The End of Khirma
Imaginative Answer Received (IAR) vs Expected Answer (EA) in events NDK and I conducted:
Rule: Replace one letter in each word to get a proverb.
Q: Emery Don, he's hit Dad!
EA: Every dog has his day.
IAR: Every son has his dad.
Rule: The two meanings in the clue refer to one word.
Q: Make light for failure to go straight. (3 letters)
EA: Arc.
IAR: Gay.
Rule: The pairs enclosed in () are related in a particular way. How?
Q: (astride, brushed), (selected, rejected), (amounts, contour), (lips, kiss)
EA: T9 pairs.
IAR: The number of letters in either word of a pair is the same.
Rule: The word must contain the letters L, M, N in reverse order.
Q: Generator that uses natural resource.
EA: Windmill.
IAR: Animals.
Rule: Synonym.
Q: Love without marriage.
EA: Adultery.
IAR: Committed.
Rule: Standard crossword clue.
Q: Fantastic figure totally the same however you look at it (5, 6)
EA: Magic square.
IAR: Lotus Temple.
Rule: Get two words the clue refers to. Replacing a repeated letter in one word gives the other word.
Q: Flies interchanged position before getting killed.
EA: Swapped, swatted.
IAR: Zippers, rippers.
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Meanwhile in a bachelors' flat somewhere in Pakiland...
Basak: Hundred. One double-O. Can you believe it? One..hund..red.
Rumafrash (looking up from a monthly): What on earth?
Basak: It's been a hundred days since our brethren left us on the mission to transfer Hindustanis and Cross-revering Occidents from the Taj to their respective Hells.
Amosa (from the kitchen): Yes, it's been. So?
Basak: So we've done nothing in the interim. I'm getting bored!
Amosa: Why don't you turn on the TV?
Rumafrash: What's on?
Amosa: Cricket match. Motherland versus Some Infidel.
Rumafrash: Sri Lanka, I believe. Today's sports page had a file photo of their captain in an indigo T-shirt. That's Lanka's colour, right?
Basak (switching the box on): Test or ODI?
When the telly flickers up, a T20 India-NZ match comes live.
Basak: Blooming bayonets! Indigo is no longer for Sri Lanka, but for India! Even as we speak their sinful feet are trodding our chaste land.
Rumafrash: Whoa. Let's watch all the overs.
Basak: What the fatwa! Son of a gun, don't you understand what this means? Our parliament has extended its kiss-up courtesy so wide as to let badsmen and wicked keepers and foulers from across the border to come piss on our sacred soil. Switch off the TV, it's time to trigger a few consequences.
Rumafrash: Wait a second, what are those chaps in black caps doing on the field?
Basak (turning the box off): Lock your muzzle, will you? Where's the next match?
Amosa (coming in with a sack of grenades): Lahore. We should be there by night. We got to lie in wait in the a.m. and get them on their way to the ground. Where did I keep my magazines?
Rumafrash (handing over the periodical in his hand): Here, take mine.
Both men give him a long look. Amosa proceeds to pick up a bunch of cartridges from a table drawer.
Rumafrash: Shall I get one of those rocket launchers Sam Chacha* gifted us last year?
Basak: Pack all the toys you can. Amosa, alert our other stations. We may need backup.
Amosa: One of us has to stay behind and look after him.
Amosa points to a middle-aged Danish journalist tied to a pillar with his dead daughter's teddy bear stuffed in his mouth.
Rumafrash: O come on, we don't have to.
Amosa doesn't heed R; he takes a barrel-cleaning rod, places it on a table and gives it a calculated spin. It points at Rumafrash.
Rumafrash: Aw. Let's do it again.
Basak: You're begging to get your butt kicked, I tell you. Take it like a man and bite the bullet.
Amosa: All right, let's go pumping. God is great.
'The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.'
- G K Chesterton
* Uncle Sam
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A few rounds I set for LitSoc What's The Good Word:
Haunted Typewriter
A mischievous devil has taken shelter in our typewriter, and every time we typed a proverb, he perpetrated a special and irritating variety of typo. He substituted one letter in each word of the proverb with some other. What's more, he took every kind of liberty with punctuation too. For instance, when we tried to key in 'Finders keepers', he interfered and it resulted in 'Fingers -- beepers!'. Could you get us the right proverbs from the following?
