Poetic Goozle
N. was very smart. Miraculous even.
Oh, he even received the NPP.
Because he was involved in politics,
One year he actually received eight votes
Designating him as the Vice Presidential candidate.
Yet, these votes were from the Electoral College.
In the general election,
Sometimes thought of as the real election,
As that is when the 'people' vote,
Not a single person voted for him!
Imagine that!
Can you figure out how that might have happened?
Excusing the truly unpoetic nature of these lines,
Goozlers should be able to find an old poetic insult -
Upon N. it was hurled.
Yes, tell us who wrote the poem, who N. was, and what year the election was.
(Note: N. is the first letter of the individual's first name. Yes, we are that cruel.)
April Carnival
In honor of National Poetry Month Nobody requests submissions for the tenth StlBloggers Carnival from StlBloggers interested in celebrating this in some fashion.
The Carnival Rules:
Interested STL Bloggers should write a new post on the stated theme by the specified deadline. They should then email the host at the provided email address with the following information:
1) Name of Blogger
2) Permalink URL of blog post
3) Title of Blog Post
4) URL of Blog
5) Title of Blog
6) Would you be interested in volunteering to be the next host? Yes/No
6a) If Yes – what would your theme be?
The host will then take all the submissions that meet the simple requirements of addressing the specified theme, and having been posted between the announcement and the deadline – and link to them from one post, with some annotative comments for each. This post shall be posted at StlBloggers.com, and if the host wishes, at their own blog.
Participants should expect a delay of a few days between the deadline and this post.
The host will also choose the next host from the volunteers in any fashion they desire.
STLBloggers Blog Carnival #10
Host: Nobody (from Nobody's Puzzles)
Contact: help at goozle dot org
Deadline: April 30th at midnight. Email should be dated in the month of April
Theme: National Poetry Month
April Carnival
In honor of National Poetry Month Nobody requests submissions for the tenth StlBloggers Carnival from StlBloggers interested in celebrating this in some fashion.
The Carnival Rules:
Interested STL Bloggers should write a new post on the stated theme by the specified deadline. They should then email the host at the provided email address with the following information:
1) Name of Blogger
2) Permalink URL of blog post
3) Title of Blog Post
4) URL of Blog
5) Title of Blog
6) Would you be interested in volunteering to be the next host? Yes/No
6a) If Yes – what would your theme be?
The host will then take all the submissions that meet the simple requirements of addressing the specified theme, and having been posted between the announcement and the deadline – and link to them from one post, with some annotative comments for each. This post shall be posted at StlBloggers.com, and if the host wishes, at their own blog.
Participants should expect a delay of a few days between the deadline and this post.
The host will also choose the next host from the volunteers in any fashion they desire.
STLBloggers Blog Carnival #10
Host: Nobody (from Nobody's Puzzles)
Contact: help at goozle dot org
Deadline: April 30th at midnight. Email should be dated in the month of April
Theme: National Poetry Month
Spring Break Memories
For the 9th St. Louis Blogger Carnival, the theme is Spring Break Memories
To our recollection, Nobody never went to Florida for Spring Break. (As a kid Nobody went to Florida at least a couple times on vacation with our family. Spring, Fall, Summer? Nobody knows not.)
The only Spring Break vacations Nobody ever went on during elementary and secondary school would have been with their family. Nothing wrong with that – they were enjoyable, but somehow we think this carnival topic is supposed to be about something else. (Florida. Jamaica.) Though for either Spring or Fall break in 1983-4 school year, Nobody's family did make a trip to Vegas. That was fun. We stayed at Circus Circus.
We were able to come up with two spring break vacations Nobody went on without Nobody's parents during Nobody's college years. We visited our sister in Chicago once – saw a Grateful Dead concert at Soldier Field. And we visited her in San Francisco once – visiting Berkeley campus, Muir Woods, and doing a little wine tasting in the Napa Valley.
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Nobody is lying about something. Or at the very least, Nobody is mistaken.
Can you figure it out?
Baseball Goozle
Baseball season is about to begin. To the left we obviously have an old baseball card. (note the absence of a fielding glove) Some player for a St. Louis team. Unfortunately, we're missing a few letters in the guy's last name. Mostly vowels, one consonant. Vanna is nowhere in sight.
What was his first and last name?
What St. Louis team did he play for?
What years did he play/manage this team?
Did he ever play on the same team at the same time as the ball player for whom a former US Speaker of the House was nicknamed?
What team is he more commonly associated with due to his activities after playing/managing for the St. Louis team?
Final question - purely subjective opinion - should he be allowed in the Hall of Fame (he may or may not already be there) due to some of those activities?
Trivia Question
We realize this is more of a trivia question than a goozle, though it might take some research.
Who was LL King Jr, and what was the highest political office to which he was elected.
(No, we don't think LL Cool J is related, because his birth name was James Todd Smith III, which is nothing like LL King Jr. We don't know if there's a relationship with MLK Jr. That would be cool, though.)
We'll work on something comical.
Email conversaton
Easy Goozle
This has to be easy. With all the information given.
Two people John Farr and Justine Levy
in Feb 1884
in Scranton, PA
did something
the following day, in the local paper
the family of either John or Justine
mourned their child's death
What did John and Justine do?
And name the saloon they met at before they did it.
