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“Your Shoelace is Untied”This classic distraction, apparently as old as shoelaces themselves, is cited in Wikipedia as one of the oldest tricks in the book (2006).
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Wool Over the EyesTechnology is a trickster, and it has been so since the first culture hero taught the human tribe how to spin wool before he pulled it over our eyes. The trickster shows how intelligence fares in an unpredictable and chaotic world; he beckons us through the open doors of innovation and traps us in the prison of unintended consequences.
—Erik Davis, Techgnosis (1998)
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"The Shortest Day" Short verse We need, Most terse Indeed, That it— This lay— May fit This day. Short sight Of sun. Long night, Begun At four, Sunshine Once more At nine. A. M. Meets eyes Of them Who rise If no Fog hide— Then woe Betide; The day That ought To stay So short A space Can't show Its face Below. But when It goes, Why then One knows New Year Will soon Be here— Then June, So bright! So sweet! So light! We'll greet The day That's long With gay, Glad song— Excessively long-footed verse will undoubtedly characterise what we say, For Longfellow's longest lines skip along when we've long longed for the Longest Day. —Punch, Dec. 24, 1892 |
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Water BucketOne of the oldest tricks in the book: the water bucket is a surprise your noisy pooch won’t forget.
—Matthew Van Kyrk, Guide to Training Your Own Dog (1996)
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| I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought |
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Abecedarian's own Carte Blanche Atlas of Uncharted Territories ranked #1 in Stephen Saperstein Frug's top ten " still-fresh" resources on the Web. Frug explains that "lots of things on the web are evergreens: just as good a year from now as a year ago." He has collected "pieces whose virtue are not bound by historical moment" and that are "worth your attention." Thanks, Stephen! We're honored! Meanwhile, our own One-Letter Words: A Dictionary was recommended in the Harvard Independent's holiday gift guide. They call it "a lot more fun than a regular dictionary." Let's hear the Harvard cheer: "Rah, rah, rah!" |
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Perhaps this is where all the a-holes come from.
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This puzzle grid contains several big words. Can you find them?
• 7-letter words: 12
• 8-letter words: 5
• 9-letter words: 1
All letters in the word must touch (in any direction), and no square may be reused.
Click to display solutions
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• absolve
• bulgers
• dawdler
• dawdles
• drawers
• glovers |
• oversad
• oversaw
• rewards
• sandbar
• solvers
• veranda |
| 8-letter words: |
• absolved
• absolver
• absolves |
• dawdlers
• madrases |
| 9-letter words: |
| • absolvers |
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The night the lights went out at Madame Tussaud's wax museum.
Walter Martin and Paloma Muñoz Human Candles, 1996 Wax, wicks, metal Via
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Piecing together the secret of the mermaid . . . |
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This puzzle grid contains several big words. Can you find them?
