THE PUZZLE CORNER: JUNE 25, 2022

😎FUN FACT

Honeybees🐝🐝 pollinate over 90 known crops, besides flowers.

FAMOUS FIRSTS🥇

Who is the only professional basketball player to score over 38,000+ career points?

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?

Mister Toad goes to Tara.

We’ll reveal all next weekend but for now, let’s open up THE ANSWERS BOX📦 and discover the results from the June 18, 2022 Puzzle Corner.

COMMON BONDS

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

01. {Marvin Gaye, 4 Non Blondes} = ♫What’s Going On?♫

02. {The Monkees, Steve Winwood} = ♫Valerie♫

03. {Subsets 1 and 2} = Different artists releasing different songs with the same title.

HUH? (misquotes)

The misquote is below. All you have to do is give us the correct quote and source. Ready?

♫Saving his life from this warm sausage tea.♫ IS ACTUALLY ♫Spare him his life from this monstrosity.♫ from Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody.

THE PUZZLE CORNER: FEBRUARY 12, 2022

😎FUN FACT

It actually takes 12 muscles to smile😊 and only 10 to frown!😒

TRIVIA TIME⌚

Who were Paul and Linda McCartney’s backup band on ♫Coming Up♫?

THE LETTER SHUFFLE

Considering it’s fast approaching, how many new words can you make out of the letters in VALENTINE?

We’ll reveal all next weekend but for now, let’s open up THE ANSWERS BOX📦 and discover the results from the February 5, 2022 Puzzle Corner.

COMMON BONDS

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

01. {♫Muppet Rhapsody♫, ♫Any Way The Force Flows♫} = Both are homages to Queen’s ♫Bohemian Rhapsody♫.

02. {The Monkees, Steve Winwood} = Both have sang about ♫Valerie♫, although a different lady with that name was the subject of each tune.

REBUS

Something familiar is represented in the image below. Do you know what it is?

TOMORROW DAY = The day after tomorrow.

SUNDAY FUNNIES: MORE FUN SONGS

Hello Everybody!

The Free Choice E-zine's Editor-In-Chief Lee Houston, Junior here since both Autumn the Puppy and Piper D. Katt are off today as the United States celebrates its birthday.

But you folks don't need me to get on any soap boxes.

It's Sunday and time for some fun!

When I guest hosted over the Memorial Day weekend,

I talked about the guilt pleasure of fun tunes that everyone sings along with, whether we'll ever actually admit it or not, so it's time to share some YouTube links to other Merry Melodies.

Ready?

Not exactly a valid prescription for what might ail you, but ♫Put The Lime In The Coconut♫ is a fun and entertaining number.

With it being summer and the COVID situation improving in some areas enough for parents to even consider the possibility, there's always Allan Sherman's classic camp song ♫Hello Muddah. Hello Fadduh.♫ (Here I am at, Camp Granada!—WHY? Just because you two want some time alone, I'm stuck here? You do know what this place is costing you for my stay, right? 😉)

Of course funny animal songs are always amusing.

As far as ducks are concerned, there's both Disco and Howard. 🦆🦆

(There are 2/TWO separate links in this item.)

And with all the singing going on around him, one has to wonder if ♫The Lion Sleeps Tonight♫ or if he's having another bout of insomnia?

Yet, as any satirist can attest, you can always take a more serious tune and have fun with it.

There are both Star Wars AND Muppet takes on Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody and I wouldn't doubt there might be others out there too.

(There are 3/THREE separate links in this item.)

So between today's and the previously mentioned Memorial Day post, you've got the start of a fun playlist!

In any event, afraid it's time for me to go have some fun too.

Take care.

STAY SAFE!😷

Have a great week and one of the ladies will be back next weekend for more Sunday Funnies!—lh,jr.

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The Free Choice E-zine did not post any videos to YouTube. We're just sharing the existing links.

SUNDAY FUNNIES: A BLUE SALUTE TO THE MEDICAL PROFESSION!

Autumn the Puppy

Waxy Dragon

Hello Everybody!
Today you have both Autumn the Puppy AND Waxy Dragon here!
Since this whole pandemic started, everyone's been ♫Under Pressure♫,  but we've been trying our best at cheer leading hoping to get everyone to smile 😁 because despite the fact Sundays are Joke Time around here, there really hasn't been all that much to laugh about right now. Even the Easter Bunny🐰 got into the act this year!

If you haven't noticed yet, except for our signatures and the links, this column is in blue today because we are pawsing, pausing to salute those on the front lines in the medical profession who have been battling the COVID-19/Coronavirus crisis from the start!
Those tireless men and women who have been doing their best, even at the risk of their own lives.😷
So folks, these jokes are for YOU!

