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?
A: PASTEURIZED --> PASTURE-RAISED
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I wish the folks at NPR would proofread when thay post the Puzzle.
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DeleteIf 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.
DeleteVT, my hint referred to the Peanuts strip in which Lucy tells Linus cows get "pasteurized" if they stay in the pasture too long. It was TMI; see https://id.pinterest.com/pin/481392647687647721/
DeleteRearrange the first part of the hyphenated word to get a genuine reptile. (Sorry, Blaine.)
ReplyDeleteTrue asp.
DeleteMaybe "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.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tp_S3QOJk90
DeleteThis 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!"
DeleteRe: Milky Way: That's the literal translation of the Greek galaxias, whence our word "galaxy".
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.
ReplyDeleteI did that three weeks ago. It was crystal clear what the village idoit was going to do to the markets when Liberation Day came.
DeleteIf 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")
Pasteerized has "steer" in it.
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DeleteOh…and I thought you were going for "pastAurized," with "tauri" being the resulting cow-related word with five letters.
DeleteI might have caught on to your intended word if lego had posted the "navigating" clue first. 😉
DeleteNo 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???
Deletesdb: I meant I like that you are a truth seeker. I also seek truth instead of fiction.
DeleteNatasha:
DeleteThanks for the clarification. I did go back and see it might have been regarding my post about sci-fi, but I still did not know what you really meant. Now I do. I am not averse to fiction; I read a lot of it while in school, but also non-fiction too. I realized there is a lot of truth in fiction, and frequently it may be truth in disguise. I did not apply this to science fiction because it had to be mostly made up out of whole cloth. Now, I am looking at some of it differently. Not so much the war of the worlds crap, but humans having contact with ET's. We now know for certain we are being visited by them, and the governments are being forced somewhat to admit it.
As to my being a truth seeker, you, of course, are right and I am constantly learning more I would not otherwise be discovering. Of course it also makes me realize as I learn more that I am learning less. By that I mean I keep finding out there is so much more now I have questions about, so the percentages keep changing. I love it.
Again, pushing this, please find a copy of Guard Of Honor, by James Gould Cozzens, and read it for, not only an understanding of how the military functions, but to better understand corporations too. You will find it well worth your time.
Speaking of military (and government) functioning, you might like Heinlein's Starship Troopers. It has a lot to say about both topics, most of it not very encouraging. And Fahrenheit 451 is not made out of whole cloth. It has happened before, and is happening again as we speak.
DeleteForgot to mention: I just set up a blog on substack. My name is DianneHarrison1.
ReplyDeleteI would like to talk mostly politics, but all topics and all viewpoints are welcome. I’m not doing this to badger folks, simply to listen. But probably also respond when appropriate.
Trust me: I will not insult you—unless you are a complete moron. I listen to reliable info, not to party jargon or gibberish. I will really try to be fair. But give me FACTS, not just the party line.
I DO know bullshit when I see it.😁
And thank you.
ReplyDeletePS: I DO listen to the puzzle every Sunday and submit an answer 98% of the time.
ReplyDeleteShe was only a rancher's daughter, but all the horsemen knew her.
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DeleteYou really stepped in it with that comment.
ReplyDeleteThe Supreme Court has now made it clear we no longer live under the Rule of Law (ROW), but now we live under the Rule of Trump (ROT). Row is something one does in a boat in order to get to where he wants to go. Rot is something that destroys everything it comes in contact with. This a choice we have made for ourselves. U.S.ROT or U.S. ROT = we rot.
ReplyDeleteI'd say we now live under Trump's Reign And Ultimately Musk's Authority.
DeleteGee, that could be traumatic. Doesn't that rhyme with lunatic?
DeleteLawbreaking Unhinged Narcissist Attempting To Institutionalize Corruption
DeleteThere's something not kosher about Blaine's title for this week's blog.
ReplyDeleteJan, The whole puzzle isn't kosher. It's mixing meat and dairy!
