THE GOAT IS BACK 🪿

@thegoosiverbalist

23 күн бұрын

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I’m sooo glad you are back solving puzzles. I have missed you!!!

Haven't lost your touch, Goose. I only got a handful in sync with you, though I was screaming "crust!" 🍕

@thegoosiverbalist

23 күн бұрын

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so glad you're back! I always look forward to your videos

@thegoosiverbalist

20 күн бұрын

Thank, Naomi - it feels good to be back!

I'm pretty new at crosswords and anyone who is able to solve these is a magician to me idc

@thegoosiverbalist

20 күн бұрын

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I put in “wedge” for piece of pie and hung on to it for way too long.

@thegoosiverbalist

23 күн бұрын

That makes perfect sense - similar to my "slice" first idea ... 🍰

Welcome back

@thegoosiverbalist

25 күн бұрын

Hey Tee, good to see you again!

Great solve Goose!

@thegoosiverbalist

23 күн бұрын

Thanks, Shant!

Funny both “gap” and “hiatus” were on this puzzle when you have recently come back

@thegoosiverbalist

23 күн бұрын

My little goose ears were burning! 🔥

Lovely as usual ❤ How have you been?

@thegoosiverbalist

23 күн бұрын

Hey Calucita! I haven't been super great lately tbh, but I'm trying to hang in there. 😤

@TheCalucita

23 күн бұрын

@@thegoosiverbalist hang in there goose friend 💜! And remember there are a bunch of randos out here that appreciate you and send you good vibes 💜💜🪿

Love the videos! All 3 people I watch got wampum pretty much right away. Is that a common word? Maybe from a popular movie? Never heard of it.

@zmaj12321

24 күн бұрын

Same here! And I couldn't quite remember the name of the ball game (PIFFLE ball? KIFFLE ball?) so that W ended up being my last letter. WAMPUM is definitely an interesting concept, though.

@ann_onn

24 күн бұрын

I wouldn't call it a common word, but it's one that sticks in the memory for being quirky, and is sometimes used as a slang term for money.

@thegoosiverbalist

23 күн бұрын

Thanks, Scurty! I grew up in the northeastern US, and was taught about the Iroquois Confederacy in elementary school. I definitely learned about WAMPUM there at some point, and I bet a lot of other east coasters had a similar experience.

Hmm, massé isn't really the same thing as English. English is side-spin, usually to change the angle it comes off when it impacts another ball, whereas massé is making the ball swerve by hitting it downwards from above, and - admittedly - to the side. English, aka side-spin, is used in almost every shot, to improve the ending position. Whereas massé is rarely used except as a hail-Mary when facing a difficult snooker. Hmm. I'd never thought about it before. Interestingly enough, we hardly ever use the term English in England. We usually just call it side. Depending on who you believe, the term English either originated when English players visited the US and demonstrated it, or else it's a corruption of the french anglais, meaning angles. And yes, that's the same word for English people, because we're *Anglo* Saxon (ish, mostly, sort-of). Hmm, I suppose England is quite angular, really. I always quickly draw it as a tall isosceles triangle. Hmm.

@ann_onn

24 күн бұрын

P.S. Gauche is the very common French word for left, as in giving directions (e.g. "tournez à gauche"). Quite a lot of "left" words come to mean strange or unusual, different from "normal", or awkward - because (I theorize) left-handed is much less common. Sinister, for example, is from another French word for left (senestre).

@ann_onn

24 күн бұрын

P.P.S. If you're not completely bored with my etymological wittering - and I suspect you are not - then I humbly suggest you try to watch a short BBC TV series called "Balderdash and Piffle".

@thegoosiverbalist

23 күн бұрын

Have always loved "sinister" as a word for left - and just based on the title alone I feel like I probably would love "Balderdash and Piffle" ☺️