There are many words that can be created from those letters, e.g. reminiscent, trespassers, creaminess, seamstress, etc.Q: Rearrange the letters of "NECESSARY MISPRINT" to spell a familiar phrase.
Edit: I used a couple of Latin abbreviation: e.g. is exempli gratia meaning for example and etc. is et cetera meaning and the rest.
A: SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS ("Thus Always to Tyrants")
A theatrical saying comes to mind.
ReplyDeleteTwo down, two to go. Go, Knicks!
Can't wait for Monday's game! But I wish Charles Barkley would get out of Inside the NBA
DeleteThat’s Sir Charles to us.
DeleteYeh, but did you enjoy the SHOW?!
DeleteI've done a LOT of theater, and concerts. We always say "Break a leg.", cuz it's considered bad luck to say "good luck". All of a sudden-- in context w/ the most infamous use of this expression-- I'm, like "is that how our theatre 'back slap' originated?"
DeleteI must be honest the recent hints gave the answer I never would have gotten otherwise. Does this mean the hints were TMI?
ReplyDeleteOkay , one hint has disappeared.
Delete... but without the usual "removed by blog administrator" message.
DeleteYuck, long, multiword anagram, with nothing tantalizing about the anagramandum or the result.
ReplyDeletePersian syncretism.
ReplyDeleteNOT !!!
That took a while! Using just the letters in the even positions of the phase, rearrange and get a job position.
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ReplyDeleteReplace the last 12 letters of the phrase with 3 letters. Then, change the 3rd letter. You will get a phrase that is appropriate for today.
ReplyDeleteReplace the last 12 letters of "Sic semper tyrannis." with VEN to get "Sic seven." Change C to X to get "Six seven." A lot of kids like to say, "6-7." This puzzle was on 6-7.
DeleteI'll bet $5 there's an odd reason for this puzzle.
ReplyDeleteNope, I wouldn't give you even a penny's odds.
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ReplyDeleteIs that your guess for the number of correct answers this week? You might be right.
DeleteNo, I think that'll be higher.
DeleteI'm with JAWS. Too many possibilities. Revealing the number of words in the phrase would have helped.
DeleteYou were right!
DeleteYes there really is a Santa Claus.
ReplyDeleteHa, you can't fool me!
DeleteThis puzzle could get Will indicted
ReplyDeleteJ.C. I don't know if what you've said is clue, but I'll agree about indicting Will
DeletePlease.
DeleteI was proud of him for making this statement. I was, like, "Oh BOY, Will has jumped into the FRAY."
DeleteI really don't think Will meant this puzzle to be a statement.
DeleteI believe he did.
DeleteFWIW, some familiar phrases using the same letters, but not in the right amounts:
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anapparentattempt
anintenseinterest
anymeansnecessary
certainparameters
eminentscientists
entertainmentarea
incertainrespects
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mainstreamamerica
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manyscientistssay
masstransitsystem
mattertransmitter
mereentertainment
sinceancienttimes
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Blaine I don't know if you have an answer or if all the words are not a clue.
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ReplyDeleteTook me quite a while. Other than that, I enjoyed the puzzle.
ReplyDeletehahaha
Delete"Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?"
DeleteInterestingly, the phrase’s usage has a connection (albeit loose) to a couple of Billy Joel songs, which I learned from research.
ReplyDeleteI’d love to hear about the connection. Assuming I have the correct phrase, I’m unable to find the connection to Billy Joel, and I’m a fairly strong fan of his music
DeleteI only got one of the songs. The main character in “Only the Good Die Young” is named Virginia.
DeleteI haven't solved this yet, but (just for fun) I ran it by Google Gemini. This is the "help" I got:
ReplyDelete"The phrase "NECESSARY MISPRINT" unscrambles into PRINTERS INK.
If you have other brainteasers or anagrams you need help solving, let me know. I can help you unscramble similar puzzles!"
Isn't it disheartening how bad Gemini and ChatGPT are? Oh, sometimes they come up with the answer directly, but often the answers are obviously dead wrong, not using the right letters or the right number of them. If AI generally works this badly, I am not impressed.
