Comments on Puzzle #21984: A shot over the bow.
By Norma Dee (norm0908)
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quality: difficulty: solvability: line & color logic only
Puzzle Description:
What's that you say? Wrong bow?
#1: Kristen Vognild (Kristen) on May 20, 2013
Funny :)#2: Norma Dee (norm0908) on May 20, 2013
This is one that'll sail right over the heads of the non-native speakers (and maybe some of the natives)
Thanks, Kristen. I guess we'll just have to explain to those that don't understand.:)#3: valerie o..travis (bigblue) on May 20, 2013
:)#4: Linda Young (youngl) on May 21, 2013
But a bow by any other name is still a bow, right?#5: Aldege Cholette (aldege) on May 21, 2013
Ok girls I guess I need help. Is that a bow or bowtie,and what exactly is it that is over my head.:)#6: Kristen Vognild (kristen) on May 21, 2013 [SPOILER]
The origial phrase refers to a cannon shot over the bow (rhymes with cow) of a ship.#7: Aldege Cholette (aldege) on May 22, 2013
In this case, the shot is over a bow (rhymes with go), either from a present or a bow tie. The type of bow doesn't really matter.
Thx Kristen.:)#8: Norma Dee (norm0908) on May 22, 2013
Thanks Kristen. Hope that will help others, too.#9: Jan Wolter (jan) on May 23, 2013
You guys might want to check your comments on your own puzzles as there were several here that did not come up when I went to the forum. Must have gone astray with the updating.
It looks more like a hair ribbon such as those stereotypically worn by "bowheads" than a present-bow or a bow-tie bow (see http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=bowhead). Of course, a "bowhead" can also be a whale, which a naval ship might be somewhat more like to fire over.
I don't think the updating has impacted the "forum" page at all. Though I've been wrong before.
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