Step right up!
March 13, 2025
Synthetic Voice Theater, Footstep Productions, and Quass.com present... full-cast presentations of...
And don't miss the latest blog of the 19 species of North American Owl, as Great Gray Owl Larry Longfellow presents
Great Gray in the Morning!
Anagrams
March 4, 2025
WORD: TRANSPORTATION
CLUE: When tiny social insects bow before their queen (2 words)
Gramma Anna's Anagrams cont'd
March 3, 2025
In these puzzles, we give you a common English-language word and a clue. Your job is to find the anagram of the word that best fits with the clue provided. Example:
WORD: DEMOCRAT
CLUE: Bookmark for scholarly publication (2 words)
ANSWER: tome card
WORD: DEMOCRAT
CLUE: Bookmark for scholarly publication (2 words)
ANSWER: tome card
WORD: INTENSIFY
CLUE: Puny penalties (2 words)
Stuff and Nonsense
March 1, 2025
Today we will be philosophically analyzing a variety of so-called nonsense sentences created "on the fly" by the GeneratorFun website."A flailing monkey wants to set things right."
This is so true. The wild and undisciplined motions of a simian betray an implicit but frustrated desire for a state of motion-free peace, the psychological component of which, in any final reckoning, must include the pacification of any disgruntled associates in a manner consistent with justice, such that short-term fixes effected by brute strength do not raise subconscious scruples at some future date, the outer manifestations of which might result in -- you guessed it -- more of that damn flailing!
"The last sentence you saw takes the world for granted."
This is really just a corollary implicit in Whitehead's comments about the elliptical nature of language. "A sentence," writes Whitehead, "directly conveys one proposition, while in its phraseology it suggests a penumbra of other propositions charged with emotional value." As we are unaware of any context for the sentence provided above, we are bound to consider it in the most abstract sense possible, in light of which limitation the phrase "The last sentence you saw" must be construed as nothing less than "the last interaction that you had with the fallible and eternally imprecise human invention known as language." That this language "takes the world for granted" is clear, insofar as language presupposes the existence of a world to which its words are thought to correspond, whether that world be supposed to reside only in the mind or in an external realm that is qualitatively different from that mind.
This Is Your Life: Owl Edition
February 28, 2025
Today, the Ferruginous Pygmy Owl is being featured in an episode of This Is Your Life: the Owl Edition. Enjoy.And some more of Gramma Anna's Anagrams
WORD: CONSIDERABLE
CLUE: What the lousy comedian does in Reykjavik (2 words)
WORD: QUINTESSENCE
CLUE: A search for the perfect perfume (2 words)
Gramma Anna's Anagrams
February 27, 2025
In these puzzles, we give you a common English-language word and a clue. Your job is to find the anagram of the word that best fits with the clue provided. Example:
WORD: DEMOCRAT
CLUE: Bookmark for scholarly publication (2 words)
ANSWER: tome card
WORD: DEMOCRAT
CLUE: Bookmark for scholarly publication (2 words)
ANSWER: tome card
WORD: MISINFORMATION
CLUE: Tiny Italian car-loving idiots (3 words)
WORD: DINOSAUR
CLUE: Demand from would-be preachers who are in a big hurry (2 words)
WORD: VERSATILITY
CLUE: Irrelevant eye disorder (2 words)
WORD: ANTIPSYCHOTIC
CLUE: Madman on a doomed ship (2 words)
WORD: DISTURBANCE
CLUE: Social crustaceans (2 words)
The Country Wife
February 26, 2025
The Synthetic Voice Theater of Quass.com presents: The Country Wife by William Wycherley, starring anarchist François Koënigstein as Mr. Horner, with cameo appearances by Scarlatti and Martha Washington!Thanks for visiting. Come back daily for more fun from Brian Ballard Quass @ quass.com. Copyright 2025, Brian Ballard Quass. Contact Brian @ quass.com for more information. Click here to go to top of this page.