ReplyDeleteThat's what I meant.
DeleteThere's an old, short joke about milk I heard as a kid, but both the setup and the punch line would be TMI.
ReplyDeleteSo at midnight, 104% tariffs on China— and 68 other countries will also be penalized.
ReplyDeleteHowever, if you decide to capitulate to Trump, he has said that these countries should “get a reasonable deal.” That and they need to kiss the ring.
I'm reminded of Beethoven, Boccherini, Kossuth & Lula, and I hope that's not TMI.
ReplyDeleteI get the first two, the other two not so much. As to
DeleteBoccherini, I thought people in that line of work weren't supposed to drink.
Forgive me, but I don't get Nodd's comment about Boccherini. I guess we'll resolve it all tomorrow.
DeleteI didn't get that either.
DeleteBoccherini's "Pastorale." A pastor should not drink, therefore there should be no pastor ale.
DeleteAre you trying to foament trouble here?
DeleteNo need for sermonizing.
DeleteBoccherini wrote a pastorale? I don't see one in Wikipedia's list of his works.
DeletePsalm enchanted moaning.
DeleteIn 1783, Boccherini composed a Christmas Pastorale for a Villancico, a typically Spanish genre. https://freesound.org/people/freerex/sounds/715828/
DeleteAlso: Guitar Quintet in D major, G.448: 1. Pastorale https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8rcnIlder8
I have long wondered the eternal question, are humans stupid? I came to my conclusion several years ago, but still keep considering it. Perhaps this will help those who are also considering this conundrum. Humans back in the days of old were intelligent enough to invent and devise the trebuchet, but they were not smart enough not to use it. Of course someone reading this will point out that they needed it to overcome some castle, but neglect to realize their goal was not in anyone's best interest in the long run. Leonardo Da Vinci realized he could build a submarine, but chose not to do so because he said it would only be used to make war on others. If this argument is not resonating with you, then I would advise you take it a bit forward to August 1945 and our using the atomic bomb on Japan. I will go no further, but leave it up to you to contemplate further.
ReplyDeleteWith some exceptions, Agent K probably has it about right: "A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous. . ."
DeleteBlaine had to be careful choosing his illustration this week. A picture of a milk carton might have been TMI.
ReplyDeleteElon Musk has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts in supporting free speech.
ReplyDelete🤮
"For the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize, the Norwegian Nobel Committee received a total of 338 nominations, including 244 individuals and 94 organizations, following a nomination period that concluded on January 31st."
DeleteOn the subject of free speech, how is the all topics, all viewpoints blog you mentioned set up. Interactive? Subscription?
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ReplyDeleteThere are a a lot of alternative eleven-letter words relating to milk and milk-like drinks
Drop the last letter of the 11-letter word and what's left will sound like it can describe a race car.
ReplyDeleteI usually don't like racist jokes...
DeleteA race car goes so fast that it may quickly be PAST YOUR EYES, from PASTEURIZED (-> PASTURE-RAISED).
DeleteWhen I was researching how to clue this expression, I was amused to discover the (unverified) claim that the ASL sign for pasteurized milk makes use of this exact pun, with one taking the sign for milk and moving it past their eyes.
PASTEURIZED >>> PASTURE-RAISED
ReplyDeleteSuper easy with the 11-letter hint
PASTEURIZED —> PASTEURAZED —> PASTURE-RAISED
ReplyDeleteHint: “If you rearrange what Chaucer’s “A Plowman’s Tale” is…”
“A Plowman’s Tale” is a “spurious tale,” i.e., a work attributed to a writer but actually not written by him or her. For over 200 years, “A Plowman’s Tale” was wrongly attributed to Chaucer and considered part of The Canterbury Tales.
Rearranged, “spurious tale” yields “Louis Pasteur.”
Whoa.
DeleteThat is an awesome anagram. I wish you had submitted some version of it to WS!
Thanks, Crito. As written, probably not Will’s cup of tea…or milk.
