tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post4026020101396140983..comments2024-03-28T13:54:49.910-04:00Comments on Rex Parker Does the NYT Crossword Puzzle: Philosopher who tutored Nero / MON 10-17-16 / Shootout site involving Earp brothers / Infographic with wedges / Bill also called benjamin / Athlete who rides pineRex Parkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16145707733877505087noreply@blogger.comBlogger68125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-21302535865049663992016-11-21T21:38:39.076-05:002016-11-21T21:38:39.076-05:00BENCHWARMER Bob was famous in MN, significant enou...BENCHWARMER Bob was famous in MN, significant enough to bring up. And add a story, possibly of interest to some and somewhat puz related as a theme answer. Not unlike other commenters. Politics I try to avoid. And religion or ethnicity, not unless I can work in a funny Lutheran church basement food joke. Or OLE the dumb Swede. rondonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-57915500524817941522016-11-21T20:01:29.280-05:002016-11-21T20:01:29.280-05:00I'm with Rex on the clubby, off-topic stuff. S...I'm with Rex on the clubby, off-topic stuff. Still, we syndies are so late to the game that all of it is decided before we arrive. So what's left? I guess we do what we do.leftcoastTAMnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-56874947717347531362016-11-21T18:59:15.292-05:002016-11-21T18:59:15.292-05:00@Chris - only in the US.@Chris - only in the US.rain forestnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-67226841542514753832016-11-21T17:54:59.373-05:002016-11-21T17:54:59.373-05:00Syndicate user here. 22D (Finishes is fewer votes)...Syndicate user here. 22D (Finishes is fewer votes) is oddly wrong in light of our recent presidential election. Perhaps the clue should read "Finishes with fewer ELECTORAL votes" would be more appropriate?chrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07548506734620078657noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-1283153574046403772016-11-21T17:47:08.003-05:002016-11-21T17:47:08.003-05:00@teedMN - The basketball game was BENCHWARMER Bob ...@teedMN - The basketball game was BENCHWARMER Bob and a few Channel 4 celebs like Ralph John Fritz and Don Shelby and another ex-Vike or two. They did the fun stuff to amuse the crowd. When the game got too close they put in the "real" players who kicked our butts. Found out later at the bar that the "real" players had played for Al Maguire's Marquette University NCAA national championship team. Talk about ringers.<br /><br />@RAINY makes the puz now, too!rondonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-44633065562022919962016-11-21T17:31:41.703-05:002016-11-21T17:31:41.703-05:00@rondo, I remember BENCHWARMER Bob. He owned a bar...@rondo, I remember BENCHWARMER Bob. He owned a bar/restaurant in Tower named BENCHWARMER Bob's! We used to stop there on our way home from the BWCA. And one time we were hanging out in Zaverle's (sp?) Tavern on Main St. Ely when Bob came in with friends. At closing time, they pulled the shades on the windows and locked the door and we all continued to hang at the bar well after the legal closing time. Luckily we just had to walk down the street to our hotel.Teedmnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12832353448839187816noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-31031785421327305072016-11-21T15:35:07.848-05:002016-11-21T15:35:07.848-05:00I was pretty sure it was ANNA Kournikova - I remem...I was pretty sure it was ANNA Kournikova - I remember a commercial where a little dog said her name over and over - think it as for an allergy med. But I reluctantly wrote in ANNe because I had LASTLeg. (BTW I have been to auto races, and know better...) <br /><br />This gave me gIECH ART, which I figured was the latest (freshest?) form of computer graphics. Thought it was quite obscure "for a Monday," and was prepared to say so. <br /><br />"What's all this about GIECH ART? Oh...Never mind."<br /><br />Diana RosANNAdanna, posing as Miss Emily LatellaDiana, LIWnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-13130779456993566562016-11-21T14:53:32.326-05:002016-11-21T14:53:32.326-05:00LEGO O’LEARY NONSTARTER WALLOP
