| Author | Message | ||
| Kayleetonkslupin (Kayleetonkslupin)
New member Username: Kayleetonkslupin Post Number: 256 Registered: 9-2010 |
PUZZLE STATEMENT: When writing these puzzles, I often feel as though I am incapable of dividing the condiment This will probably be quick... | ||
| Whirligig (Whirligig)
New member Username: Whirligig Post Number: 340 Registered: 8-2010 |
Possible $poiler emailed. | ||
| Kayleetonkslupin (Kayleetonkslupin)
New member Username: Kayleetonkslupin Post Number: 257 Registered: 9-2010 |
Yeah, you're right...I knew this would be easy. I'll leave it open to see if anyone else wants a crack at it, though. | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 5377 Registered: 4-2010 |
E-mailed as well. | ||
| Kayleetonkslupin (Kayleetonkslupin)
New member Username: Kayleetonkslupin Post Number: 259 Registered: 9-2010 |
Yep, all right...it was too easy. Whirligig and Balin got it right away. =D ***SPOILER*** When writing these puzzles, I often feel as though I...can't cut the mustard!!!! Thanks, Balin and Whirligig, for playing! | ||
| Mattiel (Mattiel)
New member Username: Mattiel Post Number: 448 Registered: 6-2005 |
That's the moments when I would love to be a real native English speaker... :-) What does "cut the mustard" mean, please? I'm so curious... | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 5385 Registered: 4-2010 |
Re an online idiom dictionary: "if you can't cut the mustard, you cannot deal with problems or difficulties if she can't cut the mustard, we'll have to find someone else to do the job." | ||
| Mattiel (Mattiel)
New member Username: Mattiel Post Number: 454 Registered: 6-2005 |
Thanks Balin! Is there an online idiom dictionary that you can recommend me? I often use wordreference.com as a dictionary, and I find it really complete and well done, but for idioms it's not the best source... | ||
| Woodworm (Woodworm)
New member Username: Woodworm Post Number: 2017 Registered: 3-2006 |
http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/cut-the-mustard.html There you go: you're not alone. Nobody seems to know where this funny phrase comes from. :-) | ||
| Whirligig (Whirligig)
New member Username: Whirligig Post Number: 346 Registered: 8-2010 |
You can't cut the mustard ... BUT CAN YOU SPLIT THE KETCHUP? | ||
| Kayleetonkslupin (Kayleetonkslupin)
New member Username: Kayleetonkslupin Post Number: 267 Registered: 9-2010 |
*divides ketchup between Whirligig, Woodworm, Mattiel, and Balin* | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 5407 Registered: 4-2010 |
*pockets ketchup, then wonders why he stuffed ketchup in his pocket...does laundry* | ||
| Kayleetonkslupin (Kayleetonkslupin)
New member Username: Kayleetonkslupin Post Number: 268 Registered: 9-2010 |
Balin, the ketchup was in packets! Easily countable and splittable :-D | ||
| Whirligig (Whirligig)
New member Username: Whirligig Post Number: 348 Registered: 8-2010 |
Balin's packet leaked. *steals all of the mustard for himself* | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 5414 Registered: 4-2010 |
Colonel Mustard, with the Whirligig...I mean, Whirligig, with the mustard, on the LTPF!! *Who's up for a cookout? I'll grll the hot dogs and burgers.* | ||
| Whirligig (Whirligig)
New member Username: Whirligig Post Number: 350 Registered: 8-2010 |
How does one go about using a whirligig for murder? I would love a burger, but I don't have the technology to receive one over the Internet. *gives Balin some mustard out of pity* | ||
| Kayleetonkslupin (Kayleetonkslupin)
New member Username: Kayleetonkslupin Post Number: 272 Registered: 9-2010 |
You two are too funny :-P Not that that's a bad thing... *gives Balin a jar of mustard and a drinking straw* | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 5418 Registered: 4-2010 |
*Burger e-mailed.* And thanks for the mustard! | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 5419 Registered: 4-2010 |
Thanks for the straw, Kaylee, although we need some drinks...anybody bring a cooler? | ||
| Kayleetonkslupin (Kayleetonkslupin)
New member Username: Kayleetonkslupin Post Number: 274 Registered: 9-2010 |
*gives Balin a Roy Rogers* *has one too* | ||
| Whirligig (Whirligig)
New member Username: Whirligig Post Number: 352 Registered: 8-2010 |
Hey, what about me? | ||
| Whirligig (Whirligig)
New member Username: Whirligig Post Number: 353 Registered: 8-2010 |