DeletePASTEURIZED, PASTURE-RAISED
ReplyDelete> RFK Jr has a beef!
Being opposed to sanity and public health, he pushes unpasteurized milk.
> There's an old, short joke about milk I heard as a kid, but both the setup and the punch line would be TMI.
"I want to take a milk bath."
"Pasteurized?"
"No, just up to my knees."
> Blaine had to be careful choosing his illustration this week. A picture of a milk carton might have been TMI.
It's right there on the label.
About ten centuries-or-so ago, a creative but Netherlandish master-artist named Hieronymus Bosch committed to canvas "The Garden of Earthly Delights" that were apparently swimming around within his cranium!
ReplyDeleteAbout ten years (or so) ago, a creative but Never-outlandish master puzzle-master named Plantsmith began committing to cyber-canvas on Puzzleria! his "Gardens of Puzzley Delights" that are planted, develop and blossom within his fertile cranium!
And so, every few months or so, Plantsmith delights us with another of his "Delightfully Puzzley" brainteasing bouquets! You can experience Plantsmith's latest crop of delightful puzzles very soon, this very afternoon, when we up upload this week's edition of Puzzleria!
Plantsmith's puzzles this week are titled:
~ Malady! Psychoneurosis? Beautiful Plant!;
~“Picture this”;
~Reader’s Digest’s Fabulous Fabulists; and
~Anna Graham’s Alcove. (A Nod to Nodd)
Also on our menus this week are:
~ a Schpuzzle of the Week titled "A drama tipped off by its title,"
~ a Women’s Wear Hors d’Oeuvre titled "Limitlessly limber limbs,"
~ a Descending the Word Ladder Slice titled "A MuskElon Can’t Elope Without a Ladder!" (created by our friend Rudolfo),
~ a Search-Worthy Dessert titled "Opposing political parties," and
~ ten Riffing Off Shortz And Chaikin Entrees titled "Pasteurized milk & pasture-raised beef" (including six created by our friend Nodd).
All are invited to drop by and sample not only Plantsmith's Delightfully Puzzley Garden but also all the other mysterious delights Puzzleria! offers – both earthly and heavenly!
LegoWhoNotesThatPlantsmithNoddAndRudolfoAreMerelyThreeOfTheMoreThanFifteenMasterfulPuzzlesmithsWhoRegularly"HammerOut"ConundrumsAndContributeTheirCreativityToPuzzleria!
Pasteurized >>> Pasture-raised
ReplyDeletePasteurized….Pasture Raised
ReplyDeleteA swimmer may like the deep end, with the water Past Your Eyes.
(Looks like I wasn’t alone with this pun..)
I had not herd (pun intended) that pun before.
DeleteI’m tempted to say, “Bull,” but will just ask, “Are you feeling cowed?”
DeleteNot really; just a bit horny.
DeleteNow, you’re milking it…
DeleteAnd you're being Bossy!
DeleteYou're not going to buffalo me!
DeleteOkay, Bison, have a good day.
DeletePasteurized (Louie, Louie!!) and pasture-raised. Issue as to whether they are truly phonetic. There is a separation between the final syllable of pasture and the word raised that doesn't happen in Pasteurized, but, oh well...
ReplyDeleteI wrote, “Take 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.” Remove the Z, rearrange, and you get REPUDIATES.
ReplyDeletePasteurized, pasture-raised
ReplyDeletePasteurazed sounds like "pasture-raised".
I disagree. In Pasture-raised, there is a separation between the two. A glottal stop. Whereas with Pasteurazed, it simply sounds like a mispronunciation of Pasteurized. It's a weak link in the puzzle logic, among others in the past, such as the John Wayne, Juan, Jane puzzle submitted by Eco-architect a few years back.
DeleteI'm pretty sure there's no glottal stop.
DeleteBut I see your point -- when I say it I can detect what seems to me to be a repetition of the 'r' sound. Or maybe it's just a longer vocalization of that sound.
