There's a guy who's been awake since the Second World War

[venta]

Today's word from The Calendar is great:

pitchkettled

meaning puzzled. I have no idea why, but I like it.

It also says:

"On this date in 1944, as the Allies prepared to invade France at Normandy, a minor detail in a London Daily Telegraph crossword puzzle raised considerable alarm among the military brass. During the preceding month, the puzzle had contained code words the invasion planners had been using, including Omaha, mulberry, Neptune and Utah. On June 2, overlord, the word secretly asssigned to the entire massive assault, appeared as a solution to "eleven across" from the previous day. British inteligence officers quickly arrested Leonard Dawe, a physics teacher and twenty-year veteran crossword puzzle writer for the news-paper, but they quickly determined that this was simply an amazing coincidence rather than an act of espionage."

Comments

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I dunno... if a 15th century sailor hoved into view and then covered me with heated pitch from his kettle... I'd be pretty damned puzzled.

[wimble.livejournal.com]

I dispute the fact that "puzzled" would be the first word you'd use to describe the situation.

Unless you were wearing your heatproof suit. In which case, I think everybody else would probably have the right to be puzzled. But not really because of the sailor and his pitch.