Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Locked and Loaded

Q:


Take the word "bit" and a synonym of the word "bit".  Rearrange the letters to name a well known movie by a well known director.


A:

Another term for locked and loaded is cocked and ready.  The image is of something you would attach to the end of a trailer hitch.  One synonym of the word "bit" is "shred" - as in a shred of evidence.  Rearrange to get 

The Birds


4 comments:

  1. I had no idea what that thing in the picture was, but it seemed so pivotal, I just had to find out.
    Two UK countries also come to mind.

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  2. I apologize for the UK comment which might have been a giveaway. It slipped my mind that Hitchcock was English. I was thinking of Eire, because I had just read that a dog by that name won Best In Show on Thanksgiving Day (and Hitchcock's cameo in "The Birds" was "Man Walking Dogs Out of Pet Shop"), and Scotland, because there are no lions in the Scottish highlands.

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  3. Oops! They're not so easy to pick out when they snarl like that.

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