tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post1153195593841111815..comments2024-03-28T04:40:27.172-04:00Comments on Rex Parker Does the NYT Crossword Puzzle: Weeper of myth -TUESDAY, Oct. 14, 2008 - Lucy Gardner Anderson (Old Walter Berndt comic strip about a teen / Harsh Athenian lawgiver)Rex Parkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16145707733877505087noreply@blogger.comBlogger75125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-14572495018698709572022-08-30T05:05:09.991-04:002022-08-30T05:05:09.991-04:00NSEC is bad crossword glue especially as it runs a...NSEC is bad crossword glue especially as it runs alongside CCLI. Quite good otherwise.thefogmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01870509029973778266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-83764709700064218922008-11-18T15:56:00.000-05:002008-11-18T15:56:00.000-05:005wl...Nice that we had part of our Theme answer of...5wl...<BR/><BR/>Nice that we had part of our Theme answer of INTERSTATE NINETYFIVE revealed in clue 59A (95 backwards). Fun puzzle.<BR/><BR/>- - RobertAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-73052487505472914502008-10-15T10:49:00.000-04:002008-10-15T10:49:00.000-04:00On I-95 in Philly: Wow, you're right. I don't kn...On I-95 in Philly: Wow, you're right. I don't know know how many times I've gone down the road in car or bus and not noticed that on the short stretch of highway opposite Philadelphia there's a "2" in front of the "95." When you're going Dc to NYC or vice versa you have no reason to divert through Philadelphia as the highway goes right up the east bank of the Delaware until it gets to mid-state.<BR/><BR/>Well, learn something new with each crossword.Jackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05304862482271203387noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-5453855482174201662008-10-14T23:59:00.000-04:002008-10-14T23:59:00.000-04:00Orange - I know what you're talking about, having ...Orange - I know what you're talking about, having lived in Chicago until sixteen, and then moving to southern California, where all the names have lost their meaning.fergushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17056002311944010536noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-53222251195039711512008-10-14T23:47:00.000-04:002008-10-14T23:47:00.000-04:00@Orange, I thought of Anthony Eden, because he was...@Orange, I thought of Anthony Eden, because he was around I think at the time of Stevensen and Eisenhower (?).<BR/>But then I realized it has an s at the end, so looked up Edens Expressway, and trusty Wiki says it's after William G. Edens a banker and early advocate for paved roads, who sponsored Illinois first bond in 1918. <BR/><BR/>I hope you can sleep better now. As for me, I'm procrastinating, when I should be putting the final touches on a talk for tomorrow... May be I can work Edens into it.foodiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13052189131129098616noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-22687909065297375762008-10-14T23:32:00.000-04:002008-10-14T23:32:00.000-04:00Happy Birthday, Sandy! Every Libra I know is a rea...Happy Birthday, Sandy! Every Libra I know is a real peach, just as balanced as the zodiac scales would suggest.<BR/><BR/>Interstate highway numbers are for suckers. Here in Chicago, everything gets a name. We drive on the Dan Ryan (90/94 south of downtown), (Adlai) Stevenson (55), Eisenhower (290), Kennedy (another stretch of 90/94), and Edens (94). I still don't know who this Edens was. As even-numbered routes, 90 and 94 are technically east-west roads, but they're mostly north-south in Chicago. 55 is a north-south road that's more east-west in the city. This explains why it took me 40 years to remember that even/odd distinction.Orangehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12433254398377357737noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-8762765930045869342008-10-14T22:29:00.000-04:002008-10-14T22:29:00.000-04:00acm - I'll be a day afore ye for e'er. Gazos Cree...acm - I'll be a day afore ye for e'er. Gazos Creek, by Pigoen Point, south of Half Moon Bay, 4pm and after. fffergushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17056002311944010536noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-43825189921878605842008-10-14T22:23:00.000-04:002008-10-14T22:23:00.000-04:00Happy birthday to Sandy, hope you did everything y...Happy birthday to Sandy, hope you did everything you intended to do today! <BR/><BR/>The beauty of a roast chicken is that you can have several more meals out of the leftovers and the bones.machttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06794371617847975218noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-25594952869780193032008-10-14T22:01:00.000-04:002008-10-14T22:01:00.000-04:00Happy Birthday to Madame Rex and early Birthday to...Happy Birthday to Madame Rex and early Birthday to Andrea! Your dinner sounds fantastic, Andrea. I'd be jealous, except I just ate at Marcel's Restaurant (French Belgian) in DC. If you have some extra cash you'd like to part with, it's one great place to do it. <BR/><BR/>And thank you Mexicangirl and Orange for the tips re the on line version. I will proceed as advised!foodiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13052189131129098616noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-33495190061090564862008-10-14T21:25:00.000-04:002008-10-14T21:25:00.000-04:00...I always lost...