Change the 3rd and 5th letters of the last animal and rearrange to get another animal.Q: Name an animal in five letters. Add two letters and rearrange the result to name a bird in seven letters. Then add two letters to that and rearrange the result to name another animal in nine letters. What creatures are these?
Edit: Change them to G and T and rearrange to get ALLIGATOR.
A: LLAMA, MALLARD, ARMADILLO
One of the animals has a connection to the puzzle statement.
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ReplyDeleteSorry, Blaine. I wasn't sure....
DeleteWhat was the Neil young connection?
DeleteIt was “Ride My Llama," Young’s song from his 1979 album Rust Never Sleeps.
DeleteRearrange the five-letter animal, and get a place people visit.
ReplyDeleteNot I!
DeleteFair enough, sdb, "some people."
DeleteEasy
ReplyDeleteI solved a slightly more difficult puzzle and would have bet anything my answer was correct. It was.
ReplyDeleteI didn't read carefully and solved for three animals. It would have been easier had I noted that the middle animal was a bird.
DeleteI do not own a silk pajama.
The added letters anagram to an organization that sounds like it is religious.
ReplyDeleteAnd the initial letters of the three words sound like another animal.
DeleteOr, add a letter, rearrange, and get something always connected to the puzzle.
DeleteAdd an "a" to the added letters, rearrange, and get "radio," or "something that's always connected to the puzzle."
DeleteGreat job by Bob, the on-air solver, and great puzzle by Philip Goodman!
ReplyDeleteBob was a one man wrecking crew, except for Reba.
DeleteYes! Holy crap! I almost don't want The Call this week -- tough act to follow.
DeletePuzzle solved. It's taking me longer to come up with a clue...
ReplyDeleteThere is a 50-50 chance that there will be over 1,000 correct responses.
DeleteNot sure why everyone thinks this one is easy. I’d put the over/under closer to 200…
DeleteI say 1599.
DeleteAnd I say it took Jaws 6 minutes.
DeleteAbout 2 minutes to solve the puzzle. Longer than 6 to figure out a clue, because I thought about possible clues for a while before posting my first comment.
DeleteI have seen the first creature in the neighborhood I grew up in, the second in my current neighborhood, and the third while on vacation.
ReplyDeleteWow, could it be that answer?
ReplyDeleteRemove the letters of the five-letter word from the nine-letter word. Rearrange. You get something fashionable.
ReplyDeleteThat's the organization I referenced above.
DeleteHappy Easter!
ReplyDeleteI have an answer that doesn't seem to fit with any of the clues here.
ReplyDeleteThere may be more than one answer.
DeleteI would have sworn that the solution is unique, but I trust jan. Jan, are any of your words obscure?
DeleteNo, they're common animal names. The first five letters of the family name of my first animal is another common 5-letter animal.
DeleteLooks good to me, Jan.
DeleteI think you have the same answer, then. See if it fits Rob's clue. For the record, I can't get those letters to fit Nodd's first clue, although I do like his second one.
DeleteOn second thought, I do get Nodd's first.
DeleteMy answer also contains no obscure words but does not seem to fit with most of the posted clues.
DeleteDitto, jan & Lorenzo. There must be more than one solution with common animals. No clue; just an observation.
DeleteOK. Now I have a better answer that fits with the clues and is probably the intended one. (My first answer contained an alternate spelling of a common abbreviation.)
DeleteChange two letters in the first animal and rearrange to get the family that it is a member of. Unlike Blaine's photo, you'll never find all three of these animals together in the wild.
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ReplyDeleteOne could argue this is TMI. I love the clue but got the answer within a few minutes of seeing this. Would have been quicker but, obviously, had to enjoy the whole video...
DeleteWow. I thought that was obscure. Let me refine that to this: one of the animals was featured in a 1980's music video. More important, a Blessed and Holy Easter week to all.
DeleteBlaine's other animal makes me want to smile.
