tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post3703063792209281994..comments2024-03-29T05:08:37.783-04:00Comments on Rex Parker Does the NYT Crossword Puzzle: MONDAY, Sep. 7 2009 — Disney lyric repeated before Darling it's better Down where it's wetter / Decorative needle case / Rapper turned actorRex Parkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16145707733877505087noreply@blogger.comBlogger79125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-24723632937171714192009-10-12T17:35:23.750-04:002009-10-12T17:35:23.750-04:00Rex,
Do you have any info on where the movie my t...Rex,<br /><br />Do you have any info on where the movie my tutor is for rent? I would really like to see that one.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-44249002306074711522009-10-12T14:18:55.730-04:002009-10-12T14:18:55.730-04:00Interesting that the puzzle's original incarna...Interesting that the puzzle's original incarnation was on US Labor Day, and now in syndication is on CAN Thanksgiving Day and US Columbus Day. Good puzzle for a three day weekend - go fishing indeed. Loved it.Singernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-77302044495916361282009-10-12T13:34:20.955-04:002009-10-12T13:34:20.955-04:00Great puzzle which not only appeared on Labo(u)r D...Great puzzle which not only appeared on Labo(u)r Day in its original version but today in its syndicated version on Canadian Thanksgiving. Fish and turkey combo - delicious. Oui, oui de Québec.Waxy in Montrealhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04395751487137805245noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-60803074724412340472009-09-08T09:17:03.630-04:002009-09-08T09:17:03.630-04:00@ACME:
"Recusal", by definition, is nei...@ACME:<br /><br />"Recusal", by definition, is neither positive nor negative ;-)<br /><br />.../GlitchGlitchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14940000404613329056noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-74988571851055780542009-09-08T07:55:00.726-04:002009-09-08T07:55:00.726-04:00@acm - well good on you for one well-conceived evi...@acm - well good on you for one well-conceived evil plot. <br /><br />On the other hand, i think its pretty cool that this typically demanding crowd (esp. on Mondays!) is so enthusiastically supportive of your efforts. I think you must have broken @DK's mood meter.hazelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04627015904603641109noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-30177878238670774592009-09-08T01:11:23.843-04:002009-09-08T01:11:23.843-04:00I've crossed that bridge a thousand times, and...I've crossed that bridge a thousand times, and may even do so on Saturday morning since showing up before 10:30 isn't required. (You know I've either got to drive up from Santa Cruz or be a patient somewhere in San Fran or Oaktown.) By then, I understand that the span from SF to Oakland will be fully operational? <br /><br />Glad you garnered Sfman; remember how we all had impressions of each other from posts like this, and we found out other things? I cite the Green Mantis, again for her take on our meeting a year ago in Alameda.fergushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17056002311944010536noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-58862678243210395402009-09-08T00:58:10.931-04:002009-09-08T00:58:10.931-04:00Because I have insomnia and I know you're up o...Because I have insomnia and I know you're up out West,Andrea: kudos again on this great puzzle! You and Ashish killed it. I failed to mention, Martha and I felt like we were on vacation again with all the breezy references - with San SIMEON alone we figured it was made in memory of our trip! <br /><br />Thanks again,<br />TTorbachhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03890812257012031327noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-53866514691876384422009-09-08T00:58:06.864-04:002009-09-08T00:58:06.864-04:00Because I have insomnia and I know you're up o...Because I have insomnia and I know you're up out West,Andrea: kudos again on this great puzzle! You and Ashish killed it. I failed to mention, Martha and I felt like we were on vacation again with all the breezy references - with San SIMEON alone we figured it was made in memory of our trip! <br /><br />Thanks again,<br />TTorbachhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03890812257012031327noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-37776598778705833042009-09-08T00:32:19.324-04:002009-09-08T00:32:19.324-04:00@Fergus
