- All of these words (sickle,millstone,hacksaw) have animals names in their letters (elk,lion,hawk, respectively). So does Polycarp
Wait! It would be Gaudere! (deer) A carp isn’t a mammal. Oh, neither is a hawk. crap.
I’ll get you for this, Gadarene!
Well, a sickle is shaped like a C, and a millstone like a O and a hacksaw like a D. So that spells “cod” and must refer to Manyfish.
Alternately, you can find the words “saint” or “celestial” in “hacksaw, sickle, millstone”, and that’s certainly not me. 
Or hacksaw, sickle and millstone all have smaller words within their entire length (hack, sick, stone), and so does Polycarp. (Well, “gaud” is a word too, but an obscure one, so I don’t know if to count it. But if we were going with “first syllable is a word”, it would be me.)
How’s that?
Hrm, sounds good to me, Gaudere. I was pursuing checking out wether there were breeds of fish. I know that there is a sickleback, and I think there is a millstone trout. But hacksaw? Not time enough to search.
There’s a just plain “sawfish”. OTOH, if we accept the phoenetic “deer” (nevermind that it’s pronounced “day-ray”)in my name like Chief Wahoo does, there’s a fish called the “spotted hind” as well.
That is in fact not the answer, but it’s so close as makes no difference. What the heck, I’ll give it to you on style points. 
What I was thinking, however, was that the sickle was shaped like a G… So the answer’s still Polycarp, it just makes the alternative (you, Gaudie) a bit more relevant.
Nice job, though.
(For interested parties, I got the basics of this riddle from John Crowley’s excellent novel Little, Big.)
Three down and two to go, y’all…
I actually thought of that, but I’m the Gaudess of Great Debates, so we both kind work for that one! And if I really want to nitpick: a hacksaw, if you count the handle, is shaped like a P; so that makes it GOP, and neither Poly nor I are Republicans.
Curiously, I picked up a set of three Crowley books on your recommendation, but not Little, Big. I also have a similarly-created sort of code that I sometimes write in, but it is more ecomonical and purely-visually based, with a few modifications for speed and legibility.
Isn’t Tuffy the really little mouse on Tom & Jerry?
Yep, you do. And I would’ve accepted either of you as an answer, had the person used that reasoning. I thought of that. grin
Oh, hush. 
I’ve heard his other books are good, specifically the Aegypt series. I haven’t yet read any of them, though I own Engine Summer and The Deep.
That’s pretty cool! You should’ve gotten this earlier, then. 
(Too…many…smilies)
Ivar: Looking at Google…yes, apparently he is. I learn something new every day!
Here are the two remaining unanswered questions:
- How many more did Tuffy get?
- What are the Rules 42?
One of these is sports-related, and the other is literary.
Also, here’s a super special extra bonus question, just 'cause I like y’all!
- Samuel, Joseph, Douglas, Mark: Falcon or Satan?
Enjoy.
After you indicated you didn’t know Jerry’s rodent nephew, I figured the Tuffy must be sports-related, and your hint clarifies that, so I think the answer is –
Tuffy Knight, former coach at the University of Waterloo (in Ontario), retired with the most wins record in the CIAU (Canada’s collegiate level sports organization). His record was 163-79-4, meaning he got 26 more wins the the previous record holder, Bruce Coulter, who had 137 wins.
Is this right?
panama jack
Free the Rules 42!
It’s getting so that I like your answers better than my own! The bit about Tuffy Knight, I think, is good enough to qualify as an alternate answer, even though it wasn’t the one I had in mind. Tell you what–you get to make up the questions next. Your mind’s devious enough that ferreting out the solutions ought to be a whole lot of fun. grin
Technically, however, the original Tuffy question is still unanswered. Nor will I confirm or deny that it was the one which was sports-related.
Here’s somewhat of an additional hint for the second unanswered question: Elliot Richardson, Herbert Brownell, and Robert F. Kennedy.
still grumbling about jack’s answer being better than mine
I’ll take a shot at number one, hoping that it’s the sports related one.
I believe the answer is “five”.
In 1994, Karl “Tuffy” Rhodes, a baseball player not known for his home run power, hit three home runs in his first three at bats of the 1994 season. (And in so doing, almost certainly increased his rotisserie league salary in leagues that hadn’t yet drafted, by an average of probably $20 to $30.)
He ended the year with eight home runs.
DRY:
It is not truer he is Tuffy Rhodes
Than this is all as true as it is strange;
Nay, it is ten times true; for truth is truth
To the end of reckoning.
Well done.
Not only did Tuffy Rhodes end his season with eight home runs, that was how he ended his major-league career, as well. He’s playing in Japan now.
Thank you! And may I return the compliment? The above post (as well as the trivia challenge as a whole) says much about your shrewd mind.
And I must praise you for being wise, because:
“There’s not one wise man among twenty that will praise himself.”
–Much Ado About Nothing, Act 5, Scene II
Thanks, DRY, for the kind words. Were this another day, I’d continue the Shakespearean badinage. Kind of out of it at the moment, though.
Anyway…one more question left, folks. The person with the correct answer–who’s also able to list the answers for the other questions–gets a $10 gift certificate from Amazon.com.
And any bites on the bonus question? Let me repeat it:
Samuel, Joseph, Douglas, Mark. Falcon or Satan? (And why?)
Well, even though I’ve not got a question right yet, I like Gadarene’s suggestion enough to start a new thread here. I’m going on vacation soon, so maybe those that got questions right can toss a few in to start it up over there. So far, I haven’t come with anything as good as the ones here.
It’s probably not fair to ask, but it’s not a year, is it? Like “the Rules of 1642”?
Excellent! I’m there.
No, I wouldn’t do that syntactically. I word 'em vague, but I word 'em honest.
I’ve got another hint in the offing for that question, but no one’s yet taken a whack at my last one: Elliot Richardson, Herbert Brownell, and Robert F. Kennedy.
The rules 42 are:
- Protect the kid
- No fatalities
Blown off kneecaps are perfectly acceptable, though.