=SDC= Q06: Who Knows?
Jerry Friedman
a
single ruler. Working for that ruler was an observer of the
aristocracy
(with a distinctive nose), until he was invited by another ruler to
work
in a city that later became the capital of a unit (B) that is now two
separate countries. If you work out the name of former unit B you
should
easily find the name of the capital city that is centrally located in
it. (You
are now back in former unit A.) That city is dominated by something
that
should hopefully remind you of a comedy actor's distinctive nose.
Moving south from that city -- at the same longitude (never mind the
minutes) and along the same lines -- you will find a place in the
middle
of the Bodensee. A distinctive-nosed man was born in that place. In
'68
he published an account of a visit to his friends the O'Neills. Think
of
the name of a staple food in the country to which this visit brought
him. An august traveller applied that food-related name to a region he
explored, but now the application of the name has shrunk, referring
only
to a tiny island. Across the narrow strait is a place with a legendary
food-related name which is almost certainly a product of an
Indo-European root. An English product of that root was given the
number
one and existed in only one copy, made as a special gift for the
spouse of
a person with a distinctive nose.
Name the slope.
Name the author.
Name the tickle.
Name the singer.
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Jerry Friedman, T. O. Panelist
Mark Brader
> What are now two separate countries
Denmark and Norway.
> once constituted a unit (A) under a single ruler. Working for that
> ruler was an observer of the aristocracy (with a distinctive nose),
Tycho Brahe.
> until he was invited by another ruler to work
> in a city
Prague.
> that later became the capital of a unit (B) that is now two
> separate countries.
Slovakia and the Czech Republic.
> If you work out the name of former unit B you should
> easily find the name of the capital city that is centrally located
> in it. (You are now back in former unit A.)
Czech-Oslo-Vakia.
> That city is dominated
Loosely speaking; it's a long way from the city center.
> by something
The Holmenkollen ski jump.
> that should hopefully remind you of a comedy actor's
Bob Hope. By the way, this was the bit I started with.
> distinctive nose.
> Moving south from that city -- at the same longitude (never mind the
> minutes) and along the same lines -- you will find a place in the middle
> of the Bodensee.
In the middle! That's rather a stretch -- the east end of the Bodensee
(a.k.a. Lake Constance) is about a degree farther west than the western
part of Oslo. There don't seem to be any islands in the lake with much
population, but there are some towns on peninsulas that might count, such
as Allmansdorf and Reichenau...
*Oh!* "Same lines" as in Czech-Oslo-Vakia, so it's B-Odense-E! And
Odense is indeed south of Oslo. That was *nasty*!
> A distinctive-nosed man was born in that place.
Oh, dear. *Another* one? Okay, now that I've figured out Odense, who
was born there? Must be Hans Christian Andersen -- and yes, I now see
that he did have a distinctive nose.
> In '68 he
1868, of course. I suspected it wasn't going to be 1986!
> published an account of a visit to his friends the O'Neills.
"A Visit to Portugal in 1866".
> Think of the name of a staple food in the country to which this
> visit brought him.
Oh, dear. Different web sites mention a bunch of foods. Hmm.
But the specific one mentioned most often is a cod dish called
> bacalhau.
> An august traveller applied that food-related name to a region he
> explored, but now the application of the name has shrunk, referring
> only to a tiny island.
Ah! And there is an island, now spelled Baccalieu Island, separated
from the Island of Newfoundland by a strait called Baccalieu Tickle.
> Across the narrow strait is a place with a legendary food-related
> name which is almost certainly a product of an Indo-European root.
Well, in Google Maps the only places across the strait seem to be
Grates Cove, Red Head Cove, and Bay de Verde, none of which seems to
be a "legendary food-related name". There's Old Perlican over on the
other side of the peninsula, but I see no relation to food. And my
road atlases don't do any better.
So after getting all this way, I have to stop.
> An English product of that root was given the number one and existed in
> only one copy, made as a special gift for the spouse of a person with
> a distinctive nose.
> Name the slope.
> Name the author.
> Name the tickle.
> Name the singer.
Holmenkollen ski jump, Andersen, Baccalieu, and I have no idea.
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John Holmes
> Jerry Friedman malformats:
>
>> Across the narrow strait is a place with a legendary food-related
>> name which is almost certainly a product of an Indo-European root.
>
> Well, in Google Maps the only places across the strait seem to be
> Grates Cove, Red Head Cove, and Bay de Verde, none of which seems to
> be a "legendary food-related name". There's Old Perlican over on the
> other side of the peninsula, but I see no relation to food. And my
> road atlases don't do any better.
>
> So after getting all this way, I have to stop.
>
>> An English product of that root was given the number one and existed
>> in only one copy, made as a special gift for the spouse of a person
>> with
>> a distinctive nose.
>
>> Name the slope.
>> Name the author.
>> Name the tickle.
>> Name the singer.
>
> Holmenkollen ski jump, Andersen, Baccalieu, and I have no idea.