ReplyDeleteI solved the puzzle, but am having a hard time with his clue.
DeleteWell, that was easier than descending rapidly from an equine
ReplyDeleteThat's pretty easy, Curtis. Did you recently do the latter?
DeleteI have not, since I’m allergic to equine type creatures
DeleteI have never eaten any of these animals
ReplyDeleteMy granddaughters have sat on the smallest of them.
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DeleteOne time, on Johnny Carson, guest Tony Randall hilariously mispronounced the name of the nine letter animal.
ReplyDeleteRearrange the first five letters of the final animal to get what we are experiencing quite a lot of nowadays.
ReplyDeleteRearrange the first five letters of armadillo to get drama...something we are all experiencing quite a lot of nowadays, under a Trump administration.
DeleteActually! I think my original answer is wrong. Boo. I realized I had pluralized the final word, and it is not meant to be pluralized. But, my answer is nearly perfect.
ReplyDeleteI’m all in on this puzzle. Hats off to Philip Goodman.
ReplyDeleteOne of the animals reminds me of a president.
ReplyDeleteMallard sounds like Millard, as in Millard Fillmore.
DeleteManada y bandada.
ReplyDeleteIt strikes me that Edsels are more than a car of the past
ReplyDeleteI agree. I always felt they were a car to be passed.
DeleteEven more than your pun. It's a clue to my answer
DeleteEd sells Edsels in Leeds.
DeleteIt is not steer, kestrel, lorikeets. But it is tall, smaller, small.
ReplyDeleteI like that answer!
DeleteBased on my first animal, this puzzle seems less appropriate for Easter and more appropriate for another upcoming holiday.
ReplyDeleteI'm watching The Righteous Gemstones, a commercial comes on and the answer dawned on me.
ReplyDeleteA commercial for Dawn detergent came on showing 2 ducks. Led me to mallard...
DeleteThe Easter Bunni filled my Easter baskit with a marshmallow peep bunting and a chocolate binturong.
ReplyDeleteEaster was cancelled here in Seattle this year due to the rabbit flu that created the egg shortage. Many of us are instead enjoying Welsh Chickenbit for dinner.
ReplyDeletePresident Hoover
ReplyDeleteYeah, I thought that sucked too. But how about Reagan instead of Roosevelts 1 & 2?
DeleteThe two animals (but not the bird) are in only the 9th.
ReplyDeleteNever aware strictly how I might pronounce the first beast's name until I met one a few years back.
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DeleteHierophantic!
ReplyDeleteWant to bet?
Deletethe one-l lama, he's a priest; the two-l llama, he's a beast
DeleteR.I.P. Pope Francis
ReplyDeleteYes, R.I.P. to our Sovereign Pontiff. The only voice of moral authority in the world.
ReplyDeleteLOL
DeleteHey, he's spoken out about Trump's deportations. Give him that much. Otherwise, I understand Rome isn't everyone's cup of tea.
DeleteI agree, but he could not condemn Putin. He certainly was better than the previous ones, but so what? The phony religion causes much hate and discord and violence around the world as it rapes children and ammasses enormous amounts of loot as it dispenses ignorance. I wonder what the ladies will give us to replace him as they play their political game to remain in control and luxury.
DeleteHave any of you seen "Conclave"?
DeleteIn certain ways it is a brilliant movie. There's something I don't like about it but... that would be a spoiler, so I definitely can't say it on Blaine's blog!
Yes, I particularly like Stanley Tucci.
DeleteI will watch it for the acting if nothing else. Ralph Fiennes is always wonderful, but I hear the story and ending are ridiculous. Films like this are frequently great fun for good actors. I won't get to watch it for several months because of all the holds on it at the libraries. Thanks for reminding me, I had forgotten.
DeleteYes, I think you're right on all counts here, SDB. Ralph Fiennes and Stan Tucci both at their best, and... the other thing too.