If the TART’S TEE ...LEGO O’LEARY NONSTARTER WALLOP<br /><br />If the TART’S TEE shot lies INN WATER or gorse,<br />don’t let sweetie PIECHART the MAINCOURSE.<br /><br />--- OTTO ADAM SAHL-O’DAY<br />BS2noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-1225866662522500732016-11-21T14:36:14.547-05:002016-11-21T14:36:14.547-05:00Good Monday exercise. Now hope to be ready for the...Good Monday exercise. Now hope to be ready for the week.<br /><br />Didn't know ILANA, should have known CAIT because she's all over "reality" TV, but don't watch it, IRENE and ANNA are familiar enough, and I don't think any of them are TARTS.<br /><br />Wanted C-note before CSPOT (probably not alone with that one).<br /><br />Saw that our friend RAINY (properly known as rain forest) got his due recognition today.<br /> leftcoastTAMnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-53508994970024517722016-11-21T14:09:45.957-05:002016-11-21T14:09:45.957-05:00While we are ranking posters to this blog, let'...While we are ranking posters to this blog, let's continue to the bottom where @Chaos344, probably quite proudly, resides. I agree that the 3 he mentioned are worthy choices for the upper echelon, but my personal favourites are those here in Syndiville, and @M&A. Kind of stupid to be ranking people who comment, however.<br /><br />This puzzle ranks as one of the better Mondays, though. Easy, fun, coherent theme-wise, including the revealer, with virtually no dreck and nice fill. <br /><br />6 years ago I bought a rebuilt car (it has turned out to be a gem, btw) for $20,000, taxes in, and the seller wanted cash (!). He actually said, "only CSPOTS, no 20's, no 50's." He was Russian, which is probably irrelevant, but I felt a little shady getting 200 100-dollar bills and counting them out in front of him *twice*. The car has never been a NON STARTER.<br /><br />A propos of nothing in particular, the first time I encountered the name SENECA, I thought it was a tribe of First Nations. Finding out he was a Roman philosopher and writer whose father was also SENECA was kind of enlightening.<br /><br />Looking forward to one of your PIE CHARTs, @Burma Shave.rain forestnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-55902347677515796442016-11-21T12:15:07.219-05:002016-11-21T12:15:07.219-05:00Got through this easily enough and on reflection t...Got through this easily enough and on reflection there seems to be a LIBERL RATIO of proper nouns (see rows starting with 22 and 28 and columns 5 and 18). I don’t mind that as much as a lot of folks, just sayin’.<br /><br />During the ‘70s the Vikes had a player nicknamed “BENCHWARMER” Bob Lurtsema. More famous for bank commercials than for playing. I played in a charity basketball game against him once. Even ex-defensive linemen are big.<br /><br />Another puz with OLE and no Sven nor Lena. Will it ever happen? The only shot is probably at the MN Xword Tourney.<br /><br />If you get a chance, check out LOS Lonely Boys, quite good. And of course LOS Lobos.<br /><br />There’s a clear choice of TARTS today in yeah baby ANNA Kournikova. Still have the 3D Maxim issue and the glasses to prove it.<br /><br />Seemed about right for a Mon-puz. Now it’s the time O’DAY to EAT.<br />rondonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-36483582192438483252016-11-21T11:51:15.873-05:002016-11-21T11:51:15.873-05:00Wow, @BS! I didn't even notice that lap-lappin...Wow, @BS! I didn't even notice that lap-lapping lap! There oughta be a drug for that. We could call it Phar-lap.<br /><br />Anyhoo, hand up for the big headscratch for the theme common ground. On a Monday yet. Never glommed onto it till I had the revealer line about 2/3 filled in. Strangely, though, it wasn't a huge aha! moment; it was more like, "Oh, okay. Yeah, that works. Sort of."<br /><br />But that's not to denigrate this fine puzzle in any way. Most of it packs a WALLOP (case in point). I have never heard of "Broad City," let alone ILANA, so out of curiosity I Googled her: she jumps from obscurity to DOD in one swell foop.<br /><br />The song mentioned in the last across clue is, IMHO, the single worst "hit" ever to come out of the R&R era. If her last name hadn't been what it was, no one would have ever heard of her. Absolutely zero singing talent. In my next life I want to be the kid of a major star. Talk about your free RIDE!<br /><br />Again, that personal pain moment should not reflect on the score; despite some vowelless threes, this is a birdie.spacecraftnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-45156999299212901172016-11-21T10:18:33.409-05:002016-11-21T10:18:33.409-05:00RATIO AGE