(1) Brood it, thinker, then waver
(2) Tie earls, bind matches: toe worn
(3) I'll chat, glistens as now good
(4) I switch on tile, sage's nice
(5) Wet sweeping does lip
(6) Caste maces paste
(7) Emery Don, he's hit Dad!
(8) Belter same, thin worry.
(9) Do 'ear us, He-man! So forgave in divide.
(10) Done site, thy hard teat feels 'IOU'
From the Finals:
(i) Dent out ale, sour ego’s an ole’ basset
(ii) Wetter lane, Thai fever
(iii) Lake bather Mike: ‘S.O.S.!’
(iv) Lever budge… I boot my ID’s coder
(v) I, tolling, atone Father’s, do mops
(vi) Male gay? Whine. She sin swines.
(vii) Stall eaters rue deer
(viii) It is aunt, bloke, font fit in
Writer's Block
Sometimes a name can be divided into two blocks. Like church + ill. Or arm + strong. The names of ten writers (including poets) have been split into two such blocks each, with each block a valid word. Use the direct clues below to get the 20 blocks. Join the right pairs and get the 10 writers' surnames.
Six letter block
* Member of learned society
Five letter blocks
* Having a specified value
* Long raised strip
* Sentence components
Four letter blocks
* Desire
* Shaft dug in earth
* A kind of cabbage
* Fence
* Food fish in Greenland
* Turn
* Haste
* Flood-averting barrier
Three letter blocks
* Conveyance
* Tier
* Curve
* Perish
* Of a female
Two letter block
* Awake
* Gate
Curtailment
Delete the last letter of some words and you still get a valid word. Eg: ASPIRING and ASPIRIN. Fill in the blanks with such pairs. Eg.: Batman resented it when ______ peeked into the dressing room while he was ______ (6 minus 1): ROBIN, ROBING.
1. The musician was heard playing his ______ in his ______ throughout his life sentence. (5 minus 1)
2. In the ______ of ontology, nothing is ______ (5 minus 1)
3. ______ people needn't necessarily be _______; all villagers aren't blunt and unrefined either. (6 minus 1)
4. The _____ chose from among the _______ on the basis of man-eating capacity. (6 minus 1)
5. When the enemy's massive _______ came into sight, we decided to _______ from the shore. (5 minus 1)
NDK's atrociously punny question:
Fill in the blank with a three-word phrase.
Tanay: If it’s an oral test, I’m going to flunk tomorrow!
Tanvi: Don’t worry, you’ll ace it. _______________.
[The format of Haunted Typewriter is not mine -- I had seen such a puzzle in an old issue of Reader's Digest. The q's are, as must befit a LitSoc event, original.]
Answers, some
Writer's Block
The blocks: Fellow, worth, ridge, words, long, well, cole, wall, ling, roll, rush, dike, car, row, arc, die, her, ace, up, or.
The writers: Longfellow, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Orwell, Wallace, Rowling, Rushdie, Updike, Carroll, Archer.
Curtailment
1. cello, cell.
2. realm, real.
3. Urban, urbane.
4. ogress, ogres.
5. fleet, flee.
Nikhil's atrociously punny answer:
Rule: Replace one letter in each word to get a proverb.
Q: Emery Don, he's hit Dad!
EA: Every dog has his day.
IAR: Every son has his dad.
Rule: The two meanings in the clue refer to one word.
Q: Make light for failure to go straight. (3 letters)
EA: Arc.
IAR: Gay.
Rule: The pairs enclosed in () are related in a particular way. How?
Q: (astride, brushed), (selected, rejected), (amounts, contour), (lips, kiss)
EA: T9 pairs.
IAR: The number of letters in either word of a pair is the same.
Rule: The word must contain the letters L, M, N in reverse order.
Q: Generator that uses natural resource.
EA: Windmill.
IAR: Animals.
Rule: Synonym.