DeleteI can't even begin to imagine how difficult it must be for those sequestered in a conclave. No cell phones! How do they do Wordle? In the evenings, after rigorous debate, do they send out for pizza (I'm sure they must have pizza someplace in Rome) and play bingo while drinking the blood of that guy they like? I understand that in the end it all goes up in smoke.
DeleteThat smoke dirties the air. Francis would not approve.
DeleteI don't recall that he complained last time.
DeleteHe wasn't Pope Francis then, so he had no ability to tell the Cardinals not to pollute the air with that smoke. After he became Pope Francis he often decried the environmental destruction that is taking place daily.
DeleteLike everyone else, I watched "Conclave" this week. (On a plane, flying back from a visit in the Bay area.) I've been reading a lot of bullshit about the symbolism of the turtle, who makes an appearance near the end, though alluded to earlier. Everybody missed the point. The whole film practically takes place in the Sistine chapel. Famous for its ceiling. Painted by Michelangelo. A teenage mutant ninja turtle, of course. Duh.
DeleteOn a lighter note, and no real puzzle: How does one ID a REAL American? Solution: It's the one who, given 20 years notice, lines up in the last 2 1/2 weeks and still complains of being rushed. Or, it could be the one who reads the instructions only when something goes wrong.
ReplyDeleteI tried to read the instructions but the instructions said read the directions.
DeleteThe answer brings to mind the Pacific Northwest.
ReplyDeleteMy computer found a legit 2nd solution, but so obscure that I had to look up all the words.
ReplyDeleteWhy did it cross the road?
ReplyDeleteTo save its soul?
Deletehttps://open.substack.com/pub/robertreich/p/the-conscience-of-the-world?r=tcuyi&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
ReplyDeleteFrom Dr. K's clue, it looks like Dr. K and I have the same answer. I don't get Blaine's clue, though. When I change the 3rd and 5th letters of the last animal, I get the name of a fruit, or the plant it grows on.
ReplyDeleteStanley Tucci is brilliant in Conclave, more compelling that Ralph Fiennes (who is also a fine actor).
ReplyDeleteAnd I guess we’re going to find out if Lincoln was right: You can fool all the people some of the time and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time. Hmmm. And I understand that Trump wants to rename Brussels sprouts, American sprouts since he found out we also grow them in this country.
ReplyDeleteAnd Education Secretary McMahon was on national TV saying “Every child should have access to A1.” I totally agree. No child should have to eat sauceless steak.
Jerusalem Artichokes are only grown in America.
Delete"You can fool all the people some of the time and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time."
DeleteThis is generally credited to Lincoln, but no matter who said it first, it has intrigued me that Lincoln would say it at all. Think about it for a moment. Lincoln was referred to as Honest Abe. Now that would not be an accurate type of nickname were it applied to anyone else I can think of. You see, Lincoln was in fact extremely honest. The stories about his veracity were not exaggerated as they were for George Washington, for instance. So I had to ask myself why Lincoln would have understood that since he was unlike most of us who are always trying to deceive others about what we do not want known widely. Well I could only come with one thing Lincoln would have wanted to keep private, and that he realized some had figured out regardless anyway. Do you know what it was? I do.
The Jerusalem artichoke not only is not from Jerusalem, it's not an artichoke either. Enjoy them roasted with some Welsh rabbit and an egg cream.
DeleteA few years ago I hosted a dinner party that featured Italian dishes with outlandish names: acqua cotta (cooked water); paglia e fieno (hay and straw); fagioli all'uccolletto (white beans cooked like small birds); acqua pazza (crazy water); and ceci (rags)�. You can also add some brutti ma buoni (ugly but good) or tiramisu (pick me up), but that was beyond my ability.
And oops: did Hegseth just make another boo-boo on Signal?
ReplyDeleteI have a suggestion for a puzzle. Take the 5 letters in TRUMP and for each letter name a word that describes our President.
ReplyDeleteGreat idea for a puzzle, Diz. Unfortunately, all of my answers would be NRFPT.
