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1) Riki Tiki Tavi, after falling into a tub of yellowish-green paint. Chartreuse Mongoose (oomis1105)
2) Young 19th-century general, bragging that he would easily defeat the Lakota and Cheyenne braves. Custer Bluster (ronrsr, oomis1105)
3) Politely suppress a digestive noise. Belch Squelch (ronrsr, oomis1105)
4) An unsavory Englishman. Slimy Limey (ronrsr, oomis1105)
5) The official flag of the Acme Monkey-Wrench Company. Spanner Banner (haifagirl)
6) The 37th president’s prey on a fox hunt. Nixon Vixen* (haifagirl)
8) A Minnesota college athlete, who moonlights as a limo driver. Gopher Chaufer (haifagirl)
9) A former mouth-doctor, now being trained as an electrician. Apprenticed Dentist (ronrsr)
12) An extraordinarily plain milk container. Spartan Carton (ronrsr, oomis1105)
[and more obvious] answer)
14) A type of pliers in a barber shop (two sets of hyphenated words). Clip-joint Slip-joint (oomis1105)
Silly Rhymes V
I had a long bus ride yesterday and these popped into my head. ICOT, methinks you’ve created a monster.
3) Hollow out a fish
4) Take the VP to an undisclosed location
5) Well-dressed Eminem
6) Vessel that sails around a castle
7) Explosive belonging to Emanuel
8) Where Napolitano seems to be
9) How Harry will get Health Care Reform passed
10) How Donald gets water
12) Place to stay in the Old City
15) German military coat
17) Collection of pictures of Lady Solti
ICOT, where ARE you getting these from? THANK YOU so much for finally giving my demented, rapidly disintegrating brain cells a chance for some real exercise! (Try to avoid the sports references, though. I am not too learned in that area).
5) Well-dressed Eminem (dapper rapper)
6) Vessel that sails around a castle (moat float)
8) Where Napolitano seems to be (Rome home)
10) How Donald gets water (duck suck?)
12) Place to stay in the Old City (Kotel hotel)
17) Collection of pictures of Lady Solti (valerie gallery)
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3) Halibut Gut? Peel Eel?
5) Dapper Rapper
6) Moat Boat
9) Ried Misdeed
12) Kotel Hotel
14) ?
15) Munich Tunic
16) Con Ron
Nice list!
oomis1105-
Thank you – they’re just some silly rhymes that popped up.
Wow! You two are good. Didn’t take you long at all. I’m really impressed!
Silly Rhymes V
3) Hollow out a fish – rout trout (ICOT – alternate answers)
4) Take the VP to an undisclosed location – Hidin’ Biden (ICOT)
5) Well-dressed Eminem – dapper rapper (oomis1105, ICOT)
6) Vessel that sails around a castle – moat boat (ICOT, oomis1105 – alternate answer)
7) Explosive belonging to Emanuel – Rahm’s bombs (ICOT)
8) Where Napolitano seems to be – Janet’s planet (ICOT)
9) How Harry will get Health Care Reform passed – Reid’ll wheedle (ICOT – alternate answer)
10) How Donald gets water – Trump’s pumps (ICOT, oomis1105 – alternate answer)
12) Place to stay in the Old City – Kotel hotel (oomis1105, ICOT)
15) German military coat – Munich tunic (ICOT)
17) Collection of pictures of Lady Solti – Valerie gallery (oomis1105, ICOT)
I am so enjoying these. I also love those puzzles where you see a picture of a word or letters written out in a weird way, and tyou have to figure out what the picture is saying. Like ( c c c c ) would be 4 seasons ( 4 c’s in)
a. German luxury car for the plutonian underworld.
b. Gull-wing sportscar made for modern Israel’s first prime-minister.
b. ben Gurion DeLorean
a. German luxury car for the plutonian underworld.
Hades Mercedes?
The nothing-to-do-with Purim quiz
1) Sunk together with the USS Yorktown by a Japanese submarine following the battle of Midway.
2) An organic compound formed when an acid (often a carboxylic acid) and an alcohol react, releasing water.
4) Yiddish for a famed Hershey product.
9) What a bootblack gives you.
10) P.O.P. are the initials of this popular computer game.
11) Three-fingered one-time-Cub pitcher.
12) A fatalistic sense of the absurd.
13) Word game in which a stick-figure is slowly completed when letters are guessed incorrectly.
