We are truly blessed to be able to "play" here. We simply cannot thank Blaine enough! And, we should never take his unwavering presence and remarkable talents for granted.)
LegoWhoIsOlderThanBlaineButStillWants"ToBeJustLikeBlaine"WhenHeGrowsUp!
Ditto your comment re Blaine. Truly an outstanding blog host.
DeleteSorry, folks, but today's my anniversary. Even though I solved it, any hint or hints will have to wait 'til tomorrow.
ReplyDeleteMañana.
Happy anniversary! 10/10 -- a memorable date.
DeleteHappy Anniversary! You have your priorities in order. Enjoy the day.
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DeleteThank you, WW and WW (posting on the WWW!), for the kind words. A splendid time was had by all.
DeleteMar-a-lago or a sanitarium
ReplyDeleteWeird Al tune.
Deletebe a double dippah and take both
DeleteP-smith:amzn delivered W A's gr8t its I now get your comment
DeleteMarjorie Merriweather Post ( a little bit bettah) had Mar-a-lago built. Whereas Dr Kellogg formulated ready to eat breakfast cereals in his sanitarium in Battle Creek. ( best to you double dip = two scoops)
DeleteI used my mind to solve this.
ReplyDeleteI lack the brains
Deleteor Brains, lack I
DeleteMy mind is a brain. The distinct letters in "Raisin Bran" can be rearranged to spell "brain".
Deleteyep Brain -I = bran
DeleteI was pretty grouchy earlier, but now I've had my breakfast and coffee, and solved the puzzle, feeling much better!
ReplyDeleteI like this puzzle.
ReplyDeleteIt is just difficult enough to solve that it feels good to do so.
And it reinforces Blaine's hint rule: Don't spoil it for others.
My only post this week is to say you don’t need an MBA to solve this one.
ReplyDeleteWitness.
ReplyDeleteThat was going to be my clue. That’s weir’d.
DeleteTex Beneke, Head East, Four Preps
ReplyDeleteKalamzaoo (Tex Beneke vocals on Glen Miller band) Head East Twenty Six Miles ( 4 Preps) and you are in Battle Creek, MI home of the best to you each morn
DeleteCoenheads meet Kenny Delmar
ReplyDeleteYou still want that Clinton quote?
Deletepubb'ed it Sat
DeleteI did not have conversation with that l
DeleteI did not have conversations with that lady,
Coen Brothers "Raising Arizona" Kenny Delmar was the voice of Foghorn Leghorn ( also Sen Claghorn on Fred Allen radio show BTW) the boss o' the barnyard
DeleteA question came up in my mind this AM. Do you think before his murder, Abel asked his parents why they were bringing up his brother?
ReplyDeleteYou mean, instead of growing sugar?
DeleteBeets me.
DeleteDoes it have anything to do with the Sugarcane Mutiny On The Bounty?
DeleteAdam, Eve, Cain and Abel were such a brazen clan.
ReplyDeleteA dysfunctional family, no doubt, but at least they were not concerned about keeping up with the Jones's.
Delete....which leads to the question: What was Adam and Eve's surname anyway? Curiously, the Bible makes no mention of it! My two possible candidates for their surname would be "Eve Nonavel" or "Adam Glabrousgut."
DeleteLegoWhoIsCuriousToHearPossibleSurnameCandidatesFromFellowBlainesvillians
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern
DeleteSacco and Vanzetti? Loggins and Messina? Haldeman and Ehrlichman? Nichols and May?
DeletepjbReadAdamKnewItWasOverWhenEveSaid,"IThinkWeShouldSeeOtherPeople. "
That shrew, Eve, ran poor Adam around like she was the only woman on the planet.
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ReplyDeleteI love a puzzle where it just comes to you upon reading it, so no consulting of lists is involved.
ReplyDeletepjbCan'tHelpButThinkOfWeirdAlYankovicNow
As I learned from all my friends at school:
ReplyDeleteThe best part of waking up is a little cold duck in your cup and the puzzle answer before the pleading to answer NPR's call.
Breakfast of champions
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DeleteThe witness"
DeleteFirst, I must admit the answer I came up with last week was WRONG!
ReplyDeleteSo my clues were useless. Sorry if that led anyone astray.
However, this week I have the right answer. Trust me. So here's the clue:
One of the two words has a homophone that means the exact opposite of the meaning of the first word.
Sorry, the exact opposite meaning of the SECOND word.😁
DeleteI call.
