Daily puzzles/problems.

[Sapphire]

writers: Lewis Carroll (great riddles BTW ), Edgar Allen Poe, Aldous Huxley
actors: Tom Mix, Tony Curtis
psychiatrist: Carl Gustav Jung
So it is not their job ...

They're all dead... but I think there's more to it .

[Scheherazade]

What connects Lewis Carroll, Edgar Allen Poe, Aldous Huxley, Tom Mix, Carl Gustav Jung and Tony Curtis?

Does the order they come in matter, Mark?

So far, I looked into psuedonyms, DOBs, DODs, consonant/vowel patters but I could not come up with anything. :-/

[billl]

They are all white men. Who have been photographed.

[MarkBastable]

Does the order they come in matter, Mark?

Nope.

They are all white men. Who have been photographed.

Also, Muhammad Ali, né Cassius Clay. And Marlene Dietrich.

[billl]

Is it something about the names (the spelling or pronunciation, etc.)? Would I be wasting my time by exploring their biographies?

[MarkBastable]

Is it something about the names (the spelling or pronunciation, etc.)? Would I be wasting my time by exploring their biographies?

No, and completely.

[billl]

If it isn't about the names, and it isn't about the lives of the people the names refer to, then there's some nuance or something I'm missing. Would some help with that nuance (or something) be a dead give-away?

[Scheherazade]

While cooking in the kitchen, I was wondering whether they were all dyslexic but that would come under biographies, I guess.

Since it has nothing to do with the spelling of their names and their biographies, is it possible that a third party is involved?

Are they somebody's heros maybe? Or blacklisted somewhere or by someone?

Did they appear in paintings? I.e., like Marilyn Monroe's by Warhol?

Or an advertisement campaign? I.e., like Steve McQueen in Ford's?

(I am afraid this has turned into 20-Qs).

[billl]

I cheated. Pretty cool, but tough. *Maybe* I should have gotten it...

[MarkBastable]

I cheated. Pretty cool, but tough. *Maybe* I should have gotten it...

Thank you for not giving it away.

It may get easier as I add names, day by day.

[billl]

Actually, the song is called "A Day in the Life".

[billl]

Well, here it is, then. I needed a little help from my internet search engine, but I was thus able to fix the nuanced hole existing between the names and the biographies of the listed individuals. The answer to Mark's latest head-scratcher is this:



I've been trying to cook up one on my own, but in the meantime, here's something I just remembered that sort of fits the thread (although many may have heard it already):

Why are manhole covers round, and not square?

[MarkBastable]

Oh. Okay. I thought that, as you'd cheated, we were going to carry that one for a bit, but no matter.

...off you go then.

[prendrelemick]

1 you can roll them into place

2 They can't fall down the manhole if you missalign them when fitting.

3 Because the manhole is round.

[billl]

1 you can roll them into place

2 They can't fall down the manhole if you missalign them when fitting.

3 Because the manhole is round.

Yeah, I had your number two in mind in particular--I remember being impressed by the idea that the square cover could be manipulated so as to fall into the hole (by setting one side at a diagonal, and slipping within the hypotenuse), whereas the round cover couldn't.