Wednesday, September 5, 2012

When is a Bird Not a Bird?

Q:

Take the phrase Angry Birds.  Replace each word with a one syllable synonym.  Both synonyms will contain  a single, identical vowel.  Replace them with a different identical vowel.  Rearrange the result to get a phrase that describes some of the largest companies in America.


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A:

Animals have long been used as metaphors for people.  She's a strange bird.  He's such a dog.  Are you a man or a mouse?  The image above shows a couple of cool cats.  Angry birds becomes mad cats. Change the a's to o's.

Angry birds -->  Mad cats -->  Dot coms

  

3 comments:

  1. Cool puzzle. Sorry I wasn't more punctual.

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  2. Punctual is as punctual does. I misread the question and thus have some catching up to do. Maybe if I keep humming 'Sugar Shack'...?

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  3. Not the intended answer, but I did get a phrase that some would apply to the positions of the two political parties this year.

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