Come to think of it, this has given me an idea for a new kind of LA where each user is a separate character. Anybody like it? | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 5424 Registered: 4-2010 |
Ooh, excellent idea, Whirligig! And thanks for the Roy Rogers, Kaylee! | ||
| Kayleetonkslupin (Kayleetonkslupin)
New member Username: Kayleetonkslupin Post Number: 275 Registered: 9-2010 |
Welcome, Balin! And ooooh, great idea Whirligig!!! *gives you Roy Rogers too* | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 5429 Registered: 4-2010 |
*Did anyone bring a cooler? I've got a straw here, but no drinks....* | ||
| Kayleetonkslupin (Kayleetonkslupin)
New member Username: Kayleetonkslupin Post Number: 276 Registered: 9-2010 |
You've got that Roy Rogers!!! *sighs, shakes head hopelessly at Balin, and puts cooler full of Coke, Sprite, and jars of maraschino cherries out* | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 5434 Registered: 4-2010 |
My, that was dumb...I was thinking of the restaurant/burger, not the drink. *facepalm* I normally don't drink soda, but I'll take a few swigs. | ||
| Kayleetonkslupin (Kayleetonkslupin)
New member Username: Kayleetonkslupin Post Number: 278 Registered: 9-2010 |
There's a restaurant/burger called Roy Rogers? *interested* Well, I don't drink alcohol, so soda's what I put in my cooler. =D | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 5435 Registered: 4-2010 |
Yes, there's a Roy Rogers restaurant - I've only encountered it at rest stops along the East Coast, though. Pretty good burgers too. And I don't drink alcohol either...I typically stick with iced tea, lemonade, and fruit juice. But this drink sounds rather interesting...I'd definitely be willing to try it. | ||
| Kayleetonkslupin (Kayleetonkslupin)
New member Username: Kayleetonkslupin Post Number: 279 Registered: 9-2010 |
It's Coke/Pepsi with grenadine and maraschino cherries added. Very, very good. Shirley Temple would be the Sprite/7UP equivalent. | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 5436 Registered: 4-2010 |
And I've had a Shirley Temple before...it all makes (delicious) sense now! Although I'm hoping you brought the cups. | ||
| Whirligig (Whirligig)
New member Username: Whirligig Post Number: 356 Registered: 8-2010 |
I've had a Shirley Temple before. I like Sprite better than Coke, though. Meh. | ||
| Kayleetonkslupin (Kayleetonkslupin)
New member Username: Kayleetonkslupin Post Number: 280 Registered: 9-2010 |
The glasses are on the picnic table. Forgot to mention them. Mea culpa, mea maxima culpa. ;-) | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 5450 Registered: 4-2010 |
All right then, we've got burgers, dogs, buns, plates, cups, drinks....I think that's everything! | ||
| Kayleetonkslupin (Kayleetonkslupin)
New member Username: Kayleetonkslupin Post Number: 284 Registered: 9-2010 |
Hurrah! Picnic time! (Does anyone have peanut butter? ...And if anyone got that reference, I'll be so pleased...I miss my childhood. :-p | ||
| Kayleetonkslupin (Kayleetonkslupin)
New member Username: Kayleetonkslupin Post Number: 285 Registered: 9-2010 |
Whoops, should have had a ) in there...*pretends it was* | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 5464 Registered: 4-2010 |
Sadly, I don't get the reference. And I didn't bring any peanut butter - sorry. | ||
| Kayleetonkslupin (Kayleetonkslupin)
New member Username: Kayleetonkslupin Post Number: 290 Registered: 9-2010 |
Haha, don't worry. It's a reference to an old show, "Eureeka's Castle", which aired on Nickelodeon from 1989-1995, from when I was 4 to when I was 10. At the end of each episode, the bells would ring and there would be a general chorus of "Picnic time" which was the main lyric for the ending credits, and there was something about which peanut butter jar to bring, creamy or crunchy, and they said "Let's bring them all!" Lol...sadly, I can't remember much of anything else about the show. There was a dragon involved, that's about it. | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 5472 Registered: 4-2010 |
Ah yes...nostalgia. Never watched much Nickelodeon, but I do remember this one show I watched called "Histeria!" which presented historical events in a laugh-out-loud manner - no one else I know seems to remember it though. | ||
| Kayleetonkslupin (Kayleetonkslupin)
New member Username: Kayleetonkslupin Post Number: 326 Registered: 9-2010 |
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpnZPM99JSM Here's the intro and closing. |
