A question, using the Rice Krispies jingle
If you heard someone sing the tag line from the Rice Krispies jingle thusly:
”Snat Crackle Tot, Rice Kristies”
what would they be doing?
A more detailed clue: Singing the Alphabet Song:
ADCDESG
HIJKLNNOT
QRS & TUZ
Duddlyu and XYZ
Now I know ny ADC
Tell nee what you think uz nee
02/07/2021 @ 2:47 am
Unless it’s a teenage wedding and the Rice Crispers are tossed with an economical eye voiding
the real-deal white (or brown?) rice. Nowadays kids probably string empty cans of black-eyed peas to the bumper…and no…I don’t get the SAT-like speech therapy paragraph—Maybe Neil Stephenson E.g. ‘Cryotonomicon’ would…(Harper Perennial ’99)…Right to left then, dyslexia?
02/07/2021 @ 8:27 am
Good guess, JP, but it has nothing to do with dyslexia. This is not about pathology at all.
02/07/2021 @ 5:16 pm
I’ll give you a further hint, but it’s one you probably have been able to figure out. Which sounds are altered?
02/08/2021 @ 6:42 am
They are performing the jingle (or the alphabet) by holding their lips apart.
02/08/2021 @ 10:55 am
Exactly. And why would they do that?
02/08/2021 @ 12:04 pm
What is:
3 Days in January
7 Days in May
(from one who recently misspelled CRYPTOMONICA)
…guess who signs his lullabies…
02/08/2021 @ 5:08 pm
Is there a punchline in here somewhere?
02/08/2021 @ 6:00 pm
No. More of a riddle. This has a very specific answer. This is not a joke.
02/08/2021 @ 12:28 pm
[…] sorry breaker breaker one nine…the clothespin was over ‘sighs’…at this juncture I don’t know if I should check Craig’s List for a xylophone or find me an igloo over the rainbow.
Hope none of the kids turned into a bottle of Schlitz […]
02/08/2021 @ 1:33 pm
Alas, I do not own a xylophone. Nor a vibraphone. A marimba, yes. A glockenspiel, yes.
02/08/2021 @ 9:21 pm
OK, Bitey got 3/4 of the way there.
02/09/2021 @ 12:45 am
Bitey said:
“They are performing the jingle (or alphabet) by holding their lips apart.”
Who has reason to perform music, or speech, by holding their lips apart?
02/09/2021 @ 11:51 am
Dental patients?
02/09/2021 @ 3:27 pm
No. Ventriloquists. As a matter of fact, the guy who taught me that, in a class on a cruise ship, is the guy in the video in this thread.
02/09/2021 @ 5:33 pm
I was able to see that ventriloquist’s hands moving.
02/09/2021 @ 6:01 pm
You don’t like to see his hands move? OK
02/09/2021 @ 6:13 pm
It was a little joke. “Dental patients” was also a joke. It had become rather obvious that it was ventriloquism, so rather than to state the obvious, I took an obtuse angle for the comedy of it.
As for seeing his hands move, the trick re: ventriloquists is not allowing your lips to be seen moving. This joke exchanged “lips” for hands.
02/09/2021 @ 9:59 pm
I was aware of that, but I happened to know of a video where his hands did not appear to move, doubling down on your joke
02/09/2021 @ 8:43 am
It’s been a couple of days. Do I need to tell you?
02/09/2021 @ 10:04 am
02/09/2021 @ 2:00 pm
Ventriloquist tips
snuck up on Finnegans Wake now and again faking Edenic recollection woe be gone its 1955: Walter Winchell and Jerry Mahoney !* the 6 oz Coca-Cola bottle; Attica N.Y. radar red upside cats eye upchucked sliced carrots spurt, louder that up kids sd. Through the screen door a katydid atop the laundry post sang end-o-day. A beach ball in the sand box […] crows too awed-clawed wires then dove for der huge highness high sout eath sunlit shadows. I stamped my bare heel and den ranged the green soldiers on ether side o the berm waitin’ for dark.
02/09/2021 @ 2:15 pm
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02/09/2021 @ 3:23 pm
There was a guy on OS who spelled all his S’s with a $
02/09/2021 @ 3:45 pm
Ombud$man $taligmite la$t $een a$leep atop a love letter in the $and — Catalina I$le?
Fleecin flaxin waxin–flippant p$eudoNYm who knew all the lyrics to Moody River whil$t
ping-ponging an M-80…$hort fu$e they $ay…Indeed: how much does a hen way??
02/10/2021 @ 7:01 pm
hoovering near zero here in the heartland…chuckled…at Bitey’s lips to hand…it doesn’t have to be hand to mouth…yay that the good clean water be as pure as the cash flow…revenge must be a teeter-totter…in one corner we’ve oil…oxygen our referee tripping on his robe…and across the diagonal…it’s water…water water good clean water…fine print guarantee: long cold lonely winter! The grand old OW Jones Industrial Ave +62…a celebratory happy birthday JC!
02/10/2021 @ 7:07 pm
Warmer than that here at the moment. Monday I woke up to 3 degree weather.
02/10/2021 @ 7:10 pm
Sing a song
(Sing) Sing a song of songs
(Sing) Sing it out
Sing it strong (Sing, sing, sing, sing)
Yeah
Yeah
*Holly Holy
Song by Neil Diamond
02/10/2021 @ 7:58 pm
CHAPTER !@ 12
PAGE 87
Louis L’Amour: ‘Education of a Wandering Man’
“Through some boxing friends I found a job in a veneer plant in Portland, Oregon. At first I was off-bearing on a saw; later, grading veneer. We were making doors, desk tops, tables, radios, all manner of wood items, […]”
Whoa! My venerable heat bulb just went dark; whatever that means. Sure the climate is more amenable in Gatlinburg, TN.
And my eyes sting as I recollect driving along that ribbon of highway when Roberta said, “Whoa
look at those clouds!” And I said, “Honey…those are the Rocky Mountains….” Croce was on the quads. Darkness has slipped in. No doubt the defenders can spell Antietam.
The insurrectionist not so much. I mean really! Maybe I ought contrive a jingle-jangle ’bout Maggie and me on a Mag-Lev…no more waiting…!