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Yup. Misdirection fails again

Lucid's analysis is the clearest. What you get when you turn on more taps is more flow. Find the flow rates and add them. The taps flow, respectively at rates of 1/2, 1/3, 1/4 and 4 reservoirs per day. Flowing together, [adding their flow rates] the rate is 61/12 reservoirs per day. They will fill 1 reservoir in exactly 12/61 days. That comes to 4 hours, 43 minutes and .. about 16.7213114 seconds.

Hint: Helen and an infamous horse.

Yup, those all work. Here are the ones I had in mind: [2] Stretched [3] Queueing [4] Witchcraft - that would be in Salem, MA [5] Latchstring - you got it [7] Indivisibility And ... for those who care .... abstemiously: adverb: in a sparing manner; without overindulgence

"Nobody goes to that restaurant; it's too crowded." That is a quote from the much-quoted, great Yogi Berra. Who is also quoted to have said, "I didn't say most of those things I said." So that possibly explains it. I also point out that George Carlin once noted that the stuff you spray on mold and mildew comes with the warning: Use this product only in well-ventilated places. To which George replied ... I don't know where your mildew grows, but ...

Couldn't help ... replying to the notion that I don't have the ability to choose not to reply to the notion that I don't have the ability to choose not to reply to the notion that I don't have the ability to choose not to reply to the notion that I don't have the ability to choose not to reply to the notion that I don't have the ability to stop typing. But I must. Is that my destiny or did I choose freely to act as if it were? Ah, paradox, begone!

Hint? It's actually easier than the 1st version.

You've got the right idea. But he makes a bigger cut -- about 20%. How?

Quite right. But this is an old result, first popularized by K Barth.

The answer could be foul play, if there were deserts or mountains in Iowa: Acclaimed Journalist Found Dead, Mars Iowa Straw Poll Monday, August 13, 2007 AMES, Iowa (GPI) -- Sure to throw a pall over Mitt Romney's win of the Iowa Republican straw poll, critically acclaimed investigative reporter, Ken Wolfson was found dead here early Sunday. Area police suspect foul play.

... the price of lead would go up. That's a good observation. But the primary effect would be to make the King's hoard of lead more valuable. We have to somehow see how Sir Alex got rich. Here's a clue Sir Alex made his fortune the old fashioned way -- in gold. But he wasn't King Midas -- he couldn't make gold from anything other than lead.

So far we have ... [1] what is the longest English word that contains a single, unrepeated vowel? Strengths [2] give 2 9-letter words that have 1 syllable. Strengths and [clue: S t r e _ _ _ _ _ ] [3] give a word that has 5 consecutive vowels. [clue: Q _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ] [4] give 2 words that have 5 consecutive consonants. Strengths, Angsts, and yet a third: [clue: W _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ] might find it in MA [5] give a word that has 6 consecutive consonants. [clue: L _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ] they went out of use 100 yrs ago [6] give 2 words that have the 6 vowels a e i o u y in alphabetical order Facetiously and A b s t e m i o u s l y freebie - that was tough [7] give a word that has 6 occurrences of the same vowel. [clue: I n d i _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ] [8] give a word that has three consecutive repeated letters. bookkeeper 2, 3, 4, 5, 7 remain.

You'd have a long existence without any good music.

What would you call an accountant on a submarine? Nah!

Rover died because ... [0] ... lacking fingers, he could not open his canteen. [1] He was an old dog; and crossing a desert is a new trick. [2] He ran across a baseball fan who ate him as a hot dog. [but only partially - he was a big dog and there was no ketchup] [3] He was not dogged enough to complete his journey. [4] He fell victim to a cat mirage. [5] ...

Three boxes are all labeled incorrectly, but you must determine their contents, nevertheless. The labels on the boxes read as follows: [box 1] gold coins [box 2] silver coins [box 3] gold coins or silver coins To gain the information you need to determine the contents of each box, you may remove a single item from one of the boxes. You may not look into the boxes, nor pick them up and shake them, etc. Can this be done? If so, how? If not, why not? Wait. That was the old puzzle. The rules have been changed. You can't open any of the boxes. You can't remove any item from any of the boxes. You can't even touch any of the boxes. Wait. You're also told that the boxes all contain coins of a single type: gold, silver or bronze. Edit: No two of the boxes have the same contents.

Nope, that's not it. Remember, the King, whose mama has raised no fools, has confiscated all the lead in the kingdom. Alex has only a daily allowance of lead, and his head comes off next morning if he fails to bring it back as gold.

Writersblock is exactly right. Here's why: It ... is ... a ... really ... bad ... poem!

the girl loves to tease ...!

He'd spent a lifetime searching, and Alex the Alchemist one night finally found the secret of turning lead into gold. When he reported his newfound prowess to his King, the sovereign was skeptical. Nevertheless he ordered all the lead in the kingdom confiscated and then gave a pound of the dull stuff to Alex, demanding it be transformed into something suitable to enrich the royal coffers the next day. A handsome reward was promised for success, along with generous compensation for making this a daily task; but death on the gallows awaited if Alex were found to be untruthful. Delighted with this opportunity, and seizing a chance to curry the King's favor even more, Alex declined all compensation, opining that it was reward enough, simply to be of service to his Liege. True to his word, lowly Alex returned to the castle at sunrise, a pound of glistening gold lying heavy in his rucksack. He laid it at the Monarch's feet, where a surprise awaited. The King convened his court, and stood, to praise Alex -- both for his alchemistic prowess and for his remarkable willingness to forgo monetary reward -- and knighted him on the spot! Smiling, Sir Alex rose and left the castle, satisfied that he had both gained the King's favor, and become not only a knight but a rich man, as well. What was shrewd Alex's secret? Edited for clarification.

can you feel the hook getting set?

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Any frustrated poets out there?

For the record, onelook.com says... Sorry, no dictionaries indexed in the selected category contain the word subbookkeeper.

yes. know any others? these were new to me.