DeleteWS. As there are four words involved in this puzzle (food 1, food 2, food 1 plus g, and food 2 rearranged) I believe your observation, while astute, would be better described as follows.
DeleteOne of the four words in this puzzle has a homonym whose meaning is it’s opposite.
Yeah, that's I meant. Yeah, that's the ticket!👍
DeleteKippers for breakfast, Aunt Helga?
ReplyDeleteTrump's ice cream.
ReplyDeleteA couple of hints:
ReplyDelete1. Rearrange the breakfast item to get a country and a synonym for children (or a synonym for what you would need to solve the puzzle).
2. One of the four words has been in the current news with some frequency.
Late to the party but got the answer. Siz's wording of the puzzle is much easier.
ReplyDeleteThink of a common two-word saying beginning with the second word of the old-fashioned activity. Then think of a homophone for the second word of this saying and add an R somewhere in the middle to name a technology that rendered the old-fashioned activity obsolete.
ReplyDeleteI've thought of a two-word phrase that Blaine would ZAP IMMEDIATELY!! Think of a certain number followed by the plural of a certain noun. I'm sure that all those who have solved this know exactly the phrase of which I'm thinking.
ReplyDeleteThat could be a two that is to too much a hint
DeleteI think I know the answer, that is if the plural noun was used in singular form by a well-known novelist, almost a century ago.
DeleteYeah, I think almost all of us thought of that, and knew it would be too obvious. However, there is a very well disguised reference to that phrase elsewhere on this page. To the individual who wrote that, I will just say, well done!
DeleteWaugh Evelyn said.
DeleteIt's cool your handle is also a clue.
ReplyDeleteIt's sure preferable to a few weeks ago when one guy's handle was an absolute giveaway!!
DeleteYes??? Mr. Wolfgang right.
DeleteMr. Sister in law lives on Lummi Island. BTW
DeleteI'll bet that A 600-pound Colorado elk will not be retiring any time soon.
ReplyDeleteWhat a run for Matt Amodio on Jeopardy! Glad to have witnessed his grace, poise, intelligence, and humility in those 39 games.
ReplyDeleteI will miss Matt.
ReplyDeleteMy mom won't. She just didn't like him. I think it was the way he'd say "What is" when the answer was a person's name, which clearly requires a "Who is". Something minor like that.
DeletepjbWondersWhyHeCouldn'tMakeItAnEven40?AlmostSeemsLikeHeTookADiveToday
I share Cranberry's suspicions--he looked like Jake LaMotta taking a dive throughout, capped by that inexplicably wrong answer in Final Jeopardy. But I'm biased--like Mrs. Berry I just didn't like him (there's something disrespectful about using "what" when "who" is called for) and I was getting tired of one runaway after another.
ReplyDeleteKind of a facetious manner- as if he did not know an answer, but of course he did.
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DeleteI am so with you about the "what" instead of "who," and then never saying the full name, just the last name.
Delete(He facilitates weekly puzzles on NPR. They don't go on for too long. "What's Shortz?")
Matt Amodio followed all the rules of Jeopardy! during the confines of the game. He provided a question and just the last name unless more information was required in follow-up. He freed up his brain to come up with answers...and he never said "True Daily Double." Nothing extraneous and one of the keys to his success. It was fascinating to see him come up with 1305 correct questions.
DeleteAnd soon, we'll be able to say "What's up, Doc?"
"Wuuuut's Amodio?" Yes!
I think he took a dive too. Something did not seem right.
ReplyDeleteHe did not see that upset at the end.Suspicious.
ReplyDeleteI agree. Very suspicious. Also seems like he did not select bigger money questions as usually did.
DeleteAs my wife says, everyone has a bad day at work.
DeleteYes, it happens. Now Matt can get on with putting all his knowledge and training to solving bigger problems.
DeleteFinishing his dissertation and trying to land a tenure-track job?
Delete... or are you referring to his dream of meeting Stephen Colbert (for which he thought he'd have to beat Ken Jennings' record)?
DeleteBoth. . .and more. I hope Colbert gets in touch.
DeleteI thought he was going to Disneyland.
DeleteIt was pretty obvious from the first that this was going to be Matt's swan song.
ReplyDeleteHe seemed almost ill, maybe made so by the producer's (remember him?) decision that ratings would be better without him. Maybe someday we'll know.
Even though I am a fan of the show, I don't like the sneaky ways they do things,
It is amazing that no leak of the end of his reign (actually ended in August) seemed to get out.
He certainly was not going to spread the word since he would have forfeited his winnings!
