What familiar saying with seven words has seven consonants in a row? The answer is a common saying, in ordinary English. Sometimes it's expressed in nine words rather than seven, but it's the same saying. And either way, in one spot it has seven consecutive consonants. What saying is it?
Last week: Name something in seven letters that most people keep in their homes. Take the first, third, fourth and seventh letters and rearrange them. The result will be a four-letter word naming something that the seven-letter thing is commonly used for. What is it?
Highlight for answer: Aspirin, pain
Two weeks ago: The name of what character, familiar to everyone, contains each of the five vowels (A, E, I, O and U) exactly once? The answer consists of two words — eight letters in the first word, four letters in the second.
Highlight for answer: Question mark
Three weeks ago: Name a well-known person from the 20th century who held an important position. Take the first and last letters of this person's last name, change each of them to the next letter of the alphabet, and you'll get the last name of another famous person who held the same position sometime after the first one. Who is it?
Greatest leadoff man of all time and Rickey Henderson
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Will you be there? I signed up a couple weeks ago and am pretty geeked about it. I hope I get the chance to chat up Amy Reynaldo while there.
I'll see you there. Should be fun, a little taste of Stamford/Brooklyn.
You'll get to talk to Amy too; she's staffing the event:
http://crosswordfiend.blogspot.com/2009/03/chicago-event-marbles-amateur-crossword.html
Oh, I know. Her blog is where I first heard about it.
Ah, I see. I learned about it from the great Rex Parker, whom I met and liked at the 2009 tournament.
For that matter, I prefer his blog:
http://rexwordpuzzle.blogspot.com/
Rex is good. I usually read Amy's, though, because she does the Tausig (Ink Well and AV Club) puzzles, too. One-stop shop, yo.
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