The LASTLAPTOP’S got a DEADBATTERY, the...RATIO AGE<br /><br />The LASTLAPTOP’S got a DEADBATTERY, the CPU’S a NONSTARTER,<br />so SWAPOUT the power and LUCKYME! For a CSPOT I’m a PIECHARTer.<br /><br />--- SENECA DEFRAY<br />Burma Shavenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-84489840091130205272016-10-18T04:12:33.158-04:002016-10-18T04:12:33.158-04:00Two thumbs up @foxaroni1249, para 3. You're my...Two thumbs up @foxaroni1249, para 3. You're my Maine coon cat.<br /><br />I like to make FLUS rhyme with PLUS.<br /><br /><i>Grand Prix!</i> Now there's a phrase you can sink your teeth into!Elephant's Childnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-7809024217974928352016-10-18T04:01:04.338-04:002016-10-18T04:01:04.338-04:00My MAIN reaction today is "O SE COUR!!",...My MAIN reaction today is "O SE COUR!!", y'all. Frankly, I can't see how an issue as fraught as the PAGEBOY has been lowered to the petty status of a hairstyle discussion. It completely overlooks the tawdry origins of the term, being as they are grounded in the effete habits of bibliophiles too lazy to PAGE through their tomes themselves. How often those unfortunate PAGEBOYs had to LAPTOPS (and who knows what else!) and wished they'd SAT UPon their LAST LAP? Their feeble protests of <i>LEGO my FITB</i> did them little good. DEAD or alive, it's simple BATTERY, and still it took centuries until society became sufficiently <i>LEARY under LIBERAL</i> practices of this kind and SAT UP to announce that we must all turn over a new leaf ourselves. <br /><br />My residual protest to this sad history is that I personally will never wear a PAGEBOY. Besides. I have naturally curly hair.<br /><br />Y'all can see why I just had to enter DE FRAY.<br /><br /><i>E.D., we'll talk about men with buns another time.</i><br />Leapfingerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14243620614139990887noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-13056128985307830482016-10-17T20:45:06.742-04:002016-10-17T20:45:06.742-04:00Dang! I missed some politics. Now what?
Oh, @foxa...Dang! I missed some politics. Now what?<br /><br />Oh, @foxaroni - My point was that back in 1968 the World Series was done a week before October 17. Now we're looking at the possibility of a World Series game taking place at night in Cleveland (with a nice breeze off Lake Erie) on <b>November 2nd!</b> They will have BENCH WARMERs in the dugouts, but the fans will be in their winter gear. I've been to a few Tiger playoff and World Series games in the past decade and froze my sweet boopie off. Hot chocolate sales are not supposed to exceed beer sales at a baseball game. Get rid of the wild card. Get rid of extra rounds. Get rid of TV mandated breaks when rounds end early. Play games in the late afternoon instead of at 8:00 p.m. Fans should not be wearing wool socks and ear muffs to a baseball game. /rant<br /><br />@DJG - Many more in the hopper?Zhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16181544219511150272noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-34188639784882815352016-10-17T20:12:19.041-04:002016-10-17T20:12:19.041-04:00Thank You Rex!Thank You Rex!Chaos344https://www.blogger.com/profile/08901221000538028472noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-61946878053454813662016-10-17T19:48:19.546-04:002016-10-17T19:48:19.546-04:00Had fun deleting about a dozen stupid comments fro...Had fun deleting about a dozen stupid comments from trolls, trollees, and the generally tiresome. <br /><br />Stay on topic, i.e. on-puzzle. You may not see them / hear from them, but readers Hate your self-indulgent, clubby, off-topic nonsense. Got my first batch of comment-section complaint emails in months today. And you all were doing so well...<br /><br />If you wanna yell your political beliefs angrily at each other or bore the hell out of your "Friends," try Facebook. It's tailor-made for that crap.<br /><br />RPRex Parkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16145707733877505087noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-58897734811112239652016-10-17T16:30:59.088-04:002016-10-17T16:30:59.088-04:00Wow...all this prose because of scary airport land...Wow...all this prose because of scary airport landings. I'm impressed.