Are the firemen boiling? No idea about the leg one though. Somebody else give it a shot.
Fire Officials Boiling Over Kerosene Heaters??
J
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Are the firemen boiling? No idea about the leg one though. Somebody else give it a shot.
Fire Officials Boiling Over Kerosene Heaters??
J
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Originally Posted by Jack of Hearts
You're kidding about the leg, right? - give it a "shot"- Correct!
Well that's every cooking method mentioned except the one they used. Its a mindset thing, we,re so used to Firemen being rightous and heroic we can't see them on the receiving end of a culinary process.
shot OFF WOMAN'S LEG?
Maybe he then used it as a putter?
Umm...
J
No, the 'shot' comment was not a guess.
Were the fire officials roasted? Giving up on the fire officials after this. Hopefully they don't return the favor.
Things you cannot do to a fire official;
You can't steam them.
You can't boil them.
Tu ne peux pas les flamber.
You can't enrage them.
J
I can't say for sure whether reading it influenced me or not, but there it is/was. Anyhow, it's out there formally now, so no one else can come in second place. Let's see if it wins.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jack of Hearts
And I had already ruled out 'roasted' after 'steamed' met failure. If Gilbert Godfried isn't explicitly mentioned, then...
Shot and Roasted are correct
So that's that, your go Jack.
Well that's a rather quick resolution of some foolishness on my part.
... Well it appears overzealousness has come full circle with the boot. Working on it as we speak but cannot guarantee quality.
Also, would not be offended if anyone else took this turn, if they have anything.
J
LitNet User Scavenger Hunt Puzzle Thing
All users are currently active. All are substantially visible on the forum and all post in at least one of the major forums. Discover them from their 'Custom User Title ' (the little tagline above the avatar), which is given below.
There is a number next to every 'Custom User Title'. The corresponding letter in the discovered username (NOT counting spaces as letters) is part of a word or phrase you'll have to unscramble at the end.
Ex. You have discovered that 'Bob Frapples' is a username that is an answer. Next to his clue/tagline is the number 4. The fourth letter in 'Bob Frapples' (don't count the space) is 'f', so 'f' goes to the letter bank to be unscrambled into a phrase when all the other answers have been found.
'Custom User Titles'/ Clues
1. Artist and Bibliophile (4) stlukesguild
2. All Are At the Crossroads (8) qimissung
3. An organized mess (5) everyadventure
4. Orwellian (8) The Atheist
5. The Yodfather (9) stanislaw
6. Dance Magic Dance (1) OrphanPip
You Win.
If you discover the user, let them know that they were not only part of the scavenger hunt, but that you've claimed them as property.
Soundly Solved by billl on 8/7/11.
Answer = "You win."
everyadvent 5 y
stlukes 4u ?
stanislaw 9w
the atheist 8i
qimissung 8n
(I still haven't found who the 'o' comes from, though)
Well, that probably took longer to make up than it took you to solve it. Hope you liked it, or at least found it a little amusing.
Well done, billl. That's your turn.
J
It was a nice change of pace, but my internet connection was a little cranky, and that turned maybe 3 minutes into maybe 10 minutes, a fact that dampened the enjoyment of those 10 minutes.
I'm not ready with anything myself, so I'll open the floor to others, but will eventually come up with something failing any intervention.
Motion to rename the thread "Almost Daily puzzles/problems."
J
Here's one I've been reluctant to put out there, but what the heck?
Driving carefully on a frozen Alaskan road--but also eating junk food and drinking soda while chewing gum--I accidentally just dropped a delicious cheddar "goldfish" into my tall, slender, ice-cold bottle of Pepsi™ (the only drink in the car). Naturally, I have pulled over to the side of the road, wanting to deal with this problem.
I have a toothpick that is two inches long, and I can hold it by just a half-inch at the end, so that it extends my reach into the top of the bottle by one and a half inches. Unfortunately, I have already drunk some of the Pepsi, and the goldfish is floating almost two inches beyond the bottle's screw-top opening.
What can I do to retrieve the goldfish?
Put ice/snow into the bottle until the liquid is displaced enough to use the toothpick to 'fish' the 'fish' out?
J
That's more succinct than my solution (stick the bottle outside for a while, until the Pepsi freezes, the ice expanding enough to raise the goldfish to a point where the toothpick can easily reach it, but the fish would probably be stuck in the ice and the toothpick would just dig at it and carve a hole, and so some smallish amount of the chewing gum would then be stuck to the end of the toothpick so that it could be mashed against the goldfish embedded at the top of the frozen Pespi. Bringing the bottle back into the heated compartment of the vehicle and maintaining a grip on the toothpick, the gradually thawing pepsi would eventually allow the gum-stuck goldfish to be pulled out of the bottle. Well, maybe--I haven't actually tested a lot of these elements, in particular the stickiness of a gum/goldfish-cracker bond in a freezing environment.)
Back to you.
... Your solution is better.
J
The billl Chatting Up Women Puzzle Thing
Our hero, billl, is at a classy cocktail establishment circa 1974. As he’s putting the Aqua Velva back into his smoking jacket and reaching for his pipe, two beautiful women, identical twins, approach him. As a matter of fact, they’re Bond girls (but not the transsexual one that Roger Moore chokes in For Your Eyes Only). Each of them offer him a fine scotch-whiskey, identical in appearance. Except one of these beverages is loaded with a laxative.
One of the girls always tells the truth. One of the girls always lies. He doesn't know which. How can billl entertain the company of these ladies and discern which drink is not poisoned?
Superlatively Shamed by MarkBastable on 8/7/11.
Actually, we did this one a while back (though, admittedly, not with Bill in the lead role.)
Whoops. Have looked through these but not that closely.
Ok, MarkBastable, have a go then?