ReplyDeleteThis isn't a puzzle for AI. It can be solved by a simple anagram algorithm.
DeleteSo, are you saying AI sometimes gives wrong answers to questions it finds beneath its dignity?
DeleteAI worked for me. I also think "familiar" is a bit of a stretch.
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DeleteTV clue: "Seinfeld"
ReplyDeleteBTW I've already said a few days ago on Puzzleria! that AI should stand for "Aggravating Idiots".
pjbBelievesGloriaEstefanWasRightBackWhenShePredictedThatTheAlgorithmIsGonnaGetcha!
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ReplyDeleteTV clue: Hogan's Heroes
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ReplyDeleteI say this guardedly, but I'm always ready for the NPR Sunday Puzzle.
ReplyDeleteHow do you differentiate between Republican politicians and perpetually drunken street bums?
ReplyDeleteYou can step over the bums?
DeleteBy the boos/booze they get.
DeleteThe latter mostly just hurt themselves. They former seem to help themselves to the public treasury.
DeleteAnd so I feel for a certain person alive today.
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DeleteI just got several of the clues! Very nice.
ReplyDeleteThis is the right month for this puzzle.
Hmmm... I'd have thought April.
DeleteSo I can sort this out. April or June, both work.
DeleteAnd I'd say March, too!
DeleteLike, around the middle of the month?
DeleteWhen it comes to seeing multiple points of view, Word Woman’s side of charm wins the prize.
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ReplyDeleteWill we know this phrase when we stumble across it? I mean, how do we know it's not "my nastier princess"? There are SO many anagrams.
ReplyDeleteYes, it's unambiguous.
DeleteThis Scott Pelley interview is must see TV:
ReplyDeletehttps://www.reddit.com/r/thebulwark/comments/1tza9kg/scott_pelley_describes_the_dismantling_of_60/
Yep - you'll know for sure when you hit upon it.
ReplyDeleteI'm not loving my answer.
ReplyDeleteCluing this expression as a "familiar phrase" seems like a misprint, and hardly a necessary one. I can't say that I've heard this before, I'm confident that I've never used it, and I had absolutely no hope of finding it on my own. Fortunately, the anagram solver I wrote was up to the task.
ReplyDeleteI can't say that this phrase is part of my normal speech. I think of it as the verbal equivalent of owning a classic Cadillac or Lincoln: something to pull out when you want to show off, but not something you'd use on a daily basis.
ReplyDeleteOh I do.
DeleteNitric acid and alcohol
ReplyDeleteWell, after two days of shuffling Scrabble tiles around on my desk and pondering clues from Blainesville (including some that were later censored), I've put the tiles away and waved the white flag. I'll see you Thursday!
ReplyDeleteThat method got me two really good phrases - one timely and the other advice which should have been followed. Neither are the intended solution, of course; but I did send one of them in to see if it sticks.
DeleteSorry, Blaine. That you felt you had to remove my comment. This is a favorite saying of mine.
ReplyDeleteIt jumped out at me, eventually. I can't say that it was ALWAYS on my lips.
Whaddya get if a bunch of ailing marines and coasties mix it up with a Cretaceous therapod?
ReplyDeleteThat seems ill-advised.
DeleteTimely! (?)
ReplyDeleteI have the perfect clue but I’m afraid it’d be yanked if I posted it. So I’ll just give you the first letter: V.
ReplyDeleteHey Blaine. Thank you for this SITE. My email is s8tt10@gmail.com
ReplyDeleteCould you let me know exactly WHERE I crossed the line.? I made 3 statements in that post. THX!
It was the third paragraph that was a little too descriptive. I deleted it out of caution.
DeleteI'm in the same boat as the people who say they have never seen or heard this phrase before. However, having finally figured it out, I will say I like it.
ReplyDeleteDid he do it again?
ReplyDeleteAs soon as the Knicks finish off the Spurs, it will be World Cup Time!
