THE PUZZLE CORNER: SEPTEMBER 20, 2025

 😎FUN FACT

It’s the soap🧼, not the water temperature, that kills germs when washing your hands.

NUMBER PLEASE

Get ready! We ask the question, but the answer is just a number.

How many movies did actors Paul Newman and Robert Redford make together?

TRIVIA TIME⌚

Going into the 2025 playoffs, who is the only Major League Baseball⚾ team to have never made it to the World Series?

We’ll reveal all next weekend but for now, let’s open up THE ANSWERS BOX📦 and discover the results from the September 13, 2025 Puzzle Corner.

TRIVIA TIME⌚

Since September 18 was Cheeseburger🍔 Day, what exactly is on Jimmy Buffet’s ♫Cheeseburger In Paradise♫?

According to the song (and I played the track on the Songs You Know By Heart CD 3/THREE times to confirm this), Jimmy Buffet was "not too particular, not too precise" but a ♫Cheeseburger in Paradise♫ included an unspecified bun, "a huge hunk of meat" cooked medium rare, onion slice, lettuce, tomatoes, mustard AND Heinz 57 sauce; served with French fried potatoes, a Kosher dill pickle and a cold draft beer.

COMMON BONDS

The items in each subset below have something in common. Do you know what it is?

01. {Nuro, Valo} = Light, in other languages. Swahili and Finnish respectively.

02. {Skua, Grebe} = Birds. Skua stay mainly along shorelines while Grebe dive for their food.

THE PUZZLE CORNER: SEPTEMBER 13, 2025

 😎FUN FACT

A Nautical Mile is 6,076 feet or 1,852 meters.

TRIVIA TIME⌚

Sine September 18 is Cheeseburger🍔 Day, what exactly is on Jimmy Buffet’s ♫Cheeseburger In Paradise♫?

COMMON BONDS

The items in each subset below have something in common. Do you know what it is?

01. {Nuro, Valo}

02. {Skua, Grebe}

We’ll reveal all next weekend but for now, let’s open up THE ANSWERS BOX📦 and discover the results from the September 6, 2025 Puzzle Corner as we celebrated Star Trek’s 59th anniversary.

FAMOUS FIRSTS🥇

Who was the very first Captain of the Starship Enterprise NCC-1701?

Robert April is officially the Captain of record while the ship was being built and oversaw its initial missions until the Enterprise was declared space worthy. His then First Officer Christopher Pike assumed command.

TRIVIA TIME⌚

Why is September 8 so significant in Star Trek history?

Besides the fact that Thursday September 8, 1966 saw the debut of the original Star Trek on network television, Saturday September 8, 1973 saw the debut of Star Trek: The Animated Series, continuing the series with most of the original cast voicing their characters in new adventures.

THE PUZZLE CORNER: SEPTEMBER 21, 2024

 😎FUN FACT

Dice have been around for over 5000 years.

TRIVIA TIME⌚

Dice is the group name for two or more, but what do you call just one?

FILL IN THE BLANKS

All you have to do is what the title says, literally fill in the blanks to acquire the answer. The given letters are all shown, none of those are missing. Ready?

Person: SHE_ _ _ _ _  H_ _ _ ES.

We’ll reveal all next weekend but for now, let’s open up THE ANSWERS BOX📦 and discover the results from the September 14, 2024 Puzzle Corner.

FAMOUS FIRSTS🥇

With the new television season upon us, do you know these classic opening lines from famous television series?

01. "You’re traveling through another dimension." = Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone.

02. "Theorizing that one could time travel within their own lifetime…" The Sam Beckett version of Quantum Leap.

03. "1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8." = Laverne and Shirley. The rest of the chant is “Schlemiel! Schlimazel! Hasenpfeffer Incorporated,” before the theme song starts.

04. "We travel through time to help history along." = Voyagers!, a good science-fiction series that unfortunately only lasted the 1982-83 TV season.

05. "Space, the final frontier." =  Star Trek, first said during The Original Series and in subsequent programs since.

TRIVIA TIME⌚

Since September 18 was Cheeseburger Day, how exactly did Jimmy Buffet like his ♫Cheeseburger In Paradise♫?

According to the song (and I played the track on the Songs You Know By Heart CD 3/THREE times to confirm this), Jimmy Buffet was "not too particular, not too precise" but a ♫Cheeseburger in Paradise♫ included an unspecified bun, "a huge hunk of meat" cooked medium rare, onion slice, lettuce, tomatoes, mustard AND Heinz 57 sauce; served with French fried potatoes, a Kosher dill pickle and a cold draft beer.

THE PUZZLE CORNER: SEPTEMBER 14, 2024

 😎FUN FACT

🐈Cats🐈 are capable of making almost 300 facial gestures to express their feelings.

