Wit Twister #17: Scene from a Recession (Plus answer to WT #16: The Wisdom of Elders)

[StuartC]

Good Morning,

Here's another Wit Twister; these are similar to the ones The New York Times runs every Saturday. The missing words are anagrams of the same letters; the number of underlined spaces indicates the number of missing letters.

WT #17 – “Scene from a Recession” -- takes the form of a very short play:

(Empty _ _ _ _ _ _ sits, unstressed.
Grown child _ _ _ _ _ _ from moving van.)
“I _ _ _ _ _ _ your efforts to _ _ _ _ _ _ .”
“Don’t make this _ _ _ _ _ _ – it wasn’t my plan!”

Scroll down for the answer to Wit Twister #16:”The Wisdom of Elders.”

Have a great week!

Stuart












#16

Some ANCIENTS – for INSTANCE, Confucius, Aquinas –
Were famed far and wide as the wisest, the CANNIEST.
Today’s quests for wisdom will often incline us
To seek the advice of the grandpa and granny-est.

[Jamezy]

I have just tried one of puzzle Barons cryptograms and it took me 19 minutes. I looked at the rating and was given below average. The record was 19 seconds according to this stupid site. 19 seconds is totally impossible if you have never seen this cryptogram. By the time you try one or two letters and try and figure what it is saying cannot be done in 19 seconds. So I'm not going to bother with this BS site any more.