Hit a phonetic wall this morning.
Bitten by a puzzle idea, I’ve spent the last while converting people like Harry Kewell and Kelly Slater into hair-reek-yule and care-lease-later respectively.
Some names, like songwriter Joe Camilleri, are ripe for the mangling. I mean joke-camel-leery almost sounds like a Page 3 headline.
But most other names defy the treatment. […]
Here’s a teaser extract from the fine spoof-meisters at The Onion. To read more of this literal larceny, and many other exquisite piss-takes, click on the link below this post:
‘Wheel Of Fortune’ Contestants Hit Hard As Vowel Prices Skyrocket’
LOS ANGELES—Contestants on the television game show Wheel Of Fortune have been hit especially hard at the […]
If DANCE, TOP & DOG = LAP, what single word can precede each trio below?
light, gates & plain
book, window & show
roll, board & clean
storm, drain & wave
call, table & room
boat, way & camera
plate, weight & cut
stock, gas & matter
baby, dance & league
SOLUTION NEXT WEEK
BB154 SOLUTION: Bridge/abridge
We’re thinking of a word meaning connect, but
When prefixed by a vowel, the new word means cut.
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BB153 SOLUTION: When an old person dies a library burns down
Crossword making is an art, though a New York artist called Emily Jo Cureton is taking the whole art idea to heart. Check out her website http://www.emilyjocureton.com/follies/index.html and you’ll see how two or three words from the paper’s daily grid will see her pencil out-Magritte Magritte. Possibly the most contrary illustration of the phrase: thinking […]
An elegant African proverb has been dismantled into 18 pairs. Your job, with no mixing needed, is to relink the pieces.
[AN, AR, BR, DO, DP, EN, ER, IE, LI, ND, NS, OL, SA, SO, UR, WH, WN, YB]
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BB152 SOLUTION: QUIZMASTER. The boy aspires to jobs with ten unrepeated letters.
A privileged part of my working week is reading and reviewing books for Radio National. Not that every title to lob in the letterbox is a must-read - some in fact may verge on clunker - but a recent one - My Revolutions by Hari Kunzru is a standout. And standouts, I discovered, can be […]
What future career (COPYWRITER or QUIZMASTER) is more likely to be added to a boy’s wish-list of journalist, lumberjack, fishmonger and blacksmith?
SOLUTION NEXT WEEK
BB151 SOLUTION: Actual, annual, casual, manual, mutual, ritual, sexual, visual. Other words may be possible.