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- From: mouse@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu (der Mouse)
- Newsgroups: rec.puzzles
- Subject: Re: Christmas Songs [SPOILERS]
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.164552.10091@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 16:45:52 GMT
- References: <1gt9bdINNsed@meaddata.meaddata.com> <1h2sm5INNfm0@gap.caltech.edu>
- Organization: McGill Research Centre for Intelligent Machines
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- In article <1h2sm5INNfm0@gap.caltech.edu>, carl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Carl J Lydick) writes:
- > In article <1gt9bdINNsed@meaddata.meaddata.com>, jim@meaddata.com (Jim McIntire) writes:
- >> Christmas Challenge - What song titles go with these song descriptions:
- >> 3. Celestial messengers from splendid empires.
-
- Angels From The Realms of Glory?
-
- >> 23. A trio of non-occidental potentates is our identity.
- > We Three Kings
- ...Of Orient Are, to fill out the provided description.
-
- >> 25. Yuletides desired dozen.
-
- Twelve Days of Christmas, perhaps? "desired" is unclear.
-
- >> 30. A red and white projectile is arriving in the metropolis.
- > Santa Claus is Coming to Town. Again, your use of the term
- > "projectile" here is just plain wrong.
-
- At the speed he must travel, to visit the whole world in a night? You
- must be kidding. "Projectile" doesn't say the half of it. (Well,
- okay, much less than the whole world: just that portion of the world
- that believes in him. Even visiting half of North America in a night
- makes it a pretty brisk trot from chimney to chimney.)
-
- der Mouse
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