Find-a-word
(maybe just slightly having to do with Purim)
(copied from another site)
FGBHJLCZUUIOYSCFWOWB
YQWFVJNIGZXWLKSACMPS
IBHKKTSWPDKTTVCYCXDD
RKASZIEABYATHSAMRAPR
HKSMORDECHAIHHTTYLOA
ZEAITRDQIRANLWASIIRU
YYCBDAIUUZCDSASGCUAG
REHABIJEFEVTNSAAHWSD
PVJDLZIEVGEKJADLXOAA
NYLZTEHNAHCNNPNLKLZL
AVZGGMREYASEVSAOXFHP
ARNEFVESZMEAEAHWVVRH
WUHSERETAARRHZSSIAXO
ZKUCVTXHSNVIWCRHWPBN
EORIGZZEASADIRAPTAKH
KEQSCXPRKONAJDPGKITQ
IHRTTZOZSETIANBGNXFO
CMYEBCZOQCSLFNASGIBX
LKYQLUAVEJIECZLKKEKW
NKSWKTBQVAKUZXMJBCIA.
Find the following:
ADALIA
ARIDAI
ARIDASA
ASPASA
BIGSAN
DALPHON
GALLOWS
GUARDS
HAMAN
HASACH
KINGACHASHVEIROSH
MORDECHAI
PARMASHTA
PARSHANDASA
PORASA
QUEENESTHER
QUEENVASHTI
SERVANTS
TERESH
VAYZASA
ICOT: why’d you give us the answers?
asdfghjkl-
Find-a-word gives away the answers so you know what to look for.
The answers have nothing to do with the prior puzzle, which (remember) has nothing to do with Purim.
Zip. Zilch. Nada. Or (as I thought in the voting booth in 2000), Gore-nischt.
I am still working on the others.
9) What a bootblack gives you. SHOE SHINE
12) A fatalistic sense of the absurd. Irony ?
13) Word game in which a stick-figure is slowly completed when letters are guessed incorrectly. HANGMAN
oomis1105-
In good conscience the following wee smidgen of a hint must be given:
Let’s say (speaking in the hypothetical) that the “nothing to do with Purim” statement above was made in the spirit of venahapoch hu.
Let’s further say that answer 7 above was correct, but it could be spelled “?????”
…and that 9, while also correct, would be “????”
(13 is fine as-is.)
1. USS Hammann
2. Esters
3. Indik
6. Shushan
8. Hadassah Lieberman.
10. Prince of Persia
11. (Three-Finger) Mordecai (Brown)
Bonus questions:
14. Ernest and Julio
15. More than one Polish airline
By George, I think I’ve got #5
My Ogele, which when slurred under the influence on Purim, came out “Megilla?”
Extra extra credit:
16. What Dr. W.H. Kellogg did after the failures of his Spelt Flakes and Barley Flakes.
4. Kish, because I couldn’t find a question to match Shokolad.
Thank you, ICOT, I enjoyed that thoroughly.
answer to number 5- Bigson
8-Hadassa. 10-Prince of Persia. 11-Mordecai
What are the names of Pres. Abama’s sons? (now dont answer he doesnt have any!)
Al Abama comes to mind (but our Pres spells his name Obama)
ICOT, I must have started my Purim drinking early — I am stumped today.
William Jefferson Abama?
G.W. Abama?
G.H.W. Abama?
Hmm, for some reason a lot of ronrsr’s posts are going to spam, I just unspammed a bunch of them. It looks like you got some of those answers before me
What are the names of Pres. Abama’s sons? (now dont answer he doesnt have any!)
???? ???? ?? ??? ???? ???? ?
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The nothing-to-do-with Purim quiz – Answers
2) An organic compound formed when an acid (often a carboxylic acid) and an alcohol react, releasing water. ester (ronrsr)
9) What a bootblack gives you. Shoeshine (oomis1105)
10) P.O.P. are the initials of this popular computer game. Prince of Persia (ronrsr, YW Moderator-42)
11) Three-fingered one-time-Cub pitcher. Mordecai (Brown) (ronrsr, YW Moderator-42)
12) A fatalistic sense of the absurd. Gallows humor
13) Word game in which a stick-figure is slowly completed when letters are guessed incorrectly. Hangman (oomis1105)
oomis1105-
It’s good to “practice” before the main event.
ronrsr-
ronrsr-
14. Ernest and Julio Gallo(ws)
[me]
16. After the failures of Spelt Flakes and Barley Flakes, Dr. Kellogg decided to TRY CORN (tricorn = 3 cornered hat, such as Haman wore)
Mod 42 – wow! Bnei B(a)rak
ronrsr-
Tricorn – excellent! I actually “pointed out” (ha, ha) on a different thread that in colonial times men wore hamenteshen.
