tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730391.post8926452083947466545..comments2024-03-28T18:08:45.225-07:00Comments on Blaine's Puzzle Blog: NPR Sunday Puzzle (Apr 28, 2013): Six-word Proverb PuzzleBlainehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06379274325110866036noreply@blogger.comBlogger149125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730391.post-55391957335143458792013-05-05T07:34:41.805-07:002013-05-05T07:34:41.805-07:00When they did this previously, they said there wer...When they did this previously, they said there were about 2000 correct entries. Haven't had that many in quite a while.Bryanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11149525317349695429noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730391.post-7303800319511574062013-05-05T06:12:18.776-07:002013-05-05T06:12:18.776-07:00Could be a hard fight - my hands hurt already - bu...Could be a hard fight - my hands hurt already - but I think AA has shown me the way.Bob Kerfufflehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02615811802419025933noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730391.post-3765013374995766322013-05-05T04:27:11.916-07:002013-05-05T04:27:11.916-07:00"Name a famous performer whose last name has ..."Name a famous performer whose last name has six letters. Move the first three letters to the end — without otherwise changing the order of the letters — and add one more letter at the end. The result, in seven letters, will name a place where this person famously performed. Who is it, and what's the place?"<br /><br />Remove a letter from the performer's first name to name something performed there.janhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05927176621372532733noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730391.post-53066337445630484382013-05-05T03:12:49.483-07:002013-05-05T03:12:49.483-07:00The new puzzle is up, and it is very easy. It seem...The new puzzle is up, and it is very easy. It seems to me <br />to be a repeat.EKWhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07620788732511183218noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730391.post-38988848143290412832013-05-04T14:24:37.998-07:002013-05-04T14:24:37.998-07:00That different language!<b>That</b> different language!Paulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11114786604125384958noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730391.post-49383266342150676222013-05-04T14:17:13.091-07:002013-05-04T14:17:13.091-07:00Him-her
you-them
they-those
We are very pronouns ...Him-her<br />you-them<br />they-those<br /><br />We are very pronouns too.zeke creekhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12559686966843380823noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730391.post-42113270988779020322013-05-04T14:00:40.760-07:002013-05-04T14:00:40.760-07:00Sometimes it seems we speak a different language.Sometimes it seems we speak a different language.Word Womanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15491300694641304112noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730391.post-20198139861227332992013-05-04T13:57:50.351-07:002013-05-04T13:57:50.351-07:00Lotta nouns, collective and otherwise. ;-)Lotta nouns, collective and otherwise. ;-)Word Womanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15491300694641304112noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730391.post-32986153315360309102013-05-04T13:11:13.970-07:002013-05-04T13:11:13.970-07:00Church-flock.
happy for you-ewe-flock.
Sharp chick...Church-flock.<br />happy for you-ewe-flock.<br />Sharp chick-birds.<br />sheep seats-flock.<br />Cheap cheap-birds.<br />Ram-flock.<br />Hoot owls-birds.<br />Rebleats-flock.zeke creekhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12559686966843380823noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730391.post-40184973967919957312013-05-04T12:38:01.461-07:002013-05-04T12:38:01.461-07:00I'd rather keep company with the peahens; not ...I'd rather keep company with the peahens; not that there's anything <i>right</i> with that.Paulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11114786604125384958noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730391.post-17712695066581148612013-05-04T11:47:56.205-07:002013-05-04T11:47:56.205-07:00That's hcir!
All clever remarks are not fart j...That's <i>hcir</i>!<br />All clever remarks are not fart jokes.Paulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11114786604125384958noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730391.post-3662430260228847332013-05-04T08:30:33.322-07:002013-05-04T08:30:33.322-07:00I understand stoop and roop!I understand stoop and roop!Word Womanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15491300694641304112noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730391.post-82058077160761238432013-05-04T08:28:40.637-07:002013-05-04T08:28:40.637-07:00Keeps you in company with the peacocks, though.Keeps you in company with the peacocks, though.Word Womanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15491300694641304112noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730391.post-61843914938392395502013-05-03T20:42:29.442-07:002013-05-03T20:42:29.442-07:00"That's one small stoop for [a] man, one ..."That's one small stoop for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind". skydiveboyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17174073226290431753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730391.post-48726708657067855492013-05-03T19:19:52.913-07:002013-05-03T19:19:52.913-07:00Jan, you went a long way for that!