Wow, it would be a shame to give up after all that effort. Might you be
looking at the trees instead of the forest? Could the legendary food-related
name be Vinland?
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Vinny Burgoo
Ooooh! So close. A baa-vura display of detective skills!
(That's not a clue.)
--
VB,
who spent the best part of a day wandering around Lake Constance when he tried
this one earlier in the year
Vinny Burgoo
>Mark Brader wrote:
>> Jerry Friedman malformats:
>>
>>> Across the narrow strait is a place with a legendary food-related
>>> name which is almost certainly a product of an Indo-European root.
>>
>> Well, in Google Maps the only places across the strait seem to be
>> Grates Cove, Red Head Cove, and Bay de Verde, none of which seems to
>> be a "legendary food-related name". There's Old Perlican over on the
>> other side of the peninsula, but I see no relation to food. And my
>> road atlases don't do any better.
>>
>> So after getting all this way, I have to stop.
>>
>>> An English product of that root was given the number one and existed
>>> in only one copy, made as a special gift for the spouse of a person
>>> with
>>> a distinctive nose.
>>
>>> Name the slope.
>>> Name the author.
>>> Name the tickle.
>>> Name the singer.
>>
>> Holmenkollen ski jump, Andersen, Baccalieu, and I have no idea.
>
>Wow, it would be a shame to give up after all that effort. Might you be
>looking at the trees instead of the forest?
He might. Indeed he is.
>Could the legendary food-related name be Vinland?
--
VB
Vinny Burgoo
===
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--
VB
Mark Brader
Jerry Friedman:
>>>> Across the narrow strait is a place with a legendary food-related
>>>> name which is almost certainly a product of an Indo-European root.
Mark Brader:
>>> So after getting all this way, I have to stop.
John Holmes:
>> Wow, it would be a shame to give up after all that effort. Might you be
>> looking at the trees instead of the forest?
"Vinny Burgoo":
> He might. Indeed he is.
Oh gawd. You're talking about the Avalon Peninsula, which the island is
just off a sub-peninsula of. WP says "probably from the Welsh root 'afal',
meaning apple."
>>>> An English product of that root was given the number one and existed in
>>>> only one copy, made as a special gift for the spouse of a person with
>>>> a distinctive nose.
But I still don't know what this is about, and I will stop here.
>>>> Name the singer.
Unless of course you just want Frankie Avalon and the previous sentence
quoted above is irrelevant.
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Mike Lyle
wrote:
>Reflowed question:
>
Never mind the question: if reflux is on your mind, read on. If it
isn't, don't bother.
Lansoprazole on prescription. The stuff's miraculous. Stuff Gaviscon.
--
Mike.
[...]
franzi
>
>Jerry Friedman:
>
>Oh gawd. You're talking about the Avalon Peninsula, which the island is
>just off a sub-peninsula of. WP says "probably from the Welsh root 'afal',
>meaning apple."
>
>>>>> An English product of that root was given the number one and existed in
>>>>> only one copy, made as a special gift for the spouse of a person with
>>>>> a distinctive nose.
>
>But I still don't know what this is about, and I will stop here.
>
>>>>> Name the singer.
>
>Unless of course you just want Frankie Avalon and the previous sentence
>quoted above is irrelevant.
Cilla Black seems a promising candidate.
--
franzi
Vinny Burgoo
Isn't that where they whistle to each other from the clifftops?
--
VB
Mike Lyle
wrote:
>In alt.usage.english, Mike Lyle wrote:
>>On Thu, 18 Aug 2011 11:54:06 +0100, Vinny Burgoo <hlu...@yahoo.co.uk>
>>wrote:
>>
>>>Reflowed question:
>>>
>>Never mind the question: if reflux is on your mind, read on. If it
>>isn't, don't bother.
>>
>>Lansoprazole on prescription. The stuff's miraculous. Stuff Gaviscon.
>
>Isn't that where they whistle to each other from the clifftops?
Yes, just as the latter is the rugby-playing nephew of the chap who
invented Muppets.
--
Mike.
Vinny Burgoo
>On Fri, 19 Aug 2011 17:37:25 +0100, Vinny Burgoo <hlu...@yahoo.co.uk>
>>>On Thu, 18 Aug 2011 11:54:06 +0100, Vinny Burgoo <hlu...@yahoo.co.uk>
>>>wrote:
>>>
>>>>Reflowed question:
>>>>
>>>Never mind the question: if reflux is on your mind, read on. If it
>>>isn't, don't bother.
>>>
>>>Lansoprazole on prescription. The stuff's miraculous. Stuff Gaviscon.
>>
>>Isn't that where they whistle to each other from the clifftops?
>
>Yes, just as the latter is the rugby-playing nephew of the chap who
>invented Muppets.
D'Artagnan is Charlotte Church's nephew?
I must get some of that stuff. Is it available illegally? I don't do
doctors.
