May 30 2022 - Heardle

 

First came Wordle, and now comes Heardle.  I sometimes think I am so slow at finding new things.  this came out March 2022 right after Wordle. Here is the Economic Times (of India) with its Heardle puzzle today.  "The new Heardle puzzle is out today and it is an interesting song! If you are someone who is yet to figure out the song of the day of 30th May, 2022, here are our hints and clues to help you with the answer!  For those of you not familiar with it, the goal of the game is to guess the song of the day in six attempts or less.  Here is how Heardle is played: You're going to hear the first few seconds of a fairly well-known tune. Next, you have the option of guessing the artist and title or skipping your turn. By skipping or guessing incorrectly, you will hear more of the song. By the final guess, total of16 seconds of the track will be played, followed by the sixth and final guess.  There are chances that you might have some difficulty with today’s song, which is an Eclectic selection If that is the case, here  are few clues to help you out.  This song is a popular hard rock song. The song was released in 1980. This number was ranked 37 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100. The title track to the second most successful album of all time. This is from the album by AC/DC It was AC/DC’s seventh studio album to be released." Check out their Heardle puzzles HERE.  This is another Chanticleer image. Read more daily posts here: marilyncornwellblog.com Purchase works here: Fine Art America- marilyncornwellart.com Redbubble - marilyncornwellart.ca

April 1 2020 - Rooster Fools

April 1st as April Fool's Day is associated with the vain rooster, Chauntecleer, in Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales.   But this is not the Chaunticleer that Chanticleer Gardens is named for.   And there are large rooster statues at the entrance gates, and throughout the garden.  So one wonders how this pretty garden in the Philadelphia area got its name. "The Chanticleer estate dates from the early 20th-century, when land along the Main Line of the Pennsylvania Railroad was developed for summer homes to escape the heat of Philadelphia. Adolph Rosengarten, Sr., and his wife Christine chose the Wayne-St. Davids area to build their country retreat. The family's pharmaceutical firm would become part of Merck & Company in the 1920s." "Mr. Rosengarten's humor is evident in naming his home after the estate "Chanticlere" in Thackeray's 1855 novel The Newcomes. The fictional Chanticlere was "mortgaged up to the very castle windows" but "still the show of the county." Playing on the word, which is synonymous with "rooster," the Rosengartens used rooster motifs throughout the estate." Chanticleer was used as the proper name of the cock in the literary cycle of Reynard the Fox.  Its definition refers to this:  a domestic rooster or cock, especially in fables and fairy tales.   On to rooster jokes, as there aren't any Chanticleer jokes. They are mostly profane, given the job of a rooster.  On jokes sites this is the approach:     This is pretty well it for the rooster jokes.  A long, long listing of this box.  And generally, it is the same joke with variations. So here are the remaining two jokes: What do you call a rooster that stares at lettuce all day long? Chicken sees a salad. Why didn't the rooster tell Dad Jokes? He was afraid his kids would crack up! It's railroad day today.

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Charlie Travels with Charley

Do you want to travel with Charley or Charlie.  Charley made a road trip around America in 1960 with his author John Steinbeck.  Charley was a poodle. Steinbeck asked "What are Americans like today?". He started in Long Island and followed the outer border of the US from Maine to the Pacific Northwest and down into his native Salinas Valley in California, over to Texas, then up the Deep South and back to New York.  He went 10,000 miles.  Steinbeck was 58 years old with a critical heart condition, so this was his farewell to his country.  The book was published in 1962. Travels with Charlie, on the other hand, is a weekly feature of Charles Paparella, from Delmarva.  He is WBOC's feature reporter and travels the east cost peninsula in Delaware gathering news not normally be considered 'news'. The segment is named after the novel by John Steinbeck. In the book, Steinbeck does the traveling, and Charley is a dog. Our Charlie doesn’t like comparisons, but feels he could hold his own against any dog, although we’d have to see the dog, to be sure. There are quite a few other Charlies - travel companies, etc. There are many stories about the story of the Travels with Charley - it gets a fact-checking, it gets reviews, there's the 'truth about travels with Charley',  and there's Charley's lost chapter. There are titles "Dogging Steinbeck" and "Travels without Charley". The discussion is whether Steinbeck's work was fact or fiction.  That's  others to discuss.  We'll conclude with some good quotes: We find after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us. Who has not known a journey to be over and done before the traveler returns? The reverse is also true: many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased. I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found. Our pictures are from Chanticleer Garden, not far from Longwood and Winterthur. It calls itself America's Pleasure Garden.

Incoming Epiphany

Today's the day:  Epiphany!  Here are 3 famous Epiphanies we learned in school: Ancient Greek mathematician and physicist Archimedes famously cried out "Eureka" ' "I have found it!" from the bathtub where he realized that his volume displaced the same amount of water in the tub and he could calculate the volume of gold in a crown. Isaac Newton was sitting below an apple tree when an apple fell on his head, which caused him to develop his Universal Law of Gravitation. Albert Einstein developed his Special Theory of Relativity after arriving home one night feeling defeated. He imagined having arrived home at the speed of light, and how the light from the town’s clock tower would not have reached him in his car, even though the clock inside the car would be ticking normally. This would make the time outside the car and inside the car just different enough to be striking. We can look up epiphany on google and immediately discover the seven ways to help you have an epiphany. It starts with: Be observant.  Look around you.  But there's more. Next article is The Atlantic.  It starts with: Go for a hike or a drive.  Walk around the city.  Psychology Today tells us: When one of these amazing gifts comes to us, the way to honour it is to put it to use".  The next is another Psychology Today article that questions what is an epiphany: "By epiphanies I mean the major, life-changing revelations that have the greatest impact on our lives."  Huffington Post says there are 8 Epiphanies everyone should have.  Others have different numbers -  18, 12, 9, 8, 17, or 10 epiphanies? We can take the easy route and google images of epiphany quotes. That is where I found the one that seems to apply to today given this is the Day of Epiphany.    Epiphany Day should be everyday.