2/12/2019

7 Responses to “Answers to Acrostic Number 1”

1. As solved by Mrs. P.

   Patterico (115b1f) — 2/12/2019 @ 8:04 am

   
   

2. Acrostic is a poem form
   Containing a device
   Rhyming’s not essential, no it
   Only makes it nice
   Sometimes it is difficult
   To write acrostic muse
   It took a lot of patience
   Composing this for youse

   –Mason Williams

   You really should get into The Mason Williams Reading Matter. He used to write for the Smother’s Brothers, you know.

   Gawain's Ghost (b25cd1) — 2/12/2019 @ 8:34 am

   
   

3. I just made one, with pen and paper, but I can’t get it to format here. Anyway, it was a fun way to pass the time. I doubt that I will ever do it again.

   nk (dbc370) — 2/12/2019 @ 12:50 pm

   
   

4. Here’s the one I made. The comment form won’t let me put the numbers under the lines, so I put them inside the lines. The slashes / are spaces between words. I saw how you all struggled with Patterico’s, so I thought I’d make the clues extra easy, but then decided not to.

   FAMOUS LAST WORDS.

   —7— —8— —9— —10— / —11— —12— —1— —13— —5— —6— —14— —15— / —16— —17— —18— —19— / —20— —4— / —21— —22— —23— /— 24— —25— —26— —3— —27— / —28— —2— —29— —30— —31— —32— —-33— / —34— —35— —36— —37— —38— —39— —40—.

   A. —1— —7— —12— —31— —6— —11— —20— —32—
   Dear Leader

   B. —2— —35— —29— —8— —41— —30— —14— —36—
   Won’t go off

   C. —3— —21— —24— —10— —42— —39— —38— —15— —34— —55—
   Roman holiday for sex fiends?

   D. —4— —26— —43— —44— —16— —22— —45— —25— —18— —46—
   On a scale of 1 to 10, she’s a 10.

   E. —5— —23— —37— —-48— —49— —50— —40— —13— —56— —33—
   Scrounges successfully for beer bash?

   F. —6— —17— —51— —19— —27— —52— —28— —53— —14— —54—
   NASA needs lots of it.

   I don’t guarantee that there are no typos, but don’t assume there are. I did my best to avoid them

   nk (dbc370) — 2/12/2019 @ 5:17 pm

   
   

5. So nobody wants to give it a try? And I spent almost my whole week’s allowance of executive time on it. What if I gave you a really big hint? The acrostic, i.e. the word formed by the first letters of the six clues below the quote and to whom the quote is attributed, is CUSTER.

   Oh, what the heck, have one more hint: If you solve it, remember the moderation filter when you post the quote.

   nk (dbc370) — 2/14/2019 @ 6:08 pm

   
   

6. Testing Opera.

   nk (dbc370) — 2/15/2019 @ 7:48 am

   
   

7. Testing VPN.

   nk (e86223) — 2/15/2019 @ 7:51 am