Q: Love without marriage.
EA: Adultery.
IAR: Committed.
Rule: Standard crossword clue.
Q: Fantastic figure totally the same however you look at it (5, 6)
EA: Magic square.
IAR: Lotus Temple.
Rule: Get two words the clue refers to. Replacing a repeated letter in one word gives the other word.
Q: Flies interchanged position before getting killed.
EA: Swapped, swatted.
IAR: Zippers, rippers.
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Tragic relief
Meanwhile in a bachelors' flat somewhere in Pakiland...
Basak: Hundred. One double-O. Can you believe it? One..hund..red.
Rumafrash (looking up from a monthly): What on earth?
Basak: It's been a hundred days since our brethren left us on the mission to transfer Hindustanis and Cross-revering Occidents from the Taj to their respective Hells.
Amosa (from the kitchen): Yes, it's been. So?
Basak: So we've done nothing in the interim. I'm getting bored!
Amosa: Why don't you turn on the TV?
Rumafrash: What's on?
Amosa: Cricket match. Motherland versus Some Infidel.
Rumafrash: Sri Lanka, I believe. Today's sports page had a file photo of their captain in an indigo T-shirt. That's Lanka's colour, right?
Basak (switching the box on): Test or ODI?
When the telly flickers up, a T20 India-NZ match comes live.
Basak: Blooming bayonets! Indigo is no longer for Sri Lanka, but for India! Even as we speak their sinful feet are trodding our chaste land.Rumafrash: Whoa. Let's watch all the overs.
Basak: What the fatwa! Son of a gun, don't you understand what this means? Our parliament has extended its kiss-up courtesy so wide as to let badsmen and wicked keepers and foulers from across the border to come piss on our sacred soil. Switch off the TV, it's time to trigger a few consequences.
Rumafrash: Wait a second, what are those chaps in black caps doing on the field?
Basak (turning the box off): Lock your muzzle, will you? Where's the next match?
Amosa (coming in with a sack of grenades): Lahore. We should be there by night. We got to lie in wait in the a.m. and get them on their way to the ground. Where did I keep my magazines?
Rumafrash (handing over the periodical in his hand): Here, take mine.
Both men give him a long look. Amosa proceeds to pick up a bunch of cartridges from a table drawer.
Rumafrash: Shall I get one of those rocket launchers Sam Chacha* gifted us last year?
Basak: Pack all the toys you can. Amosa, alert our other stations. We may need backup.
Amosa: One of us has to stay behind and look after him.
Amosa points to a middle-aged Danish journalist tied to a pillar with his dead daughter's teddy bear stuffed in his mouth.
Rumafrash: O come on, we don't have to.
Amosa doesn't heed R; he takes a barrel-cleaning rod, places it on a table and gives it a calculated spin. It points at Rumafrash.
Rumafrash: Aw. Let's do it again.
Basak: You're begging to get your butt kicked, I tell you. Take it like a man and bite the bullet.
Amosa: All right, let's go pumping. God is great.
'The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.'
- G K Chesterton
* Uncle Sam
--------------------------------------------------------
A few rounds I set for LitSoc What's The Good Word:
Haunted Typewriter
A mischievous devil has taken shelter in our typewriter, and every time we typed a proverb, he perpetrated a special and irritating variety of typo. He substituted one letter in each word of the proverb with some other. What's more, he took every kind of liberty with punctuation too. For instance, when we tried to key in 'Finders keepers', he interfered and it resulted in 'Fingers -- beepers!'. Could you get us the right proverbs from the following?
(1) Brood it, thinker, then waver
(2) Tie earls, bind matches: toe worn
(3) I'll chat, glistens as now good
(4) I switch on tile, sage's nice
(5) Wet sweeping does lip
(6) Caste maces paste
(7) Emery Don, he's hit Dad!
(8) Belter same, thin worry.
(9) Do 'ear us, He-man! So forgave in divide.
(10) Done site, thy hard teat feels 'IOU'
From the Finals:
(i) Dent out ale, sour ego’s an ole’ basset
(ii) Wetter lane, Thai fever
(iii) Lake bather Mike: ‘S.O.S.!’
