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Is this exciting or what?

Friday's button puzzle -- where we lined up three buttons, and your job was to take one word or one concept per button to arrive at a saying or a name -- has produced a winner.

And that winner, selected at random among the correct responders, is (drum roll) ... Maura Spiegelman of Silver Spring, Md.

The answer: Minnesota Twins -- Minnie Soda Twins (that's what you get when you combine the Minnie Mouse button, the Democratic donkey drinking a Pepsi button, and a button celebrating the "Ress Twins").

And, asks Jon Harrison of Reno, Nev., who the heck are the Ress Twins? They're the sons of Manny Ress, whose Emress Specialty Co. (New York City) was among the biggest manufacturers of campaign buttons during the 1950s and '60s. Don't ask why I have that button. I have no idea.

Good news: Because of the shortened week -- though I'll be here blogging every day but Thursday -- a new button puzzle goes up TOMORROW!

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4:01 - December 22, 2008

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