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To be an equal opportunity offender, geeker 33 and swarb 10 & 17 also have indirect anagrams.

And while I am on my pedantic high horse, I might as well piss off a few more people; Having spent 30+ years as a finance professor, I feel it's important to differentiate between Ponzi schemes and pyramid schemes, and to advise people to not get involved in either of them (either as scammer or scammee):


https://constantinecannon.com/practice/whistleblower/whistleblower-types/financial-investment-fraud/ponzi-schemes/

buddy, while I knowingly posted an indirect anagram, my post #2 was careful to not apply the "Ponzi" epithet to a pyramid scheme. I worked on Wall St. for a long time.

geeker, yes, but there were a few other posts that did use ponzi. You need only be annoyed at me for the indirect anagram thing.

Congrats, mattrom. Thanks to geeker for the vote. Great job hosting, illustrious punk.

Geting and Chris, mea culpa. I saw tyke's acrostic, but overlooked geting's. Certainly would have been on my short list at least.

I'm not annoyed at the indirect anagram thing. I occasionally see them (at least as components of a longer solution) in dailies and don't have a big objection. The voters can decide on merit or lack thereof. As far as "fair", I view it as a game: I don't invest overly much time on a given puzzle, and sometimes the setter wins.

Great work, Geeker! Hope others see the clips. Thank you!

buddy
I'm just curious (no criticism intended) - what;s the difference between pyramid selling and a Ponzi scheme?

Chris, they're conceptually similar but details differ. Wiki has a paragraph here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyramid_scheme

or

https://tinyurl.com/3y5ym3x3

P.S. I read your link, and I can't se any difference.

Thanks Geeker, and Spike - can see ‘em now. That first one takes me back almost 50 years to first year Uni - something deep in the back of my mind about ramps (hence the oblique clue) being used as part of the construction methodology.