(dang...maybe I wasn't as good ......I always lost...<BR/><BR/>(dang...maybe I wasn't as good a copy editor as I thought I was!!!)jeff in chicagohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10492964479021891094noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-25364717673494193442008-10-14T21:23:00.000-04:002008-10-14T21:23:00.000-04:00OK...I'm a little weirded out by the comments that...OK...I'm a little weirded out by the comments that seem to legitimate astrology, but I guess it takes all kinds, so I'll go no further.<BR/><BR/>@karmasartre: When I was a copy editor (Palm Beach Post, Tampa Tribune, Cleveland Plain Dealer) I always losing when arguing that just because OSU wanted the capital-T "The" at the beginning of its name didn't mean we had to do it. There always seemed to be a more-senior editor who actually WENT to OSU who got his/her way. I always pointed out that Time magazine wants to be TIME Magazine, but no other media does that. Ahhhh....the good old days of geeky copy editor debates!jeff in chicagohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10492964479021891094noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-8063887727191405502008-10-14T21:14:00.000-04:002008-10-14T21:14:00.000-04:00As we all know astrology is bullshit, yet that doe...As we all know astrology is bullshit, yet that doesn't mean that it won't amply entertain all sorts of conjecture we might be too tactful to otherwise aver, or avow.<BR/><BR/>--<BR/><BR/>(No problem, Mac -- ever since my youth, I never wanted to have to say, like my my Grandpa, "Stop me if I'm repeating myself....")fergushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17056002311944010536noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-30198077132551912012008-10-14T20:46:00.000-04:002008-10-14T20:46:00.000-04:00@fergus: I have to apologize, I directed a comment...@fergus: I have to apologize, I directed a comment to you that wasn't meant to be to you.... I had your name in the margin of the page with the puzzle, and connected it to the wrong item. Sorry about that. <BR/><BR/>My offspring is a Libra as well (the 19th), and he gets along very well with his Aquarius parents. Since he is currently in New Delhi we will not celebrate together.machttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06794371617847975218noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-68431962863353470262008-10-14T20:27:00.000-04:002008-10-14T20:27:00.000-04:00Easy even for a Monday, but enjoyable and clever. ...Easy even for a Monday, but enjoyable and clever. FL beating MA so far today (baseball).Michael Chibnikhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04700426644898924644noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-88229612553561455722008-10-14T20:05:00.000-04:002008-10-14T20:05:00.000-04:00"....er/or? I hardly knew her!" is an old shtick -..."....er/or? I hardly knew her!" is an old shtick -- Google's first page for "I hardly knew her" includes Spitzer, minor, soccer, liquor (ouch), and even Windsor, and some years ago the Harvard student orchestra used the same tagline for Mahler. I do conjecture that Bangor was the original source.<BR/><BR/>Joon -- really, sinh or tanh on a Tuesday? I'd love to see one of these in the puzzle but it feels like late-week fill. Then again, with QUADRATIC crossing QED yesterday one never knows. Anyway there are lots of NH words, usually combinations (alpenhorn, coonhound, downhill, evenhanded, fountainhead, greenhouse, maidenhead, manhandle, panhandle, pinhead, pigeonhole, tinhorn, and many others) or en-/in-/un- combinations (enhance, inhale, unhip, unhappy, etc.), plus a few loanwords such as piranha. The joys of grep...<BR/><BR/>Oh yes, a clever and day-appropriate puzzle, even if the placement of the 15 state abbreviations is even more erratic than the route of the highway it represents.<BR/><BR/>NDEAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-26699577995574393082008-10-14T19:56:00.000-04:002008-10-14T19:56:00.000-04:00Mac, It's been quite a while since I've had a rant...Mac, It's been quite a while since I've had a rant about the definite article, whether it's dealing with freeways or certain midwestern universities, yet it was probably fixed in your mind that I perseverate (a word I learned from Meadow Soprano) on this issue. Joon made the clarification about the same issue fresh, which I couldn't have done.