Funny, but we still don't know who to accredit the above to.

A strong person looks a challenge in the eye and winks.😉

If bakers keep wanting you to pose for pictures with their baked goods, does this make you an excellent Roll model?🙄

FYI: your phone📱 won’t auto-correct when you’re in caps lock because it assumes you are angry and it doesn’t want to get involved.

With all the hot topics on the internet, we won’t talk about thumbs. It’s beside the point.

My friend gave birth in her car on the way to the hospital. She and her husband named the baby Kid Carson.

Now that we have everyone washing their hands correctly, maybe next week we can teach them to actually use their turn signals when driving!

And on that note♫, our esteemed Editor-In-Chief humbly suggested a song for the world to rally around, and we'd like to share it with you right now.

Please take care everybody!
STAY STRONG and STAY SAFE!
AtP and wd.

♫We are the Champions♫ written, performed, and © copyrighted by Queen/The Freddie Mercury Estate.
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♫WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS!♫ (an editorial rally)

THE FOLLOWING IS AN EDITORIAL.

Folks, the United States of America is far from the only country facing the pandemic known at COVID-19/Coronavirus.

These are some VERY trying times for every citizen of the world, and the efforts of everyone on the proverbial "front lines" in the various sectors of the medical profession cannot go unnoticed or unacknowledged.

When all this is over, and at some point it WILL be, I hope there is some kind of MEDICAL PRACTITIONERS' APPRECIATION DAY.
Okay, the name needs work but the concept is solid.

In the meantime, we must all continue to pull together not only as family units amongst ourselves, but as counties, cities, states, countries and, most importantly AN UNITED EARTH!

With that in mind I've been thinking, among other things, about a potential rallying song to attempt lifting everyone's spirits.
There are a LOT of possibilities.

Yet in the end, there was only one tune that I personally thought was most appropriate to unite us all.

♫We Are The Champions♫ by Queen because let's face it, we're all in this fight together, and together is the only way we will be victorious!

STAY SAFE AND STRONG EVERYONE!

Lee Houston, Junior
Editor-In-Chief The Free Choice E-zine
7 April, 2020

♫We are the Champions♫ written, performed, and © copyrighted by Queen/The Freddie Mercury Estate.
Video accessed and shared through YouTube via Google/Blogger.

THE ABOVE WAS AN EDITORIAL.

SUNDAY FUNNIES: ♫UNDER PRESSURE♫

I can do this. I CAN DO THIS!

HELLO EVERYBODY! WAXY DRAGON HERE!
Okay, let's stop and face facts for a moment.
No matter who says what, this COVID-19, also known as the Coronavirus is no laughing matter!

There's a big run on just about everything at the stores right now.
Even Belgosian Dark Chocolate! 🍫 *gasp!*

Schools and other things are temporarily closed.
Sports fans aren't happy about games being either delayed or cancelled but even hoarders aren't having a good time!
What's a baby companion dragon to do?

Drop back and punt! Seriously though, I may be ♫under pressure♫
and there's the perfect song cue! 😏

But as they say, the show goes on.

Why do EMTs travel in groups of two?

Because they want to be a pair of medics.

If they don’t expect me to dance in the aisles at grocery stores, why do they play music?

The COVID-19/Coronavirus Pandemic, Daylight Savings Time, Friday the 13th and a Full Moon all in the same week....
Who’s playing Jumanji?

Seriously though.
There is a LOT going on in the world right now, and it's VERY IMPORTANT to listen to your doctor's advice.
Especially this one...

With that in mind, take care everybody!
Be safe and please be back here again next weekend for more Sunday Funnies!—wd.

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THE PUZZLE CORNER: FEBRUARY 1, 2020

😎FUN FACT
There will be a “blue” moon in October, with the second full one on HALLOWEEN!🎃

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?
TARDIS operator on a comedy show.

NUMBER PLEASE
Get ready! We ask the question, but the answer is just a number.
How many opening moves are there for each player in a game of Chess?

We’ll reveal all next weekend but for now, let’s open up THE ANSWERS BOX📦 and discover the results from the January 25 2020 Puzzle Corner.

THE 50/50 CHANCE
Just like a regular TRIVIA TIME question, except there are just two possible answers, hence the even odds of getting it right. Ready?
TRUE or FALSE: ALL the witches were accounted for in the 1938 movie version of The Wizard of Oz.
FALSE! Dorothy’s house fell on the Wicked Witch of the East, leading to the battle with the Wicked Witch of the West while Glenda, the Good Witch of the North helped the lady from Kansas and her friends, but there was never any mention of a Witch of the SOUTH.

AKA, ALSO KNOWN AS
Who do we know Farrokh Bulsara better as?
Freddie Mercury of Queen!