Interesting to...Jan, you went a long way for that!<br /><br />Interesting to learn more about stoop. And speaking of breathing sacs and oxymorons: attack pray. ;-)Word Womanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15491300694641304112noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730391.post-84272591890954527512013-05-03T18:56:02.305-07:002013-05-03T18:56:02.305-07:00SDB, I thought you were the one stooping!SDB, I thought you were the one stooping!Word Womanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15491300694641304112noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730391.post-55742511090673318712013-05-03T18:54:48.374-07:002013-05-03T18:54:48.374-07:00According to our friends at Merriam-Webster, stoop...According to our friends at Merriam-Webster, stoop can mean "to fly or dive down swiftly usually to attack prey".<br /><br />Bird lungs and fish gills share a neat counter-current exchange system that extracts oxygen with great efficiency. The air (or water) moves in one direction, the blood in the other direction, so the blood leaving the lung in contact with the most oxygen-rich air (or water). Birds can do this even though breathing tidally by having the incoming air go first to one air sac, then through the lungs, then into another air sac, and then back out.<br /><br />When I learned of this scheme in college, it occurred to me that it would be cool to re-route the outflow from the second air sac to the bird's butt, and inoculate that air sac with methane-producing bacteria from a cow's intestine. The bird goes into a stoop -- okay, a dive, if you like -- scrapes its butt along the ground to make sparks, and PHOOOM: ramjet chicken!janhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05927176621372532733noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730391.post-15644125339025509702013-05-03T18:50:43.653-07:002013-05-03T18:50:43.653-07:00Oh Gawd! Now she stoops to conquer!Oh Gawd! Now she stoops to conquer!skydiveboyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17174073226290431753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730391.post-64945395955131231632013-05-03T18:26:43.133-07:002013-05-03T18:26:43.133-07:00Now, I'd like to see a stooping falcon, Jan. M...Now, I'd like to see a stooping falcon, Jan. Most I've see swoop. ;-) But, perhaps they may be in stoopor after all . . .<br /><br />There <i>are</i> some researchers who disagree, SDB. The article you cited mentions them. I did not say I was one of them.<br /><br />My issue is one of semantics. I prefer to call a bird a bird and to say it was <i>descended</i> from sauropods (terribly ironic that they descended from the lizard-hipped dinos, not the bird-hipped ones). Cladistics are interesting but problematic in some respects...Where do you draw the distinction? How do you call a clade a clade ? ;-)<br /><br /> The breathing mechanisms (air sacs, etc.) of dinosaurs and birds are interesting...but I much prefer fish gills. <br /> <br /> Long week. The kindies had intense spring fever after our snowy week.Word Womanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15491300694641304112noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730391.post-70222231868476780362013-05-03T15:22:26.705-07:002013-05-03T15:22:26.705-07:00...Not that I'm implying for a moment, SDB, th......Not that I'm implying for a moment, SDB, that plummeting through the air like a stooping falcon as you do makes you a dinosaur.janhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05927176621372532733noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730391.post-64396763807868450982013-05-03T09:15:33.597-07:002013-05-03T09:15:33.597-07:00I think the evidence is with skydiveboy on this on...I think the evidence is with skydiveboy on this one, tho cladistics is my least favorite branch of bio. Anyway, there's gotta be a reason why every time I bike past a big, open field of geese or turkeys, the theme from "Jurassic Park" plays in my head. And why a great blue heron flying overhead looks exactly like every pterodactyl I've ever seen.janhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05927176621372532733noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730391.post-47502597839258707802013-05-02T21:25:46.470-07:002013-05-02T21:25:46.470-07:00Now you are simply repeating yourself. And your ar...Now you are simply repeating yourself. And your argument is apples and oranges. Back it up, if you can.skydiveboyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17174073226290431753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730391.post-68476199766289313992013-05-02T20:50:34.858-07:002013-05-02T20:50:34.858-07:00Man is descended from apes but all men are not ape...Man is descended from apes but <i>all men are not apes.</i><br /><br />Most (if not all) birds are descended from dinosaurs but <i>all birds are not dinosaurs.</i>Word Womanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15491300694641304112noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730391.post-83603145038184927592013-05-02T20:43:45.832-07:002013-05-02T20:43:45.832-07:00Yeah I was respectfully not flippin the bird in my...Yeah I was respectfully not flippin the bird in my rap song. and I was sneezing from imaginary feathers from a feather boa with my Edie Adams impression. Good ones Curtis, I started to quote a song from Donald Byrd but thought that was too closeRobin Thomas Poponnehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05703107344880425239noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730391.post-69850649010389649542013-05-02T20:40:57.865-07:002013-05-02T20:40:57.865-07:00Not according to the sources I trust. Where are yo...Not according to the sources I trust. Where are you getting your info? Are you saying the same thing for crocodiles too? skydiveboyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17174073226290431753noreply@blogger.com