<BR/><BR/>On the matter of Libra birthdays, my firey, wild friend from Roma, Irina, has hers today. If there were anyone to belie the traits of a typical Libran, it would be her. I'm not sure that Andrea or I are such good representatives either.fergushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17056002311944010536noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-61019899088781150332008-10-14T19:27:00.000-04:002008-10-14T19:27:00.000-04:00@karmasartre--I don't know about Ohio, but here in...@karmasartre--I don't know about Ohio, but here in the NY metro area, we rarely refer to freeways at all. Interstates are expressways in the city, thruways or turnpikes outside the city. Parkways are highways with a lot of greenery where the speeds are a little lower and trucks are generally not allowed. Although I think there is no etymological basis for this, I think a lot of NYers are hesitant to call anything a freeway when there's a toll every 10 miles--or sometimes less.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-14339982919705673982008-10-14T19:22:00.000-04:002008-10-14T19:22:00.000-04:00@mac, the ritual wherein the Queen touches the sho...@mac, the ritual wherein the Queen touches the shoulder of her subject with the sword on each shoulder is called "dubbing" - She, thus, dubs him Sir Elton John.<BR/><BR/>Deborah, dubbed fikinkfikinkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06324570637549775751noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-40197450672925725062008-10-14T19:18:00.000-04:002008-10-14T19:18:00.000-04:00@mac when the queen knights you, she says "I dub t...@mac when the queen knights you, she says "I dub thee Sir so-and-so"<BR/><BR/>Dub has lots of meanings, that's just one...<BR/>rub-a-dub-dubAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-23449297471960786662008-10-14T19:00:00.000-04:002008-10-14T19:00:00.000-04:00I'm wondering how they refer to freeways at The Oh...I'm wondering how they refer to freeways at The Ohio State University....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-25557229627690439502008-10-14T18:46:00.000-04:002008-10-14T18:46:00.000-04:00I liked this real Tuesday puzzle a lot, ingenious ...I liked this real Tuesday puzzle a lot, ingenious with the N - S placement of the states, and some new-feeling words. How lucky that "evah" exists! Pardo, Elmo and hemi were new to me, but gettable. For webmd it first wanted Medco, and what is "dub" to make a knight? Actually thought it was something like duke - fist, another one I just learned about throught the puzzle.<BR/><BR/>I have a cookbook by a wonderful Brittish woman that has a chapter called "awful offal". Never tried any of it.<BR/><BR/>@Steve l: thank you so much for your wonderful explanation of grokking: I'm looking for the Heinlein book, Borders didn't have it.<BR/><BR/>@Fergus: we are in CT and call this highway I95 - to be avoided at most times. We take the Merritt.machttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06794371617847975218noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-74086859611241783042008-10-14T18:26:00.000-04:002008-10-14T18:26:00.000-04:00When five or six my son responded to the famous qu...When five or six my son responded to the famous question with "Ya, Mamma, it does." Still too young to be penalized for TACTlessness, I would say. Yet he was advised a little later that there is only a negative answer to that question.fergushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17056002311944010536noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-27364920058599191082008-10-14T17:56:00.000-04:002008-10-14T17:56:00.000-04:00@andrea carla michaels: happy birthday to you, too...@andrea carla michaels: happy birthday to you, too! Libra is a great sign, my mom being an amazing example. Oh, and don't foreget John Lennon. Aquarius and Gemini also have something special in the air.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-9316722950114181772008-10-14T16:58:00.000-04:002008-10-14T16:58:00.000-04:00Thanks for the birthday wishes. Rex and I are off ...Thanks for the birthday wishes. Rex and I are off to the woods with the dogs, if it doesn't rain. I have spend much of my birthday wondering at the genius that got millions of ordinary Americans singing along with 5 gay men from NYC in costume about the joys of the YMCA. And also laughing at myself for blithely writing in "ninjas" instead of "banjos". Ninjas duel, don't they?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-24151880591016808282008-10-14T16:53:00.000-04:002008-10-14T16:53:00.000-04:00Fun puzzle. And the Yalies/Elis at Yale are just ...Fun puzzle. And the Yalies/Elis at Yale are just off I-95 in New Haven!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com