"Happy Together" - February 25, 2022

[Puzzle mom]

If I stare at this grid long enough will the answer just pop out?

[patpatchica]

On shore. This meta did not come easily for me. I'm not even sure why. In hindsight, it's not that hard! However, it is a great Gaffney puzzle with a solid answer - my favorite kind. Thanks to @BarbaraK for the help! I'm not sure I feel *****. Sorry, Matt.

[whimsy]

"Psssst!
Try @MikeyG's newest Pun of a Kind meta that just came out today.
I'm sure you'll be very Happy Together."

[FKelly]

Busy week. Almost forgot about the Meta.
On shore.
But now I've got two ear-worms: Pharrell William's Happy in one ear


and Coldplay's Viva La Vida

in the other. Summed up, they are Happy Together.

And to top it off, I can't stop thinking about Epicurus.
Ouzo for me, please.

[auee89]

Ashore after sleep-induced inspiration around 1 am. Again, making things harder than they need to be. No nudges needed this time.

[Al Sisti]

Does anyone else have this song stuck in their heads? Gotta love the French horn player . . .

Thought of The Turtles immediately as they (well, at least two of them) lived in my area when I was growing up . Just couldn't figure out how 'turtles' could be turned into a 5 letter word!

Long ago I was told that Flo and Eddie wrote this one as a joke, and were a bit surprised at its commercial success. Fact check, please?

I heard that about their song "Elenore," with the lyrics: "Elenore, gee I think you're swell/And you really do me well/You're my pride and joy et cetera."

[Janet]

Muggle Janet reporting ashore!

[TheDeej]

Typical late start this morning. I admire the construction and the "click" was rather satisfying. Thanks, Matt!

Ashore! Barkeep! Anything frothy and cold is fine with me this morning. But a Guinness would be preferred.

[Puzzle mom]

I am finally ashore!
That was exhausting. I chased so many rabbits when I close my eyes all I see are letters and fluffy tails.
I’ll have a hot chocolate please.

[aaugusti]

I’ve done everything. Looked. Went away. Looked again. Went and had coffee. Looked more. Went to bed. Had an idea and pinned it before falling asleep. Woke up to go “nope!”

Status: Banging my head against my life raft.

Send help.

[Ann]

Finally on the shore.

[aaugusti]

On shore! Thanks to the nudge that helped me see it differently!

[mattythewsjpuzzler]

At the moment still at sea. But haven't had much time this weekend to engage. Later today hopefully enlightenment will come. This is one where when you look at it you say "This should be very gettable". But haven't gotten it yet!

[hunkra]

*Happy* to be *Together* with all you muggles on shore. Double-teamed it with a muggle friend/co-worker and am now sitting pretty on my (snow) beach with a hearty Stout, stoking the fires under our annual maple sap boil. Good luck all!

[Bob cruise director]

Good Sunday morning muggles
We have had a steady progression to the sunny warm shore and now have 11 with Isaac and 200 on the shore

New to the warm ship's bar are
mattythewsjpuzzler
KFB

While making their way to the shore are
michaelm
rosiegirl
patpatchica
mlvilv
Fred
cinny
Janet
Ann
Limerick
Isw
TheDeej
aaugusti
Puzzle mom
cbarbee
auee89
Henry Paul
ImOnToo
hunkra

Good luck winning the mug

[John77]

Thought of The Turtles immediately as they (well, at least two of them) lived in my area when I was growing up . Just couldn't figure out how 'turtles' could be turned into a 5 letter word!

Long ago I was told that Flo and Eddie wrote this one as a joke, and were a bit surprised at its commercial success. Fact check, please?

I heard that about their song "Elenore," with the lyrics: "Elenore, gee I think you're swell/And you really do me well/You're my pride and joy et cetera."

“Your looks intoxicate me
Even though your folks hate me…”

And Dylan won the Nobel??? Go figure.

[iggystan]

On shore.

(I've been leaving the meta solve until later in the weekend in case I can't get it. Then I don't ruin 3+ days. )

[HunterX]

If I stare at this grid long enough will the answer just pop out?

Love it! Wish I could see some of the harder metas as easily as I saw the image hidden in that Magic Eye.

Curious why it was so easy for me to see the hidden 3D image. I remember back in the mid-80's when my wife and I were in grad school at CMU. She was in the School of Computer Science studying artificial intelligence vision, and one of her fellow PhD students would create and print up black-and-white autostereograms as a fun programming exercise. This was long before "Magic Eye" came out. I could "sort of" see the 3D images, but not well or easily. I guess now that my eyes aren't as good at focusing as they were ~35 years ago, these come more easily?

[JaneGummy]

On shore tho I was a heavy load today, had to be dragged by my muggle mentor. Very clever meta, as always

[rosiegirl]

If I stare at this grid long enough will the answer just pop out?

I used to be so good at "seeing" hidden images, but I cannot get this one. I used to just blur my vision and the image would pop out at me. Now that my vision is blurred naturally, I couldn't decide whether to use my glasses or not....but in both cases I have been unsuccesful! I may PM you to find out what I should be seeing!