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QuikSand 04-20-2010 09:08 AM

A puzzle for old time's sake
 
Back in the day, I/we used to do quite a lot of these around here. In the modern internet world, it's harder and harder to post a puzzle that someone can't just search-engine through... so this is an original. As usual, the caveat applies: I think this is challenging but get-able, but I may well be misjudging its difficulty, in either direction.


As many of you know, I am something of a birdwatcher. A while back, we put up a new thistle seed feeder outside our house. As birds started to discover it, we (in keeping with our household) gave nicknames to the birds we started to see.

The Puzzle: What nickname did we give to the second, larger, bird that became a regular at our new feeder?

No, I don't intend to answer questions or anything... in theory, you have enough to noodle this one out.

cartman 04-20-2010 09:11 AM

Norm

KWhit 04-20-2010 09:15 AM

Good guess.

KWhit 04-20-2010 09:15 AM

Lenny?

MikeVic 04-20-2010 09:15 AM

Cartman

albionmoonlight 04-20-2010 09:17 AM

Daddy

dacman 04-20-2010 09:18 AM

Big Bird

spleen1015 04-20-2010 09:19 AM

Big Norm

MikeVic 04-20-2010 09:19 AM

Wait can I change my answer to 2/3?

cartman 04-20-2010 09:20 AM

If not Norm, then Tiny

spleen1015 04-20-2010 09:20 AM

Peewee

spleen1015 04-20-2010 09:20 AM

Moose

Swaggs 04-20-2010 09:22 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by cartman (Post 2267935)
Norm


I can't top that. Good guess.

Dr. Sak 04-20-2010 09:23 AM

heybrad

QuikSand 04-20-2010 09:25 AM

Nothing wrong with these guesses, but nothing in the right neck of the woods yet. I'll offer this... the correct answer would not be reachable just out of thin air, but only by taking and using some of the information that I have given you in the setup, and using it along with some degree of common sense.

Dr. Sak 04-20-2010 09:27 AM

Tex

albionmoonlight 04-20-2010 09:29 AM

According to the interwebs, thistle seed seems to attract finches.

So, I still got nothin', but maybe that's a clue.

albionmoonlight 04-20-2010 09:30 AM

Bully

MikeVic 04-20-2010 09:31 AM

Atticus

albionmoonlight 04-20-2010 09:34 AM

Good one, Mike.

I'll guess Jem along those lines.

rjolley 04-20-2010 09:41 AM

Number Two or Will Riker

JPhillips 04-20-2010 09:43 AM

Clark

Celeval 04-20-2010 09:46 AM

Sidd?

Passacaglia 04-20-2010 09:48 AM

Two-can

dwardzala 04-20-2010 09:52 AM

Junior

MrBug708 04-20-2010 09:53 AM

Dean Houston

cartman 04-20-2010 09:56 AM

W.C. Fields (from My Little Chickadee)

Butter 04-20-2010 09:56 AM

Big Blue

chesapeake 04-20-2010 10:06 AM

Chicken Little

QuikSand 04-20-2010 10:13 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by albionmoonlight (Post 2267967)
Good one, Mike.

I'll guess Jem along those lines.


Okay, Mike made leap #2 in the chain. And this is the closest answer so far, at least in spirit. Wrong answer, but you have 2/3 of the logical steps on the way to the right answer.

albionmoonlight 04-20-2010 10:16 AM

Boo?
Scout?

tyketime 04-20-2010 10:16 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by JPhillips (Post 2267974)
Clark


:+1:

Toddzilla 04-20-2010 10:38 AM

Operation Shutdown?

cartman 04-20-2010 10:39 AM

Lennie Small

MIJB#19 04-20-2010 10:49 AM

Because of the household hint, it probably is something -issy or such, or a link to the color of the bird, or even a hint of the tweeting dialect of the bird. And there's another hint on the size of the bird. Usually the first birds to appear are the more assertive ones.

I'm not too familiar with the 'birdopedia' of Maryland, but something like "big bird" or something else from Sesame Street? "Oscar", maybe?

QuikSand 04-20-2010 10:54 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by albionmoonlight (Post 2267967)
Good one, Mike.

I'll guess Jem along those lines.


Okay, I will elaborate.


Clue #1 was to figure out that the bird is a finch... check

Clue #2 was to figure out that the first finch we start seeing is going to get nicknamed Atticus... check

Clue #3 gets you home.

MIJB#19 04-20-2010 10:56 AM

Spartacus?

MIJB#19 04-20-2010 10:58 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MIJB#19 (Post 2268048)
Spartacus?

Already regret this reply after finding out what a 'finch' is. Not to mention who 'Atticus' is... :redface:

Pumpy Tudors 04-20-2010 10:59 AM

David Spade

albionmoonlight 04-20-2010 11:02 AM

Gregory Peck

QuikSand 04-20-2010 11:04 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by albionmoonlight (Post 2268057)
Gregory Peck


That's actually better than what we came up with.

Ours is more childish, and based on a clue embedded in the puzzle above.

Celeval 04-20-2010 11:05 AM

Scout, then?

Edit: Sorry, didn't see that as a guess above.

What about Rufus?

Ronnie Dobbs2 04-20-2010 11:06 AM

Howard Beale

TurnerONU22 04-20-2010 11:09 AM

Childish and in the puzzle..

Fatticus?

cartman 04-20-2010 11:12 AM

Jenny

QuikSand 04-20-2010 11:12 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TurnerONU22 (Post 2268064)
Childish and in the puzzle..

Fatticus?


Winnar.

dacman 04-20-2010 11:12 AM

Luigi

cartman 04-20-2010 11:13 AM

Jim Crow?

QuikSand 04-20-2010 11:14 AM

The second finch started showing up a day or two after the first one, who we predictably has started calling Atticus. He was noticeably larger, looked sort of puffed-up (might have been feathers as much as anything) but in short order he was styled "Fatticus." *shurg*

All told, nice work, I think. I underestimated the number of more legitimate highbrow directions to go with the nicknames, but I don't think the clues were really untoward to get you there.

molson 04-20-2010 11:30 AM

All I know is that I want to start a bird sanctuary with every bird taking a name from this thread.


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