It’s time again for What the Aitch! That sizzling section of the week when we reveal the gripping conclusion to the question “What the Aitch Eee Double El was that thing-a-majing-ama-jobber we found last week?!?” AND leave you with a puzzling new wonder to wander over for next week.
It’s really the best part of the week (except Froggy’s joke night on Mondays. Whew, that’s one funny frog!), so we’re super stoked it’s finally here!! Continue reading
We’re itchin’ for an Aitchin’! And we’re all kinds of ready, cause we figured out what was up with that wanna-be muffler from last week, and the Van’s back on the road! But we’ll get to that in a mizzle (a wizzly minute, that is).
First Aitchs first:
A remote with very few options?
Molly found this in the third seat over in the fourth row of Van seats (the Van of course has six and a half rows). She was pretty sure it’s a transformer, but couldn’t say in what stage of trans-rearrangement it was in. To be on the safe side, we sealed it in the Van’s Transformer Containment Field (big mason jar) and kept it under 24/6 surveillance. Continue reading
We’re just silly with What the Aitch spirit this week! Can you aitchin’ feel it? Just close your eyes and relax. Now open them and continue reading the instructions and then go back to closing them to finish your spirit-feeling. Take a deep breath, then two shallow ones, and another deep breath. Imagine a Weather Van frolicking in Magical Meadow.
And then think “What the Aitch!?!” Works for us every time!
This week it looks like we might have gotten Aitch-pranked. We were driving along like usual, when all of a sudden, the Van said “Hey, wait a second! Continue reading
What the aitch? It’s What the Aitch time again already?! Goodness, we were having so much fun site-seeing in Newark, it’s like we just got stuck here yesterday! Why, we’ve seen the airport, the marshlands, the view of New York… Everything you need is right here. Except of course that spare tire we’re looking for. We’re still pondering on that one, but in the inbetweentime, here’s our latest whatsitgadoozle:
That looks suspiciously like a very dusty floppy-eared cartoon mouse that we won't name here...
So how did we come across this nnicky nnouse look alike? Well, Froggy doesn’t like to ribbit about it, but Continue reading
Ooof, the Magic Weather Van got a flat tire in Newark, NJ. You can see the damage by checking out the deets for the city on www.magicweathervan.com. Right now we’re just getting the current weather there. We don’t even know what’s going on this afternoon! Live in mystery, Newarkers! At least for now.
Well, that flat ought to be easy enough to fix. We just need to get out the spare. Funny thing though, when we popped open the Magic-Spare-Tire-Compartment, we found this What-the-Aitcher instead:
Pretty sure it's not quite big enough to get the Van rollin' again.
Yep, this still-sealed-wheel’s all we got in the spare department. Continue reading
OK… so this week’s WTA looks a little broken. But apparently that’s the way it’s s’posed to be.
Yep. That looks perfect for... wrinkling dresses?
Froggy found it like that way, way under the seat behind the fridge. (In hindsight, behind the fridge was never the best place for a seat. But it’s still better than the one under the dashboard.) We’ll be getting to work trying to make some sense of this ‘What the Aitcher’, but if you have any thoughts in the meantime, let us know!
But back to that peacock-that-we’re-pretty-sure-isn’t-a-peacock from last week. See, this is a peacock:
It’s apparently Very Pretty Awesome!!!
Our peacock? Not quite the same level of pizzaz.
Yep, definitely a "Ben Stein" on the pizazz-o- meter
Well, it turns out it’s not the glamorous good looks that this little feller was named after anyway. It’s the noise. What we’ve got here is the reason our horn hasn’t been honkin’. This is the reed in a bulb horn like we happen to have in the Van (just one of our seven styles of tootalicious squeakers we have on our steering wheel).
Our horn looks nothing like this, but this one also has a peacock reed.
We couldn’t find a lot of info on our peacock reed, but in case we misplace this one and Cloudy doesn’t float across it again, it looks like eBay’s got our back! Their UK site’s got 25 available for now. Anybody got some pounds to spare?
Don’t let your curiousity curdle – let us know if you figure out what this week’s Aitcher is good for!
Give me an Ay! Give me a CHUH! What’s that spell? Aitch!!! That’s right, it’s “What the Aitch?” time once again.