I think in these puzzles you aren't supposed to take the 'sound the same' to mean 'sound *exactly* the same'. Just very similar.
Gotcha.
DeleteI said:
ReplyDelete"Hm, so there is a milk word that is closely related to a cow word, etymologically speaking..."
'pasteurize' and 'vaccine'!
('vaccine' is a cow word, as I'm sure all Blaine-readers know.)
Pasteur was the developer of a lot of the most important vaccines... also well-known.
Considering that the vowel switch involved the letters A and I, this is a week when AI might have been TMI. I'm not sure if Blaine had that in mind with his original comment about having been censored by Google.
ReplyDeleteI wrote "After all the volatility on Wall Street last week my financial advisor is telling me to get out of stocks and invest in municipal bonds." In fact I don't have a financial adviser, unless you count my wife, and she doesn't advise, she acts.
ReplyDeleteInstead this was a veiled reference to Paul Muni, who won an Oscar™� in 1937 for playing Louis Pasteur. I originally was just going to use the word "munis" instead of "municipal bonds," but I feared getting sent to Three Mile Island if I did.
I thought your hint was "out of stocks", i.e., free-range.
DeleteI saw that but couldn't come up with a way to develop it without giving out TMI.
DeleteIs there some reason we still pasteurize our milk instead of futurizing it?
ReplyDeleteNostalgia.
Delete"Yes! We have no stalgia today."
DeleteLost again!
DeleteLOL
DeleteBit of a grammar response here: the root of nostalgia is algein, to feel pain. It shares that root with analgesic. I’d say many of us are feeling pain right now… 🙂
DeleteBut, Curtis, I'm confident we'll make it back home.
DeleteYes, of course… pasteurized, pasture-raised.
ReplyDeleteMy clues - "I didn't want to be left out..." was a reference to "left out to pasture" (I think that's a phrase) and my second reference to left ("I am left wondering...") was because a slang for left (like a hanging a left turn) is a "Louie" - as in Louis Pasteur.
ReplyDeleteI wrote "I'm reminded of Beethoven, Boccherini, Kossuth & Lula." Each of their first names is a form of Louis in their respective languages (Ludwig, Luigi, Lajos, and Luiz), so I was alluding to Pasteur (and I was careful NOT to include French Louis).
ReplyDeleteAnd, by the way, I still don't get Nodd's comment about Boccherini, and I see that skydiveboy doesn't either.
DMR, see my comment yesterday at 5:32 PM. I was interpreting your hint as a reference to "pastoral" works of music, like Beethoven's 6th and the two Boccherini works I cited. But your hint was more subtle than that, which is probably why I didn't get it.
DeleteHere's a link: https://youtube.com/shorts/BMs5dcHvW4Q?si=rsbmBwMevW50ghx2
ReplyDeleteIn this link, this guy makes the claim that there is no case of the letter V being silent in English. For instance, in pterodactyl, the p is silent. In bdellium, the b is silent, but never for V. Or is there a word, in English where V is silent. Yes. Click the link, (or copy it) and figure it out!
PASTEURIZED, PASTURE-RAISED
ReplyDeletepjbStillGettingOverHisCold,LeftEarStillStoppedUp,StillCoughingALittle(DidWeMentionTheHiatalHernia,Too?)
Pasteurized --> Pasteur-azed (pasture-raised)
ReplyDeleteI had originally commented, “This 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.” But then I recanted by saying, “I take back what I said. I was reading the instructions wrong. The wording of this puzzle is fine.”
PASTEURIZED --> PASTURE-RAISED
ReplyDeleteDidn't do a clue this week.
I had commented that I was expecting the correct number of answers to be in the range of 238 (the number of the correct answers the previous week) and 1864 (the year Louis Pasteur developed pasteurization). I googled before posting, and found tons of references to US Civil War events, but no references to pasteurization. The comment was removed. Clearly, either a different search engine produced a more specific result, or I missed something.
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