DeleteSince you've opened the door, let me ask: what city starting with "E" is a European capital? Please don't say "Euro"--that might be okay in a crossword puzzle but no normal English-speaker talks that way. (I cannot get the audio of the episode to play, which is why I am asking this esteemed body.)
DeleteThe capital of the Duchy of Grand Fenwick is Breck. This city is also the largest town in the duchy, located in the eastern, low-lying areas, near the border with Elland. So that ain't it.
DeleteEdinburgh, Scotland
DeleteTyrannical, Repugnant, Uncouth, Misogynistic, Putz
DeleteTerrified, Regurgitating, Unstable, Malodorous, Pissant
DeleteThanks WW--I guess they must have conducted a recount of that plebiscite from a decade ago.
DeleteDespotic Overblown Narcissist And Lying Dictator That Routinely Undermines Moral Principles
DeleteDr. K, I can keep it clean and honest at the same time: TRASH, ROGUE, UNERHANDED, MENTAL PSYHOPATH.
ReplyDeleteClark, you've inspired me. How about totalitarian, rude (crude and lewd for good measure), unhinged, megalomaniacal, and pathological?
DeleteDiz--how about "truthful," "reliable," "upstanding," "modest" and -- wait, who are we talking about? I'll start over.
ReplyDeleteNot sure I understand, Italo. Are we talking about the same President? This COULD be my misunderstanding.
DeleteAh, you were being ironic. Sorry😊
DeleteWhen "Cara Mia" made it to number 1 in Canada 60 years ago, no one was distracted by the singer's tattoos. �
ReplyDeleteI always enjoyed hearing that song, but had no idea who sang it. I was living in Europe back then. I just watched a video of it now, but never saw that guy before. Did he have tattoos?
DeleteSorry for misleading you but this was a triply obscure clue, with "kara," the Aymara word for llama, followed by a fractured reference to Drake, the Canadian rapper trading diss tracks with Kendrick Lamar, and ending with "tatu," the Tupi-Guarani name for the beast we know as armadillo.
DeleteI was listening to AM radio back then and heard lots of songs by Jay and the Americans, but don't remember "Cara Mia." But it was a big hit, particularly in Canada.
Skydiveboy: I know the quote is only attributable to Lincoln. I actually thought it might be P.T. Barnum😊. Anyway, I never assume ANYONE is perfect: I’m sure Lincoln had his demons like the rest of us. Still, on balance, he did more good than evil.
ReplyDeleteI hope the same can be said about me when I die.
Diz, I think you are misunderstanding my post re: Lincoln and the quote. I am a big fan of Lincoln. There is some disagreement about who said it first, but it does not change my question of why Lincoln would have used it. He was very careful with the way he used words. I can only come up with one thing he tried to conceal. Someone might say it was about him being frequently described as having been a rail splitter. He was not. He never participated in that bit of misinformation. He also did not go out of his way to correct it, unless he was directly asked, and then he would explain that he did help is father build a fence and did split rails for that project. He realized this rumor helped his political prospects, so he did not try to kill it outright. Not a big deal. He was being honest about it too. What he was attempting to conceal from the public is that he was homosexual because it would have ruined his professional chances. Herndon, his law partner, knew it and also tried to refute the rumors.
Delete"Carl Sandburg's biography of Abraham Lincoln, "Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and the War Years," in its one-volume edition, is 762 pages long according to Amazon. The original six-volume edition, which Sandburg later distilled into the one-volume version, was praised as "the greatest historical biography of our generation" according to Amazon." Isn't it interesting that Sandburg, who wrote so thoroughly on every aspect of Lincoln's life, only gave it one sentence? where he said there were rumors of his being "lavinder." No one seems willing to accept the truth when it is uncomfortable. The evidence for what I am pointing out is overwhelming and well documented. It is reminiscent of many prominent historians refusing to believe Jefferson could have had sexual relations with a slave he owned, but you never hear them explain, now that it has been proven to be true.
