? WALK Puzzler 2.

Q: Why did the tomato blush? 
A: Because it saw the salad dressing!


Hey there!

The deadline is approaching. Send me your answers please.



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WALK Puzzler 2.

I’m going on holiday for the weekend but I don’t want to leave without giving you something to be thinking of.

Are you new to WALK Puzzler? Click here for details.

This time you will have to build words from the given letters. Each word has to contain at least three letters.

Scores: You get 1 point if you send me at least 3 words. You get 2 points if you can figure out at least 6 words. The 12-letter word is worth one extra point.

Here are the letters.

a c e h i i n s s t t u

You can use every letter only once in each word. The singular and the plural forms of the same word are taken as one.

Send me your words in email (info(at)ewalk.hu) within 72 hours.

Have a nice weekend.

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WALK Puzzler 1 - The answer

So which word is missing?

She is the latest in a ____________ line of controversial leaders. 

If you take the ____________ view, of course, you can regard staff training as an investment for the company.

He's paid well but he works ____________ hours.

The answer is long.

in a long line of - a series of people or things that follow each other in time

to take the long view - to think about the effects that something will have in the future instead of in the present

to work long hours - working many hours regularly

For further example sentences check the expressions in Cambridge Dictionary.

Thank you for your answers.


Let's see Puzzler 2 in the next post.

WALK in English.

Laugh a minute: Screaming in a bar

Two guys are sitting on a bar stool. One starts to insult the other one. He screams, “I slept with your mother!” The bar gets quiet as everyone listens to see what the other weasel* will do. The first again yells, “I SLEPT WITH YOUR MOTHER!” 

The other says, “Go home dad you’re drunk.” 

weasel = sneaky person

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A drop in the ocean: Stem cells

You hear a lot about them, but do you know what stem cells are. I have chosen the introductory part of the introduction of the American National Health Institute about this question. If you are interested, you can find a great deal of info on their website.


Stem cells have the remarkable potential to develop into many different cell types in the body during early life and growth. In addition, in many tissues they serve as a sort of internal repair system, dividing essentially without limit to replenish other cells as long as the person or animal is still alive. When a stem cell divides, each new cell has the potential either to remain a stem cell or become another type of cell with a more specialized function, such as a muscle cell, a red blood cell, or a brain cell.

Stem cells are distinguished from other cell types by two important characteristics. First, they are unspecialized cells capable of renewing themselves through cell division, sometimes after long periods of inactivity. Second, under certain physiologic or experimental conditions, they can be induced to become tissue- or organ-specific cells with special functions. In some organs, such as the gut and bone marrow, stem cells regularly divide to repair and replace worn out or damaged tissues. In other organs, however, such as the pancreas and the heart, stem cells only divide under special conditions.

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WALK Puzzler 1 - The start

I'm proud to announce the start of my new blog series called WALK Puzzler. Here you can scratch your head and test your English.

This is also the start of a competition lasting till the end of this year. Be the best WALKER and win THE DRUNKARD'S WALK: How Randomness Rules Our Lives by Leonard Mlodinow.



What do you have to do in order to participate? Only three things:

• First, like WALK Program on Facebook. This way you'll be informed about the new posts immediately. 
• Then send me as many correct answers for WALK Puzzler questions as you can in email.
  (You have 72hours to answer each question. Late answers won't be accepted.) 
• And last but not least, like those Puzzler posts on FB you've answered.

The competition is to be closed on 31 December 2011. You are the best WALKER if you have the most correct answers.
My husband is excluded from the competition.


Let's see the first puzzle.

Look at the sentences below. The same word is missing from them. What's that? (Only one word is the answer.)

She is the latest in a ____________ line of controversial leaders. 

If you take the ____________ view, of course, you can regard staff training as an investment for the company.

He's paid well but he works ____________ hours.

Send me your answer via email.


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Laugh a minute: A case for more beer

A herd of buffalo can move only as fast as the slowest buffalo, and when the herd is hunted, it is the slowest and weakest ones at the back that are killed first. This natural selection is good for the herd as a whole, because the general speed and health of the whole group keeps improving by the regular culling of the weakest members.

In much the same way the human brain can only operate as fast as the slowest brain cells. Excessive intake of alcohol, we all know, kills off brain cells, but naturally it attacks the slowest and weakest brain cells first.

In this way, regular consumption of beer eliminates the weaker brain cells, constantly making the brain a faster and more efficient machine.

from www.funs.co.uk


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