What? This entire thing was JUST to get P...@Fergus<br />What? This entire thing was JUST to get Patrick jealous now that he's been collaborating with HIS live-in lovely! ;)<br />And yes, I'll be going Saturday and have talked SanFranMan into it!<br />We are a bit worried the Bay Bridge won't be reopened by then, but as he pointed out "Well cross that bridge when we get to it" ;)<br /><br />@PurpleGuy<br />I too am reeling about 78 years together...Mazel tov (unless he kidnapped her at age 11)<br /><br />@Hazel<br />Well, there was always Glitch's recusal... My evil plan worked, flood this blog with my chatter every day for years and cow nay-sayers (horse neigh-sayers?) into a flummoxed silence even if they hated it! Bwahahahahahahahaandrea carpla michaelsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-89929553447662666212009-09-08T00:27:45.592-04:002009-09-08T00:27:45.592-04:00Gestalt is the word of the day, for me anyway. I ...Gestalt is the word of the day, for me anyway. I trashed it when the term was over-used by fellow undergraduates at Berkeley in 1978. So nice to see the term arise afresh.fergushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17056002311944010536noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-35064253134981258342009-09-08T00:02:22.752-04:002009-09-08T00:02:22.752-04:00That emoticon gives no sway to a giggle. Funny th...That emoticon gives no sway to a giggle. Funny that I sensed that you didn't want that portrayed, and that Andrea betrayed you with that niggle. I jest. You two are a such an excellent combination. Is Patrick Blindauer getting jealous? I jest, again.<br /><br />Andrea, I do expect to participate at the Alameda event this coming Saturday. I hope that many of our bloggerel associates attend as well.fergushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17056002311944010536noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-5578634046364674692009-09-07T23:57:39.571-04:002009-09-07T23:57:39.571-04:00i believe this is an unprecedented response for a ...i believe this is an unprecedented response for a Monday<br /><br />Home team - 67<br />Visitors - 0<br /><br />Make that Home team - 68. I liked it too, although I was a bit disappointed to see that Asta wasn't able to join in the fun.hazelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04627015904603641109noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-72731205892528812702009-09-07T23:56:01.491-04:002009-09-07T23:56:01.491-04:00:-). : ), ), :-). : ), )
That's a giggle...:-). : ), ), :-). : ), )<br /><br />That's a giggle...foodiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13052189131129098616noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-61573728685802716582009-09-07T23:41:24.182-04:002009-09-07T23:41:24.182-04:00I just want to comment that all our collaborations...I just want to comment that all our collaborations were done by email and there was no way Andrea could claim that I giggled. Thank you very much! :-) <-- unless that is a giggle.Ashishnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-7407582662682685462009-09-07T23:32:29.746-04:002009-09-07T23:32:29.746-04:00Andrea, it's great to hear from you!
I would ...Andrea, it's great to hear from you!<br /><br />I would like to nominate this puzzle for an ORYX. I think it would be especially cool if you won an award you named!<br /><br />I saw in your interview with Jim Horne that you spoke about Gestalt! I had not read that when I first commented and used that term, it was so weird... It goes to show you that you and Ashish achieved exactly what you were after. We, the solvers, sensed it and got immersed. <br /><br />And thanks to Rex and this blog, because a couple of years ago, I would have never appreciated this puzzle the way I did today. <br /><br />Like many others, I hope to see more of these wonderful collaborations!<br /><br />@ Purple guy: Your parents have been together 78 years!!! I've never heard of anyone making it to that point. Are they close to 100? What genes you must have, including great genes for emotional bonding!foodiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13052189131129098616noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-64753648018108430002009-09-07T23:27:26.981-04:002009-09-07T23:27:26.981-04:00This week's relative difficulty ratings. See m...This week's relative difficulty ratings. See my <a href="https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=35115061&postID=3588389571383499624&isPopup=true" rel="nofollow">7/30/2009 post</a> for an explanation. In a nutshell, the higher the ratio, the higher this week's median solve time is relative to the average for the corresponding day of the week.<br /><br />All solvers (this week's median solve time, average for day of week, ratio, percentile, rating)<br /><br />Mon 6:54, 6:55, 1.00, 54%, Medium<br /><br />Top 100 solvers<br /><br />Mon 3:51, 3:41, 1.05, 68%, Medium-Challenging<br /><br />There was an error in my midday report. I reported the all solvers average for Monday as 6:28. The 6:55 in this post is correct.sanfranman59https://www.blogger.com/profile/15118732156312301425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-90574421075913335262009-09-07T22:55:43.910-04:002009-09-07T22:55:43.910-04:00Uhoh, once the Asian spam comes on, it's time ...Uhoh, once the Asian spam comes on, it's time to chime in...<br /><br />@Robin<br />Are you kidding? I've been basking all day!!!!! lurk lurk lurk!<br /><br />COR blimey, Rex was nice enough to offer to let me blog our puzzle, but I was too anxious to see what he would think, as you know, I live for this blog!<br /><br />I loved the One Fish Two Fish pic<br />and that folks found so many more tie-ins than we intended...<br />and wouldn't that be cool if ANN were Marge's middle name???!!!<br />(But it's, like, Bouvier, right?)<br /><br />Best part: Rex has turned it into a wordsearch! (ET TU, brute?)<br />We would have CIRCLED the ETs, but then might not have gotten the A+ from BEQ!