Quintessentially Quilly

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1. Wow – I’m actually awake and at my computer when it posted and I can’t even send in a guess because 1) I won the last two, and 2) I have no idea!

   Have a great trip to the Northeast! You two like extremes of the country don’t you?! Why don’t you ever visit some middle state, like Kansas? (or even TEXAS?!!) 🙂

   1. Linda — Amoeba has been to Texas on business a couple of times but he left me home. Now he no longer works for Shell Oil so he probably won’t be going again.

2. Hmm, I wonder if it is more than one word. If so, my guess my be correct, if not, I may be off track. We’ll see!

   1. NOT more than one word.

3. .
   Have a nice trip, Guys! I envy you of course. Have fun! 🙂
   Take pictures! That means to bring the charger along with you.

   Please run over to the Boston Harbor MacDonalds’ Pub and
   have a ‘fish and chips’ for me. I suppose that will be a fish
   sandwich and fries. Oh well.
   ..

   1. Jim — we don’t do McDonald’s. Too expensive for too little food value.

      1. .
         Yes, I was teasing, I very seldom do either. Just the senior specials for me!

         The “One Word” here now got me. I probably won’t or couldn’t guess it. I have a lot of errands I am running. That involves going to town. Luckily for us we have a bridge and don’t wait for the ferry.
         ..

         1. Jim — This one really is way easy. You’re all just over thinking it.

            1. .
               My delivery lady didn’t get me dropped off back home here before you posted the answer. With all those HINTS for sure I could have gotten it [they weren’t here except for “One Word” when I left.
               We will blame the devilery lady, she had to drop off a LOL (Little Old Lady–she had a low mileage 2000 model Cadilac, believe me–I tired to buy it from her) in Conroe before she brought me out here.
               Or I could blame Mrs. Jim. She can bring me home after dropping off the car except she was off herself today playing bridge. Wifely duties were not coming this afternoon.
               ..
               Enjoy Massachussets for me! 🙂

4. I am with Barbara…she got it first if you are looking for two words 8)

   1. Mar — oops! Pick another champion!

5. Stumped, but still thinking.

   1. Stacy — turn the radfio on while you think. I suggest a Jazz station.

6. My guess is on the way…

   1. Peg — got it. It’s wrong. Alas.

7. Pffft…you just don’t make this easy do ya. And they are this hard and we don’t even get a prize…PFFFFT!!!

   1. Thom — the honor of winning such an intellectual challenge is prize enough!

      1. No it aint

8. I think I need to feed my brain cells…

   1. Mar — feed them Jazz!

9. I came by earlier and then got distracted and forgot all about it. Even with 2 hints, my brain is not clicking with any ideas. Aggggh.

   1. Raven — Read the comments and check the other hints.

      1. Just not happening. Whatever it is, either I’ve just missed the wave length or it’s a term I’m not familiar with.

10. I sent in a guess, or two one a variation of the other. Both are probably so far off base but hey “It’s all in the game”.

    Enjoy your trip to the East, have some Clam Chowder and Biscuits.
    Now I hungry.

    1. Why is everybody ignoring the obvious! ? And some of those phones are NOT cell phones.

11. Well I’m back and not matter what clues you give I don’t get it and I’m off to work. I could sit here from now ’til you land in the east coast and not get this. Have a great trip. Be safe.

    1. Thom — here’s a dunce cap. Go sit in the corner. Don’t worry, you won’t be lonely. It seems to be full.

       1. Where the hell do you get sax out of a plastic bag for a sandwich? Hmmm. And your note clue means songs to me. PFFT I protest even though my darlin won. I’m checking back into the school of abstract for the mentally challenged. Maybe the head mistress Quilly can give some pointers on thinking that way.

          1. Thom — bag and sack are synonyms. Think, “Gee, looks like a bag to me, but what else might people call it?” Oh wait, that would requiring thinking! Never mind.

12. Apparently I am losing my touch. That was MUCH harder than I thought it would be.

13. Actually, this one is really really clever. Once I got it I was impressed. The thing I think made it hard though is that I’m not used to that word being used for plastic bags.

    1. Thanks, Doug — Amoeba and I thought I was brilliant when I thought of it. You were all making me doubt ….

14. I sent in another guess…only to realize it is not a noun, duh!! I will check out the answer first thing in the morning, it’s beddy bye for me now 8)

15. No more taking Monday’s off, I guess. You guys get too lax! Gotta keep your minds sharp! 😉

16. By which I mean the key word goes with burlap and paper but not plastic, in my experience.

    1. Doug — that’s why I thought posting the Sandwich Bag box was a bad idea. It has been my experience that everyone seems to have a really hard time contemplating possible synonyms. Most everyone tends to fixate on one thing and stay with it. I’ve tried pointing this out in the past but I think we are all (myself included) predisposed to mental tunnel vision. We get an idea and stick to it.

       Kelley’s daughter was the most innovative, but a lot of these answers were really good and I wished I had thought of them.

17. Ah, by the time I was able to get back, Melli got it — congrats, Mell! I knew they were in baggies, but I don’t think I would have thought of “sacks” — I think of paper bags as sacks. But putting the clues together it might have clicked on for me — but then, maybe not, who knows. It always makes perfect sense after the fact.

    1. Barbara — if I had put the phones in paper bags, you never would have seen them ….

18. ROFLMBO!!! So glad I got your email telling me that no one had won yet — I ran right over! HOW COOOOOOOOL that I WON!!!

    By the way — have a GREAT time on your trip — and give Ella a HUG for me! It will be good to get her back — she hasn’t even MET Tyler yet!

    1. Glad to see you whenever you pop by, Melli. I wish it was more often!

19. Well, I probably would have been a tad late, but my iPhone would not send an email and I was trying to guess saxophones. I have NEVER had my iPhone be so ornery. Grrrr.

    That would have been around 3:50 here, which would have been 1:50 there, so I still got in late, even though I figured I was no longer banned from guessing since everyone was missing it. Oh well.

    Congrats to Melli & the others!!

20. May I point out that my answer was plural … and correct since there is more than one?

    But it was nice to hear from Melli, so I concede the point or points…

    Now next week we’ll fixate on synonyms…and you’ll do something else, but it keeps our brains sharp!

    1. Kelley — I have never been a stickler about getting the correct form of the right word. Whoever makes it to base first wins. And as for your answer being plural — I do a lot of copy and pasting when I put the answers up, especially the winning answers, where I only have to change the name and time, I just overlooked your plural ending. Sorry.

21. Totally forgot to look today…but it sure was funny to see all the hints – and no – I didn’t figure it out…hehe

    1. Shelly — this one gave folks fits — especially the literalists.

22. I’m pitiful. Even after I read the answer, it took a minute for me to get it!

    1. Mama Zen — oh! I don’t know that I would have admitted that. 🙂

23. Well, Dizzy Gillespie. Duh…

    1. Melissa — I made a lot of people dizzy!

24. I wouldn’t have gotten that either – I see a sack as something big enough for Santa to carry.

    1. Mumma — well here they sack our groceries and I never buy enough to fill Santa’s sack.

25. ALL BUNK!!!!

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