REBUS puzzles

[TasMike]

Canuck

Haven’t a chance on this one. My Bantu dialect is better than my French! 😜

But it's right up your alley.

There are only two names and we have the first name.

Here's another clue to the famous surname (it's not the name, but should lead you to it):



... and he wasn't French!

Edited: Oct 3, 2021

 

[Canuck]

Trust one of our ace problem solvers to assemble clues to a rebus that nobody else can solve!😕

 

[Charlemagne1333]

Perry knife

 

[TasMike]

Charlemagne1333

Perry knife

Excellent work! The knife is a paring knife or a parer (commonly known in Oz as "where's the vege knife?)", but the right answer was reached regardless:

François Perregaux

 

[Canuck]

Explain how the clues might help someone arrive at that answer SVP! And you say the person wasn’t French? Swiss, maybe, but how might one know he wasn’t French, given that name. I am literally and figuratively clueless about this one!

 

[Canuck]

TasMike

But it's right up your alley.

There are only two names and we have the first name.

Here's another clue to the famous surname (it's not the name, but should lead you to it):



... and he wasn't French!

And please tell me how these clues might help one arrive at a correct answer?

 

[JimInOz]

TasMike

Non, mais vous avez raison de regarder sa fonction.

I just got too smart with my Google translate 😁.

 

[TasMike]

Canuck

Explain how the clues might help someone arrive at that answer SVP! And you say the person wasn’t French? Swiss, maybe, but how might one know he wasn’t French, given that name. I am literally and figuratively clueless about this one!

The clues were: France swa parer go

and he wasn't French so I didn't want you chasing a false lead and looking for a Frenchman.

 

[TasMike]

Canuck

And please tell me how these clues might help one arrive at a correct answer?

This clue was:

tour billion (1000x1000x1000) minus i
3 gold bridges

Tourbillon with 3 gold bridges - a famous watch by Girard-Perregaux

which was supposed to lead you to Perregaux.

 

[Canuck]

A B S T R U S E!

Edited: Oct 3, 2021

 

[Charlemagne1333]

TasMike

The knife is a paring knife or a parer

Charlemagne1333

Perry knife

Don’t know what I was thinking there!

 

[JimInOz]

Canuck

And please tell me how these clues might help one arrive at a correct answer?

The shield for FRANCE, and the initials of the organisation Sanitation and Water for All = France + SWA, thus François.

The knife is a sabatier pattern, a bit big for paring, but it gives us "Parer".
Add to that the drag strip staging lights for "Go".

Now you can figure out the rest 😁

 

[JimInOz]

Shit!
I keep forgetting to hit REPLY!

 

[Canuck]

That facsimile of a drag strip staging light given as a clue, is absolutely nothing like the real staging light used at a drag strip!

 

[TasMike]

JimInOz

I just got too smart with my Google translate 😁.

Good thing that I gave you the honourable mention then. Apologies for that, but 'couteau d’office' doesn't translate back, there is no french word that translates directly to pare that I'm aware of - couteau à peler means peeling knife which is the same thing, but we've lost the word I was after.

 

[TasMike]

Canuck

A B S T R U S E!

Excellent!

 

[TasMike]

Canuck

That facsimile of a drag strip staging light given as a clue, is absolutely nothing like the real staging light used at a drag strip!

That's because it's not. They're the starting lights for Formula one.

 

[Canuck]

Try this.

 

[Syzygy]

My brain hurts. Some I see, others twist me up like a pretzel!

 

[Canuck]

TasMike

That's because it's not. They're the starting lights for Formula one.

But of course. Everyone should know that! (Everyone but me apparently!)