For today, we can only do our best to carry on the tradition. The existing collection of Boltinoffs runs out in October, Junior Whirl, and the world, Unlike the journalistic hoi polloi, we honor Boltinoff and will miss his work. And few of us ever failed to spot at least four out of six differences. Ministrations? How many students of his minutiae went on to rewarding careers asĪrt critics or graphic designers? How many trivia buffs were driven stark raving mad by "Hocus-Focus" and its world of endless itemization? We may never know. How many futureĬrime scene witnesses were better prepared to remember relevant details thanks to Boltinoff's Reading "Hocus-Focus" made better observers of all of us. Stealth a parallel universe of boys with disappearing hats and girls with repositionedĪrms a bracing burst of vaguely unsettling Americana in which flowerpots and lampsĬould move or vanish without logic or reason "Hocus Focus" plunged readers intoĪ world of detail as spare as it was compulsive, with Boltinoff as ourĪrbitrarily twisting the elements to render the whole incomplete, the real unreal. That asks the sharp-eyed reader to "Find at least six differences in details between panels."Ī dreamscape of exasperated coaches whose striped shirts shifted with barely perceptible For more than 30 years, in more than 300 newspapers,īoltinoff kept kids of all ages perplexed with "Hocus-Focus," Track exactly which features people actually look at, Boltinoff would beĪ household name and Maureen Dowd would be selling pretzels atįedEx Field. York Times found room to mourn the death of Boltinoff.īut in a just world, in a world where newspapers, like web sites, could Section in the country, not even the media-heavy death notices of the New In the words of a daughter, "just a very, very kind man." No other obituary Paragraphs that, among other things, the legendary newspaperman had onceĭrawn a Wall Street cartoon entitled "Stoker the Broker," and that he was, Of those two, the HoustonĬhronicle dispatched Boltinoff in four short sentences. The answers are listed at the bottom of the page in inverted small print. Some of the differences are fairly easy to spot, but others can take some time to identify. The goal is to spot at least six ways in which the two images differ. States bothered to mention the passing of Henryġ9 at his home in Lake Worth, Florida. There are 100 puzzles, each of which is composed of two captions on the same page. The newspaper game really is that only two journals in the United That is what the church of Christ strives to do, follow only what the Bible says to do.It's a measure of just how meretricious, dishonorable, and self-deluded Now that we see those differences we need to find a group that does things the way the Bible teaches. Since they are different from what God teaches they are not pleasing to Him. Mark those things because they are all different from the standard (the Bible). Many use the term "Bishop" and "Pastor" as titles. Some have only one leader over the local congregation. OK, Hocus Focus time, the religious group you are part of, how does it compare? Some groups have leaders who are over numerous congregations. Now as we read on we see that these are not just any older man, in Acts 20:28, they are also described as "overseers," a term that is sometimes translated as "bishop." And they are told to "shepherd" the church, another translation of that word is "pastor." Note that these terms are descriptions of these men (older) or of the work they do (oversee and shepherd), they are not titles. This term "elders" means the "older men." Note that there are elders, plural, in the church, singular, in Ephesus. Let's turn over to Acts 20:17, we see that Paul calls the "elders" from the church in Ephesus to come to meet him in Miletus. Today let's consider the idea of how the church is organized. Let's look at an example of this "Hocus Focus" from the Scriptures. But when it comes to the Bible, changing what the Bible says means the difference between being pleasing to God and disobeying God. Now in the puzzle, whether the coat has two buttons or three doesn't really matter. When I see these puzzles it makes me think of the church we can read about in the Bible (the standard) and the various religious bodies that exist today. The top picture shows the "standard" and we need to find where the other one is different. There are two nearly identical pictures and the idea is to find the differences. We've all seen them, a little challenge called Hocus Focus.
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