Oh, wait a second. Lincoln was gay?
DeleteBut even if that were true (I’m allowed to have some doubts), it doesn’t affect the good he did. And yes, we all know about Jefferson & Sally Hemings—this is not news. I’m not condoning his actions, but I also try to put things in context (like Washington owning slaves).
I’ve been told not to teach Huckleberry Finn because he calls Jim the N word.
I get it. I’m trying less to judge people than to try to understand the atmosphere, the times they grew up/lived in. And in those times many mistakes were made in light of our beliefs now. Again, I’m not excusing, just saying that if we are at all intelligent, we try to learn from the past. And I hate Trump because for him the past was just yesterday and what he said then. He has absolutely no sense of history.
I think that if Lincoln & Jefferson were alive today, their views on many things might be different.
I still love Twain’s quote: “History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes.”
Indeed: circumstances change, but the basics remain the same.
We are basically on the same page, but it is difficult to flesh things like this out on a blog. He absolutely was totally homosexual. And, of course it has no affect on what he did. I never hinted that it did. I am, and always have been, a truth seeker. NPR had segments on this topic of Lincoln being gay in the past. Same with the Jefferson thing. In both cases prominent historians went to ridiculous lengths in order to try and refute that either could be. in the Jefferson case it was that he could not be flawed. With Lincoln it was obvious they saw it as a character defect and so it could not be. Also they like to point out he did marry and have children. So what does that prove? Nothing. When I returned from my 3 loooong years in the army in 1966, I went to work at a local kyte factory here in Seattle, called Boeing. Our supervisors were rotated every few months. One of them was an older man who was married to a woman who bore him 9 children. It turned out he was gay, but not out, and insisted he was not bisexual. Lincoln and his other half both knew they would eventually have to separate and get married for their careers. Both were terrified they would not be able to consummate their marriages. Obviously Lincoln did, but Speed never did. All this, and much more, is very interesting, but mostly has been hidden by bigotry and inability to comprehend reality. I believe there is power in numbers. Years back NPR had a segment on Canadians pointing out when a Canadian who became famous, but it was not generally known so they would scream it out to the masses. It is because Canada and our country are the same size, with vastly different populations and success in the money/power areas. That is why they want everyone to know when one of theirs "makes it." People are very afraid of truth.
DeleteSince we can reveal the puzzle answer tomorrow after 3:00, just thought I’d add one more comment (as a former English teacher) about El Presidente.
ReplyDeleteIt appears that his vocabulary consists largely of one adverb (VERY, which may be used up to 6 times in a sentence) and the adjectives GOOD & BAD. As in “Ukraine is being very, very, very, very, very bad” and “Tariffs will be very, very, very, very, very, very good for our country.”
I would suggest “extremely” for variety, but that’s 3 syllables, probably beyond his learning curve.
You're forgetting some key adverbs.
DeleteThere's "really", "tremendously", and of course... "bigly"!
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ReplyDeleteSorry, I am suffering from my first cold in over 18 years, and it is messing with me big time. I seem to have lost my time awareness momentarily.
DeleteSorry to hear about your cold. Your time awareness is still perfect. Your day awareness, on the other hand... 🤣
DeleteThanks for your understanding, Blaine. As penance I am saying 21 Hail Donny's.
DeleteCrito: You are right. My favorite is “bigly.” Is this an adverb? An adjective? Is it even a word?
DeleteHowever, I do like “really,” as in “We have a really, really, really, really big show tonight.” Ed Sullivan? Howdy Doody? The Marx Brothers? Donald Trump?
DeleteWhatever. Trump gives that adverb almost as much time as “very.” I believe his language skills didn’t make it past the 5th grade. Although I know many 10-year-olds with a better vocabulary.
And “tremendously” is 4 syllables. Trump probably needs a nap after pronouncing THAT word.
DeleteBut that’s OK. Apparently he has the word “tariff” down pat.
