tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730391.post6059353292360588819..comments2024-03-29T04:50:38.638-07:00Comments on Blaine's Puzzle Blog: NPR Sunday Puzzle (Aug 12, 2012): Two Bugs PuzzleBlainehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06379274325110866036noreply@blogger.comBlogger85125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730391.post-71716672863498879322012-08-19T08:19:31.041-07:002012-08-19T08:19:31.041-07:00cause the next line is, "be he live or be he ...cause the next line is, "be he live or be he dead". Or, be he moth. Erruditehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17005182539294372477noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730391.post-26282705278232972752012-08-19T01:08:48.199-07:002012-08-19T01:08:48.199-07:00The new puzzle is up and I definitely feel like a ...The new puzzle is up and I definitely feel like a winner.PlannedChaoshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12366856086658014260noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730391.post-75723637461431236772012-08-19T01:05:59.256-07:002012-08-19T01:05:59.256-07:00Ghsk pa qnp ie.Ghsk pa qnp ie.Paulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11114786604125384958noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730391.post-48549981467082714292012-08-18T20:13:57.882-07:002012-08-18T20:13:57.882-07:00Now we seem to have Levolor. The blind leading the...Now we seem to have Levolor. The blind leading the blind.skydiveboyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17174073226290431753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730391.post-5314558700992647022012-08-18T18:48:02.320-07:002012-08-18T18:48:02.320-07:00My copy of Hobbes is pretty well thumbed. By the ...My copy of Hobbes is pretty well thumbed. By the way, if you can find the frontispiece to Leviathan (and you need go no further than Wikipedia), take a look at the Leviatan itself, a giant composed of the bodies of all the members of society. But the head is the king's alone. Despite his will to found society on some claim other than the divine right of kings, Hobbes ended up concluding that absolute monarchy was the best way to keep the peace.<br /><br />And now I attempt to read those inane words written by computers, placed to be sure I am not a computer.MrSciencehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11112686794893154281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730391.post-1047803873147721182012-08-18T15:15:21.461-07:002012-08-18T15:15:21.461-07:00Yeah, if there are more than 20,000 correct answer...Yeah, if there are more than 20,000 correct answers this week I'll know it was because of you and your, or perhaps our, give-away clues. :)<br />Interesting information BTW. I'm glad we don't live in difficult times now. (Yeah, right!)<br />I thought you might be hinting at beheading and making a connection with bee. I'm happy to now know you were being more clever than that. <br />I'll trade you my copy of Conduct Unbecoming if you will trade me your Hobbes. Scratch that. I've got way too many I'm trying to get to as it is.skydiveboyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17174073226290431753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730391.post-36188782028488110602012-08-18T14:42:38.269-07:002012-08-18T14:42:38.269-07:00I was just spelling it on the fly anyway. I didn&#...I was just spelling it on the <b>fly</b> anyway. I didn't recall the specific spelling at the time of the post.Curtishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05685055278145414455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730391.post-56018508923068708542012-08-18T14:26:36.790-07:002012-08-18T14:26:36.790-07:00I knew it didn't. That line is from Thomas Ho...I knew it didn't. That line is from Thomas Hobbes' "Leviathan," one of the first works of political philosophy to create a form of goverment from the needs of those living under it, rather than on, say, the divine right of kings. Hobbes begins by considering humanity in a very early, primitive state, which he calls "that state of nature." Hobbes concludes tht in such a state, without mutual cooperation and some form of social unity, "the life of man would be solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short." <br /><br />All of this is put forth in the first of two works on political theory, the "Leviathan." A second, less well-known work followed, called "Behemoth." So you can see how I practically gave it away.MrSciencehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11112686794893154281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730391.post-473887355143724382012-08-17T20:05:22.928-07:002012-08-17T20:05:22.928-07:00Lecter. It's okay, I knew what you meant.Lecter. It's okay, I knew what you meant.Paulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11114786604125384958noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730391.post-4298608425555543042012-08-17T14:47:08.193-07:002012-08-17T14:47:08.193-07:00When you replied on Sun Aug 12, at 01:15:00 AM PDT...When you replied on Sun Aug 12, at 01:15:00 AM PDT:<br /><br />Or one, or the other, or both of those insects might be the <b><i>solution</i></b> to the problem Paul's having.<br /><br />You never know.<br /><br />I thought you were simply refering to the fact that some varieties of moth spin silk and bees make wax. (Could beeswax be useful in sewing, perhaps in helping to thread the needle? I would think beeswax to be too soft and crumbly that to actually carve a new button from it would make a poor button.)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730391.post-26478570149344424572012-08-17T14:18:41.594-07:002012-08-17T14:18:41.594-07:00I posted on Wed Aug 15, at 12:45:00 AM PDT:
