[net.puzzle] Puzzle help needed

chuck@dartvax.UUCP (Chuck Simmons) (10/23/84)

<Oh, your so clueless!>

I need some help with a puzzle.  I have 4 "clues" to which I need
answers:

1)  Location is 16-K on your Mapsco.
2)  Nickname "mom".
3)  Age & religion:  Marjorie Morningstar.
4)  Favorite cartoon in daily News.  
"I have abandoned my search for truth & am now looking for a good fantasy."

The person presenting these clues is a woman.  Apparently the clues
describe various facets of her.  In this context, the answer to #2
seems fairly clear.  Also, #1 is reasonably straight forward.  A
"Mapsco" must be a little booklet containing various pieces of city
maps.  In this instance, the Mapsco is probably from Dallas, possibly
from Fort Worth.  Would someone in Dalllas tell me what 16-K refers to?

However, the last two clues don't make much sense to me at all.  Who
is Marjorie Morningstar?  A comic strip character?  I'm not sure whether
or not the final quote is part of clue 4.  Is there some Daily News cartoon
to which this quote would apply?

Send me answers and comments and all post a summary to the net.

-- Chuck
dartvax!chuck

colonel@gloria.UUCP (George Sicherman) (10/26/84)

[Don't try to dig what we all s say]

> However, the last two clues don't make much sense to me at all.  Who
> is Marjorie Morningstar?  A comic strip character?  I'm not sure whether
> or not the final quote is part of clue 4.  Is there some Daily News cartoon
> to which this quote would apply?

Any librarian could tell you.  Marjorie Morningstar is the chief character
of Herman Wouk's novel of the same name.
-- 
Col. G. L. Sicherman
...seismo!rochester!rocksanne!rocksvax!sunybcs!gloria!colonel