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Join Date: Aug 2004
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Enigma Puzzle #23
Hawking offspring
This weekend’s Arts & Crafts Fair Dear Abby’s groom Apparently an aardvark, kids With four, heading off road Talk about a double double entendre… Four years after a million years B.C. Crossed theme song L&O regular character Eponymous district monsters Sneaking Sally Through the Alley? Mad Stork Memorable for milk mention Whole year was a bad dream He’s co-scriptwriter with the little brother, too Possible Bond summer dud
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Hawking offspring Stephen's son or Stephenson?
Four years after a million years B.C.--999,996 B.C.? NOt sure what the reference is here. |
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Also, with the "Whole year was a bad dream" wasn't there a TV series where the season ending episode or something like that explained away the season's events by having the character wake up from a dream? Or am I just dreaming?
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Dallas was the show.
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Good call on Stephenson. Not sure what it means or what to do with it, but I guess we'll figure that out as we identify more of the clues. For some reason the B.C. reference keeps stirring up images of that horrible TV show Land of the Lost. *shudder*
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I was thinking Dallas or Ally McBeal. Not sure why I remembered it, since I never watched Dallas.
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That was Dallas....Bobby Ewing showed up in the shower.
Sneaking Sally Through the Alley? - Robert Palmer? Mad Stork - Ted Hendricks? He’s co-scriptwriter with the little brother, too - Cohen Brothers?
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The answer is Parker Stephenson
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Or perhaps the Gershwin Brothers (Ira is the elder)?
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Is the answer Secretariat?
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That seems to me like it would be his little brother, rather than the little brother... |
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Implying that the answer may not be a person? Four years after a million years B.C. - I wonder if this could be a reference to the movie(s) One Million B.C. There were at least two of these, one in 1940 and another in 1966 (so says IMDB). The latter starred Raquel Welch. Now, I don't know if 1970 has anything to do with the answer, or possibly a movie that Ms. Welch starred in in 1970 (Myra Breckenridge?), but thought it might be something.
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I think QS is pointing out that the clue seems to allude to the elder brother of the two. Are the Wayans brothers also scriptwriters? I think the Cohens are a more likely answer, but wanted to toss out the Wayans brothers.
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Implying that maybe there is someone who has co-authored scripts with two different brothers, perhaps a famous older brother and a less famous younger brother. I'm suggesting that maybe it's the word little that would be emphasized in the original clue, when you say it -- maybe that makes my thought clearer. Last edited by QuikSand : 10-06-2004 at 02:44 PM. |
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What about the Zuckermans? The ones who do the spoofs like Naked Gun. Or the Wayans Brothers?
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See, I can't even interpret QS posts, much less solve an enigma puzzle. Although, enigma puzzles ARE probably easier.
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Weren't Zucker, Abrams, and Zucker the writers for Airplane? Naked Gun? Both?
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Dallas did that, though Roseanne did it as well but for a series finale, not season finale.
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We must've posted simultaneously, see post #16
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How about Bob Newhart for the dream show. I think it was more than 1 season, though.
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Yep, Bob Newhart from The Bob Newhart show dreamnt the entire series of Newhart. |
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In looking up the Got Milk? campaign it seems like DC's mayor took a little heat for agreeing to participate in an add wearing a chocolate milk mustache. Williams was his name.
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Not sure, basically taking a stab, but if the Enigma creator is from Georgia, "this weekends Arts and Crafts fair" was The Elisha Winn Fair.
Also, not sure of the meaning of Eponymous District Monsters, but what about Gerrymander? Not a monster I know but sounds like one.
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Since I'm getting a TV vibe here, Raquel Welch had a TV show called Raquel! four years after she starred in One Million Years B.C. |
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Since so far the list seems to be people's names, does anyone know what character from Dallas had the dream? Was it J.R.?
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She was in 2 movies after in "one Million years BC" in 1966. In 1970 she was in, "Myra Breckinridge" and "The Beloved".
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Then it seems Raquel Welch might be the answer we're looking for, not the name of the movie.
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Then why mention four years? |
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Join Date: Jun 2002
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Damn. Now I know why I never get these things. Good point QS.
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Join Date: Oct 2000
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I did a search on "Arts & Crafts Fair" using this weekend'd dates, and found hits for several podunk towns:
Southington, CT Bellevue, WA Van Buren, AR Westhampton, NY Scott City, KS Caruthersville, MO Ocean City, MD |
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Dennis Farina .... Det. Joe Fontana (2004-) Jerry Orbach .... Det. Lennie Briscoe (1992-2004) Paul Sorvino .... Sgt. Phil Cerreta (1991-1992) George Dzundza .... Sgt. Max Greevey (1990-1991) Jesse L. Martin .... Det. Ed Green (1999-) Benjamin Bratt .... Det. Reynaldo Curtis (1995-1999) Chris Noth .... Det. Mike Logan (1990-1995) S. Epatha Merkerson .... Lt. Anita Van Buren (1993-) Dann Florek .... Capt. Donald Cragen (1990-1993) Sam Waterston .... Executive ADA John J. 'Jack' McCoy (1994-) Michael Moriarty .... Executive ADA Benjamin Stone (1990-1994) Elisabeth Rohm .... ADA Serena Southerlyn (2001-) (as Elisabeth Röhm) Angie Harmon .... ADA Abbie Carmichael (1998-2001) Carey Lowell .... ADA Jamie Ross (1996-1998) Jill Hennessy .... ADA Claire Kincaid (1993-1996) Richard Brooks .... ADA Paul Robinette (1990-1993) Fred Dalton Thompson .... DA Arthur Branch (2002-) Dianne Wiest .... Interim DA Nora Lewin (2000-2002) Steven Hill .... District Attorney Adam Schiff (1990-2000) Have no idea who the clue is pointing to, but I'd guess it'll either be McCoy, Van Buren, Briscoe, Green, Schiff due to their longevity on the show. |
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Hmmm...Van Buren seems to be popping up in several places. Dear Abby = Abigail Van Buren, Arts and Crafts fair in Van Buren Arkansas, Lt. Van Buren on L&O.
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Well, if we're talking Van Buren...also worth mentioning an Arthur, and a Stevenson (as opposed to Stephenson). Van Buren and Arthur were Vice Presidents, as was the first Adlai Stevenson.
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John Breckinridge was also a VP (fitting the requel welsch clue)
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Dallas, George Mifflin
I think you're definately onto something with VPs Last edited by Daimyo : 10-06-2004 at 08:46 PM. |
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Heh, beat me to it.
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Thomas Hendricks (1885)
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L&O's Reynaldo Curtis could also match Charles Curtis (1929-1933).
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Richard M. Johnson served under Van Buren. |
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To organize:
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Way to make the link, I'll add above.
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I think Dear Abby's groom should be Levi P. Morton.
Van Buren is probably the arts and crafts clue.
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With four, heading off road = WILLIAM A. WHEELER (1819-1887)
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Yep...was going to post Wheeler, but the board was down.
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Memorable for milk mention = AARON BURR (1756-1836)
...remember the 'Got Milk?' commercial where the guy is eating cake and gets a call from a contest line? He can't speak because he doesn't have a glass of milk to wash down the cake. The answer to the contest question? Aaron Burr. |
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Yep, good one on Burr. I thought of that, and didn't make the milk association!
And eponymous district monsters must refer to Elbridge Gerry, the "father" of gerrymandering.
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Duh....sneakin' Sally must be referring to Jefferson (Sally Hemings).
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Possible Bond Summer dud? Any ideas for that one?
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