I have never figured out what they hold over the audience members to keep them quiet.
As a carmen cygni, it was not all that melodious (perhaps Amodious ;-)).
DeleteThis show was filmed 9-7-21, after an 11-day hiatus after filming 15 shows in 3 taping days. I'm going with tiredness, stress, and an off day. He also faced 2 strong opponents. (And Richards was gone by the start of this show.)
My last (wholly speculative) take on the subject (in installments because this site won't let me publish this as a single comment). Maybe he thought he had accomplished all he could, having passed Holzhauer's record for second place but knowing it was unlikely he would pass Jennings'. Or maybe he thought he had made enough money (no Bezos he) and decided to give someone else a shot. Or perhaps he was losing interest in these one-sided games (remember when Trump told his followers they would get tired of winning) and, since there is no way to retire as champion, let the other contestants beat him. Or maybe he found the fame that comes with being on tv every night for months on end to be too smothering (as Bialik said on last night's episode, "Welcome to fame"). These are all human motives, none of them dishonorable. Never having been in that position I don't know if I'd react the same way.
DeleteForget the "installments" part--it accepted it after all.
DeleteI find this speculation and conspiracy-theory mongering tiresome. This is from The Washington Post:
DeleteIn a phone interview on Monday, Amodio said his final episode was taped in mid-September, when he showed up to set after a break of a couple of weeks. (The show films a week’s worth of episodes in one production day.) On his previous trip to the set, he reeled off 15 victories over three days, many of them decisive “runaways” in which he could not be caught entering Final Jeopardy! But this time he found he couldn’t settle back into the groove of filming yet, and he was still feeling a bit “disheveled” that early in the day.
“I got off to an early good start, but Double Jeopardy! went terribly for me. I was pretty soundly defeated,” Amodio said. “It was weird because in previous games, there were stretches where I lost the timing of the buzzer, but it was early enough in the games where the dollar values weren’t so high that I could recover later. … It had never been that long a stretch during a crucial point of time in the game.”
And even though Amodio still can’t quite wrap his mind around his level of “Jeopardy!” success, and emphasizes how grateful he is for everything, the loss still stung. (“I’m a bit of a perfectionist, in case you can’t tell,” he said and laughed.) Once he beat Holzhauer’s 32-game streak, the possibility began to form in his mind that maybe, just maybe, he could get to Jennings’s record.
But then, suddenly, it was over. Before he left, the staff and crew joined for “a very nice moment” for his send-off, and guest host Mayim Bialik initiated a second round of applause with everyone to congratulate him on his victories. “I wasn’t feeling so great at the time, so reaching out to make me feel that way was very nice of her,” he said.
Genuine respect all around. Thanks for sharing the WP quote, jan.
DeleteGee, jan, are you really willing to allow a conspiracy theory to go to waist? How unAmerikan!
DeleteBad SDB, I meant waste.
DeleteAs the positive body image people say, a waist is a terrible thing to mind.
DeleteI had a gut feeling you might post something like that.
DeleteDid you see the videos of that plane going in? I suspect he had a heart attack or crotch itch he couldn't get to.
DeleteI didn't realize there were so many Jeopardy experts here.
DeleteSo it is worthwhile to ask again how the studio audience is induced to keep quiet for a month about the end of a run that garnered lively newspaper and TV coverage.
They ask the audience to pinky-swear not to tell.
DeleteSounds like a few people watched Quiz Show the night before, eh? (A great movie, even if every viewing does temporarily make me trigger-happy on crying game show conspiracy.)
DeleteI watched the quiz shows "Quiz Show" is about on our litte 10" urp-green Hoffamn when I was in high school.
DeleteMy mother had a friend who was the ultimate iconoclast and he prevented me from believing in them enough to do me harm when they disappointed.
Matt, and James before him, combined their prodigious memories with savvy, if somewhat predatory, betting and other strategies to give Jeopardy many weeks of marvel.
DeleteWhat I realized last night after a week of a new champion and closer games is that it was much, much more enjoyable.
Without really recognizing it, six weeks of deer-in-the-headlights challengers was wearing.
Smiles, and even laughs, should be part of the game and I hope that a run of those has begun.
If an all girls law school had a bus to transport their students, would that be a miss carriage of justice?
ReplyDeleteMore UPS drivers are killed by falling airplanes than any other delivery service.
ReplyDeletejan,
ReplyDeleteWith your vast medical background, would you say a superior surgeon is a cut above the rest, or the other way around? Just asking.
