Pour out a sunrise smile!Q: Think of an 11-letter word that might describe milk. Change one letter in it to an A, and say the result out loud. You'll get a hyphenated word that might describe beef. What is it?
Sunday, April 06, 2025
NPR Sunday Puzzle (Apr 6, 2025): Milk and Beef
NPR Sunday Puzzle (Apr 6, 2025): Milk and Beef
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I wish the folks at NPR would proofread when thay post the Puzzle.
ReplyDeleteIf you rearrange what Chaucer’s “A Plowman’s Tale” is…
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ReplyDeleteRightly so. I should have run a search before posting. My bad.
DeleteWell, the phrase I got isn't always hyphenated. That's my beef.
ReplyDeleteOh, really cute clue, Nodd! And confirms I got the right answer.
ReplyDeleteOh, Nodd—sorry they erased your clever clue.
DeleteYeah, it was fun, but when I ran a search I realized it was TMI.
DeleteNodd, on Thursday, would you re-post whatever your clue was, because I didn't get here in time to see it. I have no clue post myself (I almost never do.)
DeleteSure, VT.
DeleteRearrange the first part of the hyphenated word to get a genuine reptile. (Sorry, Blaine.)
ReplyDeleteMaybe "thay" is another cryptic puzzle clue?
ReplyDelete"Remove the first letter to get something cows eat"?
DeleteOr horses.
DeleteTake a letter out of the milk word. Rearrange what’s left to get a word for what a devoted puzzle fan does to this one.
ReplyDeleteAnother South African tooting his own horn.
ReplyDeleteThis puzzle is so poorly written, it’s better just to submit what you start with and what you end up with and leave out all intermittent steps.
ReplyDeleteI take back what I said. I was reading the instructions wrong. The wording of this puzzle is fine.
DeleteMooooo!
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ReplyDeleteSorry, I thought that was vague enough. I had googled, and not hit the answer.
DeleteBlaine's original comment suggested that he himself had been removed by Google acting as blog administrator. I liked the idea of AI calling TMI; it was strangely appropriate.
DeleteSo that was AI saying, "I'm sorry Blaine, I'm afraid I can't do that"?
DeleteYes indeed, Wolfgang... h(AI)!
DeleteLegoNowSlammingShutThePodBayDoor!
Here is a puzzle almost as uninspiring as today's. Think of a single word that might describe a power source. Reverse two adjacent letters. The resulting word might describe a person's general ambiguity regarding this form of energy. Now, for the final challenge, use both words in a single sentence. Actually, now that I think about it, it's better.
ReplyDeleteI'm unclear on how we might generate power from nuclear families...
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DeleteGood one, Curtis. My sentence was just "Nuclear power is unclear to me."
DeleteAnyone else get a bum steer?
ReplyDeleteNo, I steer the car with my hands and arms, not my bum. :-)
DeleteHm, so there is a milk word that is closely related to a cow word, etymologically speaking...
ReplyDeleteOnly 238 correct answers last week?
ReplyDeleteI just read that SpaceX will be sending cows up in a few days. It will be the herd shot around the world.
ReplyDeleteMore like scattered over the Caribbean, given the recent history of SpaceX.
DeleteExtremely clever comment, Scarlett!
DeleteLegoWhoConcludesThatTheMilkyWayIsAboutToGetABitMilkier!
Oh, give me a home, where the buffalo roam
DeleteAnd I will show you a dirty house
When the cows wouldn't give milk, the Jolly Rancher called them Milk Duds.
DeleteWhat past American actor's last name anagrams to a word for a dairy employee?
DeleteRecently in the news and first name Val.
DeleteYou win a Milky Whey bar!
DeleteI guess they will be "moo-ving on up!"
DeleteThat was easy breezy ham-&-cheesy.
ReplyDeleteChange 2 syllables slightly, with one being a long O sound and you get what happens to an out of position defender down low in the paint.
ReplyDeleteOnly 200-some responses last week. This week's puzzle could be reworded so as not to be so easy.
ReplyDeleteAfter all the volatility on Wall Street last week my financial advisor is telling me to get out of stocks and invest in municipal bonds.
