Good morning, Whitewater.
We’ll have a rainy Wednesday, with a high of sixty-six.
On this day in 1944, the Allies at Normandy link forces: “Five days after the D-Day landing, the five Allied landing groups, made up of some 330,000 troops, link up in Normandy to form a single solid front across northwestern France.”
It’s Gene Wilder’s birthday:
On this date Gene Wilder (aka Jerome Silberman) was born in Milwaukee. Wilder graduated from Washington High School in Milwaukee in 1951. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Iowa in 1955. and studied judo, fencing, gymnastics and voice at the Old Vic Theatre School in Bristol, England.
Wilder won the Clarence Derwent award for the Broadway play “The Complaisant Lover” in 1962. He continued to perform on Broadway in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1963), Dynamite Tonight (1964), and The White House (1964). Wilder made his film debut in Bonnie and Clyde (1967), then earned an Oscar nomination the following year as the accountant Leo Bloom in The Producers, the first of three films he made for writer-director Mel Brooks. Wilder is known for his work in such films as Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971), Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex (But Were Afraid to Ask) (1972), Blazing Saddles (1973), and Young Frankenstein (1974).
After his second wife Gilda Radner died of ovarian cancer, Wilder co-founded Gilda’s Club, a support group to raise awareness of the disease. [Source: Internet Movie Database].
As Wonka, expressing concern for Mike Teavee:
Here’s the Wednesday game from Puzzability in the Pop Flies series:
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This Week’s Game — June 9-13
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Pop Flies
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It all starts with Dad this week. For each day, we started with a word that begins with the two-letter chunk PA and deleted it to get a new word. The two-word answer phrase, described by each day’s clue, is the longer PA word followed by the shorter word.
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Example:
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Undercover scheme to entrap the gang of kids wielding liquid adhesive
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Answer:
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Pasting sting
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What to Submit:
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Submit the two-word phrase, with the PA word first (as “Pasting sting” in the example), for your answer.
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Wednesday, June 11
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