What common four-letter man's first name has the same property as each of the two- and three-letter combinations below?

   ga   sli   smo   wi   bo   la   fea

Of course the answer is that since Ga, Sli, Smo, Wi, Bo, La and Fea are figures of Norse mythology, the man is Thor Heyerdahl. (The puzzle is called "Norse Code"). But if I dared to give that answer, Charlie and Silver Knight would accuse me of using a computer search !! Therefore...

I also recognized smo and bo as medical acronyms, so I called my sister, a psychiatric nurse in Vermont, and she instantly identified all these well known medical acronyms:

ga = Gastric Analysis
sli = Sodium Lauryl Ishethionate
smo = Second Medical Opinion
wi = Wave Injector (used to separate gases in medical research)
bo = Body Odor
la = Laser Annealing
fea = Front End Analysis (used more frequently by psychiatrists than by proctologists)

And so we also have a very familiar acronym used by hospital emt's and paramedics:

ford = Found On Road Dead

So the man's name is Harrison Ford. Like those letter combo's, his name is also a medical acronym.

:-)







Edited on November 18, 2003, 9:04 pm

Posted by Dan on 2003-11-18 17:23:55