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#1: Minnie Fuerstnau (m.fuerstnau) on Jul 14, 2007

Cute, quick, and fun!

Another very nice and fairly challenging small puzzle. Excellent work!

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Thanks for the explanation Marie-Louise. I wrongfully thought it represented it's cost :D

Another Marzian (if I may coin a phrase) puzzle. It seems there is always a lynchpin (or two) in Marz' works, that until you find it, you're struggling, then it comes together. Kind of reminds me of Deconstructionism in Literature that was all the rage in the '80's (any former Eng. Grad students out there?)

What the!!! Deconstructionism! Sounds like something the 'Transformers' might do :)

Sorry. D'ism (man-o-man, I love shortening words, even though my digressions tend to lengthen the overall sentence) is where you find the smallest single thread running through the work of literature, that if you remove the conceit, the whole thing falls apart. That's how my Grad friends explained it, anyway. When pressed, that's still all they'd say. Maybe they were transformers of a sort. Grad school seemed to transform them from kids who loved literature into grumpy, humorless men and women who could suck all the fun out of even the happiest writings. Mamas don;t let your babies grow up to be Grad students...

Mama's don't let your babies grow up and marry grad students. They can also suck all the sunshine off your face.
Holy cow, what a long strange trip, Marz this is still a lovely puzzle :D

Forget the puzzle Gypso, the conversation is much more interesting. Thankyou for explaining d'ism J.C, and I actually sort of understood it too, weird. I would consider myself to be totally uneducated, which I am by the way, but I have an ability to understand all sorts of things, especially logical things, 'things' is probably not the right word to use but I know what I mean.

Why should "things" be a worse word than any other? Personally, "sucking sunshine off your face/ all the fun out of poetry" is more fun -- and accurate -- than "intellectual stimulation and growth". Death to Politcal Correctness! Although even that mantra is getting kind of stale. Gypso, I agree, but did you ever in your wildest imagination think it would be this long, or this incredibly strange? (Started following the Dead in '81). He might have stolen the sunshine, but I hope not your face.
**sorry if this is too "insider" joking**

Einstein said "Imagination is more important than knowledge." Marz, you are a woman of sharp intelligence, great strength and compassion. Let's not forget your creativity and quick wit. A "classical" education might very well have muddied your waters. Whatever got you here has worked quite well. You don't need to second guess your vocabulary, you just need to wait for the rest of us to catch up to you! Come to think of it, motherhood makes us second guess almost everything at one time or another doesn't it?
J.C. Sweet sentiment, thank you. My face is still my own. I do look forward to the day that I don't have to manually apply the sunshine back on it each morning. I lived in a house with 3 Dead heads ('74-'76). Love the Dead, however others may disagree (I know at least 3 of them!) but there is such a thing as too much Dead! Don't know about strange but I'm grateful for the long part. At any rate, you all keep on truckin' :)

To Marz: The only vocabulary flaw you seem to have is spelling "favorite" with a "u". (Don't recall you writing "colour" as of yet.) Apparently you were not taught by Mrs. West, or her ilk. One of the things I admired about Julia Child was the fact that she stressed not apologizing when something didn't turn out as planned. For example, if your cheese souffle falls, don't say to your guests "I'm sorry, it was supposed to be like ...." Rather, hold your head up and serve it as is, they'll not know the difference. I think a lot of life is like that, people won't know or mind that it wasn't "supposed" to be like that unless we tell them otherwise.
Gypso, there can be too much GD, and I suppose that in the Bay area you get reminded of that all the time. Still, I'd rather listen to that than some of the music that's popular today. Then again, I liked the dead better than music that was popular back then. Ahh, just crank up the Victorola, and let the curmudgeons here stew. "Back in my day...." "we used to write on the palms of our hands, that was our palm pilot" "nickels used to have pictures of BEES on them, gimme five bees fer this quarter, we'd say..."
Okay, time to go when you start channeling grampa Simpson. Bye!
PS: Looking underneath the box, it's a pretty fair bet we're all WAY past the hint/spoiler catagories.

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fun challenging puzzle. though i had to guess one of the numbers, the 9 down (row1, column1)

I knew what I was solving for long before I was finished and even then I got stumped for a bit. Went away, came back, spotted one little clue and "zoom" the rest practically solved it's self.

This is a great small puzzle.

Nice bike Marie. Thanks for the explanation of its origin,literature not withstanding.

I'm lovin' it!

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