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All ready for Superb Owl Sunday. A quick Google search for recipes this morning brought up these cheese biscuits.

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LadyBird wrote: ↑Sun Feb 07, 2021 2:40 pm All ready for Superb Owl Sunday. A quick Google search for recipes this morning brought up these cheese biscuits.

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Looks yummy. Hubby making PF Chang style chicken stuffed lettuce wraps! (Hey, I cleaned the house!) I’m in such a good food mood I am willing to admit I just got the Superb owl reference.

Trying to find a spot on the crowded beach!

For the statistics, I've solved this meta
(WAsn't sure if I posted or not)

I guess everyone is watching the Superb Owl. I guess I don’t give a hoot. ( Except for that great episode of “What We Do In the Shadows).

hcbirker wrote: ↑Sun Feb 07, 2021 8:39 pm I guess everyone is watching the Superb Owl. I guess I don’t give a hoot. ( Except for that great episode of “What We Do In the Shadows).

Not watching it now. Have never watched it.

made it to shore with what looks to be a record crowd.
first time i had to do a puzzle one handed since i just had shoulder surgery - felt like one of LadyBird's feathered friends pecking at my laptop keyboard!

With the crowd in the beach. Pleasant diversion during unpleasant game. But did like the weekend.

Our final record count is 233 on the shore

I'm locking the bar up and paddleboarding to shore.

I left the key under the mat.

Well, the Super Bowl was as one sided as the (supposed) META answer, but gosh I liked the puzzle more. I mean I am glad that a Florida team won, and glad that an old player won (here I stifle a snicker as I hear the commentators wax poetic about this 43 YO dinosaur - I literally have shoes older than that) but I was probably looking for a basketball-like score where the last team with the ball marches down the field with 1 second to spare and kicks the field goal to make it 73-70. Well, maybe next year. Gotta hand it to Brady, but my goodness Patrick Mahomes is a talented young man and I'll bet a force to reckon with in years to come.

If nothing else I had an excuse to eat food I should not and drink more wine than was necessary - so a win after all.

See everyone at the bar (and hopefully on Tuesday evening)

There was talk about PAGEANT. Is it possible, even when we have been told this is a simple puzzle to solve? Here are the similarities between the two:
1. Both are Mike Shenk puzzles.
2. Both occurred before an important football weekend.
3. Somewhat vague or open-ended instruction to the meta answer (nothing specific like asking for a 6-letter word).

It is this last point that makes a PAGEANT possible because all you need to do is to happen upon a plausible answer that is even simpler than the expected one. And at least one MUGgle has mentioned that it may exist.

But why PAGEANT is infamous is that it hoodwinked a vast majority of the entrants. While there may be a number of submissions to some other possible answer this time, I seriously doubt that so many people can be fooled again.

After coming up with the answer, I tried to create more poetry à la Mike Shenk, but the best I could do was a Style Kludge.

Yes, I know it doesn't rhyme.

Phew!!

Curious as to what else people thought it could be, except maybe to miss the 'TRIAL' bit?

When the landlord picks a bad color for the bathroom squares — I hold a tile grudge!

Yay! It’s my first correct answer!

Other potential theme clues:

1. "Give that stack a little push"
2. "A bit of a slog"
3. "Polo vs. Klein"









1. PILE NUDGE
2. MILE TRUDGE
3. STYLE GRUDGE