Dr. K,
ReplyDeletePerhaps you can help out here. I am so confused about these all inclusive pronoun changes that I am no longer able to fall asleep during church services. Yes, it is that serious. Should I stop referring to our species as Humans, and instead switch to Huthems? And Mankind, should I switch to Themkind? Now my head hurts. Where is my bottle of hippirin tablets?
Sdb, sorry I can’t be of more help to you in themaging this problem, but I had a colleague who told me she was retiring because of technology, and I replied that I was retiring because of pronouns.
DeleteDr. K, Thanks anyway. I am retired, but thinking of retiring again when Michelin go on sale.
DeleteWait until they (?) advertise a Blowout Sale.
DeleteThanks, but I believe you are thinking of Firestone.
DeleteOne of the three named animals is featured prominently in an episode of Friends!
ReplyDeleteLLAMA, MALLARD, ARMADILLO
ReplyDelete"Wow, could it be that answer?" >>> Add a B to LAM (the first 3 letters of the answer words) to get a LAMB. I see Nodd saw this also.
LLAMA + RD >> MALLARD
ReplyDeleteMALLARD + IO >> ARMADILLO
A connection between one of the animals and the puzzle statement is that a common species of the nine letter animal is the Nine Banded Armadillo.
Blaine’s clue to change the third and fifth letters in the nine-letter animal to get another nine-letter animal leads to ALLIGATOR. Alligators make me smile, because while there was a song, Never Smile at a Crocodile, there was no requirement to not smile at alligators, even though they are easily confused.
And alligators actually are in the crocodile genus.
DeleteYes, they are both crocodilians, along with the caimans and the gharials.
DeleteLlama, Mallard, Armadillo
ReplyDelete'Tis Thursday, time to tell what's in store on this week's Puzzleria! Well, you are all in for a treat. Our friend Mark Scott (aka "skydiveboy) has composed a trio of very clever conundrums in his unique "skydiveboyish style." They are titled:
ReplyDelete~ “Worlds-apart yet common tongues,”
~ “The letter ‘en’ that numbers ten,” and
~ “Nine-digit deficit” (a puzzle about all-but-one of a set-of-ten items pilfered from a Spanish teacher's desk!).
We shall upload Mark's mystery and mastery on Puzzlera! very soon, this very afternoon.
Also on our menus this week are:
* a Schpuzzle of the Week titled “E _ _ _ _ _ _ _ of S _ _ _ _ _ _ _,”
* an Oval Office Hors d’Oeuvre titled “Super-duper coughing creature!”
* a Muscat & Salalah Slice titled “Serena, Simone, Mia Hamm!”
* a “Bye Bye Baldness” Dessert titled ““Phenomenal surnominal songbird” and
* 11 riff-offs of this week's NPR puzzle challenge titled “Double-hockey-sticks-critters triplet” (including six created by Nodd and one created by Plantsmith, both riffmeisters extraordinaire!).
So, join us. Help us solve these mysteries... like, for example, why did the Spanish Class pilferer fail to pilfer one of the ten items from the teacher's desk?!
HOCKEYSTICKegoTWOHOCKEYSTICKSamaMaTWOHOCKEYSTICKSardArmadiTWOHOCKEYSTICKSoHOCKEYSTICKambda
My answer was LLAMA >> MALLARD>>ARMADILLO, which I got after considering GATER>>TANGER>>GREAT DANE.
ReplyDeleteLLAMA, MALLARD, ARMADILLO
ReplyDelete> The first five letters of the family name of my first animal is another common 5-letter animal.
Camel (Camelidae)
> My granddaughters have sat on the smallest of them.
Mrs. MALLARD and ducklings in the Boston Public Garden.
I wrote, “Remove the letters of the five-letter word from the nine-letter word. Rearrange. You get something fashionable.” That’s ARMADILLO minus LLAMA equals DIOR.
