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First tuna, now Spam®

The 9-down clue in today's crossword was "Flipper". Mr B------ and I had filled in 22-across ("Teacher, at times") as "MASTER" and were trying to find a "Flipper" that fit into "SPAM--A".

We toiled endlessly until we finally had to admit to each other that the reason we couldn't come up with the answer was that we were both hung up on the idea of filling it in with "SPAMINA". What is spamina, you may ask? We have defined it as one's ability to eat large amounts of Spam® over a long period of time.

Spamina has nothing to do with flippers, of course, unless dolphins are big fans of canned meat. As it turns out, the "Teacher, at times" was a "TESTER" and the "Flipper" was "SPATULA".

srah - Friday, 14 November 2003 - 4:46 PM
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gravatar Mr. B------- - November 14, 2003 - 5:08 PM - ℓ

Perhaps they are not big fans, but until the last couple of decades, dolphins could -be-, actually, canned meat. Chicken of the sea, indeed.

gravatar srah - November 14, 2003 - 5:11 PM - ℓ

Yeah, I was trying to make some kind of connection along those lines, but I couldn't decide if the dolphins were *eating* the Spam® or were *in* it, so I sort of just went with both.

gravatar Mr. B------ - November 14, 2003 - 5:47 PM - ℓ

And it was all innocent fun before I took it too far.

gravatar srah - November 14, 2003 - 5:58 PM - ℓ

It needed to be said. I cannot be allowed to be unclear in this way.

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