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[udosuk]

2nd: milk

Got'em all but would like to leave for others the opportunity to shine.

[Hud]

Second one also correct. The third is a bit more difficult (at least to me).

I spent 2 days chasing down an electrical problem in my house. I had decided that it was a broken return wire in a particular wire and had 90% replaced it when I found it was a corroded (crappy aluminum wire) in an outlet that was behind a dresser that I forgot was there. I'm lucky that that junk wiring hasn't burned down my house like it has so many others (circa 1970s). Lotsa fun and games in the attic while it was 100 deg F out.

[udosuk]

Hud, I've sent you a private message. Check it out please!

[Hud]

OK, here's the puzzle with plusses: Now that I look at it again I can see that the third answer is probably dependent upon some local dialect. I'll throw in a clue later if necessary. The final answer might be deducible by using the first clue, but possibly not the second.

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blow+
towel+         3  +dry
+martini
                           Final Answer
+money
skim+          4  milk+    4  ______
soy+

+car
+farm          5  ______+
+papers

[JL]

Third answer is funny. Still trying to figure out the final.

[Hud]

JL, correctamundo. I think that clue was the toughest one to get. Good luck on the final one.

[JL]

I'm thinking line is the final answer.

[udosuk]

JL, to reply for Hud while he's busy, your attempt of line isn't the correct answer. As I've found the correct answer independently, I can tell you a way to verify the correct answer is if you google each of the 3 terms using the quote signs (e.g. "milk ????") the number of hits should be at least 90000+.

[JL]

Google? What's the fun in that?

[udosuk]

Google? What's the fun in that?

To be frank I haven't heard of most of the terms in Hud's puzzle. According to him they're American slangs. Google & Wikipedia are the only ways for me to solve them.

Now try this puzzle from this thread, see how far you can go without Google and Wikipedia?

[MCC]

I agree with udosuk, two of the terms are Americanisms.
"Funny car" and "funny papers".
I assume by "funny papers" you mean comics?

Anyways, I think the final word is "bone"

Bone-dry.
Milk bone (A brand of dog treat made in 1908).
Funny bone (you don't know how funny it is until you hit it).


MCC

[JL]

udosuk: fair enough. I'm in the US, and I've had my share of trouble with Australian slang.

Will have to check the Funny Farm game out.

[Hud]

Bone it is. I wonder where the term "To bone up on a subject" came from? I'll try udosuk's Googling method and bet it's origin is there.

[udosuk]

I'll try udosuk's Googling method and bet it's origin is there.

My figure of 90,000 hits is just a random figure for this puzzle, which I was intending to give JL a way to check if his answers are correct or not. ("Milk line" is a legit term which results in ~50,000 hits). But his final answer "line" is definitely a valid one, just not the one in the puzzle setter's mind. For the next puzzle I expect the minimum number of hits to be vastly different.

[MCC]

Bone it is. I wonder where the term "To bone up on a subject" came from? I'll try udosuk's Googling method and bet it's origin is there.

To bone up on:
To study intensively; to gain information on. The expression suggests a stiffening
of one's knowledge, as a strip of whalebone strengthens a corset, but there may
also be an influence from the classical translations published by Henry Bohn (1796-1884)
and in demand among 19th-century students when 'cramming' for an examination.

MCC