# 14 k of g in a f p d **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 29, 2006, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14-k-of-g-in-a-f-p-d/382249 "2006-11-29T21:14:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Walter\_Windchill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Walter\_Windchill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walter_Windchill)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2006, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14-k-of-g-in-a-f-p-d/382249/81 "2006-12-01T14:40:34Z")
Headline: 14 strikeouts of Glavine in a futile pitchers’ duel ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Quigers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ce7236/32.png) [@Captain\_Quigers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Quigers)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2006, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14-k-of-g-in-a-f-p-d/382249/82 "2006-12-01T14:42:07Z")
14 Keys of G in a Full Piano ?D? ---
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2006, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14-k-of-g-in-a-f-p-d/382249/83 "2006-12-01T14:52:52Z")
[QUOTE=Captain Quigers] 14 Keys of G in a Full Piano ?D? [/QUOTE] 14 Keys of G in a Forte Piano Duet? ---
**Author:** ![Trunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/87869e/32.png) [@Trunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trunk)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2006, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14-k-of-g-in-a-f-p-d/382249/84 "2006-12-01T15:22:27Z")
14 kicks of a groin when mittu tells us he screwed up. ---
**Author:** ![zelie\_zelerton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/59ef9b/32.png) [@zelie\_zelerton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zelie_zelerton)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2006, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14-k-of-g-in-a-f-p-d/382249/85 "2006-12-01T16:03:09Z")
[QUOTE=Trunk] 14 kicks of a groin when mittu tells us he screwed up. [/QUOTE] It doesn’t fit. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2006, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14-k-of-g-in-a-f-p-d/382249/86 "2006-12-01T16:04:45Z")
[QUOTE=Trunk] 14 kicks of a groin when mittu tells us he screwed up. > [@zelie zelerton](#): > > It doesn’t fit. [/quote] However, it does work… ---
**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2006, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14-k-of-g-in-a-f-p-d/382249/87 "2006-12-01T16:17:50Z")
So we can all agree that **mittu** should be banned if he doesn’t acquit himself over this right? This is like trolling to the nth degree. ---
**Author:** ![zelie\_zelerton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/59ef9b/32.png) [@zelie\_zelerton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zelie_zelerton)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2006, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14-k-of-g-in-a-f-p-d/382249/88 "2006-12-01T16:18:12Z")
[QUOTE=Ethilrist] However, it does work… [/QUOTE] Yeah but we wouldn’t get the prize money for solving it. ---
**Author:** ![One\_And\_Only\_Wanderers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/838e76/32.png) [@One\_And\_Only\_Wanderers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/One_And_Only_Wanderers)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2006, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14-k-of-g-in-a-f-p-d/382249/89 "2006-12-01T16:23:45Z")
wouldn’t it be funny if it turned out to be a foreign language version of this style of puzzle… ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2006, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14-k-of-g-in-a-f-p-d/382249/90 "2006-12-01T16:28:19Z")
[QUOTE=One And Only Wanderers] wouldn’t it be funny if it turned out to be a foreign language version of this style of puzzle… [/QUOTE] Not too many foreign languages I know use the word “of”. ---
**Author:** ![One\_And\_Only\_Wanderers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/838e76/32.png) [@One\_And\_Only\_Wanderers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/One_And_Only_Wanderers)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2006, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14-k-of-g-in-a-f-p-d/382249/91 "2006-12-01T16:35:08Z")
[QUOTE=ShibbOleth] Not too many foreign languages I know use the word “of”. [/QUOTE] well if you’re going to be logical about it… 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2006, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14-k-of-g-in-a-f-p-d/382249/92 "2006-12-01T16:38:23Z")
Perhaps we could have a general amnesty for **mittu** , no harm no foul just tell us it was a typo or something. I’d really like to start living the rest of my life, at this point. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Weird\_One](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@The\_Weird\_One](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Weird_One)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2006, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14-k-of-g-in-a-f-p-d/382249/93 "2006-12-01T17:13:52Z")
14 kinksters of Gor in a fully prepared dungeon? ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2006, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14-k-of-g-in-a-f-p-d/382249/94 "2006-12-01T18:13:28Z")
14 Kings of Gondor in A\* F\* P\* D\*? ---
**Author:** ![Trunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/87869e/32.png) [@Trunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trunk)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2006, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14-k-of-g-in-a-f-p-d/382249/95 "2006-12-01T20:05:31Z")
[QUOTE=One And Only Wanderers] wouldn’t it be funny if it turned out to be a foreign language version of this style of puzzle… [/QUOTE] not half as funny as it would be if **mittu** came back with an answer that was totally obvious. (I’m half-decent at these things. At least decent enough that it SEEMS like with other people, and finally using google, and wiki and conversion charts, etc. that we should have had it by now) ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2006, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14-k-of-g-in-a-f-p-d/382249/96 "2006-12-01T20:24:45Z")
I don’t know why I keep wracking my brain about this; if no one else has gotten it there’s no way I would!! ARG! ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2006, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14-k-of-g-in-a-f-p-d/382249/97 "2006-12-01T20:37:33Z")
Not so much wracking my brain as just checking in every so often. 14 Kinds of Geek in a Funny, Pedantic Doper ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2006, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14-k-of-g-in-a-f-p-d/382249/98 "2006-12-01T21:30:44Z")
I’m sure it’s irrelevant, but just in case [http://www.diamondhelpers.com/ask/0016-caratweight.shtml](http://www.diamondhelpers.com/ask/0016-caratweight.shtml) The relationship between carat weight and points, since “fifty-point diamond” got stuck in my head. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2006, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14-k-of-g-in-a-f-p-d/382249/99 "2006-12-01T22:11:49Z")
I’m wondering if it’s an advertising slogan like “14 kinds of goodness in a Frootee Pie Deluxe”. It might not be an American product which would explain why it would be unknown in the US but considered an easy riddle in its home country. ---
**Author:** ![robardin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/43a26b/32.png) [@robardin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robardin)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2006, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14-k-of-g-in-a-f-p-d/382249/100 "2006-12-01T22:48:43Z")
[QUOTE=Little Nemo] I’m wondering if it’s an advertising slogan like “14 kinds of goodness in a Frootee Pie Deluxe”. It might not be an American product which would explain why it would be unknown in the US but considered an easy riddle in its home country. [/QUOTE] I was thinking the same thing. However usually proper nouns are capitalized (or in Britain, “capitalised”) in this type of puzzle, so something like “2 scoops of raisins in Kellogg’s Raisin Bran” would be expected to be posed as “2 s of r in K R B”. I hope **Mittu the Disappearer** did not neglect proper capitali[s]ation in his OP! Even so I have not come up with anything, but you are right, it might be a British product that we Statesiders would have precious little chance of matching up. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14-k-of-g-in-a-f-p-d/382249.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14-k-of-g-in-a-f-p-d/382249.md?page=6)