Since no one else answered…
5. More than one Polish airline – Lots
a few quick ones before running off to work (new! extra corny!):
17) What a cartoonist would draw to illustrate Buzz Lightyear’s enemy is actually sleeping and not just lying down.
18) The matriarch of a group of large, poisonous lizards.
19) Two-score and ten Famous chocolate-chip cookies.
20) What the Svedish laundromat employee asks you when you bring in dirty clothes.
21) Usually this means clemency; not in the case of Haman and his ten sons.
20. (you vanna) Vash Ti?
18. Mama Komodo? Mama Monitor? Hmmmm. Have a Nagila?
No, Ma Gila (monster).
17) What a cartoonist would draw to illustrate Buzz Lightyear’s enemy is actually sleeping and not just lying down. Zurg ZZZs (or Zurg’s ZZZs – they’d be spoken almost identically)
18) The matriarch of a group of large, poisonous lizards. Ma Gila (ronrsr)
19) Two-score and ten Famous chocolate-chip cookies. 50 Amos (the gallows’ height)
20) What the Svedish laundromat employee asks you when you bring in dirty clothes. Vash dese? (ronrsr)
21) Usually this means clemency; not in the case of Haman and his ten sons. A suspended sentence
Ma Gila – not to be picky, but isn’t the lizard’s name prounounced as if it were spelled with an H and not a G?
we were using the ashkefardic pronunciation.
There are 4 places in the Megilla (that I know of) where we find four words in a row where the first (or last) letters spell Hashems name (both forward and backwards).
Where are these Pesukim?
and here we always thought that Hashem’s name wasn’t in the Megilla (or Mehilla, as Oomis would have us pronounce it.) It actually is there, it’s hidden!
What famous cartoon gorilla was called ????? ?????? (Farsi for “Grape Ape”) in the Iranian version of this animated Hanna-Barbera cartoon?
Megillah Gorilla (Magilla)
Are you sure it’s not pronounce Mehillah Gorilla?
Only kidding, chalk one up for Oomis!
Are you sure it’s not pronounce Mehillah Gorilla?
Maybe in South America….
Dr. Pepper
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There are 4 places in the Megilla (that I know of) where we find four words in a row where the first (or last) letters spell Hashems name (both forward and backwards).
Where are these Pesukim?
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Any hints?
? ?????????? ???????? ????????? ??????-???????? ??????-??????????, ???? ?????? ????; ?????-??????????, ???????? ????? ???????????? ???????????, ?????-?????.
Look at the fist letter of words ????; ?????-??????????, ???????? (The name of Hashem is backwards. This is from ??? ?.)
Here are the other three pesukim. I leave it to the reader to locate the name.
? ????????? ????????, ???-???-????????? ????–?????? ????????? ??????? ???????, ???-???????????? ??????-????????? ???
?? ?????-???, ????????? ?????? ???: ??????-???, ?????? ????? ????? ???-?????????? ???????????–???????, ????????? ?????????
? ??????????? ??? ??????????, ???????????? ????????, ???-???????, ?????????; ??????? ?????, ????????? ???-???????? ?????????? ???????????–???? ?????, ????-??????? ?????? ??????? ????? ?????????
Dr. Pepper-
Neat! Did you come up with that or see it somewhere?
which passuk in the megillah has every letter in the aleph beis?
I can only try-
When we were learning the Megilla in 4th grade our Rebbe pointed out one of the places (?????? ????????? ??????? ???????) to show that even though His name is not mentioned anywhere in the Megilla, never the less He was still “lurking” in the background.
Four years later a cousin of mine who was a very talented Baal Korei was laining the Megilla for the first time. (He was also a recent Bar Mitzvah at the time but regrettably he didn’t continue his talent as he got older.) I teased him that if he really knows the whole Megilla inside out, backwards and forwards he should show me where the name of Hashem is hidden. To my surprise he showed me three additional places as well.
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