Sudoku Puzzles

Why not!!! Wheee!!!

Just getting around to doing the puzzles after my busy, frustrating day. Nice plate of goldfinches. I understand they taste just like chicken.

....just kidding.....just kidding...!

Good morning (just) everyone! My, this site slows down by the time we Aussies can get here!
Greg - Congratulations to Kelly (and her proud Dad).
Karen - I have enjoyed hearing You and Jill talk about the joys and trials of being pregnant. I can still remember how I felt.
Kathy - the More...

Backyards - we here in Australia are mourning the loss of the great Australian backyard (lawn, garden, whatever you like to call it). Nowadays the houses being built are larger and the land blocks are smaller, add a swimming pool and some people have only a few square metres of grassy backyard. More...

I'm with you, CynB. When I drive by new houses that are huge and practically fill their block I wonder where the kids get to play. We live on a large, treed block and the grandchildren love to get out there and make cubby houses and play among the trees. It's cheaper than taking them to a More...

Is there only one level of puzzle these days? When last I visited this site there were three levels of play. (Not that i was much good at the Medium or Hard puzzles...)

Right side of the page, near the top. FOUR levels.

Plus the 16x16 for those with a couple of hours to spare.

AND the 4 kids puzzles.

Good night worldly people.

We call those fence to fence houses 'McMansions'!

to you,
to you,
dear Scott Morey!!!
to you!
May your special day be wonderful with a and lots of More...

Cg, please pass on my to Kelly.
Aimee, please tell your mom for me.

Judy, put the stick down and step away from it!!!

Fiona, play the bagpipes nicely, do not, I repeat, do not use it as a weapon!!!

English is a funny thing!! now that there are more people in the world speaking english there are many interpetations of the same word in many different countries.
some of the words have the same meaning, and some have totally different one's

What can you come up with?

Boot...in More...

Including the rude ones,Kevin?

What time is it in Sudokuland?

An hour too late to get into the word game. Ah, well, another time.
Just remember I'm "Nice Judy."

2.00 What a beautiful plate(?). Who painted this?

'Glad-wrap' in Oz, is 'Cling-film' in UK.

'Camp-pie' is tinned processed meat in Oz, but a pie you eat while camping in UK.

'Sheila' is any female in Oz, but a specific female named 'Sheila' in UK.

A 'bird' is universally two-legged.

In UK a 'boot can either be the storage compartment of a car, or heavy footwear.

[Over one hour gap]

Hello everyone, facinating reading today with lots of giggles. The plate does look like its hand painted still no one owning up to its ownership though.

Great to see that Glen and Benny haven't fallen off the edge of the world welcome back both of you.

Earlier I used the word "bush" to describe the area around my home. To an Australian, "bush" is a widely used word. It can refer to a plant (of course), a treed area or a rural area. A bush block can be a block of land with lots of trees or one in the country. If you live on a More...

Pavement is where you walk in UK, in US it is where you drive.
Knock up in UK is to wake someone.....slightly different in US
Rubber in UK is an eraser in US
Trunk in UK is a box for storing or the 'boot' of the car in US
'At this moment in time' in US, 'now' in UK

I only just woke up but I will think of more I am sure

Lovely to see Glenn and Benny posting again.

How did "trunk" come to mean a place for storage as well as the upper part of the body, a long-distance phone call (when the operator was needed to connect you) and the long bit of an elephant?

Judy, how did the car in US get a 'hood' and a 'trunk'? In the UK we have 'bonnet' and 'boot'. I suppose hood and bonnet both cover the head and a boot covers a foot but a 'trunk'?Maybe it started as a boot-trunk for storing footwear and got divided. As to 'trunk' on the body it does store all the More...

Oh I wish I hadn't Googled 'trunk'
Junk in the trunk = big buttocks

Mo hope you didn't take the elephant into the shower with you wouldn't leave much room for you!! LOL

I'd forgotten about the trunks that men wear - usually called "boxer shorts" these days. They cover parts of the body, but not the feet. Could you say that they are used for storage? Thoughts of the elephant start to form........
Most of the UK terms you've mentioned are used here also - part of our Anglo heritage, I guess.

Depends how big the trunks are Judy

Oh Mo I wish you hadn't either, so I'm sitting on my junk in the trunk.Groan !!!

It is amazing the places you go to through this site

http://elephant.elehost.com/About_Elephants/Anatomy/The_Trunk/the_trunk.html

Aha, according to my intelligent hubby, who also just woke up the elephant 'trunk' is because tubing or conduiting is also called trunking so tubing = trunk.

wow looks hand painted..!gud day all!

I can see a relationship between the elephant's proboscis and a tree trunk.

According to my aged Macquarie dictionary, "trunk" can also be used for the main body of an artery, nerve or the like, as distinct from its branches. This can also apply to a train line or road, so I can see how that use has come from the tree trunk.

Very good Judy, was a tree trunk used to make a cabin trunk. Maybe hollowed out tree trunk to begin with.