So anyhow, we’re driving down the Geelong freeway this week, my body still battered from playing two days of touch rugby on Corio Bay, when the mobile starts blipping.
Just to explain, the rugby was part of the Australian Masters, a mock-Olympics for onshore tragics over 40 years old. As a diehard rugby nut, slow to [...]
What link is shared by Pope Paul IV, vampire actor Bela Lugosi and Australia’s first Prime Minister, Sir Edmund Barton?
The answer is supervocalic, a word coined by Scrabble buff Eric Chaikin to describe any word or name that contains all five vowels once only. Think cauliflower and tambourines. Education and Cointreau. Hair Club For Men [...]
By hook, crook and perhaps a sly look, I managed to solve these five clues you see here. But still can’t fathom how any othem work.
Most are the work of my favourite compiler, John Halpern, aka Paul in the Guardian, and Mudd in the Financial times – and possibly the anonymous setter behind these cited [...]
In Riddler tradition, I’ve buried the villain’s answers inside this little ditty:
One night, two thieves
(Both carry a torch)
Tiptoe onto
A Russian’s porch.
They enter his library
For contraband
When both plunge
Into deep quicksand.
Both die in
A futile shove,
Leaving behind
A cotton glove.
Ridiculous, but blame the Riddler, and those haphazard answers. I mean once Batman dredges up ‘glove’ or ‘Russians’ – what [...]
Recently been researching The Riddler, that quip-happy psychopath in the Batman canon. And the loon was seriously into puns. What kind of machine has ears, he asked in one episode of the old TV series.
A train, with engineers.
I’m warning you now. They don’t get much better. The incomparable Frank Gorshin, the physical comic to fill [...]