ReplyDeleteIf you change a different letter of the 11-letter word, then 5 consecutive letters will spell another cow-related word.
ReplyDeleteGood observation; seems to confirm my answer.
DeleteIndeed. Bobby seems to be navigating us in the right direction.
DeleteLegOvine(Not"LegBovine")
No clue from me.
ReplyDeleteI bet we’ll be swimming in correct answers this week.
ReplyDeleteWhen first tried to answer this puzzle "in the middle of the night I got hung up on the first eleven letter word. When I awoke at a more civilized time and changed the eleven letter word to another. the puzzle was easy. I honestly prefer an easy puzzle. Thanks!
ReplyDeleteMy father was a veterinarian and delivered 5 calves at same time. Not easy.
ReplyDeleteHold it. I give this puzzle 4 tits down. And don't let your bucket list.
ReplyDeletesdb: Happy belated birthday! Mine was a few days ago.
ReplyDeleteThank you, and happy birthday to you also.
DeleteBeing vegetarian wonder if I can eat beef from vegetarian cows
ReplyDeleteDidn't get to it until a short while ago, got it pretty quickly. Now I'm hungry. 🙄
ReplyDeleteSeems we're all in agreement that this week's puzzle is...
ReplyDeleteudderly easy.
I ruminated a bit.
DeleteThis is a puzzle that cannot stand on its own because it lacks toes.
DeleteMy report card last semester lacked A's.
DeleteThere once was a man from Nantucket
DeleteWho carried around a big bucket.
'Twas his daily endeavour
To milk his old heifer,
And so under her udder he stuck it.
(for once, a limerick that's not NSFW!)
pjbKnowsIt'sAFamilyBlog,ButHeThinksTheyMayBeTheLeastBitDysfunctional!
I didn't want to be left out, so I'm just chiming in that I thought this was a rather easy puzzle and I am left wondering, "how now brown cow"? .
ReplyDeleteMusical clue: Controversial song with only three chords. Half a clue, anyway.
ReplyDeleteNice—I think we're barking up the same tree.
DeleteThe answer spontaneously popped into my head—first word I thought of!
ReplyDeletesecond word I thought of
DeleteI wonder if it's the same pair of words...
DeleteWords are important and I am unlikely to enjoy it when a long standing term is arbitrarily changed. An example is how cowboys no longer have yearly roundups, because now they are called steering committees.
ReplyDeleteAgreed. Arbitrary rebranding is disruptive and causes confusion while the kinks are being ironed out.
DeleteRebranding, logo updating, was a mainstay of rustlers - sorry, that is those who made undocumented livestock acquisitions. Besides, speaking of kinks, somebody should look into that term "cowboy".
DeleteWhat a bestial thing to propose!
DeleteCloak'n'Dagger,
DeleteYes, I know all about what you are saying. Have you read, Wyatt Earp: The Life behind the Legend, by Casey Tefertiller? It is an amazing read on this very subject.
Nodd, that is not an elaborate made up joke, but my actual living situation with major gunfights on my very street. I will confess to the punchlines though.
DeleteSorry to hear that. Speaking of Quiet Urp, are you located anywhere near the OK Corral?
DeleteThe 2 links below show actual shootings in progress just over a 5 minute walk from my house.
Deletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JagRNAqqf7A
https://katv.com/news/nation-world/new-video-captures-midday-shooting-seattle-seattle-crime-shooting-linden-avenue-north-greenwood-near-aurora-avenue-north-pimp-prostitution-gang-sex-trafficking-turf-wars-jeep-maserati-surveillance-video
Nodd,
DeleteInteresting you should ask as I visited Tombstone exactly 30 years and 3 days ago on my 50th birthday anniversary. I live in Seattle where I was born and raised. Back then I was running Desert Skydiving Center, 30 miles west of Phoenix on Interstate 10 @ Palo Verde Road. That was a rare day I took off and had a great time. BTW the gun battle was outside the OK, not in it. Wyatt Barry Stapp Earp was not wearing a holster, but had his revolver in the pocket of his slicker. It was a cold day. They were not looking for a gunfight, but knew it was a possibility, and that is why Doc wanted to go along. It only took half a minute, but it is after that it became such a big deal. He lived and ran a casino in downtown Seattle for a while, and I know exactly where it was located, but others are completely unaware for the most part.
