{"id":38420,"date":"2019-12-13T07:33:17","date_gmt":"2019-12-13T15:33:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=38420"},"modified":"2019-12-13T14:29:10","modified_gmt":"2019-12-13T22:29:10","slug":"friday-fun-have-yourself-a-rebus-little-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/12\/13\/friday-fun-have-yourself-a-rebus-little-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Fun: Have Yourself a &#8220;Rebus&#8221; Little Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>[<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>UPDATE NOTE:<\/strong><\/span> I put an enlarged one for &#8220;A&#8221; in hopes that\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">St. Nicholas soon would be there \u00a0<\/span> it might help. Although enlarging tends to make it even fuzzier.\u00a0 Try to imagine it as just a plain pencil drawing w\/ no color. They were tough to figure out, especially back then.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>UPDATE #2:<\/strong> I went back and found the <strong>original BW one<\/strong> &#8211; and it is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>MUCH CLEARER!<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0 Hopefully this helps.\u00a0 And why they colored the middle item in #18 green I&#8217;ll never know.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>We can thank JD for inspiring today&#8217;s theme.\u00a0 A <em><strong>&#8220;REBUS&#8221;<\/strong><\/em> as defined by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/dictionary\/rebus\">Merriam Webster<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span class=\"dt hasSdSense\"><span class=\"dtText\"><strong class=\"mw_t_bc\">: <\/strong>a representation of words or syllables by pictures of objects or by symbols whose names resemble the intended words or syllables in sound<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"sdsense\"><span class=\"sd\">also<\/span> <span class=\"dtText\"><strong class=\"mw_t_bc\">: <\/strong>a riddle made up of such pictures or symbols<\/span><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You might have noticed I posted one the other day in a reply to JD.\u00a0 As an example I used the Rebus she had posted in another blog &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Rebus_Straighten-Up_Fly-Right.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-38411\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Rebus_Straighten-Up_Fly-Right.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"259\" height=\"322\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Rebus_Straighten-Up_Fly-Right.jpg 259w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Rebus_Straighten-Up_Fly-Right-241x300.jpg 241w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Rebus_Straighten-Up_Fly-Right-121x150.jpg 121w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 259px) 100vw, 259px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Which would be solved as <em>&#8220;Straighten Up and Fly Right&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>As a nod to the Holiday Season, a couple of decades ago I remember enjoying a Christmas Song themed Rebus game at a party.\u00a0 In fact I found that very same puzzle online &#8211; although now it&#8217;s in color, but a bit fuzzy.\u00a0 (I suppose time does that to all of us.)\u00a0 And a newer, but briefer version.<\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;m going to post two <em><strong>Christmas Song Rebuses<\/strong><\/em> for you to solve.\u00a0 Some of them are a bit of a stretch of your imagination, and there will be overlap &#8211; but that&#8217;s OK.\u00a0 You can either post your answer in Comments or keep an answer list.\u00a0 But I won&#8217;t be posting the Official Answers until Saturday, in order to give everyone time to take a guess.\u00a0 <em>(Sorry &#8211; but there are NO prizes.)<\/em><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>[A]<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><em><strong>[Original B\/W]:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Christmas-Rebus_00_BW.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-38434\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Christmas-Rebus_00_BW.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"555\" height=\"708\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Christmas-Rebus_00_BW.jpg 555w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Christmas-Rebus_00_BW-235x300.jpg 235w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Christmas-Rebus_00_BW-118x150.jpg 118w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 555px) 100vw, 555px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Christmas-Rebus_02-B.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-38431\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Christmas-Rebus_02-B.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"552\" height=\"711\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Christmas-Rebus_02-B.png 552w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Christmas-Rebus_02-B-233x300.png 233w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Christmas-Rebus_02-B-116x150.png 116w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 552px) 100vw, 552px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>[B]<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Christmas-Rebus_03-B.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-38422\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Christmas-Rebus_03-B.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"394\" height=\"494\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Christmas-Rebus_03-B.png 394w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Christmas-Rebus_03-B-239x300.png 239w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Christmas-Rebus_03-B-120x150.png 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 394px) 100vw, 394px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[UPDATE NOTE: I put an enlarged one for &#8220;A&#8221; in hopes that\u00a0St. Nicholas soon would be there \u00a0 it might help. Although enlarging tends to make it even fuzzier.\u00a0 Try to imagine it as just a plain pencil drawing w\/ no color. They were tough to figure out, especially back then. UPDATE #2: I went <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/12\/13\/friday-fun-have-yourself-a-rebus-little-christmas\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3784,3786,3785],"class_list":["post-38420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-christmas","tag-puzzle","tag-rebus","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}