Comments on: Financial Times no. 13,757 by NEO

By: Neo

Neo — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 23:14:38 +0000

With Hugo Weaving maybe?

By: Sil van den Hoek

Sil van den Hoek — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 20:06:21 +0000

Well, Neo, 15/2 = 7.5 and not 225 … .

We (yes, I ‘forced’ my PinC to solve your puzzle after we’d finished the Pasquale all too quickly – in a nice way (the forcing, I mean)) enjoyed your brainchild. But I am not sure she fully liked it as much as I did.
On the other hand she knew all these barkers …

We failed on Mr PONZI.
ZI[p] could easily have been NI[l], leading to another mafioso.

Thanks Neo, and can we please have a puzzle on different kind of baskets [courtesy of Conrad Cork, @1]?

By: Neo

Neo — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 19:43:38 +0000

Well, how would you know if you ‘didn’t persevere’ with the puzzle, Richard C? I don’t mind negative feedback – it’s just as necessary as the good stuff – but for comments to carry any weight (with me, at least), their authors really do need to roll up their sleeves and get stuck in.

Re the constructive remarks, A = ‘a film certified for viewing by anyone’ according to Collins, so I’ll go with that. Re Droopy, his name is either ‘Poodle’ or ‘McPoodle’ in any case, which allows for the definition I used, and in the Wiki entry I read (which has changed: at the time I remember being amazed myself to find that Droopy is NOT a Basset Hound) he was said to be a poodle. And finally, yes, the Tiger Woods ref is meant to allude to the possibility that he MIGHT have strayed from the true course of negritude, hence the QM, and who am I to question, etc.

Thanks to almost all who replied to the blog, and many thanks indeed to Ringo, who correctly identified the puzzle as one written for the audience principally associated with the host publication, rather than, say, the denizens of (nonetheless esteemed) 15/2.

Cheers.

By: mark

mark — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 19:36:53 +0000

re 30, aren’t U films (Universal) those suitable for all viewers? In my childhood there were three categories; U, A (Adult) and X (Horror etc.)

I thought 2 the cleverest clue, referring I’m sure to Tiger Woods. Whether he would agree that he’s forsaken his black identity I don’t know, but I also took “frolicking in an unclothed situation” as a jokey allusion to his recent troubles, but perhaps that’s just my mind…

Shindy floored me – a word I’ve never heard and didn’t figure out.

By: Richard C

Richard C — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 18:05:20 +0000

Well done, Ringo!

I started this at 18.30 and having seen your blog, I’m glad I didn’t persevere with it. A bizarre mixture of the very easy and as you say ‘pretty obscure’.

By: Anon

Anon — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 11:54:09 +0000

At 16a, might Neo have misread (or used for “comic” effect) Wikipedia?

“In the episode Northwest Hounded Police Droopy’s last name was given as McPoodle. In The Chump Champ it was given as Poodle. Nevertheless, Droopy is generally understood to be a basset hound.”

By: Conrad Cork

Conrad Cork — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 10:03:13 +0000

It’s OK Ringo, the hangover doesn’t show.

He’s a cunning chap Neo, isn’t he? Only a day or so from his themed one in Another Place on ‘barker’, we now get him on ‘banker’. I look forward to basker and basket.

And they are real bankers, not rivers, so respect is due.