Comments on: Jumble Spoiler – 05/08/12

By: LindaLee

LindaLee — Sat, 12 May 2012 02:10:59 +0000

I got and got it! Whoa!

By: unclerave

unclerave — Wed, 09 May 2012 14:27:27 +0000

@ Jeff,

Yeah. I think “DEAD TO “WRITES” would have been even tougher for those out there who aren’t familiar with the idiom. I considered it *well known* well . . . because I know it. Maybe in today’s fast food, 800 channel, “I” and “E” everything, cookie-cutter world we’re losing the best of the English language. Certainly, a lot of it is being replaced by popular jargon.

@ Marc,

Probably the steroidal sinewy muscles would be tougher to CHEW! I guess if you’re a zombie smell isn’t such a big concern to you.

@ LL-T,

Don’t tell the kids that Unclerave’s Wordy Weblog is educational. They’ll run for their lives, as if they’re seeing ZOMBIES! We’re a predominantly FUN site!

— YUR

By: Lisa Lowry-Taylor

Lisa Lowry-Taylor — Wed, 09 May 2012 02:37:23 +0000

Oh..never heard the dead to rights saying before

By: Lisa Lowry-Taylor

Lisa Lowry-Taylor — Wed, 09 May 2012 02:34:50 +0000

I got it but didn’t think I did because it doesn’t make any sense

By: Marc Berner

Marc Berner — Tue, 08 May 2012 22:02:36 +0000

Thanks for explaining the punch line, Unc.

- I like your “hard to digest” take, but I think it would be better if the cop were the zombie and the graffiti artist was either a stinky, wino bum, OR some
kind of muscle-bound freak.

I think the steroids would be hardest to get down, don’t you?

By: jknurek

jknurek — Tue, 08 May 2012 21:48:38 +0000

Someone did write us and suggested that the pun could/should have been “DEAD TO “WRITES”, which is a step further. We did have a discussion with our editor as to whether players would get it or not. We decided to roll the dice.

By: unclerave

unclerave — Tue, 08 May 2012 21:05:04 +0000

“Caught dead to rights” generally means the same as *caught red-handed*, or *caught in the act*. So, considering that zombies are just the animated dead, the pun makes perfect sense, Marc.

I like your “hard to digest” take, but I think it would be better if the cop were the zombie and the graffiti artist was either a stinky, wino bum, OR some kind of muscle-bound freak.

— YUR

By: Marc Berner

Marc Berner — Tue, 08 May 2012 20:41:50 +0000

Hey Unc,
If the cop was a cannibal zombie, the graffiti artist could have been “hard to digest” !

By: Marc Berner

Marc Berner — Tue, 08 May 2012 20:32:07 +0000

Actually, I DO get it, but don’t think it TRULY makes sense, do you, Unc?

By: Marc Berner

Marc Berner — Tue, 08 May 2012 20:30:42 +0000

I got it, but don’t GET it.