Last Wed. afternoon Frank noted some "valuable Tangredi speculation" had occurred on that day. Here are the posts prior to Frank's that include speculation:franktangredi wrote:Associated words aren't hidden inside names. Some of the names do take the place of the associated words list. We already have a working model of how.
The only reason there are so few women is that there is a wider pool of famous men to choose from. The Tangredi put a lot of restrictions on my choice of names.
It seems to me the "working model" is likely to be the DOGBERRY + RY = BERRY GORDY, goes with SMOKEY ROBINSON suggested match, since the words inside of names idea seems to have been ruled out, and I don't think there are enough last names that can serve as first names to make 53 matches.Postby silverscreenselect » Wed May 28, 2014 10:28 am
A quick look at the answers shows a lot of last names that could be first names, especially if we're somewhat liberal in matching, say: Iggy Pop and Pop Warner. But I would have thought in that event that Frank would have an associated clues list, especially with people like Jesse James, since there's a huge number of Jameses he could be matched with.
The other possibility, based on the clues, is that we're matching up things that are contained inside one of the names (probably without anagramming). Thus, Don Sc(Holland)er, Grover Cleve(Land) or Patricia Ire(Land), and Pierre Beau(March)ais. Again, I'm not sure how that would be done without an associated word list.
Postby mrkelley23 » Wed May 28, 2014 11:22 am
I keep coming back to Dogberry, since I can find nothing that indicates another name to go with that character. Rearrange the letters and add an RY, and you'd have BERRY GORDY, who could match with Smokey Robinson. But that doesn't seem to lead anywhere.
Parasites require something from their host to survive. I can see "borrowing" a letter or letters from one name to make another name, but what happens to the name that letters are borrowed from? Anything?
Look at the words Parasitic and Pairs. The letters of the latter are wholly contained in the former.
I'm in the spitballing stage, in case you couldn't tell.
So when Frank said above "some of the names do take the place of associated words", does that mean one in each pair? And can we add just any two letters to an answer (not clear if just the last name or both first and last) to make a new name? Does it have to be two letters? Still seems kind of arbitrary.
There is a wider pool of famous men than women in just about any area, so I don't know how that helps us. Probably rules out an all porn star Tangredi, though.
