| Saturday, 12-May-2007 13:23 |
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Think About It Thursday #65 -- THE SOLUTION IS HERE!
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HELLO! 
Mad props to Thursday Admin again this week for choosing such a great puzzler. This one came in completely under the radar and totally nuked the crap out of the collective brains of all the contestants. Even the Six Brazillian Dollar Man got a dose of dirty bomb right up the old waste chute!
Rajiv dropped by and thought this thing might have come unplugged from something else, like this is the male half of a union or coupling (perhaps the first of a handful of sexual references this puzzler elicited). But that ain't it, bro'!
J u l i a (that's hard to type with the spaces in there) guessed that this is the plug connection thingy from the backside of a stove or dishwasher. I can tell you that you're in the right room of the house, and that you may be the closest guesser this week. Read on....
Juli (with the correct spacing of the letters in her name) came right out with a term for this part that made me blush. I'm a big fan of pink nipple fittings, but it hadn't crossed my mind in the least to give it a name like that! And what would you call the gold halo area behind it, the areola? Geez!
BEAVIS, SHUT UP!
"...somewhere at the oven." is how mknace put it, and I gotta give some credit for using a correct word here. It isn't clear exactly which oven you mean, but, yeah, that's worth a li'l somp'in-somp'in.
Wednesday, how'd your rock-paper-scissors thing turn out? Or are you still playing? You didn't really come back and tell us what you decided.
And then Juli stopped by again, amending her first answer of "nipple" by saying that maybe instead it's a nipple! I like the way you think, Jules. It's clear we have a lot in common. (wink-wink)
Wade, good guess there, buddy! The wire feed hole of a welder is obscure enough for me. Too bad I can't give you any prizes. But check out the next puzzler!
Hey, Mark, once a contestant, always a contestant. We're just glad to have you play. And on behalf of Juli and me, I'd like to thank you for using the word nipple once again. I'm starting to think it looks exactly like a nipple. Maybe a cyborg nip...?
Richard's seeing the water supply fitting for a shower, where the control knob attaches. Another stellar attempt, but sadly mis-guessed.
Lewesrat, speaking of "electrical thingies," Steve Austin stopped by to see you.  He wants to know what's cookin', good lookin'.
High-pressure air hose fitting is what Jennifer guessed this week. And just where have you been, young lady? We were starting to wonder if you'd gone AWOL forever.
And, first timer Col. Steve Austin will not be receiving a link under the heading of "Contestants," but we have to admire a bionic man whose motto appears to be, "It may be short, but it sure is thin!"
The answer to this week's TAIT is: microwave oven magnetron and the nipple-looking thing is the waveguide emitter from which mysterious energy is directed into your food. Say, is that a melted candy bar in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?
Finally, as promised, we have some new Trackbacks to enter this week ~ say hello to first-time contestants J u l i a and mknace. Welcome! Come back and see us again.
Sincerely,
--Thursday Admin
There's no way, NO WAY!, that any of you are going to get this one.  And here at Think About It Thursday, the administrator is really hoping that Maryam isn't both correct and first with her guess, because not only was personal delivery of the prize promised, but we'd actually have to come up with a prize. How does one personally deliver recognition? That's all we give now: a trackback and recognition. So, to all the rest of you: guess early and guess often!
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