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ReplyDeleteLLAMA, MALLARD, ARMADILLO. "The added letters anagram to an organization that sounds like it is religious. And the initial letters of the three words sound like another animal." (Christian) DIOR; LAM(B)
ReplyDeletellama, mallard, armadillo
ReplyDeleteMy clue was President Hoover. I learned on the interwebs that East Texans ate armadillos during the Great Depression because they couldn't afford pork. They nicknamed armadillos "Hoover's hog" because they blamed Hoover for the depression. (I expect we'll all be eating armadillos in the very near future.)
ReplyDeleteI see now why I didn't get Blaine's clue. I didn't understand that the letters needed to be rearranged. 🤷🏼♀️
DeleteOops! I meant to have that in the instructions. 😳
DeleteNo worries Blaine! I didn't spend too much time on it. I gave up after ARCAZILLO didn't work. 🤓
DeleteI wrote "The two animals (but not the bird) are in only the 9th." Llamas and armadillos are found only in the (so-called) New World, and I was referring to Dvořák's 9th Symphony, "From the New World," often known for short as just the New World Symphony.
ReplyDeleteLLAMA, MALLARD, ARMADILLO
ReplyDeleteSorry I'm a bit late. Busy day.
Hints (the first two were removed):
“Neil Young”
—> “Ride My Llama” (Young’s song from his 1979 album Rust Never Sleeps
“Flanders and Swann”
—> “Armadillo” (“The Armadillo” was the comedy duo’s song from their 1961 album The Bestiary of Flanders and Swann)
“Rearrange the 5-letter animal, and get a place people visit.”
—> llama —> a mall
LLAMA, MALLARD, ARMADILLO
ReplyDeleteI clued that Never aware strictly how I might pronounce the first beast's name until I met one a few years back because I actually did visit Peru three years ago and spent a GREAT deal of time with lovely LLAMAS.
And the Peruvians really pronounce it "YAMA."
And I started with Never aware strictly how.... as a salute to Ogden NASH, and his legendary poem:
The one-L lama, he's a priest,
The two-L llama, he's a beast.
And I will bet my silk pajama
There isn't any three-L lllama
Peru is well known for it's llamas, but isn't it even more famous for its proliferation of people named Andrew? I am sure this is true because I keep hearing people advising the importance, when visiting Peru, of seeing the Andys.
DeleteA three-L lllama is a big fire in Boston.
DeleteDr. K – Your comment reminded me how much I enjoyed Flanders and Swann back in the day. What a classy duo!
ReplyDeleteYou still can, Lorenzo. I was just listening to "P**P* B**** B** D******."
DeleteTry YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VKNF5mEXA4&list=RDEMx1YG4sP6tqOsRgcu55BHeg&start_radio=1.
As satirists, they were delightfully more Horatian than Juvenalian.
Many thanks for the link, Dr. K. It’s been a while since I thought of "P**P* B**** B** D******."
DeleteLlama, mallard, armadillo. Tony Randall said "armadildo" one time on Johnny Carson. As I understand it, armadillos are one of only animal species to get leprosy. Maybe that's the reason for the dildo. Sorry, I'm being crass. The collective nouns for llamas and mallards, in Spanish, are manada and bandada. I think manada is used for armadillos as well.
ReplyDeleteYou mean it's not an armada of armadillos?
DeleteIt is when you sea them.
DeleteLLAMA, MALLARD, ARMADILLO
ReplyDeleteI had clued: "There is a 50-50 chance that there will be over 1,000 correct responses." That was an admittedly obscure reference to the consonants in LLAMA. L is 50 in Roman numerals, and M is 1000. I'm taking the under on my own "prediction."
I liked that hint, cleverly disguised as an over/under. Since the time stamp indicated you came up with it 6 minutes after saying it was taking you longer to find a clue, I left my comment as a hint that I caught your drift.
DeleteI thought Jaws was alluding to the odds in a horse race, so I went down that rabbit hole....or should I say horse hole.
