Seven Life Lessons from Board Books:
A Quiz by Rachel Conescu Barany
1. You can run but you can’t hide (especially from parents).
2. Even mittens like being put to bed.
3. Overeating does not always lead to indigestion.
4. Some fruits are harder to disguise than others.
5. When it comes to planting seeds, trust your instincts.
6. Even birds read Lenin.
7. If it’s cold, it may belong in the freezer.
Life Lessons
1. You can run but you can’t hide
The Runaway Bunny!
Life Lessons
2. Even mittens like being put to bed
Goodnight Moon
Life Lessons
3. Overeating does not always lead to
indigestion.
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Life Lessons
4. Some fruits are harder to disguise than others
The Big Hungry Bear
Life Lessons
5. When it comes to planting seeds,
trust your instincts
The Carrot Seed
Life Lessons
6. Even birds read Lenin
Farmer Duck
Life Lessons
7. If it’s cold, it may belong in the freezer
The Snowy Day
Guessing Game
• Try to identify each person based on their
baby picture.
• Suggest a humorous caption for each
picture (or set of pictures).
1. Guess Who?
Chris Lundby
2. Guess Who?
Twins, but not originally from Minnesota
One of them is Jane Wissinger – even her father can’t tell them apart
2. (continued): Wissinger Clan
3. Guess Who?
Hoye Boys (Adam & Brian)
4. Guess Who?
The two babes pictured above later became life partners.
Ken & Doreen Leopold
5. Guess Who?
The two babes pictured above later became life partners.
Bill & Bonnie Tolman
6. Guess Who?
Barbara Goldenberg Barany, aka Barbarany
7. Guess Who?
George Barany, already discovering that
designing peptides isn’t child’s play
8. Guess Who?
The two babes pictured above later became life partners.
Lou & Inger Pignolet
9. Guess Who?
Larry & Deb Que
The two babes pictured above later became life partners.
10. Guess Who?
Allison Leopold wants to know:
“Who took my biscuit”?
11. Guess Who?
Michael Jeremy Barany has the answer
(as long as the answer is 5)
12. Guess Who?
Answer to 12: Matteo Veglia
13. Guess Who?
Karen Leopold
brushing Plato
14. Guess Who?
Answer to 14: Deborah Adina Barany
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The Forsyth Saga
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• Scandinavia (July 2003)
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What’s New
Nicholas C. Forsyth
The newest group member is due to arrive in November.
http://expresso.chem.umn.edu/Pages/new.html
Crossword Puzzle
Forsooth, It’s a Boy Forsyth!
Michael Shteyman and George Barany
Crossword Test-Solvers
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Charles M. and Raisa Deber
Art and Micky Felix
Jed F. Fisher
Bruce and Libby Merrifield
Susan E. Rogers
Forsooth, It’s a Boy Forsyth
• 4-Down. Rugrats entertainment
For(syth) sleepless periods
• 9-Down. Yule know this St. if you believe
in him (Dec. 6 in Germany)
“You can’t fool me. There ain’t no Sanity Clause!”
Marx Brothers “A Night at the Opera” (1935)
• 13-Across. Doge-gone-It-alian city?
• 15-Down. Alice, in “Eyes Wide
Shut” (1999)
Notice she’s under “Cruise control”
• 29-Across. He plays a biochemist
in “The Rock” (1996)
Cage-d Chemistry
• Nephew of “Godfather” director Francis Ford Coppola
• Past and future son-in-law of the King, Elvis Presley
• In “It Could Happen to You” (1994), his character Charlie
Lang, wins, loses, and rewins the lottery; costars with
Rosie Ruiz and Bridget Fonda
• In “The Rock” (1996), his character, Dr. Stanley
Goodspeed, thwarts a threatened attack on San
Francisco that involves the chemical weapon VX, an
acetylcholine esterase inhibitor, the neurotoxic action of
which is thwarted by a rat poison called atropine. The
film costars Sean Connery
• 45-Across. Anti-pellagra vitamin
(3-pyridinecarboxylate)
Related to NADH, etc.
• 45-Down. Politician Machiavelli (1469-1572) or
violinist Paganini (1782-1840)
• 66-Across. KC at the Vat
(Craig’s competitor on azaspiracid)
• 46-Down.
Heliocentric Polish astronomer
(1473-1543)
Birthday February 19
• 79-Down. Asta la vista, Forsyth baby!
Hammett Plot
• 93-Down. Jack of all acting trades
• 107-Across. Best-selling candy named
after Mars family’s favorite horse
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Crossword Puzzle Answer
Anagrams Hold Hidden Truths
NICHOLAS FORSYTH
is
A SLY FIRST HONCHO
Noticed by Jed Fisher and George Barany
P.S. remind GB to explain the significance
of the MAnic/PAnic crossing
Good Kid Nicholas
Sung to an old, familiar tune
Good King Wenceslas, part of Piae Cantiones (1582),
with words attributed to John Mason Neale (1818-1866)
Summer, fall, two thousand three,
Raise the roof, commotion,
Traveling, site visiting,
Talks and Craig's promotion.
They fixed up the nursery,
and Jeff’s crib did borrow.
Now Karin’s proposal’s in,
He can come tomorrow!
From Karin did he alight
One day* in November*,
To his folks an awesome sight
They would long remember.
Hello to new Mom and Dad,
What a birth day this is!
Yesterday he was your "It".
Now he is your ‘Nicholas’* !
Good Kid Nicholas* cried out
On a winter’s evening,
When the snow lay round about,
Deep and crisp and freezing.
Brightly shone Karin that night,
Though her mood was hyper.
“I’ll try feeding him,” she sighed,
“Craig, you change his dia-a-per.”
“Please don’t wake me up again,”
Mom, Karin, lamented.
“If I got just 3 hours sleep,
I would be contented.”
So Craig Nick* his bottle gave,
Then one last caressing.
But that woke him up again.
Oh, this is depre-e-ssing!
“Hither, son, and stand by me,”
Said Dad later, kvelling.†
“Yonder toddler, where is he?
Who and what is smelling?”
“Dear, he stands just three yards hence,
On the changing table.
‘Ere his downfall doth commence,
Catch him if you’re a-able.”
Bring him food and bring him toys,
Bring him playmates hither.
Complicated schedules,
Running yon and thither.
‘Doctor’ Mom and ‘Doctor’ Dad,
But who’ll be in power?
We predict, “T’will be the lad,”
Singing at your shower.
Someday Nick* will sing this tune
With his Dad and Mother,
Substituting, to improve,
One word for another.
Writing in red on the sides,
As they sing together
This draft improved and revised,
Just like a profe-e-ssor.
Sing this song, ye, loud and clear
On the babe’s first Christmas,
Celebrating Mom and Dad’s
Greatest biosynth’sis.
As you welcome your first son
To the Forsyth fam’ly,
Warm congratulations from
Your colleagues in chemistry!
The End
Can you get the Grant?
Will you kiss me, Kate?
Does the leopard show its spots?
Or is it just the beginning?
But now it’s time to split