We had a fan power mystery for you last week, and we’re about to blow the lid off the case and reveal a can full of answers. Continue reading
We’ve been itchin’ for an Aitch all week, and it’s finally here! We’re so psyched to see what’s hiding behind that Censorfication from last week. But first, here’s a peek at this week’s eek-cellent knickknack (at least we didn’t say neatknack.. although I guess we kinda just did.)
It's Fan-tastic... wait...
We’re going to need you’re help on this one. Way back in the olden days of August, we showed you a glass dish. And you were so good. You didn’t laugh at us and call us glass-lovers or dish-dopes or make jokes about us being one glass short of a full cupboard or Continue reading
It’s that time of week again – What the Aitch time! Last week we riddled you with some long nosed shiny discs. Hold your horses and donkeys! We’ll get your answer to that one pronto-like, but it just wouldn’t be Thursday if we didn’t give you a new perplexity to ponder.
Behold! The Scary Metal Thing:
A pizza cutter? A tooth tapper? Just what the aitch is this thing?!?
We’re not usually into giving hints on “What the Aitch,” but HINT HIIIIINT: this fiendish looking fellow is friendly. In fact if might be just the thing one day. For what exactly, you’ll never know if you don’t find out just what the Aitch it is!
And now for last week’s stub-pointed bum-tack: what could that be made to stick into?
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Asphalt! Now for a little Grapette flavored history… Back in the not-so-long ago, people realized that we needed to mark off the crosswalks (this was pre-road paint era) across streets so pedestrians could cross to the other side without getting hit by any 1- to 18-wheeled vehicles. (soooo many unicycle-pedestrian accidents back then.)
But how could we ever pay for all those markers? They’d need to be easy to see and strong and long lasting.
Cue our ever-loveable friends – The Soda Companies! They agreed to put in lots and lots of crosswalk markers all over the place as long as they reminded all the passersbys that they’re also there for them when they get thirsty after all that street crossing.
And that prongy nose thing sticking out the back of these cross-walk-ad-markers held ‘em in nice and tight in the pavement.
Oh... National Safety Eng Bham AIA makes perfect sense now!
Unfortunately it seems those days are behind us. It’s easier to just slap down some yawnboring reflective safety-paint across the whole intersection and put up flashy crossing lights now than to trouble the burbbly-pop makers for a helping step. Guess we’ll just have to remember for ourselves what to drink when we get to the other side!
Last week on “What the Aitch?”, a simple little holey piece of plastic poked at your puzzle-solver. Well, guess it or not, we’re about to reveal the Secret of the Plastic Thingy!
But first let’s see What the Aitch we’ve got in store for you this time:
I don't know, but I'd hate to step on them!
Well, this is a fine pair of tacky fellows. Maybe they’ve got such long noses ’cause they’ve been fibbing? We won’t hold it against them. There’s probably a perfectly good reason they’ve got their staffs standing up so proudly. They look pretty for-serious-business-like. Oh, and just in case you’re wondering, why yes indeed they are complete. Although we hear they like to hang in bigger groups. If you’ve seen these disc bros before, don’t keep it to yourself. Comment below!
Now that we’ve got you brain factory churning, let’s take a closer look at that funny looking figure from last time:
Oh!... It's that thing the Cooking Club of America is known for...
Some of you might not have heard of the Cooking Club of America, but if you just take a quick spin over to the Googs, you’ll see they’re pretty fameful. Or at least their scam is… Now we’re not really up on scams, so feel free to dig in to all that if you want. We’re more interested in their nifty trinket.
And nifty it is. Ever wanted to make spaghetti noodles and mustard sauce, but you didn’t know how much to make for you and your peeps? Well just run those gluten rods through a numbered hole in this baby and worry no more. It measures, it counts, and that’s all you need!
We know what you’re thinking: “That’s nice, but I’ll never be able to measure my noodles in an awesome pasta-counter like that.” Fret no further, cause we found the shady website for you. Just head on over to the deceptively alluring Free Stuff section of Listia. (no relation to listerine. we checked.) They’ve got a picture of the very same gadget, and one of their members apparently gave away for free one time. We didn’t sign up, since we’ve already got one, and this one seems to be gone already. But you just keep on searching and looking, and some day your dream of the perfectly measured starch sticks will come true!
