![]() ![]() The literal meaning of “blanch” is “whiten” (from French), but the procedure does not necessarily result in a color change. In cooking, to blanch a food substance is to plunge it into boiling water for a short time and then plunge it into iced water to stop the cooking process. Tigger will tell you himself that “bouncing is what tiggers do best.” 59 Cook quickly, as vegetables : BLANCH He is a tiger with a springy tail and just loves to bounce around. Tigger is a character in the “Winnie-the-Pooh” stories by A. Milne’s “Winnie-the-Pooh”, the kangaroo named “Roo” was inspired by a stuffed toy belonging to Milne’s son Christopher Robin. 58 Milne character who likes to swing on Tigger’s tail : ROO President Barack Obama famously participates in an ESPN segment called “Baracketology” in which he predicts the outcome of the tournament, game by game. “Bracketology” is a term used to describe the process of predicting which college basketball teams will advance in a bracket in the annual NCAA Basketball Tournament. 53 Angry tennis player, perhaps? (B-) : RACKET BUSTER (bracket buster – B) The voice was modeled on a grumpy New York cab driver encountered one day by Caroll Spinney, the puppeteer who brings Oscar to life. Oscar’s personality was inspired by an angry waiter that once served Jim Henson (father of the Muppets). He is named after Oscar Brand who was one of the board members of the Children’s Television Workshop, the backers for “Sesame Street” as the Muppets were being developed in the sixties. Oscar’s persona comes from various sources. Oscar the Grouch is the Muppet who lives in a garbage can. 49 Oscar the Grouch’s backing instrumentalists? (B+) : GARBAGE BAND (B + garage band) Tanner renamed the intruder “ALF”, standing for “alien life form”. The alien crash-landed into the house of amateur radio enthusiast Willie Tanner. The title character is a hand-puppet, and supposedly an alien named Gordon Shumway from the planet Melmac. “ALF” is a sitcom that aired in the late eighties. 47 Wisecracking extraterrestrial of 1980s TV : ALF It is generally believed that the Buddha was born as Siddhartha Gautama in Kapilavastu in present-day Nepal, in about 563 BCE. Gautama Buddha was the sage on whose teachings the Buddhist tradition was founded. Gronk is one of five brothers, all of whom have played professional sports. Rob “Gronk” Gronkowski is an NFL tight end who was drafted by the New England Patriots in 2010. 44 Tight end Rob with four Super Bowl rings, familiarly : GRONK Well, that’s the way we tend to make it here in the US. “Café au lait” (French for “coffee with milk”) is usually strong drip coffee to which one adds steamed milk. The major jet streams surrounding our planet move in an easterly direction. Jet streams are narrow air currents high in the atmosphere that move very quickly around the earth. It is one of the two most famous French papers, along with “Le Figaro”. “Le Monde” is a newspaper published each evening in France. 33 Where Parisians get their newspapers? (A-) : LE MONDE STANDS (lemonade stands – A) As a producer, Eno has worked with David Bowie, Devo, Talking Heads and U2. 30 Music producer Brian : ENOīrian Eno is a musician, composer and record producer from England who first achieved fame as the synthesizer player with Roxy Music. Also, standard dimensions differ on the two continents, as “filing cabinets” are optimized for A4 size paper. What we call “file cabinets” here in the US are usually referred to as “filing cabinets” on the other side of the Atlantic. 23 Excuse for a presidency’s shortcomings? (A+) : FAILING CABINET (A + filing cabinet) In the Hanna-Barbera cartoon “The Flintstones”, Dino the pet dinosaur was voiced by the famous Mel Blanc, until Blanc passed away in 1989. The banknotes all feature stylized architectural designs of bridges, arches and gateways that reflect the large number of historic structures found throughout the continent. Euro banknotes, on the other hand, lack any such indication. 19 “Am _ loud?” : I TOOĮuro coins carry a design on one side that indicates the country of issue (Ireland uses a harp, for example). The smallest of the flash-based models is the iPod Shuffle, which was introduced in 2005. Later models all used flash memory, allowing a smaller form factor. The iPod first hit the market in 2001 with a hard drive-based device, now known as the iPod Classic. The iPod is Apple’s discontinued signature line of portable media players. “Blog” is a contraction of the term “web log”. The blog entries are in reverse chronological order, and one can just look back day-by-day, reading older and older posts. That is true, but more specifically it is referred to as a blog, as I make regular posts (actually daily posts) that then occupy the “front page” of the site. Many folks who visit this website regard it as just that, a website. Today’s Wiki-est Amazonian Googlies Across ![]()
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