ReplyDeleteIn honor of this, I wrote a World Cup puzzle, which Will declined to use on air. So I leave it here for the Blainesvillians:
Question: During the World Cup, each nation is represented by three letters on a scoreboard, usually the first three letters.
Find two nations who have competed against each other in World Cup play.
When the two nations are displayed on the scoreboard, the three letter abbreviation of Nation A, followed by the three letter abbreviation of Nation B, spell out the full name of Nation A.
If you take the letters that were dropped, in order to create the scoreboard names, the dropped letters for Nation A, followed by the dropped letters for Nation B, spell out the full name of Nation B.
What are the two nations?
I think I noticed this once! Maybe I was watching with someone else who pointed it out to me.
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The two nations are in the same part of the world.
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ReplyDeleteMy Hint:
"Yes [,Virginia,] there really is a Santa Claus."
I left Virginia out of this famous quote because I think it may have been TMI and removed. This is the motto Virginia has on their license plates.
SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS
ReplyDelete“A theatrical saying comes to mind.” —> “Break a leg.” (In his comment on that thread, Uncle John made mention of the saying I had only alluded to.)
After actor John Wilkes Booth shot President Lincoln in his box at Ford’s Theatre, he leapt from the box down to the stage, breaking his leg and shouting the phrase, “Sic semper tyrannis.”
“When it comes to seeing multiple points of view, Word Woman’s side of charm wins the prize.”
—> “side of charm” is an anagram of “Ides of March”
When Marcus Junius Brutus stabbed Caesar on the Ides of March, 44 BCE, he did not, as legend has it, say “Sic semper tyrannis.”
“Sic semper tyrannis” is, however, the official motto of the state of Virginia.
A final puzzle observation: John Wilkes Booth’s father’s name was Junius Brutus Booth.
NBA Finals Game 4 was a great game, one for the ages. Three down, one to go. Go, Knicks!
SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS
ReplyDelete"So I can sort this out. April or June, both work." >>>
So I can = Sic . . .Semper Tyrannis
I wrote, “Using just the letters in the even positions of the phase, rearrange and get a job position.” That’s MINISTER.
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ReplyDelete> My wife and I volunteered as greeters/wayfinders last week at the WBUR Festival here in Boston. My "post" was at a location closely associated with the familiar phrase.
I was stationed in front of the Boston University's Booth Theater. To be fair, it was named for theater enthusiasts (and the donor's parents) Joan and Edgar Booth, apparently no relation to Lincoln's assassin. But the association of "Booth" and "theater" to the phrase is strong enough that I think my clue was justified. BTW, the Booth Theater in NYC is named for John Wilkes' big brother, Edwin, a famous Shakespearean actor who is buried here in Cambridge's Mount Auburn Cemetery.
> For a few weeks now, Blogger has been displaying ads for HealthWorks. One says "Movement Is Our Ritual". The other says "Where Your Riutals [SIC] Begin".
Probably enough of us have seen the ad that I figured I could get away with using the first word of the phrase.
> Good thing Jim Comey didn't have enough seashells for this phrase! [deleted]
It would have been harder to claim he was just into the motto of the Commonwealth of Virginia.
Don't know why this was deleted, nor how without leaving the usual "blog administrator" message. Terminated with extreme prejudice, maybe, rather than just 86'ed?
> 149
> Whaddya get if a bunch of ailing marines and coasties mix it up with a Cretaceous therapod?
Sick semper fidelis paratus Tyrannosaurus?
> Timely! (?)
Friday marked the first supersonic flight of NASA's X-59 "Low-Boom" SST demonstrator aircraft. "SST" are the initial letters of the familiar phrase.
> Did he do it again?
Today's NY Times Crossword theme is Roman numeral homophones.
Sic semper tyrannis.
ReplyDeleteMy TV clue was Hogan's Heroes. When I learned that John Wilkes Booth belonged to the Know Nothing party, I was reminded of Sgt. Schultz from the sitcom.
ReplyDeleteI also wrote "nitric acid and alcohol." Known as Nital (Latin backwards), it is a solution commonly used for etching of metals.
