Crossword
I’m having some fun with the Sunday toons (if you hadn’t noticed)… hopefully the interactive and game-like nature is amusing you, as well. Feedback please.
I’m having some fun with the Sunday toons (if you hadn’t noticed)… hopefully the interactive and game-like nature is amusing you, as well. Feedback please.
Clive? IT wasn’t always Ryan and Randie? I’ll have to go deep[er into the archives some day and do some investigating.
It’s fun.
Where’s the jumble? Oh, here we go:
WNTIK
LSIPL
DINRAE
UMEOS
Yeah, Sunday puzzler. Only, the answers on the side are too easy to glance at…have to fight their PULL. This strip is a regular quantum-mechanical space-time continuum with varied quadrants pulling your eyes in seven different directions at once. 1. What do those rubbed out letters spell? 2. Four letter word for nothing to do?? Yawn? Bore? Dull? Sigh? Poop? Plop? erk. 3. The crossword matrix with its hypnotic swirls. 4. Across orange. 5. Down green. 6. Mental images of letters in boxes and words running about. And, 7. The gravitational pull of that black hole on the right with its sideways written answers that is only made worse by the orange billboard with the red arrows that points it out.
Hmm. What’s a word that rhymes with orange?
sitcky,
“It’s not true that no words rhyme with orange . . . However, there was a man — I’m not kidding — named Henry Honeychurch Gorringe. He was a naval commander who in the midnineteenth century oversaw the transport of Cleopatra’s Needle to New York’s Central Park. Pouncing on this event, the poet Arthur Guiterman wrote:
In Sparkhill buried lies a man of mark
Who brought the Obelisk to Central Park,
Redoubtable Commander H. H. Gorringe,
Whose name supplies the long-sought rhyme for orange.”
– ‘Adventures of a Verbivore’, Richard Lederer. Jan 3, 2008
Denny… For a look of what Clive looked like, click on fan art below the title banner and then click to zoom my tribute picture of a tavern. Clive’s on the far right. Incidently, my stick-figures don’t normally have noses, but brig’s version of Clive did feature one.
Oh, and my artsy tributes (blue ballpoint on 9×12 sketch pads) were unofficially called, “won,” “too,” “tree,” and “fore.” (“Sink-o” has been delayed.) See if you can guess which is which.
Brad… “sticky??” Technically “Gorringe” is a name not a word. But well done ‘ol chap, it’s good enough. You win the, ahem, prize.
“marmalade” won’t fit in 3-down!
Hee hee… hope you all had a good time with the crossword… and Jack… word jumbles are fun! You might see more of that in the future.
Marmalade is just fun to say!
I can’t find one-word-rhymes for other colors like Silver or Purple either. Wait, can we use two word combos like “bore-flange”? No? Gee whiz, this must be why poets are paid the big bucks.
Time delayed marmalade silk brocade on parade. Deli jelly in my belly. (Humph. My free associations are worth every penny.)
Unc… Impressive.
Yes, kudos, Unca Bad…. jelly in my belly, OH NELLY!