<br /><br />(The fact it might get his wife to do a puzzle and share in his passion is what it's all about, no?)<br /><br />@Ulrich<br />Afish!!!!!! That's no misspelling, that's brilliant and it fits with the theme, nein?<br />That's now what I'm going to call my fishin' buddy...<br /><br />@Greene<br />Love those lyrics! I've never seen the film and I've got to say, the clue for "UNDERTHESEA" makes me blush! <br />(I'm old school and would have gone with "Octopus's Garden". All day long I've been singing the Beatles'"I'd like to be....")<br /><br />UNDERTHESEA/MARINEGREEN making it unified, denser is all Ashish! (I'm embarrassed to admit I originally fought him over the long downs being water-related, bec my fear was that might be confusing as the theme was initially supposed to all be fishing metaphors that could be defined in a different way, but together would make a narrative, ending with HOOKLINEANDSINKER.<br />But that was 17 letters!<br /><br />(Rex is right, we couldn't get the order to work perfectly as OPENACANOFWORMS should come first)<br /><br />Fascinating to work with Ashish...as a Monday gal combining with a Weekend boy... I would say I can't live with such-and-such in the grid, and Ashish would giggle and change that fill, while making 5 new variations of the grid!<br /><br />For example, I had never even heard of the word MOTET but I had to bow to his genius (@Foodie, boy am I glad I did, that's what the whole gestalt collaboration is about!)<br />We did lose some fun original entries: GONEFISHIN' and our fave... ITWASTHIIIIIS BIG!) we had to throw back into the ZEE...<br /><br />Now I'll try and let Ashish get a word in edgewise!<br />;)<br />Everyone thank you! Gotta run, I think "More to Love" might be concluding tonight! ;)andrea cor-la michaelsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-18332024096054403832009-09-07T22:49:32.051-04:002009-09-07T22:49:32.051-04:00@Anonymous 10:30 are you by chance-
Andrea Japanes...@Anonymous 10:30 are you by chance-<br />Andrea Japanese Michaels ?<br /><br />What a fantastic puzzle. Sorry I'm late to the party.<br />Today is my parents' 78th anniversary. It was a Monday in 1931 also. What a coincidence !<br /><br />Ditto all the others - this was by FAR the best Monday puzzle.It deserves an award.<br /><br />Bravos and Bravas to ACME and Ashish !!!!PurpleGuyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03831764248536980544noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-21766632930770576582009-09-07T22:19:43.963-04:002009-09-07T22:19:43.963-04:00I'll have to read their comments early tomorro...I'll have to read their comments early tomorrow morning. Goodnight.machttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06794371617847975218noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-48498299028390863622009-09-07T22:13:02.813-04:002009-09-07T22:13:02.813-04:00Perhaps dear Andrea is blushing modestly somewhere...Perhaps dear Andrea is blushing modestly somewhere outside our time zones on this Labor Day featuring her puzzle? (No disregard, only a relative unfamiliarity, to Ashish, which I've spelled correctly, but almost tried not to.) Since Acme is such a regular voice on this blog, there are tenterhooks ...fergushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17056002311944010536noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-36292801594253548192009-09-07T21:22:37.930-04:002009-09-07T21:22:37.930-04:00Awesome puzzle!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Awesome puzzle!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!PuzzleGirlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06835502266781516627noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-8279521406953057762009-09-07T21:18:00.477-04:002009-09-07T21:18:00.477-04:00Late to the party today, but what a delight to see...Late to the party today, but what a delight to see ACME and Ashish! Our long wait is over at last! Fantastic Monday puzzle. I agree with BEQ: this is the best Monday in a long time.<br /><br />Thank you ACME and Ashish.archaeoprofhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17956231727789223463noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-70919707442553925982009-09-07T20:26:22.837-04:002009-09-07T20:26:22.837-04:00@chefwen: just say the word...I'm in Door Cou...@chefwen: just say the word...I'm in Door County. We had brats in/with beer with a large family group last night. Tonight's dinner is rack of lamb (a 4-H fair animal).PlantieBeahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01960277851368508036noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-35404178120422232832009-09-07T20:10:28.282-04:002009-09-07T20:10:28.282-04:00C'mon ACME, come bask in the glory! Loved the...C'mon ACME, come bask in the glory! Loved the puzzle and loved that it was yours.Robinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00404995201196513974noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-8510924149647998052009-09-07T20:07:31.294-04:002009-09-07T20:07:31.294-04:00@chefwen - Enjoy the UP, whichever part of it you ...@chefwen - Enjoy the UP, whichever part of it you are going to. I grew up in the Copper Country, home of the best pasties.Clarknoreply@blogger.com