For t...I posted on Wed Aug 15, at 12:45:00 AM PDT:<br /><br />For those still trying to find Lorenzo's mammals: <br /><br />1. Forget any "thing" that tastes good.<br />2. One of his mammals has NO "S" in its plural.<br /><br />And as Lorenzo has posted, his answer is:<br /><br />Bee: Moth:<br />wax, hole<br />ox, whale<br /><br />My first clue was that the thing made by the bee <b><i>is NOT HONEY.</i></b> My second clue, of course, applies to the ox, the plural of which is oxen -- no "s".<br /><br />Was <b><i>anybody</i></b> helped by my post?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730391.post-83622152170810283432012-08-16T22:03:24.399-07:002012-08-16T22:03:24.399-07:00A swarm of nanobugs?A swarm of nanobugs?Paulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11114786604125384958noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730391.post-19737697242830055862012-08-16T21:59:23.270-07:002012-08-16T21:59:23.270-07:00Decoded (see E&WAf for instructions), my reply...Decoded (see E&WAf for instructions), my reply reads: Maybe a little too close?<br /><br />A moth that gets a little too close to a flame might get 'smoked', and I thought at first that 'honey' might be too close to being a giveaway. But, after thinking about it, it seemed that an obvious reference to a possibility the solver is bound to eventually consider anyway may actually deter the solver from considering that possibility.<br /><br />Later in the week it occured to me that 'smoked' might actually refer to the caterpillar Alice meets in Wonderland.<br /><br /><br /><br />Paulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11114786604125384958noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730391.post-26731251222040700502012-08-16T21:29:19.322-07:002012-08-16T21:29:19.322-07:00My first clue directed to the book of Ether in the...My first clue directed to the book of Ether in the book of Mormon: there "deseret" refers to the honeybee. Some (i.e. Mormons, one of whom I am not) consider this book sacred.<br /><br />Hugh was correct wrt the bug/moth hint. Congratulations.<br /><br />I got the ox + whales solution (thanks Lorenzo) after spending an inordinate span of time looking for a moth-related word containing an "a" so that one of the animals could be "hyena" from "honey". Hahahaha. geofanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10355377703382263396noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730391.post-85471225902663537252012-08-16T21:05:06.642-07:002012-08-16T21:05:06.642-07:00And poor Jack Benny was always <40, and 'fu...And poor Jack Benny was always <40, and 'funds to invest' probably doesn't signify 'capital' very well, but then I wasn't Really trying to signify <i>that</i> kind of capital.Paulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11114786604125384958noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730391.post-79694615790587958182012-08-16T20:53:28.145-07:002012-08-16T20:53:28.145-07:00However the button got lost in the first place, it...However the button got lost in the first place, it was the notion that a Behe moth would probably have to be intelligently designed (one might say 'tailor-made'), and the fact that Dr. Behe is a professor at Lehigh University (LU) that reminded me to replace it.Paulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11114786604125384958noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730391.post-49262529812166906772012-08-16T20:44:14.952-07:002012-08-16T20:44:14.952-07:00I was focused on 'cocoon'.
cocoon + wax =...I was focused on 'cocoon'.<br /><br />cocoon + wax = cow + coon (with an 'ax' left over) clearly wasn't right, but, in my beFUDDlement, I wanted to rescue it by modifying to ox + 'waccoon'<br /><br />Eventually, I came up with honey + flaw(s) = hyena(s) + wolf, but that <i>still</i> wasn't right.Paulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11114786604125384958noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730391.post-60499380637767465912012-08-16T19:56:54.757-07:002012-08-16T19:56:54.757-07:00SDB BLAH BLAH BLAH. Get a life whoppee yo...SDB BLAH BLAH BLAH. Get a life whoppee you caught a TYPO!!!Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08560033993482941519noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730391.post-89047593112349840582012-08-16T18:53:41.868-07:002012-08-16T18:53:41.868-07:00"A whopper of a hopper?"
Whopper = behe..."A whopper of a hopper?"<br /><br />Whopper = behemoth<br /><br />hopper = RADM Grace Hopper; to acknowledge Ken's clue of<br />"an operational failure that came to be named for yet a third insect." = moth and bug.<br /><br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Hopper<br /><br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:H96566k.jpg<br />hughhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16914509834442545746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730391.post-84915536119691434892012-08-16T16:57:31.871-07:002012-08-16T16:57:31.871-07:00I was so focused on 'honey' that I never f...I was so focused on 'honey' that I never figured this out.<br />ox + whale(s) = wax + hole(s)Blainehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06379274325110866036noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730391.post-12468214248009171352012-08-16T15:33:00.787-07:002012-08-16T15:33:00.787-07:00TYTYcookiefacehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14720458383514989934noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730391.post-86086703190726563492012-08-16T15:30:18.365-07:002012-08-16T15:30:18.365-07:00My clue about William Blake and the ghost refers t...My clue about William Blake and the ghost refers to his painting "The Ghost of a Flea," which shows a reptilian, vampire-like man -- Blake depicted the flea's bloodthirsty essence as a behemoth, turning our notion of the insect as a tiny, insignificant thing on its head.<br /><br />Just before that clue, I posted "They Might Be Giants minus Charlie Parker," but I deleted it right away, because I figured out that a fairly simple Google search could lead one directly to my reference: TMBG's song "Bee of the Bird of the Moth."Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11246992079020036311noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730391.post-16104311379953111352012-08-16T15:25:14.930-07:002012-08-16T15:25:14.930-07:00Ox and whale(s).Ox and whale(s).Lorenzohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08116815111532628378noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730391.post-80567666907370105112012-08-16T15:00:09.394-07:002012-08-16T15:00:09.394-07:00Lorenzo:
What are your two mammals??Lorenzo:<br />What are your two mammals??cookiefacehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14720458383514989934noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730391.post-3250488256194413972012-08-16T13:40:51.352-07:002012-08-16T13:40:51.352-07:00A curious case indeed.A curious case indeed.skydiveboyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17174073226290431753noreply@blogger.com