Before Google
A recent comment by a Facebook friend reminded me of a wonderful evening we spent with her parents. There were four couples and their kids gathered at our house and after dinner, (I do not remember who got it started) we decided to fill in an acrostic in the Dorothy Sayers Whimsy novel, Lord Peter Views the Body. In the book, Lord Peter and a small group solve the puzzle in order to reveal some clues. And they do it in a very short time.
It took us all evening, way past our children’s bedtime! There were several advanced degrees among us. We had all kinds of reference books at our house, but others were retrieved from our guests’ homes. Tom Jobes drove home and returned with a few volumes of the OED, the Oxford English Dictionary. Thankfully, we all lived within a few blocks of each other.
A lot of questions someone in the group knew off the top of their head. I remember that Allan knew the unit of measure on the Russian Steppes-Vorst.It was so much fun! Pouring through books and digging facts out of our minds stored away back in our college days.
I will always remember that winter evening with our friends and reference books scattered across the floor in front of our fireplace.Now, with Google, you could solve it by yourself fairly quickly, but it wouldn’t have been near as much fun as we had on that night way back in the 1970s.
I present to you Uncle Meleager's crossword square. I think it would be a great party, even today, with Google. Here are all the clues.
It took us all evening, way past our children’s bedtime! There were several advanced degrees among us. We had all kinds of reference books at our house, but others were retrieved from our guests’ homes. Tom Jobes drove home and returned with a few volumes of the OED, the Oxford English Dictionary. Thankfully, we all lived within a few blocks of each other.
A lot of questions someone in the group knew off the top of their head. I remember that Allan knew the unit of measure on the Russian Steppes-Vorst.It was so much fun! Pouring through books and digging facts out of our minds stored away back in our college days.
I will always remember that winter evening with our friends and reference books scattered across the floor in front of our fireplace.Now, with Google, you could solve it by yourself fairly quickly, but it wouldn’t have been near as much fun as we had on that night way back in the 1970s.
I present to you Uncle Meleager's crossword square. I think it would be a great party, even today, with Google. Here are all the clues.
