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rcurl
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"The Echo Effect" echoed
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May 24 15:14 UTC 2004 |
A recent New York Times crossword called "The Echo Effect" had under this
rubric the following clues and answers (hyphens added for clarity):
"Flirting with a patient, e.g.?"
DOCTOR NO-NO
"What the mother of a dozen kids says just before turning out the light?"
TWELFTH NIGHT-NIGHT
"Have a 'Sar Wars' character preserved?"
PICKLE JAR-JAR
"Give either a wholly good or bad review?"
SAY IT ISN'T SO-SO
"Lively fish dance?"
SARDINE CAN-CAN
"What the impatient reader of English essays requested?"
LAMP CHOP-CHOP
"Drum that makes tiny bird sounds?"
PEEPING TOM-TOM
"Phrase describing an offerer of sympathy?"
WHO GOES THERE-THERE
"Royal rebuke?"
KING TUT-TUT
The general pattern is a well-known two word expression, title, or
character name, with the second word repeated to create a new meaning.
Can you create any more of these?
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rcurl
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response 1 of 10:
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May 24 15:16 UTC 2004 |
Bear that decries?
WINNIE THE POOH-POOH
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albaugh
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response 2 of 10:
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May 25 18:36 UTC 2004 |
This is lame, but lemme try:
What a mother locomotive says to her sneezing offspring:
A - CHOO-CHOO!
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rcurl
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response 3 of 10:
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May 25 21:15 UTC 2004 |
That's pretty good - but it works pretty well in a crossword puzzle,
since if you get the last word, you have a clue to a common expression.
Consider, however, what the writer of that puzzle had to go through
to generate those they used (and fit them in a puzzle!).
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albaugh
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response 4 of 10:
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May 26 21:31 UTC 2004 |
I can't think up these on the spot - it takes some cogitation...
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rcurl
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response 5 of 10:
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May 27 00:55 UTC 2004 |
The point to begin would seem to be to look for expressions of the form
xyz-xyz, and then to recognize another common expression "uvw xyz".
So let's try that. Hmmmmm....
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albaugh
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response 6 of 10:
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May 27 20:50 UTC 2004 |
Not so easy when you want to come up with something /lame...
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albaugh
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response 7 of 10:
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Apr 27 22:08 UTC 2006 |
It's been almost 2 years... ;-)
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rcurl
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response 8 of 10:
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Apr 27 22:24 UTC 2006 |
Seems like yesterday....
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naftee
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response 9 of 10:
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Apr 28 22:09 UTC 2006 |
you old-timers.
Does it work backwards ?
"A game involving foie gras"
DUCK DUCK GOOSE LIVER
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rcurl
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response 10 of 10:
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Apr 29 05:29 UTC 2006 |
Close, although it doesn't work as DUCK-DUCK GOOSE LIVER.
French dancer coif
CAN-CAN DO
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