<br />@Tita...I just might send you another drawing ;-)GILL I.https://www.blogger.com/profile/05605766053820226324noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-46675066358282218622016-10-17T15:58:08.529-04:002016-10-17T15:58:08.529-04:00@Mohair - No worries, I'm sure Anna K. is the ...@Mohair - No worries, I'm sure Anna K. is the top result on Alta Vista ;)<br /><br />(I'd much rather debate Annas than politics!)MattGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-90426423853516531682016-10-17T15:38:58.077-04:002016-10-17T15:38:58.077-04:00@AiryMom...personal relevance in a puzzle, like yo...@AiryMom...personal relevance in a puzzle, like yours today, always increase my enjoyment of said puzzle. It's totally irrelevant to the "quality"of a puzzle, but maybe that extra dimension is why I love crosswords so much.<br />I hope you send this puzzle to your friend and her mom.<br /><br />@Numi...the pointing (along with the wild, angry gesticulating), is what would finally get my attention. <br /><br />@foxaroni...I hadn't notice the weird right turn our @WmC took on that last paragraph.<br />I didn't intend to endorse that paragraph. My only intention was to show off that I am so cool because I am related to someone who does what I described.<br />I had written, but then erased, this...<br />If I were able to define and regulate unnecessary travel, I would limit that to the 100‘s of journalists and their entourage who travel to disaster sites to show themselves standing thigh-deep in flood waters, all the while consuming desperately needed resources...fuel, hotel rooms, food, evacuation routes...<br />Stay home, roll that stock footage, and send the red cross some cash.<br />Titahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16368251255494687496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-54746780210252403302016-10-17T15:31:58.127-04:002016-10-17T15:31:58.127-04:00@Wm. C. 3:11 - Nicely put.
@Matt G - Google schmo...@Wm. C. 3:11 - Nicely put.<br /><br />@Matt G - Google schmoogle, our Anna choices embrace literature and tennis - they get priority here. (Help me out here foxy)Mohair Samhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16502840715719161565noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-87513931332879932952016-10-17T15:13:06.642-04:002016-10-17T15:13:06.642-04:00p.s.
M&A Research Dept. finds that Mrs. Claus&...p.s.<br />M&A Research Dept. finds that Mrs. Claus's first name is a mystery, altho she has been referred to with all of these 5-letter names: LAYLA. AHOOP. SEEKI. KASEY. EMILY. ANWYN. GOODY. MATHA. None of these ___ Claus names gets anywhere near a thousand Google hits, tho. The outright non-starters are AHOOP and SEEKI CLAUS, which get no Google hits, at all.<br /><br />To put this into perspective: "masked and anonymous" gets 108K Google hits (K=1000). "rex parker" gets 273K hits. "pewit" gets 231K hits. "natick" gets 7,800K hits. "GrOPe" now gets 13,700K hits. And "santa claus" gets 27,000K hits.<br /><br />M&A Help Desk.<br /><br />Masked and Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16346263641338670679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-25805723134267319802016-10-17T15:10:59.832-04:002016-10-17T15:10:59.832-04:00@Mohair Sam - they are the top three auto-suggesti...@Mohair Sam - they are the top three auto-suggestions when you type "anna" into Google, I didn't just make them up.MattGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-39871948195789270152016-10-17T13:45:01.188-04:002016-10-17T13:45:01.188-04:00LAST LAP is just plain silly. In the Indy 500 for ...<br />LAST LAP is just plain silly. In the Indy 500 for instance, they drive 200 laps. Is the last one any more of a NON-STARTER than the second or the 97th? Perhaps something like UNDERSTUDY, ACTII, COOL CUSTOMER, etc. would have served as a batter themer. No only that, LAP also appears in LAPTOP. It shouldn't be allowed.<br /><br />A reasonably clean and pleasant solve otherwise.<br /><br />SANTA reminds me of <i>Accademia Nazionale di SANTA Cecilia, Rome</i>, the oldest musical institution in the world, founded in 1585 and dedicated to the patron saint of music, St. Cecilia. There are many works dedicated to St. Cecilia, by Purcell, Marc-Antoine Charpentier, Handel, Gounod, etc., but one of my favorites remains the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1Q7N06hdZo" rel="nofollow">Hymn to St. Cecilia</a> by Benjamin Britten.<br /><br />TGIM!<br />AliasZhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03477396362209386037noreply@blogger.com