How to Make Decisions
Issue 67

We welcome your letters, questions and desperate pleas for help in this uncaring world. As always, e-mail WBXylo at Gmail.com. Don’t fret about e-mailing me with puzzle problems; I won’t yell at you.

We have two incredibly short “how-to”s this week. I’m not sure why that is.

How to Remove Marker Stains from Clothes

Step 1: Spray the area with hairspray.

Step 2: Rub the area with a bar of soap.

Step 3: Rinse.

Step 4: Run the shirt through the laundry.

How to Make a Moulin Rouge

Over cracked ice, mix 4 parts sloe gin with 1 part sweet vermouth and 4 dashes angostura bitters.

Shake well.

Strain into a chilled martini glass.

Word of the Week

purlicue – the web of flesh between the thumb and forefinger
(Source- There’s a Word for it by Charles Harrington Elster)

This Week’s Puzzle (Difficulty: Anagram fun!)

Example: Five letters, arranged one way form dirt, another way make an organ.
Answer: Earth; heart.

Six letters, arranged one way form a class of animal, another way spell out something taboo.

Last Week’s Puzzle (Difficulty: like a mild case of chicken pox)

Which of the following letters doesn’t belong and why?

C, D, O, P, S, U, V, W, X, Z

Who knew letters would be so controversial? We had the answer of W for a couple of good reasons. W has three syllables, whereas all other English letters have one. W isn’t represented in the Periodic Table (Point of clarity: W is used in the table, but no element starts with W in English). W isn’t used in some Romance languages, etc.

But it was Haley who delivered the answer we were looking for (and the one that was hinted at in the difficulty).

The D does not belong because
its shape differs between lower and upper case. the rest of the
letters are the same shape, just a smaller size.

I need the free publicity, I might start writing my Little Things column again.

Free publicity to Haley.

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