A Spinoff

Q:

I thought of several puzzles related to last week's NPR puzzle.  Click this link to see it.   Here's one.

Think of a well known composer.  Some of the letters is his name are used more than once.  Remove the duplicates and rearrange what's left to come up with an adjective that describes what some of the statements made by the popular fictional character (in the NPR puzzle) are NOT.

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enigmachck1

A:  

The image is four jars of spices or seasonings, referring to The Four Seasons by Vivaldi, the composer in question.  The solution to the NPR puzzle was Pinocchio and Chopin.  Remove a v and an i from Vivaldi and rearrange to get the word valid, which many of Pinocchio's statements were not.

An Abbreviated Ounce of Prevention

Q:

Consider these:

 pair,  parliament member,  plod,  proficiency, 

pitch,  powerhouse,  passé

Replace each with a synonym using only the letters whose mirror image does not result in a backwards letter.  The font used here is Century Gothic and exactly all the letters you will need are in this paragraph.  When you have the correct solution, the first initial of each word will spell out a familiar movie quote.

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Anna Fischer

A:

The abbreviation for ounce is oz. and the image (believe it or not) is Dorothy.  Some of the words are a bit obscure but all can be found in Dictionary.com (and/or Thesaurus.com).  

pair  -  two

parliament member  -  owl (a group of owls is called a parliament)

plod  -  toil

proficiency  -  oil

pitch  -  tilt

powerhouse  -  ox

passe  -  out

Quote from The Wizard of Oz  -  Toto, too

What's Up?

Q:

At a certain pseudoscience convention, a couple found this dinner invitation slipped under the door of their hotel room.

La Soiree - Ribs Special - Currant Sauce    

The letters in each phrase can be rearranged  to get two new words that are related.  What convention was the couple attending?

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xadrian

A:

The image may have been a dead giveaway, especially if you visited the artist's photostream.  

Leo  Aries  -  Libra  Pisces  -  Cancer  Taurus

The couple was attending an astrology convention.

Rub-a-Dub-Dub

Q:

Vowels and vowel combinations can have different sounds depending on the word.  Room and wood both have a double o but sound different.  Read and read sound different depending on the verb tense.  Who cares, right?  Consider this.  Take the word friend.  The ie has a short e sound.  Drop the r, and you have fiend with a long e sound.  Drop the i and you have fend, back to a short e sound.

Think of a word with a vowel combination.  Drop a letter to get a word with a different vowel sound.  Drop another letter to get a word with the first vowel sound.  Finally, drop one more letter to get a word with the second vowel sound.  The vowel sound pattern should be ABAB.  What words are these?

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mgstyer

A:

"Rub a dub dub, three men in a tub...the butcher, the baker, the candlestick maker...

The baker pondered how much flour

One cup, two, three maybe four.

Too thin, too thick, the batter for our

Cake 't would be either or.

May I Take That?

Q:  


Take the word nostril and the word pepper.  Change one letter and rearrange the result to name two descriptive terms that are at opposite ends of the spectrum.

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olillevik

A:

The title is something you may hear at a hotel, perhaps by a bellhop.  Bellhop is largely an American term.  The image, 99 BOB on the wall, came from Flickr.  Change a P to an R and rearrange to get:

Pilsner  and  Porter