J
That was a good one, I didn't have time to look at it till this morning. Too late, too late.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jack of Hearts
Same with the coke bottle thing and the Bond girls one, though billl would soon have them both eating out of his hand, the silver tongued divil
Thanks Mick. Going to start writing some goofy puzzles for fun now (it's summer before college and a full time job for another six weeks or so...).
Hopefully it'll be entertaining with a lovely rind of clever...
J
To the title of which Kurt Vonnegut novel might the following lead you?
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Four Quartets
Mr Balcony
Necronomicon
One Way Pendulum
The Cop and the Anthem
The Coral Island
The Gift of the Magi
The Great Gatsby
The Meaning of Meaning
The Waste Land
The House at Pooh Corner
Tulips and Chimneys
SPOILER ALERT FOR "CAT'S CRADLE"
Didn't really like Vonnegut, and it's been about four years since having read it... so this is probably a bad guess, but Cat's Cradle? And here's why (this reader cannot make all the clues fit, but an interesting amount anyway):
The scene where the novel affiliates with its title is on a balcony.
Cat's Cradle is a children's string game and pendulum is part of the sequence.
In the novel, the narrator visits tropical locales (Coral Island).
The entire work had the undertones of the examination of meaning (aren't the final pages when the narrator encounters the Siddharta-like teacher... it's been so long)?
The Waste Land because the island that narrator visits is destroyed and he encounters the aforementioned teacher in the ruins of it?
Necronomicon, or some ancient deadly artifact, seems oddly pertinent (major plot point?) but it's just out of reach of memory. Having read most of Vonnegut's work at once really blended the material together. And the whole experience was like taking bad medicine anyway.
No real idea, but it was fun guessing.
Also, if the guess was correct but the rationale completely off, let's just call it wrong so we can appreciate the real solution if others can get it (no points for random luck).
J
With italics and bolding, I think I've shown how Deadeye Dick is a tantalizing candidate, particularly if we are ready to stretch things a bit here and there, going on my decades-old memory of the book:
**SPOILERS for the novel, Deadeye Dick SPOILERS**
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? -- by Phlip K. Dick
Four Quartets -- Dick kills someone inside of someone he kills (mother and foetus), much as four is embedded in quartets or something...
Mr Balcony -- strange name for a person, maybe a nickname?
Necronomicon -- Necro = dead
One Way Pendulum
The Cop and the Anthem -- Dick = detective
The Coral Island -- Haiti is an island
The Gift of the Magi -- an unlucky gift. i.e. his shooting ability
The Great Gatsby
The Meaning of Meaning -- in a meta sort of way, I think part of the protagonist's story turns into scripts that he has written or something
The Waste Land -- neutron bomb
The House at Pooh Corner
Tulips and Chimneys
Finally, in regards to the last two clues, I can't remember how the bullet got to its victim(s), but maybe it involved a window (Pooh stuck in the window?) or a chimney...?
Er, no - though it pains me to say so, given the ingenuity of your response, and Jack's too.
You don't need to know anything about the novel in question to get to the answer.
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Originally Posted by billl
At the moment its a case of "pearls before swine."
Yeah. This one's a toughie.
J
I might be on the verge of solving this (or at least feel closer than in my first guess, which was, despite my initial enthusiasm, sort of a B.S. attempt).
It was funny, though.
It's up to you guys. No idea here.
J
Well, I just spent a lot of time on something that didn't work out.
@Mark, Here's a question to put my mind at ease, though: Many of Vonnegut's titles have "extended versions", and so, for example, do we need to consider "Slaughterhouse-Five" as being possibly also known as "Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death"? Or should we just be looking at the titles we'd typically see on the front cover in largest print (e.g. "Slapstick", "Slaughterhouse-Five")?
You have given the titles in alphabetical order (taking "the" into account as well)... Are we supposed to rearrange them or their authors (the initial letters of their names, for example) some how to get to the answer?Quote:
Originally Posted by MarkBastable
Um,
My crazy theory I was working on has me thinking that the answer might be "Deadeye Dick", because of this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Deadeye,_or_Duty_Done
an animated cartoon based on (best I can tell) a character from Gilbert & Sullivan's musicals (that would be W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan), in particular the musical called H.M.S. Pinafore.
Along the right lines. The authors of the listed works have something in common.Quote:
Originally Posted by Scheherazade
They all have at least one initial in their nom de plume, well at least the ones that this reader knows... (A.A. Milne, T.S. Elliot, Phillip K. Dick, etc.).
J
I was thinking that the librettist W.S. Gilbert might be the missing member of such a list, his inclusion providing a link to the Vonnegut novel Deadeye Dick via the character 'Dick Deadeye' from H.M.S. Pinafore...
Originally, I was looking for other authors who shared book titles with titles of Vonnegut books, hoping that one would have initials in his/her name, but this was as close as I got (besides the obscure mystery writer Jo A. Hiestand, author of "Pearls Before Swine")
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Originally Posted by Jack of Hearts
I was looking at that, but there are some exceptions - O Henry and Hillary Putnam.
Quote:
Originally Posted by prendrelemick
It was during these New Orleans days that I adopted my pen name of O. Henry. I said to a friend: "I'm going to send out some stuff. I don't know if it amounts to much, so I want to get a literary alias. Help me pick out a good one." He suggested that we get a newspaper and pick a name from the first list of notables that we found in it. In the society columns we found the account of a fashionable ball. "Here we have our notables," said he. We looked down the list and my eye lighted on the name Henry, "That'll do for a last name," said I. "Now for a first name. I want something short. None of your three-syllable names for me." "Why don’t you use a plain initial letter, then?" asked my friend. "Good," said I, "O is about the easiest letter written, and O it is."
I've never heard of Hilary Puttnam.
That's either a huge clue or a cruel misdirect.
J