I don't think I ever would have gotten this. I guess my name is mud.
ReplyDeleteThis week's edition of Puzzleria! is again proud to present our friend and masterfully creative puzzle-maker Plantsmith, whose "Garden of Puzzley Delights" feature has been a valued fixture on our blog since "the postcard days..." (Well, ok, maybe not that long ago, but certainly for some time now!)
ReplyDeletePlantsmith's creativity this time has produced a Delightfully Puzzley “Discophilia” Appetizer: “Order in the Countdown Court!” in which you (the potential) solver must place a "Top Ten List of recording artists into a logical order based on song titlles associated with each. As with all Plantsmith's creativity, when (or perhaps if) you come up with the correct order, you will feel like you've Hi-Fi-ed and gone to 45-RPM Heaven!
We shall upload P! very soon this very afternoon.
Also on this week's menus:
~ A Schpuzzle of the Week titled "Just a couple o’ words in a couplet,"
~ An Unclear & Conflicted Hors d’Oeuvre titled "A Nuclear (Family) Threat?"
~ A Birds-Of-Wordprey Slice titled "Two words... for the same bird,"
~ A “Just sum screwy math... what’s the difference?” Dessert: titled “It just don’t seem to add up... or subtract down!”
~ And eight riffs of this week's NPR Challenge, entitled “Sic Semper Tyrannosaurus Rex!” (including 6 by Nodd, our friend and resident riffmaster).
So, if you're feeling a bit mentally out-of-sorts or out-of-shape... drop by and visit our resident Plantsmith. He'll hammer you back into mental shape!
LegoEnviousOfMenWithAnvils!
I came up with "Stan inspires mercy" and if you knew Stan you would understand why his friends all say that (behind his back of course). And this is not a familiar phrase, and I took Latin in high school.
ReplyDeleteI did notice "semper" in there, but since the other letters did not anagram to "fidelis," I abandoned Latin. It reminds me of another Mad Magazine classic that translated "sic transit gloria mundi" as "Gloria got sick on the subway Monday." I predict a VERY low week; I may even take the under on jan's 149.
ReplyDeleteI was fairly certain it was a phrase in another language. Tried French, Spanish then Latin and vincō! Euax! Whathaveyou!
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ReplyDeleteMy clue was my reply to Dr. K's comment can't wait for Monday's game! But I wish Charles Barkley would get out of Inside the NBA
CHARLES and GET OUT were a glance at Charles Guiteau, a psychotic person who sent deranged messages to President Garfield in 1881, then approached Garfield in a train station in 1881, believing that he was being denied an appointment to be the Ambassador to France.
Guiteau assassinated Garfield and was later featured in Stephen Sondheim's Assassins.
I actually like Charles Barkley on Inside the NBA.
Go New York Go!
My clue that this is the right month for the puzzle: Marcus Junius Brutus was a member of the Junius family. (Of course, he probably never said those words, but he's their inspiration.)
ReplyDeleteMy post - “ Interestingly, the phrase’s usage has a connection (albeit loose) to a couple of Billy Joel songs, which I learned from research.” …….”Sic Semper Tyrannis” is the motto of Allentown (PA), which is the title of a Billy Joel song; it is also part of the state seal of Virginia, and Virginia is mentioned in his song “Only the Good Die Young” (“come out Virginia, don’t let me wait…”). Curtis - hopefully that explains it?
ReplyDeleteI had never heard this phrase, nor did I know of its connection to Lincoln's assassination. After removing many words that I know belong to common phrases (such as "misery," from "misery loves company") and not finding any combination of remaining letters that completed a phrase, I started to wonder if the phrase might be in Latin or some other language. I kept being drawn to the word "tyrannic" among the letters of "necessary misprint" and looked up Latin phrases about tyranny. The phrase "sic semper tyrannis" showed up and fit the letters perfectly. It took me days to figure it out but had I known the phrase maybe it wouldn't have been such an ordeal!
