The big problem will be the loss of the Sun's daily crossword, honestly.
A belated addendum to this thread:
To His LOL Mistress
I has a mortality
Oh noes you is being all coy
I WEEL LEECK YOU
I was just informed of this thread by my lovely wife Rose, to which my response was, so, something like:
oh hai
you had some plums
but I eated them
I is sorry
they had a flavor
...upon which she said, "I'm sure someone has already written that one, but it delights me nonetheless that you were able to come up with it off the top of your head." And indeed, someone has already written it. But it seemed different enough to make it not entirely ridiculous for me to post mine as well.
I knew it would take extreme measures for President Bush to become better socialized.
Lucy -- some suggestions for you.
Led Zeppelin: "Thank You" (also available in a cover version by Tori Amos)
Geggy Tah: "Whoever You Are" (All I want to do is to thank you / Even though I don't know who you are / You let me change lanes / While I was driving in my car)
Sam and Dave: "I Thank You"
William DeVaughn: "Be Thankful for What You Got" (also available in a cover version by Yo La Tengo)
I was going to bring up "Light-Hearted Friend" as an example of the absurdity of expecting a long anagram to yield a single answer without some other sort of corroboration, but I see someone else has already done so. (And I was one of the two authors of the letter to Harpers linked above, so thanks for the props, Dan.)
There was an MIT Mystery Hunt where a team who had never run a hunt before expected solvers to unscramble a ridiculously long anagram -- it was at least a full sentence, maybe even a paragraph. I can't remember anymore. Anyway, no one solved it, and had they actually tried test-solving it themselves before the Hunt, they would have known that would happen.
Also, since Rose linked to my anagram pop song above, perhaps it is not too off-topic for me to point you all to my book, which, even though it is entirely anagram-based, is not selling quite as many copies as The DaVinci Code. Go figure. I feel weird about self-promoting on a blog-that's-not-mine's comment thread, but I know y'all are a literary-pastiche-loving crowd, so I think you'll be into it -- and I'm braced to get slapped if you think mentioning it wasn't worth the pixels. Anyway, I'm giving the whole book away for free here, in a couple formats.
Well, it's a small Internet, isn't it? Kevin Wald is a friend of mine -- I know him through the National Puzzlers' League. He regularly contributes puzzles of all sorts to the NPL newsletter, and he is generally regarded by all who know him as a delightful fellow with a scary, scary brain. When I was writing a Chaucer parody for my book, he's the guy I turned to when I wanted to make sure my Middle English was sufficiently authentic.
I like to think of it as "Finnegan Gets the Shaft". I suppose "Finnegans Falcon" is more accurate, though.
I hope it's kosher to use pastiches one has written already:
lugergun, past Spade and Archer's, from screech of street to barf of beer, picked up by a fedoratopped flatfoot of discernification back to Smoky Office and Environs. Mike Finnegan, private d'etective, fr'over the laundromat downthestairs, had powder-dust contrived from Precinct Serpentine on this side the crummy megapol down Canal Street to pinkyprint his evidentiary gat...
No one's ever going to be able to talk me out of my gut feeling that the Republicans won this in Ohio by making it as hard as possible for people in the state's Democratic strongholds to vote. (Well, that and inspiring evangelical Christians to protect the country from [ominous chord] gaaaay marrrrriage.) What was up with the shortages of voting machines in urban areas? Given that turnout was high all over the state, isn't it a little suspicious that the people still waiting in line to vote at midnight were in the cities and not the suburbs?
It always amazes me that the same people who are so fervent in their beliefs that it shocks them to learn that other people actually feel differently than they do are also the ones who feel so insecure about their religion's ability to withstand the tiniest bit of non-church thought that they have to go and burn books.
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