For questions about something like a surgeon, ask Enya_and_WeirdAl_fan.
DeleteThank you for the referral.
Deletehe looked like a violent Reagan or so I've heard
ReplyDeleteone of the California raisins looked ( to me at least )like RR
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ReplyDeleteI feel like going bowling.
ReplyDeleteI've got it pumpkin carp
ReplyDeleteand crap pumpking
I thought first on "egg" and something to do with 3G. Over easy? Nee. Ultimate outcome is old-fashioned? We all have our ways of doing things, according to our traditions. Answer I submitted is one of the most incredible scenes I've ever gotten to witness. And, they get served up a mighty fine breakfast and lunch, too. This Sunday, is, I believe, Lulu's last broadcast, that she will explore the personal side of opinion, on a NY Times podcast. Fascinating subject - what some consider old-fashioned is to others just a way of life.
ReplyDeleteWHAT'S ;-) RAISIN BRAN, BARN RAISING
ReplyDelete"Connections, connections, connections." >>> Barn raising is also know as a Bee raising in the UK. Bees make connections and barns may store cereal like BRAN.
"Underwear" >>> Carter >>> Jimmy Carter >>> Carter is a champion of Habitat for Humanity, a somewhat comparable modern-day "barn" raising.
"Happy anniversary! 10/10 -- a memorable date." Dates and RAISINs are both dried fruit.
Daily Double: 😉
Delete— He facilitates weekly puzzles on NPR. They don't go on for too long.
— What's Shortz?
🤣🤣🤣
Bwah ha ha!
DeleteBARN RAISING <— RAISIN BRAN
ReplyDeleteMy anagrammatic hint: “Rearrange the breakfast item to get a country and a synonym for children (or a synonym for what you would need to solve the puzzle).” —> Iran and bairns (or brains—though perhaps “brains” is not so much a synonym as a metaphor—and hence the hints also by Rob, Bobby, bird, etc.)
The word in the “current news” I hinted at was “raising,” i.e., “raising the debt ceiling.”
And “current,” of course, is a homophone of “currant,” which suggests “raisin,” both of which are made from grapes, though different varieties.
RAISIN BRAN => BARN RAISING
ReplyDeleteBefore I solved it, I saw Ron's comment about how there were two stories on NPR that morning, and thought nothing of it. It just looked like a comment about what else was on the radio. It was only after I had solved the puzzle that I realized it was a reference to Two Scoops, and the old Kellog's Raisin Bran ads.
Ron, even though Blaine eventually removed your comment, I thought it was excellent, and you get a gold star from me!
Raisin Bran/Barn Raising
ReplyDeleteMy post about reading the headlines was a reference to newspaper headlines are often the results of a reporter’s scoop. Kellogg’s Raisin Bran was advertised as having, “Two scoops of rai-sins….”
Multiple other posts allude to the same advertising campaign, including Jan’s (Trump’s ice cream) which recall’s Trump always wanting 2 scoops while everyone else was served one.
Personally, I think Trump ice cream would be tasteless, and have too much fat.
RAISIN BRAN >>> BARN RAISING
ReplyDeleteOur friend geofan has concocted a half-dozen dazzling WolrdPlay puzzles that will appear on this week's Puzzleria!... uploaded early Friday morn, just after midnight Pacific Daylight Time.
ReplyDeleteAlso on our menu:
* a Schpuzzle of the Week that involves an "alphabetical string bean,"
* a puzzle slice that will require earplugs to solve,
* a nice and spicy Dessert, and
* eight puzzling barn burners that riff off this week's NPR offering.
Drop on by for some fun.
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Raisin Bran --> barn raising
ReplyDeleteLast Sunday I said, “I am reminded of Michael Caine.” Think “raising cain.” Think “barn raising.”
RAISIN BRAN — BARN RAISING
ReplyDeleteMy post above, "I feel like going bowling," was an oblique reference to the movie Kingpin, which has a barn-raising scene in it. (Since the reference to the one in Witness was already taken.)
RAISIN BRAN -> BARN RAISING
ReplyDelete> Another Icelandic connection!
BARN RAISING anagrams to "Ásbirningar", a clan that was apparently a big deal in Iceland in the 12th and 13th centuries.
>> Do you think before his murder, Abel asked his parents why they were bringing up his brother?
> You mean, instead of growing sugar?
RAISING cane.
> Trump's ice cream.
Two scoops, like the raisins in RAISIN BRAN.