ReplyDeleteOn another site someone anagrammed the phrase to "NPR is my resistance." With all due respect* to NPR (which my son called "National Puppet Radio when he was four years old), just saying those words makes me gag a little.
ReplyDelete* For a scholarly explanation of "with all due respect," see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Af-Id_fuXFA.
Huh, I see the cringe factor, but it's a pretty cool anagram.
DeleteSeems ad hoc to me
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ReplyDeleteLast Monday I said, “And So I feel for a certain person alive today.” It is how I feel towards Donald: Thus Ever to Tyrants.
I also said, “I have the perfect clue but I’m afraid it’d be yanked if I posted it. So I’ll just give you the first letter: V.” Sic Semper Tryannis is the state motto of Virginia and is on their state flag.
SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS
ReplyDeleteI would like to say thanks to the Anagram Solver for being the only anagram website that did not totally disregard the NECESSARY in NECESSARY MISPRINT, and instead simply offer up anagrams of MISPRINT(of which there are not that many, BTW). In case Anagram Solver does end up to be one of the many AI robots who will eventually rise up and enslave us one and all, I do hope my gratitude towards AS will enable it to remember me and maybe(just maybe)spare me when the time comes. Thanks again.
Now for the "Seinfeld" reference:
Anyone who has watched the show over the years should know that, when Jerry is just starting to tape the pilot episode of the "show about nothing", and he starts to tell the audience about what they're about to see, the character known as "Crazy Joe Davola", who already has his reasons for not liking Jerry(even leaving a phone message in which he blames Jerry for the hair he seems to have on his tongue at the moment, so his "crazy" nickname was indeed well-deserved), chooses a few seconds in to jump out at Jerry(I'm uncertain about what he does exactly here, though I have watched the episode)and yell the SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS line. Because Joe did not succeed in trying to kill Jerry(if that was his intended idea), a few scenes after Jerry and his friends are back at his apartment, with one of his friends(I think it was George)asking what was that he said, to which Jerry explains it was the phrase John Wilkes Booth used when he assassinated President Lincoln at Ford's Theater. So it also worked its way into a sitcom centuries later. If you didn't know already, you know now. You're welcome.
pjbDoesn'tAlwaysFindThePerfectSitconReferenceToCoincideWithThatWeek'sSundayPuzzleAnswer,ButWhenHeDoes,It'sADoozy!
Also https://wordsmith.org/anagram/advanced.html
DeleteSorry, "Sitcom", not "Sitcon" as it says in my signoff. I usually catch any and every typo before publishing, but I obviously somehow missed that one. Forgive me.
ReplyDeletepjbHasNothingElseReallyToAddInThisSignoff,So...
I had said, "I say this guardedly, but I'm always ready for the NPR Sunday Puzzle."
ReplyDeleteThat was a reference to the Coast Guard motto, Semper Paratus (Always Ready). I stumbled across the answer when playing with Bananagrams tiles, I managed to get SEMPER, and the letters happened to have TYRAN near each other. The phrase popped in my head after seeing that, and it fit.
I agree with others, this is probably going to be a low week. The phrase is more familiar to people who take extra interest in Lincoln's assassination. For most, it gets mentioned in a history class in school, and then quickly forgotten.
R.I.P. David Hockney
ReplyDeleteI hope he didn't accidentally dive into the shallow end of the pool.
R.I.P. Gene Shalit @ 100
ReplyDeleteThis week's challenge comes from listener Michael Pickard. Name something in 10 letters that's found in a kitchen. Drop its sixth letter to name something on a keyboard. Then drop the new word's fifth letter to name something no one wants to get. What words are these?
ReplyDeleteGot it. Now back to bed.
DeleteSDB, is that a clue?
DeleteJust a fact.
DeleteThis puzzle feels like an afterthought.
ReplyDeleteI get Jan's clue.
ReplyDeleteI'll give one when Blaine posts the new thread.
My comment was apparently deleted.
ReplyDelete(as someone who doesn't always care for anagrams, I forgot to comment—'twas ever thus!)
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