[pteraspidomorph]

I appreciate the dig at Sierra games and their reliance on missable items. But he wrote that puzzles should make sense, and went on to give us the rubber chicken with a pulley in the middle!

[oneeyedpigeon]

I think that chicken was a satirical dig along the very same lines. IIRC, it clearly described the pulley and the resulting puzzle - using a pulley on a wire - isn't exactly cryptic.

[robinsonb5]

As opposed to, say, the "monkey" wrench in MI2?

[davidgay]

That one's particularly terrible for non-Americans, as I (a native English speaker) had never heard the term. I forget how we figured that one out...