Monday, April 18, 2022

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This Week's Puzzler

A Proper Puzzler

It's time for a puzzler, a real puzzler., unlike that silly endeavor thing that I've been so interested in lately.
In a former life, I may have stolen this from Marilyn vos Savant, but I don't know! Maybe I'll call her up and ask her.
But it will be poetic justice, because we know she'll steal it back and she'll get double credit, as she should!

I don't know the origin of this puzzler. The true origin of it. I don't think anyone could ever know the true origin. The creator of this puzzler may not be able to speak for himself or herself. We think that we know the origins of things, but as they say, there is nothing new under the sun. Therefore the origins are lost to antiquity!
Here it is. It's a non-automotive puzzler. That's a hint.

Okay. Here it is. This is a, "What is it?" 

Clue #1 - The person who makes it doesn't need it. 
Clue #2 - The person who buys it doesn't use it. 
Clue #3 - The person who uses it doesn't know it. 
What is it?

This is a tangible item. This is not an abstract thing. So the mail will be a lot briefer because people can just write down the name of the thing instead of 25 pages of collective aggregate multitudinous nouns.

Our estimable technical adviser suggested one possible answer was dog food. 
I thought that was a good answer. But he would be wrong.

I love this. This is a good one. This is now a proper puzzler, and no longer an endeavor of nouns.

Answer the Puzzler »
Remember last week's puzzler?

An Assembly of Assemblies

Now it's time to go to our endeavor again, our nouns of assembly endeavor.
We're looking for nouns of assembly, multitudinous nouns. We are still looking for these.

I wanted to narrow it down so people wouldn't send me like 45,000 different possibilities. Actually, I liked them all. I propose that we specialize, we concentrate on groups of people who have, basically, a sleazy, less than wholesome reputation. 

We mentioned the ones that we're always in love with. Judges, lawyers, automobile mechanics. Things in Automotive are what people seem to be sending in like a dent of fenders. That's pretty good! Well, anyway, if you want to participate in our endeavor, we will pick our favorites. 

We can have categories!

We don't know what the categories are going to be. Once we have assembled all the assembled nouns. We will have an assembly of assemblies.
So if you want to participate, send your entries of assembled nouns.

Very important to write your entry on the back of a $20 bill.

No, wait, a $50 bill. Yeah, $50 is better.

Find out here »
Congratulations to this week's
puzzler winner:

Joe J., Nick S., Frank P., and Stan J.,

Congratulations! This correct answer was chosen at random by our Web Lackeys.
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Thursday, April 14, 2022

Does the Hemi deserve to die? | Your Autoblog Daily Digest, April 14, 2022

 
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