--
VB
Mike Lyle
wrote:
>In alt.usage.english, Mike Lyle wrote:
>>On Fri, 19 Aug 2011 17:37:25 +0100, Vinny Burgoo <hlu...@yahoo.co.uk>
>>>In alt.usage.english, Mike Lyle wrote:
>>>>On Thu, 18 Aug 2011 11:54:06 +0100, Vinny Burgoo <hlu...@yahoo.co.uk>
>>>>wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>Reflowed question:
>>>>>
>>>>Never mind the question: if reflux is on your mind, read on. If it
>>>>isn't, don't bother.
>>>>
>>>>Lansoprazole on prescription. The stuff's miraculous. Stuff Gaviscon.
>>>
>>>Isn't that where they whistle to each other from the clifftops?
>>
>>Yes, just as the latter is the rugby-playing nephew of the chap who
>>invented Muppets.
>
>D'Artagnan is Charlotte Church's nephew?
>
Isn't he rather the bloke who has fait pipi in l'avion qui nous mčne
en haut? You can't surely, be mixing him up with Gazza (who once
filled some mince pies with cat shit, and got some drunken friends to
eat them).
>I must get some of that stuff. Is it available illegally? I don't do
>doctors.
Well, an illegal way would be to get somebody else to go to the doctor
and pretend to be a martyr to gastric reflux so that they could give
you the prescribed dope. For a more diabolical method, you could
choose somebody entitled to free prescriptions, say an unemployee or a
pensioner, to do it for you: that would be two kinds of fraud at once.
--
Mike.
Vinny Burgoo
'Promising' is the wrong label.
--
VB
T. O. Panellist
Vinny Burgoo
Cilla Black was with a different label.
musika
>
>> Name the slope.
>> Name the author.
>> Name the tickle.
>> Name the singer.
>
> Holmenkollen ski jump, Andersen, Baccalieu, and I have no idea.
Jumping in on Mark's excellent research, I will add Frank Sinatra.
--
Ray
UK
Vinny Burgoo
Thank you!
An explanation will follow.
msh210
> > I must get some of that stuff. Is it available illegally? I don't do
> > doctors.
>
> Well, an illegal way would be to get somebody else to go to the doctor
> and pretend to be a martyr to gastric reflux so that they could give
> you the prescribed dope. For a more diabolical method, you could
> choose somebody entitled to free prescriptions, say an unemployee or a
> pensioner, to do it for you: that would be two kinds of fraud at once.
And then pick it up yourself from the pharmacy, pretending to be the
pensioner (and saving him a trip). Three kinds.
Michael Hamm
Vinny Burgoo
The question again:
===
What are now two separate countries once constituted a unit (A) under a
single ruler. Working for that ruler was an observer of the aristocracy
(with a distinctive nose), until he was invited by another ruler to work
in a city that later became the capital of a unit (B) that is now two
separate countries. If you work out the name of former unit B you should
easily find the name of the capital city that is centrally located in
it. (You are now back in former unit A.) That city is dominated by
something that should hopefully remind you of a comedy actor's
distinctive nose.
Moving south from that city -- at the same longitude (never mind the
minutes) and along the same lines -- you will find a place in the middle
of the Bodensee. A distinctive-nosed man was born in that place. In '68
he published an account of a visit to his friends the O'Neills. Think of
the name of a staple food in the country to which this visit brought
him. An august traveller applied that food-related name to a region he
explored, but now the application of the name has shrunk, referring only
to a tiny island. Across the narrow strait is a place with a legendary
food-related name which is almost certainly a product of an
Indo-European root. An English product of that root was given the number
one and existed in only one copy, made as a special gift for the spouse
of a person with a distinctive nose.
Name the slope. Name the author. Name the tickle. Name the singer.
===
A: Holmenkollen, Hans Christian Andersen, Baccalieu Tickle, Frank
Sinatra.
Clues along the way:
The owners of the noses are: Tycho Brahe, Bob Hope, HC Andersen, Ringo
Starr.
Unit A is Denmark-Norway. Unit B is Czechoslovakia.
The capital city that is centrally located in Czechoslovakia is Oslo.
Thinking along the same lines, the place in the middle of the Bodensee
is Odense.
Hans Christian Andersen visited George O'Neill in Portugal in 1866.
Bacalhau is the Portuguese staple.
Avalon leads to Apple 1, a record specially made for Ringo's wife by
Frank Sinatra.
Jerry Friedman
> In alt.usage.english, musika wrote:
> >Mark Brader wrote:
>
> >>> Name the slope.
> >>> Name the author.
> >>> Name the tickle.
> >>> Name the singer.
> >> Holmenkollen ski jump, Andersen, Baccalieu, and I have no idea.
>
> >Jumping in on Mark's excellent research, I will add Frank Sinatra.
>
> Thank you!
I'm seeing this as a Cormo for Mark's excellent research and one for
Ray's complete answer.
--
Jerry Friedman, T. O. Sheepsolomon
Mark Brader
> I'm seeing this as a Cormo for Mark's excellent research...
Oh? All right, if you insist.
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