FAMOUS FIRSTS🥇

With the new television season upon us, do you know these classic opening lines from famous television series?

01. "You’re traveling through another dimension."

02. "Theorizing that one could time travel within their own lifetime..."

03. "1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8."

04. "We travel through time to help history along."

05. "Space, the final frontier." 

TRIVIA TIME⌚

Since September 18 is Cheeseburger Day, how exactly did Jimmy Buffet like his ♫Cheeseburger In Paradise♫?

We’ll reveal all next weekend but for now, let’s open up THE ANSWERS BOX📦 and discover the results from the September 7, 2024 Puzzle Corner.

TRIVIA TIME⌚

Two members of the Star Trek: Voyager cast had cameos in the Star Trek (The Next Generation) movie First Contact. Who were they?

Robert Picardo was obvious as the ship’s holographic Emergency Medical System Doctor, but Ethan Phillips was unrecognizable without his Nelix makeup as a nightclub maitre’d.

NUMBER PLEASE

Get ready! We ask the question, but the answer is just a number.

How many eggs🥚🥚🥚 do you need to fill an empty egg container?

1, because although the average egg container holds a dozen (12) eggs, once you put one in, it’s no longer empty.

“Logical.”—Any Vulcan.

SUNDAY FUNNIES: FUN SONGS

Hello Everybody! The Free Choice E-zine's Editor-In-Chief Lee Houston, Junior here today because both Autumn the Puppy and Piper D. Katt have the weekend off.

This is the Memorial Day weekend here in the United States, when we pause to remember everyone who has served to defend this country and its freedom(s) past, present, and future.

It would be WAY too easy for me to hop on my soap box and share my opinions with you on a variety of pertinent topics; but other than a humble request to please remember those brave men and women who fought for so much more than just a three day weekend, that's not why any of us are here.

We've all heard them from time to time. Artists like "Weird" Al Yankovic have even made a career out of them.

Fun tunes that give us a couple of moments of pleasure between the more traditional songs of love, social messages, attempting to sell us stuff and everything else music can do.

Like "Brand New Key" by Melanie.

"In The Summertime" by Mongo Jerry.

"My Ding-A-Ling" by Chuck Berry.

"I'm Gonna Buy Me A Dog", "Your Auntie Grizelda" and its sequel "Auntie's Municipal Court" by The Monkees.

"Jump In The Line (Shake Shake Shake Senora)" and "Day-O (The Banana Boat Song)" by Harry Belafonte.

"Fins" or "Volcano" by Jimmy Buffet.

"Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da" by The Beatles.

And there's hundreds more for every one I've listed above.

The point is to kick back, relax, and have some fun once in a while!

On that note♫, take care.

STAY SAFE!😷

And please be back here next weekend for more Sunday Funnies!—lh,jr.

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SUNDAY FUNNIES: LAUGHING TO KEEP WARM!

It's a 3 Dog Night!

Hello Everybody. Autumn the Puppy here, and I have to agree with the opening lyrics to the Red Dwarf theme song.

It's cold outside, there's no kind of atmosphere...

Winter since the first of the year has been a lot colder and harsher than originally predicted. Even with my fur coat, I'm staying in as much as possible! Brrr...

With that in mind, let's see what I can dig up on the Internet...

Truth in advertising

No one wants to be outside unless absolutely necessary.

So I can't blame the poor employee who was working at the gas station when the image on the right was originally photographed.

Hopefully, this person either has an understanding supervisor or else, has found more gainful employment elsewhere since.

Aloha, paradise!

Now this time of year, I'm sure we would all love to be someplace warm and tropical, like this picture of Fernando de Noronha in Brazil on the left.

Of course if you already live south of the equator at this time of year, all I have to say is that you folks are very lucky!

Then again, if I was lucky enough to find myself on a beach right now, I'd probably run into the sign below.

Hope springs eternal

Somehow, The Free Choice E-zine always manages to post this image on the right at least once a year and personally, I never grow tired of looking at it.

On one hand, it is a symbol of eternal optimism, hoping that grass will grow at some point.

On the other paw, just think of all that warm sand to romp and play in.

Frosty can stay up north! My name's Sandy.

I've only built one snow person in my lifetime. Snow people may be fun to create, but that stuff is cold to work with! Maybe I just need a different medium, like whoever built the creation on the left.

In any event, stay warm folks! I'm going to throw some Beach Boys and Jimmy Buffet on the CD player, and hope all those people trying to stand on my stereo equipment don't break anything.

Little Surfer, little one... You've got fins to the left, fins to the right, and you're the only girl in town!

Maybe I shouldn't try playing everything at once after all.

Have a great week, and please be back here next weekend for more Sunday Funnies!-AtP.