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January 25, 2006
Hey there, hi there, ho there. You're as welcome as can be. Not sure if this is going to continue or not. We've finally posted the solution to the puzzle we posted over a month ago. We can't promise we'll post a new puzzle every week, but leave us a comment as to whether you would like us to continue or if we should just let WIIW die a natural death. While you're thinking about your answer, consider this blast from the past:
December 7, 2005
Solution: Puzzle Seventy Two
12-14-05: Come on folks! Light a fire under your fellow guessers and tell 'em to get on over to this here new site and put up some chatter! Or we'll go the way of Toby...
Oh we got something special for y'all this week. A true what-is-it. We don't even know! So we'll let you look at it from all sides. We'd let ya pick it up if we could but the transporter's broken this week. Beam it, Scotty!
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idol, Ms. Scarlet O'Hara, used to say. We wuz hoping that you'd all get used
to clicking here rather than
there, but our guess is that that is not an event that will come to pass. So
let's wrap up this puzzler. The one we spent hours researching to find the
very patent documents for this little treat. Richard almost made us cry by being the first to jump on the bandwagon of correctness by stating that it's "some sort of mallet." Not having ever done anything that would remotely require a tool like this, we floundered through a few google searches until we stumbled upon a stone mason's site that had a history of stone working tools that included a picture of the same Leather Maul. Once we had a good idea of the name of the tool, we were able to browse through a few hundred patent documents until we came up with the docs for not only this item, but it's precursor which was patented in 1879. Guess in 10 years old George B. Goddard was able to come up with enough improvements to warrant a new patent. Considering all the historic stone houses that surround us, we sort of said a great big Duh! when presented with it's purpose and felt silly it took so long to determine WIW. Jen we are sorry we made you wait so long, but time is our most precious and least plentiful resource lately, which is why we won't be returning to fotopages. We simply have no luck operating at that site during the hours when we might be able to post and indeed, we apparently don't even have the time to post here. Your guesses were all very good, in fact our first searches involved percussion instruments to see if it was for drumming or gonging or perhaps some xylophone on steroids... JP definitely grokked the manner in which the tool is used if not the specific purpose. Katie, Katie, Katie. Just how long are you going to keep playing the "I'm-never-right" card? You've been right before, we're sure you'll be right again in the future. You're just not right this week. Try again, we'll even let you guess for free! Thurz came by and "shot the comedic wad", so to speak. Tell us Thurz, does the interest in this type of meme seem to be waning more on the part of the administrators or the contestants? And it's not that we don't have interest, we do enjoy it. Unfortunately our lives have filled with other things leaving us to prioritize and make hard choices. Even though we enjoy it, it sometimes seems like work and that sucks some of the fun out of it. Your take on it? To summarize: Richard's the Top Dawg this week with JP nipping at his heels and the Wednesday Bratz are just glad that the folks who stopped by stopped by. We hope you had fun. |
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Solution to: Puzzle Seventy One (11/30/05)
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| Hey-dee, Hi-dee, Ho-dee!
Thanks for droppin' by the place and taking a gander at this week's marvel
of puzzledom. We appreciate your patronage! As our way of saying thanks,
this site will remain free of charge! Richard made us google Meccano to find it's that boy-toy that we girlz used to giggle about so much when we were doing the puberty thing. "Hey, Richard. Did you get your erector set?" btw, shelves was a good guess, in fact the closest until JP came along. JP! JP! JP! JP! You would be the most correcto-mundo guesser this week. It's the stairs of a warehouse ladder. Designed to help the short of stature reach the pinnacle of the stock stack. And we can't agree with you on the Firefox thang because it makes our patented Microsnot photo slide-shows look like $hit. Marky-Mark needs to look up the next time he stumbles into the alley behind Tony's Bar & Grill. He'd see the fire escape above and maybe that would clue him into the puzzle... Thurz is hanging out a shingle and opening up a discount derm-abrasion clinic for the insurance impaired. Yup, you'll walk away with a rosy glow...and sorry to leave you the last surviving meme on the block at fotopages, but dude, life is too short. The choices were give it up completely or move to someplace that didn't waste that most precious of resources—time. Yeah Jen, we see that. The air holes so that hot air from the blow dryer can circulate through instead of cooking your hair to a crisp. Good guess. Katie, Katie, shady lady. Sucking up to Richard again. Being as that $lut Juli doesn't come around anymore, you probably have a good chance there. Then again, playground equipment? Richard may be too old for you... |
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Solution to: Puzzle Seventy (11/23/05)
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| Yowzer, yowzer. We had no idea
so many of you snuck in comments while we weren't looking. We're declaring
Jen the most correct Guesser this week. It's not just any "guy's head"
though, this is the peach-fuzzed pate of a Baby Bratz. Marky-Mark want's to know why we're not willing to put up with the lousy landlords at our former home. Heh, heh. If this is something feathery, then by golly it's molting!!!! Richard, always trying to get a girl into the bedroom. What a Romeo... Our mystery Guesser, Ripchamb, has been unmasked by unwittingly letting a browser save form data...Heh, heh, heh. Given time we probably would have recognized the IP addy. What we want to know is: how you were unable to nail this after almost the same exact picture got posted in the lunch room? JP goes peripatetic on us this week with multiple funnies. Hurricane Juli. We're going to have to remember that one if she ever shows her face around here again... |
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Solution to: Puzzle Sixty Nine (11/16/05)
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Tsk, tsk, tsk. All the trouble to move to a new location
and we can't even be on time here. No excuses other than life gets in the
way. Besides, if we'd been on time Rajiv would have missed out on guessing
this week. Without further delay, here are the results of your infinite
ponderings: Katie followed the directions to our new location and was the first to arrive. After mentally commenting "What a dump!" she proceeded to play the game as intended with a guess of automotive floor covering. Nyet. JP, that cruising dude from the state that just screams "automobile" played with the code behind the magic and after stumbling through some BBCode, learned how to do bold, italic, and not a whole lot else. He did however score a direct hit with his "super-duper mixing board" guess. You are the top dawg this week Mr. Harr. Jen looked for something with a zipper on it and came up with nada, nil, zero. That is so zen. New guesser chrixean (such a cool name) thought it might be a back-saving rubber floor mat. Good guess, but incorrect. Rajiv wandered in late with an iron-clad guess of metal plate, like the one in our head that sets off the metal detector at the airport. Ah, nope. |
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Last update: Thursday January 26, 2006 09:49 PM -0800