Your knowledge is truly impressive. Did you ever see "Spectre of the Gun" on the original Star Trek, featuring an alien partly made out of (according to some people) spaghetti from the studio restaurant? If you have, or even if you haven't, you may enjoy this hilarious sendup of the episode.
Deletehttps://warpspeedtononsense.blogspot.com/2014/11/season-3-episode-56-spectre-of-gun.html
Nodd,
DeleteI just took a look at your link. I thought it was going to be a video, but as it isn't I did look quickly at the photos. See them wearing pistol belts. And they were not wearing those outfits at that moment either. They were not looking for a fight, but attempting to deal with what Ike Clanton had been drunkenly boasting and ranting about all night. Earp was awaken by someone that morning informing of what he thought was a serious situation where the cowboys and perhaps others arriving on the scene were going to try and take over power of the law in the town. They had to go down there to disarm them if they were going to be responsible and do their sworn duty. Doc wanted to join in, and it was not easy for them to refuse. No, I never watched that show. I might, tomorrow, take a further look though.
Thanks.
I just took another quick look to see if I missed the video, but did not find it, however I saw one still of Wyatt that said he is ugly, well he was not ugly at all, but very good looking with golden blond hair. And he was known for wearing custom, tailor made dress shirts. Truth is far more interesting than BS.
DeleteIn the show, the details are not supposed to be accurate, because they are taken from Kirk's imperfect memories of what he knows about the gunfight. It's a sci-fi show, not a documentary.
DeleteWell, yeah, I know it is sci-fi, that is one reason I never watched it. I am not at all into sci-fi. I am into actual history books, and not film, which is usually just about making money. I am a truth seeker.
DeleteDid you look at those 2 short links I posted above that show 2 recent gun battles where I live? I didn't even know about them. I was looking for 2 far more violent ones from a bit earlier, but these came up instead.
It's just handguns, no RPGs or M134s. I wouldn't worry.
DeleteI hope the five-minute walk is not through pimp territory. Can you move farther away from this stuff?
Rudy and Trey might want to run for City Council next election.
Nodd,
DeleteIt is not just handguns. They are all armed with 9mm semi-automatic pistols with large capacity magazines and many of them are modified to fire fully automatic. Last summer 2 pimps drove a small white car up my street in the middle of the night and parked 1 or 2 houses up from my house, which is on the corner. They parked in the middle of the road and walked up 2 more houses and fired a volley of shots at and into the house there. They were trying to kill one of the persons living there. About 5 nights later I was again awakened by fully automatic gunfire at this same house that is just 6 up from mine. I called it in as I usually do when I hear gunfire and got up and walked down to the house where many cops had just arrived and found dozens of spent 9mm shell casings. This is a HUD house and the residents left on the spot and the house is still vacant.
I know it may seem odd, but I do not have any fear for my safety at all. I have no concerns about that. The 2 videos above are only a small taste of what is happening here, and I did not find any of the far more violent shootouts that have been caught on camera to post here. Many of the shootings are not on Aurora, but on the residential side streets. Many people have been shot and quite a few killed so far. I expect it to escalate again as the weather gets warmer. The cops are a joke here. I myself sometimes find spent 9mm shell casings as I walk in this small neighborhood. Most of this never makes the news. I am convinced both the mayor and police chief want to keep it quiet, but it has sometimes been making the news and causing a huge stir.
Here are 2 more informative earlier videos showing things better:
Deletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ps7vo9dP4W4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tpa3y4TdSg
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DeleteWhy don't you run for Council yourself? I'm sure you would be a good representative of the populace up there, and your skydiving prowess provides a good springboard for sparking voters' interest. E.g., Ahnold, Tommy T., Bill Bradley ... the list goes on.
DeleteI used to be the Precinct Committee Officer for where I live, and that is about as far as I would want to go in political officeholding.
Deletesdb: Interesting to read your take on fiction.
ReplyDeleteNatasha, I do not know what fiction you are referring to???
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