THE PUZZLE CORNER: JULY 22, 2023

 😎FUN FACT

This is our 2,900th Blogger post!

RHYME TIME⏰

The clue to something is below, but no matter how long your answer is, each word within it must rhyme. Ready?

Love story about a cowboy and a ballerina.

AKA, ALSO KNOWN AS

Who do we know Sarah Ophelia Colley Cannon better as?

We’ll reveal all next weekend but for now, let’s open up THE ANSWERS BOX📦 and discover the results from the July 15, 2023 Puzzle Corner.

BEFORE AND AFTER

Two separate items share at least one word, and so can be combined to create something new. Based upon the clue below, do you know what the new thing is?

Famous author meets a famous actor. = Elmore Leonard Nimoy.

TRIVIA TIME⌚

What famous movie line inadvertently mentions two different rock groups?

“Toto, I don’t think we’re in Kansas anymore.”—from The Wizard of Oz.

SUNDAY FUNNIES: MOVIE MAGIC

"Pass the popcorn. NOW!"

Hello Everybody! Waxy Dragon here!

Now, one thing parents always worry about when their kids are home are the little ones sitting in front of their TVs or computer screens playing too many video games.

Not ol' Bubblehead, who's responsible for my health and well being.
Considering I still haven't found where he hid the game controllers yet, I spend most of my screen time watching movies, and it's amazing the secrets you learn from them. Like...

Most movie dogs are immortal, which certainly makes Autumn the Puppy happy.

If being chased through town, you can usually take cover in a passing parade at any time of the year.

Failing that, there's always a handy, nearby crowd to lose yourself in.

All grocery shopping bags contain at least one stick of french bread, which must make the local bakery very happy.

It's easy to land a plane if there is someone in the control tower to talk you down.
Then again, when I go flying, I never need a plane.

Once applied, lipstick will never rub off.
Human females seem to love that stuff, but I think it tastes awful.

Waxy's favs!

The ventilation system of any building is the perfect hiding place. No-one will ever think of looking for you in there and you can travel to any other part of the building you want with little difficulty.

Kids, DON'T try that at home! It's difficult for a baby dragon to do so to begin with. I always have to keep my wings folded against my body to get through those things, which always gives me wing cramps.

Not big enough for Waxy!

When paying for a taxi, don't look at your wallet as you take out a bill. Just grab one at random and
hand it over. It will always be the exact fare.

Now if only I had one of those magic wallets. Then again, I never ride in taxis and those things never seem to work for anything else.

On that note, I'm going to watch some more movies if I can find where Bubblehead hid the remote controls for the cable box and the TV set.

Have a good week and please be back here again next weekend for more Sunday Funnies!—wd.

THE PUZZLE CORNER: JULY 22, 2017

FUN FACT
The script for the classic movie Casablanca was unfinished when filming began!

THE LETTER SHUFFLE
Arranged properly the same four letters spell a two word, alternate term for “medical records”.
What are they?

TRIVIA TIME
According to their show’s voice over introduction, who were “Always 5, acting as 1”?

We’ll reveal all next weekend, but for now, let’s open up THE ANSWERS BOX and discover the results from the July 15, 2017 Puzzle Corner.

COMMON BONDS
The items within each subset below have something in common. Do you know what it its?
01. {Jimi Hendrix, “Weird” Al Yankovic} = Both have been opening acts for The Monkees, 1967 & 1987, respectively.
02. {Announcer Don Pardo, Journalist Walter Cronkite} = Both were the first to break the news to their respective audiences (NBC for Pardo, Cronkite: CBS) that President John F. Kennedy had been shot in Dallas, Texas on November 22, 1963.

TRIVIA TIME
In television, what is a “back door pilot”?
When an existing series tries an idea for a new show. If successful, then the new show becomes a spin off, otherwise, you just have another episode of the existing series.

SUNDAY FUNNIES: STILL MORE OXYMORONS

"I am NOT an oxymoron!"

Hello Everybody. Autumn the Puppy here!
In my last Sunday Funnies appearance (http://www.thefreechoice.info/2012/07/the-sunday-funnies-oxymoronic.html) I discussed oxymorons, those figures of speech that combine contradictory terms.
Well, since that column appeared, I've thought of several more, as well as gathered up all the suggestions you readers have sent me at FreeChoiceEzine@gmail.com; and would like to share them with you now.
Ready?

*Act Naturally
*Found missing
*Resident Alien (Really? From what planet?)
*Genuine imitation (As compared to a real imitation?)
*Airline Food (barf!)
*Good Grief! (Accredited to Charles Schulz of Peanuts fame)
*Child proof (There are a LOT of parents who submitted this one!)
*"Now, then..."
*Synthetic Natural Gas
*Passive Aggression (And Ghandi's Peaceful Resistance too)
*Taped Live (before a studio audience)
*Clearly misunderstood (Is there any other way to misunderstand something?)
*Peace Force (I can see where this is technically an oxymoron, but I definitely prefer peace to war)
*Extinct Life (as opposed to Live Life, I guess)
*Temporary Tax increase
*Computer jock (maybe an oxymoron, but definitely a better term than computer nerd)
*Plastic glasses (Hey, I drink out of a plastic bowl, so go figure)
*Terribly pleased
*Almost exactly
*Sanitary landfill (What? Were you REALLY expecting a clean landfill? It's a landfill! Geez!)
*Alone together (along with "Alone at last". If you're with someone, are you really alone?)
*Legally drunk (Is this a truly worthwhile objective?)
*Silent scream (only if you're in the vacuum of outer space)
*Computer security (with all the hackers out there...)
*Political Science (Since when do Republicans actually care about facts?)
*Small crowd
*Tight slacks (submitted by a lot of men for some reason)
*Definite maybe (submitted by a lot of parents with small children)
*Soft Rock (in music. Hard rock doesn't qualify since rocks are hard)
*Military intelligence (do I REALLY have to explain that one?)
*Butt Head (submitted a lot by someone named Beavis)
*Twelve ounce pound cake
*Pretty ugly (but remember folks, beauty is subjective and always in the eye of the beholder)
*Diet ice cream (YUCK!)
*New classic (or neo classic)
*Exact estimate
*Working vacation (more people are taking them, but when do you get to rest?)
*The Three Stooges (Yes, they are morons. But oxymorons? No. The name is accurate. There are three of them.)

And finally, someone suggested both Waxy Dragon and myself as oxymorons, because who ever heard of a talking dragon or a talking puppy?
To that, I say just because you haven't met us, don't discount what you haven't seen with your own eyes.
And on that note, I hope everyone has a great week and will be back here again next weekend for more Sunday Funnies!--A very REAL Autumn the Puppy! WOOF!