Michael

I'm trying to find an example where the superficial visual pairing among the four images would be the two females. If the species are less related, so much the better.

I cannot close the garage door when the car is outside the garage, but it will open from the same spot. There is no motion, and the lights don't blink, so it is not a sensor problem. It closes when the car is in the garage. I figure that the door is blocking the signal when it is up. Any thoughts or fixes?

With a game scheduled for 1PM, how likely will it be to run into heavy traffic along route 1 at 6PM, 7PM, or 8PM? Please don't try to factor in the weather, I'll look at the radar. Similarly, I'll know if the game goes into overtime.

In the classic straw man argument, an alternate version is formed with vulnerabilitities to be attacked. Sometimes a slogan, synopsis, or other incomplete talking point, created by those advancing a broader point, is targeted instead of the main argument. Is there a term to describe the attacks on the partial points.

An example in the reproductive systems would be "ovary", a reproductive organ of plants and animals.

As a near example, carnivore and sarcophagus are the Latin and Greek for "flesh" and "eat", but the latter is not a term in biology.

I'm don't mind how technical it gets, as long as it assumes minimal knowledge of geology (terms are explained without having to flip to the glossary), a I'm more interested in the structure of the Earth (e.g. plate tectonics) than how to identify rocks. In a nutshell, who is the Stephen Jay Gould of Geology?

"Give a man a fish; you have fed him for today. Teach a man to fish; and you have fed him for a lifetime."

While I have seen this attributed to Lao Tzu, I have never seen it attributed to any specific writing.

Somewhere among paraphrase, homage and pun, there must exist a term for marvelous set of witticisms that take familiar phrases and recast them with a focused variation which changes the meaning without obscuring the origin. What is it?

Example:

It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard.--Dorothy Parker

I'm looking for a word that contains two distinct two words, and can be made into another two distinct words with simple additions to the beginning or end. Pluralizing and past tense aren't distinct. Two different prefixes that don't change the root meaning would not count, either.

As a close, but wrong, example, "big band" and "big bang" can be made from "big ban", but it is two words and is meaningless. I would want a start word that has two words in it ("manifold" contains "man" and "fold"). It is okay if they overlap partially ("turn" and "nip" in "turnip"), but there should be a free letter at either end ("cur" and "curvy" in "scurvy" wouldn't count).