(iv) Lever budge… I boot my ID’s coder
(v) I, tolling, atone Father’s, do mops
(vi) Male gay? Whine. She sin swines.
(vii) Stall eaters rue deer
(viii) It is aunt, bloke, font fit in
Writer's Block
Sometimes a name can be divided into two blocks. Like church + ill. Or arm + strong. The names of ten writers (including poets) have been split into two such blocks each, with each block a valid word. Use the direct clues below to get the 20 blocks. Join the right pairs and get the 10 writers' surnames.
Six letter block
* Member of learned society
Five letter blocks
* Having a specified value
* Long raised strip
* Sentence components
Four letter blocks
* Desire
* Shaft dug in earth
* A kind of cabbage
* Fence
* Food fish in Greenland
* Turn
* Haste
* Flood-averting barrier
Three letter blocks
* Conveyance
* Tier
* Curve
* Perish
* Of a female
Two letter block
* Awake
* Gate
Curtailment
Delete the last letter of some words and you still get a valid word. Eg: ASPIRING and ASPIRIN. Fill in the blanks with such pairs. Eg.: Batman resented it when ______ peeked into the dressing room while he was ______ (6 minus 1): ROBIN, ROBING.
1. The musician was heard playing his ______ in his ______ throughout his life sentence. (5 minus 1)
2. In the ______ of ontology, nothing is ______ (5 minus 1)
3. ______ people needn't necessarily be _______; all villagers aren't blunt and unrefined either. (6 minus 1)
4. The _____ chose from among the _______ on the basis of man-eating capacity. (6 minus 1)
5. When the enemy's massive _______ came into sight, we decided to _______ from the shore. (5 minus 1)
NDK's atrociously punny question:
Fill in the blank with a three-word phrase.
Tanay: If it’s an oral test, I’m going to flunk tomorrow!
Tanvi: Don’t worry, you’ll ace it. _______________.
[The format of Haunted Typewriter is not mine -- I had seen such a puzzle in an old issue of Reader's Digest. The q's are, as must befit a LitSoc event, original.]
Answers, some
Writer's Block
The blocks: Fellow, worth, ridge, words, long, well, cole, wall, ling, roll, rush, dike, car, row, arc, die, her, ace, up, or.
The writers: Longfellow, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Orwell, Wallace, Rowling, Rushdie, Updike, Carroll, Archer.
Curtailment
1. cello, cell.
2. realm, real.
3. Urban, urbane.
4. ogress, ogres.
5. fleet, flee.
Nikhil's atrociously punny answer:
It is written.
(Tanay and Tanvi are the tween actors who played Jamal and Latika.)
Focus pulled this out out of nowhere during the last round of LitSoc Crossie Finale:
Focus pulled this out out of nowhere during the last round of LitSoc Crossie Finale:
posted by Marlin Jar at 2:36:00 pm
9 Obiter dicta:
:D iLike! Are you the cultural secretary?
The one about the Lahore attack on SL was extremely funny dude! :) I thoroughly enjoyed it!!
CC,
Nope, just an insignificant cog in the machinery. What's The Good Word co-ordinator.
Manoj,
My pleasure :-)
I'd never thought you'd do dark comedy. Sarcastic ok but not dark.
The others were funny but would have been funnier if i were there probably. Cheers :)
the answers were really i(hehe)maginative. especially the 'love without marriage' :D
Okay, Basak is Kasab-ulta....but who are the others?
Innovative word games...
And you do see how the "Curtailment"'s 1,4,5 blanks seem to have too many double-ended options giving it a sleazy look...I am tempted to give the answers, but i wonder what curtails me...
Saucerer,
Yes, this is the first time I've written dark humour.
Dr F,
I chose the names in a hurry. Rumafrash = anagram of Musharraf, Amosa is of course Mr bin Laden. And LOL!
The IAR made me ROTFL!!
thoroughly enjoyed!
"What the fatwa!" -- so Adams-esque! Reverse-entendre? Doubly funny!
(kid-of-regular customer on your blog, good work)
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