DeleteLLAMA — MALLARD — ARMADILLO
ReplyDeleteI posted:
I don't get Blaine's clue…. When I change the 3rd and 5th letters of the last animal, I get the name of a fruit, or the plant it grows on.
So I completely missed Blaine's "alligator"; what I got instead was "tamarillo," which is the word for a reddish edible fruit as well as the shrub it grows on.
LLAMA MALLARD ARMADILLO
ReplyDeleteLast Sunday I said, “I’m all in on this puzzle. Hats off to Philip Goodman.” ALL is the reverse in LLAma.
The other solution:
ReplyDeleteCORAL ~ CORELLA ~ LOBECORAL
Corella: "a subgenus of white cockatoos ... in Australia"
Lobe/coral: Google: "Yes, coral is an animal"
LLAMA, MALLARD, ARMADILLO
ReplyDeleteMy comment was "The answer brings to mind the Pacific Northwest." I've been re-watching "Gravity Falls", and (spoiler alert) in the finale, the character of Pacifica Northwest represents the llama symbol on Bill Cipher's zodiac, because Mabel gave her a friendship sweater with a llama on it.
I still remember when we cosplayed "Gravity Falls". In fact, the theme song is still my ringtone.
DeleteMy favorite road sign of the day “Before we work on artificial intelligence, why don’t we do something about natural stupidity?”
ReplyDeleteThe following is what I posted in comments to a video of a newsman interviewing our new police chief at some gathering. Nothing at all said about the arrest of the judge today, or anything else but increasing the number of cops here in Seattle. I sure do not want more cops here. My below post should give a few hints as to where we are heading in this country as if anyone here does not know already.
ReplyDelete"This guy comes across as having no clue about what policing should be about. It is not about numbers. Late this afternoon I spoke with a cop parked at a Ballard Safeway and just wanted to ask him what the general thinking in the department was regarding the arrest today of the judge in Milwaukee. He was a middle aged guy of indeterminant place of origin or race. He began by saying it was an illegal alien. I stopped him right there and told him there is no such thing. He backed off, indicating to me he knew this, but does not care. He then asked me how I would like it if someone entered my house illegally. I told him I was not asking about that, and not his personal opinion, but the department chatter. He ignored that, as they always do, and went on a tirade of authoritarian rhetoric. I walked away as he wished me a smarmy nice day. I find this very revealing since Seattle is not supposed to cooperate with ICE. I wonder what the reality is. BTW, I am a Seattle native and 80 years of age. Be afraid; be very afraid. We are so close to now being a police state."
Next time you see him, point him at the well regulated militia holding mostly peaceful target practice at night near your place.
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ReplyDeleteYou might just want to take a short trip over to Lego's P! and take a look at my Skydiversionary Appetizer: #1. You will know why when you solve it. The other 2 are good also, but do not apply specifically to you.
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DeleteI give up. Where can I find the answer?
DeleteLorenze, either see the answers I posted over at Puzzleria because Lego has not posted them. I emailed him this am, but no answer. Or email me at skydiveboy@yahoo.com or phone me at 2306-364-6383 phone is best.
DeleteThis week's challenge comes from Alan Guttman, of Hampton, Va. Name an activity in the form of "blank and blank." Move the first letter of the second word to the start of the first word. The result will be two modes of transporting things. What is the activity and what are the modes of transport?
ReplyDeleteCreative puzzle.
DeleteTook me just under a minute.
DeleteJust realized why it was so easy….its a repeater.
DeleteYes. Bummer.
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DeleteYou may now be in TMI territory…..
DeleteTrue, but given the search function on the NPR Puzzle site, just mentioning that it's a repeat may be TMI.
DeleteActually, this is the third time this puzzle was used!
DeleteUnfortunately.
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DeleteNot necessarily.
DeleteThe clues should be interesting.
ReplyDeleteI was born in upstate New York and lived for 28 years in Morris County, NJ. A company associated with the phrase has connections to both places, and we have several of their products at home.
ReplyDeleteYou can strain your hip loading a train or ship.
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