I wrote, “Take the breakfast. Remove all repeated letters. You are left with something used in making ancient cosmetics.” That’s Sb, antimony, which was powdered and used as eye makeup (kohl) by the ancient Egyptians.
ReplyDeleteI interpreted your comments as leading to BS, which is a term for bull manure, which was also used in ancient cosmetics, according to google!
DeleteI got "brains" by deleting just the repetitions, and "bs" by deleting them all, and both led me to the observation "yuck." I didn't think of antimony. I guess almost any substance might have been used by someone, somehow, at some time, as a cosmetic!
DeleteRaisin Bran, barn raising
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ReplyDeleteWith thanks and a whole lot of sorrow,
ReplyDeleteon Sunday, two days from tomorrow,
we must all bid "adieu"
to the Queen of the Clue,
Ms. Lulu Garcia Navarro
Very nice!
DeleteYes! Shall we raise a lime rickey in her honor?
DeleteMister Lear is envious of your five-line tribute, Mister Re. As am I.
DeleteLegoLuLuLiker
Cute! I will miss her.
DeleteBe sure to toss Three Coins in Lake Lugano should you happen by.
DeleteMy comment: “My only post this week is to say you don’t need an MBA to solve this one.” Was referencing the popular brands of Raisin Bran, such as “post” and “Kellogg” (re MBA).
ReplyDeleteMy clue was "Activity handed me the key." Once I saw that it was an activity I safely assumed that I needed to add a g to a word that ended in "in" that could be a verb.
ReplyDelete"One cuts through wood, while the other cuts through water. You can cut the third with a bridge. See?"
ReplyDeleteHarrison Ford ("cuts through water") worked as a carpenter ("cuts through wood") before his movie career took off. He played John Book ("abridge" = "cut") in "Witness" ("See?"), where he showed off his carpentry skills by building that wooden toy for the young boy played by Lukas Haas.
I submitted RAISIN BRAN -> BARN RAISING
ReplyDeleteI took issue with Ron's comment take the breakfast. Remove all repeated letters. You are left with something used in making ancient cosmetics.
I assume Rob was talking about ancient Egypt's use of Stibnite as eyeshade. This confirmed my answer of Raisin Bran, since you remove the repeated letters and you get sb, which is much like the chemical symbol for Antimony (Sb)
It's a slick clue, so thank you Ron! But as a resident Chemist of Blainesville, I must note that Ancient Eyeshade was actually Stibnite, which is Antimony Sulfide, technically Sb2S3. And you can't get either SbS or SbSbSSS by removing double letters.
Which is why I mentioned ceramics, which actually had Antimony in them.
RAISIN BRAN → BARN RAISING
ReplyDeleteUnable to post earlier...
I couldn't post earlier either... RAISIN BRAN>>>>>>>BARN RAISING. Yay for me!!??!?
ReplyDeleteI didn't post a hint this week, but considered: Lorraine Hansberry, but thought it might be TMI. She wrote the play, A Raisin in the Sun, that debuted on Broadway in 1959.
ReplyDeleteI also considered the same.
DeleteRAISIN BRAN, BARN RAISING
ReplyDeleteMy mention of "Weird Al" referred to his parody of "Gangsta's Paradise", "Amish Paradise".
pjbSaysEvenEzekielThinksThatHisMindIsGone
My comment: I hope my answer is good enough.
ReplyDeleteAlexander Godunov was one of the stars of Witness, which as others have mentioned, contained a scene of a barn raising.
UPDATE:
ReplyDeleteOne of three zebras on the loose in the Washington, D.C. area has died. It was found in an illegal snare trap on private property.
This is very disturbing as it indicates a one hundred percent increase in zebra deaths in Washington D.C. due to illegal zebra trapping.
I just now was quickly going through our mayor's weekly propaganda email and saw a large photo of someone holding a huge pumpkin with black stick-on plastic eyes and mouth. I had not seen this before. The pumpkin had not been in any way forced to endure any invasive procedure, it was just as it came from the supermarket, or do they still grow them in farms? I wish I could upload the photo for you all to see. What a joy this must be for the little monsters who no longer have to go through all the drudgery and hassle of cutting and eviscerating in order to have a jack-0-lantern. Of course it must be awful for the mothers to have to give up cleaning up after their kids. Oh well, I guess we can't all be winners. Now, how can they get hens to lay decorated hard boiled eggs?
ReplyDeleteBy cooking them whole while making chicken soup!
ReplyDeletePS Oh, I forgot. Make sure to have dye in the pot. My Mom always did that even though we'd celebrate Passover, not Easter
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