Q: Name a popular magazine. Rearrange its letters. Then add an O at the end and you'll name a prominent subject in this magazine's new issue. What magazine is it? Hint: You don't need to read this magazine in order to guess the answer.You can add a few more letters and the answer still works.
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I’m reminded of an apposite foreign interjection.
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DeleteKind of easy this week! Happy SUNDAY all!
ReplyDeleteI just heard about the prominent subject once again.
ReplyDeleteA famous satirist.
ReplyDeleteCute, but easy. After last week's low number for Gladys Knight, this week's should be back to four digits.
ReplyDeleteI was surprised by the low number of correct answers last week. But then I had just finished watching the movie Patriot Games. After saving a member of the British Royal family, Jack Ryan is made a knight. Anne Archer says to Harrison Ford: “Let’s go, Sir Jack” and he replies “Lady Katherine.”
DeleteI predict 3,000.
DeleteProbably more like fourteen hundred.
DeleteI got it. No hint?
ReplyDeleteIf I have the answer, while the magazine was news to me, it is better known to others.
ReplyDeleteI just realized how wrong my initial answer was. So wrong, that revealing it isn't TMI, just funny. Dive Magazine, which covers the world of SCUBA (sorry SDB, not Sky) Diving, regularly publishes reviews of action cameras, which are used to shoot underwater VIDEO.
DeleteNo kidding! I was kicking around an answer along that line, also. Mine was with video and TV guide, but alas.
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DeleteThe magazine will probably still be writing about this subject this summer.
ReplyDeleteAAARGH--I just realized I submitted the wrong answer. I still like mine, but it would never have met with NPR's approval.
ReplyDeleteCan you share it here?
DeleteI submitted a perfectly good "alternate" last week. Not even a mention though.
DeleteHabeo responsum.
ReplyDeleteThe last letters of the subject had a very different meaning in my former career.
ReplyDeleteDid you work in a circus formerly?
DeleteNo, but having worked in Washington, DC, I've been exposed to a circus like atmosphere.
DeleteI hear you, SuperZee! I was just trying to be cute.
DeleteAnd congrats on having survived DC!! That makes you a SuperHero in my book!
Some of the most fun I had at work, and by far my best boss, were while I was working in DC. Email me at zarkinjj@gmail if you'd care to follow up.
DeleteIt took much less work to solve the puzzle than to get what I think is an appropriate hint. Take a word that rhymes with the magazine title and you get something the subject has often been under.
ReplyDeleteOooh....I like that!
DeleteTriple tail
ReplyDeleteHoly guacamole! Actually got the answer before morning coffee! And I’m not totally human until the first cup of Java.
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ReplyDeleteThat was a compliment to Rob.
ReplyDeleteWell, at least this is a non-repeat puzzle from the dozen or so regular submitters.
ReplyDeleteNo hint needed this week.
ReplyDeleteInterestingly, you can also solve the puzzle in REVERSE. Think of a Subject of a specific magazine, add an O at the end, and you get the Magazine name!
I'm thinking of "Oprah's O Quarterly," of course.
Obscure hint: Bit O'Heaven
ReplyDeleteTake a homophone of another popular magazine, in which you're unlikely to find the prominent subject. Rearrange the letters, add an O at the end, and you get the prominent subject.
ReplyDeleteThe answer reminds me of the Fairy Godmother.
ReplyDeleteI believe 9mm magazines are the most popular now.
ReplyDeleteIn hospital during a 3rd week of pulmonary issues and my 0740 and 0940 slots both found RTs and nurses tending to me. When they were done, I went straight to the puzzle page and was in the middle of solving by the time I finished reading. Good thing that I did because a random clue jumped off of the page to me.
ReplyDeleteThe on air challenge was a little tougher than I had last week, so congrats to Cindy M. for her solid showing. I predict more than 1,000 answers this week, and I got it while out walking in the wind.
ReplyDeleteOn an unrelated matter, I ordered some mushroom coffee. Anybody here tried it?
Never heard of it. Could you send us a stool sample?
DeleteSDB certainly puts the fun in fungus.
DeleteI toad ya so.
DeleteWhat a fun guy!
DeleteYes, but on a more serious note. Do not trust mushroom growers. They tend to have loose morels.
DeleteAs a former Miss Oklahoma said, "I am Anita."
DeleteI think I remember her. Wasn't she in the circus at one time and a member of The Flying Porcini's?
DeleteBarbra streisand
ReplyDeleteAnd for that matter, another good(musical)clue would be Sly and the Family Stone.
DeletepjbCan"DanceToTheMusic"WithTheBestOfThem
...or perhaps even Chicago.
DeletepjbNeverEverFoundOutTheAnswersToQuestions67Or68(WasIt25?Or6To4?)
The magazine is known for a certain superlative. The subject in question is unlikely to get that title.
ReplyDeleteHa, never say never!
DeleteFunny, I got this one by first getting the subject! I think almost everyone else got it the other way around.
ReplyDeleteSame thought process for me.
DeleteI hit the correct magazine on the first guess.
DeleteI'm not sure I got it, but I'll pray as I send it in.
ReplyDeleteYou might not *need* to read the magazine, but those who do are more fortunate than the rest of us around the globe.
ReplyDeleteNice!
DeleteI don’t have enough free time in my life for this parade of mad bits of entertainment.
DeleteI sent in another answer which works much better. I'll pray for it as well.
ReplyDeleteThis magazine's circulation isn't massive, but it is certainly respectable
ReplyDeleteHere's a musical clue: They're coming to take me away, hee hee, hah hah!
ReplyDelete...to the happy home, where life is beautiful all the time, and I'll be happy to see those nice young men in their clean white coats...
DeletepjbLivesWhereThereJustHappensToBeLotsOfTreesAndFlowersAndChirpingBirds,ButAbsolutelyNoBasketWeaversWhoSitAndTwiddleTheirThumbsAndToes(AtLeastNotTheLastTimeHeChecked!)
Standard fare?
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