Archive for July, 2008

Tesla Tales

Wednesday, July 30th, 2008

Along comes Nikola Tesla, father of radio, forefather of robots and Mix Masters, and a cocktail of my own surname.
See, that was the plan. Reviewing a novel based on Tesla’s madcap life – The Invention of Everything Else by Samantha Hunt - I first toyed with the Tesla/Astle conceit.
Be fun, I thought. Slowly picking through […]

Travel Weary (BB164)

Sunday, July 27th, 2008

Ironically, what exotic capital city (to Australians at least) is a word for average beside a syllable that sounds like the least exotic place on the planet?
SOLUTION NEXT WEEK
BB163 SOLUTION: Schumacher (Chum), Fittapaldi (Pal)

Vale LT

Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008

His Mum a teacher, his Dad a teacher, Lindsay Thompson had little choice but to enter the blackboard jungle. Until his early 30s when the man relinquished his chalk for a calling in politics, winning a seat in State Parliament in 1955.
Tenacious, loyal, Thompson stuck to the Spring Street ruckus for 27 years, winning the […]

Dog Race (BB163)

Sunday, July 20th, 2008

What two Formula One champions contain dog food brands in their surnames?
SOLUTION NEXT WEEK
BB162 SOLUTION: SA(d)GLUM = MULGAS

Pub Prayer

Thursday, July 17th, 2008

As promised, the prayer for pisspots. I first heard the mockery in Tom Holloway’s grim drama, Don’t Say The Words, and wasn’t sure if the parody was original.
Turns out a jokey T-shirt company, and 500 other places around the net, carry the spoof. Minor variations exist around the traps but Tom nails the best […]

Kings Cross Bloodshed

Monday, July 14th, 2008

Agamemnon is a warrior out of luck. The poor sap goes 15 rounds with the Trojans, only to return to his native Greece to learn his wife Clytaemnestra has been sleeping around.
Mind you, the warrior has returned with a tasty Trojan morsel by his side. A fair-skinned prophetess named Cassandra, whom nobody believes. Much like […]

Plant Strain (BB162)

Sunday, July 13th, 2008

Can you align two words for forlorn,
(The first with its final letter shorn),
Then reverse the cluster to shape
Hardy trees in the Oz landscape?
(The low-built trees - at 6 letters - will be common to most Australians.)
SOLUTION NEXT WEEK
BB161 SOLUTION: Lush & toper

Google Wax: The Worthies

Wednesday, July 9th, 2008

Like I say, addictive.
Where I should be finalising a book proposal, preparing for a freelance seminar, polishing a script, making puzzles and every other task known to a beleaguered writer, I’m Googling EQUIP and ALOFT to register 613 hits.
And then LITHE and KORMA for 558.
FETED and PRAWN gives you 505.
Just a few more than VELDT […]

Grab Your Pad (BB161)

Sunday, July 6th, 2008

Can you re-upholster UPHOLSTER to make two words of equivalent meaning? Every letter is used once only.
SOLUTION NEXT WEEK
BB160 SOLUTION: Ghost Rider (go/strider)

Google Waxing

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

Warning – this can get addictive.
Just enter two familiar five-letter words into your local Google engine, and see if you can register a minimum of hits. (Yes, I may have too much time on my hands this afternoon….)
But leaving aside Welsh violins, Inuit snow and Pashtu sweetmeats, just opt for common vocab, and only […]


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